Sunshine Liveaboard, Egypt

Name: North - Tiran (Hurghada - Hurghada)
Start: 2026-12-05
End: 2026-12-12
Location: Egypt

8.9 Fabulous

Nitrox available
Free Internet
Free Nitrox
En-Suite bathrooms
Aircon Cabins
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
Warm Water Showers

from $ 108 / day Check dates

“The super friendly staff, diving at the SS Thistlegorm (2 dives; outside and inside), snorkling with dolpins, the beautiful reef d…”
Susanne H, Netherlands

Highlights

Budget-friendly Red Sea dive safaris
Dives at world-famous wreck sites
Nitrox included for certified divers

The Sunshine liveaboard offers fantastic budget-friendly dive safaris in the Red Sea. Catering to 20 guests, there is plenty of room for relaxation in between dives. The air-conditioned indoor salon has a bar and entertainment area and ample seating for all guests to enjoy tasty Egyptian and Western cuisine. There is also an outdoor lounge and a partially covered sun deck with loungers. Cabins are simple yet comfortable, featuring twin beds, AC, private en-suite facilities, and storage space.

Itineraries aboard the MY Sunshine explore the best Northern and Southern Red Sea dive sites. South routes cover the Brothers, Elphinstone, Daedalus Reef, and the Salem Express. Pristine diving, strong currents, and large pelagic life action make this route special. The Northern Red Sea route is the best option for wreck lovers, with dives at world-famous wrecks such as the Thistlegorm, Carnatic, Giannis D, and Dunraven. There is also a chance to dive into the colorful reefs of Shark & Yolanda. Nitrox is included for those certified, and the spacious dive deck allows ample space for kitting up and gear storage.

The experienced and professional crew is on hand for the perfect Red Sea dive safari. Book online today to reserve your space.

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24 Oct

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31 Oct

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07 Nov

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14 Nov

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21 Nov

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28 Nov

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05 Dec

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Included: VAT, Airport Transfer, Drinking Water, Soft drinks, Tea & Coffee, Welcome Cocktails, Full-Board Meal Plan (All meals), Snacks, Diving Package, Extra Dives, Nitrox, Cabin Towels, Complimentary Toiletries, Deck Towels, WiFi internet.

Required Extras: Mandatory Service Charge (€10 / day), National Park Fees (€100-200 / trip), Port Fees (€70 / trip).

Optional Extras: Private Dive Guide (€50 / day), Rental Gear.

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Boat features

Free Internet
En-Suite bathrooms
Aircon Cabins
Non-Diver (Snorkeler) Friendly
Warm Water Showers
Air Conditioned saloon
Sun Deck
Seaview Cabins
Naturalist Itineraries
Non-Smoking Rooms
Custom built for diving
Charging stations
Indoor Saloon
Audio & video entertainment
Observation Deck
Available for Charter
Local & International Crew
Outside Showers
Leisure Deck
Daily housekeeping
Bar

Food & Drinks

Fine Cuisine
Vegan Options
Vegetarian Options
Free Soft Drinks
Welcome Cocktails
Snacks All Day
Buffet style
Western Food
Local Food

If you have any specific dietary requirements whilst on-board your cruise, you can add this to your special requests on step 2 of the booking form. We advise limiting these requests to religious beliefs or food allergies.

Diving

Nitrox available
Free Nitrox
DIN Adaptors
Rinse Hoses
Dive deck
Tenders for diving
Sidemount Diving

Languages Spoken

The crew speaks English.

