Family diving holiday in the Red Sea
| country: | Egypt |
| location: | Red Sea |
| departures: | Available throughout the year |
| price: | From £325 (8 days) per adult and £130 per child (under 10 yrs) excluding flights. Adult price includes 10 dives with air & weights and child price includes 1 day PADI Bubblemaker course. We can arrange flights from the UK. Min. diving age 12 yrs |
the amazing things you'll be doing
In order to escape the mainstream commercialised resorts in the Red Sea, we offer a variety of scuba-diving packages based in the relaxed village-style resort of Dahab. Dahab is situated roughly 100km north of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba coast, Sinai. Dahab offers a wide range of shore dives in the Gulf of Aqaba, from shallow gentle dives to deep technical dives in the Blue Hole. In the programme are dive sites such as the Canyon, Bells to the Blue Hole, the Islands, Coral Garden, Eel Gardens, the Lighthouse, Gabr el-Bint, and potentially a boat dive to Napoleon Reef, dependent on weather conditions.
You will be based on the southern side of Dahab's seafront. The hotel and dive centre are built in an Arabic style and situated directly on the house reef with views across the Gulf of Aqaba. The hotel offers a range of double/twin & family rooms, a good restaurant, swimming pool and children’s playground with cave & paddling pool and several sun-lounging areas turning your stay into a relaxing and delightful experience. Child minding facilities are available whilst you dive.
Price includes accommodation on half board basis and airport transfers. An optional Bubblemaker course for children is included in this trip. Adult PADI Dive courses are also available – please contact us for further details.
You will be based on the southern side of Dahab's seafront. The hotel and dive centre are built in an Arabic style and situated directly on the house reef with views across the Gulf of Aqaba. The hotel offers a range of double/twin & family rooms, a good restaurant, swimming pool and children’s playground with cave & paddling pool and several sun-lounging areas turning your stay into a relaxing and delightful experience. Child minding facilities are available whilst you dive.
Price includes accommodation on half board basis and airport transfers. An optional Bubblemaker course for children is included in this trip. Adult PADI Dive courses are also available – please contact us for further details.
how this holiday makes a difference
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The Dive Centre is an Egyptian owned small scale hotel and diving centre on the south side of Dahab’s sea front. As a locally owned hotel the staff, from cooks to dive guides, are drawn from the local Egyptian community. All staff are fully trained in their specialist areas and many have been able to move onto other areas of the Egyptian tourism industry as a consequence of the training they have received at Inmo.
 The Centre has purchased the building opposite the hotel and developed it into a school with the money generated from tourist revenues. Initially the aim was to offer schooling to the children of staff employed at Inmo but the school has been so successful and grown to such a size that it can now provide primary school facilities for local children across the village of Dahab. The revenues generated by tourists staying at Inmo help to sustain the school and have paid for experienced teachers to reside at the school for extended periods. In particular high quality language training given to Egyptian staff has enabled them to cater for all of the European market and PADI dive courses can be delivered in several major European languages by Egyptian staff. |
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