24 November 2025
World’s best shore diving Before you Go The Best Dahab Dive Sites Diving Centres Where to stay in Dahab Sea Life Getting to Dahab Temperature Money Diving Insurance Other Things to Do Travel Agents Further Reading Your Comments & Reviews Other Parts of the Red Sea: Sharm, Sudan, etc
World’s best shore diving
Dahab, on the Eygptian Sinai peninsular in the Red Sea, is a friendly place with some of the world’s best shore diving. It is most famous for its Canyon and Blue Hole dive sites, but it has many others – some arguably better than these most well known dives.
In Dahab the sea quickly drops off to great depths – hence the spectacular shore dives. More remote dive sites are reached by boat, or by camel.
Saltier water than elsewhere
The Red Sea is very salty, and the north of the Red Sea is saltier than the south. Its salinity reaches 41 parts per thousand compared to 35 parts per thousand in other oceans. This is due to the lack of rivers adding fresh water to the sea, and the hot weather causing evaporation. Make sure you use more lead than you would normally.1
Marine life found nowhere else
Although the Red Sea has been connected to the Indian Ocean for millions of years, it still has many unique species. This may be because of adaptations to the increasing salinity over time. There are also adaptations to warm water. Research has shown that Red Sea corals are resistant to harm from warming seas2. The scientists explain this by the existence of a “warm-water barrier” at the southern Red Sea, allowing only heat-tolerant corals to enter.3
Diving in Dahab Video by David Collins. Includes dives at The Caves, Canyon, El Shugiarat and Moray Garden
This article is written from first-hand experience diving Dahab between 1990 and 2025.
Getting to Dahab Temperature Money Diving Insurance Other Things to Do Travel Agents Further Reading Your Comments Other Parts of the Red Sea: Sharm, Sudan, etc
Dahab roughly comprises 4 areas: Dahab City in the south, Lagoona where the windsurfers congregate and Mashraba and Masbat which hold most of the dive centres. Mashraba and Masbat are within walking distance of each other. Masbat is home to the more touristy shops and is the busier. You can get just about anything you need in Dahab, with pharmacies, barbers, supermarkets, hardware shops and so on.
Getting to Dahab
The easiest way to get to Dahab is to fly to Sharm El-Sheikh and take a taxi to Dahab. Your dive centre or accommodation will arrange this for you. You do not need a visa for Dahab, so no need to queue up for one in the airport. Go straight to the passport control queue. The taxi ride takes just over an hour.
It is possible to get a bus from Sharm to Dahab. But you will need to first get a taxi from the airport to the bus station. For divers it is much easier to have a taxi booked for you in advance.
Water Temperature
Water temperatures at depth range from 20oC in February and March to 26oC in September and October. Those that get cold will need at least a 5 mm wetsuit, with some extra protection in the winter months. The hottest months above water are from May to September, with temperatures averaging 33oC in July and August. In winter temperatures average 18 or 19oC.
Average Dahab water temperature at 20 m.
Data derived from Red Sea oceanographic profiles and climatological averages
(SeaTemperature.org, NOAA, and Red Sea field data).
Chart created by Jill Studholme, 2025.
Money
The official currency is Egyptian pounds but Euros, pounds and US dollars are also widely accepted at restaurants and shops (allbeit with a poor exchange rate). There are many cash machines in Dahab. Few of the hotels and restaurants accept credit cards. I recommend getting Egyptian pounds out when you arrive. Some of the cash machines accept foreign currency in exchange for Egyptian pounds. Dive centres often like to be paid in Euros rather than pounds (LE).
Don’t keep many Egyptian pounds at the end of your trip, unless you are returning very shortly. The exchange rate has a habit of changing drastically (1 Euro = 19LE in 2022 to 33LE in 2023 to 55LE in 2025).
Tipping – as a rough guide:
Non-metered taxi from airport: 10-15% of total fare
Dive guide: a minimum of 10% of the cost of the dives. You might like to add more if you’ve had very good service. The dive guides only get paid for the days they work: they get no holiday pay so some of them never have a day off.