Gear Rental

Equipment is available for rent on this boat. Please provide your rental needs on the booking form. If the rental gear is not included in the price, you will need to pay for it on board the boat. Show prices

Cabin Types

Boat Specifications

Year built: 2005

Year renovated: 2013

Length: 31

Beam: 75

Top speed: 12 knots

Cruising speed: 10 knots

Engines: 2xMercedes 575HP

Max guests: 20

Number of cabins: 10

Number of bathrooms: 11

Tenders: 2

Water capacity: 17 tons

Fuel capacity: 14 tons

Freshwater maker: 2x 25 tons p/d

Boat navigation and safety

Radar
Depth Sounder
GPS
Radio VHF/DSC/SSB
E.P.I.R.B. Distress System
Emergency Rafts
Fire Alarm & Fire Extinguishers
Oxygen
Satellite & mobile phones
Bilge pump alarm
Search light
Engine room CCTV
Crew trained in first aid
Emergency flares

Sunshine Reviews

8.9 Fabulous

Vessel

7.6
Crew

9.3
Food

9.6
Diving

8.7
Value

9.3

8.4 Very good
Flo H
Austria

Relaxing
There were always nice places to dive
Recommended for
That the search guides are also happy about animal sightings. That the food was always good and gave a good selection. A small group.
22 Jul, 2026

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10 Exceptional
Philipp Z
Switzerland

Dive eat sleep repeat
Really nice trip, everything went smooth, good crew, always helpfull, amazing divesites
Recommended for
Dolphins. Food. Boatlife.
30 Nov, 2025

9.6 Exceptional
Marc W
Germany

Absolutely perfect Trip
The Highlight absolutely is the SS Thistlegorm. It is an amazing wreck. But all the other dives were really good. Very relaxed diving. So you can really enjoy everything. Thx to Haitham our guide. He is a great guide and very nice person.
Recommended for
SS Thistlegorm, Reef Dives, Fun
12 Oct, 2023

10 Exceptional
Mara F
Romania

Awesome first liveaboard experience
Great diving itinerary, very efficient dive organization and super friendly staff.
Recommended for
Diving and guides, food and top deck room
01 Nov, 2023

9.6 Exceptional
Mathias D
Germany

It was fantastic to be able to dive so well with friends for a week
The highlight was on the last day when a school of dolphins accompanied us under water ... It was fantastic...Thank you very much for the good organization... Gladly again
Recommended for
Steep face at Ras Mohamed... Tsilegorm... Wrecks of Abu Nuhas
05 Aug, 2022

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10 Exceptional
nakmin C
South Korea

awesome
The ship is a bit old, but other things make up for it. Also, reasonable prices and good routes cover everything.
Recommended for
Good guiding, delicious food, diving route
05 Jul, 2024

10 Exceptional
Kay G
Germany

Great Crew, well maintained boat, great diving
Diving with Dolphins and the wreck dives. Also the professionalism of the crew
Recommended for
The Crew, the dive sites and the boat.
04 Aug, 2022

10 Exceptional
Stephen W
United Kingdom

Perfect for a week diving the Red Sea
We were lucky that there were only 7 guests so we got a cabin each. The dive guides were flexible to accommodate our requests to do specific sites & also to do more dives on the Thistlegorm.
Recommended for
Crew Food Organisation
30 Dec, 2023

8.8 Fabulous
Susanne H
Netherlands

Awesome crew, great diving and good food
The super friendly staff, diving at the SS Thistlegorm (2 dives; outside and inside), snorkling with dolpins, the beautiful reef diving, the cheerful atmosphere on board and the good food.
Recommended for
Excellent crew, SS Thistlegorm and reef dives, good food
14 Nov, 2023

9.2 Superb
Riina K
Finland

Nice trip and very friendly crew
A sleeping turtle, a white tip reef shark under a table coral, a couple of beautiful drift dives with loads of soft coral
Recommended for
Dive guides, food and the friendly crew.
05 Feb, 2022

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8.9 Fabulous
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8.0 Very good
Okko I
Germany

all in all a great experience!
Nightdive at Thistlegorm - always great!
Recommended for
Food, Dives, Service-Crew
15 Jan, 2024

