Our villa is very popular with groups and families—who usually book the entire villa (i.e., the first floor, upper floor, and pool bungalow)<br><br>It’s also very popular with divers (scuba divers, freedivers, and snorkelers)—since the dive sites are practically right on our doorstep—as well as with kitesurfers and windsurfers—due to its proximity to the lagoon and BabyBay<br><br>You have the following options:<br>1) Entire villa exclusively for up to 12 people<br>2) First floor of the villa for up to 4 people<br>3) Upper floor of the villa for up to 4 people<br>4) Pool bungalow for up to 4 people<br><br>You can now rent the upper-floor villa right here in this listing (3)<br><br>Size: 80.0 m², 3 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom<br><br>Beds: 2 single beds, 1 double bed<br><br>Amenities<br>Towels and linens<br>TV<br>Heating<br>Internet<br>Hair dryer<br>Washing machine<br>Free on-site parking<br>Clothes hangers<br>Toilet paper and soap<br>Air conditioning<br>Kitchen<br>Wi-Fi<br>Hot tub<br>Pool<br>Terrace<br>Non-smoking accommodation<br><br>Neighborhood<br>Just 250 meters from the Red Sea - right behind the National Bank of Egypt - making it a very quiet and safe area - the closest vacation rental to the lagoon<br><br>Transportation<br>We’d be happy to arrange an affordable taxi for you<br><br>The history of the Surfers Lounge Dahab<br><br><br>I first came to Dahab in 1999 —by “chance”—my father and I had done some carpentry work on an apartment in Kitzbühel for an Israeli—he said that as a thank-you for the great work, he’d like to take us on a tour of Israel—no sooner said than done. We mentioned that we’d love to go #windsurfing—to which he replied that we absolutely had to meet a crazy surfer who knew the spots—(thanks, Marlene Gal, for your husband bringing us to Dahab)—and he said Dahab was perfect for that.<br><br>And to be honest, when I looked from the #Israel border toward Egypt over 20 years ago, I had a queasy feeling… Does this really have to happen now? Okay—a 3-hour drive from the Israeli border to #Dahab—we arrived at what was then the Hilton Hotel. It was truly fantastic—the location, the surfing conditions—really, everything. At the time, I was a total hotel guest—meaning I wouldn’t leave the hotel under any circumstances—it might be dangerous, after all… But eventually I got curious, and at some point I enjoyed it so much outside the hotel—among the locals in the camps—that I couldn’t imagine going back to the hotel.<br><br>The “challenge” for me back then was the hygiene and the lack of air conditioning in the camps… That’s when I had the idea—it would be great if there were clean rooms with air conditioning at reasonable prices. A Hilton room back then, I think around 100 euros for two people, was too expensive for me—and the camps, at 2–5 euros, were too dirty… That’s when the idea of a place to stay was first born.<br><br>That “event” didn’t happen until years later—I’d looked at about 45 plots of land—but they were either in a bad location, not very safe, etc. Then in 2005, I had a windsurfing accident—the trapeze strap snapped. —which means—you “hold” the sail largely with your body—due to the material failure—the shock suddenly hit my hands and I dislocated my shoulder —that is, my shoulder was dislocated—about halfway to Saudi Arabia—which meant I had to release the sail and let it drift away, then swim to shore for hours with just one hand... ... I thought many times that I wouldn’t survive—and if I did, wow... Somehow, thanks to the current, I was eventually “washed” ashore. A local was then able to pop my shoulder back
