Sahl Hasheesh: Try Scuba Diving — Two-Reef Red Sea Cruise with Lunch & Drinks
Leave Sahl Hasheesh after breakfast, breathe underwater before lunch. Two instructor-led dives or easy snorkeling across two reefs, with a fresh on-board buffet — licence not required.
Overview
Sahl Hasheesh does mornings beautifully — and this one ends with you on a dive yacht. A short included transfer brings you from your hotel to the boat, and before the day warms up you are already cutting across open Red Sea water toward the first of two reefs.
Diving here needs no experience and no licence: your instructor handles the theory in plain language, checks every strap twice, and stays within arm's reach as you descend. The sound of the boat disappears. What is left is your own breathing and a reef going about its business — wrasse patrolling, damselfish flickering, coral fans swaying in the current.
You surface to the smell of lunch. The crew serves a fresh buffet on board with unlimited soft drinks and tea, then points the bow at a second reef with a different character — new colours, new fish, and a second twenty-minute dive to lock the feeling in.
Snorkelers are welcome the whole way, children from age two can join the boat, and licensed divers can switch to a deeper two-dive programme of 30–40 minutes per descent. A warm shower, a lazy sail back, and you are at your Sahl Hasheesh hotel by evening. Free cancellation — reserve now, pay when you arrive.
Highlights
- Two beginner dives of about 20 minutes each, guided one-to-one.
- Cruise from Sahl Hasheesh to a pair of hand-picked coral reefs.
- No diving licence needed — full instruction is part of the day.
- Buffet lunch, soft drinks and tea served on deck between reefs.
- Licensed divers can take two deeper 30–40-minute dives instead.
- All transfers from Sahl Hasheesh and every piece of gear included.
Included
- Hotel pickup and return in Sahl Hasheesh.
- Yacht trip across the Red Sea to two coral reefs.
- One-to-one scuba instruction from a certified pro.
- Two dives per guest — intro or certified format.
- Complete set of dive and snorkel gear.
- Free snorkeling at each reef stop.
- Buffet lunch served on deck.
- Soft drinks and hot drinks without limit.
- Fresh-water shower and WC on the boat.
- Licensed dive guide on every descent.
Not included
- Tourist and marine-park fee of 5 €/£/$ or 250 EGP per person, paid on board.
- Professional underwater photos and video (bookable add-on).
Good to know
- Child price: ages 2-11 · Infants under 2
- Expectant mothers.
- Guests with cardiac, blood-pressure or respiratory problems.
- Swimsuit, towel and dry clothes for the ride home.
- Sun protection — hat, sunglasses, high-SPF cream.
- Passport or a photocopy for registration.
- Diving starts at age 12; children aged 2–11 are welcome on board as snorkelers.
- No licence is required for the intro programme — certified divers pick the licensed option.
- A 5 €/£/$ (or 250 EGP) per-person park fee is paid on board.