Do you need to book a restaurant table in advance in Egypt resort hotels?

At restaurants that operate by reservation, staff may check your booking slip not only at the entrance but also inside the dining room. So the reservation can still matter even if nobody is standing at the door.

According to a recent report, Fun Sun had tables available every evening; it felt more spacious than the hotel’s other restaurants.

The hotel offers a late dinner service until midnight — food is guaranteed but the menu choice is very limited. Guests who arrived around 23:00 after check-in were invited to eat; the dish served was something like pasta with meat sauce.

The Japanese restaurant Segun is best visited around 18:30 to enjoy a relaxed atmosphere without being rushed. Arriving at 19:30 meant staff hurried service along, as the restaurant appeared to close around 20:30.

At the Fun Sun restaurant: seats are available right at dinner opening, but after 30–40 minutes the place fills up and entry is only as tables free up. An alternative is to arrive an hour to an hour and a half after opening, when it quiets down again.

Queues can be avoided by arriving either right at opening or about an hour later. Even at 100% hotel occupancy there were no queues. When a queue did form, it was almost always at the first restaurant near the entrance — the furthest one (Zamorodash, connected to Bella Italia) was consistently queue-free.

Walk-ins are fine if you time it right: breakfast at 8am, lunch around 12:45, and dinner no later than 19:15–19:20. After 19:30 the restaurant fills up very quickly.

Arriving for dinner at 19:00 without a reservation always worked — tables were available. After 19:30 the situation changes drastically and seats become scarce.

Over two weeks it was possible to visit each restaurant 2–3 times. The kebab restaurant was disappointing — the food felt no different from a regular buffet restaurant, and a second visit wasn't worth it.