Emperor Elite, Egypt

Name: Reefs and Wrecks (Hurghada - Hurghada)
Start: 2026-12-17
End: 2026-12-24
Location: Egypt

9.2 Superb

Nitrox available
Free Internet
Free Nitrox
En-Suite bathrooms
Aircon Cabins
Warm Water Showers

from $ 185 / day Check dates

“The crew in particular made it extraordinary: so friendly, helpful and always in a good mood – I felt completely at home.”
Janne Marieke H, Germany

Highlights

All port, fuel, and park fees are included
Winner of Best Liveaboard 2020, voted by DIVE magazine
Choice of contemporary standard cabins and 2 suites
Free Nitrox, Free Wi-Fi, and Free red wine with dinner

M/Y Emperor Elite, Egypt, is a 38m custom-built liveaboard offering year-round diving to some of the best sites in the Red Sea. She can accommodate up to 26 guests with a crew of 10 on hand to ensure their satisfaction. With an emphasis on comfort, Emperor Elite has 13 cabins equipped with individual air conditioning and en suite bathrooms. 8 standard cabins are on the lower deck, 3 premium twin cabins on various decks, then 1 Premium Executive suite, and 1 double Junior suite on the upper deck. Emperor Elite features two air-conditioned salons with a bar and TV/Video/DVD/CD, and a large shaded sundeck for relaxing.

Your diving holiday aboard Emperor Elite Egypt includes a shared cabin, 7 nights onboard, buffet-style meals, soft drinks, red wine with dinner, 6 days of diving, local transfers, guide, tanks, weights, environmental tax, Marine Park fees, port departure fees, and free Nitrox fills. Two dive guides are available to assist divers with at least 2 dives per day on the Red Sea. MY Emperor Elite sails year-round from Hurghada and Marsa Ghalib Port and offers numerous itineraries, including Simply the Best, South and St John’s, Reefs and Wrecks, and Red Sea sharks.

Trips aboard Emperor liveaboards include all port and park fees, free Nitrox, and even complimentary wine, while you will never be charged extra for itinerary or fuel surcharges. What you see is what you pay.

An Emperor Elite Egypt liveaboard diving holiday is a fantastic adventure. Book today.

Emperor Elite is part of the Emperor Fleet, which operates dive liveaboards in Egypt, the Maldives, and Indonesia.

Choose your departure date

Date

Itinerary

Price

Select

09 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply.

$ 1,774

Select Cabin available

16 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply.

$ 1,831

Select Cabin available

23 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply.

$ 1,831

Select Cabin available

30 Jul

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 1,831

FULL

06 Aug

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply.

$ 1,716

Select Cabin available

10 Sep

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply. Male Shared Cabin.

$ 1,774

Select Cabin available

17 Sep

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply. Male Shared Cabin.

$ 1,831

Select Cabin only 3 spaces left

24 Sep

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply.

$ 1,888

Select Cabin only 2 spaces left

08 Oct

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply. Male Shared Cabin.

$ 1,945

FULL

22 Oct

8 Days / 7 Nights

Flexible Terms Offer! €100 deposit, balance due 60 days before travel. Free rescheduling if your flight is cancelled. Valid for bookings made until 31 July 2026. T&Cs apply.

$ 1,888

Select Cabin available

19 Nov

8 Days / 7 Nights

Male Shared Cabin.

$ 1,945

Select Cabin only 1 space left

26 Nov

8 Days / 7 Nights

$ 1,716

Select Cabin available

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.

Optional Extras: Dive Insurance (35 EUR per week), Travel Insurance, Gratuities (120-150 EUR), Alcoholic Beverages (3.50 EUR), Nitrox Course (160 EUR), Private Dive Guide (599 EUR), Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses (69-250 EUR).

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.

* Extra fees are shown per person.

