Golf
The Jolie Ville Golf Resort in Sharm El Sheikh is an 18-hole Championship Golf Course, Par 72, 6021m, designed by John Stanford. A typical resort golf course, the Jolie Ville Golf Course, bordered by private real estate, features numerous water obstacles and a fantastic view of the mountains. It is a fair course with something for every level. First class service in the Club House. Several international competitions and events are held every year in this Red Sea favorite. Facilities: Club House, pro shop, driving range, putting & chipping green, power carts, caddies, and golf academy.
Snorkeling:
Snorkeling is �?the�? water sport par excellence in the Red Sea. With the wealth of underwater life in all destinations, snorkeling is an easy and very enjoyable way to spend some time and discover the wonders of the marine life. Whether you go out from your resort beach, or you spend a day or half a day on a snorkeling boat, you will collect unforgettable memories! In the Red Sea, snorkeling is particularly easy, as the high salinity of the water allows you to float almost without effort. Follow though our Snorkeling Guide tips, for those areas where currents and waves can make it a bit more challenging.
As a visiting snorkeler to Sharm El Sheikh you'll have plenty of sites to choose from. Calmest and easiest are the sites located along the coast. They are usually referred to as Local Sites. There are virtually no currents, water is calm and clear and there's plenty to see. Tiran and the Ras Mohammed National Park are among the most famous diving and snorkelling areas in the Red Sea and don't need much introduction. Just be aware of currents and sometimes rough seas there. Dive boats, which normally function as snorkelling boats at the same time, tend to move around and might not stay put while you snorkel in any off shore sites (like for example Tiran). This is because the diving groups often descend in one place and ascend in another. Many hotels have superb snorkelling on their doorstep at the House Reef. Some of them include Club Faraana, Hilton Waterfalls and Iberotel Grand Sharm in Hadaba, as well as Royal Rojana, Tropicana Grand Oasis and Four Seasons in Shark's Bay.
Here are some of the nicest spots for snorkelling in Sharm el Sheikh:
- Ras Mohammed National Park. Virtually every hotel, resort, diving centre and watersports centre offer excursions to this marine paradise. The Park has a couple of beaches where snorkelling is easy, such as Marsa Bareika, and some off shore reefs reachable with snorkelling or diving boats. A must for everybody holidaying in Sharm!
- Tiran Island, a favourite destination for full day snorkelling trips, with its lagoon of crystalline turquoise water and a wealth of corals and underwater fauna to remember.
- Ras Umm Sid, with its walls covered with awesome gigantic gorgonians, is another famous diving site, and it is accessible from land via the private beach of the restaurant El Fanar. In all hotels and most camps you will find watersport centres hiring snorkelling equipment, and organising guided and non-guided snorkelling trips to the best places in the area. They also cater to the tiny ones, with professional guides teaching your kids how to use snorkel, mask and fins, for an experience they will never forget.
Another way to have some great snorkelling is joining one of the scuba diving boats, going out on daily basis for half day or full day trips to the best sites in the area. Have a look at our Diving and Snorkelling Maps to check out the names and location of the area’s snorkelling sites.
Water sport
Sharm el Sheik is a paradise of watersports, scuba diving and great night life – an ideal spot for a complete, fun-filled holiday. With its awesome backdrop of golden brown mountains and its long coral-fringed coast, Sharm offers almost all the water activities you can dream of. The sandy shallow beaches of the bays and small coves along the coast offer the ideal scene for the latest craze in town: wake-boarding and waterskiing. Hotels and resorts offer a wide choice of water activities, from banana rides to parasailing, glass-bottom boat trips, canoeing, snorkelling excursions either from shore or by boat, air-conditioned submarines. With the creation of Apnea Academy in Na’ama Bay last year, Sharm also offers top-class freediving (or apnea) courses, for those seeking the extra thrill of watching the fabulous marine life without the support of scuba diving.
Winsurfing and kitesurfing is very limited to a couple of sandy shallow beaches – but in general weather conditions and the topology of the coast in Sharm el Sheik don’t allow for the practice of these two watersports.
