Guest Book

Great service and hospitality

"My husband and I stayed here for 2 nights in October. I picked it because of the great reviews here and I'm glad I did.

Mara is a very helpful lady and she runs a nice B&B style lodging. The rooms have 2 bedrooms (ours did) and a living room and mini kitchen and a bathroom. It was a lot of space for the money which was nice. Free internet was included which was nice, they do seem to shut it off around 11pm so we got locked out until the morning when we were trying to uploaded photos from our trip.

The boys working for her are really nice they carried our luggage all the way up the stairs for us which was great since it was a lot of stairs.

We used her driver to pick us up from the airport and to return. I really appreciated that she emailed me in advance to ask if I wanted this as it was very nice to have someone waiting for us at the airport and the hotel is a little hard for the Egyptians to understand since they don't know "Mara House" they think it's Maria or something like that.

I had booked our own day tours with Eye of Horus, but I'm sure we would have had better guides if I booked through Mara as she knows them and they are accountable to her to get recurring jobs. We went on a 10 hour tour and were not told in advance to bring any food by our tour guides. We are vegan and just requested fruit for breakfast, and while it was good, it was more of a snack size portion, a little pomegranate and 1 mango. For 2 people for an all day trip, we were starving. So I wish we could have had more for breakfast as we didn't have a lot of time ourselves to go out shopping as we were on tours the whole time.

On our last night one of the twin beds broke when my husband sat on it, (and he's a thin guy) we felt really bad but Mara just let us use the other bedroom instead which was nice.

We would definitely recommend staying here, it's safe and a good price. We'll be back, we need more time to see Luxor next time."