Almost everything in Hurghada is sold in English, and for most guests that is fine. It stops being fine at exactly two moments: a safety briefing you have to understand the first time, and a question you want to ask about your own body before you put a regulator in your mouth. This page lists, operator by operator, what language the person in front of you actually works in.
Which operators work in more than English?
| Operator | Languages published | What we book there |
|---|---|---|
| Diving Star | EN, DE, RU, PL, FR, ES, AR | day diving, try dive, PADI Open Water |
| Gagoblue Tauchschule | DE, EN | try dive, day diving, PADI Open Water |
| Bullet Speedboats | EN, RU, DE, AR | dolphin spotting, Orange Bay |
| Serenity Speedboat | guide in EN or DE | Dolphin House, Orange Bay |
| Dive Academy Red Sea | EN; German and English price pages | intro dive |
| Scuba Hurghada, Funnydivers, Scubadore, Egyptboats, High Surf, Paradise Kitesurf, Kite School Egypt | EN | diving, charters, kite and wing |
As published by the operators, 3 September 2026.
Diving in German
Gagoblue is the German-speaking dive school on this list, and it says so on the programme rather than in the small print.
Three of its programmes are listed here: a Schnuppertauchen of two boat dives at €50 with all equipment, lunch, drinks and the Hurghada transfer; a day of two boat dives at €50 with a 12-litre tank; and a PADI Open Water course at €325 over four days with everything but a €5 daily reserve tax inside.
The extras are named up front and there are four of them: €5 a day of nature-reserve tax, €5 a day for a dive computer, €5 per 15-litre tank, and €10 for a transfer from El Gouna, Soma Bay, Makadi, Safaga or Sahl Hasheesh.
Dive Academy Red Sea is a second German-friendly option in a narrower sense: the operator maintains German and English price pages at the same prices, and its intro dive is €48 with guide, tank, weights, lunch, drinks and equipment. The working language it publishes, though, is English — which is a distinction worth making before you book on the strength of a German web page.
Diving in Russian
Diving Star is the broadest of the six dive centres compared here: seven working languages, including Russian, with the staff named on the operator’s own team page. That covers the €45 try dive, the €50 day of two dives and the €360 PADI Open Water course with E‑Learning and certification fees included. On the boats, Bullet Speedboats states English, Russian, German and Arabic in its own FAQ, which makes it the one boat operator here that answers a Russian question without a phone.
What about Spanish and French?
Diving Star lists both among its seven. No other operator we work with in Hurghada publishes either. If Spanish or French on the boat matters to your booking, that narrows the choice to one centre, and we would rather say so than let you find out at the briefing.
A German price page is not the same as a German instructor. Dive Academy Red Sea publishes both pages but lists English as its working language.
Does the language change the price?
No. Gagoblue’s €50 day is the same €50 as Diving Star’s, and Dive Academy Red Sea keeps its German and English pages at identical prices. What language buys you is not a discount — it is a briefing you follow the first time.
What should you ask before you book?
Three questions, and we will put all three to the operator in writing: which language the instructor on your specific day works in; whether the medical questionnaire exists in that language; and, for a child, what the minimum age is — only Diving Star publishes one, at 10 years with a 7-metre depth cap.
Updated 3 September 2026. Prices, durations, age limits and inclusions are taken from the operators’ cards.
