Taba Heights – purpose built resort with views of Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia

 

Taba is a town on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. A purpose built resort nestling between mountains and the sea with 6 large hotels, diving & water sports centre and a golf course. There is also a residential complex for employees and regular visitors who own homes. There is a small promenade of shops providing local crafts in the Uptown area along with cafes and restaurants. From the beach you can see Israel to the left and Jordan and Saudi Arabia on the opposite shore of the Gulf of Aqaba.

 

Regular free shuttle buses are an easy and reliable means to move around the resort.

 

The water sports center offers full range of water sports including Scuba diving, sailing and windsurfing with or without training. The scuba diving is more macro rather than the dramatic walls and sharks seen elsewhere in the Red Sea. Smaller underwater life that is regularly seen includes sea horses, frog fish and sea moths. Whale sharks have been sighted in the summer months but this is not a regular event. Dolphins often pass through in the summer. Dive sites are quite quiet compared to other resorts.

Snorkelling off the jetty's at the hotels is good with lots of small fish to see. A large sail boat offers trips to Pharoun Island for the more adventurous snorkelers.

There are quad biking trips into the dessert just outside of Taba Heights.

Golf can be played with or without coaching at the golf course located in the centre of the resort. The course has officially been ranked in the top 100 golf courses world wide.

 

A wide range of locally produced crafts including rugs, paintings and silver. The usual Egyptian souvenirs are also available.

 

There are a set of restaurants located in the hotels. For those wishing to eat out of the hotels there are 5 restaurants in the Uptown shopping area some with fabulous views over the golf course. Prices for alcoholic drinks are comparable to those in Europe.

There is one beach bar at the diving and water sports center which is open while its guests are there which serves good resonably priced food and drinks.

 

A full range of local and imported alcoholic drinks is available.

 

Specialist nights are arranged at the hotels who have animation teams, bands and other forms of entertainment. The Uptown area has a variety of restaurants and a bar along with a shopping promenade.

There is a weekly street festival with free live entertainment in the Uptown area each Friday from March till November.