The boat was not fully booked, 14 guests instead of a maximum of 24, which was pleasant for us as it was a little less crowded. Organization, equipment, cabin, food, crew: (almost) everything was perfect. Not quite the standard of the Emperor Harmony from last year in Raja Ampat, but that was hard to beat anyway. However, there were also a few pleasing plus points for the Blue Seas compared to the Emperor Harmony: more attention was paid to safety, briefing, fire-fighting, rescue equipment, etc. The recent accidents have obviously made a difference. We also had a good feeling in this respect. The only minor complaint was that the air conditioning in our cabin didn't work at first and it was unbearably hot. The crew reacted well on the first day and provided us with a well air-conditioned master cabin on the lower deck.

We were in a group for the whole week with Sandra as our guide. The crew were very helpful, considerate and friendly during preparation, on return, with the Zodiacs etc. We did the planned route, first a night trip to St. John's, then back to Port Ghalib in stages. In addition to the 3 to 4 dives per day, we were also able to snorkel with dolphins. Our hope was to encounter dolphins on this safari. This hope was fulfilled in more ways than one: On some sections, dolphins accompanied our boat so that we could observe them from the ship, followed by spectacular diving with a large family of spinner dolphins. However, we did not see any sharks. One diving group spotted four hammerhead sharks at great depth during one of three dives at the Elphinstone dive site. Instead, we saw a large guitar ray. But with turtles, barracudas, large mackerel, moray eels, stonefish, scorpionfish, lionfish and octopus, we got our money's worth. We were somewhat disillusioned by the condition of the corals. Much of it was dead, damaged and bleached. Sandra, our guide, was also worried about how the condition had deteriorated compared to last year. The water was consistently between 30°C and 31°C warm. Pleasant for diving with a shorty or even without, but certainly not for the corals. In connection with the destruction of the corals, we were a little annoyed by the hype with the macros: Mini shrimps, nudibranchs etc. Almost all the dive guides, even later at Rohanou Resort, were obsessed with tracking down these macros and showing them to everyone in the dive group at close range. Then they all pounced on this nudibranch with their cameras, stirring up sand and sometimes breaking off corals. If you extrapolate this to all the divers, a lot of unnecessary damage is caused.





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This was my fourth time on a liveaboard with the Blue Planet Group. I am very satisfied every time. Nice dive guides and very helpful crew. Certainly not the last time.

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Good food, but a good number of divers had gastric problems, probably due to the water used to wash salad or uncooked vegetables! Fortunately, we escaped them.

It's a pity that almost all the coral is dead from the south to Port Galib anyway (we didn't go any further up). But there's nothing the Blue Seas can do about it.

All in all, a very good week for us.





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Due to the strong wind forecast of 7 Beaufort
close to the shore, we were not at the top spots

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The underwater world in the Red Sea is dying

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Very friendly and helpful crew
Experienced dive guides
Toilet in WC leaking (constantly wet floor)
Lavabo was not fixed. Some work was done on it, but the problems remained.

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Our group had a somewhat inexperienced guide, but he did his best.

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The food can only be described as boring. We've had much better.

In addition, the crew doesn't seem to care about waste separation at all. That was much better 2 years ago on the Blue. There was even a competition to see who could bring up the most garbage from the sea.



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We were disappointed with the food (variety and quality). Compared with other diving safaris and especially with Blue Planet, we are used to a higher standard.
With regard to the crew of 14, we would have liked a little more discretion and distance. The seamen, engineer, kitchen and saloon staff were omnipresent on the ship. They smoked, prayed and slept everywhere - even in places designated for guests.



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We were able to enjoy the BDE tour with the Blue Seas! It was a great week in which nothing was missing. Although the Blue Seas is no longer the newest ship, it offers sufficient comfort. The cabins were clean and spacious (Master Suite lower deck) and surprised us very positively. Air conditioning was also available and everything worked perfectly.

Apart from that, the ship invites you to a cozy safari with up to 24 guests, which is a pleasant size. The organization (food, diving, other activities) was very well managed. Order and space were also no problem. Everything was perfectly organized!

As a young couple and otherwise only diving experience from the mainland, we can absolutely recommend Blue Seas as well as the entire organization (liveboards/blueplanet)! Definitely worth an experience!

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Excellent week. Thanks to the whole team and its captain, to Haitham and Mohamed, the guides.
Finally, we'd like to pass on three potential improvements:

1. experienced divers should be able to dive in autonomous pairs.

2. It should be possible to adjust dive slots according to the other boats present, so as to avoid all boats diving at the same time! This has happened several times.

3. The crew (14 people) and guides should wear their first name (printed on the back of their T-shirt, or on their chest, etc.). This would have helped us memorize their names much more quickly.

There you go, good luck
Pascal and Adriana



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Wir werden das gerne weiterleiten und wir sind immer wieder froh zu hören wo noch Verbesserungspotenzial vorhanden ist.

