Hurghada: 3-Day Orange Island, Grand Safari & Dolphin House Package
Three excursions, three days, one price. Snorkel at Orange Island, ride a quad into the Sahara and cruise to the Dolphin House reef. Two lunches, a Bedouin dinner and all park fees included.
Overview
Somewhere around the third day, the hotel beach starts to repeat itself. This package is the answer to that — three mornings, three pickups, and three versions of Egypt that have almost nothing in common except the coastline they share.
On the island day you go over the side into water so clear the boat's shadow sits on the seabed six metres below. The reef at Giftun does the thing reefs do to time: you plan on ten minutes and surface forty later, sunburnt across the shoulders, with no idea where the morning went. Then lunch on deck, the sandbar at Orange Island, and nothing on the schedule but the walk back to the water.
The desert day is what makes the trip make sense. You take the quad out past the last hotel and the coast simply stops — no reef, no colour, no sound but the engine, and then, when the guide cuts it, not even that. Egypt is a country most people meet as a strip of beach a few kilometres wide. Standing in the Sahara at dusk with tea going cold in your hand is when you understand that the beach was the exception, and this is the rule.
By the last morning you know the drill: bag packed, guide's name learned, the boat already familiar. Sha'ab El Erg is the one you'll talk about — a horseshoe reef with a shallow lagoon where wild spinner dolphins come to rest, and where seeing them is their decision, not the schedule's. Either way you go home able to say something most visitors can't: that you saw the reef, the desert and the open sea, and that you know which one you'd come back for.
Highlights
- Snorkel two reef stops at Giftun Island, inside a protected national park.
- Ride your own quad into the open Sahara after a proper driving briefing.
- Sit down to a Bedouin BBQ, tea and a Tanura show under the desert sky.
- Cruise to Sha'ab El Erg, the horseshoe reef where wild spinner dolphins come to rest.
- Two lunches on board, hotel pickup on all three days, every park fee already paid.
- Three separate excursions on one booking — one price instead of three.
Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off from Hurghada on all three days
- Professional snorkelling guide on both sea days
- Snorkelling equipment and life vest
- 2 snorkelling stops on the Orange Island trip
- 2 snorkelling stops on the Dolphin House trip
- 2 hours ashore at Orange Island
- 2 hours at the Dolphin House reef
- 20-minute quad bike ride
- 10-minute camel ride
- Bedouin tea and BBQ dinner
- Evening show at the Bedouin camp
- 2 lunches on board the yachts
- Fruit, soft drinks and mineral water
- All taxes, national park and entrance fees
Not included
- Pick-up and drop-off from Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh and El Gouna — available as a paid add-on, charged per person for each excursion day
- Pick-up and drop-off from Soma Bay and Safaga — available as a paid add-on, charged per person for each excursion day
- Head scarf for the desert day
- Gratuities
- Personal expenses
Good to know
- Child price: ages 2-11 · Infants under 2
- Not suitable for
- Pregnant women
- People with back or neck problems
- What to bring
- Swimwear and a towel
- Comfortable closed shoes for the desert day
- Sunscreen and sunglasses
- A head scarf or buff for the quad ride
- Camera
- Good to know
- The three excursions run on separate days, and the order can be adjusted to suit your schedule.
- Quad bikes are ridden after a short instruction session with the guide.
- Dolphins at Sha'ab El Erg are wild and free-swimming, so sightings are likely but never guaranteed.
- All national park and entrance fees are already included in the price.
- Guests staying outside Hurghada can add hotel transfers at checkout; the transfer add-on is charged per person for each excursion day.
- Water sports
- Banana boat and sofa rides are temporarily unavailable.