Elphardous Oasis Hotel — Hotel in New Al Qarnh City

Simple backpacker style hotel situated in New Qurna on the West Bank, about 10 min by taxi from the ferry stop. Nice and very clean but simple rooms. Nice warm showers, but sometimes a too low water pressure (I was on the 2 floor). A big plus is the hotel taxi driver, who takes you anywhere on the West Bank without hassle or haggling for 10 LE. You can even sms him from any location during the day, and he will come and get you for the same price, f.ex to go from Valley of the Kings to the ferry. The other big plus is the fantastic roof terrace, where you can relax in the sun or shade (bamboo roof). The staff is very friendly and helpful, and nearby there are some small shops selling fruit and biscuits. Traffic noise is minimal, so you are almost guaranteed a good night’s sleep – except for two apparently competing mosques yelling out their long and loud prayers every morning at 6 AM, but I expect this will be the same everywhere in Luxor. Your sleep may also be helped by the fact that there are very few other guests – which isn’t though necessarily just an advantage in such a solitary location (but so be it).||||Negatives: The area is completely dead both day and night, with no place to eat or drink except for the hotel restaurant. Even there you have to order in advance the same morning (so they can ask the chef to come), which is really annoying since the location means it takes time to come back, so you will probably end up eating in town to not have to plan ahead. In addition you can have no alcohol, not even a beer, and the food is bland and strictly vegetarian. I really don’t mind vegetables, on the contrary, but we seriously had much more interesting vegetarian dishes at The Tuthankamon rooftop restaurant by the ferry stop. The breakfast is also boring: Local bread, processed cheese, hard boiled eggs, herbal tea bags, and falafels astonishingly drenched in oil. There were not even fruit, which I would have expected from a vegetarian place. All this may become better in the future, though, as the hotel management is presently building a kind of alternative resort or ashram just across the street, with a big restaurant area, swimming pool and even a small meditation pagoda.||||All in all I had a nice stay at the Phardouse Home, but the next time I would probably rather try one of the hotels in the backpacker area behind the temple Medinat Habu (which are in a walking distance to both the ticket office of the West Bank, where you buy tickets to all the sights except for The Valleys of the Kings and Queens – and most of the sights, including the magnificent Tombs of the Nobles, and from where you can take a regular public minibus to the ferry for just 2,5 LE per person). But then again, I might have missed the Phardouse...

I stayed here for one night. First of all some of the staff was friendly and helped us to the room, but once I checked in the room, it was damp, smelly and dusty. The floor had carpet on it that hadn’t been cleaned thoroughly for a long time. The bathroom was relatively cleaner but with the most minimal equipment and even no soap. I had to ask for soap from the reception later. I understand that this is a low budget hotel but cleanliness is not related to the low price. The lower price should be because of having less services like room service for example. On the other hand, the view of the pool was nice and it looked spacious. Also the restaurant had very delicious food at dinner. I would recommend you to try the casseroles in the oven. It was so good. In the morning breakfast was included in the price but it was very small and that’s ok. All in all, I wasn’t satisfied with the cleanliness of the room and that’s a big deal for me and because of that I couldn’t sleep properly and had an uncomfortable night. So maybe if you are on a budget and coming here for a short period of time, it can be suitable for you but the hotel definitely has good potential and can level up and get much better to meet...

El phardouse home is situated in the middle of nowhere, near Kings Walley.|| About 8 km from the ferry.|| You can take a "Taxi" for about 15 LE||Very rustic room with absolutely no comfort.. A bathroom with bathtube, a bed, a table at the bed, another table and a small closet, Thats all.||Breakfast was poorly and the timeyou want to eat had to be ordered in the evening.|| About dinnig there. It was the most expensive dinner I had in Luxor and even without meat.||No aircondition. But there was a wind from broken glass in the door. ||Nice balkony. The best was the rooftop. You can see the dessert and Kings Walley and to the other side you can see almost to the Nile. ||The staff was friendly. And there are only very few guests. ||All in all, a very different experience from normal...