Taxi fares – always ask the price before getting in for a short trip. It varies tremendously, with taxis from the hotels on the laguna being most expensive.
Eating
There are many restaurants in Dahab. The cheapest are on the main street in the town, parallel and one back from the sea front. Cheap and good are:
- King Chicken. This serves excellent food and also fried chicken.
- Shader El Samak. A fantastic fish restaurant. The fresh fish and sea food is on display and continually updated with new fish and ice. Samak is the Arabic for fish.
- Al Masry. This one is a barbeque restaurant. Mostly meat: not one perhaps for the vegetarians.
More expensive food is offered at the many restaurants along the sea front. You will be hassled to enter these – don’t let this worry you. The people are very friendly and will give you good service. One of the best for fish and seafood is Nemo. Not all the restaurants serve alcohol, but those on the front that don’t will sometimes let you bring your own from the off-licence.
Medical and Diving Insurance
Dahab means “Gold”, and it was named by the Bedouin for its golden sands. Some divers consider Dahab to be a bit out of the way, but if you like relaxed diving with just short walk into the water, then Dahab is well worth a visit.
Diving generally involves a short drive up or down the coast to a Bedouin cafe where you have a cup of tea before getting changed and walking into the water. After the dive you return to the cafe for lunch. If you have older children they can remain in the cafe whilst you dive; or go horse or camel riding along the beach.
Whilst once the exception, boat diving is now popular in Dahab. You might also still be able to find the more interesting camel safari down the coast to dive sites inaccessible by road. To be cost-effective the boats need to be full meaning that several groups of divers are in the water, on the same dive, at the same time.
Golden Blocks dive site. Jill Studholme
The dives are listed from North to South.
El Bells | Blue Hole | Ricks Reef | Canyon | Eel Garden | Lighthouse Reef | The Islands | Moray Gardens | Golden Blocks | The Caves | Umm Sid | Gabr El Bint | El Shugiarat
Divers’ Comments on Dahab
“All amazing dive sites, especially Islands, Eel Garden and the Canyon. Crystal clear water, excellent vis, beautiful fish and coral etc. Regarding accommodation, Oasis Fighting Kangaroo had some brilliant rooms.
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Rachael King
“Good shore diving
with amazing corals. Loads of fish including Napoleon wrasse.
Good for all levels, some difficult dives with fierce currents.
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Matthew Moore
“Look out for the Red Sea Walkman when diving in Dahab. I have dived a lot in the Red sea but have only found it there.
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Nicky
Note: The Red Sea Walkman or Two-Stick Stingfish (Inimicus filamentosus) is a scorpion fish that can use its front fins to walk over the sea bed.
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The Blue Hole is just that – a very large hole about 150 m in diameter and dropping to 110 m.
We previously dived the Blue Hole in 1990 and were somewhat taken aback by the change to the on-shore environment. When we visited then, we were the only divers there, and it was at the end of a track which went for miles through unpopulated desert and felt like it was at the end of the world. Now there were about 50 vehicles (in summer the number rises to 200+), and either side of what is still a track are Bedouin cafes and tents for the divers. The Canyon too, seems overdived; worth doing, but probably best as a privately organised dive either before or after the commercially organised groups fill it up.
The Blue Hole is the dark patch
of water near to the shore
Divers at the Blue Hole. Jill Studholme
A tunnel at 52 m connects the Blue Hole to the sea. The tunnel is long, over 26 m. The Blue Hole itself now has few corals inside it. It is quite interesting watching the free divers though, looking like elongated seals. There is much more sea life outside the Blue Hole – exit through a dip in the wall at 7 m.
