Dahab Lodges - Reviews and Rates

After spending a week in the busy cities of Cairo and Alexandria, Dave and I were very excited to get to Dahab on the Red Sea for 5 days. The part of Dahab were we stayed is a strip of restaurants, hotels and tour companies right on the edge of the sea. Most of the restaurants are bedouin style, the floor covered in rugs and mats, with cushions ...

Well, as I sat down to write this I realised that as of today I have been away for one month. It actually doesn't seem like it has been that long. Yesterday we left Aqaba for Egypt - none of us were really looking forward to the ferry crossing as Jamie said it can take anywhere from 5-10 hours as there is not set departure time. We drove to the ...

Journee de repos et de farniente pour se remettre de la journee de la veille. Il faut dire que la ville s'y prete bien avec sa grande prommenade bordee de terrasses. Nous passons une patrie de la journée a dormir pour se remettre de la veille. Le soir nous dinons au bord de l'eau. Les terrasses offrent de grands espaces couverts de parasols en b...

We started off the Egypt leg of our trip with 4 days in Dahab, a small town on the Red Sea known mostly for its great diving. We've finished with camping and our tour leader tells us its hotel rooms from here on out, with most meals being provided. We're beginning to feel very pampered. The highlight of the stay here was snorkeling in the Red Se...

Dahab, on the Gulf of Aqaba, our final stop in Egypt. Lounging, diving, lounging, eating, lounging, reading, ... well, you get the picture. But today's story starts a little further back. Due to a variety of other plans not working out we eventually found ourselves on the sleeper train from Luxor to Cairo. A ten hour trip, but real beds so barel...

They say that in Dahab you can experience four seasons in one day. Since I arrived it had been warm and very calm, which for a place that professes to have 300 days of wind a year seemed odd. Last night the weather changed and all of a sudden became very windy. Today we've had more wind, and a few drops of rain. A bit unusual for the desert clim...

DAY 12-14 Bus to Dahab 8hrs but worth it! My favorite place in Egypt. It is on the wat** and most of the buildings are white. Heaps of shopping but only a v**y small town. That night we woke at 12am to journey to St Cath**ine at the base of Mount Sinai. We meet our guide Mohamed and start walking at about 2am. We are amazed by the moon which app...

Well, after all the talk about diving I've decided to move on from Dahab without getting my PADI certification. It's cheap and all, but I just don't want to spend 3-4 days by myself with an instructor right now. There are other travellers here, but not many. Most of them are the stay-out-all-night-smoking-weed-until-I -have-severe-memory-loss-an...

.........CONTINUATION IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH! I just have to interrupt here to inform you all of the terrorist bombings which just occured a few hours ago in the very place I had been staying the longest in Egypt , the Bedouin village called Dahab. I was there only 2 or so weeks ago, and staying in a hostel near the detonating area. Isn´t life sca...

Dahab is Egyptian flypaper. Practically everyone I've met these past several days has admitted that they came here intending to stay but a short while and now they've been stuck here, "one week", "a month", six months. The town also teems with expats from Russia to America and exudes an international air. Its virtual nothingness and sanitary glo...