TGI Diving Marsa Alam
TGI Diving Marsa Alam
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TGI Diving Marsa Alam is a 5*Dive Resort located inside the Gorgonia Beach Resort, a hotel of the highest standard positioned on a beatiful natural bay with access to a stunning housereef via a series of natural lagoons.The diving centre uses new Mares diving and snorkelling equipment, and our facilities include a large shop and reception area, equipment washing and storage facilities, toilets and showers and a classroom, equiped to guide you through your diving course using the latest audio visual training aids.The location of the resort within the Wadi Gamal National Park protected area means that we can offer a wide range of diving and snorkelling trips, our regular program includes dives from the house reef, shore dives from local bays reachable by minibus, full day trips by hardboat, special excurions also include dives within the National Park area of Wadi Gamal, trips to Elphinstone, Dolphin House (Samadi) and Dugong Bay (Marsa Abu Dababa), each dive spot has special attractions, and we have dive sites suitable for all levels of experience. During your dives with TGI Marsa Alam some of the highlights you might encounter include, Turtles, Dolphins, Sharks, Palegics as well as hundreds of species of Reef Fish and Corals.We have a full range of courses, for those who want a taste of diving we offer a FREE try dive (Discover Scuba) in the pool, from there on we have experience courses such as the PADI Discover Scuba Diving, or entry level certification courses such as PADI Scuba Diver or PADI Open Water Diver courses. For those already certified we follow the PADI system of diver education through to Divemaster level, with many PADI Specialty courses also available.For the non-Diver we have a range of snorkeling excursions, to quiet protected bays, and special trips to sites such as Sataya, Abu Ghusun, Abu Dabab (Dugong Bay) and Samadi (Dolphin House) our staff are there to help you and guide you ensuring a great experiece.With a combination of a stunning environment and professional staff and euipment you are guarenteed a wonderful encounter wether you are snorkeling, making your first dives or as an experienced diver.
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Lisa
15 contributions
Oct 2023 • Friends
TGI Diving in Marsa Alam is a good organized diving center. The rental equipment was in great shape. The stuff is very helpful and overall professional. Hosny is a great guide who does an extraordinary good job, especially for beginners. The house riff is beautiful but I can highly recommend signing up for the speed boat trips into the national park.
Four stars because online booking was annoying and didn‘t work and it was not possible to simply pay online prices on site.
As a woman I would feel more comfortable if the diving center would hire more female guides and (some) male guides would stop staring at the female customers while showering after the dives.
Four stars because online booking was annoying and didn‘t work and it was not possible to simply pay online prices on site.
As a woman I would feel more comfortable if the diving center would hire more female guides and (some) male guides would stop staring at the female customers while showering after the dives.
Written October 22, 2023
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Linda F
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May 2023 • Family
Our Boys (10 and 11 years)did the padi open water certification and succeeded thanks to Captain Ayman! ALL the staff is friendly and professional. We did the Dolphine motorboat trip twice with departure directly from the jetty. It was amazing! Would recommend to anyone who wants to feel safe underwater! We will come back!
Written May 7, 2023
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Magly A
Bruges, Belgium14 contributions
Sep 2023 • Friends
Together with some members of our diving club, we went scuba diving in the house reef. What a beautiful sight! Our guide, Hosny took us for a check dive and showed us all the beauty of the house reef. I went diving with him a couple times more and, as a beginner diver, he really made sure I was comfortable and every dive went better and better! We also took some boat trips with Shazly and Shebab, which were each time really really fun! Also Uzi took us somewhere a little bit further from the house reef, where you can just walk into the sea, where we saw a very nice ship wreck. The other instructors at the dive center are very helpful and friendly, it really feels like a warm community. We saw sea turtles, dolphins, murenes, stingrays, clownfish, rudibranch, ... it was absolutely amazing and I´d love to go there again!
Written September 18, 2023
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Martyna K
Vilnius, Lithuania2 contributions
Feb 2023 • Friends
we had a great experience with this diving center. we went for a boat trip to swim with the dolphins and to snorkel, it was a really fun time. the staff was really professional, a diving instructor Uzi was really nice to help us with all the questions and problems! big thanks to him. I recommend this diving center in this hotel, also snorkeling nearby hotel was magical. overall - great experiences and amazing, professional staff.