Divers’ Reviews
“Best Dive in my life”
Eid, 22 February 2020
“Good timing for best sighting away from snorkelling crowds ”
Mervet Azmi, July 29, 2019
“Lovely dive, coral wall, sea bottom over 800 m below, just a blue expanse below hence name. Several plaques to divers who died here at entry point. A bit scary to see but no need to be (apparently a tempting underwater arch at 55 m has caught a few over adventurous divers out) no danger to well behaved divers and well worth a visit. Lots of fish life: parrot fish, trigger fish, lovely coral, exciting water entry!”
Gordon
“fantastic diving! Great for deep dives along coral wall. Not too touristy either.”
Tal
“Done as a full moon night dive without torches, stunning!
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Bridget Ball, February 2011
“Unbelievable! Plenty of life, beautiful corals, lion fish, turtles, (too many things to remember) excellent vis, no words can describe!
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Shanna Small
“One of the best sites in the Red Sea
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Hesham Atia
“The Blue Hole has it’s own magic – we are not sure how a 70 – 105 m deep crater (about 40 – 60 m in diameter) in a shore reef 5 m from the beach came into existance. That’s not all. It has a washed out arch starting at 53 m below the surface, best dived around 60 to 65 m, just magic diving through on your back, like looking at a large bridge from underneath! The deep blue due to less sunlight, the sheer straight walls down, then the arch! Great!
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Wolfgang, 2008
Rate:
North of the Canyon. An extremely gentle drift dive. Reef goes down to around 14 m then small coral outcrops on sand. There used to be a large Napoleon wrasse here but no sign of it recently. At the tiny end of the spectrum, look out for the Red Sea Chelidonura (Chelidonura flavolobata). Just few centimeters long, this is a kind of nudibranch which looks dark red in natural light or dark blue if you shine a torch on it. It has two yellow head lobes which look just like sticky-out eyes. Only found in the Red Sea.
Red Sea Bannerfish on Ricks Reef, Tim Nicholson
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One of the renowned dives of Dahab is the Canyon which starts at a round coral bowl – the fish bowl, with lots of glass fish, and descends as a tube down to around 50 m. The tube is has openings in the top at which provide access and escape at various depths. Drop in through the top at a depth of 18-20 m into the canyon. The canyon keeps going down so is popular with technical divers. Make sure you have adequate diving insurance.
Divers descending into the Fish Bowl of the Canyon, through bubbles percolating up from previous divers.
Video by Andrew Reay-Robinson, edited by Jill Studholme
Divers’ Reviews
“Spectacular dive into the fish bowl at the end of the canyon. And many beautiful corals and fish outside the canyon )
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Pia Allerslev, Denmark, April 2022
“My Favorite deep dive”
Eid, 22 February 2020
“Safe. Relaxed. Excellent guide (Mirage Divers)
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Mervet Azmi, July 2019
“Especially for a night dive – can get very busy so make sure you can identify your dive buddies
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Dave, UK
“Done as a full moon night dive without torches, stunning!
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Bridget Ball
“Amazing life, rays, lion fish, stone fish, eels etc etc. Cleaner fish swim into your mounth
clean your teeth, great experience!
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Shanna Small
“Nice underwater structure descending to 30 m with big mad fishball lurking inside. Enjoyable dive for AOW.
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Gordon
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Named after the colony of garden eels (Gorgasia sillneri) that populates its sandy slopes. A gentle, shallow dive with schools of Barracuda and many hard and soft corals.
“Amazing marine life and very nice underwater light”
Mostafa, 17 November 2021
“Very surreal. Hundreds of eels standing vertical out of the sand
slowly retreat back into their holes as you swim closer. Looks amazing with an awesome blue background!
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Shanna Small
“Wonderful eels on a sandy floor. As you go forward on your
dive they start to dive in the sand – words cannot describe the beauty.
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Hazem Hashem
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Dive at the end of Masbat, to which you can walk from many of the dive centres. It is a lovely little reef from the surface to 10 m or more. A man-made underwater playground is nearby. Look out for the Ghost Pipe Fish, Solenastomus cyanopteris. This little fish looks exactly like a stray piece of old sea grass or seaweed. Also the Pharaoh Cuttlefish which is very pretty with beautiful blue edging.
