Egypt Hotels

Advantages: Close to the monuments, a beautiful location
Disadvantages: Four hours from Aswan by Coach if there are no flights.

...to check in at the Seti Abu Simbel Hotel. You drive through the arched entrance gate flanked by hotel security guards and the coach circles round the driveway to pull up in front of Reception. The hotel is set up more like a Caribbean holiday village resort with the main public areas close together in the centre and the hotel rooms/chalets radiating out. All the public areas are on ground level, each accessed via linked court yards. In the main ...
...water coming out of the sculptured heads of local animals into the pool below. It is the landscaped gardens which are this hotel's best feature, the exotic flora of pinks and oranges and rich green foliage set against the yellow harshness of the desert and the vivid azure blue of the lake and the permanent blue sky. The hotel rooms are spread out in these beautiful gardens each with own unique view of Lake Nasser. Our room was the last in a staggered ... Read review

Advantages: hot sunny weather, spotlessly clean
Disadvantages: food, entertainment, basic rooms/facilities

We've just come back from a week at this hotel, and I must say it was very disappointing. The rooms were very basic, although they were well cleaned, and in good condition (we were staying in the second block at the back, which I think is relatively new, so it should have been in good condition really). We were half board, and for the first couple of days the food on offer was just about ok, but then we realised there was nothing new on offer, and ...
...only warm, and the best food on offer was the salads. There is also a restaurant, which costs extra to eat in. We went twice, and it was empty apart from us both times. Unfortunately the second time we went, within hours we were ill, and spent the last full day of our holiday in our room unable to move! There was half an hour of entertainment each evening, which itself was good, but it was only 30 minutes, and at half past ten, they start clearing ... Read review

Advantages: Everything perfect.
Disadvantages: Buffet gets really busy

Date of stay: feb 2008 so very upto date. Was slightly worried before going after reading all the bad review about this place but defintely should't have. Arived in the taba miltary airport very nice no many cues. Arived at hotel MASSIVE place stepped into huge marble recption at 8pm althoug winter still warm. Woke up perfect clear sky had a brilliant breakfast in the buffet very good food defitely improved standard. Hotel has many sports faciltied ...
...courts 2 pools table its very dive centre, gym and spa treament centre. One of the best things was the beach huge private beach with its very own coral reef snorkeling and diving the snorkeling was amazing with deeper reef (more fish) and shallower reef. Not a single cloud perfect. For lunch you could choose from big buffet or outdoor buffet which was very nice. Dinner was high standard and you could chose from buffet eating or italino restraunt. ... Read review

Advantages: Weather, hotel features
Disadvantages: location

Went to this fabulous hotel at the end of November.... What an experience !!!! Flight from London Gatwick took abou 4-5 hours, but it was enjoyable jurney with nice meal, snacks and movie. Booked it with Longwood Holidays. Can't fault them. Transfer from Taba airport to the hotel took about 45 mins. When we arrived there, oh my.... What a place, fountains outside the hotel, green palm trees... Sainai mountains in the background..... The hotel is ...
...bedouin style located in pretty gardens. Everywhere so green, you would never thought that you are in the middle of the desert!!! 2 big swimming pools but designed in such way that it seems that there is at least 5 or 6 different pools. All sunbeds are wooden and you get fresh towel for your sunbed everyday (free of charge) with a mattress. We booked it as winter bonanza and paid £549 each for 2 weeks. Great value. Real 5 star luxury. Rooms with ... Read review

Advantages: Temperature, Swimming pool, gorgeous beach, cheap
Disadvantages: Food, constant badgering, flight and airline

...flew from Manchester direct to Taba International which is about 30-45mins away from the resort. The flight on the way out was at 1.55pm on a Monday, which is the only day and time you can fly out there. From Manchester there is only one tour operator who provide holidays to this particular part of Egypt called \'Peltours\', and the airline is \'Astreus\', a fairly new airline, and also a very small one. This particular airline have very small planes, ...
...When we arrived at Taba we were shown exactly where to go, the Egyptian tour operator was very helpful, but it was a mad rush at the airport, as it is very small, and the tour operators wanted you to buy a visa at the airport for those that wanted to go on trips to Cairo or to Israel. (They tell you that you have to buy these at the airport, it simply isnt true the Marriott can supply these if you need them, so need to queue for hours on end on arrival). ... Read review