Written April 4, 2023
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Manon Lesquillier-Need
Rotterdam, The Netherlands2 contributions
Dec 2022
Every year we go to Gorgonia Beach Resort to escape daily life for 2 weeks and totally relax under water while diving or snorkeling and enjoying the wonders the sea has to offer. One of the reasons we go back is the TGI Diving Center, they have a great crew that is not only helpful, professional and kind - they also always give us the feeling that we are among friends.
We often dive with just the two of us in the wonderful house reef, junior staff is always helpful at the jetty to give me the princess-treatment ;) And we also go on trips: this year we were dropped off by speedboat for a super nice drift dive at the house reef. We went to Wadi Gimal with Arie and swam with dolphins which was just an extra gift after two brilliant dives. We did Elphinstone with Hosny (TGI Tulip) where we spotted 4 Longimanus sharks, dolphins, tuna, Napoleon fish and much more! Then we finalized the holiday at Marsa Figuera with Ayman who made sure I saw my crocodile fish :) All gorgeous dives with the best dive masters you can wish for!
We often dive with just the two of us in the wonderful house reef, junior staff is always helpful at the jetty to give me the princess-treatment ;) And we also go on trips: this year we were dropped off by speedboat for a super nice drift dive at the house reef. We went to Wadi Gimal with Arie and swam with dolphins which was just an extra gift after two brilliant dives. We did Elphinstone with Hosny (TGI Tulip) where we spotted 4 Longimanus sharks, dolphins, tuna, Napoleon fish and much more! Then we finalized the holiday at Marsa Figuera with Ayman who made sure I saw my crocodile fish :) All gorgeous dives with the best dive masters you can wish for!
Written December 27, 2022
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Terézia D
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Mar 2023 • Friends
We booked one trip. It was trip "swim with dolphins". I dint beliebe that we saw someting. But, we saw "heaven". A lot of dolphins swim around us. I háve beautiful videos and photos. And I wanna say big thanks to Uži and his group on the boat. They were very funny and friendly. If I Come to Egypt again, my first steps will bé to this trip. ❤❤❤❤
Written April 3, 2023
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Jarmila201607
Horovice, Czech Republic18 contributions
Jul 2017
There are lot of very nice dive spots. TGI center is big, clean,organized, but very bussy with overpressure of scuba people without the feeling of competitive. So they are not so personal approach. It is possible to prebook dive activities before your holiday and after that for each day min 2 days before...becouse they have just one Zodiac available, some bus trips and limited capacity of the big boat.
The staff - depends of the each guide/instructor. Somebody is very friendly and helpfull, somebody is not much interested.
Concerning the equipment - each day we had a problem with a air bottle - air leak due to sealing liner - everybody of our group. The most serious - two following days our son had a big problem during dive - massive air escape, first during the night dive!, he was out of the air in 5 min, next day simmilar situation in day diving...! both situations guide managed well, but seriously stress for him and for everybody in group. plus shortened dive time.
Finally, we was for one day with ORCA dive center from Hamata harbour and one day with Wadi Gimal dive center and each of its it was better experience than with TGI.
The bad thing about TGI is the extra charges for everything, you must pay extra for early morning and night dives. Unclear offer for diving packages.
The final bill for our family for one weak was really stunning :-(
It was our worst experience in Eqypt (two times before we were in Hurghada, once i El Gouna)
The staff - depends of the each guide/instructor. Somebody is very friendly and helpfull, somebody is not much interested.
Concerning the equipment - each day we had a problem with a air bottle - air leak due to sealing liner - everybody of our group. The most serious - two following days our son had a big problem during dive - massive air escape, first during the night dive!, he was out of the air in 5 min, next day simmilar situation in day diving...! both situations guide managed well, but seriously stress for him and for everybody in group. plus shortened dive time.
Finally, we was for one day with ORCA dive center from Hamata harbour and one day with Wadi Gimal dive center and each of its it was better experience than with TGI.
The bad thing about TGI is the extra charges for everything, you must pay extra for early morning and night dives. Unclear offer for diving packages.
