WELCOME TO THE BOARD OF YACHT M/V "GELEN"!
Command of a yacht and experts of our company will try to make your rest maximum comfortable, and your unforgettable underwater adventures, maximum safe. Please, read the instructions with the helpful information on your travel.
CUSTOM.
It is possible to import Into Egypt 1l alcoholic drinks and 2 l beer, 200 piece of cigarettes or 50 cigars. Videocameras, values, it is necessary to specify jewels, the electronic equipment in the declaration. Import of drugs, the medicines containing the big doze of narcotic substances and the weapon is forbidden. Import of any currency to Egypt free to take out no more than 5000 $ on the person. Export from Egypt national Egyptian currency, subjects of olden time, corals and other sea flora and fauna (even picked up on coast) is forbidden. In case of infringement of the given interdiction you will be fined. At departure it is possible to change egyptian pounds for dollars, having showed exchange receipts.
TRANSFER, our REPRESENTATIVES AND GUIDES.
On arrival our guide with the tablet " M/V GELEN" will distribute immigration cards and stamps - visas. After passport and customs formalities, having received the luggage, you are accompanied by the transfer representative to the bus. A transfer on a yacht which waits for you in port of hotel " Intercontinental " no more than 15-20 minutes. If the route of your safari lays on the south of Red sea, the comfortable bus will deliver you in Marsa Galib for 4-5 hours, on the distant south the yacht leaves port Hamata, the transfer borrows {occupies} about 6-7 hours. During a transfer the bus stops at cafe where it is possible to get drinks and to have a snack.
ACCOMMODATION ON the YACHT.
After arrival on a yacht, crew will help you to ship your luggage and will invite you in cabins the company to a salutatory drink. Please, hear the information on a yacht which will be told to you by our dive-guide . After that you can occupy the cabin. Having placed personal things in cabins, we ask you to collect your aqualung, checked its worker. You can combine all necessary accessories and fine things in your personal box under a seat where your aqualung fastens. We strongly recommend to check up your equipment at once after the arrival on a yacht as at what finding-out or technical malfunctions the help of the coastal service - center can be necessary. Because if your spare parts for diving will be absence it can make diving impossible. If you have not enough equipment or a part of equipment, for example torch, immediately inform our guides, and they would take it for you in rent. At full readiness of passengers for the beginning of a safari and at good weather, the captain makes a decision about time of an output in the high sea.
ATTENTION of PASSENGERS of the YACHT!
During a safari we ask you to follow several simple rules which will make your travel pleasant and safe.
1. Having arrived on a yacht, you remove footwear and go barefoot. The wooden covering of a deck and a parquet in cabins will not deliver to you any inconveniences.
2. During transitions on sea, it is especial during excitement, moving on a yacht keep for hand-rail and do not hurry up in order to prevent falling and traumas. Rising on a gangway on a solar deck, always turn to it the person and keep for hand-rail.
3. Categorically it is impossible to smoke in cabins and wardrooms! Smoking is authorized only on a solar deck, in a zone where there are ashtrays. Please, do not throw stubs and any other dust in the sea!
4. Do not throw a toilet paper and any other dust in a toilet bowl! It can lead to to a contamination of all waste system of a yacht that can seriously break its job and make the further travel impossible before elimination of a malfunction.
5. Yacht shares on wet and dry zones. A wet zone it divedeck, located on a forage and all main decks. It is not authorized to come in wet suit or a bathing suit into a dry zone of a yacht (wardroom). Take a towel and a double dressing gown from your cabin, hang up on a hook with number of a cabin on divedeck to be wiped off after immersing.
MEAL.
On a yacht three meals a day, on system all inclusive will be offered to you. Exception is made with fresh juices and alcohol in a bar. Tea, coffee, soft drinks and mineral water without restrictions. In the morning the buffet and service of the waiter at dinner and will be offered to you a supper. We recommend to drink more than mineral water.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEISURE.
For your entertainment on a yacht there is a home cinema with DOLBY DIGITAL system and the plasma panel 40 inches. LCD the TV of 40 inches at restaurant. The big film library of domestic and foreign films. Three players DVD, MP3 and CD of disks, and as system karaoke. As there are board games - chess, blackgammon.
INSURANCE AND HEALTH SERVICES.
