Ghazala Explorer Liveaboard, Egypt
- from $ 148 / day
- 9.7 Exceptional
- 47 Verified Reviews 47 Verified Reviews
- Free Internet Free Nitrox Flexible Booking
Highlights
The Ghazala Explorer liveaboard in Egypt is a modern 37mtr/121ft motor yacht offering itineraries throughout the Red Sea area. It can take up to 24 guests in 12 air-conditioned, ensuite cabins, consisting of 10 twin bed and 2 double bed cabins, including the Junior suite. Ghazala Explorer has a spacious, bright indoor dining and lounge area for guests to enjoy prepared meals or relax with a drink. There is a sun deck with seating areas and bean bags and either covered or open areas for those who prefer to be in the sunshine. A large dive deck to the rear allows storage of dive equipment and plenty of space to get ready for dives, and the rear platform makes getting on and off the tenders more accessible.
Ghazala Explorer liveaboard offers divers a wide choice of itineraries throughout the Red Sea, including favorites such as the Thistlegorm wreck, Abu Nuhas, Brothers, Ras Mohammed, Daedalus, Elphinstone, and St. John's. The Red Sea offers divers so much diversity in marine life and healthy corals; whichever itinerary you choose, you'll be amazed at the underwater world in Egypt.
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Included: VAT, Fuel Surcharge, National Park Fees, Port Fees, Airport Transfer, Hotel Transfer, Drinking Water, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Beach BBQ, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Night Dives, Nitrox, Beach Towels, Cabin Towels, Deck Towels, WiFi internet.
Optional Extras: Chamber Fees, Gratuities, Alcoholic Beverages, Soft drinks, Nitrox Course, Private Dive Guide, Rental Gear, Scuba Diving Courses, Land Excursions, Snorkel Gear.
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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, German, and Spanish.
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 2021
- Length 37 meters
- Beam 8.2 meters
- Top speed 13 knots
- Cruising speed 11 knots
- Engines 2 x MAN 1100 Hp
- Max guests 24
- Number of cabins 12
- Number of bathrooms 14
- Tenders 2
- Water capacity 12 tons
- Fuel capacity 20 tons
- Freshwater maker 2 * 7 tons each
Boat Navigation and Safety
Ghazala Explorer Reviews
- 9.7 Exceptional
- 47 Verified Reviews
- Vessel 9.6
- Crew 9.5
- Food 9.9
- Diving 9.6
- Value 9.7
- 8.4 Very good
- Paul H
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United States
First Time in the Red Sea
Abu Dabab was a truly exceptional dive with incredible coral and amazing topography. This is not a new boat, but the rooms were fine with air conditioning and the food was plentiful even if I am not a fan of Egyptian food. The price with included Nitrox was a good value.
- Recommended for
- The quality of the reefs. The ability to dive with my wife unguided. Extremely friendly staff.
- 9.2 Superb
- Marcelo L
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United States
Great Liveabaord for the price.
Great wrecks and beautiful reefs on the North route. If you have never done it, it is worth it. Hurghada port is better than Sharm El Sheik. I highly recommend it. Beautiful dive sites, very professional crew, great boat. The only thing missing is the free Wi-fi advertised on Liveaboard site. There is no internet on the boat. You will have 2-3 days without signal. The other days you will get some signal from roaming your own services.
- Recommended for
- Crew friendliness, Boat condition, Good price.
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Andrey G
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United States
Excellent experience with wonderful people!
Finally, the hammerhead experience!
- Recommended for
- Size of the boat, size of the cabins, staff
- 10 Exceptional
- Joshua H
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United States
Amazing liveaboard built by and for divers
Don’t hesitate to book a week diving the Red Sea on the Ghazala Explorer. We had an AMAZING time. It’s a new vessel built by one of the boat’s excellent dive guides, whose father and uncle were Red Sea divers and who started diving himself as a kid. They know what they’re doing. We had an epic week of diving on the Southern route. Saw lots of sharks and other critters on a beautiful and pretty healthy reef system. Food was good and plentiful, and the crew just busted their a**es every day to take care of us and make our week memorable. Book it—you won’t have any regrets. A few notes: It’s generally best to bring cash to Egypt and make sure the bills aren’t damaged. There’s beer aboard but BYOB for anything else. If you are a less experienced diver, consider the Northern route as the South features a lot of deep, somewhat challenging dives.
- Recommended for
- Awesome crew, spacious boat, exceptional diving
- 10 Exceptional
- Kris H
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United States
Great Experience on the Ghazala Explorer
The trip was fantastic, some of the best Crew and Dive Guides we’ve experienced in the Red Sea. We did the southern route and were blessed with Sharks, beautiful seas and great company. This was a great trip.
