Where to Stay in Hurghada for Orange Bay

If an Orange Bay trip is the plan, where you stay changes two things: the price of the trip and the length of the morning. The trips carded on this site collect from hotels in Hurghada (Zanetta Tours’ cheapest option aside), and from Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh, El Gouna, Soma Bay and Safaga on dearer options. Royal Cruise Hurghada’s Luxury Cruise Trip to Orange Bay with Lunch is from US$59 a person (checked November 2026) with pickup in Hurghada.

The calendar above is the cruise. Pick your pickup area in it: the option from the outer resorts was US$65 a person in November 2026, against US$59 from Hurghada.

The short answer

Stay in Hurghada if the Orange Bay trip is the day you are planning around: the pickup is cheapest there and the van ride to the boat is short. Stay in El Gouna, Sahl Hasheesh or Makadi Bay if the resort matters more than the trip, and budget the dearer pickup option and an earlier start.

The resorts by road

From Hurghada Marina by road, El Gouna is about 37 km to the north, and Sahl Hasheesh about 29 km, Makadi Bay about 36 km and Soma Bay about 52 km to the south, counted to each town rather than to a hotel. The trips add the drive to the morning, and on the Go Shalabi trips pickup times can vary by about 60 minutes either way for Hurghada hotels and about 90 minutes for the outer resorts.

What each trip charges outside Hurghada

Each trip prices the outer resorts its own way. Royal Cruise Hurghada’s cruise has one option for Makadi, Soma Bay, El Gouna, Sahl Hasheesh and Safaga; its option text takes Safaga only as far as the Minavile Hotel and Lotus Bay, and a pickup from Viva Blue Resort carries an extra charge (checked November 2026). Zanetta Tours’ Orange Bay beach day adds an extra-zone fee for the same five areas, payable at checkout or in cash, and its cheapest option has no hotel transport at all: it meets at the Moreno Horizon hotel in Hurghada. Miniature Egypt Hurghada’s Orange Island cruise has an option from Sahl Hasheesh, Makadi Bay, Soma Bay or El Gouna, and the Go Shalabi and Go Luxury trips offer long-range pickup from the outer resorts as a product option. The Orange Bay trip price gives each option’s price.

Where to stay for the beach day without transport

Zanetta Tours’ cheapest option asks you to make your own way to the Moreno Horizon hotel in Hurghada. If you plan to book that option, a room within reach of that hotel saves the transfer; the room search below includes it.

Hotels in Makadi Bay, El Gouna and Sahl Hasheesh

Makadi Bay, El Gouna and Sahl Hasheesh hotels sit on the pickup routes of the Orange Bay trips, but always on the dearer options and with an earlier pickup than a Hurghada hotel. Soma Bay and Safaga are further still: Soma Bay is about 52 km south of Hurghada Marina by road. If you are staying in one of these resorts for the week, book the trip’s option for your area at checkout so the van comes to your hotel; Go Shalabi charges a guest who did not book the long-distance pickup at the harbour.

Where is Orange Bay? has the map of the islands off Hurghada.