Comfortable but conventional mid range accommodation which lacks character and has a dated feel to the décor. The spacious grounds offer a good array of facilities and a sizeable beach which compensates for the isolated location with nothing but desert and mountains for miles. Suits those not intending to leave their sunbed apart from maybe the odd day trip.

Exterior

An attractive complex of local style 2-storey buildings with small domes and wood railed balconies, and a 2 storey main building.

Property type: Hotel

Interior

A spacious, marble-floored lobby edged with shops has a central sunken lounge area with leafy plants in brass tubs. A pleasant cane furnished lounge has wireless access for laptop owners, and a small sports bar with pool tables opens to a sea-facing patio. On the ground floor are a rustic Italian a la carte with a pergola covered patio, and an atrractive main buffet restaurant with low arches, a blue tiled floor, pine seating and a pleasant wood and glass conservatory section. A rooftop Lebanese eatery extends to a terrace for shisha pipe smoking.

Rooms: 348

Grounds

Landscaped gardens have neat box hedges, small lawns, trees and flowerbeds. A large concrete pool deck has a sizeable split-level pool with an island connected by a bridge and a thatched bar with a swim up section. Plenty of loungers are available, some under long thatched fixed shades and there is a shady grill restaurant. A few steps lead to a wide man-made beach with a rocky seabed, jetty, fixed thatched shade, loungers, windbreaks, a bar hut and a Bedouin tent area with shisha pipes and evening entertainment. A 1.3 mile jogging track circles the resort.

Location

Area Type: At the end of a long palm-fringed driveway off the the narrow main road to Taba, on the beachfront in an isolated location backed by dramatic desert mountains and surrounded by unfinished abandoned buildings. Taba Heights 3 mls; Taba village 15 mls; Sharm el Sheikh 118 mls.

Nearest beach: immediate yds