Egypt at Christmas

flyz

Am looking into going to the Red Sea just after christmas.
Can people suggest to me websites / travel agents they've used before please?
Or recommend places to go. it'll be 2 newly qualified Adv. Open Water. Hopefully will have a lot more dives under our belts by then.

thanks!

Peace

Liveaboard is yer only man.... You get 4/5 dives per day... food included (also soft drinks.. water/orange/coke etc etc).

I've done the liveaboard thing and holy god is it sssooo easy compared to people going out on day boats... you should do a search on the scuba board and you'll find the thread that talks about liveaboard holidays... but basically its get up at 6/7am and you're in the water in less than 5/10 minutes. No other way to wake up in the morning.

I should mention that most boats will provide a dive guide as part of the price.

Day boats suck ass and because you spend so much time travelling between the harbour ad the dive site you might only get 2/3 dives in. The liveaboards don't touch land all week and you get to go to farther away sites.

Day boats might be attractive because they are cheap... but it doesn't compare to being moored above the thistlegorm and diving such a cracking dive 1st thing in the morning.

.....You get the picutre.....

I'll post up some links that i get in the mail when i get home ( might have to wait until monday as i'll be running ou tthe door for a weekend of diving after work).
However regal diving comes to mind.

Borzoi

mm liveaboards...nothing like getting up out of your bed at the crack of dawn, quick coffee, into the water for first light, and back to the boat for a hot breakfast!:D

flyz

it all sounds good! I look forward to the links Peace

do you have to do a liveaboard for a full week or are there 2 - 4 day trips as well?

daveg

Originally posted by Peace
you should do a search on the scuba board and you'll find the thread that talks about liveaboard holidays...

Yes... I seem to remember one member promising to organise a trip on a livaboard next month... anyone remember that?

Peace

Originally posted by daveg
Yes... I seem to remember one member promising to organise a trip on a livaboard next month... anyone remember that?

And it is organised... there was a vote taken not to tell you about it until the boat was full... and thats what i'm doing now.

And yes, you can take 3 day livaboards somewhere....
http://www.regal-diving.co.uk/ is my link of the day... go nuts.

Apache01

Flyz

I never none a Liveaboard but spent two weeks diving in Dahab over Christmas a few years ago and it was amazing. No day boats all shore diving.

We dived with Reef 2000 the hotel is a bit basic but as long as there was bed to sleep in that’s all that mattered we were diving about three times a day including some great night dives in the Canyon. Dives in Bells and across the Blue hole are great.

Its also great to be ashore andexperience the life on the land and meet the locals, interesting place, what ever way you go the diving will blow you away if you have never dived outside Ireland

Enjoy

Apache

flyz

Apache / Peace,
thanks for the links! I will have a look at them today!

I was in NZ about 3 months ago and dived the Poor Knights, twas amazing! the trip to NZ was the reason why I got my OW qualification

daveg

Originally posted by Peace
And it is organised... there was a vote taken not to tell you about it until the boat was full... and thats what i'm doing now.