Excellent Hotel restored my faith in Egypt

Advantages: Staff were great
Disadvantages: none really

...Gardens is right next door and looks more estabilshed so if its cheaper stay there as you can use both hotels so save some cash. Highly recc trip to Hurghada Marina we got a minibus for 60epds (approx 8pds) return. Very classy and no hassle lovely to relax and watch the boats mooring we ate in the large Indian and food is 5*. Also booked snorkle trip to Paradise Island which was OK - heard one family paid £13 each and I had paid £30 booking online at home so maybe worth a trip to Hurghada to get £13 if family !! (£50 TC) Been to Luxor 10 yrs ago on Nile Cruise and a week in Luxor which was great and authentic, nothing prepared me for Sharm in xmas 2007 swore Id never go to Egypt again as I really disliked it especially Nama Bay , but our friends insisted on a easy Egypt and we picked Hurghada- good choice. So pleased we did as...

ALIBESCAT 23.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sunrise Mamlouk Hotel, Hurghada

Fantastic Hotel Shame About Sharm And Booze!

Advantages: Great staff, Great food, Great surroundings
Disadvantages: The drink, not much to see if you don't dive or snorkel

...We stayed here for two weeks all-inclusive at christmas and new year 2006/2007, we being my wife and I, and we picked it as it had very good reviews on trip advisor and was very reasonably priced. Sharm El Sheikh Sharm is a man made resort on the red sea coast and is basically just one straight road in the desert, running parrallel with the coast, with the airport in the middle and then many hotels either side of it. The hotels themselves are more like mini resorts than just hotels, and are either on the sea side of the road with sea frontage or the desert side with none but access to a beach over the road. Many of the hotels have more than one pool and some have fun pools with slides and water falls etc., they also have other things going on like zoo's, casinos, shopping centres etc.. They all seem to have multiple...

johnny040676 19.06.2008 (02.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of The Hauza Beach Resort Hotel, Egypt

Tropicana Amarante Garden Palms Hotel, Sharm Egypt

Advantages: Great food, clean and friendly.
Disadvantages: No beach, lost sister Hotel Grand Oasis, the 5.30am sunbed securing

...Just returned from this hotel, very nice clean friendly hotel with a fantastic restaurant, but my only gripe is that the hotel is no longer part of the 'Tropicana' group and as such the deal is off as far as using the 'Tropicana Grand Oasis' facilities and beach! It's now owned by 'Amarante' This makes a huge crimp in your stay firstly as a beach user or snorkeller as Garden Palms has no beach and the bus service run by the hotel now takes you to a local public beach about 20 mins away, as you can imagine the beach is crammed full, so it is difficult to get shade when you need it and it's not particularly clean, second problem that arises from the 'no beach' situation is that if you want to sit around the pool a bed needs to be secured with your towel by 6am, this is made a problem by not enough beds for everyone and no-where else to...

Chelley1 25.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Tropicana Garden Palms Hotel, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Exciting Egypt!!

Advantages: cheap, only 5 hours away, amazing weather, amazing sites!
Disadvantages: heat (for some may be disadvantage), annoying hagglers

..., including the Hard Rock Cafe and there are lots of shops and market stalls to look at. Just beware this is Hagglers Row, it will take you a long time to get through all the stall holders so beware!! For the younger generation, or the older of course (!) there is Pacha so get your dancing shoes on!! Our main experience whilst in Egypt was the pyramids in Cairo! What an amazing sight and a MUST if you are contemplating a trip to Egypt! We booked ours through a seperate company at our hotel but can also be booked through your tour operator - however we did discover from our group on the trip that we had all paid quite different prices for the trip so its probably a good idea to shop around before you make your final decision. We ended up paying around £300 for the whole trip. We opted for the short 40min flight over to Cairo; you can take...

rhinoklo 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of General: Egypt

The Other Side To Egypt

Advantages: Very clean, excellent staff, superb facilities, great location
Disadvantages: Food is not labelled very well

...My boyfriend and 3 friends have just got back from staying in the Hilton Sharks Bay hotel in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt. This hotel has been awarded 4 * and has 317 rooms. We mainly booked this holiday to complete our PADI open water diving course as The Red Sea is meant to be one of the best places to do this, and we found that it was reasonably priced to stay in the Hilton so off we went? Travel Time from The UK We flew from London Gatwick and our flight took just over 5 hours which I consider to be a relatively short flight to get to somewhere so hot ? not like my last flight which was 16 odd hours! Hilton Sharks Bay is very close to the airport and it took s about 15 minutes for the transfer which was included in the price of our holiday. Price We paid £575 per person for 11 nights on an all inclusive basis which I...

