Almonda Liveaboard, Saudi Arabia
- 8.7 Fabulous 25 Verified Reviews
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- Free Internet
- Free Nitrox
- from $ 161 / day
Read 25 more reviewsExcellent food and drinks
“Good weather Coral formations Lots of colorful reef life Excellent crew”
Highlights
The Almonda is a spacious 40mtr/131ft liveaboard in the Red Sea that can accommodate 24 guests in 12 independently air-conditioned staterooms. There are 2 master staterooms with queen beds, 8 Deluxe staterooms with twin beds, and 2 double cabins, each with a queen bed. Every stateroom has a private bathroom and shower, a porthole window, and a hair dryer. There is also a 32-inch TV in each stateroom with a selection of 400 movies, TV shows and documentaries. Guests can also plug their computers into the TV screen to edit underwater pictures and videos.
The Almonda is spacious and comfortable, with a large salon and sun deck. It also has a hot tub, sun loungers, deck chairs, and a bar. There is also an air-conditioned salon on the sundeck with a 50” flatscreen TV. There is also a big restaurant and bar on the main deck. The experience aboard the Almonda includes all meals, snacks and beverages, as well as a variety of nightly entertainment such as diving and fish identification presentations, movies, games and more. There is also a small library of books for exchange onboard, as well as fish identification books for reference. Every diver gets their own equipment box, and there is Nitrox on board. The diving platform is very spacious, and for more distant dive sites, there are 2 Zodiacs available.
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Included: VAT, Park, Port and Fuel Fees, Airport Transfer, Drinking Water, Soft drinks, Tea & Coffee, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Night Dives, Nitrox, Stand Up Paddleboard, Beach Towels, Cabin Towels, Complimentary Toiletries, Deck Towels, Laundry / Pressing Services, WiFi internet.
Optional Extras: Gratuities (80 USD per trip), Hotel Transfer, Nitrox Course, Rental 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, French, Russian, and Italian.
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
Boat Specifications
- Year built 2017
- Length 39.9 meters
- Beam 8.57 meters
- Top speed 12 knots
- Cruising speed 10 knots
- Engines 2 x Man 1050 Hp
- Max guests 24
- Number of cabins 12
- Number of bathrooms 13
- Tenders 3 x 6.5m 45 Hp
- Water capacity 14 tons
- Fuel capacity 16 tons
- Freshwater maker 14 tons/day
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Almonda Reviews
- 8.7 Fabulous
- Vessel 8.1
- Crew 9.0
- Food 9.7
- Diving 8.7
- Value 8.0
A very pleasant diving trip.
Good weather Coral formations Lots of colorful reef life Excellent crew
- Recommended for
- The dive guides, beautiful coral formations, well organized
Great crew
we saw hammerheads and a tiger shark
- Recommended for
- Great crew, Great food, Great diving
Fabulous Experience!
Getting to swim with dolphins!
- Recommended for
- - Maged our dive guide was amazing. Very kind, attentive, and helpful in and out of the water
Awesome Marine Life and Pristine reefs
The reefs are pristine, corals are in amazing conditions, sharks, tuna, diverse marine life. The guides Ahme and Magdie were amazingly experienced and made the diving safe and nice. The crew is super friendly and nice. Food very nice.
- Recommended for
- guides, pristine reefs, no crowd
Fantastic crew couldn't do more for you
Hammer heads, Tiger, Silky's, Grays, white tips, Black tips, and 100's of Dolphins. Crew were amazing, food awesome. Negatives Bed uncomfortable, AC so noisy it couldn't be used whilst in room but still fantastic trip
- Recommended for
- Sharks, Crew, Food
People made for a great experience
Dolphins! A pod of dolphins came and visited us and we were able to snorkel with them. The coral unfortunately was bleached in many places, and though there were lots and lots of small fish (damsel fish, pullers, anemone fish, chromis), there were very few large ones (some bumphead parrots) and not many medium-sized ones (squirrels, groupers). (I'm probably using Caribbean names for Red Sea fish, sorry.) We did see a few turtles. The coral pinnacles were magnificent.
- Recommended for
- The crew, the food and (toward the end) the dives
Pristine coral reefs in Red Sea
Beautiful dives, a lot of small fish on coral reef. Unfortunately we couldn't see many pelagics (not the right period). Crew and guides helped us to make a comfortable trip and safe dives. Food was very good, specially lamb! Some maintenance to be done on the boat. They told us new speedboats are coming to replace rubber boats. I can recommend this boat and Farasan Banks itinerary!
- Recommended for
- Crew, dives, food
Very relaxing 4 nights trip in not so explored saudi red sea
We had lots of deep dive on big drop offs. We saw very well 2 tiger sharks The staff was pro, from Egypt. Too bad the trip is without alcohol but this is Saudi Arabia.
- Recommended for
- Saw tiger sharks for the first time, had good food, met interesting people
Very warm sea, good visibility, no macro life.
Anemone city. A couple of beautiful reefs. Not too much current. The water was very warm, 32 degrees even at 30 metres. All the macro life goes deep at these temperatures. The boat really needs a facelift. The cabins smell like a damp dog. The best life a is to get rid of all carpets which soak up moisture and smell. The boat is quite old. The engine puts out a lot of black smoke all the time, the smell always carries to the deck of the boat.
- Recommended for
- Great visibility in the sea. Beautiful corals and micro life. The food on the boat was wonderful.
Great food, nice boat, great staff and good guides
Anemoon reef (Five Corals) which is a nemo-paradise with walls full with anemons. Great divespot! Hamerheads up close. Relaxed diving with water temp of 30 degrees (08-23). The food is great. The staff really helpfull. Good value for money as snacks and drinks (non alcoholic) are provided. We could not go to 7 sisters. But 5 corals was really good.
- Recommended for
- Food, vessel, diveguides