My wife & I arrived at the hotel concorde el salam at 11pm & were given a light meal before we were to taken by golf buggy to our room with a garden view, our cases arrived shortly afterwards. The room was clean & suitable for our needs with a queen size bed. The hotel has a lot to offer everyone with an excellent animation team providing entertainment & activities through the day & evening, within the main hotel & the concorde sport across the road next to the airport. The food was of a very high standard but becomes familiar after the 1st week, the drinks are slow in coming, we found on several occasions that we would have finished our main course before they arrived. The hotel grounds are very big with excellent swiming pools and a facilities available including, ice skating, horse riding. squash, aqua gym, gym, spa, massage, hairdresser, nightclub, shops, evening bus to nearby Naama Bay for shopping. We did a few excursions ie to Tiran island & Ras Mohamed where we saw turtles. The hotel has it's own coral reef & beach with a watersports hut & a scubadiving hut (padi) as well as a bar offering soft drinks, ice cream & beer & a restaurant for lunch. The time we spent at the hotel we spent at the beech, the staff there could not do enough for you, with its own reef with pontoon, allowing snorkeling amongst a vast array of fish etc, under close watch by an Egyptian with a whistle to protect the reef. At 1pm we left returning at 4pm along with all the Russians as between these times it is too hot to be out in the sun. But try telling that to the British couples, families at the pool on the same beds day in day out from 9am-6pm slowing cooking themselves to death between 1pm & 4pm where the temperatures were in excess of 40c. After a few days they were complaining of Pharoahs revenge for 4/5 days, wonder if this was due to too much sun, alcohol & food!!!!! This is a 5*hotel but in the evening a dress code should be adhered to in the restaurant, but many brits chose to ignore this by wearing shorts, t-shirts, even football kits. Despite the Russians being rude & arrogant we should learn a few things from them including dress sense & common sense when in the sun!!! The british have some of the highest counts of skin cancer in the world wonder why!!! Even during the day, in the foyer & hotel bar/cafe brits would come in without tops on, beer belly & sweat on show, for their beer & fag, not a pleasent site!!!! Benidorm came to mind, especially when seeing a football club flag tied to balcony, unbeleivalbe & not done. Overall would definately return, as the hotel is of a high standard with friendly staff willing to help especially if you say you will tip them at the end of your stay, go for the Egypt experience, not the pool!!!!!

Food- well its the same old same old day in day out, with a bit of variety!!! ( different sauce made the variety ) on one occasion we saw the food agency doing a sweep of the cooking areas and then thorough cleaning taking place. Pasta should be cooked served and eaten there and then, well here it is cooked and kept on a couple of heaters, which "boil" the water to keep the pasta hot, and there is no taste, meats are often undercooked, perhaps why on the 2nd full day of my holiday i had the Dheli belly all day
Waiters- most are ok but there are a coulpe of ignorant ones "Ezz Eldin" or superman as he calls himself, never once served us during our 3 week stay, even when we were sat with other guests at the same table
5 Star !!!! the 5 star rating is Egypts rating for a hotel's facilities that it has to offer guests - we would be lucky to give it a 2 star
We did enjoy the sunshine and the welcome breeze that we had the whole 3 weeks that we were there. On Monday 2nd June when we left it was expected to be the hottest week of the year so far with temperatures reaching mid 40's around noon.

just returned from a fantastic week in front of concorde el salam 27-05-08 - 03-06-08
many truly great hotel choice and variety in food
supervriendelijke staff
wide all inclusive formula including the sauna
strandhtel nice where you even have your towel still not having to explain himself down, beautiful coral reef in front of the hotel, a real winner

Well this was me and my boyfriends first holiday away together so i wanted it to be special and to be in a decent hotel, we booked it thinking we were going to be staying in the Concorde El Salam instead on arrival we were packed off to the Concorde Sport which came as a shock considering i had double checked with going places that we would def be in the concorde el salam and she stated 110%....So i was unhappy about that i found the standard of the Concorde Sport to be lower than the concorde el salam! ~You can still use all the facilities of the el salam however you cannot have your main meal there...!
So when it came to being moved over we was told by our extreamly rude rep ANDY that if we wanted to move there would be a suppliment and also he doubted there would be any room there, we found that this seem to be quite a regular occurance there as we was not the only couple to have been mislead and manipulated into staying at this hotel.
Well as the week went on we reliesed that all in all the concorde was a nice place to stay, the sport was less busy for meal times and also staff were friendly and helpful....it was just the reps that were rude!
We also done diving there and that was great! Also the quad bikes through the dessert are wicked too! DON'T BOOK TRIPS THROUGH REP there prices are through the roof....go into namma bay and haggle them down there....! & ENJOY!!