The final bill for our family for one weak was really stunning :-(
It was our worst experience in Eqypt (two times before we were in Hurghada, once i El Gouna)
Written July 18, 2017
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Carina G
Munich, Germany1 contribution
Oct 2023 • Friends
Hosny and Hany are the best!!! Learned so much from them and always felt safe. We had some amazing dives and a lot of fun :).
Written October 20, 2023
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MichielCR
Beveren, Belgium237 contributions
Mar 2017 • Friends
Do you also want to explore the best diving sites in the world? The Red Sea in Egypt will show you the kind of beauty it has to offer.We found out that Egypt is totally safe, so don’t be scared to fly over! We’ve been here in March 2017.
We left from Amsterdam straight to Marsa Alam, just a 5hr flight. (Why paying lots of money and spending flight time to dive in the Maldives or Indonesia when you can find it all so close to Europe? We stayed at a fine, cosy looking hotel at Gorgonia beach, located at the dive center of TGI diving. (TGI is the official diving center of Gorgonia Beach Hotel).
Diving sites near Marsa Alam are famous for their dugongs, turtles and dolphins. We saw all 3!
We booked a 5-day diving excursion. We all are 1* (Cmas) and Padi open water divers, so a maximum of 20mtrs depth. We did 11 dives. All I can say is I wish we could do 11 more 😊 Below you will find a short summary of what we did and some pictures!
Shore dives:
Marsa Assalaya: Turtle, dugong (so awesome!), lion fish, stone fish, octopus, white tip reef shark, many tropical fish (like everywhere)…
Marsa Samadai: Turtles, crocodile fish, big lion fish, stone fish, clown fish, murene,
blue spotted rays, trigger fish,…
Abu Ghusun: Big shipwreck from 1967 -> very nice! You can take a phone call 😊,
very big murene and barracuda.
Gorgonia house reef: Very big corals, We saw 4 lion fish together. You need at least 4 dives to explore their house reef (4!), because it is so big. Maybe you see dolphins, turtles or dugong. Andif you are really lucky you might even see the mighty whale shark or manta ray.
Boat dives:
Shaab Malahi and Shaab Claudio: Cave dives -> thrilling and awesome. So beautiful! The sun shines through the open holes above your head. We saw a very big napoleon fish (+-1,5m), he is always there! He’s a curious fella, but no need to be scared, he won’t bite! 🙂
Dolphin house: It was wind still, so no dophins. When there’s no wind they go out on sea. But the dive was nice. Canyons and caves, lots of fish. We saw the dolphins along the shore.
About TGI diving, Marsa Alam:
The dive center is amazing and granted us some great memories. Let me give you 10 reasons for choosing TGI:
1 They are VERY professional and have lots of experience.
2 They care a lot about safety (for me it’s very important).
3 The briefing is superb! Everything was clear and they show you on a map how the dive will be.
4 The gear is qualitative and pretty new, tested well in advance.
5 The price is fair. No hidden fees, no rip-offs.
6 They have a nice house reef!
7 The diving instructor is always alert, very friendly and professional, funny also 😊
(Osama is his name, the best instructor I’ve had. Ever!)
8 You can choose between house reef, boat dives or shore dives with a bus. So lots of variation.
9 If your hotel isn’t located near the dive centre, (even more than 1hr drive), they can pick you up.
10 They have dive locations that are pretty unknown, so no broken corals.
TGI is not only operating in Marsa Alam so check out their website!
Next time I dive, I’ll dive with them again for sure! I hope that next time is tomorrow 😊
So if you’re looking for crystal clear water, breathtaking dive sites and a professional guidance, don’t hesitate and start planning!
We left from Amsterdam straight to Marsa Alam, just a 5hr flight. (Why paying lots of money and spending flight time to dive in the Maldives or Indonesia when you can find it all so close to Europe? We stayed at a fine, cosy looking hotel at Gorgonia beach, located at the dive center of TGI diving. (TGI is the official diving center of Gorgonia Beach Hotel).
Diving sites near Marsa Alam are famous for their dugongs, turtles and dolphins. We saw all 3!
