Overview
The southernmost beach resort in Egypt, Lahmi Bay Beach Resort & Gardens offers luxury accommodation and facilities, with access to some of the best diving in the Red Sea. Nestled in its own private bay, Lahami Bay Beach Resort provides a secluded and intimate atmosphere in which to relax and experience this unique environment.
Lahami Bay Beach Resort features an enviable house reef that makes it a superb choice for divers and snorkelers. The hotel has it's dive centre on site and a private harbour with jetty for the day boats. The hotel's private beach also features a sheltered bay for swimming and relaxing. Divers and non-divers will appreciate the range of options available to guests.
Lahami Bay house reef map
Accommodation
There are 220 rooms in this resort, grouped in two-floor buildings which are organised around beautiful gardens to provide sea view. All rooms either have a partial sea view or for a supplement, sea front rooms are available. Rooms are equipped with a generous living area and a large bathroom with a bathtub and separate toilet cubicle as well as a private balcony or terrace. All rooms are fully air-conditioned and have a satellite TV, mini-bar, telephone, safety deposit box and hairdryer.
The rooms feature pastel interiors, coloured by natural marble tops, patterned floor tiles, softly engraved natural wooden furniture and elegantly vivid furnishings. Each guest-room has its unique set of original paintings portraying traditional themes from the Sahara. All local charges at this hotel are in Euros.
Lahami Beach Resort layout
Other Facilities
Guests can choose from a range of various dining options, including the main restaurant and Italian restaurants. The main restaurant, the Seven Seas, provides breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets, with a wide a choice of International Cuisine.
During the day, casual dining can be enjoyed on the seafront, in the Sail Away bar and Mangroves café. There are various bars and lounges around the resort, including a Bedouin style tent on the beach and the Ocean Blue Divers Bar.
Lahami Bay Beach Resort offers a wide selectionof leisure facilities, including a brand new SPA Centre which offers different massages and treatments from all over the world. The air-conditioned Fitness Centre features a Gymnasium equipped to the highest standards.
Floodlit tennis courts, indoor squash court, a fitness suite and a games lounge are more facilities. Activities such as volleyball, kite surfing and windsurfing can be arranged locally. Desert excursions and trips to Luxor are also available. The Centre of the hotel is a large, attractive swimming pool witha waterfall swim-in pool bar.
Guests will also appreciate the convenience of the on-site shop, which sells souvenirs and other amenities. There is an internet corner for guests' convenience and wireless internet available, charged locally. There is a 24 hour doctor on-site. All local charges at this hotel are in Euros.
Families
The Kids Club of Lahami Bay Beach Resort is lots of Fun. The Club has a large indoors entertainment area, a swimming pool with its own waterfall and a mini swimming pool for toddlers.
Location
The Lahami Bay Beach Resort is situated 10 km south of Hamata and 180km from Marsa Alam. The transfer to Marsa Alam airport takes approximately 2¼ hours, whilst Hurghada airport is 5¼ hours drive. The Barakuda dive centre is on-site.
Dive info
The small town of Hamata lends its name to the region opposite the Fury Shoal Reef system. This is the most southerly diving resort in the Egyptian Red Sea. The remoteness of this area, situated 180 km South of Marsa Alam, makes it the ultimate in ‘get away from it all’ diving.
Until recently, the pristine sites of this area were the sole preserve of liveaboard boats and have consequently remained relatively unvisited. There are very few resorts this far south, but Regaldive offer two different options: Wadi Lahami Azur Resort and Lahami Bay. Both offer relaxed, uncrowded diving in a remote and unspoiled area.
The legendary Fury Shoal is right on Hamata's doorstep, offering over 35 memorable dive sites. There are over 80 types of coral to discover in this region, all in excellent condition and inhabited by a rich variety of marine species.
Learning to Dive
There are a variety of dive sites that offer novice divers the opportunity to dive on sheltered reefs. However, in order to take full advantage of the stunning dives available here, it is recommended to be an advanced or intermediate diver.
Qualified Divers
Lahami Bay offers a combination of fine house reef diving and excellent day boat diving. For Wadi Lahami Azur Resort, boat diving is offered from Hamata Port (see below). The remote nature of these resorts, combined with their location opposite the Fury Shoal Reef system, offers divers what is arguably the best land based diving available in the Egyptian Red Sea.