- Recommended for
- The Crew, The Dive Guides and the Food
- 10 Exceptional
- Daniel K
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United States
Highly recommend for advanced diving. Best boat in the Red Sea.
Our first live aboard experience was extremely memorable and I'm happy it was on the GE. The boat is new, and it's facilities are both comfortable and make diving extremely easy. Advanced diving, but the guides made it accommodating for us. There were many people with twin sets and side mounts, etc. I will be using GE if I come back to the Red Sea and would recommend 100%
- Recommended for
- Big cabin with bathroom, great food, excellent service
- 10 Exceptional
- Arcadio D
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United States
Excellent sevice from both dive instructors and crew, very attentive.
I'm a warm water diver so this was my first cold water dive (20C). Jumped in with a 5mm and was comfortable. The briefing was detailed and the dive was great with all the instructors. Before and after the dive the crew would help use gear up and off after the dive. There was so much food and all of it was excellent thanks to the chiefs. This was my first all wreck dive and the stories behind the ships made it even more interesting. I had a double room cabin in the upper deck. It was clean and quit. I would come again and highly recommend the Ghazala Explorer.
- Recommended for
- Dive boat is very clean and comfortable, food was excellent, briefing was professional
- 10 Exceptional
- Pavel A
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Estonia
the trip was interesting and educational
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- Recommended for
- comfortable boat, nice staff, delicious food
- 10 Exceptional
- Clément L
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France
Great week on Ghazala Explorer
The boat is very comfortable and well arranged. The rented equipment is in good shape. The food is very good.
- Recommended for
- Ghazala Explorer is a new boat and provides the best standards. The staff is really nice and efficient. Everything is done to make your life easy.
- 8.8 Fabulous
- Jemmel M
![France]()
France
Noisy cabin
The dives !
- Recommended for
- Amical sympathique intense
- 10 Exceptional
- Csilla K
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United Kingdom
Amazing trip to the North
The boat is very nice & spaceous, the crew was very helpful & attentive, great meals & snacks waiting for you when you finish the dives. Also nice to see that safety is the highest priority. Beautiful dive sites, the Thistlegorm is highly recommended plus also got to see a shark even in the North
- Recommended for
- Spaceous boat, super helpful crew, nice & easy diving
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Nobin C
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India
Great Experience with the Ghazala team
Boat is in excellent condition. Crew and guides are fantastic. Only negative was that there were only 2 dive guides for 24 divers.
- Recommended for
- Crew, new boat and room, food and service
- 10 Exceptional
- Louise S
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Denmark
Best liveaboard experience
Hammerheads, new friends, beautiful corals
- Recommended for
- The crew, dives and boat
- 10 Exceptional
- Paolo P
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Italy
Wonderful experience, very professional and friendly guides and crew
Thresher shark, Oceanic white type and hammered sharks!!!
- Recommended for
- Diving spots, food, cabin
- 10 Exceptional
- Sean B
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United Kingdom
Great boat and crew
I've done three Liveaboard's in the Red Sea the Ghazala Explorer being my fourth, i was impressed from the moment i stepped onboard, the boat is only a year old and very well designed, i stayed in the upper deck cabin and was impressed by the size of the cabin and how well designed it was. All the crew were very friendly, the dives were great, i saw eleven Hammerhead's at Daedalus...amazing ! I will definately be booking the Ghazala again, thank you for a great week !
- Recommended for
- The dives, the boat and the crew.
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Katie S
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United Kingdom
Fantastic diving
Seeing 17 hammerhead sharks on one dive.
- Recommended for
- Service, diving, weather
- 9.6 Exceptional
- ALESSANDRO V
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Italy
AMAZING
ALL WEEK, VERY NICE TRIP, AMAZING DIVING
- Recommended for
- DIVE SITE, BOAT, FRIENDLY ATHMOSPHERE
- 10 Exceptional
- Quentin N
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France
Great liveaboard experience all around!
Diving with 17 hammerheads! Very friendly crew. Great group of people. And amazing dives! Already planning to join the same boat for another itinerary!
- Recommended for
- Crew, dives, food
- 9.6 Exceptional
- John G
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Ireland
Fantastic Shark Experience
Multiple Hammerhead encounters at Daedalus. Multiple Oceanic Whitetip encounters at Elphinstone. On one dive we had 4 Oceanic White Tips around and in-between our dive group. Fantastic! The Dive Guides were great at finding the sharks. The crew were very organized and professional and always good-humored. The boat was in very good condition.