9.6 Exceptional
Silas E
United Kingdom

Boat was perfect for us, if you are there for the diving
Amazing boat - the staff couldn’t do enough for you and we were very well fed and looked after. As a vegetarian they took extra steps to make sure I was happy. The dive kit we hired was better quality than my stuff at home, so very happy with that. We were put into two groups, so around 6 people per guide, which we felt was comfortable. They gave us a great number of dives and really thorough briefing. For us this boat was everything we needed - you can spend more for a boat with bigger and more updated quarters, but for us it was all about the diving.
Recommended for
Effort of dive guides. Quality of the food. Quality of the equipment.
23 Sep, 2024

9.2 Superb
Eveline H
Switzerland

Beautiful dives
I enjoyed the 3 dives per day with 1 at night.
Recommended for
Crew. Guide with groups of 7 divers. Meal.
24 Sep, 2024

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10 Exceptional
Kaspar M
Austria

Amazing trip on a nice boat with an awesome crew.
The Trip was amazing. We got a lot of great dives in. The food on the boat is incredible and the crew is friendly. Can only recommend this liveaboard.
Recommended for
Crew , very nice dives and really great food
25 Mar, 2022

9.6 Exceptional
Hugo Nestor L
Spain

Magnificent, to recommend and repeat
It has been a great experience, we had traveled before with the same company and we must recognize that they have improved a lot and are currently very good at what they do. You feel at home, wherever you are from.
Recommended for
The kindness of the whole crew. The friendliness of the guides. Good vibes on board with everyone.
06 Nov, 2025

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8.0 Very good
Liz V
Netherlands

Good value for money
Really nice dives, the staf is friendly and on the boat is everything you need.
Recommended for
Nice staff.. good food.. good vibes
16 Nov, 2023

9.2 Superb
Bastien B
France

Amazing time on the Sunshine
We had amazing dives looking at the exceptionnal biodiversity of the redsea ! Between the dives, the crew took excellent care of us !
Recommended for
Quality food, excellent crew, excellent diving experience
21 Sep, 2023

9.6 Exceptional
Michael F
Germany

We will certainly repeat it.
Interesting diving areas. Professional and experienced dive guide.
Recommended for
Service. Kitchen. Dive crew.
07 Dec, 2025

9.6 Exceptional
Daniel G
Switzerland

Gladly again
It was a great experience and we were accommodating support with everything we needed.
Recommended for
Friendliness and helpfulness of the crew/dive guides. Eat. Ambience.
30 Nov, 2025

8.4 Very good
Ilona G
Belgium

Lots of great dives and the crew was great
Clearly the dives to the Thistlegorm and the night dives and being circled by tens of thousands of sardines.
Recommended for
The friendliness and dedication of the staff, the food and the dives!
04 Dec, 2022

9.2 Superb
Maria Begoña V
Spain

Good value for money
Very good relationship between the service and the price!!!Dives taken advantage of to the fullest in !!! timeOur guide very good!!!!!Fantastic crew attention To say the negative the cabins are a bit dated, but for me it has not been any inconvenience.And the boat's Wifi doesn't work well!!
Recommended for
Very good dives with a fantastic guide. The great cooks preparing gluten-free food for my two daughters who are celiac, they prepared special dishes and from the buffet they explained what they could eat.... Our group of 7 divers with our great guide Hamada!!.
26 Aug, 2025

