Was a nice stay in DLX room with a sea view. Daily cleaned, food was delicious, drinks as well. Staff were amazing, helpful and kind. There is a pier to go for open ocean. Very usefull for (lets say advanced) snorchelers. You may join the program there to not get bored. Big thank you to the staff and all the respect to them! When we will need again rest after diving, we will happily come back here, without a doubt 🙂 Petra & Daniel

I have to complain just about guest's behavior. It is such a shame, how some guest behave with no respect to the locals and other guests - ordering drinks and food in their mother tongue, not even try to speak at least english or OMG in arrabic to the staff. "Ladies" wearing tanga swim suit with negligee in the restautant and their husbands do not say anything - keep in mind that locals are muslims and you are the visitors, so have some respect people!!!!!, and wear the proper dress code as said, and to have respect to other guests as well) . Was not really nice to look at the fatty butts while eating. And I mean fatty as it is.

This resort really exceeded our expectations and provided us with everything we needed after 15 days of touring the country - note: so many of the things said in the "bad reviews" that I read before booking are simply not true. We wanted comfort, relaxation, a clean beach, snorkelling, suntanning, and more than one restaurant during our 5-nights stay - and that is what you get. For the price of two dorm beds in Europe (70 euros) we had a gorgeous sea view (upgrade, babayyy), big beds, and a spacious bathroom in a private room. We had plenty of water given to us, lots of access to alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (aka ;) mixers) all day long and found the variety of restaurants (plus snacks) combined with the international buffet to be good enough - and even very good sometimes. The service staff working in the restaurant speaks several different languages and they were all very friendly and accommodating to us - we even met the head chef several times who was also happy to explain the menu and share a laugh with my Italian friend. Laying out by the pools and going to the spa for massages (twice in fact, cause it is very affordable!) felt very luxurious for us - there is also water and juices served by all the pools. The sea was clean, and the snorkelling we did was fine, but I would recommend going on a a tour to a coral reef during a day trip - we also recommend the quad desert tour - it was awesome! The guy who coordinates the social events and dances with FIRE is super cool - very nice person and super talented too! Don't miss his show! Finally when we checked out on our last day they let us stay in our room til 3 pm which was very kind of them and allowed us to use the pool for a few last hours before returning to cold, grey Germany. I would totally stay at this place again for a week or so, as it was very chill and a great deal. (Pro-tip: bring your own bottle of gin/vodka ;)

More of the staff could have spoken better English or even Italian. It was sometimes a bit hard to communicate with the people at the spa - who also seemed to have trouble doing math at times. Make sure to double check the prices at the spa and confirm things more than once. Other than that the rooms do indeed have older installations but we did not care about this too much since the price and location was so great.

The Elphistone Resort is located in the Northern area of Marsa Alam, around 30 km from the Marsa Alam center away. North and south of the resort is no direct neighborhood resort. The resort is quite big with six 3 floor bedroom buildings, shopping area, dining hall and lobby hall. There are two pools and a big beach area with seating availability. The access to the water is very good and shallow. The room is spacious, the bath has a bath tub with shower, warm water was available very well. We booked full board and therefore had access to the food buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The food is mostly European dishes and seldom oriental food, but enough choices and lots of vegetables. Service and support of the staff is very good and many of the staff speak up to 4 European languages.

The building is quite old and you can see the shiny times are over, since necessary repairs are not done every were and infrastructure investments are missing. For example our air condition was broken the last day of our stay and could not be repaired in time. There is no internet in the rooms. WiFi is only available in the lobby hall. It is recommended to bring a mobile WiFi router. Egyptian data SIM cards can be purchased in the resort. There are no mosquito nets in front of the balcony doors. Leaving them open will result in an unpleasant night. Purchases within the resort can only be done in EUR or USD.

The hotel is in a lovely location with it's own private beach. We were upgraded to a sea view room which was absolutely lovely. The third bed in the triple room was privately located the other side of the bathroom which was really nice. The food in the buffet was well cooked and there was enough variety during our stay for us all to choose something we would like to eat. We received fruit and drinks as a welcome gift which we really enjoyed and Ibrahim took good care of our room throughout our stay. We chose the hotel primarily as we planned to go scuba diving, and we really liked the opportunity to snorkel at the Elphinstone Reef from the end of the jetty which was available on the resort under the watchful eye of the lifeguard. It felt very safe.

There were various men working on a commission only basis for the spa on the resort. They were quite insistent and spoiled some of the relaxation we were trying to get whilst on holiday. To point out that I have a moustache that needs taking care off (female) and a healing mask would take care of the terrible spots and redness on my face are not great selling techniques and are a bit insulting!!