daylehall 28.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Hilton Sharks Bay; Sharm El Sheik, Egypt

Hotel International

Advantages: Location, breakfasts
Disadvantages: Poor rooms

...I recently went on a cultural girlie trip with a friend to Paris. I was left to do all the booking. I was looking for a reasonable hotel, near a metro stop, which included breakfast. I came across the Hotel International on various travel sites and it seemed fairly highly rated so I booked us in for three nights. LOCATION: The hotel is located 6 Rue Auguste Barbier in the 11th Arrondissement. The nearest Metro stop is Garcourt which was a two minute walk away and it was a five minute walk to Republique which gives good links to other lines. It's not really central enough to avoid the Metro and walk to the attractions but it was located so close to a stop that it seemed ideal. PRICE: Prices vary depending on size of room and season. There are singles, doubles and triples available. We paid Euro254 for the whole time...

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Review of Hotel International, Paris

A very top 4* Hotel

Advantages: Exceptionally clean, friendly, peaceful and top food
Disadvantages: Nightly entertainment, spirits.

.... You can walk to Naama bay in half an hour i believe but you get hassled by traders. Unfortunately the 3 terrorist explosions went off in Dahab while we were staying, so we didn't venture out, but everything carried on regardless in the hotel. OVERALL: We found the complex to be outstandingly peaceful and relaxing- only a couple of kids and no rowdy pool games-great. So, don't come here if you don't like sunbathing/reading/realxing all day! Suitable for couples and anyone who is looking for a high standard peaceful holiday. I thoroughly recommend this as a very high 4* and will definately return to Egypt again as there is plenty i would like to see and do. I have come back with a very good 1st impression of Egypt's people, their food and cleanliness....

Gizzyboy 06.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Tropicana Garden Palms Hotel, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Hauza Resort - overview

Advantages: Cheap and lovely atmosphere
Disadvantages: Too much entertainment

...This May me and my boyfriend decided that we were ready to go away together, unfortunately like a lot of people we didn?t have a lot of money, so we decided that anywhere in Europe would be out of the question (the euro!) and we wanted to go somewhere popular so that we knew we wouldn?t be wasting our money. We finally decided Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt as we?d never been there before, it would be nice and hot in May and we could afford it. I?ve never been all inclusive but I knew that I wouldn?t be taking a lot of spending money and therefore all inclusive was the only option, and so we booked 11 nights in the Hauza Beach hotel Booking the holiday was easy, it was all done in a ten minute phone call to the holiday operator who we was put in touch with via teletext holidays. The lady on the phone recommended the Hauza as she said it...

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Review of The Hauza Beach Resort Hotel, Egypt

Naff entertainment included

Advantages: All inclusive price, lovely grounds, quality rooms
Disadvantages: Unhelpful waiters, poor facility booking, naff entertainment

...There is a group of us that visit Egypt regularly to go scuba diving. Sometimes we stay on a liveaboard (living on a dive boat for a week) and sometimes we stay in hotels, but I usually leave it up to someone else to book the holiday once the destination and dates have been agreed. This is how I ended up staying in the Grand Plaza in Hurghada, Egypt, someone else booked it for me. They chose it as it is supposed to be Egypt?s first ?all inclusive? hotel. Those of you who have holidayed in the Caribbean will have an idea of what we expected ? endless food, drink and decent entertainment. Expect to be bloated and drunk for 90% of the holiday, after all you have paid for it! Well, it wasn?t quite like that, I?m afraid to say. Previous Egyptian holidays staying in the Hilton, Sonesta Beach and the Movenpick have led me to expect...

offy 15.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Grand Plaza Hotel (Egypt)

Norbreck Castle Hotel

Advantages: Out of the town
Disadvantages: Too many people!

...I'm glad that I did not get to read any of the reviews before I went to this hotel, or see the Holidays from Hell programme the night before! The hotel can be found along the seafront, about three miles from the main centre of Blackpool, heading out towards Fleetwood. It is now under the Britannia hotels group and it is easily accessible by tram and bus. We used the trams the whole time instead of me driving all the time. My husband, my two youngest children and myself went last week for a couple of nights, after finding an advert which gave a special price of £35 per person dinner bed and breakfast per night. The two children were included free of charge, including their meals. The advert did state that the hotel was ungoing a £7million pound upgrade, and that some services may not be available. This did not deter us as we...

sarah110 18.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of Norbreck Castle Hotel, Blackpool