El Mamsha Promenade
El Mamsha is a 4 km pedestrian promenade between the big resorts, with shops, bars and the Hurghada Grand Aquarium nearby.
Hurghada International Airport (HRG) is the main gateway to Egypt's Red Sea Riviera, with direct flights from most of Europe. Arrivals exit into a single hall where your driver waits with a name sign.
El Mamsha is a 4 km pedestrian promenade between the big resorts, with shops, bars and the Hurghada Grand Aquarium nearby.
Village Road is Hurghada's main resort strip, home to most of the large all-inclusive hotels and only minutes from the airport.
Sheraton Road runs south from Sakkala with mid-range beach hotels, apartments and plenty of restaurants.
Sakkala is Hurghada's busy centre for shopping, nightlife and city hotels, a short walk from the marina.
The marina is where most boat trips and diving excursions leave from, lined with cafés and boutique hotels.
El Dahar is Hurghada's old town, with the souk, mosques and local restaurants. Streets are narrow, so the driver may meet you at the nearest main road.
The Arabia area north of the centre has family resorts with long sandy beaches and quick access to downtown.
Al Ahyaa is a quieter residential area in north Hurghada with long-stay apartments and the road towards El Gouna.
Sahl Hasheesh is an upscale bay 20 km south of the airport with luxury resorts and the sunken city snorkel site.
Makadi Bay is a calm, family-friendly bay of all-inclusive resorts with house reefs right off the beach.
Madinat Makadi is the newer town next to Makadi Bay, with a golf course, apartments and newer resorts.
El Gouna is a car-free lagoon town 25 km north of Hurghada, known for kitesurfing, its marina and a lively Downtown.
Soma Bay is a private peninsula with five-star resorts, a championship golf course and steady wind for kitesurfing.
Safaga is a port town known for windsurfing and quiet diving resorts, and the junction for the road to Luxor.
El Quseir is one of the oldest towns on the Red Sea, with an Ottoman fort and relaxed reef resorts north and south of town.
Port Ghalib is a marina resort town just 5 minutes from Marsa Alam Airport, base for liveaboards to the southern reefs.
Luxor's Corniche hotels face the Nile and the West Bank, walking distance from Luxor and Karnak temples.
Abu Dabbab bay is famous for snorkelling with green turtles and, if you are lucky, the resident dugong.
Marsa Alam town sits in the middle of a long coast of eco-lodges and dive resorts, gateway to Elphinstone and Wadi El Gemal.
Ain Sokhna is the closest Red Sea beach to Cairo, with resorts along the Galala mountain coast.
Hamata and Wadi Lahami are the remote deep south, with mangroves, kitesurfing lagoons and boats to the Qulan islands.
Downtown Cairo and the Nile Corniche hotels are close to the Egyptian Museum and Tahrir Square.
Hotels around the Giza plateau look over the Pyramids and are near the Grand Egyptian Museum.