This hotel was in a good location - only a 10 minute walk to the centre of Naama Bay - take the beach front walk rather than the dual carriageway if you don't mind the hassle from the restaurant touts. The hotel was really good value. Clean rooms, good choice of pools and a decent, if boring breakfast (I wouldn't go for any other meal option). The staff varied from the excellent to surly but the latter type was rare. The cleaner brought fresh flowers to my room every day - ok it was for a tip at the end of the stay but it was nice anyway!
I would stay there again. Sure there are lots of other hotels with more to offer but for the last minute price we paid I was more than happy with our holiday.

We stayed at the Tropicana Rosetta for two weeks, Got to admit it was not the best hotel I have ever stayed in but it was far far from the worst, I found the majority of the staff were friendly, our room cleaner was a lovely guy, our room was always cleaned to a high level, fresh bedding and towels daily.The only problem we had with our room was the tv, we couldnt get a chanel at all, and the receptionist wasnt to botherd about that.
The pools were nice, bit cold, but you soon got used to it.
Yes there are a lot of steps up towards the back part of the hotel, but we were quite lucky are room was towards the front.
The breakfast wasnt our type of thing, therefor we only ate it one morning ( the first lol) was a bit of a hit and miss really, egg, bread, mashed potato, beans. I can certanly say first time i have ever had hot dogs for breakfast!
It took us about ten mins to get to Naama bay walking, yes the road is a bit of a problrm, but as long as you cross at the zebra youll be fine.
We would def go back to this hotel, as they say you get what you pay for, and as its a cheaper priced hotel it gives you spare cash to spend in Naama bay lol.

This was my second visit to Sharm and I chose the Rosetta primarily because I was on a budget and it was £200-300 cheaper than the Hilton or the Jolie Ville.

The Rosetta has five areas, each with their own pool.
Jasmine is probably the newest and is where most Thomson guests are located.

Rooms - comfortable although decor is dated. Towels and beds changed daily if you wish. Bathroom basin has no plug. Rooms situated around the pool and will eirther have a terrace or balcony. Air con worked great.

Only real negative of the Jasmine rooms is that they are five minutes walk from main reception and dining room and the walk involves many steps.

One other problem was that there are no safety deposit boxes in the rooms - you have to use the ones in the reception (5 mins walk away) although they were free.

Tip - take your own kettle if you like a cup of tea.

Breakfast - Ok but egg station much too small with long queues daily.

Reception Staff - not particularly helpful

Beach - the only beach that is free for Rosetta guests is the New Tiran Beach which is located right round at the harbour end of the bay. This is at least 10 mins walk from the front of the Rosetta across the busy road. New Tiran Beach is horrible - packed in like sardines. I paid to go on other beaches instead.

Location - 10/15 mins walk into town. Taxi will cost 25LE if you don't feel like walking back after a night on the town in Naama Bay.

Water - do not drink the hotel water under any circumstances. A litre bottle of water costs 12LE from reception bar or 3LE from the shop just over the road.

Weather - fantastic - exceptionally hot for the time of year - 37 degrees. Sea temp was 24 degrees

Airport - taxi from hotel to airport will costs you 70LE. Make sure you ask him to drop you at Terminal 2.

Summary - hotel was fine - definetly 3 star and no more. Having previously stayed at the Jolie Ville I really noticed a massive difference on evertyhing. As the saying goes - 'you pay for what you get'. If you are on a budget then the Rosetta is perfectly okay but if you can afford it then it is worth paying that extra to stay in one of the good beach side hotels.

Rosetta is a value for money hotel and I still had a great holiday.

Me and my boyfriend just returned from Rosetta after a 2 week stay b & b.
Would definatly recommend this hotel if you are on a tight budget and don't plan to spend your full time in the hotel.
We only slept in our room, as we were always out or just round the pool.
As i work for a tour operator and have worked within travel and tourism for 5 years, i know what to expect on a holiday. We travelled with First choice, out transfer from airport to the hotel was shocking, no information given to us at all, just dropped us off at hotel and that was it. there was only 4 of us on the coach. This was not a good start, good job i work in travel and tourism and that i had looked into going so i knew what not to do and what to do.
As we were travelling with first choice, we also had a welcome meeting the second day, our rep was useless. Our welcome meeting was just in hotel reception with just 4 of us again. Our rep wasn't supposed to be working in Sharm as she works in Luxor so she didn't really give much info to us. All she talked about was Luxor and was clearly putting Sharm down, as though she hated it. She didn't tell us about any of the excursions, just gave us a sheet of paper with prices on. We were really dissapointed as on friday, our first week we were in tavern bar and saw a big group of people with a load of first choice reps which they were on a tour called 'Naama bay by night'. As we didn't know what this was , we never paid to go on it, i feel that the rep could of gave us a little info on this and we would have wanted to go, we could of met new people. During our 2 week stay we had 3 different reps as the other 2 left.
We might as well have booked our holiday independantly, it would have been cheaper.

Anyway on with the hotel......... We stayed in room 909 which was located near the hotels smallest pool. The room was dated but it was very clean and comfy, which is important. We left a tip for the cleaner the first day and then tipped him throughout our stay. The cleaner was really friendly, he was the friendliest member of staff of the whole hotel. The cleaning standard was very good, not one dirtiness in our room. They even mop the outside floors every day. very impressive.
There are 5 pools in the hotel. 1 is a very small pool, 3 are good sizes and then theres 1 massive pool. All the pools are freezing but you get used to them once you are in them. Pool boys are very friendly and the boys who work at the pool bar are friendly aswell. You get disturbed quite a bit aswell while relaxing at the pool, by newspaper boy, massage people and the beauty salon people. It got quite annoying by the end of the two weeks, and i could feel myself turning quite rude when they kepy asking.
Breakfast at the hotel was ok, not great. Didn't rate the hot food very much but the different types of patries were nice, pancakes were nice. They also had cereal which is served with hot milk, i just used to walk over to the tea and coffee and get cold milk though.
The hotels beach is called Tropicana New tiran beach, this must be one of the worse beach in Sharm/Naama Bay. All the sunbeds are squashed together and the sunbeds dont even adjust so u were having to lay down on the. On this beach you are constantly getting disturbed by tatooist, excursion boy, massage people and newpaper boys, it got quite annoying especially the newspaper boy, there were hundreds on them. We only ever went on the beach twice, i didn't see any british on it, just russians.
On the last day we had a bit of money left so we paid to get onto another beach, Gafy beach which Rosetta used to have a contract with but not renewed it so we had to pay £5pp to get on, we did get towels. It was worth paying to get on as the beach is much better, the water was nicer, coral was amazing, staff much friendlier and entertainment on there. We didn't get anyone disturbing us either. Just wish we'd have paid to go on the beach sooner.
There isn't really entertainment at this hotel, there is a arabic night on twice a week which you will get the man trying to sell to you everyday. Hisham was the man trying to sell everyday, it got quite annoying as we had already bought a ticket from him for this night, then he was trying to sell us it a few hours later, we told him we already got one from him and he didn't believe us so he had to look through his receipts to find our room number. We were trying to eat in the royal bar at this point.
I highly reccomend going to the Pirates bar which is located at the hilton fayrouz, you can cut through the hilton to get to the beach. happy hour from 6pm - 9pm on Lager, 6pm - 60p, 7pm - 70p, 8pm - 80p. The food is excellent, they have most football matches on, the staff are very friendly, always talking to us, even the boss sat and had a few drinks with us one night and bought us a drink.
This review is not to put you off but to give a honest opinion on what i thought. I would stay at this hotel again as the location is excellent, the beach is just the main put off.
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