Dive experience: For diving trips in the marine parks, you must hold an Advanced Open Water Diver license or equivalent and have at least 50 logged dives. For safaris elsewhere in Egypt, a minimum of 25 logged dives is required.
Cruise price per person includes: Cabin accommodation with air-conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, water, soft drinks, hot drinks, return transfers from local airport (see below), dives (as detailed in the trips above), port and park fees, nitrox fills for certified enriched air divers, 3 experienced English-speaking divemasters, tanks, weightbelt and weights, all taxes.
Cruise price per person excludes (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Scuba equipment (incl. dive computer and torch: US$ 200 per week), diving insurance. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival (cash preferred - EUR/GBP/USD, or credit/debit card).
Optional extras: Alcoholic drinks (wine and beer), 15 litre tank (US$ 42 per week), transfers from Hurghada to Port Ghalib. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival. Note: prices of items purchased onboard are subject to change.
How to get there: Ghazala Explorer Red Sea liveaboard trips use either Hurghada or Port Ghalib as the ports of departure. The local airport is either Hurghada (HRG) or Marsa Alam (RMF) airport. Minibus transfers are provided from the local airport and from hotels within a 20 km range of the port. For more details, including airlines, visit our Egypt travel information section.
The first and last nights of the trip are spent in port. Guests board on the first day after 6 pm. The last dive of the tour will be about 11 am on the penultimate day. Please wait at least 18 hours before flying after diving. Guests depart latest at 10 am on the final day.
Non-diver rate: None.
Single supplement (if you do not want to share accommodation): This is optional - single travellers may choose to share a cabin, or pay a supplement of 60% of the published price for their own cabin.
Dive clubs and group discounts: None.
Whole boat charter rate (per night): None.
Add-on package: We recommend some of the wonderful antiquities tours in Egypt to add an extra dimension to your Red Sea diving holiday. Cairo museum's royal mummies, the pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, a glorious cruise down the Nile staying in a luxury cabin, the Valley of the Kings, all of these and more can be added to your travel itinerary to make it a once-in-a-lifetime Egyptian adventure. Other activities such as 4x4 desert safaris, birding tours, and camel rides are also available.
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"The food was excellent, dive equipment were of good quality, dive instructors were caring and lots of fun. It was lovely to have everything arranged prior to our arrival." - Weihui Wang, Singapore, 10 September 2024 ...Customer rating: Excellent!
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