We booked a 5-day diving excursion. We all are 1* (Cmas) and Padi open water divers, so a maximum of 20mtrs depth. We did 11 dives. All I can say is I wish we could do 11 more 😊 Below you will find a short summary of what we did and some pictures!
Shore dives:
Marsa Assalaya: Turtle, dugong (so awesome!), lion fish, stone fish, octopus, white tip reef shark, many tropical fish (like everywhere)…
Marsa Samadai: Turtles, crocodile fish, big lion fish, stone fish, clown fish, murene,
blue spotted rays, trigger fish,…
Abu Ghusun: Big shipwreck from 1967 -> very nice! You can take a phone call 😊,
very big murene and barracuda.
Gorgonia house reef: Very big corals, We saw 4 lion fish together. You need at least 4 dives to explore their house reef (4!), because it is so big. Maybe you see dolphins, turtles or dugong. Andif you are really lucky you might even see the mighty whale shark or manta ray.
Boat dives:
Shaab Malahi and Shaab Claudio: Cave dives -> thrilling and awesome. So beautiful! The sun shines through the open holes above your head. We saw a very big napoleon fish (+-1,5m), he is always there! He’s a curious fella, but no need to be scared, he won’t bite! 🙂
Dolphin house: It was wind still, so no dophins. When there’s no wind they go out on sea. But the dive was nice. Canyons and caves, lots of fish. We saw the dolphins along the shore.
About TGI diving, Marsa Alam:
The dive center is amazing and granted us some great memories. Let me give you 10 reasons for choosing TGI:
1 They are VERY professional and have lots of experience.
2 They care a lot about safety (for me it’s very important).
3 The briefing is superb! Everything was clear and they show you on a map how the dive will be.
4 The gear is qualitative and pretty new, tested well in advance.
5 The price is fair. No hidden fees, no rip-offs.
6 They have a nice house reef!
7 The diving instructor is always alert, very friendly and professional, funny also 😊
(Osama is his name, the best instructor I’ve had. Ever!)
8 You can choose between house reef, boat dives or shore dives with a bus. So lots of variation.
9 If your hotel isn’t located near the dive centre, (even more than 1hr drive), they can pick you up.
10 They have dive locations that are pretty unknown, so no broken corals.
TGI is not only operating in Marsa Alam so check out their website!
Next time I dive, I’ll dive with them again for sure! I hope that next time is tomorrow 😊
So if you’re looking for crystal clear water, breathtaking dive sites and a professional guidance, don’t hesitate and start planning!
Written August 1, 2017
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
koen c
Londerzeel, Belgium6 contributions
Nov 2013 • Family
We stayed at gorgonia hotel in November 2013.good hotel. Very service minded staff in the dive center. Nice unspoiled housereef and some interesting dive spots in the neighbourhood. Far away from mass tourism for now.Our kids went windsurfing in the next bay while we were diving. we booked again for 2014!
Written July 14, 2014
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Thanks for your review, we are pleased you enjoyed your experience with our team!
Written June 20, 2015
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franca b
Pordenone, Italy244 contributions
Senza fare escursioni nel mare del gorgonia si può fare snorkeling e vedere pesci ed altro?
Piznita
Marsa Alam, Egypt37 contributions
Ciao francabr59,
Perdona ma non abbiamo del tutto capito la domanda. L’Hotel ha un pontile per l’accesso al mare e da lì si può fare snorkeling, altrimenti il nostro centro diving organizza escursioni da riva, con gommone o in barca. Le possibilità di fare snorkeling sono tantissime, così come le possibilità di incontrare creature meravigliose: delfini, tartarughe, murene e il famoso dugongo aspettano nelle calde acque del Mar Rosso!
A presto!!
Gazzaraguido
Asti, Italy7 contributions
prezzo pacchetti immersioni
Piznita
Marsa Alam, Egypt37 contributions
tutto disponibile sul nostro sito internet o mandando una email a infoattgidivingcom
a presto!
Gazzaraguido
Asti, Italy7 contributions
vorrei sapere i prezzi dei pacchetti immersione perchè saro da voi il 23/5 x una settimana al Gorgonia,sono in possesso di brevetto aiuto istruttore con 25 anni di esperienza ancora in attività presso il Centro Gamma Sub di Asti,aspetto risposta .....ciao.