- Recommended for
- Guides, Crew, Boat
- 10 Exceptional
- Christoph D
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Germany
Amazing
Crew Dive Boat
- Recommended for
- Boat crew Dive trips
- 10 Exceptional
- Stefan E
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Belgium
Best liveaboard ever!
I have to admit, this is my first liveaboard so I have no real reference, though I don't know how it can get any better than this. Others on the boat, who did liveaboards for 10y on the Red Sea, agreed, this was the best liveaboard ever. Diving & guides were professional and well organized, food was great, refreshments & snacks after each dive, well balanced nitrox levels, nothing to complain about cabins, crew was assisting everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Whether it was putting on your fins, Bcd or wetsuit, they were always there to help you out. Overall a very lovely experience. We did brothers, deadelus & elphinstone this time but I'm going to try to book them again when I go back for a trip up north!
- Recommended for
- Diving, food, crew
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Zhiwei Z
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Netherlands
What an unforgettable diving trip!
Shark, shark,shark, ……( 5 times) Dolphin dolphin, dolphin ……( 6 times) Sting ray, eagle ray………( 10 times) Surprising, exciting and enjoying ( uncountable times)
- Recommended for
- Professional team ( driving, cooking and entertaining)
- 10 Exceptional
- Brendan M
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Ireland
New Boat, Lots of Space to chill out between dives, Crew were very Friendly and Attentive. Excellent Trip
As Mentioned above The Crew and Dive Guides, The "Can Do" attitude, The Food, The Boat & accommodation. The knowledge of the Dive guides on the Dive sites The Crew on the boat were very attentive from Gearing up to coming out of the water. They were always on hand to assist you.
- Recommended for
- The Crew and Dive Guides, The "Can Do" attitude, The Food, The Boat & accommodation
- 9.6 Exceptional
- Remus S
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Germany
Great boat with great crew.
Good athmosphere on boat, best dives under the boat
- Recommended for
- Excelent dives with good briefings. Helpfull crew.
- 10 Exceptional
- David M
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Switzerland
Best Liveaboard so far!
Definitely the Wrecks
- Recommended for
- Divesites, Crew, Food
- 10 Exceptional
- Michel P
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France
Lovely experience
The crew is constantly doing its best to suit people's needs. Great food. The boat is new. Great value for the money
- Recommended for
- The dive briefings, the crew, the food
- 10 Exceptional
- Serdal T
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Germany
It was incredibly beautiful, best liveaboard I ever been
The whole trip as a package was incredibly extraordinary, it exceeded all my expectations. The crew was very friendly and helped us every minute during the trip. Dive guides were just amazing by choosing the right sites, and giving us advanced divers the freedom to enjoy the dive sites unguided. Diving was suberb, lots of colorful corals with a beautiful reef life, and nice wrecks, and my personal highlight with multiple dolphin encounters. Have been on many livaboard, this one was the best so far, therefore can only recommend it. Thanks for the whole Ghazala Team
- Recommended for
- Boat, Crew, Diving
- 10 Exceptional
- DANIEL G
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Spain
First liveaboard, and went way beyond my expectations!
I couldn't choose a better company for my first liveaboard. Everything was perfect from the trip organization until my drop-off and the airport for my flight back. Facilities: The boat looks brand new and it full equipped with all the necessary for a diving week at the sea. From the top, sun and diving deck to the cabins, saloon and dining room; everything was clean and well maintained. Cabins were equipped with soap, toilet paper, towels a comfortable beds, blankets and pillows with more than enough space for two people. The diving deck has plenty of room for all the diving gear and tanks. Crew: The were very welcoming, knowledgeable and always willing to help you to prepare for every dive. The briefings were always educationals and interestings. Underwater, guides felts very knowledgeable, experienced and always welcoming us to enjoy as much time possible under the water. Food: There is plenty of food aboard. The chef cooked delicious dishes and vegetarian options was always there. Divespots: The guides always picks the best dives spots and entrance to the water. They managed to avoid crowded times, and provide options for guided or unguided dives. On every divespot I found something interesting to watch. Plenty of corals, school of fishes, barracudas, stingrays, dolphins, napoleon fishes, nudibranchs, sharks and much more. Thank you Ghazala Explorer and Ocean Tribe fleet for provide me with a week that I will never forget. Looking forward to book my next liveaboard at the red sea with you guys, you are the best of the best!
- Recommended for
- Staff, boat facilities, divespots
