Sofitel Old Cataract, Aswan Review

Lovely historical place with affordable price for rooms and foods. Friendly staff always with smile. We took a luxury Nile view room, it was a large room with a small reception and 2 televisions. A large balcony with Nile and swimming pool view, a dressing room and a large bathroom with hot tub. The food was delicious, the fruits and vegetables were fresh, many thanks to all the staff: Mostafa and Mohamed at pool, Hydra and Asran at coffee shop by the Nile river. At Old cataract, you can see the best view of the Nile. Wish to visit again in Winter.

One of the best and oldest hotels in Aswan Beauties

Classic style. Old world charm. Excellent bar. Impeccable service.

Really one of the best hotel IN Egypt from all Saids with excellent view never found it all over the world

Simply peace of heaven ... best place ever to enjoy a holiday

The beautiful Sofitel Legends Hotel is located in the outdoor, it is the best gourmet Aspen Oasis restaurant

Wonderful place excellent service historic buildings variety of food nice team majestic view

Very nice hotel with great food and beverages services and nice clean rooms

This is the third time I stayed at this hotel. This is probably one of the oldest and obviously the most famous (for having had renowned people including Agatha Christie and Winston Churchill), but I believe this hotel is still the best at least in this area in terms of wonderful service and spectacular view.

A worthwhile visit. Fantastically beautiful view of the bay. Excellent food, club sandwich with smoked salmon and a scallop carpaccio on fresh pineapple.

I didn't stay there. Had tea and dessert in the terrace area but amazing hotel with breathtaking views. Classic yet so elegant!

Very snobbish place, even on a request for a lunch reservation, they happily shunned us off from even before the security point. Indecently arrogant and cold enough to cherish the redundant pride. The second star in the rating is only for the amazing spirit of Egypt, to which this property is certainly a disgrace!

Step into the legendary site where King Fouad once entertained and Agatha Christie sipped cocktails: the 5-star Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan Hotel. In the Nubian Desert on the banks of the Nile, opposite Elephantine Island, the majestic hotel sits on a pink granite cliff overlooking the world's longest river. This ravishing hotel with its legendary guest list of royals and dignitaries is both ideal for romantic getaways, and a perfect venue for small summits and corporate meetings.

Charming old world hotel..spectacular views of the cataracts. Dont expect much from the food but the ambiance more than makes up for it.

I am very nostalgic of this extraordinary place. This is the most beautiful hotel I have seen in my life. Peaceful, good recipe and totally heavenly environment.

Beautiful hotel. Rooms gorgeous, food fabulous and staff are wonderful

Excellent hotel and best Tim, especially thanks to Mr. Osama, Mustafa and Islam Thank you all

Cool and smooth place bye the nile, even the News Caravan, good food in the restaurants

A practical experience but difficulty moving through the road

This hotel is out of this world, such a beautiful architecture

The views, the attention, the service. This historic hotel is wonderful. It also has a jetty to enjoy the Nile without having to travel by land. I recommend rooms with views of the Nile. A pleasure to inhabit.

It's an Amazing place, the interiors are beautiful and the decorations are perfectly nice. The staff are very helpful and friendly. It has a perfect view and great facilities. The rooms are lovely and are very spacious. What a beautiful place to visit, it's relaxing and peaceful. My mom, sister and I really enjoyed. It's excellent.

Gorgeous, breathtaking views and relatively well priced. The service is amazing as well. Great experience all around.

This hotel is amazing, here on the edge over looking the nile. The staff are so helpfull, the rooms are nicely presented each day. Great to relax by the pool under the shade of the trees or sun shades. This is a must do place.

Luxurious, irreproachable quality of service, historical.

A magical and magnificent legendary hotel. The service is very high quality as are the different restaurants.

Without a doubt, the best hotel in Egypt. Best view, better service and better accommodations.

A special place that values stunning views. Seeing the Nile from it is more than wonderful
Taking a boat to stroll in the Nile is something magical
It has promoted the ministry of many and many world stars and celebrities. Faten Hamamah and Omar Sharif visited him, and each of them had a picture with their light.

The hotel is georgrous. The service is for sure need some improvement. I'm on hospitality for more than 10 years. 1st the waiter and waitress could definitely smile more. 2. The food itself is good except that I bit some stone from my shrimp salad. The waiter came to me and says that was semame. Grrr. Well it almost cracked my crown. F&b manager came to apologize but did not offer to change my plate or anything. 3. Once you are asking to charge the phone. They seems to do it for giving me a big favor. Well I would say it's a beautiful hotel with its reputation as No. 1 in Aswan but the service is not as good as in movenpick here.