House Reef Diving
Lahami Bay enjoys easy access to a wonderful house reef, which is made up of an attractive fringing reef and coral outcrops rising from the sandy plateau. This creates beautiful swim-throughs and offers the opportunity to explore different areas on numerous repeat dives. Between the beach entry point and the start of the reef, the sea grass provides a sheltered habitat for seahorses.
Lahami Bay House Reef Map
NEW: The jetty at Wadi Lahami Azur Resort gives unprecedented access to a beautiful stretch of untouched house reef directly in front of the hotel. Snorkellers will find plenty to explore in the lovely sandy lagoon at 2-3m depth, looking for blue spotted rays and juvenile coral fish. The sandy bottom slopes gently and is covered by many blocks of corals including some plate corals. Divers will find the outside of the fringing reef irresistible with its steep 10-15m reef wall consisting of little caves and overhangs and a large variety of hard and soft corals. Due a small headland the house reef is relatively protected from waves making it ideal for underwater photography.
The house reefs in Hamata enable divers the flexibility to dive to their own schedule, and maximise their time in the water. There is an amazing array of hard and soft corals to be appreciated, all within a short walk of your hotel room. Night dives are also available on the house reefs and provide an exciting opportunity to watch Spanish dancers, lionfish and lobster.
Boat Diving
Wadi Lahami Azur Resort and Lahami Bay share many of the same dive sites on Fury Shoal. There are over 35 uncrowded boat dives accessible from either resort. All of the dives sites are within 2 hours of the dive centres although the majority can be reached within 1 hour of the shore by large, purpose built day boats. Dive sites this far South offer some of the finest coral in the Red Sea. There are over 80 varieties of healthy soft and hard coral that have formed over millennia into spectacular coral gardens and pinnacles, which in turn support a vast array of marine life.
One of the sites, Gota Soraya is rated as one of the best wall dives in the Red Sea, with large caves full of Glass Fish, Sweepers and an abundance of corals. Divers can expect to see a wide variety of marine species, including dolphin, which occasionally come in as close as the resort's house reefs. There is a good chance of enjoying encounters with a variety of shark species, along with large shoals of mackerel in season. Turtles hatch along this coastline and sightings are common.
Ultimately, divers come away remembering immaculate uncrowded reefs supporting an abundance of marine life, including many species rarely found elsewhere. This far south, the water temperature during the winter months is significantly higher than that of the Northern Red Sea. This creates a relaxed dive environment year round.
Dive prices
Regaldive work with two well managed dive centres in the Hamata area:
Guests staying at Wadi Lahami Azur Resort dive with Orca Dive Club Wadi Lahami. They offer day boat diving from Hamata Port, a ten minute transfer away, and house reef diving from their new jetty.
Guests staying at Lahami Bay Beach Resort & Gardens dive with Barakuda. They offer beach entry house reef diving and day boat diving.
Orca Dive Club Wadi Lahami
Orca Dive Club run the dive centre at the Wadi Lahami Azur Resort. Boat diving is offered from Hamata Port jetty just ten minutes transfer from the centre. Divers with fewer than 30 dives logged must be guided. Orca also offer house reef diving from their newly-constructed jetty.
Orca Dive Club offers a range of courses from novice through to Divemaster, and technical diving courses including Nitrox and Draeger Rebreather. FREE Nitrox is available (32%) for qualified Nitrox divers, making it an ideal centre for Nitrox divers, and those wanting to learn. Please enquire for full details.
Please note that it is compulsory at Orca Dive Club to dive with a dive computer. All divers with fewer than 30 logged dives must be guided. Guided dives cost €5 per person per dive.
From January 2023 the following Environmental Fee is applicable to all trips with Orca Divers. Fees are paid locally and are non-refundable.
- Nation park fees: €5 per person, per day
- Tax and permissions: €5 per person, per day
Typically, 10 unguided house reef dives with Orca Divers at Wadi Lahami Resort starts from £200 per person excluding equipment rental.
Barakuda Dive Centre
Barakuda dive centre is ideally located at Lahami Bay Beach Resort, and offers house reef and day boat diving. The centre is extremely well organised, and offers dive training to PADI, CMAS and TDI standards.
A range of courses is available, from novice to Divemaster. An excellent range of well-maintained equipment is available for hire. DIN fittings standard, with International adapters available free of charge. Please enquire for details of dive courses available at Barakuda.