The most southerly dive of the bay featuring the Moray Gardens and Golden Blocks. Entry is in front of what looks to be an unused Bedouin cafe. A sign points to the Caves. At high tide it is easy to drop straight into the water by the road. Swim south east into the first, shallow, cave. Further north there is a canyon leading up to the surface. From here you can swim back south along a drop off, finally visiting a final cave at 10-15 m, just south of the first one. The diver (a member of the SCUBA Travel team) surfacing in the video at the top of the page is about to exit the Caves dive site.
Starry puffer and diver at The Caves. Tim Nicholson
Article by Jill Studholme, who has frequently visited and dived all around Dahab between February 1990 and October 2025.
Dahab roughly comprises 4 areas: Dahab City in the south, Lagoona where the windsurfers congregate and Mashraba and Masbat which hold most of the dive centres. Mashraba and Masbat are within walking distance of each other. Masbat is home to most of the more touristy shops and is the busier.
There are around 40 dive centres in and around Dahab.
Have you dived in Dahab? Rate your diving centre here.
Desert Divers InMo Divers Penguin Divers Poseidon Divers Bedouin Divers Nesima Dive Centre Extra Divers Black Rock Dive Centre Sinai Divers DiveIn Sunsplash Divers Aqua Divers Big Blue Dahab Divers House Pearl of South Sinai Dive Club Sub Sinai Dive Center Subex Dahab Diving Center Adventure Spot Sphinx Divers Dahab Dive Paradise Divers Down Under Fish and Friends Scuba Seekers Deep Blue Divers Sea Dancer Diver Center H2O Divers Dahab Dahab Divers Club Red Dive Center Planet Divers Red Sea Relax Sea Pioneer Lighthouse Dive Center Octopus World Dahab Blue Realm Mirage Divers Fantasea Divers Dive Urge Reef 2000 Dive Club Daniela Diving Center Lagona Divers SeaView Divers
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Penguin Divers
Penguin Village
Mashraba
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: +20 693 641 047
E-mail: [email protected]
“Really friendly dive masters! 18 Euro per dive. GREAT dive sites!! Definitely recommend doing your advanced
nitrox courses with them so you can dive the magnificent Blue Hole! Excellent value for money! Best place I have dived so far (havent been many places yet though). Dive centre linked with a hotel but be prepared for BUDGET accommodation. Salt water showers, suspiciously “clean” sheets. At only £6 per night, including the all-important air-conditioning, you can’t really expect more.
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Shanna Small
Read more about the Penguin hotel below.
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PADI 5 Star Gold Palm Instructor Centre
Poseidon Diving Centre
PO Box 14
Crazy Camel Camp
Mashraba
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: +20 69 640 091
Tel: 364 0091
E-mail: [email protected]
“Very accommodating and friendly, denifinately dive with them again
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Jane Anderson, UK
“About £25 pounds per dive including all equipment. All shore dives. Friendly people. Dives quite relaxed and laid back. Instructor very good and assistants were all decent people. Would dive with them again.
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Gordon
Accommodation in Bedouin Lodge Hotel, restaurant, daily shore diving, boat diving, camel dive safaris, desert safaris by jeep and camel.
Bedouin Divers
Bedouin Lodge Hotel
Mashraba
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: 00 20 (0)69 / 3640 317 or 3641 125.
“The best diving club ever.
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Friday
Nesima Dive Centre
Nesima Resort
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: +20 69 364 03 20
Fax: +20 69 364 03 21
E-mail: [email protected]
“I went to Dahab and stayed at Blue Beach Club Hotel which was amazing and has its own dive centre. However i got my open water PADI at Nesima dive centre with Gamal as my instructer. I would highly recommend this centre as the staff were all friendly and polite while enjoying their jobs. They have there own fresh water swimming pool which is unusual in Dahab, where you learn all the skills you need to go out into the Red Sea. When you are ready the dive instructors take you to some of the most beautiful dive sites in Dahab such as the Blue Hole, the Lighthouse (right in the middle of the main sea front) and of course the spectacular eel garden. I seriously urge you to go to Dahab and try the diving: it will blow your mind and I promise you once you’ve gone once you will want to go back again and again.
