Camping equipment for the backpacker or hill walking to family camping, Simply Hike has a huge variety of camping gear to suit all budgets. Berghaus, Mountain Equipment, Craghoppers, Petzl and Outdoor Designs lead our performance backpacking brands. Family camping brands include Vango, Litchfield, Campingaz, Coleman, Aztec with a great range of small to family size tents. With departments such as Sleeping Bags, Tents, Backpacks, Walking Boots, Insect Repellents and an extensive outdoor clothing department including waterproofs and hiking trousers.

Who Simply Hike Are

Simply Hike are part of Simply Scuba Ltd

Located just outside the fashionable and picturesque town of Whitstable in Kent, Simply Scuba operate their dive centre and retail outlet from large industrial premises only minutes from the sea. Harnessing information technology to streamline Simply Scuba’s business has been fundamental to Simply Scuba’s success in keeping prices down and customer services up. Having been awarded National Runner Up in the 2001 E-Commerce Awards we have been at the forefront of the dot com retail era.

Offering retail and internet sales in Scuba, Snorkelling, Hike, Swim and Ski Simply Scuba hold massive stocks from all leading brands. Simply Scuba’s teams in sales, warehousing, despatch and post sales are available to offer you great value for money and a level of expertise and customer service that few companies can equal.

Simply Scuba have a large shop, open to the public 6 days a week from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Customers can visit Simply Scuba here to browse their vast ranges of equipment and travel accessories. You can come and look around, try on the products and get professional advice from any of the qualified sales staff.

In Simply Scuba’s dive school Simply Scuba teach PADI courses locally from Try-a-Dives right through to Instructor level and run trips in the UK and abroad. With our 3 instructors, Simply Scuba run pool sessions and courses weekly and can teach up to 20 students at a time, both in Simply Scuba’s 2 air conditioned classrooms and the local pool and open water locations.

The Simply Scuba Ethos

With Simply Scuba’s online sales they endeavour to offer the same high quality of service as Simply Scuba’s customers have come to expect in the Simply Scuba shop. Certainly it is not possible to try equipment on for size or handle the equipment you are going to buy before you buy it online, but with as much information as is available about products shown on the Simply Scuba website, customers are able to make well informed decisions on what equipment will be best for them. If in any doubt however, they have the opportunity to e-mail for advice from any of our fully qualified sales staff, be it regarding sizes, which piece of equipment is most suitable in certain environments or the shade of colour of a product required to match an existing set of equipment! Someone is always on hand to answer these questions as quickly and concisely as possible.

Once products have been chosen and ordered from the Simply Scuba website, Simply Scuba offer a number of postage choices to make sure the goods arrive in the best and quickest way for you. Simply Scuba keep as much equipment as Simply Scuba can in stock although to help minimize overheads that lead to price increases Simply Scuba do operate a just in time service for selected products so that orders can be dispatched with a minimum of delay. Each order dispatched is then updated by e-mail (where correct e-mail addresses are supplied only) with the method, tracking number (where applicable) and date of dispatch, to ensure that customers have all the information they need about the parcel they are expecting, at their fingertips.

Once received, Simply Scuba hope that every customer is extremely satisfied with their purchase. However, if they have received any item which they are not completely satisfied with, the item(s) can be returned for a full refund within 28 days so long as they have not been used at all (trying items on is fine).

As well as selling Scuba and Snorkelling equipment online, Simply Scuba also have 4 other online shops; Simply Swim, Simply Beach and Simply Hike which speak for themselves and Simply Piste where you can buy ski equipment. Each of these other sites works in exactly the same way as Simply Scuba and Simply Snorkel, and you can shop freely from one to the other using your normal account details and the same basket for your entire shop should you wish to do so.

Simply Scuba’s business ethic has always been to provide our customers with a fast, efficient and enjoyable way to browse and buy Scuba and Snorkelling equipment. Simply Scuba hope that by adding these new departments, Simply Scuba will be giving you more products to browse through, more choice and more information on exciting products than ever before.