Red Sea Dive Center Hotel & Dive Center
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Booking by Tour Leader Club
3 room types · 20 dive sites
Aqaba is Jordan’s only stretch of coast — twenty-seven kilometres of shore at the very northern tip of the Red Sea. The reefs start just past the waterline, and the seabed holds a whole collection of sunken hardware, from a Lebanese freighter to a transport aircraft and a tank.
Red Sea Dive Center opened in 1992 as a more personal alternative to the large dive centres of Aqaba. Its founder, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Mohammed Al-Momany, is a former officer of the Royal Jordanian Naval Force with forty years of diving behind him and international awards for underwater photography. His sons Abdullah and Omar run the centre today and guide the dives themselves. The business stays in the family.
The hotel stands on the south beach of Aqaba, on a hill seven hundred metres from the shore. Thirteen rooms, all en-suite, with air conditioning, satellite television, a minibar and high-speed internet. Most windows look out on the Red Sea or on the pools. On site there is a pool, a kids’ pool and a restaurant.
The diving is from shore. Every morning at 10 am a trip leaves the centre for two dives with an hour’s surface interval and a soft drink in between; it is back by two or three in the afternoon, and traditional Jordanian mint tea and water are waiting ashore. Boat trips are available on request and depend on the weather. Most Aqaba sites are a five-minute drive from the centre, and the trips rotate through the top ten.
Among them is the Cedar Pride, a Lebanese freighter scuttled in 1985 a hundred and fifty metres offshore at a maximum depth of twenty-six metres; the C-130 Hercules, set down on the sand in 2017, thirty metres long with a forty-metre wingspan; the Military Museum — twenty-one pieces of hardware laid out in tactical formation on the seabed in 2019, with tanks, an ambulance, a crane, a troop carrier and a combat helicopter; and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, scuttled the same year.
PADI courses run from Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water through to divemaster, plus eight specialties. Teaching is in Arabic and English.
No markup
You pay exactly the rate the resort publishes. On top of that, only the actual bank costs of currency conversion and the international transfer — no commission of ours.
We run the deal
Correspondence with the resort, holding the room, the contract, booking confirmation and all paperwork are on our side. There is nothing for you to arrange yourself.
Card payment
We accept payment by card through Stripe and issue an invoice. The transfer to the resort is our job — you do not have to find a way to pay abroad.
Support all the way
We help you choose the room and dates, work out the dive package, answer questions about flights and gear, and stay in touch until you are home.
The exact amount is confirmed when we hold your booking: it includes the resort's rate at the day's exchange rate plus the actual transfer costs. No hidden fees.
About the resort
- Country
- Jordan
- Location
- South Beach, Aqaba, Jordan
- Nearest airport
King Hussein International Airport, Aqaba (AQJ) — 24 km, about 30 minutes
- Dive sites
- 20
- Dive centre
The resort's own Red Sea Dive Center, running since 1992.
PADI courses from Discover Scuba Diving to divemaster plus eight specialties, taught in Arabic and English.
A daily shore trip of two dives leaves at 10 am
boat trips are on request and weather-dependent.
Equipment, tanks and weights are available for rent.
Night dives run only with a minimum of four divers
- Rooms
- 13
- Internet
- true
- Languages
- Arabic and English
At the resort
Diving and snorkelling
All of the centre's prices are based on shore dives. Boat trips are possible on request and depend on availability and the weather. A night dive needs to be arranged separately and requires a minimum of four divers. The site does not publish water temperature or visibility.
Food
The restaurant menu and the prices for lunch and dinner are not published on the site.
Things to do
The resort does not sell excursions around Jordan — the site gives only distances and links to the Aqaba tourism portal.
Rooms
Room
30 JOD
Beds: One bed
The smallest category, for one guest. En-suite bathroom, air conditioning, satellite channels.
Room
40 JOD
Beds: Bed for two
The hotel's main category. Most rooms look out on the Red Sea or on the pools.
Room
50 JOD
Beds: Three sleeping places
The same floor area as the double, with a third bed.
Rates
Accommodation
| Per room per night, JOD | |
|---|---|
| Single Room | 30 |
| Double Room | 40 |
| Triple Room | 50 |
The site calls these starting prices and states that breakfast is included. There is no season calendar or rate period on the site.
Diving and snorkelling
| Price, JOD | |
|---|---|
| Snorkelling on the day trip — mask, fins and snorkel | 15 |
| Introductory dive for non-certified divers | 50 |
| One dive for a certified diver — tank and weights | 35 |
| One dive for a certified diver with full equipment | 40 |
| Two dives with full equipment | 60 |
| Night dive for certified divers | 50 |
Prices are per person and all dives are from shore. A night dive is booked separately and needs a minimum of four divers.
PADI courses
| Price, JOD | |
|---|---|
| Scuba Diver | 300 |
| Open Water Diver | 410 |
| Advanced Open Water Diver | 350 |
| Rescue Diver together with the EFR first aid course | 450 |
| Divemaster — manual and certification fee not included | 900 |
The price covers the PADI online manual and the certification fee — except for the divemaster course, where the site states that the manual and the fee are paid separately. Teaching is in Arabic and English.
PADI specialties
| Price, JOD | |
|---|---|
| Deep Diver — down to 40 metres | 250 |
| Wreck Diver | 250 |
| Search and Recovery | 250 |
| Night Diver | 220 |
| Underwater Navigator | 220 |
| Peak Performance Buoyancy | 160 |
| Underwater Naturalist | 180 |
| Digital Underwater Photography | 150 |
The certification fee is included in every price. Master Scuba Diver requires five specialties, the Rescue Diver course and 50 logged dives.
Rates and availability can change. Message us — we will confirm current dates and prices.
Getting there
The nearest airport is Aqaba (AQJ), 24 kilometres from the centre, about 30 minutes by road.
The distances the resort itself publishes — 700 metres to the beach, 14 kilometres to the city of Aqaba, 63 kilometres to Wadi Rum (about an hour), 130 kilometres to Petra (about two hours), 275 kilometres to the Dead Sea (about three hours) and 335 kilometres to Amman (about four hours).
No airport transfer is described on the site.
Included in the price
Not included
Optional extras
Extras are per person and paid on site.
from 30 JOD per room per night with breakfast
Red Sea Dive Center Hotel & Dive Center
Availability for your dates will be confirmed before any payment. Estimated wait time — 24 hours
Room
The smallest category, for one guest. En-suite bathroom, air conditioning, satellite channels.
- Beds
- One bed
- Size
- 9 sq m
- Maximum guests
- 1
- Rate
- 30 JOD
Room
The hotel's main category. Most rooms look out on the Red Sea or on the pools.
- Beds
- Bed for two
- Size
- 16 sq m
- Maximum guests
- 2
- Rate
- 40 JOD
Room
The same floor area as the double, with a third bed.
- Beds
- Three sleeping places
- Size
- 16 sq m
- Maximum guests
- 3
- Rate
- 50 JOD
Red Sea Dive Center Hotel & Dive Center
from 30 JOD
