Some of you asked us to post special offers for 2012. Well, your wish is our command!

1) Our SUPER SPECIAL offer for the week of 25.02.2012 in SUDAN

Book your places now for our February 25 – March 3, 2012 Sudan-North tour and we offer you a 15% discount from our regular boat rate.

2) The ULTIMATE 2 WEEKS in Sudan: Book your places now for our 14 – 28 April, 2012 Sudan North + South tour!

We provide all-encompassing services onboard and off. We take care of the Sudanese visas for the guests and provide assistance and arrangements in Cairo as well.

And if there is anything else we can help you with our you wish to make a booking, please contact us!

Upload a Christmas card onto our Facebook Cassiopeiasafari message wall and win!

We all agree that Christmas is about giving. That is why we are also getting ready to surprise someone with a diving safari! Upload a Christmas card that you have created onto our Facebook Cassiopeiasafari message wall. On the card somewhere you should display the sign “Cassiopeia Safari”! The person who shares the card that gets the most “likes” wins an Egyptian diving safari!

To demonstrate what we are thinking of

What do you have to do?

Create a card with a Christmas and diving/sea theme. Hide somewhere the sign “Cassiopeia Safari” and upload in onto the Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page! The creator of the card with the most “likes” can start packing and get ready for the prize safari!

The course of the game:

We would like to see the sign “Cassiopeia Safari” dressed up in Christmas clothes! Following this post, you have 7 days to upload your cards onto the Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page and there is additional day available for voting. The creator of the card with the most “likes” will receive an Egyptian diving safari for 1 person onboard M/Y Cassiopeia on a designated date by us. The safari contains 7 nights full-board accommodations onboard in double cabins, transfers between Hurghada Airport and the boat, diving, taxes and shisha (waterpipe) onboard.

Rules of the game:
- only registered members can send cards, so first “like” our page then upload your card
- the sign “Cassiopeia Safari” must be visible and readable
- one registered member can upload only 1 card
- there are no restrictions on the techniques used to create the card

Submissions and deadlines:
Upload the card onto the Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page following this post until December 14, 2012 22:00.

Voting and deadlines:
“Likes” may be registered for 7 days following this post, until December 15, 2012 14:00.

Announcement of the winner:
On December 15, 2012 at 14:00.
The winner will be notified by e-mail.

Important!
The prize is not transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash.

Get away to Egypt for some winter sun and some of the best scuba diving to be found in the World.

The luxurious M/Y Cassiopeia Liveaboard is offering the following spectacular last minute offer for the following cruise date. Some places are still available on this incredibly – priced, low season scuba diving safari.

Available: 26 November to 03 December 2011 South Trip, 10 places for sale!

Don’t delay, this offer sell out fast! For more details contact us!

From now on free WIFI Internet connection is available in Egypt to divers on both of our boats – M/Y Cassiopeia and M/Y Andromeda.

Internet connection has become a necessity these days, whether for work or entertainment or to be available for us during our holidays. In order to satisfy these demands, we have equipped both boats with WIFI internet connection. We are happy we were able to synchronise the technical advances of our age and the demand of guests for Internet connection in a way as not to present any additional expenses to the divers during the safaris.

Thanks to this improvement, divers onboard M/Y Cassiopeia and M/Y Andromeda can surf the Net free of charge on their notebooks or other devices with WLAN connection, starting in the summer of 2011. Today almost all portable computers and most smart phones are WIFI-enabled.

Free Internet connection gives divers the chance to follow their e-mails during their safari, to keep in touch with family and friends and to share their photos taken on the trips on their community pages before arriving home.

Of course, this is not mandatory , so those of you who wish to keep your holiday restful and free of any interruptions, you may leave your devices turned off.

Temperatures in Egypt now are around the usual 30C, just like in Europe except for the gentle northerly winds that sooth us from the heat and allows us to dip in the Red Sea any time. And one more good thing for divers these days in Egypt, that the reefs will surely not be crowded and the marine life is still just as rich and abundant as any other time during the year.

Here are a couple of summer weeks where you can find places for your next safari:

1. August 14-21, 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — St Johns/Abu Fandira tour
2. August 17-24, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — St Johns tour

About rates and further details of the tours contact us or click here.

You didn’t forget, did you? Today is the longest day of the year, the official start of the summer, Midsummer Day.

Our ancestors already recorded and celebrated Midsummer Day, so we have also prepared something special.

Until 22:00 tonight, we have shortened our prices for the following diving safaris:

July 6 – 13, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda, St Johns / Egypt
July 13 – 20, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda, St Johns / Egypt
July 20 – 27, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda, St Johns / Egypt

Do not forget to light a fire tonight! The remaining coal is the best for a waterpipe

Take advantage of today’s special offer and contact us until 22:00 tonight!

There was an amazing race for “likes” on our Facebook group page this past week. The prize was an Egyptian diving safari for 2. A tremendous number of “likes” were given to the pictures as we were witnesses to a serious head-to-head race. Only a few hours before the end of the race, it still seemed like the dice may turn…

Let’s start with the most important – the esteemed winner of our game is Stepan Shulga, collecting a total of 654 “likes”. Once again congratulations to Stepan and his substantial voting group of friends . We wish you a great safari filled with lots of things to see! We have already contacted the winner and he can be on his way with a friend to their well-deserved prize of Egyptian safari!

