Steigenberger Coraya Beach - Adults Friendly 16 Years Plus

Fantastic staff, looked after me very well as a single woman traveller

We stayed during Christmas 2012 with our adult children on half board basis (NB: there are few, if any, restaurants outside of the hotel complex). The hotel and its food were superb and the beach and sea at 21C offered amazing swimming and snorkelling. There was a host of recreational activities to suit all ages and levels of activity (many free, but some chargeable but not in local currency - usually Euros). The hotel had gone out of its way for its clients to celebrate Christmas - at our Christmas eve dinner we were offered no less than 60x different desserts - some gala dinner this was. We will definately return. Note that the hotel is not at Marsa Alam town which is about 65 Kms south of the hotel; although Marsa Alam airport is about 5 Kms south of the hotel. The hotel's web site is not that clear precisely where the hotel is located and Google Maps at times confuses the location of the Lamaya and Coraya hotels. The Iberotel Coraya Beach hotel is in fact at 25.604931,34.60395 (Lat/longs). This information is important as the local taxi prices are extortionate for such short journeys and the hotel mini bus is even more expensive at 40 Euros for each journey to/from the airport. Fortunately, one of our sons lives in Cairo and was able to arrange a much cheaper taxi. In fairness this is the only negative that we experienced and one which the hotel should consider changing to attract independent overseas visitors. Overall, a superb hotel and resort to spend Christmas.

We stayed in Marsa Alam for the diving and stayed at this hotel for the reviews. We were glad we stayed here. The Staff is really helpful and the property is beautiful. It is just a short 10 min walk to the dive center, or you can take their free transfers. Book the dives in advance! We didn't book one of the dives in advance and were not able to go to the Dolphin House. However, we went to another spot for Dolphins and swam with a pod of 9 wild dolphins, one was a baby. We swam with them for about an hour then we were too tired and returned to the boat. The dive site was Shaab Marsa Alam. The food was good and had a large selection. We did get sick from the food in Egypt as a whole, but we ate outside of the hotel as well. There is a pharmacy close by that has medication that helped fast. If you plan on going to Luxor, book with the hotel. We arranged it with a another tour company who woke us up twice for our passport and were not able to get us through the check points and so just didn't pick us up at 5 am. We are from the US which is part of the problem. But, that was our last full day there, so we never made it to Luxor. The hotel could have arranged something for us if we told them a day in advance. Maybe next time.