I have just returned from my annual diving holiday, this year in Hurghada.
This is my first visit to Hurghada, all my other Red Sea diving has been in Sharm el-Sheikh.
How does it compare? As a resort, Hurghada is just hotels.... Very nice hotels, but it does lacks the character and atmosphere of Sharm/Na'ama Bay. If you want a holiday in the sun with lots of sitting by the pool, then it's fine. But apart from the water sports and diving, there is not a lot to do.
The diving....... The diving is excellent!!! All the dive sites are off shore, so haven't been destroyed by land based tourists like in Sharm.
Two items of note about the diving.... First, on one dive we encountered a small school of dolphins while we were underwater. There were five altogether, including a mother and child that I managed to get a picture of. and second I did two dives with a Semi-Closed Rebreather, which is a device that recycles exhaled carbon dioxide. The advantages are much longer dive time and less/no bubbles to frighten off the wildlife.
All my pictures are in my album here.
A big thank you to Euro Divers and Sublime Diving and Tours for organising a fantastic holiday.