3 Stars

Year Round

5.5 Hours

All Diving Levels

From £795

Abu Dabbab Diving Lodge

Where rustic comfort, natural beauty, and exceptional diving come together on Abu Dabbab Bay.

Abu Dabbab Diving Lodge is set on a nature reserve beach north of Marsa Alam, boasting clear blue waters, a white sandy shoreline, and a house reef just steps from the resort. It has become an ideal destination for travelers seeking the perfect holiday with loved ones while enjoying a wide variety of fun-filled activities.

On the sandy beach, guests will find a selection of food and beverage outlets, along with oriental tents and bazaars—most open from 08:00 a.m. until midnight. The beach features cabanas, deck chairs, and bean bags for shade, comfort, and privacy, as well as plenty of space for ball games, entertainment, and group activities.

This oasis-like resort features 62 wooden bungalows, each equipped with large or twin beds, air conditioning, a mini fridge, and a private bathroom.

The Coral Restaurant serves international buffet-style breakfast, lunch, and dinner, while the beach restaurants and bars offer à la carte dishes and refreshing drinks—perfect for unwinding after a full day of diving.

The Blue Ocean Dive Center, an authorized PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Center located on Abu Dabbab Beach, provides a spacious setup for gearing up, equipment rinsing, lockers, classrooms, and a dive shop. Nitrox is available, and diving options include house reef dives, speedboat trips, freediving, daily boat excursions, and mini safaris.

Abu Dabbab Bay features two beautiful house reefs—the southern and northern reefs—separated by seagrass meadows that attract a wealth of marine life, making it a paradise for snorkelers and divers alike. Elphinstone Reef is just a 30-minute ride away on a modern speedboat. Blue Ocean’s fleet is also ready to explore other top offshore dive sites in Marsa Alam, including Um Halhala, Garden Reef, Shaab Abu Dabbab I, II, and III.

Board Basis

Full board basis Breakfast, lunch, dinner. All served in buffet style. Coffee, tea, 2 kinds of juices, water included with all meals.
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Guest Room

The guest rooms at the lodge are chalet-style rooms, each with a double bed or twin beds, an en-suite bathroom and a private terrace.

  • Shower and W.C
  • Air conditioning
  • Satellite Channels
  • T.V.
  • Telephone

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Blue Ocean Dive Centre

Marsa Alam

The Blue Ocean Dive Centre is a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Dive Resort providing a full range of PADI dive education programs, a good equipment selection and a range of daily diving experiences while actively promoting aquatic environmental awareness.

This dive centre core ambition and mission is securing flawless service, constant quality and assuring excellent customer care. The multilingual team of guides and instructors dive the local and surrounding reefs with passion and will do everything they can to ensure you have a great diving adventure.

Blue Ocean Dive Center was established in 2005 at Abu Dabbab Beach, where you can wade straight into the ocean from the white sandy beach.

Diving Courses:

All courses include equipment and instructor services. Manuals and certification fees are not included and will be charged at the dive centre.

Please note that certificate and manual are excluded, EUR 70 extra charge.



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 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 Free diver Instructor

Turn your free diving passion into a profession. This instructor course is for the avid free diver who spends a lot time thinking about free diving and sharing details of their latest adventures.

In the PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course, over a minimum of four days, during both classroom and in water sessions, you cover these key topics:



In the PADI Freediver Instructor Orientation, which may be conducted in person or as a webinar over a few hours, you cover these key topics: