This hotel is in a great position to go up mount Moses/Sinai and in reality we went up during the night so only slept for a few hours anyway but being honest its not a great hotel. When we arrived we checked in and sat down at the pool which is past its best days. We tried to get a drink but all they seemed to have was cartons of juice which we had to wait a long time for. The food was fine and the location is good but the rooms are very tired and old. It does have a nice little market in the courtyard which stays open late which was handy (especially replacing a broken suitcase!)

That said we were only using it as base and the trip up the mountain by camel was fabulous! We loved our journey to see the sunrise so much we're putting our experiences into a website (not yet finished but you can read what we've done so far at www.our-egypt-holiday-experience.com.

Would recommend simply on the basis of location

The only thing good about this hotel is that it is close to the St. Catherine monestary and Mt. Siani. After reading the other reviews of this hotel on trip advisor prior to our trip, I was forwarned but I hoped that the reviews were exagerated. They weren't. This is the only hotel in town, otherwise no group would ever book their people here. The hotel is in terrible disrepair. The list of issues would be very long but I will include just a few. The service is generally non-existent with a few exceptions. We did not recieve housekeeping so I had to go to the front desk to notify them and ask for clean towels. The front desk manager did not apologize, in fact made an irrated sound and rung for a housekeeper. I felt like I was putting him out. The phones did not work in the majority of rooms. The rooms were extremely dirty with the exception that the sheets looked clean. No amenities except soap. No hair drier. Electrical plugs, lamps and lights did not all work. The slider door did not lock. There are no room safes and a limited number safes at the front desk so get yours early. The food was average, but nothing to rave about. Instant coffee. Lots of stray cats, which is usual in Egypt, but some of these were in pretty bad shape. One person in our group reported that she found bed bugs but no other people found any. On the positive side, the room was cool, queit and the mattress comfortable. I wouldn't reccomend this hotel but since it is the only hotel, you have no choice.

Can't comment on bedrooms as we were fortunate enough not to have to spend the night there... Our two visits were evening and morning stop-offs either side of the ascent of Mt. Sinai as part of a guided tour . If your tour involves an overnight at this hotel then either expect the worst or cancel.. It was filthy, the toilets were indeed disgusting, in the evening we saw dirty dinner plates piled high on a table opposite the gents...A morning stop-off included breakfast, but one look at the dining room and the cold platter which had clearly been waiting there some time was enough to make us turn around and wait outside for an hour and a half...

we only vivted this hotel for half an hour thankfully, we had climed mount sinai at 2pm that morning, and the trip had breakfast included at this hotel, as you can imagine we were all starving, as we had not eaten since the night before. From the outside it looked ok, but when we entered the restaurant it was completely different. The tables were filthy and the walls. The hot food choice consisted of a tray of stir fry that looked days old, some boiled eggs, and i think porridge. The cold food was curled up meat, mouldy cheese and some tomatoes and cucumber.
The coffee was instant and the milk floated on top. There was a plate of cobs near the door, the only thing that looked edible, so we all took plenty of those. As i sat eating my cob, i glanced over towards the plate of cobs, to see one of their employee's picking them all up and rearranging them, with his bare hands! As you can imagine my husband and i could no longer eat them!
The last straw was the toilets, you could smell them before you got there! disgusting.
Luckily we were only there for that half hour!