Hurghada prices 2026: what each format costs and what you pay on the spot

Almost every Hurghada price you will see quoted is honest and incomplete at the same time. The number on the operator’s page is real; what it does not always say is which of the four standing surcharges of the Red Sea — the marine park fee, equipment rental, the island ticket and the out-of-town transfer — is still waiting for you. This page puts the headline prices and the surcharges in the same table.

What do the main formats cost in 2026?

What do you pay for on the spot?

Four things, and each of them has a published number.

The marine park fee — €5 per person per day

Egypt charges it to everyone who goes out on a Red Sea boat. Scuba Hurghada names it as an extra, and so do all three Gagoblue programmes, where it appears as a nature-reserve tax paid to the government. Two centres have already settled it for you: Funnydivers says every price includes the marine park fee, and Diving Star lists national park fees among the inclusions. On a three-day diving holiday that is €15 a head — small, but it is cash, and nobody reminds you at the desk.

Equipment rental — €15 to €20 a day

€15 a day at Scuba Hurghada and Funnydivers, €20 a day at Diving Star. Two ways to avoid it: book Scubadore, where wetsuit, BCD, regulator, mask and fins are in the €50 at no extra cost, or book a try dive or a course, where kit is part of the programme everywhere.

Island entry — €10 per adult, €5 per child

This is the Egyptboats line, on both the speedboat and the yacht. On the two Orange Bay boat tours the ticket is already inside the price instead, which is exactly why a €100 half day is not simply a cheaper boat than the others.

Transfer from outside Hurghada — €10 to €25

Five of the six dive centres here drive you free of charge from a hotel inside Hurghada, and all five charge for El Gouna, Sahl Hasheesh, Makadi Bay and Safaga: €10 a day at Gagoblue, €15 at Dive Academy Red Sea, €20 a day at Funnydivers, €25 per car at Diving Star.

Scubadore quotes those transfers on request. Scuba Hurghada does not publish a transfer at all. No transfer is listed in the price at any of the three kite schools, and two of them sit 20 to 30 kilometres north of the centre.

Which prices are per person and which are per boat?

Read the unit before the number. All four boat tours and both charters are per boat: €100 to €540 buys the hull, and two guests pay what eight or fourteen pay. All the kite and wing lessons are per person — the wing foil table even spells it out, ‘the price is per person only’.

Diving splits: Scuba Hurghada, Funnydivers and Scubadore print ‘per person’, while Diving Star, Dive Academy Red Sea and Gagoblue publish a day row without marking a unit. We reproduce that gap rather than filling it with a guess, and we confirm it for your group before you pay.

Where does the money actually go furthest?

On a full boat. ‘Thunder VIP’ at €240 for four hours is €30 a head with eight aboard and €60 with four. ‘Mirage Pool’ at €540 is €38.57 each with fourteen and €54 with ten.

In diving the arithmetic runs the other way: the €40 day becomes €60 once you add the €5 park fee and €15 of kit, which puts it above the €50 day at Scubadore, where the equipment is already inside (that card does not say anything about the park fee — we confirm it at booking). The cheapest headline in Hurghada is rarely the cheapest day.

Are these prices fixed for 2026?

They are the operators’ own published figures as of 3 September 2026, and we quote them with the unit and the wording the operator used. Where a page leaves something unclear — an unmarked unit, an unlisted inclusion, an equipment rental ‘to be confirmed’ — we say so on the card instead of smoothing it over, and we get the answer in writing before your booking is taken.

Updated 3 September 2026. Prices, durations, age limits and inclusions are taken from the operators’ cards.