GORGONIA BEACH RESORT
This highly impressive five star resort is located some 48 km to the south of Marsa Alam town near to the entrance of the Wadi El Gemal National Park and one of only a few hotels in this area.
The staff are friendly, the food excellent and the local reef wonderful for snorkellers. The majority of customers so far have been Italian but, judging by the language of reviewers, there have also been a significant number of French ( around 20 %), German (around 20%) and English speaking guests (around 5 to 10 per cent.)
ROOMS
352 rooms divided across 22 buildings.
ROOM DESCRIPTION AND FACILITIES
Even the basic rooms are luxuriously spacious with an area of 60 square metres. They are spread out across a large area – 22 blocks in all – with interconnecting rooms and rooms with handicapped facilities available on the ground floor.
They feature all the usual facilities for five star hotels – Satellite LCD TV, safety deposit box, individually controlled air conditioning, hair dryer, lounge chairs, coffee table, mini fridge, telephone and wireless internet access. Unfortunately we are not sure whether the wireless internet is at an extra charge (as is usual in most hotels) or not but will try to update readers shortly.
LOCATION
On Marsa Alam’s Red Sea coast, 48 km south of Marsa Alam town and about 110 km south of Marsa Alam Airport and close to the entrance of the Wadi El Gemal National Park.
FACILITIES
A 700 metre private beach with 300 umbrellas and 600 sun loungers, four swimming pools, including a heated pool and children’s pool, excellent spa and health club, three restaurants, five bars, a bureau de change, laundry service, hairdresser, car rental and limousine service and a spacious shopping area with 15 bazaars ranging from souvenirs to a general store, .
ENVIRONMENT
The hotel is the only one we know of which has organized two “clean up” days a week where guest volunteers and staff work together to clean up a local beach. Well done to the management in having such a green outlook.
Oct 2019 – 3.56 mins – 42+ likes – 8,800+ views.
Jul 2019 – 4.08 mins – 46+ likes – 6,600+ views.
Feb 2020 – 10.31 mins – 54+ likes – 1,700+ views.
GUEST REVIEWS
On TripAdvisor, as of 1 March 2021, Gorgonia’s ranking at 27th out of 76 hotels is a little lower than its level scored in previous years, although the proportion of guests rating the hotel as ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ has never been higher.
As of 1 March 2021, over 88% rated the resort as either ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ (up from 83% in 2012) and just 4.3% considered their experience ‘poor’ or ‘terrible,’ a significant improvement on 2019 and even back then only 7.9% were sufficiently unhappy to attribute a “poor” or “terrible” rating. For the full details please see the table below.
TABLE 1 – TRIPADVISOR RATINGS
| Date | Ranking | % v. good or excellent | % poor or terrible |
| 11/2012 | 8/71 | 83% | 8% |
| 03/2017 | 14/75 | 88% | 5% |
| 01/2018 | 14/68 | 88% | 4% |
| 03/2019 | 18/66 | 88.1% | 7.9% |
| 03/2021 | 27/76 | 88.1% | 4.3% |
On HolidayCheck.de, as of 1 March 2021, the hotel had an impressive overall score of 5.2 out of six stars but it still represented a slight slip from its peak of 5.4 attained in January 2018. In two categories (sport and entertainment as well as gastronomy) the results were better than the last time we checked in 2019 – sport and entertainment improving from 5.0 to 5.1 and gastronomy from 5.0 to an enviable 5.2, which is a new all time high for the resort. However, two categories (service and rooms), though still obtaining impressive ratings, saw slight declines in their scores. There was no change in the rating for location. For the full data for every time we have checked Holidaycheck since 2013, please see the table below.
TABLE 2 – HOLIDAYCHECK RATINGS
| Date | Overall | Service | Rooms | Sport & Ent. | Food | Location |
| 06/2013 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 4.8 |
| 11/2016 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 4.8 |
| 03/2017 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 4.8 |
| 01/2018 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.0 |
| 03/2019 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| 03/2021 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
Sep 2018 – 4.45 mins – 33+ likes – 11,100+ views.
Jul 2013 – 16.54 mins = 167+ likes – 36,000+ views.
Feb 2018 – 7.38 mins – 64+ likes – 9,800+ views.