We loved this hotel, and Makadi in general. Beautiful property, good food, a breathtaking snorkelingparadise just outside the door and not to forget the wonderful staff! They did'nt know what good they could do for us! We are comming back for sure, and we will recomend this to everyone!

We arrived at The Grand and was shown to our suite which we really couldn't fault it was stunning plenty of room for my husband and myself, the bed was huge, and very comfortable, large bathroom equipped with hair dryer ( which was handy as I forgot mine) beach towels provided every day. The only negative I could say was that, all tv channels bar one was in German. O and the minibar... The drinks that were in the minibar were a year out of date!! When we asked for fresh drinks to be replaced the hotel refused!
The pools and grounds were amazing, the beach equally amazing!
We visited the Italian restaurant but wasn't keen the food wasn't real Italian, I ordered mushroom risotto and got boiled rice with mushrooms on top! And their portion control is very controlled, my husband and I found that some of the staff in the Italian restaurant were quite rude and favoured the Germans over the English and made this very noticeable.
The international buffet restaurant food was ok edible at least until I found a huge cooked caterpillar in my broccoli which slightly put me off! The majority of the food catered for the Germans, and the restaurant had German corners but no English corners! The majority of the staff spoke in German and very little English and presumed every one was German.
We don't have children but started to chat to a family who told us that their kids couldnt join in the entertainment as it was all in German!! Although the evening entertainment was ok.
We went to Luxor for the day £75 per adult and was an amazing experience, very long day set off at 5.45am and didn't arrive back at the hotel until 10pm , but well worth it! Just be warned on every stop that the coach makes there are Egyptians waiting for you begging for money, you just can't get away from it, out of the 32 people on the trip my husband and I were the only English so had our own tour guide, he seemed to let the Egyptians know that we were english and we were just hounded, which slightly spoilt it for us and we both felt quite intimidated and at times put in very frightening situations, our tour guide never intervened and told us he couldn't as he does the trip daily and couldn't lose face to the Egyptians!!! Just be very prepared on the trips keep your money very safe and don't give in to the beggars ( sounds harsh I know, but if you do go on the trips, you will understand) if you do want to go on the trips, pay by English money we paid by Egyptian money and instead of paying £150 we ended up paying £180, when we realised this we had a word with the rep and he reluctantly gave us the £30 back!!! ( the exchange rate was 8.8 to the pound but the rep rounded it off to 10 eygyptian pounds to the uk pound, which is quite clearly wrong and did it to everyone but when we spoke to him about it he was very shocked and paid us back out of his own money!!! Which kinda told us something his name incidentally was Con, ha ha which was a little ironic!!! So becareful!!!!!
The hotel was predominantly for the Germans and we did feel outcast and definetly the minority, ( the Germans are very rude once they know your English, and will push into you jump queue in front of you etc.... Very rude, no manners and seem to carry a chip on their shoulder, which is very sad to see!!!!

We did have a fab holiday and it was a great experience, the hotel as I mentioned earlier was stunning, the beach stunning and the coral omg amazing!!!!
Would I go back......???????

We stayed here from 18-25 November. We'd paid extra for a junior suite, which was comfortable but basic, and a coat of paint would have served them well. The bathroom again was adequate but not remotely luxurious. But it's mainly the food and drink we had issues with - my husband (who usually has a cast iron stomach) was violently ill for four days out of the week we stayed there. I've got crohn's disease so tend to be more careful on holidays and stick to bread/pasta based dishes, but 6 weeks on , and several courses of antibiotics later, on my husband still isn't right. We'd lost faith in the hotel staff by this time so just rode it out, but would I recommend this as a holiday? Never.

We always stay in five star, usually booked last minute, and this wasn't anything like the standard we would expect. And being asked to pay an extra supplement for better quality drinks on an 'all-inclusive five star holiday' is a bit of a contradiction. Had we not seen the five start resorts adjoining the hotel I might have thought that maybe Egyptian's five star is a bit less, but the other two were lovely, clean, well maintained and luxurious. This was just a trading standards rip off.

Just come back from this hotel. We had a junior suite - a large room with gigantic bed, a sofa and 2 chairs. I am not going to go into detail about the hotel but I had seen some not very flattering reviews before coming here. I cannot understand how people can complain as you get so much for your money. The rooms are spotless, the food in the various restaurants is good and the staff never asked for, or expected tips. We tipped about 50p for main meals but loads of people didn't give anything.
We have been to 5 different Red Sea hotels and this one is the best. We have been to Sharm and Taba as well but rate this above all the Hiltons etc we have stayed in.
Some say the Makadi Palace is better, it is smarter looking, but we found it soulless and it hardly had any beach front - all the residents came to the Grand Makadi during the day.

There are a couple of pathetic annoyances - the lighting in the rooms is too dim for reading and we got asked constantly if we wanted a massage/manicure/photo shoot when sun-bathing (they did take no for an answer but it was still a little irritating).