Pay by bank transfer or online with

Best Price Guaranteed

Boat features

Free Internet
En-Suite bathrooms
Aircon Cabins
Warm Water Showers
Air Conditioned saloon
Sun Deck
Seaview Cabins
Custom built for diving
Charging stations
Indoor Saloon
Library
Audio & video entertainment
Available for Charter
Local & International Crew
Daily housekeeping
Bar

Food & Drinks

Beer available
Snacks All Day
Buffet style
Western Food
Local Food

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

Nitrox available
Free Nitrox
Shaded Diving Area
DIN Adaptors
Rebreather Support
Dive deck
Tenders for diving

Languages Spoken

The crew speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Italian.

Gear Rental

Equipment is available for rent on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. If the rental gear is not included in the price, you will need to pay for it on board the boat. Show prices

Drawings & Vessel Layouts

Cabin Types

Boat Specifications

Year built: 2006

Year renovated: 2015

Length: 38 meters

Beam: 8 meters

Engines: 2 x 764HP Caterpiller

Max guests: 26

Number of cabins: 13

Number of bathrooms: 14

Tenders: 2 x Zodiacs

Water capacity: 11000 L / Day & storage

Freshwater maker: 15000 liters per day

Boat navigation and safety

Radar
Depth Sounder
GPS
Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
Emergency Rafts
Life Vests
Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
Oxygen
First Aid Kits
Satellite & mobile phones
Crew trained in first aid
Emergency flares

Emperor Elite Reviews

9.2 Superb

Vessel

8.6
Crew

9.4
Food

9.6
Diving

9.2
Value

9.1

10 Exceptional
Sabina W
Switzerland

Experiential liveaboard
After a warm welcome on the boat, we were pampered all week on board. We had an upper deck cabin. This was cleaned regularly and decorated with a lot of imagination. Food was always fresh, plentiful and tasty. The whole crew was very attentive and helped unobtrusively to put on and take off the equipment. Took the heavy equipment from us when we returned to the boat. The warm outdoor shower was great. We were traveling with a private dive guide we would do it again. The dive briefings were easy to understand for everyone. In general, a lot of emphasis was placed on safety in all areas. The dive sites were chosen carefully so that we were not on site with 10 other boats. Most of the time we were diving alone. Experienced divers were also offered to explore the underwater world in the buddy team. After diving there was enough space to recover. To be able to use this everyone got their own Sim-karte.Am last evening we had a barbecue on deck and ate outside on the sea under the stars. But the crew decorated the area.A nice experience.Divers from different countries were on board, we all had a great time.I would book the Emperor Elite again.
Recommended for
Safety on board. Selection of dive sites. Fantastic crew.
15 Jun, 2026

Translated from German

9.6 Exceptional
Tim E
United States

Epic
First time live aboard, was amazing experience
Recommended for
Fantastic friendly crew. Amazing food. Good communication.
17 Oct, 2025

10 Exceptional
Nico F
Germany

Perfect first liveaboard
Great crew and perfect service.
Recommended for
Crew. Diving. Organization.
02 Nov, 2025

Translated from German

9.6 Exceptional
Alessio F
Italy

Excellent
Great liveaboard. Remote route where you often end up being the only boat on the site. Very well organised boat, everything was great.
Recommended for
Contact with nature. Organization. Space management.
15 Jul, 2025

Translated from Italian

10 Exceptional
Murathan Y
Turkey

If you want to feel confident about your dive trip, book in Emperor and be sure everything will go perfect!
Crew in the boat really work hard and elaborately to make you feel safe, confident and comfortable. Number of dives and other details as promised. Definitely I would recommend!
Recommended for
Safety, crew & dives! May I write the fourth? :) of course food!
21 Aug, 2023

9.2 Superb
chris F
United Kingdom

One of my best-ever live aboard experiences - and I've done at least 10 over the years....
First Dive at Elphinstone was superb.
Recommended for
The dive guides were excellent - very professional. Good company on board. Excellent food.
09 Feb, 2022

10 Exceptional
niels V
Denmark

simply the best
very good
Recommended for
sharks hospitality
13 Apr, 2015

9.6 Exceptional
Haohao D
China

Great experiences
Very nice stay on Emperor Elite. The crew smiling. Satisfying food.
Recommended for
Crew. Effort to adapt the route and maintain the dives according to the weather. Food.
11 May, 2026

