Emperor Asmaa, Egypt
- from US$ 101 / day
- 8.9 Fabulous
- 40 Verified Reviews 40 Verified Reviews
- Free Internet Free Nitrox
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M/Y Emperor Asmaa, Egypt is a 30m custom built liveaboard and member of the Emperor Fleet which underwent a complete refurb in January 2015 . With an emphasis on comfort and build with divers needs in mind, Emperor Asmaa offers 10 deluxe cabins equipped with en suite bathroom, mini bar and towels. She can accommodate up to 20 guests with a crew of 8 on hand to ensure their satisfaction. Emperor Asmaa features an air-conditioned salon with a bar and TV/Video/DVD/CD and a large sundeck for relaxing.
Your diving holiday aboard Emperor Asmaa Egypt includes a shared cabin, 7 nights on board, buffet style meals, soft drinks, 6 days of diving, local transfers, guide, tanks, weights, environmental tax, Marine Park fees, port departure fees and 2 free Nitrox fills per day. Two dive guides are available to assist divers with a minimum of 2 dives per day on the Red Sea. MY Emperor Asmaa offers amazing itineraries including: Fury and St. John's, Reefs & Wrecks and Brothers & Elphinstone.
An Emperor Asmaa Egypt liveaboard diving holiday is a fantastic adventure. Book today.
We're aware that travel restrictions imposed by governments to contain COVID 19 are making it difficult for our guests to plan their trips. We have therefore decided to temporarily amend our cancellation conditions. For all new bookings, the following applies with immediate effect:
If travel restrictions are implemented by your local, Egyptian, Maldivian or Indonesian governments due to COVID 19 (Corona virus) causing you to be unable to travel then the following will apply:
- Any new booking that is made for travel between 10 March and 30 April is affected you will be allowed to cancel and get a full refund.
- Any new booking that is made for travel between 01 May and 30 June is affected you will be allowed to cancel or be rebooked free of charge up to 14 days before arrival.
No deposit required
During the current travel bans guests can book any date from 1 July 2020 onwards with no deposit required. Once the travel bans are lifted and normal service resumes, regular patyment policies will come into place. If you decide you can't travel as planned, then let us know and we'll just cancel your place and hope to be of service to you at some other time.
These terms are solely applicable to vessels that are part of the Emperor Fleet, i.e.: Emperor Asmaa, Emperor Atoll, Emperor Echo, Emperor Elite, Emperor Leo, Emperor Raja Laut, Emperor Serenity, Emperor Superior, Emperor Virgo and Emperor Voyager.
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Included: VAT, Fuel Surcharge, National Park Fees, Port Fees, Airport Transfer, Hotel Transfer, Drinking Water, Soft drinks, Tea & Coffee, Wine with Dinner, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Special Dinner, Diving Package, Extra Dives, Nitrox, Cabin Towels, Deck Towels, WiFi internet.
Required Extras: Dive Insurance (5 EUR per day), Travel Insurance, Visas and Fees, Private Dive Guide (500 EUR).
Optional Extras: Gratuities (75 EUR), Local Flights, Alcoholic Beverages (3.50 EUR), Nitrox Course (120 EUR), Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses.
Book now, pay later: You can easily place your booking online. We will then hold the spaces for you and you can confirm with a payment later.
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Boat features
Food & Drinks
If you have any specific dietary requirements whilst on-board your cruise, you can add this to your special requests on step 2 of the booking form. We advise limiting these requests to religious beliefs or food allergies.
Diving
The crew speaks English.
Gear Rental
There is diving gear available on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. See below for further details on inclusions and pricing. Show prices.
Drawings & Vessel Layouts
Accommodation
Boat Specifications
- Year built 2003
- Year renovated 2015
- Length 30 meters
- Beam 7 meters
- Engines 2 x 440HP Mercedes
- Max guests 20
- Number of cabins 10
- Number of bathrooms 10
- Tenders 2 x Zodiac 25 HP
- Water capacity 2 Aquaset x 5500 L / Day & storage
- Freshwater maker 5500 L / Day & storage
Boat Navigation and Safety
Emperor Asmaa Reviews
- 8.9 Fabulous
- 40 Verified Reviews
- Vessel 8.6
- Crew 9.2
- Food 9.3
- Diving 8.7
- Value 9.0
- 8.8 Fabulous
- Pascal W
Switzerland
cool team and super food!
