Fata Aquana

Fata Aquana in The Hague is a PADI 5 Star IDC center, the kind of place you turn to for everything to do with diving. Alongside the full range of PADI courses, the team handles equipment sales, maintenance, air fills, dive travel and gear rental for both diving and snorkelling. With 19 PADI instructors on hand, it's a hub for divers of every level.

Courses and local diving

New to the sport? That's welcome here — plenty of members started with their very first breaths underwater at Fata Aquana. The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course runs over approximately 3 days, from USD 340, a natural next step once you've caught the bug. Local dives head to Duikpark Zoetermeer at the Zoetermeerse Plas.

The center offers an onsite classroom, free Wi-Fi, a retail shop, food and drinks, and parking, plus services from Nitrox and air fills to scooter (DPV) rental and a dive club. Staff speak English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German and Portuguese, making it an easy fit for divers from many backgrounds.