Guest Book

As close as possible to Egyptian life

"First of all I'd like to thank Mara for keeping us updated re events in Egypt. If it wasn't for her updates we would've missed on the most beautiful experience! We absolutely loved our stay and Luxor was the place where we started feeling truly relaxed and safe. It all can be attributed to the setup, location and staff of Mara House.

At first we were disappointed to come to Luxor to find out that Mara herself was in Ireland, but this disappointment lasted only a few minutes. The guys who were in charge of the hotel, Azez and Amr, were incredibly helpful, thoughtful, professional, polite, friendly. I guess you can see that we liked them 🙂 Also Mara has a very detail guide to the city, customs, etc that was invaluable to us. So her absence wasn't a problem after all.

The rooms are so tastefully decorated in the Egyptian manner, they are spacious, immaculately clean and comfortable. The showers were clean and spacious too, we read that some people didn't like the setup (wet rooms), but as we knew what to expect it was no issue at all.

I am a light sleeper, so mullahs were waking me up with their prayer calls, but otherwise it was nice and quiet.

We loved that the house is in the midst of an Egyptian suburb, we chose to walk to the center and back every day and enjoyed the interactions with the local people. We even ventured into eating from streets stalls, etc, it was a great experience that we would've missed if we stayed elsewhere.
We took advantage of tours that Mara facilitates. Enjoyed the trip to Abydos and Dendara. Also saw a sunrise from a hot air balloon.

We are extremely happy with the stay, not only we enjoyed Luxor, but we became totally relaxed and started enjoying our trip to the full extend. Thanks Mara, Azez and Amr"