- elphinstone - st.johns reefs - dolphin house
- Recommended for
- dive => eat => sleep => repeat
- 8.0 Very good
- Bartosz D
Poland
Great trip.
Wrecks.
- Recommended for
- Wrecks, dive guides & food.
- 9.2 Superb
- Niels V
Netherlands
Great trip, excellent food
Seeing a dugong / Seeing hammerhead sharks / The health of the coral reefs in the Red Sea
- Recommended for
- Seeing a dugong / Seeing hammerhead sharks / The health of the coral reefs in the Red Sea
- 10 Exceptional
- Bernd B
Germany
Great dive experience on an excellent dive boat.
- Snorkeling with Spinner dolfins - big Manta Ray - St John`s caves
- Recommended for
- - The people from the dive team and crew. The dive sites. The outstanding performance of our diveguides Anke and Tracy.
- 8.4 Very good
- Miao W
China
Great onboard experience ok diving
Attentive staff serving every need we have especially EVERYTHING IN THE DINING ROOM! every meal was fab. boat crew also made diving and coming back from diving so effortless. Diving was just ok, but the experience was good overall.
- Recommended for
- Food, staff, dive set up
- 10 Exceptional
- Jose Felix G
Spain
Emperor es una apuesta segura por su profesionalidad y por la simpatía de la tripulación.
Las inmersiones en los diferentes pecios.
- Recommended for
- Buen ambiente,profesionalidad y buenos puntos de buceo
- 8.8 Fabulous
- Joar M
Sweden
Had a very nice week on Emperor Aasma with many great dives!
The highlights were the oceanic whitetip at Elphinstone and the many beautiful caves at St. Johns and Fury shoal!
- Recommended for
- Best food I've had on a liveaboard! Had my first shark encounter at Elphinstone where we met an Oceanic whitetip. We got the chance to decide on our own how we wanted to do the dives and didn't always have to followed the guides.
- 10 Exceptional
- Le L
United States
Great Dives with Great People
The highlight was two full days of diving in St. John's and Fury Shoals. Shaab Maksour and Elphinstone were amazing. The crew were all really helpful and caring. They clearly have the boat down to a science. They are very attentive and notice the smallest need, like when you forget to get a spoon to go with your soup.
- Recommended for
- The dives, the people, and the food.
- 6.8 Review score
- Daniel J
- Switzerland
Great diving, average boat condition
Dives, eating and the friendliness of the staff
- Recommended for
- The dives, the food, friendliness of on board staff
- 10 Exceptional
- Eva A
Jordan
fantastic atmosphere there, lots of fun
All was great; but I wish to everyone to have somebody like we have, diver name Leroy, he makes good atmosphere and lots of laugh. I'm planning to do another trip with Asmaa next year again.
- Recommended for
- lots of diving, great people - divers and stuff, good food
- 8.0 Very good
- Erhard K
Austria
interessante Tauchgänge auf einem sehr guten Boot
Kofferfisch, Schildkröte, Fuchshai und Hammerhai
- Recommended for
- Tauchgänge, Essen, Rücksichtnahme bei den Zodiacausfahrten
- 10 Exceptional
- Beatriz G
Mexico
Amazing and wonderful experience .. the best crew ever
Excellent dive masters, Safka and Samir are excellent and super crew to support us all the time smiling I want to dive again with Emperor ASMAA. I strongly recommend it
- Recommended for
- Perfect brief and explanation, crew support and service and food
- 9.2 Superb
- Anette S
Norway
Sharks, sharks , sharks
To se that many sharks, hammerheads, Oceanic whitetip sharks, thresher sharks, silky shark:)
- Recommended for
- Sharks, divingspots, reefs
- 10 Exceptional
- Carol Y
United Kingdom
Wonderful return to the red Sea
Dancing with dolphins, amazing wrecks, and we were so lucky with the weather, lack of current, and calm seas.
