Egypt Hotels > 5 Stars Egypt Hotels

Advantages: Sun, sea and much more
Disadvantages: only little minor things

Review of Sol Y Mar Sea Star Introduction After a rather stressful year for both myself and my other half we searched around for late deals before deciding upon Egypt and in particular Taba, situated next to the border of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Booked through Hays Travel, flying with Thompson but represented in Taba by Holidays4u.com we travelled early August 2008 to Sol Y Mar Sea Star Hotel. Arrival Upon arriving at Sol Y Mar ...
...Beach Sol Y Mar Sea Star has its own section of the red sea beach, a short 5 minute walk from the hotel where once again the all inclusive payment extends to the bar just down from the hotel. Here you can exchange a free ticket for a beach towel meaning you don't have to lug your own down there and back. Here you can go snorkelling in the reefs fairly close to shore with the fantastic range of coloured fish that live in these waters. For me, ... Read review

Advantages: Room and staff
Disadvantages: Food and location

If you want a nice peaceful holiday this is the place, but if your a fussy eater i wouldn't recommened it as the food selection is quite poor, its grilled vegatables, beef in different forms each day the same with chicken etc. The animation team are great, and Casper makes your holiday there. The rooms are great, very spacious and clean, you can also have a mini bar on request. There is a beach about 5-10 minutes away, its very clean, the sand ...
...and if you want dinner there they bring it over. They do quite a few trips, or you can do scuba diving near the beach and get your equipment too. There are 3 shops, one is a general shop selling shampoo to chocolate etc.. and the other 2 sell all the tourist stuff. ... 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