Rich Wall
Had a great week at Stella Makadi, super friendly helpful staff, amazing food all in a great location. The snorkelling from the private board wallk was amazing, we would definitely visit again.
Hartger Visser
In December people are looking for a nice calm place with plenty of sun. Thats what we got! Friendly staff, definitely a private transfer to avoid crowds.
Overall a nice and clean hotel. Food is fine, what you expect. Rooms are spacious, more like a compound around the pools. Everything close to the beach. Hurgada is a 30 minute drive, will set you back about €10.
If ypu love diving or snorkeling, its the place here.
Keith Stray
Let me start by saying this hotel is not all inclusive and it's certainly not a 4*, I would say 3* at best. The problem stems from the management, this place could be so much more if the management weren't hell bent on clawing in money.
Pros: lovely spacious rooms that are kept very clean and are well laid out.
Really nice hotel that's spread out well, nice swimming pools 2 of which have bars and gardens that are spotless all the time.
Beach is very nice with a really long pier that makes for a nice stroll. The reef at the end of the pier apparently is one of the best our friend has ever seen.
Sunbeds are plenty on the beach and around the pools with enough cushions to go round all of them.
Cons: food quite often cold or warm at best and quite repetitive daily. We never had children there but noticed there's not a lot for kids to eat unless you want to feed them pasta and chips nightly. There are no burgers, chicken nuggets or sausages etc.
Too many things need paying for, ie ice cream, smoothie, corn on the cob, pool table (2 euros) pitch and putt green (5 euros) etc (see photos). The only free place for WiFi is in reception, as you can imagine, if you have 40-50 People logged on it is so slow, you can if you want have internet in you room for the sum of £10 a day. Other prices are available as you can see. 😳
2 beach bars and pools bars constantly running out of beer and cola sometimes taking up to 40 mins to replenish.
Main bar, all inclusive ends at 11pm and bar closes at midnight. Between these times you have to pay for all drinks. Premium cocktails and mocktails are charged for all day every day.
Our hairdryer flashed, smoked and sparked one evening and it took two phone calls and a visit to reception to get it sorted, the manager himself went and looked at it and deemed it safe and treated us as if we were trying to scam something back. The following day it flashed again and we then see it was coming from the cable as it entered the dryer. (See photo)
Reception were useless and didn't want to help with anything at all. We had an uber taxi at the main gate (⅓ mile away) to go to the marina and we gave name and reg to staff as instructed by the rep to let them in and they refused saying we had to take shuttle bus which never arrived, so taxi ended up leaving after we had paid on the app. This happend twice.
Quite a few of the staff are a bit rude and grumpy. Our room cleaner and the reception toilet cleaner man always had a smile on his face as did the lady on the door as you entered the dinning hall.
It may be cheap but you get what you pay for.
Sarah Barton
The rooms were very clean lots of swimming pools to choose from although only one heated pool which was full of children and the other pools were far too cold to go in and not always clean. The food was acceptable and I didn't get any upset tummy which I normally get when visiting Egypt. The hotel staff were not as friendly as a lot of other hotels I have stayed in in Egypt and I wouldn't really say the hotel was 5 star but it was ok. I wasn't very happy when the reception called us at 1.30 am and woke us up due to a drunken prank caller, no apology or anything. We paid for the WIFI but to be honest it was rubbish and kept dropping out so I wouldn't bother again. The beach is accessed via a shuttle bus and there was a huge pipe going into the sea which looked like
a sewage pipe so I wouldn't go in. The holiday was ok but I have had better in Egypt.
Sarah Barton
A lovely hotel, staff are great and the place is very clean.... Not having wifi in rooms is disappointing, food ok but could of been a bit less repetitive. However overall lovely place, would stay here again
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