To wonder why the fuck anyone would want to go to Sharm El Shek anyway?

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Just that really.

That part of the world is incrediably volatile at the moment, even more so since the terrorist attack in Tunisia. The foreign office advised against travelling there after that. I've always wanted to go to and see the pyramids but accept its not going to happen for the foreseeable future, it's not worth the risk . Now this terrible incident with the plane, clearly there is intelligence telling the government that it's just not safe to fly to or from there at the moment.

Aside from that, I've known loads of people who've been there and none have liked it. Huge purpose built resorts with gates and armed guards on them?! No thanks! I'd never be able to relax.

If you want some winter sun what's wrong with the good old Canaries?

It's a shit hole, but the diving is fabulous. That's the only reason to go there in my opinion.

I did my diving on the Great Barrier Reef - "Queensland male" whilst a quaint creature from a previous era does not, as far as I know - require its women to be genitally mutilated.

But hey - it's (Egypt) cheap - knock yourselves out.

Does anyone remember the huge f off shark that was reported in the sea at Sharm a year or two ago?*

Yep. It wasn't just reported - it actually attacked snorkellers.

I dived there the day of the attacks never saw the shark.

Those poor people stuck there, the situation is getting worse. Flights that were due to land have been turned back!

I'm meant to be going there with work on Monday.

Waiting for update.

diving it is then! I wondered too op, BUt I would never usually go into Thomas cook, leaf through pages of samey white bland hotels and COMPLEXES THEN pay an absolute fortune to go.

That is just not a holiday to me.

I choose my own flights and accmd, and like places to have a homely feel, ie lovely real painting on walls, characterful etc and CHEAP.

Miaw this is what confuses me though,...what is the luxery?

I'd love to go there for the diving. In Thailand just now and the coral is fecked with temperature and tsunami so would love to do the Red Sea.

Um swisscheesetony, you do know that FGM is illegal in Egypt, right, and that the state runs campaigns to stamp it out? It's the same as Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Somaliland etc - the authorities recognise it for what it is, but the people want it to continue.

Years ago DH and I visited Cairo, then Luxor and had a cruise down the Nile.

We ended our holiday not in Sharm but somewhere similar. It was a nice bit of R&R for a few days, but I wouldn't want that to be my main holiday. There really was little to do but sunbathe.

surely not all of thailands corals are screwed?
Is that on both coasts?

Red Sea coral and sea life is AMAZING (haven't seen it on the Egyptian side but did some diving/snorkelling in Aqaba in Jordan).

Good diving and guaranteed weather. Egypt has had a close relationship with the UK for a long time now and the people are lovely. I was over there during the revolution recently and visited the pyramids and stayed in Cairo and it was excellent (i speak basic Arabic so don't get bothered by the merchants).

Probably my favourite part of the trip was taking a young lad i made friends with out for lunch and him telling me all his Egyptian history knowledge. Seeing the look on his face and how proud he was of his history and culture was fantastic and is one of the reasons why Egypt is different from a lot of places in the middle east. He wasn't passionate about religion, he was passionate about his people and homeland!

I went to the Canaries in Oct once, had to wear a fleece all week, too cold for the pool and it rained a lot.

Next year went to Sharm and it was 40degrees C all week. So for a week lying round by the pool and reading it was great. We did some quad biking/camel riding and snorkelling as well. Must admit as a single mum with a young dd I didn't venture into the town to look round the shops and for this reason I wouldn't have gone back even without how much worse the terrorist threat has got.

Oh and dd got the shits something rotten.

"If you want some winter sun what's wrong with the good old Canaries?" Yes, we are going to Tenerife four weeks on Sunday and can't wait!

Let's make the most of good old holidays in the sun before the start of World War III!!! My prediction is that Jeremy Corbyn, friend of the terrorist organisations, will succeed David Cameron and everything will go to pot even more than it has with Cameron. Our best bet (unbelievably) is Boris Johnson running for leadership of the Conservative Party. Where is the choice these days? Vote for me!!!

Another vote for the scuba diving/ snorkelling. We went for a week and loved it but spent the whole time in the sea, except for 2 days in Cairo for the pyramids

The diving there really is outstanding, far better than Thailand or the Great Barrier Reef (at least the bits closer to the mainland).

The tacky all inclusive resorts on the other hand... not so much. DH and I went there on a package holiday to dive a few years ago. There was an awful family on our coach, lost a toddler, found him again, caused havoc, argued on the plane. Their little girl sat next to us and asked us 'Which water park are you going to then?'

We resisted the urge to say "The Red Sea".

Never wanted to go anyway but 24 years ago my SIL was the first tourist murdered by terrorists in Egypt, the threat they made and acted on has been there ever since. Wish the world would wake up!

Egypt has a 90% rate of FGM? Where did you get that info from?

A lady I work with goes twice a year and is really annoyed her flight tomorrow has been cancelled. She's rebooking for next week - doesn't even want to consider going anywhere else. Madness.

Well it would be very cheap there at the moment...

lauren In an article I read about FGM, have you heard of it?

Not a fam trip, but am pretty sure if we do go will be empty out if it departs at all.

Hope so anyway....

OH just called out to do a rescue tmrw.

Waves back

Husband and I were only looking for wintersun holidays last week, he says, look at how cheap Sharm is!! It was ridiculously cheap! I said no way, I think there's gonna be a terrorist attack..., last time something was ridiculously cheap was the break we almost booked in January to go to Tunisia in June-July... Quotes for both times was £900 ish for 2 weeks all inclusive for 3 people with Thomas Cook.

I'd love to do Egypt, but the terrorism worries me. I also worry about Turkey and Spain, Turkey because isn't that along the border that's used as a passageway? Obviously not all of Turkey as its a pretty big places but I do worry.

I worry about Spain because the summer just gone was rammed with Brits... I just think it'll be targeted.

It's scary shit... But then I could just be over anxious