8.8 Fabulous
Hugo F
Spain

Probably best Price/Quality in the Red Sea
Food and staff the best of the trip by far, super friendly, gentle and attentive. A small remarks on drinks, they don't have alcoholic drinks aboard like other boats do so they don't make business with this, but you are welcome to bring your own drinks for the trip. Rental equipment absolutely remarkable with almost all brand new and high-standard brand. Scuba diving platform is huge, plenty of space to equip yourself and diving procedures in general are very good. Nitrox equipment more than sufficient for this kind of trip, some dives are with air and % is not spot on as they do it manually but nothing to worry about. Cabin is probably the worst of the boat as they have 8 cabins in the lower part of the boat, beds are around 1.90m, and the toilet is pretty small with the shower being the toilet itself, but it is the best they can do with 8 cabins in the same level. Upper level cabins bigger but they only have 2 available for guests, I did not see the toilets of the upper cabins. Still, you just need to get used to it and it is not terrible at all, we need to think that we are on a boat, not on a 5-star luxury resort! The boat could maybe be a little bit more clean, but nothing terrible. Don't get scared when jumping on board as their harbor spot is next to an abandoned ship full of dogs that you need to go through to jump in the Sunshine, so first impression can be shocking but then it is even fun if you stay on the boat during the resting day. Dive spots are a little bit different than boats departing from Sharm-al-Sheik as they need to make the way back to Hurghada. The rout is quite well optimized and you can see places than Sharm-al-Sheik boats don't go as Carnatic and Giannis-D wrecks, but for me there were some dives in average spots while we could have diven in other better places arriving a little bit later back to Hurghada. But I am not an expert as well on anchoring spots, so maybe there are some other limitations that I am not aware off. Lastly, this boat is very well known in Russia and normally more than half of the divers will be russian. This is not an issue at all but just as a though, as attitude and way of being is quite different to Europeans, so don't expect much interaction with other divers as they tend to stay within their own group and English level is not great on average. All in all, I would come back to this boat always if the price stays like this. Probably even if the price would go up slightly it would still be worth it as the more expensive boats don't offer that much of a diference on quality. Thanks to Hamada, Mahmut, Captain Mahmud, Ahmed, Bibu and all the rest crew, it was an awesome week!
Recommended for
Food, guide, rental equipment.
01 Jul, 2024

9.6 Exceptional
Wolfgang R
Germany

Great safari, gladly again!
Everything is fine, special praise goes to the guide, the crew and the galley!Only the harbor place with the jetty to a completely dirty, stinking ship right next door on the first and last day I didn't like at all. Here you should definitely choose another place.
Recommended for
Great dives, especially those at the Brothers and the wrecks of the Numidia and Salem Express
14 Nov, 2023

9.2 Superb
Wagner Thales S
Brazil

Very satisfied
I traveled alone and felt very comfortable, despite being the only Brazilian on the boat.The staff was always concerned about serving us in the best possible way, the points chosen were the ones planned and when the sea got rougher they put safety first and changed the precise diving point to a protected cove until the sea calmed down, where we dived and were not harmed.Regarding the value, I am sure that the cost benefit is very advantageous and I certainly recommend taking a cruise on SUNSHINE
Recommended for
Staff, dive sites, healthy environment
29 Jun, 2024

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10 Exceptional
IRFAAN D
Mauritius

Amazing
Overall had a fun time diving and made new friends. A trip to be done again.
Recommended for
Nice and attentive crew and dive guides. Good food. Comfortable stay.
21 Sep, 2025

9.2 Superb
Eleanor S
United Kingdom

Fantastic professional run boat and crew
BED Route saw hammerheads, turtles and swam with dolphins. A lovely crew, great food and really good rental kit.
Recommended for
Food, guides and crew
12 Jun, 2023

9.6 Exceptional
Glenn H
United Kingdom

Great value
Had a great time on the sunshine MV. Fantastic value for money. Food was varied and plentiful. Boat is clean and even though it had 20 divers, it didn’t seem crowded during non diving. Would highly recommend for a cheap week diving Tiran top sites
Recommended for
Diving food staff
26 Nov, 2023

9.2 Superb
Baudouin H
France

Excellent first liveaboard experience
When a crew member took us on a speedboat to swim with dolphins. When we visited twice the Thistlegorm wreck. Our cheerful and delicious lunch and dinner times.
Recommended for
Adorable crew, amazing diving spots and cheerful atmosphere
08 May, 2023

8.0 Very good
Giancarlo S
Italy

Like being in an aquarium!
Fantastic diving north of the Red Sea, optimal weather at the end of October. Finally thanks to this cruise sn managed to swim with dolphins at the end of the dive!!
Recommended for
Diving, crew, food
11 Nov, 2023

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