Translated from French

9.6 Exceptional
John H
United Kingdom

Magnificent good to be back in the water
Getting to see the hammerheads again beautiful
Recommended for
Food was superb beautiful boat and fantastic Diving
17 Dec, 2021

10 Exceptional
Pol S
Spain

Amazing Diving Safari in the Red Sea
The liveaboard experience was amazing. The boat itself was very spacious and provide the divers all the necessary services to be as relaxed as possible and only focused on diving. The itinerary was great, selecting the dive sites carefully and giving very detailed briefings of each site. The food was excellent, having a wide variety of dishes and desserts. Overall, a perfect place to do a liveaboard trip.
Recommended for
Diving, Comfort and Food
21 Nov, 2019

140 reviews

9.2 Superb
140 Verified Reviews

Sort reviews by:

10 Exceptional
Milton S
United States

Best dive yet
Great crew ,very friendly and helpful
Recommended for
Diving sites, cabin and crew
21 Dec, 2023

10 Exceptional
Louise R
United Kingdom

Fantastic experience for a relatively new diver
Excellent guiding and advice Lovely experience and variety of dives Good company Helpful and supportive throughout Catering for my dietary needs and giving me individual meals
Recommended for
Itinerary. Staff and crew. Safety.
26 Sep, 2025

8.8 Fabulous
Anja R
Slovenia

Safety and comfort
It was a good week of diving, the crew was friendly, the food was tasty and the diving was nice.
Recommended for
Cabin was clean and comfortable. Diving briefings were really clear. Food was tasty.
27 May, 2025

10 Exceptional
Michael R
Switzerland

Perfect diving trip
The dive sites we visited were great, the reefs are stunning. We also had great divemasters and a fantastic crew on board to help and assist with everything. The food was also really good. Definitely would go with Emperor again.
Recommended for
Divemasters, crew, dive sites
04 Aug, 2022

9.2 Superb
Lukas R
Austria

Throughout pleasant experience
Great experience on board Elite. On-time pickup and transfers. Great crew, good communication throughout the whole journey. Superb meals and complimentary soft drinks and hot drinks were provided. All the staff seemed to be very safety minded: Captain reacting to adverse weather and changing the itinerary on short notice, thorough boat briefing was given, cautious policy regarding charging of devices was followed and all the dive briefings were very clear. Filling of scuba tanks was quick, with the proper Nitrox level and all the staff was helpful on the dive deck. The dives provided by Guide Mostafa were really well conducted and I always had a good time in the water.
Recommended for
Friendly, helpful and motivated staff. Great food and beverages provided on board. Focus on boat and dive safety.
30 Nov, 2025

9.6 Exceptional
Simon L
Germany

Southern Solitude
This year I decided to go on the big southern tour with the Emperor Elite and was not disappointed. We had a wonderful week on the boat and were able to explore great dive sites day and night. The atmosphere on the boat was always excellent and we laughed a lot and heartily, about an uminous camel in the lower deck, the rare Red Sea bikini fish and much more, fun was always :-)...The organization of the trip was very good and the start in Port Gahlib was very relaxing. The cabins were good and the food was great. I found it particularly positive that we didn't go back to the port until the day of departure and stayed out at sea for a long time, so that we did 21 dives on the 6 days of diving. Many thanks to Abdul, Eslam, Lucy and the rest of the crew for the great experience and see you soon.
Recommended for
Wonderful dive sites, great group and a great crew.
26 Apr, 2024

10 Exceptional
Waleed H
United Kingdom

Excellent boat, crew, guides, food and diving!
With so much diving it’s so nice to have a hot shower, good food and a very luxurious boat to relax in between dives and in the evening
Recommended for
Great food, helpful crew, high quality everything
11 Nov, 2023

9.6 Exceptional
Annika A
Germany

Great diving experience in the Red Sea
The food was exceptional and diving was quite nice. We couldn't go to St. John's because of the weather, but Deadalus and Elphinstone totally made up for it. The crew made the best decision under this circumstances, but also involved us in the decision. Saw hammerhead sharks, oceanic white tips, turtles and loads of colorful reef fishes. The crew is very nice and helpful all the time, so you can enjoy your diving holiday. Highly recommended if you plan a trip to the Red Sea.
Recommended for
food, diving
01 Jun, 2017