We recommend you to consult at your attending physician on questions of risk for health, before travel. The medical expense insurance is switched on in cost of trip (not diving) on a case of illness, and also insurance upon accident for all period of your stay. Familiarize with rules of granting of medical aid and services of the insurance company, specified in your insurance policy. At approach of an insurance case it is necessary to call by phone in Egypt, specified directly on an insurance policy. Risks connected with diving become covered by the special insurance
LAST DAY ON IN HOTEL. One day prior to a start it will be offered to you of one or two morning immersings so that time before flight has made not less than 12 hours of reasons of your safety. Usually we offer extreme night on a yacht, but at will we can reserve for you hotel. A checkout time in hotels at 12:00 local time. In day of arrival moving in rooms is carried out after 14:00. Distribution of rooms is a prerogative of administration of hotel. The term « a kind on the sea » are meant as rooms inverted to sea. However they at all unessentially guarantee an open spatial kind on the sea. It is recommended to hand over a room key on the rack of registration of hotel, in case of its loss inform administration. Jewelry, money, documents we recommend to keep in the safe which is in room or on the reception. In day of departure by 12:00 it is necessary to exempt room and to pay additional services: telephone conversations, a minibar, the order of a meal and drinks in room, massage and other additional services. You can leave the luggage in a left-luggage office of hotel and remain in territory of hotel before arrival of the bus or the machine. If you have not handed over room till 12:00, cost of a room is paid completely for the next day.
USEFUL ADVICE.
Before the beginning of travel, make a photocopy from your passport and the other documents certifying your person (a driving licence, etc.), and air tickets, and store{keep} them separately from originals. In case of loss of documents at you will arise less problems, first of all with tickets. In case of loss of the passport, the air ticket or luggage, we ask you to inform on it our representative immediately.
Hurghada (an area code 065):
Tourist police 446-765;
Police administration 446-359;
Hospital 446-740;
Airport 442-831.
TIME.
Lags behind from Moscow at one o'clock in the winter and 2 hours in the summer.
ELECTRICITY.
Voltage on a yacht 220 В., a current variable. European plugs.
MONEY.
Monetary unit of Egypt - egyptian pound (L.E.). Money it is better to import in the American dollars or euro, they are accepted almost everywhere. It is desirable to have a quantity of fine denominations. It is meaningful to exchange the small sum for pounds since much in Egypt costs less dollar (a fare by the bus, a bottle of water, a paid toilet). To change money it is possible in bank, the airport, and also in exchange offices of hotels. Banks work from 10:00 till and from 18:00 till, the days off - Saturday, Sunday, in some banks and on Friday.
SHOPS.
Shops usually work from 9.00 till with a break for a dinner from 12.00 till, and during a tourist season many shops are open till the late night. In a resort zone the majority of shops have no fixed prices, therefore it is accepted to bargain. The network of duty free shops DUTY FREE is widely advanced in Egypt. Alcoholic drinks can be got only in these shops. At purchase it is necessary to be put a mark in the passport of the buyer.
TRANSPORT.
The most convenient and at the same time inexpensive type of transport is a taxi. It is better to agree upon the price with the driver beforehand. Up to the central part of a resort from hotels mini-basses or buses under the schedule (in some hotels free-of-charge) ply. In cities - city buses which are quite often overflown.
PHONE.
All kinds of telecommunication in Egypt paid. To call abroad: a country code, an area code and a phone number. You can use both phone of hotel, and phones - automatic devices. In some hotels the minimal payment for conversation - 3 minutes. Most cheaply to call on a telephone map from the street payphone. Telephone plastic cards are sold on mail and in markets.
TIPS.
In Egypt it is accepted to give the tip (bacshish) for fine services. At good service it is possible to add 5-10 % from the sum of the bill. It is considered, that encouragement drivers of buses, porters, chambermaids in hotel deserve, guides if the client has remained it is pleased with service. It is accepted to leave the tip to the command of the ship after a safari at a rate of 50 dollars from the person, please, pass the tip to the leader of your group at the end of a safari.
FIRST-AID SET.
On a yacht there is a first-aid set, but that who accepts medicines, recommend to take necessarily them with itself. Generate the first-aid set of first aid which will help you at easy indispositions, it will save time for searches of medical products and will relieve of problems of dialogue in foreign language. Besides many medicines have abroad other names. It is desirable to have sunglasses and creams for care of a skin with a high degree of protection. Do not neglect headgears, being long time for the sun.
SAFETY.
Be attentive and vigilant during travel as the tourist centers in all countries draw attention of swindlers and pickpockets. Money and documents keep so that they did not become their extraction. Stations, gasoline stations, the markets concern to number of places of the raised danger. Be careful and do not leave a thing without the or the authorized representative of supervision, it is especial in public transport and at a transfer. Abandoning the bus at stops, including during excursions, do not leave in him the hand luggage, especially valuable things and money. The responsibility for safety of hand luggage, lays on the passenger.
LOCAL CUSTOMS.
As the visitor you should respect and show tolerance to customs of the country to which arrived. In the tourist countries customs and orders often others, than at you at home, people there live in the other rhythm and conduct other lifestyle. In many countries the religion has the large value. Before visiting temples or mosques find out rules existing on this bill. You can receive the corresponding information from the guide, and also in guidebooks on the country.
WE WISH PLEASANT REST AND UNFORGETTABLE IMPRESSIONS!