One long sweep of private sand in Nabq Bay, just over 1,000 rooms, and three sister hotels that share it all. That is the Jaz Mirabel complex. Book the flagship Jaz Mirabel Beach, the all-round Jaz Mirabel Resort or the great value Jaz Mirabel Club and you are holidaying on the same site, with the same beach, the same gardens and the same Red Sea reef at the end of the jetty.
The Jaz Hotel Group, Egypt’s own five star chain, built the Mirabel as a resort village rather than a single hotel. The Beach came first and claims the front row, its low-rise wings opening straight onto the sand and a natural lagoon with the islands of the Straits of Tiran on the horizon. Behind it, in landscaped gardens threaded with palms and bougainvillea, sits Jaz Mirabel Resort, which many returning guests will remember under its old name, Jaz Mirabel Park. The Club completes the trio on the far side of the gardens, and because it is the longest stroll from the sea it is consistently the cheapest way in.
What makes the place work is how much is shared. Every guest uses the same private beach and the jetty of around 700 metres that runs out over the reef, the Mivida Spa, the gym, the floodlit tennis court, the dive and watersports centre, a 450 seat open-air amphitheatre and an arcade of around 75 shops with a pharmacy. Day to day, each hotel runs its own pools, buffet restaurant and bars, so nowhere feels swamped even when the complex is full.
A word on names, because Jaz has shuffled them more than once. The Resort spent years as Jaz Mirabel Park, some booking systems still show the middle pair as Jaz Mirabel Park & Club, and the flagship occasionally appears as plain Jaz Mirabel. If your confirmation carries one of the older names, relax: it is the same site, the same beach and the same team.
Our honest take: this is one of the most reliable all inclusive set-ups in Sharm el Sheikh, and the choice between the three hotels is really a choice about how far you want to walk to the sand and how much you want to spend. Nobody gets a bad deal, and our customers tell us the staff, many of them long-servers, are the reason they go back year after year.
| Jaz Mirabel Beach | The flagship. Right on the sand and lagoon, with 645 rooms, the biggest choice of bars, plus one complimentary a la carte meal per stay. Best for first visits and dedicated beach lovers. |
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| Jaz Mirabel Resort | The all-rounder, formerly Jaz Mirabel Park. A garden setting a short stroll behind the beachfront, with shared garden pools and the La Fattoria buffet. Best for balancing comfort and cost. |
| Jaz Mirabel Club | The great value choice. The furthest corner of the site, yet the same beach, jetty and spa as everyone else. Best for budget-savvy travellers, groups and all-day snorkellers. |
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The original and still the flagship, Jaz Mirabel Beach holds the plum position at the front of the complex, where its 645 rooms sit closest to the private sand and the calm, shallow lagoon. Step out past the pool terraces and you are on the beach in a minute or two, with the jetty, the Sand Beach Bar and the rows of sun beds straight ahead. It also runs the largest line-up of venues on site: the twin El Nakheel and Al Zaytoun buffet restaurants, the Blue and Las Palmas pool bars, the Coral and Reef snack bars, the beachside Waves snack bar, and two lobby bars in Shurouk and Oriental Flair.
Four swimming pools belong to the Beach alone, two of them heated through the winter. Add the beach and its lagoon a short stroll away and it is easy to see why guests rarely leave the site. Evenings drift from the lobby bars to the shows at the amphitheatre, and the pace stays gentle rather than raucous.
All 645 rooms come with a balcony or terrace, individually controlled air conditioning, an LCD TV, WiFi, a safe, and a minibar and tea and coffee tray that housekeeping tops up daily. The published categories, with the hotel’s own counts, run as follows.
The entry point, 102 in all, with king or twin beds and a garden or shopping arcade outlook. Compact but well kept, and fine if you plan to live outdoors.
Sixty rooms with a useful step up in space, queen or twin beds and pool, garden or side sea views from the balcony.