10 Exceptional
SANDRA N
Canada

Fabulous!
The dolphin and shark encounter! The service on board was fabulous, and the people were smiling and attentive. Whether it was the guys on the wet deck or the chef and captain everything was awesome!! Thank you
Recommended for
Sly, Dive master, food and service!!
01 Jul, 2019

10 Exceptional
Michelle G
United States

We had a great time, mostly because of the crew—they were fantastic!!
We dove with dolphins. The underwater geography was amazing. We enjoyed seeing the variety of soft coral and fish that we do not normally see in the Caribbean.
Recommended for
Crew, food and diving
18 Mar, 2022

9.2 Superb
Casper M
Denmark

Amazing intensive dive experience
It was a super great experience. The emperor crew went to great lengts to accomodate the guest and give them the best dive experience possible.
Recommended for
Service level, atmosphere, dive sites
29 Jan, 2020

8.8 Fabulous
Urs H
Switzerland

Overall fully met the expectation and exceeded in terms of hospitality
All in all, a great experience in a region and culture unknown to me so far.
Recommended for
Hospitality. Diverse underwater world. Clear water.
01 Jan, 2026

9.2 Superb
Christian R
Switzerland

Another great livaboard with Emperor
Great week. will come back definitvely.
Recommended for
Boat, crew, food
06 Aug, 2022

10 Exceptional
Gerard S
Spain

Amazing first live aboard experience.
I felt really comfortable during the whole trip. I enjoyed all dives and the guides did an excellent work. All the staff was friendly and helpful and the food was amazing. I will sure repat with Emperor! The Emperor Elite has all confort needed and space for everyone in the different decks.
Recommended for
Emperor Elite Staff. Food. Organisation.
17 Mar, 2026

9.2 Superb
Allen Blake F
United States

Outstanding - as usual
The crew of the Emperor liveaboards are always the highlight of any and every trip!
Recommended for
Crew, dive sites, boat
22 Mar, 2018

10 Exceptional
Siegfried M
Austria

great tour with great wrecks, perfect cuisine and well-rehearsed crew
Arrive in the cabin, unpack, feel at home. Well-rehearsed crew, great lighting moods on the ship, great dive sites, good preparation of the dive, high safety (fire protection,...), retrieval with zodiac, level-headed and experienced captain, crew flexibly responded to wishes. great cuisine for New Year's Eve celebrations, super suitable places for overnight stays by the sea (behind reefs,...). coordinated equipment, from hot showers to numbered towels, good time management for breaks, dives and driving - couldn't have been better
Recommended for
Sense of togetherness, great dives, dolphins
14 Jan, 2020

8.8 Fabulous
Malte E
Germany

A great experience, cool guides and team. All set!
Our time on Emporer Elite was great! The Team did a great job and brought us down south very safely even the weather forcast was difficult. The managed it perfect. I think the boat will need maintenance here and there. Thanks for the perfect trip!!
Recommended for
Dive Sites. Spirit on Board. Guides.
27 May, 2025

9.6 Exceptional
Russell M
United Kingdom

Must do it again
Key words—— Professional, stimulating, safe, fun, yummy & consistent with the last.. I’m a frequent customer
Recommended for
Food. Composition. Safety.
29 Jul, 2025

10 Exceptional
Bruno A
Croatia

Best trip sincerely
My first trip on a liveaboard,a perfect trip. Food,people and dives everything great. Would recommend.
Recommended for
Food. People working. Easy dives.
05 Dec, 2025

9.2 Superb
Nicolas B
Switzerland

Amazing week in the south
We had an amazing week of diving in the south and the emperor elite crew and guides did a great job. I fully recommend and will definitely come back. Highlights are the incredible coral formations at St.Johns and the fact that most od the time (except for three dives or so) we were the only boat on site. Guides are doing a great job and the crew as well. Youre well looked after if you decide to choose Emperor!
Recommended for
Reef and topography. Marinelife. Selection and timing for divespots.
11 Jul, 2025