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Hotels we would put our own families in

Contracted rates, inspected properties, and one booking that covers the hotel, the tours and the transfers.

We are a tour operator rather than a hotel booking engine, so this page works differently from the rest of the site: you tell us what you want and we come back with a quote, usually within a few hours. That is deliberate. We hold contracted rates with these properties that are frequently below the public rate, and we can bundle a hotel with your tours, transfers and Nile cruise into a single booking with one payment and one point of contact. When something goes wrong at 11pm — a room not ready, a booking not found — you call our operations desk rather than arguing at a reception counter in a second language. The hotels listed here are the ones we use ourselves and would put our own families in. Every one has been inspected by our staff, and we will tell you honestly which rooms to ask for and which to avoid.
Steigenberger Nile Palace Luxor5 star

Steigenberger Nile Palace Luxor

Khaled Ibn El Walid Street, Luxor

Directly opposite the west bank with Luxor Temple a ten-minute walk away. Large rooms, two pools and reliable air conditioning in July.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$118
per room, per night
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Steigenberger Al Dau Beach Hurghada5 star

Steigenberger Al Dau Beach Hurghada

Yussif Afifi Road, Hurghada

A well-kept beach resort south of Hurghada town with a golf course next door and a house reef reached by jetty.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$118
per room, per night
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Steigenberger Alcazar Sharm5 star

Steigenberger Alcazar Sharm

Nabq Bay, Sharm El Sheikh

Nabq Bay all-inclusive with a very large pool complex, a long private beach and consistently good food for the category.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$128
per room, per night
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Steigenberger Coraya Beach Marsa Alam5 star

Steigenberger Coraya Beach Marsa Alam

Coraya Bay, Marsa Alam

Adults-only all-inclusive on Coraya Bay with a house reef that regularly produces turtles and rays from the beach.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$132
per room, per night
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Steigenberger Pyramids Cairo5 star

Steigenberger Pyramids Cairo

Alexandria Desert Road, Giza

A modern five-star on the Alexandria desert road with unobstructed plateau views and a large pool deck. Good value against the Mena House with the same essential view.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$135
per room, per night
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Hilton Luxor Resort & Spa5 star

Hilton Luxor Resort & Spa

New Karnak, Luxor

On the east bank two kilometres north of Karnak, with a long Nile frontage, two pools and the best spa in Upper Egypt. Balloon pickups collect from the lobby.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$145
per room, per night
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Sheraton Soma Bay Resort5 star

Sheraton Soma Bay Resort

Soma Bay, Safaga Road, Hurghada

A vast Pharaonic-styled resort on the Soma Bay peninsula with a kilometre of beach, a championship golf course and one of Egypt's best kite-surfing lagoons.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$145
per room, per night
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Mövenpick Resort Aswan5 star

Mövenpick Resort Aswan

Elephantine Island, Aswan

The only hotel on Elephantine Island, reached by the hotel's own free ferry. Gardens, a large pool and a rooftop bar with a 360-degree view of the cataract.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$155
per room, per night
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Rixos Premium Seagate5 star

Rixos Premium Seagate

Nabq Bay, Sharm El Sheikh

A large ultra-all-inclusive in Nabq with an aquapark, eleven restaurants and a private beach. The strongest family option in Sharm.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$165
per room, per night
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Four Seasons Alexandria at San Stefano5 star

Four Seasons Alexandria at San Stefano

399 El Geish Road, San Stefano, Alexandria

A Mediterranean sea-front tower with a private beach and the most consistent service in the city. Twenty minutes from the Bibliotheca.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$175
per room, per night
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Kempinski Nile Hotel Cairo5 star

Kempinski Nile Hotel Cairo

12 Ahmed Ragheb Street, Garden City, Cairo

A small, quiet Garden City hotel of 191 rooms with a rooftop pool and one of the better restaurants in the city. Suits travellers who want five-star without a convention centre attached.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$185
per room, per night
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Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor5 star

Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor

Corniche El Nil, Luxor

The 1886 Victorian palace hotel on the corniche where Howard Carter announced the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. Vast gardens, high ceilings and a genuinely historic bar.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$195
per room, per night
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Marriott Mena House5 star

Marriott Mena House

6 Pyramids Road, Giza

A former royal lodge at the foot of the Giza plateau, with pyramid-view rooms that look straight at Khufu across 40 acres of jasmine gardens. The most famous hotel in Egypt, and the only one where the view is genuinely worth the premium.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$210
per room, per night
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Four Seasons Nile Plaza5 star

Four Seasons Nile Plaza

1089 Corniche El Nil, Garden City, Cairo

Corniche El Nil at its best — river-facing rooms, a garden pool deck above the traffic, and the most reliable service in Cairo. Ten minutes from the Egyptian Museum and twenty-five from Giza outside rush hour.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$265
per room, per night
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Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan5 star

Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan

Abtal El Tahrir Street, Aswan

The 1899 Moorish palace above the First Cataract where Agatha Christie wrote part of Death on the Nile. The terrace at sunset over Elephantine Island is the best drink in Egypt.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$285
per room, per night
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Four Seasons Resort Sharm El Sheikh5 star

Four Seasons Resort Sharm El Sheikh

1 Four Seasons Boulevard, Sharm El Sheikh

Terraced gardens down a hillside to a private reef beach, with a funicular between levels. The house reef is snorkellable straight off the jetty.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$295
per room, per night
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Barceló Cairo Pyramids4 star

Barceló Cairo Pyramids

229 Pyramids Road, Giza

Solid four-star ten minutes from the plateau, with a rooftop pool that faces the pyramids and rooms large enough for families.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$78
per room, per night
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Steigenberger Cecil Hotel Alexandria4 star

Steigenberger Cecil Hotel Alexandria

16 Saad Zaghloul Square, Alexandria

The 1929 hotel on Saad Zaghloul Square that housed Somerset Maugham, Churchill and the British Secret Service. Faded, characterful and perfectly placed for the corniche.

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air conditioning
  • 24-hour reception
  • Airport transfer available
From
$82
per room, per night
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