Dive Review of Red Sea Aggressor Southern Route in
Red Sea

Can you, please, specify what the boat was like compared to what was advertised?

No master stateroom, no tv in the room, no movies available, no queen beds, no ladders on the zodiacs, one robe per cabin, broken toilet seat, (one cabin had the toilet not even hooked up when they were shown to their cabin). While this sounds fairly petty, if you paid for one level if accommodations, but received another, it impacts your trip.

I was on that vessel, Mistral, at the same time as the reviewer. I concur with her assessment of the vessel: she has provided a fair and balanced review. I would just clarify that the itinerary was the Brothers, Daedalus, Elphinstone route--as opposed to the extreme southern route that includes Sudan.

Thanks. Our group is booked for May2020 and we're definitely concerned about the accommodations as well as safety issues!

I have heard that the Mistral has been replaced with a different boat.

The reporter should have mentioned that the "incident" was a fire in the middle of the night in which one passenger died. I was aboard for two weeks in April 2018 and two more in Dec 2018 on the RSA I. If I had upcoming reservations on a "substitute" boat, I'd either demand a full refund or a discount. On both my 2018 trips, they were discounted to about $1500 plus port fees, taxes, etc., but these were discounts advertised well in advance, due to steep decline in American and European tourists in recent years.