Good destination for a group trip? Somewhere warm...

[Smudge]

We run regular trips to Menorca. Flights, accomodation and a weeks diving for about £400 per person.

With groups we can often transport kit by road! Helps with luggage alowance and means you could have all your own kit out there.
Pre-trip diving in the UK to get to know the crew!

Good diving - take a look on our web site, links to photo gallery and dive sites information.

Flexible and tailored to meet the needs of everyone.

[EgaleRay]

First I want to thank all people who still support tourism in Egypt.
We will keep working hard to give all our tourists a nice diving holidays in Egypt, Specialy that we have a wide rang of divning places starting from Taba at North till Abu Fandera at the deep south and I'm sure that what happened in Dahab will not stop divers who like to dive in our Red Sea.
EgaleRay
Hurghada - Red Sea
Egypt
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[Whistler]

I would go to Eygypt every time if poss. I think it is a matter of perspective. Life is full of calculated risks, from the car journey to the airport contending with the manic sleep deprived (mostly foreign) lorry drivers, to the restaurant food at the airport cooked out of your sight, to the flight carrying 250+ strangers any one of whom could be mentally unstable. When you actually get to Egypt you are going to strap on a cylinder pumped to @250 bar and sink to possably 30m and call it fun. Sorry to sound flippant and I respect your decision but I am going to Masa Alam in July and I can't bloody wait and I wish it was tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!

[Brick]

I was personally never bothered by the bomb attacks - I don't see them as a real threat to me. I was still very much up for heading to Sharm but some members of our party weren't as convinced - in the end, I persuaded them that El Gouna would be safer, based on some very tenuous logic, I think! We're off there at the end of June, hoping to have a great trip. I will certainly be back to Egypt after this trip and would have no hesitation going back to Sharm or anywhere else there! The tourist industry there needs support and help against those trying to bring them down and I'm more than happy to support them!

Cheers for all the advice on other destinations - it's all been taken onboard and I think our club may be venturing further afield this year and in the future!

[clearwater]

Excellent choice! EL Gouna is a great destination with good dives for all levels, and with the extra security in place it should keep eveyone happy. Who are you diving with?

[Brick]

I did some internet searches on the place beforehand and it seemed to get good reviews... We're diving with Dive Tribe (I think) and staying at the Captain's Inn. Any advice on the best dive sites? Looks like we can't get out to the Thistlegorm from there, so a bit disappointed about that, but there's the Rosie Moller around there, apparently, which is meant to be good...

[clearwater]

Thistlegorm is off at the moment, it could change, but who knows when, at the moment there are some rumours about a new way to get a boat permit to go there, but so far they are only rumours. Anyway you do still need the weather on your side to get there, the downside of thistlegorm is that often you get out of bed at the crack of dawn, and set off only to find that the wind gets up and you can't cross over.
Rosalie is a great wreck, actually I prefer it, but it is a little deeper, so your group needs a bit more experience to be able to go there, dives are around 36m and there is not really that much above 30, apart from the masts, and they are in danger of falling down soon, thanks to huge safari boats mooring on them.
Dive Tribe are Ok, but wouldn't be my first choice, they are a bit pricy, and quite often are completely dissorganised, but with a group it should be OK.
If the weather is good you should also get out to the ABu Nuhas wrecks, they are preyy much ok for everyone as they start shallow, and max depth around 25m.
THe rest of the reefs are nice and pretty, lots of small stuff to see, and usually not that many boats.
Hope you have a good week.