- Recommended for
- Dive guides knowledge, choice of dive sites, friendliness and helpfulness of the crew
- 10 Exceptional
- Tina H
Denmark
Perfect experience with the friendliest crew
Reefs and wrecks, very good diving and a happy mood on board all the time. Instant help to put on gear and help in case of sickness or any other problems. The crew and the dive guides made the experience perfect. The best dive vacation. I would definitely go with Asmaa again. Thank you.
- Recommended for
- The diving, service from the entire crew and the food
- 8.4 Very good
- Marc F
- Spain
Cool week!
Sharing the experience with nice people
- Recommended for
- People, food and underwater landscapes
- 9.2 Superb
- Edward Z
Canada
Great experience in the Red Sea, but need to come back in the summer!
One group saw a dugong and on one of the dives we were joined by bottlenose dolphins! We also had the opportunity to snorkel with spinner dolphins, which was an amazing experience.
- Recommended for
- Staff, food, diving
- 10 Exceptional
- Martin E
- Sweden
I have nothing but praise to give
The dives I enjoyed the most were at the fury shoals, a very versatile reef system were you can do many different kinds of dives. Saint John's was also good of course, as well as the possibility of going deep at Elphinstone. The very good food served on Asmaa was another highlight, and it was a very pleasant surprise for me.
- Recommended for
- Very helpful and friendly crew and guides, great food and clean accomodations
- 10 Exceptional
- David B
- United States
Great diving and amazing crew
Firstly, this is the first liveaboard I have been on with a dedicated pastry chef. I can't say enough about the food! The whole crew was cheerful and endlessly helpful. They made the week awesome. And finally, the diving was great. Saw turtles, sharks, and endless coral and assorted marine life.
- Recommended for
- The diving, the food, the crew
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Ozgur T
- Canada
Magnificent
Relax and easy diving
- Recommended for
- Dive guide warm water many fish
- 8.0 Very good
- ZHENG W
- China
A very happy trip
Comfortable accommodation; Good food; Diving to see the favorite sea creatures
- Recommended for
- Comfortable cabin, delicious food, good service
- 8.4 Very good
- France H
- Canada
Amazing experience and a complete change in scenery.
Amazing coral, beautiful wrecks, seeing species I was not used to see since I had only been diving in the Caribbeans. The only thing is that I was cold all week, going in april is not the best time of the year. The recommendation was a 7mm wetsuit. Had I known there were such strong winds that made it impossible to lay in the sun to warm up between dives,I would have brought my drysuit. Other than that, the trip was great.
- Recommended for
- It was not expensive, I got to dive 4 times per day, the diving was excellent
- 8.4 Very good
- Marc F
France
Very enjoyed to have dove in these main and savage diving sites
Dive eat sleep Dive Repeat !
- Recommended for
- Deep dives / Hammerhead Sharks / Océanic and Treasure Sharks /
- 10 Exceptional
- Götz Ulrich L
- Germany
Just fun-tastic
We made three dives to the Thistlegorm, including one night dive. Momo and Ashraf timed our dives so that we were virtually the only divers at the wreck. This is just one example of how well they cared for our group. Thanks a lot!
- Recommended for
- Our very nice dive guides Momo and Ashraf, excellent meals, wrecks-wrecks-wrecks&wrecks
- 9.2 Superb
- Valter S
Brazil
Great holiday, anwsome week!
Beautiful reefs Huge marine life's New friends
- Recommended for
- Frendly Crew, safety dives e wonderful food
- 8.0 Very good
- Mark C
Australia
Yes it was very enjoyable, the crew were all very professional and friendly.
Overall the trip really was well run and your agency also very helpful with any questions that I had prior to the trip.
- Recommended for
- The coral structures that we saw on our trip were monolithic almost prehistoric looking. I haven't seen anything like it in 15 years of diving. Quite unique and beautiful.
- 6.4 Review score
- Mohammed A
Saudi Arabia
Cool
Sharks
- Recommended for
- Crew, dive sites and divers
- 9.2 Superb
- Lars H
- Germany
Good liveaboard with
Unfortunately the liveaboard was in the south of the red sea in late summer so only small(er) fishes were around regularly but typically a lot of them. And mainly hard corrals which look nice but it gets a bit bland after a while. However, dove with curious sharks which was cool and snorkeld with dolphins which was amazing. The beds were reasonably comfortable, the bathrooms reasonably sized and the AC working without problems. Change of linen was after 4 days and you get enough towels (and probably could have asked for more). Boat was only booked to 75% so I got a shared cabin of my own which is always nice. All in all a good liveaboard but the sealife is a bit dull (which is more my fault as I didn't inform myself properly). However, would definitely recommend, relaxed guides and relaxed crew.
