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Hotel Intercontinental

in Taba Heights , Egypt - Red Sea T rating: 5

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Elegant and luxurious
Beautiful beach
Next to a golf course

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All Inclusive

Full board - buffet at the main restaurant the Bay View
Soft drinks and local alcoholic drinks from 10:00-23:00 by the glass in the Splash bar/ Reef bar/main restaurant and lobby bar
Daily tea, coffee, soft drinks, cake and snacks at the Reef Bar from 16:30-17:30
Activities as listed
Entertainment as listed
Other facilities as indicated
Facilities that are not part of your All Inclusive package may incur extra local charge, please see the A-Z Guide

Meals

Main dining room serves buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner

Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve gala dinners included

Swimming pool

5 swimming pools, 1 indoor: heated in winter at manager's discretion, for 16+ only
Saltwater lake
Pool bar
Snack bar

Entertainment

Belly dancer
Oriental band and Fakir show
Tanoor/live music

Activities

Gym
Jogging track
Minigolf
Squash
Volleyball
Waterpolo
Billiards
Table tennis

For Families

2 children's pools
Kids' club
Soft play centre
Playground
Children’s menu
Cots

Other facilities

These do not form part of your All Inclusive package:
International cuisine in the hotel's many restaurants
A la carte restaurants and dine around facilities available
Money exchange
Laundry
Hairdresser
Internet
Spa with treatments, sauna, whirlpool bath, massage, steam bath
Tennis
Minigolf
Squash
Volleyball
Water polo
Banana boats
Donut rings
Water-skiing
Wake-boarding
Para-sailing
Windsurfing
Hobie cat sailing
Boat trips
Scuba diving
Aerobics
Various excursions and activities are offered each week such as quad biking, dive packages, off-road desert jeep adventures, a visit to Petra, the lost Rose City in Jordan or the chance to swim with the dolphins at Israel's premier tourist resort of Eliat

Other Information

Some facilities may incur extra local charges, please see the A-Z Guide

Tour operator rating

Official Rating

5 Star

Air conditioning

Yes

No. of floors

3 buildings, 1 has 5 floors and 2 have 4 floors

No. of lifts

No. of rooms

503

Room facilities

All rooms have air-conditioning, satellite TV, telephone, hairdryer and balcony or ground terrace. Standard rooms have king or twin beds with an extra non-permanent bed and a mountain view. Seaview rooms available.

Location

Set on its own private 250m long white sandy beach
Next to Taba Heights 18-hole golf course
17km from downtown Taba
35km from Taba International Airport

Transfers

Approx 50 mins to 1 hr

Your guide to Taba Heights, Egypt - Red Sea

"Shimmering seas, immaculate sands and a setting hardly touched by time or tourism – Taba Heights is a Red Sea oasis."

How’s this for a holiday? A heart-lurchingly beautiful setting under the gaze of timeless Sinai mountains. A gold-dust beach caressed by a translucent sea. And the kind of holiday mood that lets you do your own thing, however long it takes. That’s a snapshot of life at this purpose-built complex, where five luxurious hotels are embedded like jewels along a perfect-looking slice of Sinai coast. OK, a few enticing diversions await - just in case your sand and sea idyll needs an injection of variety. The prospect of witnessing the canyon-carved city of Petra might spur you into action, as might a camel or quad safari into the rugged Sinai desert. Or how about a round on the spanking new golf course or meandering around the monuments in Cairo or Luxor? All this apart, you’d be mad not to allocate every remaining minute to the beach and sea. Bid a temporary farewell to your sunbed to cruise with giant turtles and vast explosions of luminously coloured fish over exotic coral reefs. Or paddle a canoe into the unbroken silence of an empty, ancient bay to sense ages past. Come nightfall, enjoy a meal on a sand-sprinkled terrace or head for the casino or one of the bars on the complex. Or take the soft option and stroll along the beach as the sun melts below the crimson-tinged Sinai mountains beyond.

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Written on 01/11/2009, Anonymous said...

really nice hotel, cannott fault it but they really need to adress how poor the food is! more on this review

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“Sandwiched between craggy mountains and the sea, this beachside hotel mixes tranquillity and luxury with style.”

In the luxury stakes, this hotel takes some beating. Even its setting falls into the spoil-yourself bracket. You’ve got close-up views over the Sinai mountains on one side and golden sands and the Red Sea on the other. You’re a full 17 kilometres from Taba proper, so if peace and quiet is on your wish list, you’re in the right spot.

The hotel struts its stuff in grand fashion. The lobby has a palatial atrium echoing a Spanish-Arabic fortress. It’s all thin arched windows, blue glass lanterns and potted yukka palms. The theme continues throughout the hotel. Take the Arches bar. In the evening, it’s filled with pink and lime beanbags and copper-trayed tables - quintessential Arabia with a funky contemporary twist.

Talking of bars, you’ve got three others to choose from. Not to mention four restaurants serving up everything from Egyptian meze to Italian and fresh seafood.

The pièce de résistance has to be the man-made lagoon. Its blue-green shallows run right up to the beach and are perfect for swimming. Floating at one end is the Lagoon restaurant. Kitted out with canvas chairs and bareboarded decks, it serves up a fusion of Spanish and Arabic cuisine inches above the water. Added to that, you’ve got more pools. And for more in the way of relaxation, there’s a spa and 18-hole golf course.