3 Stars

All year round

4.5 Hours

Beginner, All

From £1095

Marsa Shagra

At Marsa Shagra, Hossam has endeavoured to promote sustainable tourism along with eco diving and his educational diving programmes are a continuation of his desire to ensure the long term future of this area.

As well as unlimited access to Marsa Shagra's extensive and diverse house reef, this unique tour gives divers exclusive access to many other outstanding reefs including Elphinstone, Dolphin House Reef (Samadai) and Abu Dabbab, where if you are lucky you might spot the elusive Dugong.

Our guests say these villages are the best value and all-round diving experience you will find in the Red Sea. With the hyperbaric chamber and medical centre on site it is a perfect location for divers. As well as unlimited house reef diving and 2 orientation dives you also have a wealth of other dive sites to choose from. Within your package we include unlimited house reef diving as well as 2 guided orientation dives on your first diving day, further excursions by truck, speed or daily boat are booked and paid for locally. If you prefer you can upgrade your package to include 10 guided dives from just £25 per person. Marsa Shagra is the larger of the villages and is suitable for all levels of qualification from non divers to instructors – there really is something for everyone. Now we can also offer Technical Diving Courses at Marsa Shagra.

Board Basis :

  • Full board Diver


Transfer Times
From Marsa Alam Airport the journey to Marsa Shagra takes approximately 30 minutes and from Hurghada airport the journey takes approximately 3 hours. You will need to purchase your $25 US Dollar Egypt entrance visa at the counter in the arrival lounge.

Board Basis

Full Booard With breakfast, lunch and dinner
Package Price From £1295 for 7 nights on full board basis, flights and airport transfers
Diving £298 for 5 days diving with 2 dives a day
Tent-chairs

Beach Safari Tent

The Tents are one of the village hallmarks and an exciting experience of how the Red Sea Diving Safari concept all began. The Tents are on the beach-front and the interior is 3.5x3.5 meters with hand-made furniture, lighting, electricity outlet and a seating area just a few meters from the shoreline. This accommodation is available with 2 single beds and share a communal bathroom facility.

  • Daily Housekeeping
  • Shared Bathroom
  • Sunrise View
  • Shower Towels (Upon request)
  • Shower gel & handwash provided in public bathrooms
  • Public bathrooms cleaned every 30 minutes
Royal-doubleside

Royal Tent

The Royal Tent is the most popular accommodation option and an integral part of Red Sea Diving Safari's minimal impact concept. The interior is 5x5 meters and well furnished with a minibar, fan, bean bag chairs and table, and a seating area just a few meters from the shoreline. Royal Tents are available with a double bed or two singles and share a communal bathroom facility.

  • Fan
  • Mini Fridge
  • Daily Housekeeping
  • Shared Bathroom
  • Sea View
  • Sunrise View
  • Shower Towels (Upon request)
  • Shower gel & handwash provided in public bathrooms
  • Public bathrooms cleaned every 30 minutes
  • Non-Alcoholic minibar
Hut-twin

Hut

The Huts are simple, dome-roofed rooms set on the beach, slightly back from the shoreline but offer uninterrupted sea views. They feature two single beds, bedside table with a lamp, a wardrobe, and a fan. The Huts share a communal bathroom facility and shower towels are available if needed from the reception. Beach towels can be rented for a fee.

  • Daily Housekeeping
  • Shared Bathroom
  • Sea View
  • Sunrise View
  • Shower Towels (Upon request)
  • Shower gel & handwash provided in public bathrooms
  • Public bathrooms cleaned every 30 minutes
  • Wardrobe
  • Side and dressing table
Deluxe-nightview

Deluxe Chalet

The Deluxe Chalet with air conditioning is the finest room standard and has terraces on either side, one overlooking the spectacular mountains on one side and the Red Sea on the other. The Deluxe Chalets are 4x6 metres, offer either a double bed or twin beds, ensuite, wardroves, side & dressing table. Towels are provided for showering only.

