Hurghada is a city people fly to for one reason and then spend three days deciding how to use. The desert, the monuments and the shopping streets all have their advocates. This page covers only the part of it that happens off the shore — six boats, six dive centres and three kite schools, all of them within reach of a hotel room in the city, and all of them with a published price.
What is there to do on the sea from Hurghada?
Four kinds of day, and they do not overlap much. A boat day to an island or after dolphins, priced per hull from €100 to €160. A private charter for four hours or a full day, €240 or €540.
A dive day, €40 to €50 for the day of two dives, or a first dive at €45 to €60. And a kite or wing lesson, €70 for an hour up to €560 for a fifteen-hour course. Everything below fits into one of those four.
Which day suits a first-timer?
Start with the Orange Bay half day at €100 per boat for up to five hours, island ticket included; the operator does not publish a limit for this trip. It asks nothing of you but a swimsuit, it is the lowest per-boat price on this page, and the same €100 covers two people or a full boat.
If you would rather not organise the drive to the marina, Serenity’s four-hour Orange Bay trip at €160 collects you from the hotel and brings you back, with soft drinks, a guide and photos in the price.
Which day shows you the reef properly?
Snorkelling equipment is included on all six boats, but two trips are built around the water rather than the beach: the dolphin run with two snorkelling stops from €160 per boat, and the ‘Mirage Pool’ yacht day from 09:00 to 16:30 with a private snorkelling guide, lunch, fruit and transfers at €540 for up to fourteen.
And if a mask is not enough?
If a mask is not enough, a try dive at €45 takes you to 7 metres with an instructor, from age 10, equipment included.
Which day is for certified divers?
Six dive centres run a day of two boat dives at two different sites, €40 to €50 for the day of two dives, lunch aboard, and the boat back in port in the late afternoon. Scubadore publishes the timetable — pickup 08:15 to 08:30, port around 16:30 — and puts the whole kit in the €50.
Diving Star includes park fees, hotel pickup, lunch and drinks in its €50 and works in seven languages. Funnydivers holds 5.0 on Google from 3,133 reviews, the largest sample of the six dive centres compared here.
A day with wind in it
An hour of wing foiling at €70 is the shortest way to find out whether the wind sports are yours; three hours of kite at €110 with a second student is the cheapest kite lesson. If you want to leave able to ride, that is fifteen hours over four days at €560, and the school does not charge for windless days. Two of the three schools are 20 to 30 kilometres north of the city, so budget the drive.
Carry cash for the standing extras: €5 per person per day of marine park fee, €10 per adult and €5 per child of island entry.
What this page does not cover
The pyramids, Luxor, Cairo and the desert quad safaris are all sold in Hurghada and all of them are bus days inland. They are somebody’s good day out, but all of it is on land and outside an article about the sea. Everything above starts at a marina or on a beach within a short drive of the city.
How much does a week come to?
Roughly: one island boat day for a family of four, €100 to €160 for the boat. A first dive for a couple, €115 for two at Funnydivers. One three-hour kite lesson, €110 to €150 per person. A full-day charter if there are enough of you, €540 for up to fourteen. Add the standing extras — €5 per person per day of marine park fee, €10 per adult and €5 per child of island entry — and carry them in cash.
Updated 3 September 2026. Prices, durations, age limits and inclusions are taken from the operators’ cards.
