The Liveaboard Club
7%average member saving on every cabin, members only
US$ 45founding membership per year, for the first 200 members
143boats on our shortlist, across 41 destinations
0markup. The public price you see is the operator's own price

Sailing soon

The next departures across the fleet

All departures
DatesBoat ItineraryPrice
10 – 17 Sept 20267 nights Heaven SaphirHeaven Saphir Brothers - Daedalus - ElphinstoneEgypt Members see the price
10 – 20 Sept 202610 nights IlikeIlike Liveaboard Komodo - Alor 11 daysIndonesia Members see the price
10 – 17 Sept 20267 nights TemuKiraGrand Komodo KomodoIndonesia Members see the price
11 – 16 Sept 20265 nights Blue LotusBlue Lotus Liveaboard 6D5N KomodoIndonesia Members see the price
11 – 21 Sept 202610 nights Sea HunterUndersea Hunter Group Cocos IslandCosta Rica Members see the price
11 – 18 Sept 20267 nights SeaOraSubmaldives Hanifaru Special MantasMaldives Members see the price
12 – 15 Sept 20263 nights Aml HayatyBlue Elements Mini Safari: Wrecks & ReefsEgypt Members see the price
12 – 17 Sept 20265 nights Anne BonnyCalico Jack KomodoIndonesia Members see the price

Why a club and not just a booking site

Booking sites compete on price. We compete on who is on the boat with you.

The member rate is real, and it is members only

Operators set one public price, and every serious agent honours it. Ours does too — we never mark a cabin up. Membership unlocks a lower rate that lives behind your login, so it stays out of public search and the boat's listed price is protected.

A shortlist, not a catalogue

There are more than three hundred liveaboards for sale online. Most of them are fine. We list the ones we would put our own family on, and we say plainly what each one is bad at.

Hosted departures with a photographer aboard

A few trips a year we fill the boat ourselves and come along, running underwater photography coaching between dives. Members get first refusal on those cabins.

The shortlist

Boats we would book ourselves

Every boat here has been chosen for a reason we can explain in a sentence. Open any of them and the first thing you will read is who it suits and who it does not.

See all 143

How it works

Four steps, no salesmanship

  1. Join the club

    US$ 45 a year while founding places last, then US$ 89. Cancel online in one click, any time.

  2. Tell us what you actually want

    Big animals, warm water, a first liveaboard, a photography trip. We reply with two or three real options and the reasons behind them, not a list of everything that fits your dates.

  3. Book at the member rate

    We hold the cabin with the operator. You pay the boat directly through their own secure link, so we are never holding your trip money.

  4. Dive, and tell us the truth afterwards

    What you report goes straight into the boat's page. That is how the shortlist stays honest.

The membership pays for itself on the first booking.

On an average week aboard, a 7% member rate is worth roughly two and a half times what the year costs. Everything after that is free.

Request dates

Tell us which departure

We check the cabin with the operator and come back with a written price the same working day. Nothing is charged now.