Jaz Bluemarine Resort

Went with the girlfriend for a relax and a bit of decadence and really impressed. Variety and quality of food was superb for all meals. During the day all to hand from plentiful stands and restaurants along with a constant flow of soft and alcoholic drinks. Never queued or felt like I was getting leftovers. Fruit on sticks and cold wet towels being dropped to your sunbed made it an idea chill amongst the 16 pools and beach. Beach is well worth walking out to sea to see the coral life and marine fish. Make sure you take beach shoes for the rocks and snorkels, the. You are in your element. Rooms were excellent, staff attentive, animation team stayed out of your way if you don’t want them harassing- as do the sellers. No real culture, just great conditions, food and booze at around £500 for a week package it’s cheaper than living at home! Breakfast is very continental, don’t expect a fry up (and remember, no pork) but always enough variety for all tastes. Air con superb, rooms big and well kept. No real advantage to stay between BlueMarine or AquaMarine as it’s just one big complex. Well done, thanks for looking after us

Just got back from a week in Jaz Bluemarine, this is a lovely resort cannot fault it. All the staff are amazing, second to none! Especially our housekeeper A.Rahman he really looked after us and made up some lovely towel art in our room everyday! Cant wait to go back

Bluemarine is a great hotel, it’s clean, well laid out, has more staff than you’ve ever seen, the food is good, the water slides are awesome and yes there really is 20 pools... However.. and this is a small however, Bluemarine can’t really be considered grwat without the fact that it’s much bigger sister hotel is next door and as the two seem to merge into one. If they didn’t you’d lose the entertainment at night - the vast majority of the water slides, the beach, most of the pools and the English speaking kids club. The best way to think about Bluemarine is that it’s the 300 room family only section of a much bigger 1300 room resort. We were really impressed with the resort as a whole, especially as we have both older and younger children. They do btw have covered outside pools for small kids which was very handy. It’s hard really to give you a downside to the hotel, but there was one that applies to English guests only. The kids club in the Bluemarine is German only, and by German only I mean they will tell English kids they can’t use it. The kids club is run by TUI, so the hotel will say it’s not their fault and you can use the sister hotels English speaking one. This is fine if you can walk, as it’s about 10 minutes to the other side of the resort. We didn’t have an issue with the hike, but it’s hard to explain to a 6 year old why the kids club right outside their hotel room is doing activities at night that they can’t attend. The other slight downside, and this isn’t really a downside, is that the food is set up for Germans. By this I mean as am Englishman I find the concept of meatballs at breakfast slightly odd but we were happy to embrace our European partners odd breakfast habits for two weeks. The other thing they do t tell you in advance is that the hotel operates in Euros (probably again for the benefit of the Germans) so if you turn up with wads of Egyptian pounds then you’ll find it hard to spend them. I don’t want to end the review on a negative though, so I’ll go back to why this is a great hotel and why we would visit again. The buildings and rooms are fantastic, for the money you won’t get anything as nice in Europe and security was on point too. The whole place is surrounded by security and walls etc, As a final point, I’d like to say that the staff really are excellent and while the airport is a total nightmare (imagine a hotel run by Rodney & Del Boy) the staff do Egypt a credit while working exceptionally long hours. I think they work 30 12 hour days in a row for a week off in return at the end. Good luck getting that in the UK!