  • Mini Bar
  • Air conditioning
  • Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
  • Safety Deposit Box
  • Mini Fridge
  • Daily Housekeeping
  • Wardrobe
  • Side and dressing table
  • Sunrise and sunset view
  • LCD TV (only in 10 chalets)
Chalet Seaview

Superior Deluxe Chalet

The finest standard Superior Deluxe Chalet occupies the best location in Marsa Shagra with a large, private terrace providing breath-taking house reef views. Situated close to the centre, each chalet features a spacious, high-quality interior including en-suite bathroom, large wardrobe space and a 50-inch LED TV. Each set of two chalets are interconnecting, therefore ideal for families.

  • Air conditioning
  • Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
  • Safety Deposit Box
  • Mini Fridge
  • T.V.
  • Private Terrace
  • Daily Housekeeping
  • Wardrobe
  • Side and dressing table
  • Sunrise and sunset view
Premium Deluxe Room

Premium Deluxe Chalet

The Premium Deluxe Chalet is ideally located close to all amenities with spectacular mountain views on one side and the Red Sea on the other. With a large terrace and seating area, the chalet is furbished to a high standard and comes with air-conditioning and a large double bed.

  • Mini Bar
  • Air conditioning
  • Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
  • Safety Deposit Box
  • T.V.
  • Daily Housekeeping
  • Terrace
  • Wardrobe
  • Sunrise and sunset view

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Marcelina

Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Sunrise Marina Resort & Emperor Divers in Marsa Alam

The overall holiday was excellent value for money. Emperor Divers provided an outstanding dive experience on day boat trips to provide some of the most relax dives I have ever encountered at reasonable depths.

Sunrise Marina Resort & Emperor Divers in Marsa Alam

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Our reviews and blogs are an additional guide to evaluate if the holiday is exactly what you are looking for or not. Some love an Eco-Resort, some love air-con and a flat screen TV, we aim to ensure you get what you are looking for, at great value for money.

Marsa Shagra Resort

Snorkelling Trip Marsa Shagra Nov 2022 This is the second time we have travelled with Ultimate Diving and we hope to do so again. Communication is excellent, quick and helpful. Our 2 deluxe chalets were clean, spacious and comfortable with outside sitting areas with views of the sea and desert. The food was 3 buffet style meals daily, good and varied. A pizza oven, was a nice extra optional extra. Excellent desserts. House reef - both North & South, are in a protected area, no fishing has been allowed for the last 30 years. It was like snorkelling in an aquarium. Very popular with divers. Easy sandy entrance/exit. Well organised set up, both safety and environmentally aware. Staff were helpful & pleasant. The divers we chatted to were all repeat customers. 95% divers, very few English mainly German and Dutch. Would recommend going there.

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Marsa Shagra Resort

This was our first diving holiday, booked through Ultimate Diving. It certainly won't be our last! From start to finish, the planning, organisation and location, at the Marsa Shagra diving centre in Egypt, far exceeded our expectations and has been an amazing experience. We would personally like to thank Gail for all her hard work organising our diving trip, for dealing with any queries promptly and for being so helpful and polite. The travel arrangements were extremely well organised and the dive centre at Marsa Shagra was fantastic. Our chalet was modern and clean and was located close to the restaurant and other amenities. The food was outstanding and the staff throughout the dive centre were polite, friendly and spoke good English. The diving house reefs were amazing and suitable for all levels of diving experience. My partner had only recently qualified in June 2022 with 6 logged dives, so was a pure novice. During the week, she had the opportunity to master her diving skills and can't wait to return! The dive centre staff were always happy, smiling and ready to assist divers with their heavy equipment. A big thank you to Ahmed Amin, who helped us assemble our equipment, rinse our equipment after our dives and even went into the water to remove my partner's air tank at the end of her dives, which was very much appreciated. We have made so many fantastic memories on our first scuba diving holiday together and can't wait to return to Marsa Shagra diving centre in the future. Thank you so much for making our dreams a reality! Finally, we would thoroughly recommend Ultimate Diving to our family, friends and wider scuba diving community.

Gary and Julia

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Marsa Shagra

Marsa Shagra Village

Red Sea Diving Safari is the oldest and most experienced diving operation in the Marsa Alam area of the Egyptian South Red Sea. Their Ecolodge concept takes you away from mass tourism to the peace and quiet of dedicated diving villages with a desert atmosphere.

They promote diving with a minimum impact for the reefs through a limited number of guests.