Ninety rooms and our pick for couples. The same generous footprint as the family category, with garden, pool or sea side aspects.
The backbone of the hotel, with 390 in all. Queen or twin beds plus space for two children, with pool, garden or side sea views.
Just three exist, with a queen bed and pool view across a genuinely vast layout. Book far ahead if you want one.
Choose it if the beach itself is the point of the holiday, if you want the shortest possible walk from breakfast to sun bed, or if the all inclusive extras sway you: guests here enjoy one complimentary meal per stay at a choice of the complex’s three a la carte restaurants, booked in advance at reception and subject to availability. In our view it is also the best base for couples, thanks to the Shurouk Lobby Bar, reserved for guests aged 18 and over, and the quieter of its four pools.
If you have holidayed here before, you knew this hotel as Jaz Mirabel Park. Renamed Jaz Mirabel Resort, it is the all-rounder of the trio: a five star, all inclusive base set in the gardens directly behind the beachfront, a few unhurried minutes on foot from the sand and the jetty. The trade-off for that short stroll is straightforward, and it shows up in the price rather than the experience.
Together with the neighbouring Club it runs six swimming pools in the gardens, some heated during the winter months. Meals centre on La Fattoria, a big, capable buffet restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner with live cooking stations and theme nights through the week. The Boudoir Lobby Bar covers everything from morning coffee to a late nightcap, while the Sunrise and Oasis pool bars keep drinks and light bites coming through the day, and the beach venues are on hand once you hit the sand.
Rooms follow the same recipe as the flagship: balcony or terrace, individually controlled air conditioning, LCD TV, safe, and a minibar and tea and coffee station replenished daily. Across the Resort and Club wings there are 356 rooms in total, split between 90 superior rooms, 60 superior family rooms, 204 deluxe family rooms and a pair of junior suites, and most look over the pools and gardens.
Bright, practical rooms with king or twin beds and pool or garden views. A comfortable fit for couples or a couple with one younger child.
The categories most of our guests book, with queen or twin beds, room for two children and a pool-facing balcony or terrace. The Family Deluxe grade is by far the most numerous on this side of the complex.
This is the sensible middle: noticeably easier on the budget than the Beach, closer to the sand than the Club, and sharing every headline facility on site. We rate it for anyone who wants the full Jaz Mirabel Sharm El Sheikh experience, beach and jetty included, without paying beachfront rates, and for anyone who prefers the quieter rhythm of the gardens to the busier beachfront pools. Paperwork occasionally still says Park, so do not worry if an old review or a booking document uses the former name.
Every big resort complex has a smart money option, and here it is the Club. It occupies the furthest plots from the sea, which on this site means a garden walk of several minutes rather than any real hardship, and in exchange it is regularly the lowest-priced way to stay at the Mirabel. The beach, the jetty of around 700 metres, the spa, the shops and the evening shows are all the same shared facilities enjoyed by guests paying considerably more.
Day to day, Club guests share the six garden pools and poolside bars with the Resort, and take buffet meals at La Fattoria, with the Sunrise and Oasis bars for drinks by the water and the Boudoir Lobby Bar for the evening. Down on the sand, the Sand Beach Bar and the Waves snack bar serve all three hotels, so a full day at the beach never means trekking back for lunch.
Club rooms carry the same fit-out as the rest of the complex, balcony or terrace included, with the minibar and tea tray restocked daily.
King or twin beds and a pool or garden view balcony or terrace, with the same daily-stocked minibar and tea tray as the rest of the complex.
Superior Family and Family Deluxe grades share the same generous footprint, queen or twin beds and pool outlooks. With 204 Family Deluxe rooms across the Resort and Club wings, availability is usually good.
Only two exist, with sun beds and a dining table on the terrace. A quiet indulgence at a hotel priced for value; ask us early.