Zen Zone:
The Zen Group is an international Thai company that strives to provide clients with an ancient knowledge medicinal protocol. The Zen Zone Health Centre & Spa offers carefully selected relaxing and revitalizing massages, natural facials, and a variety of natural body treatments, manicure, pedicure & waxing using only pure essential aromatherapy & base oils (almond and wheat germ) and pure organic herbs by experienced professional therapists. A wide choice of specialized massages awaits you to rejuvenate your body and mind: Thai, Zen Zone, Pharaonic, Aromatherapy, Oriental Therapeutic, Indian Head, Reflexology and Reiki have all potent relaxing and wellbeing properties. What better to detoxify yourself than a session of steam (Turkish) bath, sauna, Jacuzzi and the heated outdoor pool? The Zen Zone also offers. Special Fat Burning & Muscle Toning with the Dream Healther Exerciser, with the supervision of a professional fitness trainer, and Tai Chi, Qi Kung and Hatha Yoga.
Dining
Sharm el Sheik, with its two tourist districts of Na’ama Bay and Old Sharm, and a number of prestigious hotel chains, offers an incredible variety of dining experiences. Virtually all sorts of cuisines and styles are represented in town, from Indian to French, Japanese, Mexican, Italian, including Mongolian barbeques! From chic eateries belonging to international chains, such as Buddha Bar, to fast foods as McDonalds and KFC, to local outlets serving Egyptian specialities, Sharm el Sheikh has it all. Stroll out in trendy Na’ama Bay, and you will find famous international chains such as Hard Rock Café, Buddha Bar, Pacha, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and KFC. Local trendy places such as Pomodoro and Abu el Sid, just to name a few, will welcome you with beautiful decor, excellent service, carefully searched ambient music and extensive local and international menus.
In Old Sharm, search around the dozens alleys and pedestrian streets and find an endless array of restaurants and eateries with a strong local flavour. Fresh fish and good value for money are to be found in this area, with many outlets having a very popular, simple atmosphere and others being a bit pretentious. Be aware that local restaurants in the area seldom serve any alcohol. They serve though great tasty local food! In Sharm el Sheik, the hotels’ cuisine is in general quite good. Hotels normally have a main restaurant serving the boarding meals (breakfast and dinner, sometimes also lunch), and one or two a-la-carte restaurants to sample specialties or to celebrate that special occasion in an intimate atmosphere.
Entertainment
Sharm el Sheik is “the�? party town par excellence of the Red Sea Riviera. Once a remote solitary outpost only known to divers, nowadays is a vibrant town with an eclectic clubbing scene and a very outogoing local population. Night entertainment in Sharm el Sheik, just to name a few, ranges from informal and ultra-popular apres-dive outlets such as the Camel Bar and Pirate’s Pub, to stylish trendy diners as Buddha Bar and Mojo’s Pub, to crowded multi-purpose outlets such as Hard Rock Café’ and famous groovy clubs as Pacha and Echo Temple, funky beach bars as Terrazzina and rocking party places such as El Fanar. In between, a plaethora of local outlets line the three main pedestrian promenades of Na’ama Bay, offering virtually all the scenes and ambiences you can dream of.
In addition to this, many popular night outlets are located in hotels and resorts, and we can’t forget the number of casinos which populate the town’s night scene. Sharm el Sheik has also become in the years a place of choice for a number of events and international shows, with many most famous European DJ’s and cover bands playing regular gigs in the local clubs and other artists making appearances in one event or the other.
Land Activities
Sharm el Sheik, the most famous Red Sea holiday destination, is a mecca for divers and snorkellers – but is also the biggest adults’ playground of the region! With an impressive choice of land activities, a holiday in Sharm el Sheik is certainly a fun-filled one. The desert, with its breathtaking views and unforgettable atmosphere, is of course a favourite destination for an endless series of excursions and activities. There are many ways to discover the beauty hidden in wadis and mountains. Whether by camel, 4x4 jeep or quads, desert safaris and day trips take you to unforgettable adventures, guaranteed to take your breath away. Hiking and trekking in the desert is within range of everybody, provided that you go with experienced guides and follow their advice – most excursions to the desert include an easy walk accessible even to the less fit.
