Marsa Nakari Village

Amazing place with an even great staff. // Place Is secluded from all the scams and noise from bigger cities. You quickly feel welcome and the pure contrast to the people you met at the airport. Has some very beautiful house reefs as well as curated exhibitions off-site where you can both go snorkeling and diving. Great for experiencing the underwater life in your own tempo and pleasantry. The chalet we lived in was a very nice place to call home for our week-long stay and there was not far between dive shade, cafe area, restaurant and living areas // Staff Makes your experience feel very personalized. They remember you, will share laughs and language lingo and make sure that you have everything you need. This also goes for the diving instructors, who makes sure you feel safe, which ables you to explore and take in the beautiful coral reefs. Special shout-out to Ahmed, who tought us our PADI course in a fun and learning way and remained a patient and firm hand throughout the experience - also as a general diving instructor once we were finished with the course. Disclaimer - the place is very laid back and figures situations out as they come, with a day to day mindset. So if you need everything organized and pin-point planned, you might have a different experience

After many times in Marsa Shagra we decided to try Nakari. Good choice. Only enthusiastic divers and snorkelers were there in this quiet season (first half of December). Great crowd to lunch and dine with, in the restaurant that is as good as in Shagra. Same with the diving shop and instructors: great! Friends after a week, never not in for a good plan, excellent instructions and supervision. The house reef is beyond anything seen before, and so are the dive sites. This is the truth! We stayed in a Luxury Chalet. No Aircon is needed in December and totally quiet at night. Marsa Nakari is far from anywhere, and there are no day guests, just your buddies to dive with. The equipment is fine, and the bottles are full. Marsa Nakari is totally recommended. And we plan to come back!

Holy moly, it was such a good experience, first of all the people working here were very nice and helpful. The diving experience was amazing and the equipment just as good. The food was so great, I have not eaten that much food in a long time. Over all a really fun and joyful experience.

If you like to dive or snorkel and you want to escape the horrors of places like Hurghada or so called luxury resorts, you have to go to Marsa Nakari. It is one of the 3 eco resorts from Red Sea Diving Safari. It is a beautiful laid back place, it has in front a great house reef, and in the back the desert mountains. We slept in a tent which was really nice, but you can also choose for a room. The staff is great, from the housekeepers to the dive instructors. It looks like they all get along very well, and they really try to make your stay as good as possible. They are very concerned with the environment and the health of the reefs, and offer you very nice trips close to Marsa Nakari. And on top of that all, the food is great! We had a wonderful time. Henk and Elisabeth

Unfortunately our Trip to Marsa Nakari Village was not the best experience. The Staff was nice, the accommodation was OK and the food was good. Some other things where quite annoying: For example the many construction sites or the lack of adequate English of the staff, who often know only the most common English phrases and can’t help with problems. The Diving Equipment seemed worn in many cases: for example I could not get a diving jacked without holes in their pockets (I tried three!), so I always feared to loose my two additional lead weights. Another thing is the advertising of “eco diving”, “environmental activism” and “sustainable tourism”, which may be true to a certain point compared to other companies of the region. But when you here the sound of the giant diesel generators for producing energy, see the amount of water that is used to water all the ornamental plants and observe the ongoing structural growth of the villages with their increasing buildings, you cannot deny that this is the opposite of “sustainable”. The environmental Impact of RSDS is not contemporary for the 21.th century any more and you should do better. But the main point of a trip like this is the house-reef-diving and here Nakari has a major problem: The house reef is not healthy. More than 60% of the corals are dying or already dead, there is heavy sedimentation, brown algae and cyano bacteria everywhere. Because of the ecological problems many of the fishes and other non-sessile animals are gone and the reef seems barren and empty. Questioned about this the staff told me that there has ben a catastrophic flood some months before, which explains at least the sedimentation and the very bad sight. Of course I cannot blame Nakari for such an event caused by nature. But what I CAN blame is the lack of honest communication: Everybody there knows about the bad condition of the house reef… expect the clueless diving tourists when they arrive. We where forced to book tours every day and we compensated our frustration by making day tours to Marsa Shagra. The house reef of Shagra is healthy, beautiful and exactly what you want, if you are searching for convenient shore-to-shore diving in healthy nature. Of course these tours raised our costs and what I find especially frustrating is, that Marsa Shagra village belongs to the same company, so one would think, they can make better arrangements. In my opinion Red Sea Diving Safari should have been more honest in communication. They should have hinted to the bad condition of their house reef beforehand and should have offered some kind of compensation: For example free trips to better diving locations, which are sometimes only minutes away. Or they honestly should have recommended Marsa Shagra or Wadi Lahami which, as I said, belong to the same company.

"If you're looking for an unforgettable diving experience, look no further than Marsa Nakari Village. With its helpful staff, pristine cleanliness, exceptional service, and breathtaking natural surroundings, this resort embodies hospitality and warmth. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who loves diving. The accommodations are not only beautiful but also cozy, making it the perfect retreat after a day of underwater exploration." See you next year - can't wait "Teacher Line"