Guest Book

Mara Really Looked After Us, Great Value for Money

"Rooms are spacious, as they really are apartments, not so much a hotel. Different configurations in the apartments, some with 1 bedroom, some with 2 bedrooms, some with 3 even. No TV in our room. Nice rooftop area to relax, as well as downstairs bar area to have a tea or drink. The bathrooms are just one big tiled area (no bath), so the water from the shower is not contained in one place. Mara house is in a quite street, but you can clearly hear the call to prayer 5 times a day which was a little disconcerting for us never hearing such a thing before. No lift. Breakfast is bread with jam, and yogurt and tea/coffee. 10 minute walk to the water front and Luxor temple. No wifi although Mara was about to install one. We found free wifi near/in McDonalds and Snacktime.

Be prepared for kids hasselling you, and also to be offered "carriage rides" every 2 minutes.

If you stay here, make sure you eat at the resturant - it is really the best taste of Egyptian food.

Mara really looked after us and had her driver pick us up from the airport. She also organised a driver to take us to Dendarra and Abydos temples (very worth while) and organised a booking on nile cruise (after I had failed to get the cruise company to email me back 5 times). Mara also told us which resturants to eat in, in order to avoid illness.This made the experience of Luxor a great one for us independent travellers (whereas Cairo was awful)."