One-Bedroom Apartment with Garden View
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Bab Al Shams Palace
Bab Al Shams Palace rents apartments as well as rooms. The one-bedroom apartment is 75 m2 and the two-bedroom is 110 m2, each with a separate living area and a kitchen, and each with a washing machine, a dryer and a refrigerator. For a week among the tombs that combination counts for more than most hotel features. There is also a twin room and a triple, both 40 m2.
The guest scores are unusually flat. Across 118 reviews the overall is 9.9, and no single category drops below 9.9 either, with staff, value for money and the WiFi all at a full 10. Most properties have a weak spot somewhere in the seven. This one does not, which normally means a small operation working at one level throughout.
The address is Habu Temple Street in Al Bairat, deep on the West Bank. Medinet Habu is 1.7 km away, Deir el-Medina 2.7 km, the Valley of the Queens 3.3 km and the Valley of the Kings 4.2 km. Luxor Temple, on the other hand, is 6 km, Karnak 9 km and the airport 20 km, so a car or a taxi is needed for the east bank.
Most of the character is outdoors. There is a garden with a terrace, a sun terrace, a picnic area, a barbecue and an outdoor fireplace, and breakfast can be served in the room. Reception arranges bicycle rental, bike tours, guided walks, horse riding and fishing. The house itself puts on live music, a cooking class, themed dinners and evening entertainment, with staff to run it. Few guest houses on the West Bank run a programme this wide.
Family rooms, baby safety gates and socket covers are available and the kitchen does children's meals, though cots and extra beds are not. The building is wheelchair accessible at ground level. Reception is open 24 hours with a concierge, tour desk and currency exchange, there is a minimarket on site and parking is free. There is no swimming pool, which the other three Luxor properties in this guide have, and in a Luxor summer that is worth knowing before you book.
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