Umbi Sharks Bay Diving Village

Umbi scuba review - 6 on 5 Sites - Phenomenal. Dense forests of multi courled corals, teeming with varied vibrant marine life. A white-tip, multitudes of rays, baraccudas, and shoals of dazzling lights! Great visibility and cool waters. Dives - True pros. Mohammed leads his dive team and the dive with ease and calm control. He was really good to dive with. It was also fun to dive in a group of experienced divers helmed cooly by Mohammed. Team - The onboard team are stars. The captain must have steered on different waters 🏄🏼! The crew cheerfully ever-helpful, thank you 🙏🏼! The lunches were yum 👌🏼! The hotel and dive center managed the reservation and check-ins seamlessly. The equipment is also in very good shape. Thank you for a couple of very memorable days!!

i spent 10 days here. it was wonderful. all the staff are very friendly and helpful. also the food was delicious. the diving was great and well organized. i did the open water course and loved it. the instructor was very professional and patient. i had a great time.

Very friendly, very hospitable dive centre. We had a great week as a mixed-experience family group with boat diving every day. Good food at the beach restaurant. Comfortable accommodation with air conditioning, clean bathroom, nice balcony area.

I joined a group of 21 Divers here from my local dive centre for a week last week. Needless to say I was quite disappointed as a seasoned traveller to Egypt.||Firstly, I must say that the dive guides on the day boats were brilliant. They were knowledgeable and professional. Although, we did realize halfway through the week we hadn't had any boat safety briefing. ||As for the dive centre and resort, it was all very unorganised and at times unprofessional. We were aware that there were some extras to pay for after our week of diving, however, after viewing our invoices most of us were being charged for things not applicable to us - some people (who had already paid without realizing) found it difficult getting a refund but it was eventually received after some reluctance on the dive centre side. They also tried to charge us more than an agreed price for an overnight stay on the boat - this also caused stress and frustration. There was very poor communication between us and the dive centre, we didn't know what we were doing from one minute to the other.||The main resort is very basic. The bar and restaurant has loads of stray cats running around and pestering you (which they encourage by feeding them!). Beware of the seating as we witnessed several fleas jumping around with the addition of most of us being bitten. The male staff there stare, whistle and pass comments to the ladies as you walk by - it's very unsettling and not nice. The bar staff aren't very attentive and the food & drinks menus are very limited. The Al a carte menu is very simple and again, very limited. When you put "do not disturb" signs on your room they still come in - I had the aircon turn off and the fridge unplugged everyday, the fridge being needed to keep some medication cold!! Also, the "golden sands" beach is a load of horrible grit and they wanted to charge us to sit on the sunbeds! |We were given a WhatsApp number on arrival for both the dive centre and reception but neither were very helpful or responsive, it was pointless and just added to stressful situations that we'd been left in by staff. ||I wont be coming back again, the only recommendation I have is to stay away.

Spent three nights on liveaboard Freedom 3 with Fady and Kareem as dive instructors. Absolutely fantastic experience that included 10 dives over three days. All of the crew on the boat go out of their way to make you comfortable and assist with anything you need. We saw a ton of eels, barracudas, turtles and some sharks. Fady and Kareem knew which sites were best for the time of the year and also what times to go to avoid divesite traffic from other boats. Food was brilliant and always plenty leftover so never any concerns about being hungry. It’s awesome to have downtime between dives to rest in your cabin or the saloon. I will definitely be booking again with Umbi Sharks Bay but likely a 5-7 night instead of 3.

-Come as a guest, leave as a friend - I can't possibly better describe the wonderful and unforgettable time I had here....the place is a little corner of paradise, people and stuff are welcoming, friendly and always there to help! I got my advanced scuba certification here with Emad - it was an experience that I will never forget, spending two days learning from him, loving the dives and the beauty of the Red Sea and just finding your people....Fadi and all the crew...you made this stay unique and a vacation I will never forget 🙏 thank you for all! Will be back!

I stayed at the Umbi Sharks Bay Diving Village Hotel from May 10th to 17th 2025. I had an excellent time there. The food was very good, and the rooms were also perfectly fine. The staff were warm and welcoming. They went above and beyond by kindly sending my dive logbook back to France and even took photos of each page for me. I highly recommend this hotel.

I’ll begin by praising the dive guides and boat crew, who were really helpful and knowledgeable. ||It’s obvious that the guides and hotel/dive club staff do not communicate well with each other, if at all. Our guides offered for us to spend a night on board their live aboard boat in the Ras Mohammed Park; we had dives planned at the Thistlegorm the next day so this was to avoid using fuel unnecessarily and to avoid our group having to wake up very early in the morning to get to the wreck in good time. Our group was told that this would be free, and we accepted the offer on that basis. The next morning, the dive centre staff refused to honour the guides’ offer and said we would need to pay €100 each (not including additional dives) for the pleasure - we did eventually reach an amicable agreement but this confusion lead to our starting the diving day later than planned and created tension when this really wasn’t necessary.||The rooms are basic - we only wanted a place to rest for the night so it did what we needed it to do. The beds were adequate and the air con worked but the unit was very noisy and outdated so take some time to figure out how the unit works to avoid being kept up all night…The door to our balcony got jammed shut on a few occasions (we did eventually manage to open it) and we found a cockroach in our bathroom. There are also no mosquito nets over the doors (the closest protection is the bed sheets).||Our issues really started when we’d started to check out/settle our invoices. The first issue came when the dive centre tried to charge us twice for the national park fees; whilst this was rectified by the centre, I would urge future guests to triple-check invoices before paying and keep hold of all booking paperwork to avoid issues when paying because the dive centre won’t bring this to your attention.||The hotel bar and restaurant was okay, again basic but nice enough. Because it opens out on to the beach, flies frequently made their way in (no mosquito nets) and we spent most of our mealtimes swatting flies off our food. Stray cats also roam around freely and frequently sit next to diners expecting food - staff don’t do anything to remove them. Bottled water was available at all times, which in the heat was a godsend. However, on the last day, bar staff tried to charge us for food/drink bills we hadn’t ordered. Again, I would urge future guests to thoroughly check charges they incur before paying or pay as you go. Another member of our group was also approached several times by a member of bar staff claiming that he had given the barman two ‘defective’ €5 notes some time after the bill was paid which gave the impression that bar staff just wanted to offload defective money on to us. It wasn’t until our group member pulled out another €5 note and literally examined it in front of the bar man that the bar man went away. ||I can’t fault diving in the Red Sea or the guides and boat crew, but I do take issue with the hotel motto ‘dive in as a guests and leave as a friend’: in my experience, you’re only a friend of Umbi Sharks Bay if you don’t question the final bill… if you do decide to book with Umbi, I’d recommend paying bills as you go rather than at the end and keep hold of your paperwork to avoid getting overcharged.