If you’re longing for a hot and sunny getaway to a destination with spectacular scuba diving, check out Egypt’s Southern Red Sea, it has the added convenience of being just a short flight away from Europe too. You don’t have to spend days (and a small fortune) travelling to far-flung places in the world to get great diving and great weather, and if you only have a few days to spare, the relative ease of getting to Egypt helps to make a diving mini-break a reality.
The diving in Egypt is some of the best in the world and it’s a year-round destination of guaranteed sunshine. By-pass the crowds of the northern resorts and head south for pristine reefs, prolific fish life and encounters with dolphins, dugongs and oceanic white-tip sharks, plus a whole lot more.
There’s more than enough to do to keep you occupied for a two-week holiday or more but if you have constraints on your time and can only get away for a few days or a week, why waste more time travelling than you need to? For travellers from Europe, jet lag will be of no concern either as there’s just 1-2 hours’ time difference so no time wasted sleeping when you could be diving!
Utopia Beach Club at El Quesir is perfectly situated in Egypt’s Southern Red Sea, for both spectacular house reef diving and visiting world-famous reefs nearby. The family-run hotel is nestled on a breath-taking sandy beach in the bay of Ras Allasad, an area known for its crystal-clear waters and incredible house reef. Divers, sun-worshippers and water sports enthusiasts will all love it here.
Don’t forget to bring your bucket list – the world-famous Elphinstone Reef is reachable from Utopia Beach Club – get ready for Oceanic White-tip action to remember!
We’ll see you soon, we’re just a short flight away…
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
