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Plan your days in Sharm

Honest answers to the questions travellers ask us most.

A woman walking across a wide paved square at golden hour in front of a large sandstone mosque with clustered brown domes, a tall slim minaret and palm trees along the edge of the plaza

Old Market, Al Sahaba Mosque and Farsha Café: Sharm after the heat goes

The evening tour almost everyone books, and the two rules in its small print that decide what you actually get to see. What the mosque actually is, why the café has an age limit, and the €7.27 way to do it without a guide.

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A desert camp at dusk with two black-and-white striped tents, guests sitting on rugs and cushions around an open fire, a man in a white robe serving them, and camels on the ridge behind under a pink sky

The Bedouin evening and the stars: what you are actually buying in the Sinai desert

Seven hours of which the quad is one. What the camp is, whose desert it is, why the telescope half depends entirely on something no booking page mentions, and the three items in the not-included column that you settle in cash at the camp.

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A white and pale-blue motor yacht under way on deep blue open water, throwing spray from the bow, with passengers sitting and standing on the shaded upper deck beneath a canvas roof under a bright sky

The best time to visit Sharm El Sheikh: the sea lags the air by a month

Twelve months of air, sea, sun and rain in one table, and what actually follows from it. Why November has warmer water than air, why you cannot book around the wind, what the khamsin is, and the month most people should choose.

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A woman in a white shirt and headscarf sitting on a ledge of layered orange and red sandstone, the rock wall curving above and around her

Dahab, the Blue Hole and the Coloured Canyon: the jeep day, taken apart

Two trips with almost the same title, ten and thirteen hours long. One contains the Blue Hole and one does not, one includes the snorkelling gear and one charges for it, and they do not even name the same canyon. What to check before you book.

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A group of travellers sitting on decorated camels in a row in front of two of the Giza pyramids, arms raised, with a handler standing in the sand in front of them

Cairo from Sharm El Sheikh: bus or flight, honestly calculated

Seven to nine hours each way by road because of the convoy, or €285 for the plane. What the €81 bus actually includes, why the visa in your passport probably does not cover Cairo, and the museum ticket that goes up on 1 November 2026.

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A line of quad bikes and an orange buggy throwing up dust on a desert track, with a bare brown mountain ridge behind them in low evening light

Quad safari in the Sharm desert: sunrise, sunset or the full Bedouin evening

Three versions of the same desert, at €11.85, €22.50 and €27.95. What the extra money actually buys, the second-seat rule that catches solo travellers, the age gap nobody explains, and why the clocks on 30 October change your pickup time.

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A couple walking barefoot along a broad white sandbank, turquoise shallows on both sides and other visitors standing in the water behind them

Ras Mohammed and White Island by boat: which trip, what it costs, what you actually see

The boat day almost every Sharm holiday contains. Which of the big trips differ in more than price, why the cheapest package on the same listing can cost you twice on board, and what a snorkeller sees at Ras Mohammed that a diver does not.

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A woman standing ankle-deep in glass-clear shallow water on a pale sandbank, arms held wide, with moored excursion boats and low desert mountains in the distance

Snorkelling in Sharm for the first time: house reef, boat or national park

In Sharm you do not wade in from sand. You step off a jetty straight onto a drop-off, and that is the thing beginners are least prepared for. Which of the three ways into the water suits a first attempt, and what each one costs.

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A family of six, including two young children and two grandparents, walking barefoot along a narrow white sandbank between shallow turquoise water, one adult carrying snorkelling gear and excursion boats moored behind them

Sharm El Sheikh with children: what works, what does not, and the beach nobody warns you about

The shore here is reef, not sand, and you get into the water off a jetty above a drop-off. What that means with a four-year-old, which excursions have real age rules, and the gap in those rules that no booking page explains.

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A rusting cargo ship lying grounded and heavily listing on a shallow reef in open water, its white superstructure streaked with rust and its stern broken open, under a pale blue sky

Tiran Island by boat: the four reefs, the wreck, and the one thing the itinerary gets wrong

The second boat day in Sharm, north instead of south. Why you do not set foot on Tiran even though the itinerary says "visit", which entrance fee is actually included, why the currents here are not the beginners day out, and the 6 hours that add up to nine.

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