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Great crew, both above and below the water. As the only vegetarian, they even cooked extra for me, although it wouldn't have been necessary at all given the wide selection. That really surprised me and made me very happy.
Thanks to the expertise of the captain and the dive guides, the right destination decisions were always made (wind force 6 - 7) and made our liveaboard a legendary experience. The boat crew already knew the preferences of the divers on the 2nd dive and were super nice and helpful. I will definitely be back

The transfer from the airport to the harbor was the purest horror trip... First we waited for someone to pick us up, then we waited about 45 minutes at another terminal for 2 other guests. Then they took us into town, unloaded us and our luggage and took us to a café - substandard is an understatement even by Hurghada standards. The taxi driver drove off without knowing who was coming to get us. But we were given tea, coffee, water and something to eat - free of charge. I don't know exactly how long we had to wait - 40/50 minutes. The transfer from the boat to the airport was organized around classes Vesper

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Liebe Claudia,

Vielen Dank für das Feedback. Schön dass euch die Tauchsafari so gut gefallen hat. Bezüglich Transfer bin ich in Kontakt mit dem Boot.

Liebe Grüße,
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There were only 9 of us on the boat and the safari to the St. Johns region was well planned and well executed. Any problems that arose were solved by the crew and guides. It was a relaxed safari and we saw a lot.

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Recommendable boat, with slight need for reworking after the overhaul

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Hello everyone,
We had a very nice trip thanks to you
Unfortunately, the boat is already very worn out and needs a few maintenance sessions and repairs so that everything fits again.
The master cabin is very spacious but very noisy and smelly due to the kitchen above. Unfortunately, the price is not necessarily justified.
The guys on board were great and always ready to do everything for you to make sure you were comfortable.
Greetings from Biene and Rudi


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Reefs that are on the way and not the usual ones should be approached from time to time, even at the risk of just "diving".

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A beautifully spacious boat and a crew that goes out of its way to read the guests' every wish from their lips.
The guides were super motivated and the briefings were great.

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Simply unforgettable, mega beautiful.
Thank you very much

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I can only speak as a dive guide, from mohamed, the young man was great, always an open ear, ready to help, ideas every dive, what you can do better, with explanation and show, breefing and especially the re-briefing top. Hold on to him and pay him more.

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Very good and experienced safari boat would go there again in a heartbeat

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In my opinion, the reefs are more beautiful and colorful at this time of year further north (Hurghada, Sharm). The very warm fall with above-average water temperatures puts a strain on the reefs. Big fish are also rather scarce. Ultimately, however, this is nature and cannot be influenced. Nevertheless, the trip was wonderful and perfectly organized.

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Good ship, but could use a refresh inside. Crew and guides were excellent. Extra requests for dive sites no problem.

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The implementation of the liveaboard on site was a successful and recommendable.

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We were able to experience a wonderful safari to St.Johns from 18.5. to 24.5. Starting with the great and courteous crew, the colorful, fun guest group to the great dive spots. We have experienced 12 hammerhead sharks, a hunting, feeding grey shark, manta rays, countless tunas, mackerels, an incredibly beautiful maritime underwater world. Many thanks to all of you Angelika and Peter

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We were lucky enough to get a single cabin without having booked it. :)
The food was top! The only thing there is to criticize, - was the transfer from the airport to the ship, we had to wait a long time about 45min in the blazing sun. But I have also already given Nina.

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No longer the very latest ship, but still in top condition. Very much space, only the drainage of the water of the shower in the lower deck cabins in the wet room could be better regulated, on the floor was always a puddle / varnish, therefore here 1 Srern deduction. Despite bad weather, they were always very eager to go to the best possible dive sites. A little more space to store large cameras would be good, fortunately there were only 3 large with us.
1 star deduction for safety - according to the homepage Nautilus lifelines are on board, on our tour there were none.
Food: Very good and always sufficient - in the afternoon still snacks (ice cream, pizza, sweets,..)

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The cruise went very well, the guides and crew members were very friendly.
Pick up at the airport and transfer to the Marina very well organized.
Nothing to say more, I recommend it!

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Very nice trip, very obliging crew, both room/kitchen, and help before and after the dives. Clean cabins, super diving (very lucky with what we all saw !).

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It was an all around successful trip; my 1st liveaboard. I could not have done better in the end. I enjoyed the tour so much that I am already planning the next liveaboard in the Azores. The support by AAA was another Hailight!

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perfect service of the crew on the boat also the people at the office where perfect. Did meet some great people(CEO Scuba hunt)

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Our cabin had no separation between shower & toilet, meaning the floor was often wet, which was a bit tedious, especially because this was not the case in all cabins.
We are vegis and always got something extra - that was great!
The dive guides were partly too firmly focused on themselves and their photos, in the future I wish that the tourists get priority.

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The boat was very good but the food was not so good compared to other boats. We went on Wednesday at noon already to the port have settled (tip, drinks,...) and from then on it went with the staff downhill.The day before departure, the service has very decreased there was eg no snack more, the drinks on the upper deck were empty we had to get us from below! The ship's staff was very nice in spite of everything it has not lain.

