Hotel Sheherazade

Pros: Lovely Egyptian Decor Hotel.
Beautiful Egyptian wall murals and paintings throughout the common areas of the hotel. Several comfortable relaxing area to enjoy with little to no distractions.
Location is with a small local community with 5 min. walking to markets, shops, and local restaurants, 10 min. Walk to Nile River and can stroll along the riverfront walkway- corniche, though several locals will try to entice you for taxi, felucca sailing and motor boat rides, just remember to bargain bargain and bargain 1/3 to 1/2 of the prices. Public’s ferry available to go to Eastbank side for 25 EGP o/w.
Hotel management and all staff helpful and friendly.
Daily Breakfast was a nice variety of foods, with daily changes.
There’s a nice indoor and outdoor restaurant serving food & drinks all day.
Ask manager for electric kettle, cup for your room if you want to have late tea/coffee
Best to get Egyptian Sim for mobile phone. Hotel WiFi rarely works, or not at all.
Nice swimming pool area.
Clean public toilets around hotel.
Cons: You have to buy your own bottled water, best to buy at nearby market for 10 EGP liter sz., Hotel sells it 40 EGP.
You have to ask for room cleaning, not automatically done.
Hotel WiFi Doesn’t Work 99.9% of the time. There’s a Vodafone mobile shop only 5 mins. walk from the hotel
Many areas are quite dusty and strong fumes, a Facial mask maybe needed to wear.

Overall best part of the stay is the convenience to walk around and take public ferry 25 Egyptian pounds one/way to go across Nile to East Bank side, but West Bank side has everything, ancient historical sites, and peacefuln

The hotel was nice and the staff friendly, but when booking our taxi with the manager to leave, he claimed it was 2000 Egyptian pounds ($40). This seemed steep, but with no time to explore other options, we took the taxi to the airport. After only a 25 minute drive, and suspicious of the price, I asked the taxi driver what he had been paid. The hotel had paid him 500 pounds only, charging me four times the actual price!
The money loss doesn’t even bother me - it’s being lied to and scammed by the management. Truly too bad because otherwise this was a good value at a budget hotel. I’m sure the other good reviews here are accurate, but were fortunate not to have been lied to by the scammy manager.

Nice courtyard but bad food. Beef burger was a fake patty and a slice of tomato in a bread pocket. Set menu doesn’t include soup at lunch but server didn’t say so. Eggplant drowned in oil. Curry chicken was like oil chicken. Mixed grill had rock tough meat. I ordered too much and server never reminded me. Strawberry juice was pink water. Worst experience in Egypt. Would rather eat street food.

What a friendly place. Very quiet, superfriendly staff, Nice swimming pool. Good price quality ratio.
We Will be back!

The Hotel is really beautiful, it just too bad that the bedrooms are too small and there is a lot of flies…
The breakfast is correct and good !
And they have a pool ! So nice !

Loved the hotel, the staff were so helpful and friendly

Amazing place tucked away with local community- beautiful building and stunning architecture- comfortable clean bedrooms (bed very comfy) - staff were amazing- so polite/ friendly/ welcoming- really lovely guys. Had a take away breakfast beautifully packed for us as had an early morning trip booked.

Sehr nettes Personal :) authentische Umgebung :) reichliches ägyptisches Frühstück :)

Freundlichkeit des Personals

Majestic hotel, very picturesque, location is great for peace and quiet. Beautiful pool setting. Rooms a bit on the small size, staff friendly and helpful

Beautiful location and very nice staff members. The manager, Baha, was very kind and accommodating, especially when we accidentally got the hotel location wrong for our late night check in.

The garden was beautiful but the Wi-Fi was very poor in the room. We also were scratching ourselves in the night because, we think, it may have been a cleaning product used in the bed? The breakfast wasn't anything special.

The staff is very nice and helpful

Great little hotel on the West Bank. Clean, safe, comfortable. Nice pool. Easy walk to the riverfront, near good local restaurants. Owners helped arrange tours, and laundry. Very nice.

The staff were deceitful and creepy. My group was 3 women and they followed us. The hotel concept is beautiful, but the rooms are not clean and there are bugs everywhere. My friend was bit 11 times on her back and 3 on her ankle withing 6 minutes of sitting at the outdoor eating area. The food was not fresh and likely made a few days prior. We were there for only an hour and re-booked a new hotel immediately. I requested a refund and they refused expedia any compensation.

We truly enjoyed our stay. The hotel is a little oasis on the west side. Close to all the sights on that side of the river but also close to the boats that can take you to the east side with all the other temples. The hotel was in good condition, we really enjoyed the courtyard! The food was good, breakfast was a buffet. The pool was great too, even if a little too chilly for me (we went in early March). The staff asking for tips was not necessary, but everything else was great. Our room (family of 5) was spacious and everything was clean. The mattress could have been a little softer ;) but we all survived ;)

Un hôtel 2* pour un équivalent en France. Bon accueil mais personnel très insistant pour obtenir des tips H24. Les chambres sont des plus banales et pas très propres. C'est bien pour 1 nuit mais pas plus !

I booked the wrong days, I called to explain this to the front desk and I received no help. Instead the person at the front desk try to charged me double for one extra night telling me in a rude way pay or go. You will be pressed for tips even if they do nothing for you. The only polite and nice people were the kitchen staff. Be aware you get what you paid for! Our room was dirty and there was no mattress covers, just a sheet between you and a very old and dirty mattress. I had to go and get extra bedsheets to cover the mattresses. The bathroom was dirty and the fridge inside the room was not working and it smelled bad.

Un peu mitigée sur l'établissement.
Accueil en soirée moyen.
Aucune explication sur l'hotel, le petit dejeuner, le wifi (qui ne marche que vers la réception/salle pdj) ... par contre au bout de 5 min on nous propose deja une excursion très chère.
Hôtel très mignon qui mériterait un peu d'amélioration/rafraîchissement.
Salle de bain sans produit sauf 2 pauvres savons, un distributeur très encrassé et vide, pas de pression dans la douche.
Le coin piscine pourrait être plus agréable avec transats et des matelas propres.
Proposition de transfert aeroport extrêmement cher.

The property is alot larger than the description so there is alot of quiet areas to lounge and relax. The staff were all attentive and pleasant but also respected our privacy without too buch bother.
The included breakfast was the best we had in all of Africa and did not get bored of it in our week stay.
The only complaint was the WIFI and television. There was no wifi in the rooms and though you could connect in the common areas the data rate was so slow many webpages would not even load.

The property was wonderful although a shame that their internet was not working and we had to go the the nearby Thebes restaurant or the El Gezira Hotel for this. I do not know if this was only temporary or always the case.