In addition to the traditional quad and jeep desert safaris, Sharm el Sheikh offers an appealing number of exciting desert activities – different ways to discover and experience the awesome scenery and spirit of the Sinai:
- Desert trekking on horseback at one of the town’s equestrian centres
- Specialised off road driving lessons in the desert given by the motocross school
- The Sinai Xtreme Park takes you sand boarding on impressive dunes. The Park has also bungee rocket, salto trampolines, paintball war games and a beautiful swimming pool to chill out between one game and the other.
To ideally complement an excursion to the stunning desert around Sharm, you should not miss a visit to the Sinai Heritage and Diving Museum, in Na’ama Bay, by the jetty. With displays featuring Bedouin heritage, diving history and wild life, and guided visits for groups and children, it is a place to visit to learn more about the area and its people.
After a hot desert excursion, you migh want to chill out, and cool down. What a better idea than going…ice skating?! Yes, at White Night Beach there is an impressive ice skating rink, with real ice in the middle of Sinai! To add pure adrenaline to your beach holiday, what about an afternoon at one of the go kart centres in Sharm? From small easy tracks to the world class racing Ghibly Raceway, with karts to suit different driver levels, you find it all in Sharm.
And what about a fun evening with friends at the local bowling centre? With billiards and a licensed bar, the fans of bowling have the opportunity of practice it during their holidays too. In addition to this all, hotels and resorts offer also a number of fun land activities. Leisure activities available are, among others, archery, tennis, games in multipurpose courts, beachvolley, biking, and much more.
Diving:
A Red Sea diving holiday in Egypt is simply unforgettable. Well-established diving centres will gladly provide you with scuba diving information and arrange courses, daily excursions, and live-aboard trips to almost anywhere, from the gigantic coral outcrops of Taba to the vertical walls of Ras Mohammed, from the wrecks of Sha'ab Abu Nuhas to the lonely offshore islands of The Brothers and Zabargad. The Red Sea is dubbed Egypt’s “Garden of Allah�?, due to the wealth of underwater pristine life.
The Egyptian Red Sea offers the world's best scuba diving: at only a few hours by plane from Europe, you find superb visibility (up to 50 metres), abundant and diverse fish life (over 1,000 species), countless varieties of hard and soft coral (over 200 species), year-round diving in comfortable water temperatures (18° to 26° Celsius), incredibly diverse underwater topography, spectacular wall and shipwreck destinations, sunny weather and pleasant air temperatures (18° to 40° Celsius), and easy access to diving locations. Browse through our Red Sea dive sites maps and you will be impressed by the range of diving possibilities. It is no surprise therefore that Red Sea diving is one of the most sought-after holidays. Whether a hopeful wannabe or expert diver, eight year-old kid or sporting grandmother, diving can be experienced and enjoyed by nearly everyone.
Learn to dive
Year-round sunshine, clear waters and wonderful corals make the Red Sea in Egypt an ideal place to learn to dive. In the Red Sea, beginner diving courses such as the PADI Open Water Course and Scuba Diver Course are offered by basically all diving schools. The PADI diving courses are particularly suited for resort holidays, and are recognised world-wide. A PADI Open Water Course, for example, typically takes four to five days to complete. Just imagine, after the theory and pool sessions, you will be able to be trained as a diver in one of the most outstanding underwater habitats in the world. Entry level courses are designed to help you learn to dive safely, with a buddy, to a maximum depth of 18 meters (60 feet). Each course consists of diving theory sessions, training dives in a pool or confined body of water, and practice dives in the open sea under the direct supervision of a qualified instructor. If you want to get a taste of diving before committing yourself to a full course, why not try out an introductory dive or resort course in calm shallow water first? Virtually anyone can dive if you are in good health, reasonably fit, and a relatively good swimmer. Enjoy!
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