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
24 – 30 Aug 20266 nights CachaloCachalo Komodo National ParkIndonesia Members see the price
24 – 30 Aug 20266 nights Cachalo by HKJCCachalo Liveaboard by HKJC Komodo National ParkIndonesia Members see the price
24 – 31 Aug 20267 nights Indo MasterMaster Liveaboards Komodo National ParkIndonesia Members see the price
24 – 29 Aug 20265 nights Queenesia IQueenesia Fleet Komodo National ParkIndonesia Members see the price
25 Aug – 1 Sept 20267 nights AquaOniric Safari Cruises Itinerary A - Diving TripEcuador Members see the price
25 Aug – 4 Sept 202610 nights Maldives MasterMaster Liveaboards Central Atolls & BaaMaldives Members see the price
25 – 27 Aug 20262 nights NusantaraMikumba Diving Best of Komodo Central & North 3D/2NIndonesia Members see the price
26 – 29 Aug 20263 nights Aml HayatyBlue Elements Mini Safari: Wrecks & ReefsEgypt 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.