The dive centres are located in Ecolodge Shagra, Nakari and Wadi Lahami Village and are built in front of the most beautiful and well protected house reefs of the area.

The Ecolodges cover more than 150 km of inshore and offshore reefs by boat and truck. Ecolodge Shagra and Nakari Village offer unlimited house reef diving plus guided truck and boat dives. Wadi Lahami offers 4 dives per day by speedboat on the magnificent reefs of the Fury Shoals.

PADI Discover Scuba Diving

This course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course. If you're short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver rating might be right for you.

The PADI Scuba Diver course consists of three main phases:

PADI Open Water Diver (Inc Equipment)

This is the most popular dive program in the world! And can be your chance to have a lifetime of intense adventures.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

Knowledge Development ( online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!

PADI Scuba Diver to Open Water Upgrade

This program will allow you to dive to depths of 18 metres and achieve the most popular dive program in the world!

From the beginning to end of the course, you will learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, including areas such as dive equipment and techniques that will give you the confidence and skill to become a responsible diver.

PADI Open Water Referral

This is the most popular dive program in the world! And can be your chance to have a lifetime of intense adventures.

From the beginning to end of the course, you will learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, including areas such as dive equipment and techniques that will give you the confidence and skill to become a responsible diver.

You attain this rating by completing five pool dives and a number of knowledge development sessions with a final exam (which is not rocket science its just diving) and by completing four open water dives.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

The Advanced Open Water Diver program gives you the opportunity to take your diving skill to the next level through three new areas of diving.
You complete your Deep Dive, Underwater Navigation Dive, Night Dive and two other dives for a total of five to attain your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

This certification includes five dives, including the Deep Diver, the Underwater Navigation Diver and three of the following: You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.

The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

PADI Seal Team

The PADI Seal Team is for young scuba divers who are looking for action-packed fun in a pool by completing exciting Aqua Missions. Do cool stuff in the pool, and meet friends.

PADI Junior Open Water Diver

This is the most popular dive program in the world! And can be your chance to have a lifetime of intense adventures.

PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver

The Advanced Open Water Diver program gives you the opportunity to take your diving skill to the next level through three new areas of diving.

Junior Open Water Divers ages 10 to 11 years must complete three adventure dives to become a Junior Adventure Diver. They must dive with a PADI Professional or certified parent/guardian. Dives must not exceed 12 metres/ 40 feet.

Junior Open Water Divers ages 12 to 14 years may complete three Adventure Dives to earn the Junior Adventure Diver rating or five Adventure Dives to earn the Junior Advanced Open Water rating and must dive with a certified adult.

PADI Rescue Diver

Become a Rescue Diver. A great level to be. You will have the skills to aid your fellow divers in an emergency.

The PADI Rescue Diver course prepares you to deal with dive emergencies, minor and major, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue scenarios, you put into practice your knowledge and skills. Topics include:

PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver

The most popular PADI specialty course. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

You’ll learn why diving with air that has higher oxygen and lower nitrogen content gives you more bottom time, along with enriched air equipment considerations. During a practical session, and two optional (or required) scuba dives, you’ll:

PADI Night Diver

The underwater world changes as day creatures retire & nocturnal organisms emerge. If you've wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, enrol in the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.

Scuba diving at night teaches you to focus on what you can see in your light’s beam, on controlling your buoyancy by feel, on staying with your buddy and on paying attention to details you may overlook during the day. During three night dives, you’ll practice:

PADI Deep Diver

Explore deeper dive sites with confidence at depths down to 40 metres/130ft. Learn to manage your gas supply, go over buddy contact procedures, and buoyancy control.

Your training starts by reviewing reasons for deep diving and how important it is to know your personal limits. During four deep dives with your instructor, you’ll go over:

PADI Drift Diver

Drift diving can be relaxing and exhilarating. The course teaches you how to enjoy going with the flow as you scuba dive down rivers and use ocean currents to glide along.

Along with drift diving techniques and procedures, you’ll:

PADI Underwater Naturalist

Get a better understanding about the local ecosystem and the differences between terrestrial and aquatic worlds. See new things, even in the most familiar dive sites.

