Eilat Water Sports and Extreme Water Sports
Extreme Water Sports
While many tourists go to Eilat just to soak up sun on the beach and swim, Eilat offers a wealth of water sport and extreme sport activities that are action-packed ways to spend the day.
Fun on the Water (Photo: IsraelTourism, CC BY 2.0)
Eilat’s favorable climate of year-round sunshine, beautiful Red Sea location, and the relative quiet of the sea waters make it ideal for many different types of water sporting activities.
Peaceful and relaxing Eilat sport choices include kayaking, row boating, and pedal boating. Tubing in Eilat – doughnut-shaped inner tubes pulled along by a motorboat – is a little more adventurous.
Parasailing in Eilat (Photo: IsraelTourism, CC BY 2.0)
Eilat Parasailing
Feeling the urge to fly? For those seeking the ultimate adventure, Eilat offers parasailing, an extreme sport that allows you to fly in a parachute 40-70 meters (25-44 feet) over the sea. A moving motorboat pulls you while you’re strapped in a sea parachute until you rise like a kite. Landing is usually effected by being pulled back gently to the deck of the towing boat. Emergency landings can be in water instead.
Water Sports in Eilat
We’ve collected information on a number of companies to assist you in finding the right sport to enhance your trip to Eilat. The following companies offer a variety of water sports ranging from the mild to extreme and everything in between.
Eilat Parasailing specializes in sea parachutes used in parasailing. For further information call 057-239-3272 or 057-239-3256.
The Red Sea Parasailing Club is located on the beach of the Royal Beach Hotel. You can rent parachutes for parasailing and a wide variety of boats and devices including pedal boats, kayaks, banana boats, motorboats and water skis. For further information call 08-637-8504.
Kite surfing, or kite boarding, is another popular choice in Eilat. Standing on a surfboard and pulled along by a kite propelled by the wind, riders match their strength against the sea’s energy in a graceful balancing act. Kite X Eilat Kite Surfing School offers lessons in kite surfing. For further information call 08-637-3123.
Water Skiing (Photo: Alex Polezhaev, CC BY 2.0)
Extreme Water Sports Eilat on Neviot Beach offers sport activities for adults and children, including jet skis, parasailing, banana boats, tubing and water skiing. For further information call 08-633-3030.
Kisuski Eilat is on the Red Rock Beach between the Meridian Hotel and the Ocean Mall. Kisuski claims that its jet boat is the fastest in Israel. Other sports offered are tubing, kayaking, water skiing, pedal boats and paragliding. For further information call 08-637-2088.
Eilat Sailing School is especially popular with children, some of whom have gone on to compete and win various sailing competitions. For further information email sailing@eilatcity.co.il or call 054-434-0343.
Safrir Sailing School offers instruction in all kinds of high-speed boats and jet skis. On completion of the course one is able to obtain a Marine Vehicle License. For further information call 052-563-7773 or 052-563-7677.
Banana Boating
Royal Water Sports Eilat, located on Royal Beach, has sports activities suitable for both adults and children. They offer kayaking, pedal boating, tubing, jet-water skiing and banana boating. For further information call 08-632-6342 or 050-877-3691.
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