Lahami Bay has a fringing house reef accessible directly from the beach. Outer parts of the house reef are also accessible by small boat. Minimum numbers apply for these trips, and a supplement is payable in resort for any boat trips.
Please note that it is compulsory at Barakuda to dive with a dive computer. All divers with over 30 logged dives will be unguided and unescorted, as a buddy pair or group, by Barakuda staff, unless each diver pays €6 per person per dive. Divers without 30 logged dives and their buddy must dive with a guide (€6 per person per dive charge applies).
Typically, 10 unguided house reef dives with Barakuda at Lahami Bay starts from £260 per person excluding equipment rental.
Lahami Bay House Reef Map
DIVE PRICES
Book your dive pack or course with Regaldive prior to departure, and benefit from lower prices than those in resort. You can also take advantage of our great value dive pack offers. Please discuss your requirements with the Regaldive team, who will prepare a quotation suited to your needs.
Resort info
The Hamata region offers the most southerly accommodation for divers in the Egyptian Red Sea. A remote region, Hamata is an area of natural beauty, and offers access to superb dive sites previously visited only by liveaboards.
Getting Around
Remote and removed from the outside world, the hotels this far south are generally self-contained. Entertainment is very much centred around the individual hotels.
Climate
The hottest time of the year is July and August with air temperature of over 30 ºC. The coolest time is January with the temperature at around 20 ºC. Rainfall is negligable and it is invariably sunny but breezes can be cool.
Time
Egypt is 1 or 2 hours ahead of GMT depending on the season as Egypt does not operate Daylight Saving Time. Please note that Hamata is 3 hours ahead of GMT - one hour ahead of the northerly Egyptian resorts - although this may be subject to change during the period of Ramadan.
Currency
Egyptian pounds or LE. Approximately £1 = 20LE
We recommend that you take some money in Cash to Egypt. Please note that Scottish notes are not accepted in Egypt.
Tipping
Although entirely voluntary, tipping is a recognised part of life in this region of the world. Some local staff will look to travellers for personal recognition of the services offered. We would advise that you allow approx. £10 for gratuities for local staff for the duration of your stay.
Rough Price Guide
- Local beer: 65LE
- Snack meal (pizza / sandwich): 130LE
- Small bottle of mineral water: 25LE
- Soft drink: 35LE
Travel info
Flight Information
Direct flights from the UK to Marsa Alam Airport are available on Sundays, November through to April, from Gatwick. There are connecting options via Cairo, into Marsa Alam Airport, which work well for Hamata resorts, southern Red Sea liveaboards, and Cairo extensions. Please speak to the team for more information on this option.
Please speak to our friendly travel consultants for the latest information.
Flight duration: Approx 5 - 5½ hours
Transfer times: These vary according to the hotel choice. From Marsa Alam Airport to Hamata resorts is approximately 3 hours, we do no recomend transfering from Hurghada Airport to Hamata without an overnight on arrival.
Departure tax: N/A
Passports
Passengers travelling to Egypt must have six months valid on their passport from the date of departure from Egypt.
Visas
A single entry tourist visa for Egypt is required for all nationalities. For British passport holders with British citizenship, Egyptian visas can be obtained conveniently and inexpensively on arrival at Hurghada airport, or in advance via the new e-visa portal - Visa2Egypt.
Other nationalities should check with consular office.
Vaccinations
There are no compulsory vaccinations for travel to Egypt, but we recommend protection against typhoid, tetanus, hepatitis A and polio. Though malaria does exist in Egypt, it is generally not present in the coastal resorts.
Vaccination requirements are subject to change and should be confirmed before departure. For the most up to date advice please consult your travel clinic.
Further information regarding vaccinations for travel to this country can be found at www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk and from your local healthcare provider.
Prices
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As flight prices vary from day to day, Regaldive will prepare a quotation for you based on current flight prices available. This ensures that you receive the most competitive price for your chosen travel dates. Flights from regional UK airports may be available, depending on your destination and date of travel.
Please call 01353 659999 or e-mail Regaldive, using the link below, for a quotation.

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Lahami Bay Beach Resort
"Booked via Regaldive on a deal from LIDS.
Thomas Cook LGW - Hurghada, 20kg + 5kg with cert card.