Great beach, great food, also lots of variety for vegetarians. Waiting staff at the restaurant and pool bar excellent (especially Mohamed Saber).

Animation staff very pushy and insistent , same with tour guides that pressure you all the time to book something with them. If you're too friendly in the beginning you never get rid of them. There is a possibility to avoid them by picking up a red flag from the towel pick up place, but the hotel did not inform us of this. In my opinion, It´s a 4 star hotel based on Egyptian standards, not a 4 star European standard. Still , value for money is great!

My reviews are based on price vs services. Simply delightful as nice facilities, we were offered an upgrade with a lovely beach view as room service came daily and always bottled water available in the room. The buffet is very good only minus is breakfast being a little repetitive but both lunch and dinner always had different things every day. Something no one explains is that there's the drinks that are included in the all inclusive that includes some of the most common cocktails but there's also premium ones that have a cost, not a lot but if you want something branded or premium there's an extra for that. The beach is the Star of the resort we'll kept only a little coral and rocks, in general I don't think you need water shoes but if you like to explore yeah use them. Night activities are good and the animation team tries their best, fire show I recomend. For the price we payed for a week it's one bang for the buck for sure.

I loved this hotel to be honest! it exceeded my expectations given their price. The location is great, the food is AMAZING! they pay a lot of attention to the food, there are variety for everyone, the executive chef is always in the bouffe, making sure everything is done well. They have a Varity of healthy and vegetarian food options, seriously the food was the best thing in the hotel, great work from the F&B team. For the room the view was great, it was very clean and spacious. We also loved that their is a diving center in the hotel because it helped us dive, and relax in the hotel together. The diving center is great! huge thanks to Hassan for facilitating our dives and for Ramy for helping us get certified for our Advanced diving course.

My only two negative comments would be the animation team. There was a guy called Karash, he was asking us wired questions all the time, we were two girls on our own in this trip and he wasn't being respectful! he kept asking us how much we paid for the hotel and how we don't look Egyptian! so be carful from this guy! However, the hotel was very safe for us we didn't receive any other negative attitude from anyone else. I also want to mention that the bed mattress wasn't comfortable at all maybe this needs enhancement as well. But these two comments didn't highly affect our stay as everything else was great.

This large resort is 30 minutes from Marsa Alam airport. It served the best food I’ve ever had in Egypt during many years of travel there. One evening there was a superb filet mignon. The restaurant service team is really attentive and polite. The gardens are also really beautiful and continuously tended to. The resort has four pools, one is a quiet adult-only pool and another is heated which was nice now in the colder off season. The resort is not sheltered by wind as much, so very windy conditions result in a red flag requiring guests to stay inside the reef which still lets you swim in the ocean in the shallow. There was some animation by the pool and beach area, however finishing at a 11pmish at the latest.

I thought our stay was exceptional. The majority of the staff were absolutely amazing, including Mohamed Ali at the restaurant who took our drink orders and brought them to us quickly. He also helped us with finding somewhere to sit every day. The bartenders at the reception bar and pool bar were very good, making good cocktails. Pool bar especially, you should definitely try the special. The coral reef is completely out of this world. We swam with a 1.5m diameter turtle twice at the reef. We also swam with a pod of dolphins twice. There are many other fish types at the reef too and it is not crowded by people. The reef is very colourful and better than anything I have ever seen in Egypt or abroad. The food was exceptional, especially the barbeque area. The beach lifeguard was very good constantly watching the sea to identify wildlife such as dolphins and to make sure tourists are swimming safely. Hotel shampoo, conditioner and body lotion was very good and worked well. The spa is pretty cheap and very good for massages, it charges 120 dollars for 3 massages and a hammam. Some very good shops selling sun cream and souvenirs. The one outside run by idris sells very nice handmade goods.

The water used to water the plants and lawn smelt very bad. The beach bar was not great. Only the Pina colada was drinkable. Sometimes you would queue for 15 mins and still not get served then give up. The bartender had clear favorites who he brought drinks to. None of the hotel staff here aside from one person at reception speak great English. I believe they speak Italian and German though, but not English. Some of the staff hassled us and made us feel uncomfortable as female travelers. But this was only 2 people.

The main thing I liked about the hotel was the 3 meals where the variety was amazing the quality pretty good and the service staff were always friendly and smiling and the hotel manager was always there to keep and eye on things. The pools were great and so was the beach and pier. Our waiter Abdelfattah was really nice and kept our same table every day, also offered puzzles for us to solve after we ate.

The hotel has seen better days, and probably needs an upgrade and refurbishment, the furniture a little dated and had some trouble with the evening entertainment noise, but at least it stopped around 11 pm.