Through class discussions and on two scuba dives, you’ll learn:

PADI Multilevel Diver

Extend your underwater time, learn what multilevel diving is and how to calculate for multilevel dives. Plan and execute a two-level and three-level scuba dive using the eRDPML.

You'll review decompression theory as it relates to multilevel diving and dive computer models, and plan multilevel dives using the eRDPML. During the first of your two multilevel dives, you’ll plan and execute a two-level dive, and on the second dive, you’ll complete a three-level scuba dive.

PADI Boat Diver

This course helps you expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboard. You'll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat.

The PADI Boat Diver course will expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboard. You’ll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat in your local area and learn :

PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy

Observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Improve the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevate them to the next level.

During two scuba dives, you’ll learn how to:

PADI Self-Reliant Diver

Learn to responsibly engage in dives without a buddy to develop self-reliance and independence while diving.

The course includes proper dive planning using air consumption rate calculations, life support system redundancy, and independent management of dive emergencies. You will practice:

  • Performing an air consumption rate swim to gather information for later calculation.

  • Switching to a redundant air supply system during simulated emergency situations.

  • Swimming without a mask.

  • Navigating to various points, including your exit.

  • Using a DSMB.

  • PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

    The most popular diving specialties course. It’s easy and fun to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures.

    Through hands-on training during two scuba dives and guidance from your PADI Professional, you’ll discover:

    PADI Sidemount Diver

    A sidemount configuration (scuba tanks alongside of the diver) offers more flexibility and better streamlining options. Learn about the many benefits of diving with a side mount configuration.

    Along with learning about the many benefits of diving with a sidemount configuration, during one confined water and three open water scuba dives you’ll learn how to:

    PADI Tec 40

    The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. You will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet.

    The Tec 40 course consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four training dives. You'll learn about:

    PADI Tec 45

    The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. You'll extend your depth limit to 45 metres/145 feet and learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder.

    Continuing from the Tec 40 course, you will focus on the function and maintenance of tec diving equipment and associated issues. You continue fine-tuning gas planning and calculating accelerated decompression stops. Plus, you learn to think like a technical diver.

    PADI Tec 50

    Part 3 of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. Develop competency & have the skills to dive to a max of 50 metres/165 ft. Learn how to extend & accelerate decompression stops using up to 2 gases.

    A primary focus of this course is mission planning and execution. You also learn more about handling emergencies and how to think like a technical diver.

    PADI Tec Gas Blender

    The PADI Tec Gas Blender course will teach you how to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-based gases using one or more blending methods.

    During the Tec Gas Blender course, you will learn:

    PADI Tec Sidemount

    Wearing more than one tank has become increasingly popular for technical diving. With the Tec Sidemount Diver course you can apply what you learn to other TecRec courses.

    You will learn about the advantages of diving with a sidemount configuration and how to set up a tec sidemount harness.

    PADI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures Combined

    This course examines the use of EAN-21 through 100 % oxygen for optimal mixes to a depth of 40 m. The objective of this course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures for utilising EAN-21 through 100 % oxygen for dives not requiring staged decompression. The combined Decompression Procedures will then examine the theory, methods and procedures of planned stage decompression diving. The objective of this course is to train divers how to plan and conduct a standard staged decompression dive not exceeding a maximum depth of 45 metres unless taught in conjunction with the Extended Range Course. The most common equipment requirements, gear set-up, and decompression techniques are presented. Students are permitted to utilise Nitrox mixes or O2 for decompression if the mix is within their current certification level.

    This course examines the use of EAN-21 through 100 % oxygen for optimal mixes to a depth of 40 m. The objective of this course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures for utilising EAN-21 through 100 % oxygen for dives not requiring staged decompression. The combined Decompression Procedures will then examine the theory, methods and procedures of planned stage decompression diving.

    The objective of this course is to train divers how to plan and conduct a standard staged decompression dive not exceeding a maximum depth of 45 metres unless taught in conjunction with the Extended Range Course. The most common equipment requirements, gear set-up, and decompression techniques are presented. Students are permitted to utilise Nitrox mixes or O2 for decompression if the mix is within their current certification level. This certification includes five dives.

    PADI Divemaster

    Be a leader who mentors and motivates others. Gain dive knowledge, supervision abilities, and become a role model to divers around the world.

    The PADI Dive master course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include: