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El Gouna hotels are available for all budgets and the town provides an extensive selection of dining options as well. A host of water sports and safe, child-geared activities make El Gouna holidays perfect for family holidays, but a holiday in El Gouna ia also ideal for honeymoons or as a wedding venue (most El Gouna hotels offer a romantic package holiday El Gouna honeymoon). With nine internationally certified diving centres, El Gouna holidays are also a perfect choice for diving enthusiasts. El Gouna deals aimed at golfers are easily available via the luxurious five-star Steigenberger Golf Resort, set in the midst of an 18-hole USPGA Golf Course. From El Gouna you can visit many of Egypt’s famous sites and cities. Short trips into the Eastern desert, with Bedouin guides, are also organised on a regular basis. Direct flights into Hurghada International Airport are available from London and other major British cities. To avoid the summer heat, try to plan your holidays to El Gouna between September and April. El Gouna is one of Egypt’s premier Red Sea resorts. Built about twenty years ago, El Gouna is unique in that it is a carefully-planned, complete town and tourist resort. The distinguishing features of a holiday in El Gouna are luxury (particularly if you stay at one of the better El Gouna resorts such as the five-star Sheraton Mirimar Resort or the five-star Stienburger Golf Resort), comfort and relative quiet. El Gouna is an attractive little town of traditional Nubian style low-rise villas and apartments, built on a chain of islands and lagoons. Beautifully-kept beaches and year-round sunshine make a holiday in El Gouna perfect for enjoying the delights of the Red Sea while avoiding the hectic pace of the more lively Egyptian Red Sea resorts. Holidays in El Gouna are perfect for families. The town has many attractions and activities which children can enjoy, such as the El Gouna Aquarium and Museum, a go-kart track, mini-golf, an air-conditioned indoor playground, pony rides at the local stables or outings to Zeitouna Beach (on an island), and diving and golfing lessons are available for all ages.

Many El Gouna hotels have daytime fun clubs for children and offer childcare services (including night-time baby-sitting services). The town’s charming waterfront cafes and numerous bars, its cobbled streets, canals and stone bridges and its lively nightlife make it a preferred destination for romantic holidays as well. El Gouna holidays can be as active as you want them to be. Available sports facilities run the gamut from water sports (kite-surfing to waterskiing, parasailing, snorkelling, and more), to golf, tennis, horseback riding and of course diving. You’ll also find shops, cafes, a fitness club, an open-air cinema, eateries, bars and the aquarium in the town centre, Kafr El Gouna, designed as a traditional Egypt ian town, with domed buildings, picturesque courtyards and winding paths. The Abu Tig cruising marina in El Gouna is where the more up-market shops, restaurants and bistros are located. Transportation within the resort is easy; open-sided buses or ferry boats travel regularly from one point in El Gouna to the other. With its ideal location and new facilities and hotels, El Gouna is guaranteed to be an idyllic sea and sun destination for all ages. However, if you would also like to see and experience the real Egypt (the Egyptians you encounter on your holidays in El Gouna will be hotel staff and other employees, or wealthy Egyptians on holiday) you will have to venture outside of El Gouna. One of the advantages of spending your holidays in El Gouna is that you will have easy access to Egypt’s historical and archaeological sites. Excursions to Luxor, Aswan, Cairo, and the Sinai can easily be arranged from El Gouna, either by air (from Hurghada Airport) or by road. A less strenuous alternative, particularly if you have young children in tow, is a tour of the city of Hurghada, just 20 km south of El Gouna. Trips into the Eastern Desert are organized regularly, and you should avail yourself of the opportunity; in addition to star-watching, you can tour the ancient monasteries of St. Antonius and St. Macarius, or visit a nearby Bedouin village. El Gouna holiday accommodations include a range of modern hotels as well as villas and flats which may be leased for the duration of your stay. While on holiday in El Gouna, you’ll have no trouble locating dining venues to suit your taste and budget. Options include several gourmet restaurants (La Piscina Italian Restaurant at the five-star Sheraton Miramar Resort or La Rotisserie restaurant the five-star Steigenberger Golf Resort, for example) numerous casual marina-side cafes, bars and restaurants, as well as several familiar fast food outlets. El Gouna’s unique Dine Around Program allows half-board or full-board guests at many El Gouna hotels to dine at any of the twenty restaurants participating in the program. This option is available to guests of five-star hotels in El Gouna, such as the Sheraton Miramar Resort and the Steigenberger Golf Resort, as well as to visitors staying in three and four-star El Gouna hotels. If you enjoy going out at night, you will not be disappointed when you go on holidays to El Gouna . The resort’s active nightlife leaves nothing to be desired, including a casino. Try The Palladium, a discotheque designed to resemble an open-air amphitheatre, or visit the Sand Bar which boasts all the amenities of British-style pubs (table football, pool, and darts) as well as an attractive outdoor patio. Because the sun shines all year round, El Gouna resorts receive visitors from the UK and Europe throughout the year. Although temperatures rise in the summer, El Gouna’s desert climate keeps the humidity low, and there is a constant breeze from the sea. Nevertheless, the most comfortable time to go on holidays to El Gouna is between September and April (when temperatures are around 20°C), and the peak tourist season is during Christmas and the New Year. Several airlines (Egypt Air, EasyJet, Viking Airlines and many others) operate direct flights (approximately five hours flying time) from Heathrow and other British airports to Hurghada International Airport. El Gouna is only 30 minutes by road from Hurghada Airport, and you can use El Gouna Limousines or get a taxi at the airport. However, the easiest option is to arrange to use the shuttle service provided by your El Gouna hotel. There are several ways to book cheap El Gouna holidays. Most charter travel companies offer El Gouna deals, so you should have no problem booking cheap holidays to El Gouna, particularly during Christmas and the New Year. Package holiday El Gouna deals are excellent value during the summer months, when you can take advantage of El Gouna late deals.