either. We tended to go to bed early as it was so hot and we wanted to get up early whilst it was relatively cool. Also, the all-inclusive finishes at 10pm so you have to pay for drinks after this, even water! You only get 1L per room which was daft when everyone is telling you to drink at least this much per person per day, but you could refill this at the water stations during the daytime. Trips We only did one trip, to swim with dolphins in Eilat. Going to Israel was so interesting - it's totally different to Egypt, and I would definitely recommend it, though there was a random trip to a gem factory which took up a lot of time and wasn't mentioned in the itinerary! The underwater observatory and Dolphin Reef were great - we would have liked to spend more time here and less at the gem factory which none of us were interested in. NB If you do opt to do the dolphin swim, you can't actually touch the dolphins, but we were lucky enough to have them swim very close to us and touch us, which was amazing. Going across the border was a little daunting, but didn't take very long. Shopping was good in Eilat, better than Taba, though apparently Dahab is better. We didn't go here due to the prohibitive cost of the taxi - 40 each and the taxi driver wouldn't go unless the taxi was full! Hygiene,