VIP Private Advanced Open Water Course — 1-on-1
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course in Hurghada
The PADI Advanced Open Water course as a fully private experience: five adventure dives with your own dedicated instructor and nobody else in the group — perfect for nervous divers, couples, or anyone who wants the fastest possible progress.
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The Advanced Open Water course is five adventure dives over two days — and in this VIP format, every one of them is a private dive with your own dedicated instructor. No group to pace against, no queueing to attempt a skill, no compromises on which adventure dives get chosen: the course is built entirely around you.
Two dives are the fixed backbone of the certification. The deep adventure dive extends your world below 18 metres for the first time — to a maximum of 30 — while your instructor demonstrates how depth changes air use, colour and judgement. The navigation dive turns the compass from an ornament into a tool, with reciprocal runs and pattern swims until finding your way back feels automatic. The remaining three dives are yours to choose, one-on-one with your instructor's advice: wreck diving on the local minesweeper, drift diving along marine-park walls, peak performance buoyancy, night diving, fish identification, underwater photography and more.
Private teaching means honest, immediate feedback and rapid progress — most divers advance more in these two days than in a season of guided holiday dives. The prerequisite is an Open Water certification (any recognised agency) and a minimum age of 12. On request the private course can include your partner, family or friends while staying closed to outsiders. Equipment, PADI materials, the certification fee, lunches and drinks on board, and Hurghada transfers are all included. You finish licensed to 30 metres and ready for the Rescue Diver course.
Highlights
What's Included
- Dedicated private PADI instructor
- Full dive equipment
- PADI course materials & certification fee
- Lunch, coffee, tea, water & soft drinks on board
- Free hotel transfer from/to all hotels within Hurghada
- Dive Safe Package — medical care from licensed physicians before, during and after your trip — and a fitness check before you dive whenever you would like one. No extra cost.
Not Included
- Marine park entrance fee (€5 per person per day)
- Hotel transfer for Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh & El Gouna: €20 per day per car
Dive Safe Package — medical care is on us
Diving with us includes medical care from licensed physicians — before your dive, on the day, and after your trip has ended. If anything comes up once you are back at your hotel, you are still ours to look after: call us and we arrange the doctor, at no extra cost.
A dive medical fitness check before you get in the water is entirely up to you. Some divers simply like the reassurance — say the word and we arrange it with a licensed physician at no extra cost, whenever suits you. And if the physician advises against diving, we refund your booking in full.
This is the whole price
The PADI certification fee is already inside the price above — along with your equipment, instructor and course materials. Worth checking before you compare: some dive centres quote the course on its own and add the manual and certification at the desk, typically €90–€130. Others include it, as we do. So compare what each price covers, not just the number.
What is genuinely not included is listed above, in full — nothing else is added at the boat.
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Dive sites in this area
Reefs this trip may visit. The captain chooses each day's sites by wind, current and conditions on the morning — so treat this as the area, not a schedule.
All taxes & equipment included
