My husband and I recently took the SuperJet bus to Sharm from Cairo. The trip was 5 hours each way, with no delays except for a couple of stops by the local authorities checking passports and ID's. The bus was comfortable enough, but the leg room is a little cramped if you are a tall person. We will take our car the next time for sure The cost each way was 55 Egyptian LE.

Have a Great Time, Sharm is wonderful, and try to get a taxi to Sharks Bay, its smaller but the beach is super and less crowded and they have this great Bedouin Tent beachfront that serves drinks and sheesha

Thanks for the info. Perhaps i will look in to a car hire, so you reckon it's safe?

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Originally posted by Shan1:
Hi Laura,

Thanks for the info. Perhaps i will look in to a car hire, so you reckon it's safe?

Shan.

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Hiring a car will be extremely expensive, maybe Debbie has a better idea of the cost of this. When you ask if it's safe, in what terms do you mean?

Laura

If you can't afford to fly, then take the bus. Having a car in Sharm to use later isn't worth the extra cost to rent one, if you ask me.

If by chance you do decide to make that drive, do it ONLY in daylight. Make sure you leave Cairo or Sharm early enough to make it down the peninsula in the daylight. On the Cairo side of the tunnel it is slightly less dangerous at night, but the road along the water on the peninsula side of the tunnel is HORRIBLE at night. Most trucks drive with no lights on, or there are too many to count that only have one head light working, so you are constantly trying to decide if it is a truck/car or motorcycle coming at you, and they do pass illegally and expect you to get out of their way. It just is paramont to insanity to try to drive that road at night.

If you take a bus at night, of course there is some danger, but the bus drivers KNOW what to expect, they are pretty much driving by the same rules as the truckers, and you have a huge vehicle around you if there is a mess up somewhere. I'd take the bus at night comfortably, but I don't care to drive in a car, even with experienced Egyptian drivers at night along that road.

Defo flighing and not driving, although reading about all the air accidents when you type in Egyptair on google seems just as scary as driving

Driving in Egypt is quite an experience I agree. Renting a car is quite expensive but if you don't have money issues go ahead, the way to sharm is quite enjoyable to drive in.

If you can't try flying and don't believe those rumours.

And like the others said you can try the SuperJet Bus or any other travel company that provides the same service (East Delta I think is another one). It's the least expensive. Problem is that I've heard of many situations where these buses stall in the middle of the way and people get stranded for hours till the bus is fixed or figure some other way to go on.

Whatever it is you're doing enjoy it!!

My idea is to set up a vehicle safety check point out on that road and make all vehicles stop and be checked. I'd have a mechanic, garage, and car parts store right there too, and make the only way to get out of a very expensive ticket, be to repair the car or replace headlights, etc. right there on the spot. Of course you have to pay the people doing the inspection enough to make it worth their while not to accept bribes from truckers that don't have time or money to make these repairs.

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Originally posted by ExptinCAI:
hey, deb...you ever notice that the cars with 1 headlight working...it's almost always the headlight on the driver's side?

why is that...do they switch the working light to the driver's side when 1 gives out, or do they disconnect the 2nd light on purpose, figuring the passenger doesn't need to see the road. or is it the whole "too bright" thing?

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