Alaska Camp & Hotel

Dahab


These bright, sparkling-clean, simple rooms with comfortable beds are an easy-on-the-wallet deal. Grab one upstairs for a balcony. The central location means you’re just a couple of steps from the promenade bustle. Breakfast not included.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Dahab attractions

1. Ruins

0.19 MILES

This fenced-off area contains the very sparse ruins of an ancient Nabataean trading post.

2. Lighthouse Reef

0.22 MILES

This sloping reef is home to a bounty of fish life and is Dahab’s main night-diving site. More experienced divers can descend to the sandy bottom, where…

3. Eel Garden

0.65 MILES

Eel Garden takes its name from the countless garden eels that carpet the sea floor. Other highlights include huge coral boulders and dense congregations…

4. Islands

1.42 MILES

This underwater Alice in Wonderland–esque site south of Dahab offers an outstanding topography of coral alleyways, amphitheatres, valleys and gulleys…

5. Canyon

3.95 MILES

One of the area’s most popular dives, the Canyon is a long, narrow trench that runs perpendicular to the reef shelf, and is home to prolific hard and soft…

6. Blue Hole

5.35 MILES

Carved into a reef, 8km north of Dahab, is Egypt’s most infamous dive site. The Blue Hole is a gaping sinkhole that drops straight down – some say…

7. Bells

6.62 MILES

Bells is a narrow breach in the reef table that forms a pool close to shore. From here, divers can descend through a chimney, exiting onto a ledge at 27m…

8. Ras Abu Gallum Protectorate

9.78 MILES

The starkly beautiful Ras Abu Gallum Protectorate covers 400 sq km of coastline between Dahab and Nuweiba, mixing coastal mountains, narrow valleys, sand…