Location. The Sonesta Pharaoh Beach resort is located in Hurghada, Egypt, on the sandy ... more
shores of the Red Sea. The hotel is 16 kilometres from Hurghada city centre, and ferries in the area connect with Sharm el Sheikh. The Valley of the Kings at Luxor is 270 kilometres from the hotel, while Cairo and the famous pyramids at Giza are about 500 kilometres away. Hotel Features. Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort is a modern property, designed to combine contemporary architecture with hints of ancient Egyptian Pharaonic design; the lobby is a distinctive pyramid structure. The main building is set amongst gardens with bungalow apartments, and is adjacent to the hotel's private beach. Within the grounds are an outdoor swimming pool and separate children's pool, and there is another pool indoors. Sports facilities are available, with a full service health club, and children's activities. Guests at Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort have several restaurants and bars to choose from. The Karnak Dining Room is the hotel's main eatery, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets featuring international and Egyptian dishes. The other restaurant has oriental and Mediterranean themes, and there is a lobby bar and terrace, a poolside bar, discotheque. During high season live shows are performed at the amphitheatre overlooking the pool and gardens. Half board rates are available. The hotel has conference facilities with a capacity for up to 300 people. Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort offers a dive centre, with all the necessary equipment and training on offer. Other onsite sports activities include beach volleyball, tennis, billiards, and bicycle rentals. Guestrooms. The Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort features 360 guestrooms, spread between the main hotel building and bungalow apartments within the gardens. All the bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchenettes, and living areas have modern decor and fur
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Location. The Sonesta Pharaoh Beach resort is located in Hurghada, Egypt, on the sandy ... more
shores of the Red Sea. The hotel is 16 kilometres from Hurghada city centre, and ferries in the area connect with Sharm el Sheikh. The Valley of the Kings at Luxor is 270 kilometres from the hotel, while Cairo and the famous pyramids at Giza are about 500 kilometres away. Hotel Features. Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort is a modern property, designed to combine contemporary architecture with hints of ancient Egyptian Pharaonic design; the lobby is a distinctive pyramid structure. The main building is set amongst gardens with bungalow apartments, and is adjacent to the hotel's private beach. Within the grounds are an outdoor swimming pool and separate children's pool, and there is another pool indoors. Sports facilities are available, with a full service health club, and children's activities. Guests at Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort have several restaurants and bars to choose from. The Karnak Dining Room is the hotel's main eatery, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets featuring international and Egyptian dishes. The other restaurant has oriental and Mediterranean themes, and there is a lobby bar and terrace, a poolside bar, discotheque. During high season live shows are performed at the amphitheatre overlooking the pool and gardens. Half board rates are available. The hotel has conference facilities with a capacity for up to 300 people. Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort offers a dive centre, with all the necessary equipment and training on offer. Other onsite sports activities include beach volleyball, tennis, billiards, and bicycle rentals. Guestrooms. The Sonesta Pharaoh Beach Resort features 360 guestrooms, spread between the main hotel building and bungalow apartments within the gardens.All the bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchenettes, and living areas have modern decor and fur
Information: :Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Always sunny, great people, beautiful surrounding. Disadvantages: Quite costly, too commercial to some peoples taste.
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This review is based on personal experiences and opinions, I do not claim it to be the truth, nor am I responsible for any assumptions you might make.
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Hurghada is a coastal town in Egypt, that stretches for about 30 miles along the shore, but does not really go deep into the desert, a perfect town for tourism, and the battle for pieces of private beach by hotels have made this town so wide I think, because offering your guests a calm spot on a private beach, how is that not attractive right?
I have been in the town, during Ramadan, I have been coraldiving, sunbathing, I have been into the desert, and have been in the greatest hotel you can get for your money.
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Flying from the Netherlands, and ofcourse that gives trouble if ...
Advantages: Complete package to relax. Lovely beach. Clean resort (Makadi) Disadvantages: No shops to walk around close by.
HOTEL
For our first stay in egypt we decided to stay at the Sunrise Royal Makadi resort at Makadi Bay in October 2009. This resort is situated about 40 minutes drive south of the main town of Hurghada and the airport. The Sunrise Royal Makadi comprises of many blocks of low level buildings spead across a large area divided by swimming pools and gardens. The resort is located right on it's own private beach which has it's own free sunbeds and parasols, also a free bar and a few shops, but not to many.
ROOMS
The room we ( 2 adults ) were allocated was in block 35 and consisted of firstly a room which had 2 single beds and a tv, then a row of fitted wardrobes and the bathroom with a large shower but no bath, then the main bedroom which had a queen sized bed, tv, table and chairs, then onto the balcony which looked over one ...
BONDI
Bondi beach is perhaps the most famous beach in Australia if not the World. The glowing white sand, the cool breeze from the sea and the glorious whether make it one of the greatest tourist?s attractions in Australia. Everyone will tell you if you are in Sydney you have to go to Bondi Beach, and they are right, Bondi is one of the best experiences a tourist can have.
History:
Bondi Beach is located in the Area of Bondi, which is in Vaucluse, Sydney with an area population of about 10,000. Bondi which is originally an Aboriginal word means ?water breaking over rocks or noise of water breaking over rocks?.
Between 1855 and 1877 the area was under private ownership and it was used to allow people to come and use the area as a leisure ground and picnic spot. Eventually the area of Bondi and the beach was taken over by ...
