If you accept that the Oasis Dive resort is a Dive Centre with rooms attached you will love this place. .
We stayed in late January 2010 (one diver and one non diver.) There were a maximum of 9 guests at the time . The staff were friendly and helpful and spoke good English. The food was good – the breakfast buffet was a little limited, but as the catering was for such a small number of guests, this was understandable. The buffet included fresh fruit and fruit salad, cereals, toast, cut meats and cheese, and omelettes and boiled eggs.
Evening meals were a la carte – we would recommend the fried beef and mushroom sauce- and were served very promptly.
Our room was clean, with a minibar fridge (beers 2.5euro, 1.75l water 1.2euro) and a very quiet aircon unit and ceiling fan. We couldn’t work out how to get the cooling to work, but as it was cool in the evening we didn’t need it. We asked for a mosquito net after being bitten after several nights (take anti-histamine cream) and the net was fixed before we got back to the room. The hotel also gave us several cans of mosquito killer which was thoughtful. Our bathroom had a sunken floor – but beware of the level change if you visit the bathroom at night. The shower was fantastic – but sprayed all over the bathroom floor (hence the sunken floor!). The floor drain, as everywhere, was, of course at the highest point in the floor, but we got used to paddling!
Daytime temps were 28deg C and water temperature 22 deg C, although it got a bit windy and chilly in the evening – take a fleece. Please be aware the hotel is in the middle of nowhere.
The dive centre is very professionally run by Sinai /Werner Lau Divers. The staff are friendly and a mixture of German and Egyptian, but everyone spoke excellent English, and indeed English was used on all dive briefings... The dive centre prices are in Euro, but they will take other currencies. The kit is good and well maintained.
The hotel and surroundings appear to have been well designed for the ease of the dive operation. Snorkelling off the house reef was not possible whilst we were there (January) - there was a strong current running. One word of warning; the reef is a wall reef, and so you can’t snorkel from the beach over the top of it – you need to enter the water from the steps at the end of the jetty.
The diving is excellent with lots of pristine reefs – go to Marsa Abu Dababb where there is a resident colony of about 15 green turtles, and a really lovely reef with a sandy bottom.
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The pool was not heated so was a bit chilly. There is no entertainment, but after a day’s diving everyone was after an early night, so take a book to read.
Overall this is a diver’s paradise – a well run dive centre, pristine reefs, reasonable food, clean rooms and no thumping discos through the night.
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