What is the food and service like at an all-inclusive hotel restaurant in Egypt?

Breakfast is served in a separate restaurant, while lunch and dinner are held in the main shared restaurant.

For a quieter breakfast, choose the Palma restaurant: guests report available tables and no queues, although the selection is limited.

For dietary needs, gluten-free bread can be requested at the bread counter. The new restaurant can make coffee with coconut milk; the old restaurant also had a station with different types of milk.

Coffee at the terrace bar is considered slightly better than in the main restaurant.

The dining hall has a Nescafé instant-coffee dispenser and two bean-to-cup machines by its bar. According to this report, hot drinks there are available only at breakfast.

In the main restaurant, drinks are served in plastic cups and tea/coffee in paper cups. Wine is only poured into proper glasses in the evening.

Breakfast also includes 4 types of cheese sliced to order, yogurt, cottage cheese, feta, warm croissants, toast, waffles, donuts and pancakes (often a queue for these). Sausages are also available but many skip them.

Lunch at the restaurant is described as skimpy — many guests skip it and grab pastries or pizza instead of a full lunch.

Dinner always has two soups (the broths are good), various salads plus a chef making a fresh salad live each day (Greek, sushi-style, Olivier). Pasta isn't tasty, but the fries are good. Beef/lamb is carved to order but bland/unseasoned. Battered fish is always available (sometimes grilled). Grilled items (chicken, lyulya-kebab, beef shashlik) are often overcooked/burnt despite decent meat quality.

Desserts are repetitive — the same cakes and pastries daily. Fruit includes grapes, melon and dates, but the pears are usually hard and barely edible.

Cocktails at the restaurant are poor quality: the mojito is basically green liquid, and the rum-cola has an odd chocolate-like taste. Regular beer is fine though.

If you arrive early for breakfast, there's a separate cart by the entrance with a row of glasses where they mix juice with ice.

One guest tipped a specific waiter (100 EGP ≈ $2) starting from the first breakfast — since then, no matter how crowded, that waiter finds them a free clean table with coffee, water and iced juice appearing within minutes.

Quality varies by restaurant within the resort: at the seaside 'Citadel' restaurant they served a raw omelette and terrible machine coffee, while at 'Mose' restaurant the omelette is great, coffee is brewed (not from a machine), and lunch/dinner are always tasty — though drinks there come from bottles/cartons, not on tap.

Several types of tea — green, black, hibiscus and others — are always available at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and you can take teabags back to your room. There's no bagged coffee available, only from the room cleaning staff.

Some of the hotel's restaurants (like 'Kulina' or the one next to it) offer a longer breakfast window than others. Pastries can be found upstairs in the 'sweet' area along with tea and coffee.

Breakfast spread is impressive: smoked salmon, Brie and many other cheeses, fresh croissants and doughnuts, fluffy pancakes, porridge, scrambled eggs and a made-to-order egg station. Fresh juices are included. Coffee comes from a machine. You won't leave hungry.

Breakfast includes juices, coffee and plenty of smoked salmon. No portion limits.

The lobby café has good coffee and a calm, quiet atmosphere with few people. In the main dining hall, coffee is poured from carafes.

Finding a table in the dining hall is the main challenge. Arrive right at opening or about an hour later when the first wave leaves. Food is always sufficient. Queues form and clear quickly. Wine is always served warm — a downside. Draft beer is cold and decent.

Service at breakfast can be lacking — teaspoons may run out and wooden stir sticks are offered instead.

During the day you can get snacks like crisps, nuts, pastries and sandwiches, plus coffee, alcohol, juices and water at the bar or café.

The lobby café serves decent coffee but only until noon.

Dirty plates are cleared quickly, coffee is made from various beans, and staff actively offer drinks throughout breakfast, lunch and dinner.