Kite Life

The Intercontinental Resort at Abu Soma’s a great place to stay with loads of good nosh and nice rooms. The drinks are a bit excessively priced but apart from that it was a really nice resort. The kitesurfing spot at the edge of Kreasy Bay is good with loads of wind and hardly any coral although there are a few reefs way downwind to watch out for.

My only complaint is that the Mark Warner Kite School had NO KIT. They don’t have much kit to start with and then nearly all of their kites (except for 3 very small training kites) ended up broken and torn. Unfortunately, I managed to trash my 12m kite and was unable to hire anything from them as they had nothing left that wasn’t trashed and a lot of people who’d booked lesions were being turned away as they had no kit to teach with. Mark Warner really need to pull their finger out and sort out this problem or they will end up with a very bad kite surfing reputation which is a shame as the guys (Dan, Ollie and Ewan) are great blokes and its a great spot but without kit its next to useless.

OK there is another kite centre slightly upwind of the resort but they were not interested in hiring out kit to people kiting with Mark Warner and I didn’t fancy kiting at their spot as it was quiet a hike to the shore from the centre and their spot was crowded with windsurfers. Overall though I found the kitesurfing brilliant and had a brilliant time.

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