Nefertari boat — Local services in Red Sea

Would not recommend at all! We paid €130 for 2 adults for a 4 hour afternoon trip starting at 14.00 hr and ending at about 18.00 hr including "dinner" and softdrinks (Fanta, Sprite or Coca cola). The boat has 3 decks, 1 bellow the sea level (submarine deck) to be able to see marine life, 1 middel deck inside the boat decorated in Egyptian style wich looks very nice and 1 upper (sun)deck. As we got on the boat we where forced to sit inside (middle deck) by the crew although we wanted to go to the upper deck. It was still early before sailing so there would have been enough seats available but no we had to go inside. We thought maybe everyone has to go inside because of a safety briefing or something. Inside it was crowded with german tourists all of Thomas Cook or other touroperators. We where offered a drink (as mentioned above) and asked if we wanted a fish or a chicken dinner. We chose fish, thinking about the pictures we saw of the (fried) fish dinner on the Neferati site on Facebook. Then we realized that other people where going to the upper deck so just before sailing we also decided to go up ignoring the fact that they forced us to step inside. Crew said it was ok but we needed to come down to eat dinner. Why? As we made it to the upper deck it was even more packed with people than it was below, the total amount according to the crew was about 120-130 passengers. In the end we found seats at the end of a table. If we would have ignored the crew earlier we would have had better seats. I was already mad and ready to actually disembark as the boat set sail to Marsa Mubarak. In several languages it was announced that due to the amount of passengers (120-130!) we would need to go down to the submarine deck in three groups. Unacceptable as you are promised to be able to see turtles and sea cows and how are you supposed to see them if you are in the wrong group? They are sea animals and you have to be lucky to spot them at all! They will not wait for all 3 groups to have seen them. Conclusion they had to many passengers on board to give everyone a decent view. We decided before boarding we did not want to go snorkeling, which is offered to passengers who want to do so. At around 17.00 they started the dinner service. First off we got some salad and some bread and some more salad. Then a fish soup which in my opinion was "moderately ok". Then the main course came which was no where near what you see on the internet. A small piece 5 cm x 5 cm of some type of white fish, a skewer with 3 even smaller pieces of squid. All grilled to a pulp as dry as it can get and even worse than that! The onion or whatever it was on our skewers was black, like charcoal. There where 3 small pieces of vegetable on the plate, some rice and a small half of a baked potato, which quite frankly was the best tasting thing on the plate. We thought all in all very poorly organized. Crew where clearly overwhelmed by the amount of passengers and the organization as a whole very poorly. As you have to pay in advance you cannot claim anything afterwards and if you do a simple I am sorry is what you get. We think it's NO value for money but it's every man...

This trip is the BEST and you must do it while you are there.

The boat it self is sooo clean and piece of art each part of it is nice to look at wz different decors in each level you will enjoy its cleanliness and colors.

The staff are sooo helpfull and friendly and the trip is all organized since the first second when they pick you from the hotel.

The food is great however I recommend that you take the seafood meal over the chicken one as the last is not that nice.

The toilets are clean wz all you need of toilet papers and soap.

They provide snorkelling tools for free if you dont have yours.

The trip have 2 times mornning and noon I recommend taking the mornning one for much better view and lightening when snorkelling and seeing the fish from the glass boat.

All you need to bring is your towel and yr camera.

This is a nice trip for all adults and kids as they also have a part where you can wear pheroronic clothes and take pictures either wz thier professional photographer wz charges or by your mobile for free.

This trip was one of my visit to Marsa Allam Highligtes and will do it again .

I saw the big turtles and if you lucky will see dolphins and the sea cow.

Prize is 80uro or 750 le for Egyptian And when you reserve from thier representative on the hotel you can get...

This was the best boat trip we ever had. The boat is nice, with typical Egyptian components, during the trip you can see a lot of beautiful fishes and also two Seagals and four turtles. The staff is very kind and wants you to see the best so sometimes they scream: "Turtle on the right sight.." and twice they turned boat back to see Seagal one more time. During whole trip they are kind, hospitality, funny and nice to all of people on the boat. During snorkeling they are also very kind and hospitality and lot of times they show you special fishes in the sea. The diver who took care about my pregnant wife, was GREAT. He took her touching safety ring to the sea and showed her all the fishes and turtle. We all were astonished. After snorkeling is very tasty food. The table was full of salads and soups and meals and after that there is a "dancing party" during the way back. Than you will visit a little market in a town. Everything was great, great, great and we are sure we will come to this boat trip one...