I have stayed at this hotel twice now, and if you know what to expect, you should have a fantastic holiday.

A few things to consider before booking:

- The Oasis is not a 5 star hotel as advertised, and more like a 3 star. The thing to remember is you get what you pay for. But the rooms are very clean, although a little tired, but they are cleaned every day with fresh bed linen and towels. You are limited to what swimming pools you can use.
Ask for a sea view if poss.

- I personally wouldnt go all inclusive, as it limits where you can eat, although if you do and choose to go and eat in one of the many other restaurants, i think you get some discount. I went B+B both times, as the breakfast in the Coral (Oasis) restaurant is fab- fresh fruit, cereals, bacon + egg on toast, omelette, croissants and cakes. But it does mean you then have to pay out for lunch and dinner.

- The hotel complex is massive, so great if you like walking as the grounds are lovely, there are alot of steps and hills. They do run buses all over, but you might have to wait!

- Evening entertainment is limited, and i didnt think much of it, but with all the walking and snorkelling in the day, we had alot of early nights and early mornings. There's lots going on in Naama Bay, which is only a 5min taxi ride away, and only costs £3-4 if you get a taxi from outside the front gate.

- The majority of the guests are Russian, and the hotel cater for this. They can be quite rude, especially at breakfast, but i just found them quite amusing, and dont be suprised if the womens clothing leaves little to the imagination!

- Are your transfers included in the price? When i booked they wanted £18 per Person!! If you can be bothered to haggle when you arrive there are loads of taxis waiting outside the airport. We paid £9 for four of us and it only takes 10mins. But if you want someone to meet you, you could ring the hotel in advance, and they will send one of their taxis for you. We did this on the way back, they are much nicer cars and less eratic drivers.


I would recommend this hotel to people who want a relaxing holiday, but like walking and snorkelling. They do aerobics and salsa etc by the pool, if you dont like this kind of thing go to the other pool which is up past block 34. Its lovely and peaceful there and has a pool bar. The floating jetty is great if you like snorkelling, but it can get very busy. You get free fresh laundered towels from each of the swimming pools and beach.
The beach is lovely but not if you like swimming, as because of the coral you cant get into the sea, but you can just walk along to the jetty and get in there.
There is a path that runs along the back of the beach, if you fancy a walk, you can keep walking through to the neighbouring hotels.

The hotel has its own farm where they grow all their fruit, veg , and meat, organically. So all the food is super fresh.
There are a few restaurants, my favourites being Petrus steak house, The Nautilus - on the sea front, really nice atmosphere, they have a 5star restaurant next to the Domina Prestige, i cant remember the name, but its divine, very expensive beware of drink prices £4 for a bottle of water! But they have a pianist playing, and the food is fantastic. There is also an italian pizzeria which is pretty good. I would say the prices are about the same you would expct to pay in uk.
For lunch we would usually go to the mosaic cafe, or the sports bar/internet cafe, the cafe on the beach near the jetty is pretty good to.
From what i heard the food in the other restaurants isnt up to much, but i cant really comment as didnt go there.

We went to Naam Bay ( i personally didnt like it there at all, but its worth seeing if only once) you get hassled quite alot, and dont get conned into buying anything you dont want to, you might have to be quite rude! We ate at the hard rock cafe, the food was diabolical!

We did the trip to Cairo, Fantastic!! And also the snorkelling boat trip, which was great! If you are going on any trips out of Sharm you need to get your visa at the airport when you arrive. This will save you having to go back there to purchase one.

There is a safe room in reception, its free to use ( unless you lose your key) and very secure, we left all valuables in there, and you sign in and out with a guard.

We also put money onto a coral card, as you cant pay cash in the restaurants etc, you can sign stuff to your room, but we found it easier to use the coral card to avoid any confusion at the end.

You've probably read about 'Domina time' in other reviews, its very confusing as the hotel has its own time which is an hour ahead of Egyptian, one of us set our watch to Domina and the other to Egyptian.

The one problem with the hotel is it has no public payphones, there is a phone room, but the prices were the same as using your mobile. We found the internet prices more reasonable.

I loved it here, if your looking for a cheap holiday, with lots of sun, swimming and sea its perfect. The hotel is big enough you never have to leave, it has more of a village feel than a hotel.
If your into good food dont go all inclusive!
The weather in Feb, March, and April is perfect.
Get a map from reception and go exploring, there's a lot to see and do around the complex.

