Solo Travel Made Easy in Makadi Bay Traveling alone somewhere with no old town to wander and no backpacker strip to fall into sounds like it could be boring. In Makadi Bay, it is actually the opposite: the whole enclave is built around things you can do solo without a shred of awkwardness. Dive or snorkel your way to instant company Extra Divers Makadi Bay, Scuba World Divers, and Aquarius Diving Club all run daily house-reef guiding and boat trips straight from the beach, and solo divers get paired up with a buddy as a matter of course, no separate booking hassle required.

A Day of Sightseeing in Makadi Bay Set an alarm before sunrise at least once here. Makadi Bay’s best sightseeing does not live in a museum or behind a ticket booth, it runs on the light, and the light changes completely from dawn to dusk. Dawn: the bay from a private pier Walk out onto your resort’s jetty before the beach fills up and watch the sun come up over a completely flat, glassy Red Sea.

Add These Epic Trips to Makadi Bay Two or three extra days is all it takes to turn a beach week in Makadi Bay into something that includes pharaohs, pyramids, or a shark dive you will talk about for years. Here are the three multi-day trips actually worth planning around. Liveaboard dive safaris to the Brothers and Elphinstone If diving is why you are here, a liveaboard cruise out of nearby Hurghada or Port Ghalib is the upgrade from house-reef snorkeling.

Top Attraction Tours in Makadi Bay Fifty slides, one all-inclusive ticket, and not a single line for extra snacks: Makadi Water World is the kind of attraction that actually lives up to the hype, and it anchors this whole category. Makadi Water World Set inside the Madinat Makadi complex, this is Egypt’s largest water park, with 50 slides split roughly between 25 adult thrill rides, including a 19-meter freefall drop, a turbo tunnel, and a kamikaze slide, and 25 gentler slides built for kids.

Wild Animal Encounters in Makadi Bay Here is the encounter worth getting excited about, and the one worth walking straight past: Makadi Bay has genuine wild marine life right off its beaches, and it also has a captive dolphin show that keeps showing up in “top things to do” lists it does not deserve to be on. Skip Dolphin World Dolphin World Makadi Bay runs daily dolphin and seal shows in chlorinated pools and sells swim-with sessions with animals held captive for that purpose.

Makadi Bay Activities You’ll Love Step off almost any hotel jetty in Makadi Bay and you are in a coral garden within twenty strokes. That is the whole pitch for this stretch of the Red Sea coast in one sentence, and it only gets better from there. The water is the main event The house reef running along the bay is the real headline: over 200 species of hard and soft coral, blue-spotted stingrays, giant moray eels, parrotfish, and the occasional sea turtle, all reachable by walking straight off a resort’s wooden jetty rather than booking a boat.