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Fran Edwards
Established 2000. At the Ganet Sinai Hotel and Tangerine Dream Hotel.
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Black Rock Dive Centre |
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PADI 5* Gold Palm Resort located in a 3* hotel directly on the beachfront and 5 minutes walk from all the facilities of Dahab. Offer all PADI courses, dive packages, boat and camel dive safaris around Dahab and Sharm.
Aqua Divers
Mashraba
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel/Fax: 069 364-1547
[email protected]
“Excellent service, best and most friendly guides…who knows how to get to the most beautiful dive sites. Ehab who is the owner of Aqua Divers is the most friendly and professional man, and his staff is great, patient and very professional. Fantastic value for money.
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Pia Allerslev, Denmark, 19 April 2022
“Friendly crew, they make you feel welcome and at home. Dive sites in Dahab are fantastic. Love it. Thank you Aqua Divers, will be back soon 🙂
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Cornelia, Switzerland, 24 April 2015
A family run operation, catering for groups of young adventurous travellers. Despite a recent opening, boast a team of instructors and dive masters with plenty of experience within the diving and tourism fields.
Big Blue Dahab
PO Box 98
Mashraba
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: (+20) 069 364 0045
Email: [email protected]
Desert Divers dive from the shore, with a cup of Bedouin tea on the beach and a chat around the fire. On their Camel Diving Safari they go to remote places north and south of Dahab, like Gabr El Bint (a National Park area) and Ras Abu Galoum (a small Bedouin Village).
Desert Divers Co Ltd
PO Box 58
Dahab,
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel/Fax: +20 (0)69 3 640 500
E-mail: [email protected]
Reviews:
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Deep Blue Divers
Behind Gazala Market
Masbat
P.O. Box 34
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: +20 693 640 416
Fax: +20 121 134 668
E-mail: [email protected]
“Diving holidays which combine both safety and fun whilst experiencing a whole different culture in a truly unique atmosphere. Small groups, personal attention to all divers.“
Deep Blue Divers
“I’ve spent one week with the Deep Blue Divers staff,and really enjoyed diving with them. Lead by Ayman,the instructor, we discovered many amazing underwater reefs, corals and coloured fishes. We went also to a protected dive zone, with camels because no way by cars. HUGE. The prices are low too. Thanks a lot to them for their kindness, I’ll return soon there to share more diving adventure. Accommodation is Deep Blue Dorm, just above the dive center.”
Justin, 2012
“Deep Blue Divers, Dahab, affordable prices, for sure I dive with them again.
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Nicolas, 2012
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H2O Divers Dahab
PO BOX 105
Masbat
Dahab 26008
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: + 2069 3642042
Fax: +2012 7498127
E-mail: [email protected]
“H2O Divers Dahab are a professional and friendly dive centre with great facilities. The best centre in Dahab
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James Saunders, UK, 2013
“H2O Divers Dahab are a fantastic diving centre. I’ve been to lots of dive centres around the world and have already visited Dahab. I stumbled across H2O rather than my usual dive centre and they are faultless. They are a new dive centre but all the guides have been around for years. I decided to do a couple of specialties with them – Photo and Nitrox, the Instructors were so incredibly knowledgeable, I really learned a lot.
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Matt, 24 October 2012
Dahab Divers
PO BOX 4
El Fanar Street
Masbat
Dahab 46617
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: + 20 69 364 0381
Fax: + 20 69 364 0180
Dive Centre at the Lighthouse and also offer liveaboard safari to North’s wrecks, Brothers, Rocky, Deep South in the Red Sea.