Ok...I am not genreally a pesimistic or fussy person, HOWEVER this hotel is most definently the very worst hotel I have ever been to. Number one, the clientel is basically 98 percent Russian. Which is fine if you dont mind an unfriendly and isolated atmosphere where the staff only speak arabic and russian, the information boards are in arabic and russian, and everyone who is not russian is basically treated like a lower class of human. We arrived at Domina Coral Bay under the pretence that it was a 5star establishment. My gosh, we were MISTAKEN. Firstly Egypt runs on a different hotel rating, our 5 star is the equivelent of their 7 star! So a normal 5 star hotel is 2/3 in England. Hence the four seasons hotel in Sharm el sheikh is 7 stars. Not only this but only one of the hotels in Domina Coral Bay is 5 start. This is prestiege hotel. The other 5 hotels go down a star until you get to Oasis which 1.5 stars! They do not even have a kettle or iron in the room, and the rooms are filthy. Moving on the food IS AWFUL. Honestly it reminded me of school dinners. they surved the same buffet every night which consisted of FRIED spaghetti (served with cheese that would NEVER EVER melt, no matter how hot the food was the cheese would literally NEVER change form.) and orange squash.
The resort is so big that you have to wait 15 /20 minutes for a "taf taf" which are little mini buses to take you either to the pool, restaurant, reception etc, which makes even small acticites extremely long and tiresome.
Also the hotel runs on its own time! A time called Domina time, which is an hour ahead of Egypt, apparently so the guests can enjoy an hour more of activites. VERY STRANGE and VERY CONFUSING. Honestly I could ramble on for hours, however I suggest you have to see it for yourself..dont say that you were not warned though. It really is the most terrible establishment I have ever stayed in.

I read the reviews on this site prior to my holiday and to be honest was a little worried but there was no need. It's a great place. Very friendly, safe and clean. The beach was brilliant and the snorkeling mind blowing. Had a great room with sea views kept v clean by housekeeping guy who did great towel sculptures.

So the food was average with moments of great but having been to Egypt before I was ready for it. It far surpassed the last place I stayed at which made me ill for the entire holiday. Overall, I would definitely go back there as I enjoyed every minute of it.

‘Exceeded Expectations’
I have just returned from an excellent week at the Domina Coral Bay Oasis, and I thought since I read lots of the reviews from this website before booking I would write my own. It was a bit of a last minute thing and after reading lots of reviews I was a bit worried at what we would get. We were with Med hotels who were very helpful and we had a quick 10 minute transfer from the airport to the hotel. When we checked in the receptionist spoke good English and after 10 min we were taken to our room, the chap taking us pointed out our swimming pool and where to get a taf taf from he was very helpful and we tipped him £1 which seemed okay although they’d prefer other money to English.

The room was large very clean and had a beautiful sea view the room was 4 stars I’d say. The room was cleaned by a friendly guy every day, and he also managed to do it in the brief half an hour when we were at breakfast. We found him very efficient and he would always put air conditioning on for us much appreciated at 35 degree heat! Breakfast was the same everyday but with lots of cooked food, pastries, bread, salad, fruit this was not a problem and the omelette man was great! The juice was like strong squash however but nice once diluted more. Dinner was not themed every night it was leftovers so if you had roast beef one night it would be beef curry the next.

The food was healthy and tasted good though and there was enough of various things to try, and it never made us ill unlike when we used our £6 off and ate at the piazzeta which we had a slight bad stomach the next day (nothing major). We were half board and were happy with the food however could of done with more than two free soft drinks or alcohol each with the meal. However for an extra £10 a night per person you can go all inclusive which is good but can’t have free drinks at in my mind the best bar the mosaique cafe. The entertainment people were great and would get everything going and the space disco is great!

Overall I’m really happy myself and my boyfriend choose the Domina we are a young couple and had a great time. I think we were very lucky with our room as we were less than 5 minutes walk to everything where some places obviously were further away but nothing too far. The beach was beautiful as was the weather and you can get cheap massages on the beach although I didn’t as seemed too hot for a massage. There was lots of evening security wondering round which was good to see we felt very safe there and 90% of the staff were brilliant and did everything they could to make you holiday an enjoyable stay! I’d say it was 85% of the people staying there were Italian a relief after expecting lots of Russians! They get quite dressed up in the evening so take lots of nice clothes with you something I wish I’d brought more heels and nice dresses.

We went to Nama Bay one evening which was okay but we did not feel any need to go back although there is a pasha there we were happy with the club in the complex. If you want a more safe taxi ride use the hotel as when we didn’t it was a bit hair raising although fun and there seems to be not many crashes there.

Bad points were one time a little sewage came up from the shower but like every problem we had when we phoned reception someone would be there in 5 minutes and fix the problem in a matter of minutes. The other bad point was the room next to us was being renovated which was only a problem if you spent any daytime in the room we didn’t so was not a real problem ,and until the disco started at 12 the evenings were a bit limited, All in all a great holiday in a great place with amazing weather I definitely want to go back to this hotel as soon as I can!