Sunny Days El Palacio Resort & Spa

Mahmoud Mosbah

I spent a week at this hotel and it was a week of super fun. Friendly staff, clean beaches, large territory, delicious food and everything you need for a holiday. The animators here are the best. Lots of interesting activities: volleyball, dancing, yoga. In the evening we went with the animators to the club and it was a lot of fun. Thank you very much for the pleasant time spent here.

sonja kovačević

Good overall impression considering the price. The rooms are spacious, decent and well equipped. They are cleaned every day, towels are changed. Terrace with a beautiful view of the lagoon or the open sea. The beach is excellent, those who like swimming have a lagoon, those who like shallow waters have a beach on the open sea. The food could be better. Not enough tables and a constant crowd, but friendly waiters, which cannot be said for the staff at the reception and the towel center (very unfriendly and unprofessional). Special praise for the animation team. They were great!

Aysha Butt

This place was amazing! I went with my sister for about 10 days and we experienced every part of the hotel. From the food to the animation team.. everything was lovely. I got worried when reading reviews online … about the food & the rooms but rest assured. It was absolutely perfect. The rooms were cleaned everyday, the pool and the beach was amazing! By the pool you can get pretty pink drinks made by the lovely bar staff. Our stay was made even better by Leo (the one with the golden tan) I can still hear him scream “SEVEN” which you will experience once you go there 🤣. But from the Zumba classes to water aerobics, Leo is an absolute delight. Make sure you take the time to explore the hotel.. as there is a lot to do within it & make sure you buy a sim as the wifi in the lobby is being used by hundreds of people so is incredibly slow.

Ivan Jovičić

This might be the best located hotel in Hurghada, it has it's own coral reef which is so rich in different species, vivid and colorful, it is even better than the reefs we visited in the wild. There is a lagoon, then shallow part to the north which ends with nice small reef and there is a serious reef to the north-east like from a nature documentary! People from other hotels are paying to dive at this reef! Rooms are clean, service was good, food very tasty, the only problem is it can sometimes get crowded in the restaurants

Jonathan Hoodless

Looking over previous reviews you would think you are about to enter a car crash but people really should understand that star ratings are half or even lower than what you would get in England… this is 4 stars on the website… England it would be 2 at most. So with this in mind, this should set your expectations correctly. The room… it’s basic and tired but they cleaned it every day. We did have an issue with the front door alarm and it took us 3 days to realise that when it goes off after opening it, just leave it for 30 seconds and it resets! The balcony door lock was non existent. Saying all this, the place was safe and we didn’t feel like we would be robbed! Tip of the day is give your housekeeper 100 Egyptian pounds £1.50ish) and he will look after the room. Same for the beach guy and porters. They will tell you what to eat, where to go. The food - the buffet is average. The quality is what you would expect from a 2 star place. It’s edible but not great. You will find something to eat. The buffet in the Palms de Mirette was far better and we ate there more often than not. The Russians (more on them later) don’t understand queue etiquette and just push in! The roast chicken is probably the best food we got in there. It’s a shame they didn’t do more Egyptian food as what they did put out was good… I suppose the masses don’t want this so they don’t do a lot and just stick to western food offerings which they haven’t quite grasped how to make properly; saying that, the Russians seems to stock pile their plates??!!! You get two free “a la cart” dining experiences if you stay 7+ days. These really aren’t worth it. We went to the four seasons grill restaurant and it was shockingly poor. The other was the Italian restaurant which was just as bad, so much that we walked out half way through the main course. They don’t explain how it works. There is a menu on the table. Eventually we worked out that those items with no price are part of the all inclusive deal.. the rest you do need to pay for. Fair to say,the food you pay for from what we saw coming out is where they focus on!! Drinks- you can only have small plastic cups of wine in the buffet or restaurants. They don’t sell glasses of wine at the cocktail bars. Here they only sell it in bottles and charge. The beer and the spirits are weak but you end up ordering either as they are free! Best tip is buy some duty free gin etc on the way to Egypt!! The beach and pool - these are good. Clean and tidy and the pool was slightly heated. The signs all say you are not allowed to reserve sun beds, however all the Russians (it’s over run with them) get up at 6 am and lay towels down everywhere. They block areas off in groups. They play their own music at high volume and don’t care about anyone else. You do end up getting up at 7am and going down to get some beds yourself. December time, the sun and nice temperature to lie out is from 8am until 4pm. The sun is out longer than this but the temperature just drops. The gym is good and well equipped but it has no A/C so you do get hot! Outside the hotel are lots of shops, and food places so if you need to get out and eat, you can. We did just to get a decent coffee (it’s awful in the hotel). Just be mindful that every shop you walk past, you will be asked to have a look and they have “very good prices”!! So, would we come to this hotel again? Probably not, as we have stayed at better in Hurghada, however it did work out to be roughly £21 per day per person to stay and eat here and get a sun tan, so it is cheap if that is what you are looking for. Put into perspective, a Travelodge is roughly £30 at its cheapest in the UK and that’s room only.