Lighthouse Dive Center
Nogacek Ladislav, Izso Zsuzsana
Lighthouse
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: +20 127 615353
E-mail: [email protected]
Octopus World Dahab
Lighthouse Area
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: +22 01016106524
E-mail: [email protected]
“We know that diving in small groups is always safer and more fun, therefore we ensure we keep our group numbers small and that you always dive with others of a similar level.
All PADI dive courses are available across all levels, from Open Water though to Divemaster. You learn under the care of our highly skilled and experienced PADI Instructors.
Join us and enjoy the beauty of our reefs, secure in the knowledge that we care about your wellbeing, safety and enjoyment, along with a genuine desire to preserve and protect the underwater world.
The Octopus World family welcomes you with open arms and looks forward to sharing unforgettable diving with you!
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Emad Ahmed, Octopus World Dahab, 16 September 2013
Reef 2000 is a PADI 5* Golden Palm Resort and IANTD technical training facility. Offer guided dives, weekly boat and camel safaris, Yoga diving, PADI courses all the way through PADI Divemaster and IANTD courses all the way through full Trimix OC diver (100m). Small groups: maximum 6 clients to one guide or instructor or maximum 3 clients to one guide/instructor in technical diving. Offers Nitrox, Trimix and Oxygen fills.
Reef 2000 Dive Club & Bedouin Moon Hotel
P.O. Box 60
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: (002) 069 640 087
E-mail: [email protected]
“This hotel is home to the excellent Reef 2000 diving school. The hotel is not luxurious but it is very friendly. In the evening camels make their way home unescorted to the town from the Blue Hole. I have stayed at the Bedouin Moon several times, and I love it.
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Monica Wells, 2012
Travel Agents
Although the big travel agents offer packages to Dahab, you may prefer going through a small Dahab travel agent to book your accommodation and diving. However, if you are going at peak times when the flights are very expensive, it can be cheaper to get a package. Note that packages generally go to hotels out of town or on the Lagoon.
Dahab Holidays
We used Dahab Holidays to book our accommodation and diving and were very pleased with their service. The prices were the same as booking direct and they organised our efficient taxi transfer to and from the airport. Located in Dahab, e-mail: [email protected].
Dive Sharm
Travel agent organising diving holidays in Dahab, Sharm and Marsa Alam.
Tel (UK): +44 (0)845 09 44733
Tel (mobile, UK): +44 (0)7799 646 585
Tel (Egypt): 0020 (0)10 764 4343
E-mail: [email protected]
“I would like to recommend the travel company Dive Sharm for organising our diving holiday in Dahab. We found them to be much better than some of our previous experiences with Regal diving or Longwood holidays. It was simply great and worth every penny. I believe they should be giving a mention on your website because your customers would have more choice.
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Joanna Gould, UK
BlueSky Holiday Design
BlueSky Holiday Design
Dorpsstraat 75
5737 GB Lieshout
The Netherlands
[email protected]
Recommend a Travel Agent…
There are three areas in which to stay in Dahab itself. Laguna is where the more expensive hotels are and where the windsurfers congregate. Up from Laguna are Mashraba and Masbat, home to most of the dive centres. Many of the dive centres have a hotel or apartments attached. Hotels are also dotted up and down the coast from Dahab.
Accommodation in Dahab comprises hotels and apartments to suit all price ranges. The low-cost price range is well catered for with shared rooms aimed at backpackers. Mid-range are family rooms and the big chain hotels are also represented with the Hilton, Meridien etc around the Laguna.
From Mashraba to Masbat along the sea front is a line of hotels, restaurants and dive centres. I would recommend staying in this area as you can walk around the shops and eat where you choose. Further out you are compelled to take a taxi if you do not wish to be confined to your hotel. However, taxis are plentiful and cheap.
Located on the edge of Mashraba, it is around a 10 minute walk into town or to the sea front. They have a good-sized swimming pool and a range of apartment sizes. Basic cooking facilities in the rooms. Have a pool side bar for snacks. The owner was previously the manager of the Swiss Hotel.
E-mail. [email protected].
