Christina Beach Palace & Christina Pool

Dahab


You get a lot of bang for your buck at this resort-style hotel with rooms to suit all preferences. Choose either a beach room, with sea views, or a room set around the pool. All have balconies and good facilities, although furnishings are rather beige. Across the road, Christina annexe is a budget option, set amid a leafy garden.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Dahab attractions

1. Ruins

0.34 MILES

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

2. Lighthouse Reef

0.67 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. Islands

0.92 MILES

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

4. Eel Garden

1.14 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…

5. Canyon

4.45 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

5.85 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

7.11 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. Umm Sid

10.01 MILES

An impressive entrance through a wide corridor carved into a steeply sloping reef is a highlight of this dive site 15km south of Dahab. Further down you…