The Winner:

Just to recap:

We called on all our diver and non-diver members between June 8 and 14 to upload pictures onto our Facebook group site with the writing “Andromeda safari” displayed, preferably in the most creative ways. After that things got simple as all was to be done was to collect enough “Likes” to reward the owner of the most enduring and lasting picture with the most “Likes” with an Egyptian safari for 2.

We can say with certainty that our game has reached its purpose – we were able to make a player happy and at the same time we were able to liven up our Facebook community in a usual but effective way. We thank for this all the ones who had posted the pictures and all those who had voted! Of course we are curious to hear about your experiences, suggestions and what you thought of the game.

Did you like it?

PLAY AND WIN a St Johns diving safari for 2 to Egypt onboard M/Y Andromeda between July 6 and 13, 2011! What do you have to do? Show off your creativity! Write the words “Andromeda Safari” onto any surface with any tools, take a picture of it and post it onto our Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page. The owner of the picture with the most “likes” and a companion will be off to Egypt for the prize trip!

The game process: We would like to see the words “Andromeda Safari” displayed in the most creative ways! Write it onto a dusty car, put it together from various objects, cut it into the grass or your hair, for that matter, spray it onto the belly of your girlfriend with whipped cream, and so on. The possibilities are endless. You can post your pictures onto our Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page for 7 days after this message is posted. Then one full day will be available to vote. The prize for the owner of the picture with the most “likes” will be an Egyptian diving safari onboard M/Y Andromeda for 2 people (including transfers between Hurghada airport and boat, 7 nights fullboard accomodation onboard, diving, taxes and sisha/waterpipe onboard).

The game rules:
- Only registered members can post pictures, so first “like” the page then upload the picture.
- The “Andromeda Safari” must be clearly visible and legible in the picture.
- One registered member can upload only 1 picture.

Posting and deadline: Upload your picture onto our Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page from the time this message is posted until no later than June 14, 2011, 22:00.

Voting and deadline: You can vote for the uploaded pictures by clicking the ”like” button starting from the date this message is posted until no later than June, 15, 2011, 14:00

Winner announcement: On June 15, 2011 at 14:00. The winner will be notified by e-mail.

Important!
- The prize is non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for money.
- The already booked guests on this safari are not eligible to take part in the game.

M/Y Andromeda reached Hurghada’s main marina yesterday in the early afternoon. She will go through a few days of customs checks, administration, some beautification and after a full paint job, she will continue her work in Egypt from the beginning of July. We have detailed the dock work on the boats in January… as if it was yesterday! So what has actually happened since then? You can read about it in this article!

The Sudan weeks were practically fully booked already by the end of last year and our optimism was only hampered by the Egyptian revolution at the end of January. After the situation had improved in Cairo, could we just start our work almost from scratch and we had to re-schedule bookings for 13 dates in Sudan. But in a short time, we were able to get back the bookings to almost where they had been originally.

The boat left Hurghada for Sudan a week later than planned, on Febuary 15, 2011, so we spent 15 weeks in all in Sudan out of which the boat worked 14 weeks straight and spent only 1 week in port.

Our last Sudan tour this season ended this past weekend. During these 14 weeks M/Y Andromeda welcomed 269 guests from 14 countries like Germany, Hungary, Finland, Holland, Italy, Russia, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Romania, Spain, the US, Poland, France and Japan.

The Icelandic eruption a couple of weeks ago (which happened almost a year to the date of the 2010 disastrous eruption) caused a minor scare again but thankfully this time it did not create any real havoc.

This season the boat completed 13 North tours and navigated to South only once. She sailed 6,700km in total during these 15 weeks. And what did the unparalleled Sudan waters hide this time? Besides hammerheads in unimaginable numbers, grey, tiger, oceanic and reef sharks, some manta adventures, not to mention the humphead parrot fish, schools of barracudas and Napoleon fish which have become a common site by now.

On the last day of the safari holiday, almost all divers visited Suakin, the once majestic port in the Red Sea. These days the uninhabited white ghost town is famous only for its once beautiful “coral brick” houses and their ruins.

We have had a successful 4 months of things to see and of satisfaction. We especially thank our partners, tour operators, tour organisers and all those divers who chose us this year for making their Sudan holidays come true.

Thank you for your trust, the plenty of pictures, comments, acknowledgement we received from you during the past weeks and months!

Our next shark adventure in Sudan starts again in February, 2012 and we look forward to seeing all diving schools, clubs, tour organisers and divers who did not have the chance to join us this year, or who would like to continue collecting even more Sudan diving memories!

If you book our 2012 tours by September 30, 2011, then you can enjoy our 2011 rates next season as well! Contact your diving instructor and tour operator for details!

In three weeks, after 15 weeks of Sudan diving safaris, M/Y Andromeda will be returning to Egypt, first for a 3-week technical break and preparation work and then to continue working there starting from July.

This means that from the first week of July, both boats, M/Y Cassiopeia and M/Y Andromeda, will be sailing the Egyptian waters together again until the end of the year. We have gathered the available weeks and places in Egypt for which we are accepting booking requests from tour organisers and individual divers as well.

Here are our latest diving safari offers for the summer months:

June 5 – 12, 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — North tour
June 12 – 19, 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — North / Tiran tour
July 6 – 13, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — St. Johns tour
July 10 – 17, 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — North tour
July 13 – 20, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — South tour
August 7 – 14, 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — St. Johns / Abu Fendera tour

To book or to request further information, contact us or click here.