Some points.
1. Try and get some egyption pounds before you go out there. There is a bit of a scam to get a visa, only 1 exchange booth for two 757 loads etc etc.
2. Don't buy or take anything to do with the reefs. They have xrays everywhere to stop people runining it for others ( Don't have a problem with this. In fact quite pro it)
3. First day go to a pharmacy and get some rehydration salts. They do taste awful but its not half as bad as heat stroke.
4. On the roof of the camel bar be a bit careful with the apple bongs. I have my doudts when you get back to the UK and have a drugs test what they might find.
5. There is a brillant seafood resturant in the next town along from sharm forget then name but one of the dive guides should be able to tell you.
6. Warn your wife about hissing men. The 2 scots girls i went diving with towards the end of the week had to get restrained from starting fights with the locals. They basically see all western women as tarts because of the way they dress and they have no probs at all letting them know about it ( to be honest they did have a point with our 2). But if you cover your shoulders and respect there way of life you don't get any grief.
7. If your a PADI diver ignore the next remark. If diving try and avoid getting paired with a warm water holiday diver. Its a right pain in the
if you have to buddy with one of them. On shark reef I had to make a rather frantic 15m drop when one of them started sinking away into the big blue. He was lucky I caught him at 40meters another 5 and I was turning back, only another 700 meters below him to the bottom.
8. There is a chamber in sharm, make sure your insurance covers it and a hyperbaric medivac back to UK.
9. No squat loo's on resort but if you go on the trip to see the sun rise up on the Mount (well worth it i thought) the tourist facilitys are very basic ie earth closet bring your own bog paper or go local and use your hand. And stay well clear of camels!!!!!
And finally take an Italian phrase book. Or just learn "shut up you noisy b
ards". None of us had any problems with the food or locals (apart from the hissing at the girls). As usual it was a squad of football shirt wearing pissed thugs trying to wind up the italians which was the only small hassel. Although maybe we should learn a thing or 2 about policing. After they had an automatic rifle pointed at them and relieved of all there money they didn't do it again.
MJ