Just North of Dahab
Bedouin Moon Hotel
Bedouin Moon Hotel
P.O. Box 60
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: (002) 069 640 087
E-mail: [email protected]
“This hotel is home to the excellent Reef 2000 diving school. The hotel is not luxurious but it is very friendly. In the evening camels make their way home unescorted to the town from the Blue Hole. I have stayed at the Bedouin Moon several times, and I love it.
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Monica Wells, 2012
“Dahab: Try Ali’s, next to police station. Around 15 euro per night for balcony room (2 beds so bring a friend and share cost), proprietor and local people friendly, rooms pretty basic, but that really doesn’t matter. Sitting on a balcony overlooking a red sea sunset to the sound of evening prayer. Lovely! Bring mosquito net and spray though!
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Gordon
Penguin Divers
Penguin Village
Mashraba
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
Tel: +20 693 641 047
E-mail: [email protected]
“Dive centre linked with a hotel but be prepared for BUDGET accommodation. Salt water showers, suspiciously “clean” sheets. At only £6 per night, including the all-important air-conditioning, you can’t really expect more.
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Shanna Small
“You’re going to the desert to go diving. Get a grip and deal with the saltwater shower – the accommodation is what you’d expect in asia for a similar price. Bargain – get involved.
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Matt, 2011
Blue Beach Hotel
P.O. Box 82
Dahab
South Sinai
Egypt
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Lou Craig, UK
Lighthouse > Masbat
Dahab Divers Hotel
Eel Garden
Coral Coast Hotel
One of the last hotels before the Blue Hole. North of Dahab so will need to take a taxi if you wanted to go into the town to shop, visit restaurants, etc.
“Nice enough rooms but food awful.
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Ruth
Big hotel on the Laguna. Food not as good as in the town.
Let us know about your accommodation in Dahab.
Other Things to Do in Dahab
Dahab is a popular destination for windsurfing and kitesurfing. For more details see http://dahabholidays.com/Windsurfing_and_Kitesurfing.html.
Then there are the camel safaris, which may be cheaper booked through your dive company or hotel. If camels are too uncomfortable you can instead go horse riding on small, lovely-looking horses.
For sight-seeing you will have to go quite a distance. St. Catherine’s Monastery is a day trip. This is a 4th Century Greek Orthodox Monastery and location of the burning bush and Moses’ Well.
Bedouin Safari Tour
Specialize in desert trips enabling participants to experience the true nature of the desert, whilst preserving its unspoiled beauty. Bedouin Safari Tours endeavors to reach the places rarely visited by tourists. Finding some of the greatest views on earth still untainted by man. All in the same spirit and passion as the first intrepid desert explorers.
Dahab-Hurghada
Egypt
Tel: 002- 069- 3640 317
Fax: 002-069-3640-317
E-mail: [email protected]
Kindle
- Snorkel the World: Red Sea Coral Reef Guide
- by David Revill, KINDLE.
250 species of fish, turtles, dolphins, invertebrates and corals that are commonly encountered when snorkelling in the upper few metres of the reef. Each species is illustrated with a full colour image and description, together with information on their range, biology and characteristic behaviour.
Download for just £1.99
Books
For those who prefer hard copies, we recommend.
- Red Sea Map
- Road map and chart of all the major dive sites in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Eritrea and Djibouti.
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Coral Reef Guide Red Sea
- by Ewald Lieske and Robert Myers, Collins, 384 Pages, Paperback (2012)
Coral Reef Guide Red Sea covers all common species of underwater life of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, you are likely to see while diving or snorkelling. Each species is illustrated with a full-colour photograph and the text gives details of range and characteristic behaviour. A map of good dive sites appears on the inside front cover. Includes jellyfish, corals, nudibranchs, starfish, sea urchins, fishes and turtles. An excellent sea life guide which I always take to the Red Sea
- Sinai Diving Guide
- by Pete Harrison, 94 pages, 1996.
Very old now but if you can find a cheapish copy it is worth getting. A slim volume with detailed descriptions and line drawings of the dives around Dahab.
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