Hi

Hopefully off to Hurghada kitesurfing early in the new year (some crackin deals around £300 4*AI). Does anyone have any advice IE: best areas to kite, what range of kites to take and where best to chill.

There's lots going on just behind the 'jasmine hotel' - which is about 5 mins away from the airport. There's a windsurfing beach and kite beach from which the tommy freidle pro centre operate - open to everyone though. I used to store all my kit at tommy freidles even though I wasn't staying there - they were really helpfull.

not sure about kite sizes though.

magawish hotel is the best spot about 30mins from the airport, theres a lagoon at one end its a bit sheltered but if you can kite out theres a sandy ..reef about 1 kilometere out were its knee deep, there a kite centre there and they'll fetch you in a rib if you get into trouble, the only problem i found was that the big hotels formed a wind shadow which made getting back to the same point a pain but i ended up walking.

watch out for some of the coral its very sharp, take a day snorkling to paradise island its a good boat trip and fantastic day out. look up magawish on goggle and you'll find it..watch the taxi drivers they'll rip you off

, saying that though 3 cans of coke plus two 2litres of bottled water haggled for 10p!!

its a very dry heat so take plenty of fluids going again myself in feb ..moon beach awesome

When I went to egypt I found a camel pack hydration system was brilliant when sailing as no need to come back to shore to get a drink.
Moon beach, awesome place hope to go back there one day


befs

Colin

Cheers for all the advice, will have to see about the kites. See you at the beach soon.

Cheers

[Edited on 14-12-2004 by Kitefish]