Dahab Beach Resort

... give the crazy consumerism-fest that is 'Xmas' a skip in 2007 and headed for (what we thought would be) a safe hideout - the resort town of Dahab, on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The idea was to catch some 'wintersun', as the Brits call it, and do some of our ...

... Food in Dahab is amazing. You can eat seafood till your hearts content - the crab and grilled calamari amazing. We ate like Kings. So after four days of luxury beach resort living we are back on the truck tonight heading to our next stop - Mt ...

My dates of my entries are all stuffed up. Not really day after day. Dahab The annoying taxi driver was at the Soft Beach resort in Nuweiba yelling out prices to us instead of catching the bus to Dahab. Eventually he said a price that was almost ...

... 10 english pounds. Dahab is a big diving resort due to the coral reefs just off the coast and therefore it is not a beach resort. Although there is a long strip just for tourists with lots of hotels and restaurants it somehow does not feel over ...

... right now, which makes us miss John and Stephy, which we left behind not long ago even more because it's a beach resort area made for backpackers. Nestled between the harsh barren mountains of the Sinai and the turquoise waters of the Red Sea, ...

... films off, also we were stopped three times for passport checks. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep that night!   Dahab is a beach resort on the Red Sea so we didn't get up to that much there other than eating and sleeping. We were actually ...

... from the sea front - and a spectacular coral reef. It is owned by a Danish couple, Nina and Mikkas.   Dahab is an all year round resort and the Coachhouse is open all year. Consequently they have little free time and are up before 7 a.m. each ...

After a morning ferry ride of 3 hours and then a 2 hour bus ride we arrived at the Tropitel Resort at Dahab in the Sinai Peninsular. This was to be our home for the last 3 nights of our Eqypt trip. The next morning we signed up for a camel and ...

... our garden-style hotel, the Swiss Inn, were Swiss, German or Dutch, and the hotel was beautifully located beside Dahab's natural lagoon, a mecca for windsurfers. The buffet breakfasts and dinners were varied, and always fresh and tasty. We slept ...

... by the pool for a couple of hours, we went out for lunch.  There are many restaurants and hotels laid at the beach front in Dahab.  They are more or less the same price and serve similar food so we picked one restaurant where agreed to give us ...

... on the computer all the time after me.   For lunch, we went to Red Sea Relax's restaurant.  The resort itself is right next to the beach but they also have a restaurant literally on the beach with sun beds.  Food wasn't great unfortunately, ...

... the annoying driver (who couldn't speak a word in English) and the small pink mini van when we arrived at our resort. we dropped all our belongings and ran straight to the Red Sea which is located only 2 mins walking distance! the ...

... We are about to go on our night dive to see flourescent plankton, blinking shrimp, octopi, etc. There were camels walking along the boardwalk today.  We had cats and dogs hanging out with us on the beach eating dinner.  Dahab is really ...

... rays and Huge tuna and a fierce looking Great Moray Eel. This thing sat there and snarled at us as we hovered near it.Returned to Dahab at about 8.30pm. Kat's day: Had an egyptian massage. Pretty damn good and not bad at $45 for an hour at a beach! She ...

... that we got for really cheap through a connection one of my friends had made teaching English in Italy.  The resort had two really nice pools, a lot of beach access, nice rooms, and comfy beds.  I ate and slept a lot over the 24 hours I was ...

... sitting in a restaurant watching the waves break over the side of the restaurant- Unawatuna déjà vu??? There is nowhere in Dahab to lay on the beach unless you like rocks and pebbles. People come to Dahab to scuba dive as the reefs are amazing. Most of ...

... ferry ride from Aqaba. After a shared taxi ride down the coast at 2am we stopped at the Bishbishi Camp in the coastal resort of Dahab. Bishbishi was ok and since it was late we all just crashed there for the night - though it was pretty expensive but ...

... and seafood, and for poor students in Egypt, that means Dahab. It’s not that special of a place, really. Most of the resort towns springing up around the Red Sea are just that: Package tourist hell courtesy of piped-in trees and spray-painted ...

We took a sleeper train to Cairo, then a bus for 10 hours to Dahab.  Dahab is a dive resort area on the Sinai peninisula.  We are going to do 3 days of diving.  We will get our Advanced Diver certification.  We did our first dive this ...