- Recommended for
- Twin cabin on my own, good rental gear, nice people on the boat
- 8.8 Fabulous
- Sara D
Italy
Great And exciting
We saw sharks!!! We did a couple of very adventure diving ;-) Altought there was a lot of current the diving guides and the crew service were able to offer a great service and provide optimal dive site for 95% of the time!
- Recommended for
- Dives sites sharks friendless of the staff
- 10 Exceptional
- Sławomir W
- Poland
Very friendly staff.
Longimanus
- Recommended for
- Friendly staff, great dive guides, nice people
- 4.8 Review score
- Tom M
- United Kingdom
Amazing corals
We were lucky as only 7 people on board. Amazing corals but almost zero pelagic sightings, possibly due to time of year. Beware that only one guide who doesn't even dive with the group half of the time!!
- Recommended for
- Small group, amazing coral, beautiful cave dives
- 10 Exceptional
- Seo M
- Switzerland
Unforgetable
My private guide was very helpful and can have best dive experience!!
- Recommended for
- Excellent food,helpful crew and best diveguide
- 10 Exceptional
- Eleonora K
- Sweden
Bautiful colourful dive experiences in safety thinking, well organised and so friendle service minded kontext.
The simply beautiful "everyday diving" in Red Sea, snorkelling and diving with dolphins, all the superb food during the whole trip, kindness care and fun with staff and guests on the boat.
- Recommended for
- Awesome diving, high quality on equipment and safety thinking, warmhearted and very service minded staff. l
- 10 Exceptional
- Jens Dirk L
Iceland
Fantastic trip, highly recommendable
+++++
- Recommended for
- The quality of the food, the professionality of the guides, the service minded attitude of the staff
- 8.8 Fabulous
- Annette E
- Norway
Great
I wish we were more prepared for cold weather, the experience would have been perfect if we didn't freeze all day, we definitely should have packed warmer clothes. So maybe it would be wise to inform about this on the website:-) Anyway...because of the fantastic crew and the two dive guides and of course fabulous dive sites we have had a great week:-)
- Recommended for
- Diving, crew, food
- 6.8 Review score
- Kheng Chye L
- United States
Its ok.
Overall is ok, nothing jump out for the overall trip. One complain I have is the information provided is never clear. Feel like the agent does not really connect with the board. For instance, I have to emphasized couple times to the board about the meal preference even though I have request the information to be sent to the board. Also, the return trip arrangement. Basically, any information provided in the email to the board via the agent is not passed down to the manager on board. I have to arrange and work with the on board manager directly. And one more frustration, the aboard crew is try to "steal" money from the client by forcing us to buy tools which were not told as required. For example, the SMB. For the entire trip, we did not even need to use the SMB. Nothing mentioned in the email that this is REQUIRED. So, I did not bring mind, when on board, I was forced to either rent or buy one. Though, the only time we use this is on the check dive, just to test and show we know how to use it. And even more ironic, even if this is required, me and my friend are in a buddy team, which mean we only need one SMB, but the person on board told us we need to each get one. But later on when in water, everyone was told when one person in the group releases the SMB, the rest of the group does not need to use the SMB at all. And even more ironic, the entire trip setup is in an environment without current with the board anchor to the reef, not seeing any need for the SMB at all.
- Recommended for
- swim with dolphin, seeing shark.
- 10 Exceptional
- Tomas S
- Sweden
Divers heaven!!
Excellent!!!
- Recommended for
- The friendly crew, the divesites and the guide Momo :)
- 8.8 Fabulous
- David W
- United Kingdom
The best way to dive the Red Sea
An amazing experience. The crew went above and beyond the call of duty to make us all comfortable and provided every service with a smile. The diving itself was great and both guides were well trained and well informed. I was comfortable for the duration of my stay and would definitely do it all again. Thank you for an amazing holiday.
- Recommended for
- Crew, Food and Comfort