Piznita
Marsa Alam, Egypt37 contributions
Buongiorno Guido,
tutti i prezzi sono disponibili sul nostro sito tgidiving alla sezione Marsa Alam.
A presto!!
Terry K
Nosara, Costa Rica27 contributions
are you located in or near hotel Labranda Gemma ? and if so do you have package deals for guest at the hotel ? and do you offer free nitrox .thanks
Piznita
Marsa Alam, Egypt37 contributions
Hallo Terry, we are around 20km (25min transfer) south Hotel Gemma Labranda ans we can arrange transfer to/from our base without problems. Nitrox is free with prepaid booking. You can have a look at our website for the packages offer or write and email to our booking office at our info email address. Looking forward seeing you!
SondrioRaffaella71
Sondrio, Italy47 contributions
Ciao, sarò li dal 10 al 17 marzo, può bastare la muta 3mm o ci vuole la 5? ne va del peso in valigia considerando che ho la mia attrezzatura, avete inoltre attacchi DIN? monoattacco? Pensavo di prenotare dal sito...consigli??
Grazie e a presto! Raffaella
Piznita
Marsa Alam, Egypt37 contributions
Buongiorno Raffaella,
inizio marzo l’acqua non è ancora molto calda. Noi utilizziamo le 5mm, però è ovviamente soggettivo. Alcuni subacquei usano addirittura la 7mm.
Sa hai un problema di peso col bagaglio e preferisci la 3, puoi provare ed eventualmente se non bastasse, puoi noleggiare da noi una shorty da mettere sopra.
Le nostre bombole sono 12lt monoattacco DIN (con possibilità di adattatore INT) sia aria che nitrox.
Sul nostro sito trovi differenti pacchetti di immersione, a seconda delle tue preferenze: basic 6/10/14 immersioni o special che includono diverse uscite. Puoi mandare una mail al nostro info e avere maggiori dettagli.
A presto!
Anita
Daniela D
San Vittore Olona, Italy2 contributions
Buongiorno
Arriverò sabato 13/1 al Gorgonia per una vacanza di una settimana tutto mare e snorkeling . Potrei sapere come sono le temperature fuori e dentro l’acqua? È necessario usare un mutino?
Potreste inoltre anticiparmi ( solo elencarmi )le mete delle escursioni che fate in mare? Grazie
Daniela Dell'Acqua
Piznita
Marsa Alam, Egypt37 contributions
Buongiorno Daniela, abbiamo già risposto alla sua domanda sulla nostra pagina Facebook. :)
In ogni caso, le confermo che le temperature invernali variano molto a seconda del vento. Ci sono giorni caldi con temperature di 24/27 gradi e giorni con vento forte, dove arriviamo a 16/20. L’acqua è tra i 25/24 gradi. Per fare snorkeling consigliamo almeno una muta corta 2,8/3mm, che nel caso abbiamo anche a noleggio giornaliero a 5 euro al giorno.
Le uscite in programma settimanale sono
- Marsa Egla (turtle bay)
- Sataya Dolphin Reef
- Hamata Islands
- Sharm El Loly
- Sh’aab Samadai Dolphin House
- Marsa Hermes (Dugong Bay)
- Abu Ghusun (Hamada Wreck).
Ci sono anche altre uscite a seconda delle condizioni meteo-marine. In ogni caso consigliamo di andare al diving e chiedere ai ragazzi che potrabbo orientare a seconda delle preferenze. Alessandro, Koki e Nino che potranno aiutarti nella scelta!
A presto!
MarioMario59
Soliera, Italy17 contributions
fine ottobre 1/2 muta o muta intera? ovviamente 3 mm
Seba A
34 contributions
Ciao io sono stato a inizio settembre e l'acqua era veramente calda oltre ogni mia previsione....temo che fine ottobre sia appena più fredda...ma una 5mm comoda secondo me non guasta....buone immersioni
Jhannes U
Miesbach, Germany71 contributions
Hallo, ab wieviele Tauchgänge darf man bei euch ohne Guide tauchen gehen?
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