Dahab Paradise

Facilities

• Dining: There's a restaurant plus bar, which serves alcohol throughout the day.
• Communal areas: There's a small Bedouin sitting area, and symmetrical garden of palm trees surrounding the pool, overlooked by the rooms.
• Internet Access: Free WiFi is available throughout the hotel for laptop junkies.
• Swimming Pool: The circular pool, inspired by the sun and moon, flanked by loungers, is extremely popular with guests.
• Spa Treatments: You can have a variety of massages in your room.
• Recreational: Weekly music nights around the sunken fireplace are excellent. There are books and games at reception. There's a volleyball net which can be set up between the hotel and the palm trees.
• Weddings and Celebrations: Dahab Paradise can be exclusively reserved for weddings, but you'd have to book in advance. If you wanted to have any form of religious ceremony on site, this would have to be arranged independently with the relevant embassy in Cairo.
• Max. Wedding Guests: 70
• Meetings/Functions: Not suitable.
• Disabled Access: Not suitable.
• Pets: Not permitted.
• Languages Spoken: English, Arabic, French, Norwegian, some Swedish and Danish
• Parking: Parking spaces at the back of the hotel, free of charge.

Also...

• There’s a doctor on 24-hour standby in case you’re ill.

Environmental Policy

All organic waste is delivered directly to local Bedouin women to be fed to their goats. Non organic waste is collected by a local waste collection company and sent to Cairo for recycling. Guests are encouraged to minimise water consumption and taps are checked regularly for leakages or dripping.

Social Responsibility

Dahab Paradise sets great store on its relationship with the local Bedouins. Its land is still owned by the Bedouins, and the running of Dahab Paradise provides them with a predictable and decent income every month. The Bedouins arrange local trips and play traditional music at the fireplace. The reception and some of the rooms are decorated with traditional Bedouin handicrafts from the EU-supported project ‘Fan Sinai’ (‘Art of Sinai’) in St Catherine village, which allows Bedouin women to make their own living and maintain traditional skills. The hotel offers their Egyptian and Bedouin staff weekly English lessons.

When to go?

Dahab grows more popular by the week and can get quite busy in peak season, though the hotel is out of town, thus protected from effects of ever-growing numbers. Avoid the European summer, when the Egyptian sun is at its hottest.

You’re better off avoiding Ramadan, when some businesses in Egypt will close for the whole month, although in Dahab all local businesses are open as usual. It is advised to be respectful during this time of fasting by not smoking or drinking directly in front of the locals. And if you are travelling over holidays – Eid al-Adha, Ras an-Sana - expect the rest of Egypt to be competing for your seat. The dates for these holidays change every year, so check before planning your trip.

Author's tips

If you’ve never been snorkelling before, then you won’t know how easy it is to get sunburnt. You’re going to spend a lot of time with your back exposed to the sun and you’re in the water, so the factor 50 will soon wash away. So wear a T-shirt.

Features include:

• Restaurant
• Room service
• Bar
• Garden
• Terrace
• Internet access
• WIFI internet
• Outdoor pool
• In room treatments available
• Massage
• Concierge service
• Safety deposit facilities
• Volleyball
• Off street parking
• Airport Transfers