SECURITY & SAFETY:- Since the terrorist attacks in Aug ’05, security has been stepped up by the hotels. They have electric gates & taxis must drop people outside. Coaches are allowed in the grounds but only when they have shown their permits, which they leave at the gates & collect on the way out. Hotels also have the metal detector doorways & the security guards may ask to see inside your bags when you return to the hotel. This is usually done in a light-hearted manner.

Much of Na’ama Bay is pedestrianised now & there are guards at the ends of the roads to ensure that only bone fide coaches get thru to go to central hotel. There are more tourist police but it’s not intimidating.  Many people say that they feel safer around Sharm than in their home towns, day or night.