Just four in the bus to South of Marsa Alam and then just the two of us to Hamata approx another 2.5 hours including stops. Take water on the bus, it is not provided and first stop is at El Quseir! Lahami Bay Beach Resort Hotel was very comfortable, we were given upgrades to beach view rooms on arrival as the Hotel was "very busy". Not sure how or who with, as the place was very spacious and uncrowded. We arrived late and they had kept an excellent meal for us. The quality of the food was awesome all week, huge buffet in the main restaurant with a Pizzeria on site, snacks available nearly all the time. Stella was free, but Sakara was 4 Euro a bottle! We were the only English in the village, the Hotel seems mostly to be used by Italians and Germans, all prices in Euros and converted to Egyptian pounds on leaving.
To the diving... next day to the Barakuda dive shop, very well laid out. Slick sign in; evidence by log book, sight of insurance and dive computer. Shown round setup; paintings on the walls of the reefs with buoy locations, wet rooms, excellent wash tanks etc. We were issued crates, hangers and SMBs followed by an orientation on the beach entrance to the house reef and off we went.
Diving from the shore onto the house reef is sorted by leaving your crate on the loading dock, this is then taken to the beach shack for you, take a tank from the bins at the shack, Nitrox and analyser are available at 3 Euro per tank if qualified, sign the in/out register, buddy check and off you go. Shore cover was at the beach dive shack and another from the roof lookout of the Mangrove bar. We did two self guided shore dives, one left and one right from the beach entry, and moved to boat dives on the house reefs at 10 Euro per each extra.
Boat Dive pick up is twice a day from the shop with a 10 min drive to the jetty, small day boat fitted for stowing tanks and crates, never had more than seven of us + guide on board and once just two of us!!! Never a hurry and we could not have asked for more. Boat carried lead, Oxygen, spares kit and relied on mobile phones for comms. We got a mask flood and clear, plus reg release and recover as a check on first boat dive.
The seven dive sites that are accessed by boat are mostly collections of pinnacles with one per site being buoyed and used as the tie in point. Most divers appear to be doing just one or two per holiday, we dived daily and got to call the dive sites when we wanted to return to one in particular.Briefings are very clear and mostly given twice, max depth on house reef is approx 20m if you take a shovel, but 16-17m was normal, with most life being in the top 10m so max times were in the 75 min mark. The order was back on the boat with at least 40 bar. If you wanted a guide you could join the crowd, or, just drop in after the briefing and "see you later" against an agreed max run time. Very relaxed and very enjoyable, no stress, plenty of time to linger if you want.
The night dive was just four of us and was very enjoyable - shrimps, crinoid feather stars etc. When one diver had done his air and was guided back to the boat, the last three of worked our way very slowly back at 5-3m checking out the life on the reef. A very, very enjoyable experience. Total 10 dives, and the trip was very relaxed, enjoyable and just what we needed. Day air temp 38C, water temp 24-25C at 10m. Lemon shark and white tip reef shark were seen on the reef, worryingly there seemed to be a lot of die back in the barrel sponges."
Don - UK
An excellent week at Lahami Bay
"Malcolm and I had an excellent week at Lahami Bay, thanks to your meticulous organisation.
Malcolm did 12 dives and I did 11, despite artificial hip joint.
The resort and dive operation were first class. Barakuda have their own private marina only 5 mins in minibus, and the boat was ideally suited for the purpose. The guides and crew were helpful and patient - even when we made mistakes, like when I dropped a (admittedly faulty) weight belt. They wouldn't even let me pay for the lost weights.
One highlight was snorkelling amongst about 30 dolphins, including babies, during one surface interval. As well as the other sea life, the hard-coral formations were the most impressive and dramatic that we have ever seen. We were the only British people at the resort; the majority were Germans, so I had lots of practice speaking this language (I used to work as a translator). Even the 2-hour transfer near the coast across the desert was an experience. At one point we were following behind an open truck of young camels!
Only niggle: the food was so good, I gained 2 lbs.! Thank you all. "
Anna - UK
Lahami Bay - highly recommended!
"We travelled to Marsa Alam and from the moment we stepped into the airport building we were made to feel special...
We were met by Ramadan Gomaa, a Regaldive rep who was excellent at his job. We stayed at Lahami Bay Resort in Hamata, a 5* hotel. The manageress is excellent, Ursula Wolf - she made us feel very special indeed. The hotel was beautiful, food the best we’d had in Egypt. First class service from all staff and very friendly.
Diving was fantastic, again exceptional service and the dive staff are now friends for life.
I’d go as far to say this is the best holiday we have ever had and we highly recommend Regaldive and Lahami Bay.
David"
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