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Were very satisfied. And a very big plus to my personal helper Hosam (hopefully spelled correctly). He has helped me a lot when putting on and taking off the diving gear because I have an artificial knee joint and am not so mobile. Everything else has also fit

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the trip was OK, the cabin used and Grindig (Egypt just), according to conversations and inspection of other boats a little too expensive.
as impudence I felt the Abrechnug one day before we left the boat, the demanded per day and person 15, - € tip, we have booked a complete trip and also paid, I will not pay the wages of the employees extra!
apparently they have received too little tip the after the settlement was no service more available? further if I book a package tour I do not want to be asked extra on the spot to pay the fuel 750.00 € ? Package is package and not some extra.
so the trip was too expensive.

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The ship the food and the staff was great. Thanks again.
Nina and Tarek unfortunately can not distinguish who has diving experience or not, and we are not talking about current under water, it's just a cheek.

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Pictures say more than words !
Love greetings, Erik

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Picture of boat is no longer correct. Boat has been renewed fairly recently. Excellent organization, very nice trip. Staff on board is fine however a little more laughter would be nice.

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Liveaboards are great! Unfortunately, we had extreme storm and therefore no ride to St John and relatively poor visibility. The decision not to go so far was of course right and there were still great dives and a fascinating underwater world. Egypt has always been a safe place that does not need to hide from the Maldives or Mexico!

Nina was unfortunately missing on board and Hassam and Tarek radiate just Egyptian masculinity and nonchalance, fits, but Nina would have been just better. Too bad that our wish was ignored and she changed without explanation exactly in our week on the Blue Storm...

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Food very good if you are a meatlover. There are enough vegetables, but almost never anything special. This in contrast to meat: every meal of it always formed the focus.
One he of the two guides unfortunately a bit big mouth.
With the awareness that I as a guest cannot estimate everything, I must nevertheless say with my experience: I have already dived a part of the diving spots also differently. Instead of hanging in the current shadow with practically zero fish in the current and for it a lot of life. Also, I got the impression that those responsible wanted to let the Zodiac rather once less than too much in the water.

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It was dripping from the cabin ceiling
Dive guide seemed a bit inexperienced in leading the group
Otherwise, great experience super friendly crew

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Super ship with 1A crew - it was a great week with great food and cool people. Will certainly be back on the road with the Blue Planet Fleet.
Unfortunately, Daedalus was much too busy (23 safari boats, drum -1 at dive spots).

Suggestions for improvement:
* Several times something completely different was dived than was told in the briefing.
* The dive group were clearly too big for my taste (12 people).

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5HiWWBss08

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We had a super nice week aboard the Blue Seas. The ship was completely booked and yet you had enough space and retreat. We had a lower deck cabin, the beds were comfortable and the bathroom was large enough to shower without putting the entire room under water. In some places you notice that the cabins are a bit outdated (slanted drawers that could hardly be opened) but all small things that were not important for us. The food was incredibly good and varied and the best we have had so far on a liveaboard in Egypt. Twice dinner was served on the upper deck. Once there was barbecue with steak, grilled vegetables and salads, the other time sushi and grilled prawns. What we were especially pleased, there were daily Egyptian dishes (Koshari, Ads, Molochea, Falaffel, Humus, etc.) Unfortunately, one often misses the delicious Egyptian food, here you got it. Our dive guide was great, very experienced, helpful and friendly. The briefings were top and clearly structured with emergency plan and everything. We were lucky and were both at the Brothers and on the 1st day in Daedalus only three boats, on the 2nd day of diving in Daedalus came over night unfortunately a lot of boats so that a total of 14 pieces were at anchor. Here it would have been nice if the dive times would not have been the same on all boats. Probably it would have been more useful to make the first dive at 7 instead of 6 o'clock, because almost all boats had started the first dive at the same time. Overall a great week with great dives, great food and a great group on the ship.

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St.Johns tour from Port Ghalib, fantiastic liveaboard on intact very busy reefs, high comfort on board, great humorous and reliable crew, professional dive guide, unforgettable!

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Everything super great tauchSafari just 2 things have not been so good for me:
1) Too long waiting time at the port, Thursday arrived at noon and waited until Friday morning to go is and Wednesday noon already returned and until Thursday noon just stayed in port... have been for me 2 lost days.
2) Tipping history... if it is tipping then people should accept what guests give and not ruin the mood because they got too little. We gave more than enough (250 euros for 2 guests) and the guide were unhappy anyway.
If it is not tip... but mandatory then should come on the bill then everyone knows what costs!
This can really be improved!

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Unfortunately I had the cabin in the lower deck by the creaky stairs and in front of the engine room which was often quite noisy.

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It had been a very nice and relaxed diving week. And you enjoyed it twice over because of Corona. Many thanks for the perfect organization. Many greetings to Urs.

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Crew very friendly and courteous.
Thanks

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Dive sites like 20 years ago are unfortunately no longer available in the Red Sea

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It was my second time on the Blue Seas and it was absolutely great! The crew is very helpful and friendly. Every wish is read from the eyes. The dive guides give great briefings, are professional and also very friendly. The food is excellent, I am amazed what is conjured up in the small kitchen.
I can really recommend it, I would love to do it again!

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A completely successful and top organized safari! Absolutely nothing to complain about, gladly again!

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