Choose it if you would rather put the saving towards excursions, diving or a second week. It suits budget-conscious travellers, groups of friends splitting the bill, and snorkellers who plan to spend every daylight hour at the reef anyway. The honest caveat: rooms and grounds are a touch simpler than the flagship’s and you will walk a little further, but our customers who book it come home telling us it was, in their words, the same holiday for less.
Count them up and there are getting on for eighteen named places to eat and drink across the complex. Rather than list them alphabetically, here they are the way you will actually use them: the three bookable a la carte restaurants that serve the whole site, then each hotel’s own venues.
Classic Italian cooking served with warmth, and in our view the most romantic table on site. Popular for anniversaries; book a day or two ahead at reception.
Bold, authentic Egyptian and Levantine flavours, mezze through to grills. The one to pick if you want to eat something genuinely local while you are in Sinai.
Chinese dishes, sushi and teppanyaki theatre under one roof. A fun choice for a sociable evening, and the teppanyaki grills book out first.
The flagship’s twin main restaurants, serving relaxed buffet dining with international favourites, live stations and regular theme nights.
A big, well-drilled buffet covering breakfast, lunch and dinner for the garden hotels, with cooking stations and themed evenings through the week.
Late breakfasts for slow starters and afternoon teas for laid-back days, both close to the Beach’s pools.
Snacks and cocktails at the beach side, so a lagoon day rolls on without anyone marching back inland for lunch.
Dress codes stay relaxed by day, and most guests simply change into smart casual wear for dinner. Reservations are only ever needed for the a la carte trio, which the reception teams handle in person.
All inclusive at the Mirabel is organised by home hotel, and it pays to understand the system before you book. Your wristband is based at your own hotel’s buffet restaurant, pools and bars: El Nakheel and Al Zaytoun at the Beach, La Fattoria for the Resort and the Club. The beach itself, its bars, the entertainment and the shops are shared by everyone, and the three a la carte restaurants take bookings from all three hotels for an extra charge, with Beach guests enjoying one complimentary a la carte meal per stay.
Meal times are generous rather than grudging. Buffet breakfast typically runs from 07:00 to 10:30, lunch from 12:30 to 14:30 and dinner from 18:30 to 21:30, with snack outlets bridging the gaps through the afternoon, so nobody is ever far from food.
We are asked this constantly, so here is the straight answer from our own checks. Buffets and pool bars operate for their own hotel’s guests, so Club and Resort wristbands dine at La Fattoria rather than in the Beach’s restaurants. What genuinely is shared: the beach and its bars, the spa, the shops, the amphitheatre and, for a fee, the a la carte trio of Nino’s, Sofra and Makai Tukai. In practice our customers tell us they eat well wherever they are based; the buffets are large, and standards are set centrally by Jaz. If a particular restaurant matters to you, tell us when you enquire and we will place you in the right hotel from the start.
Swimmers do well here. The Beach runs four pools of its own, two heated through the winter; the Resort and Club share several more in the gardens, some also heated. That makes around a dozen in all, split between livelier activity pools near the animation team and quieter corners for floating with a book. Aqua gym sessions and pool games run through the day, and every pool is open to every guest on site.
The sand itself is the reason many of our customers pick Nabq Bay at all: a wide, private beach fronting a natural lagoon, with rows of sun beds and parasols, included towels, and the Sand Beach Bar and Waves snack bar so you never need to leave. The lagoon is remarkably shallow, and at low tide the sea pulls a long way out, which is wonderful for a gentle paddle and less so for a spontaneous swim. The answer is the jetty: a walkway of around 700 metres that carries you over the flats to deeper water at the reef edge, with steps down for swimmers and snorkellers.
This stretch of coast sits beside the Nabq protected area, the largest of the Sinai coastal reserves, and the reef at the end of the jetty repays the walk with corals and a healthy cast of reef fish just metres from the steps. Regulars rate it among the better house-reef experiences in Sharm el Sheikh at this price point. An on-site diving and watersports centre, at an extra charge, arranges tuition, guided dives and boat trips out towards the Straits of Tiran, whose islands you can see from the sand.
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