Private speedboat snorkeling
The whole boat for €180 · four hours, up to eight of you, and nobody else on board.
A private speedboat charter for four hours, morning or afternoon. The €180 is for the boat, not per person · bring two of you or eight, the price is the same. Snorkelling is what the charter covers, and if some of your group would rather dive we can put them in tanks for €25 each, which is not something the shared boats will do for you.
- Duration
- 4 hours · 09:00 or 13:00
- Audience
- Private charter · up to 8 guests
- Where
- Hurghada
- Price
- €180
What you will do
You take the boat and the crew for a four-hour slot, either 09:00 to 13:00 or 13:00 to 17:00. Free hotel pickup, then you board from the marina jetty with no queue and no headcount. A speedboat reaches the first reef in about 25 minutes where the big shared boat takes 90, so a four-hour charter buys more water time than a shared day does. Where you go is yours to pick: Orange Island, Magawish or Hola Hola for the reef, or the dolphin watch that runs out to White Island. The three islands each collect €10 a person at their own jetty, which is the island's money and not ours, and the dolphin watch collects nothing because there is nowhere to land. The captain reads the wind and picks for you if you would rather not decide. Mask, snorkel, fins and vests are on board, along with water and soft drinks. Anyone who wants to dive rather than snorkel adds €25 a head and goes in with a guide while the rest of you stay on the surface.
Hour by hour
01 · 09:00 / 13:00
Hotel pickup
Free pickup from any hotel inside Hurghada, timed to your slot. Straight to the marina jetty and onto your own boat · no queue, no waiting for other guests.
02 · +25 min
Speedboat to the reef
About 25 minutes out. Orange Island, Magawish or Hola Hola, or the dolphin watch that ends at White Island · you choose when you book, or leave it to the captain and he reads the wind that morning.
03 · On the reef
Snorkel, and dive if you booked it
Guided snorkelling for as long as the slot allows. Divers in the group go in with a guide on the €25 add-on and come back up to the same boat.
04 · 13:00 / 17:00
Back at the marina
Four hours from pickup to drop-off. Morning charters are back for the afternoon; afternoon charters finish at 17:00.
Four places the boat can take you
Pick where you want to go when you book. The boat costs the same either way · the three islands each collect their own entry at the jetty, from adults and children alike, and the dolphin watch collects nothing because there is nowhere to land.
Orange Island
€10 per person entry
The postcard stop. A white sand bar with a lagoon shallow enough to stand in, and a coral wall on the outer edge where the butterflyfish and parrotfish sit. It is the busiest of the four, which is the argument for taking the morning slot and getting there before the shared boats do.
Magawish Island
€10 per person entry
The closest of the four and the quickest to reach when the wind is up. Seagrass on the inside where the turtles graze, coral heads on the outside. Quieter than Orange Island, and the short run leaves more of your four hours for the water.
Hola Hola Island
€10 per person entry
A horseshoe reef out on the Giftun edge. Deeper and healthier coral than the inshore stops, with jacks and snappers over it and the occasional eagle ray. Better visibility and fewer boats, but it is more open water, so it suits confident swimmers.
Dolphin watch + White Island
No entry fee
The captain knows the places the pods use and works them one at a time until he finds them, and you stay with them for as long as they stay up. Afterwards the sand bar at White Island, which comes and goes with the tide. Nothing to pay at either, because there is no private island to step onto. The dolphins are wild animals · most days he finds them, some days he does not, and nobody who promises you otherwise is being straight with you.
✓ What is included
- The whole speedboat for four hours · captain and guide
- Free hotel pickup and drop-off inside Hurghada
- Mask, snorkel, fins and buoyancy vest
- Your choice of destination · three islands or the dolphin watch
- Water and soft drinks on board
- Insurance and marine park fees
Not included
- Diving instead of snorkelling (€25 per person who dives)
- Island entry · €10 per person at Orange Island, Magawish or Hola Hola, children included, paid at the island (nothing on the dolphin watch)
- Lunch · the charter is four hours, not a full day
- Underwater camera rental (€15)
- Tips for the crew
Best decision of our trip. Got my Open Water in three days with Karim, then we did two daily-dive days · the captain picked the sites and we ended up on quiet reefs with almost no other boats around. Pickup was on time every morning.
Maria R.
Finally a dive center that does exactly what it says. My guide spoke perfect German, small groups, well-maintained gear. Abu Nuhas was a highlight.
Thomas K.
A genuinely international team. No deposit required, transparent prices, and a different dive site every day. We'll definitely be back next year.
Sophie M.
For the boat. Two of you or eight of you, the charter is €180 either way, and eight is the boat's hard limit rather than a marketing figure. It is worth doing the division: at eight guests that is €22.50 each, which undercuts the shared boat.
Yes, and it is the one thing the shared snorkelling boats will not do for you. Diving is €25 for each person who dives, on top of the €180 charter. Certified divers go in with a guide; if you have never dived, tell us at booking and we will put an instructor on the boat instead.
Four hours, in one of two slots: 09:00 to 13:00 or 13:00 to 17:00. That is the whole charter including the run out and back, not four hours on the reef. There is no full-day version of this boat.
Usually one, sometimes two if the sea is flat and you are quick in and out. Four hours goes faster than people expect once the transit is counted. If you want several sites in a day, the shared full-day boat is the better buy.
You are the only people on it, you pick the reef, and the transit is 25 minutes instead of 90. The trade-offs are honest ones: a speedboat is less stable in chop, there is sun cover rather than a shaded deck, and no lunch is served in four hours.
Four choices, and you pick at booking. Orange Island for the sand bar and the shallow lagoon, Magawish for the shortest run and the turtles in the seagrass, Hola Hola for deeper coral and bigger fish, or the dolphin watch, where the captain works the places the pods use until he finds them and then puts you on White Island. If the wind makes one of them a bad idea that morning, the captain will say so and offer you the calmest of the rest.
Island entry, if you land on one. Orange Island, Magawish and Hola Hola each charge €10 a person at their jetty, in cash on the spot, and children pay the same €10 as adults · the island counts heads, not ages. That money is the island's and not ours, which is why it sits outside the €180 rather than hidden inside it. The dolphin watch has nothing to pay because there is no island to step onto. Everything else on the charter is in the boat price.