Dahab Paradise

Rooms

The hotel's U-shaped structure echoes the mountain behind, and faces the Red Sea. Rooms keep you happy. They’re not overly elaborate, but what you get fits the price and during our stay other guests seemed very content. Best of all, the hotel is designed so that every room has a terrace or balcony.

The terraces are quite sociable as they open onto the lawn and you can stroll over to the bar and pick up a beer. So if you want to hide away, go for first floor rooms as the balconies are more private. Both come with deckchairs and long views that shoot across the Red Sea and end up in the mountains of Saudi Arabia 21 kilometres away.

Rooms all come in the same colour and style. You get warm yellows, wooden beds, air conditioning and flat-screen TVs (in all rooms on the 1st floor and some of the ground floor rooms). There are high ceilings, small fridges, terracotta tiles, handcrafted reclaimed furniture, double curtains to keep out the early sun rays.

Beds come wrapped in crisp white linen (10 rooms are doubles, for the others the double beds amount to two singles pushed together) and housekeeping will service your room every day. Bathrooms are fine: pretty tiles, big mirrors, and a constant supply of hot water in small shower cubicles.