Beautiful hotel with a historical building and a newer modern tower - try to get a room with a view if you stay at the historical building - totally worth the price. Take a boat ride from the hotel and enjoy the breathtaking views of the Nile.

What to say about this place so magical !! The restaurant is also excellent.

Magic place but to go for a walk and have a drink the minimum entry fee is almost 20euros per person .. included what you drink or eat and overrun eventually. But beautiful view. Bar service medium hard to get our pizza .... friendly staff

Hotel is one of a kind. Staff are very friendly room was comfortable and clean and the view is amazing and food is delicious

It was a great accommodation in this legend hotel..

Grand lady of Aswan. Beautifully renovated. If you can afford the price, great place to stay

One of the finest hotels in Egypt was built in 1902 and is a Victorian style building

Tea time on the terrace for non-hotel guests with fantastic sunset views.
Nice to die for

Everything was amazing and the hospitality was incredible . Thankyou

Very nice hotel. The workers in the hotel are very friendly. The room is very large and very clean. The food tastes very good.

First palace that I see applying an admission process: obliging to go through an airlock where you have to leave 300LE to have access to the terrace and a drink. 18Consumption, luxury has a price, of course, but we are clearly in segregation there. The welcome was friendly and understood our rejection of the deal. In short, we were able to visit the main sites in Aswan without being able to simply take advantage of the old cataract. Without anyone from the outside, you have to be bored firmly between people of good company ... The winter palace in Louxor fortunately does not have the same access policy.

Amazing location, but bad experience has changed employees.

For the food, not the hotel. Short version: Service was mediocre, food was mediocre, hotel is gorgeous. Not worth $100 for two people. Frankly, the whole thing came off like they're coasting on their reputation. My advice is, if you want to see the place, come for a drink.

The Terrace said they only had inside seats, which, ok, that's what I get for making last minute reservations. Showed up, they couldn't find our reservation, but we paid the $30 per person deposit to get onto the grounds and headed in. The grounds were gorgeous, we were excited to explore after the meal.

Went in the front door, it wasn't clear where the restaurant was. Asked, headed towards the back. Asked at what looked like a hostess desk. Was told we could seat ourselves outside. Which was a little confusing, but great! there are outside seats after all! We went outside and sat. The waiter came to take our drink order, and asked our room number. When we said we weren't guests, just visiting for dinner, he said we'd have to sit on the next terrace over. Keep in mind, there are zero people seated on the nicer of the two terraces. I could see keeping a few tables for guests who might drop in without a reservation, but there was no one there. We move. It's a little chiller out from under the roof. It takes 20 min and two requests to get one of the portable heaters moved next to our table.

They bring us bread. 10 min later, after we've gotten crumbs all over the table, they bring us bread plates. Oh, and the butter is in little plastic individual serving packets. We order the Egyptian wine flights, and the server tries to talk us out of it, warning that the servings are very small. I was expecting to get three shot glasses of wine from his description. The flights come, and it's perfectly normal flights- three wine glasses each about a third full. Note: the wine wasn't amazing, but that was fine- I know Egypt doesn't produce alot of wine, and I was curious what it would be like. Curiosity satisfied!

The food comes. The best part of the meal, hands down, was the parmesan crusted calamari. It wasn't rings, it was a couple of slices of lightly breaded calamari. They were delicious. However, the menu described it as coming with marinara. The red sauce artfully swirled on the plate was a pretty potent hot sauce. Warn people!



After the meal we had a nice wander around the gorgeous grounds. The interior of the hotel is cool. Imagine our surprise when we found a terrace of tables with story book views of the Nile...with no one seated there. So not only couldn't we sit on the guest terrace, there was another one they weren't using. Instead, we ate with a view of the pool. The Nile would have been visible beyond the pool, except the pool is so lit up at night you can't see past it. Saves the servers walking the food farther I guess.

Remember how I said at the beginning that I'd been told we could only get a reservation to sit inside at the Terrace? But then when we got there they couldn't find our reservation? And then we were seated outside? As we were dining, I heard the staff tell at least two other sets of guests that The Terrace doesn't take reservations.

One of the best hotel locations I've been. Workers are kind even though when we got there we had no egyptian currency and only 100 dllr bills, so the bellboy who took our luggage to the room stood in the door like he wasn't leaving without a tip, at the end he did not leave without tip... but well, most of the people in the hotels I've been in Egypt get used to tips for everything...

Amazing luxury hotel at the bank of River Nile. A lifetime experience!

It is worth visiting even if you do not stay at it. Stunning building with beautiful views of the Nile