Basma Hotel Aswan

Located on Aswan’s highest hill, Hotel Basma offers unique views over the River Nile. It features a terraced garden and pool deck. The Nubian Museum is right across the property. Free Wi-Fi is available in public areas.

Each of the air-conditioned rooms is neatly furnished and fitted with a private bathroom. All rooms also have a well-stocked mini-bar and a television set, while some offer Nile views.

The hotel offers daily breakfast buffets. Guests can enjoy freshly squeezed fruit juices on Basma’s rooftop terrace, while admiring breathtaking views of the Nile Valley. The restaurant offers a wide choice of meals.

Basma Hotel Aswan is a 15-minute drive from the Aswan High Dam. The Nile riverside boulevard in the center of Aswan is only 1.2 mi from the hotel.

The city of Aswan has long been the cultural, economic and political lynchpin of Southern Egypt. It is here that the Pharaohs defended the borders of their realm against the Nubian kingdoms of South Sudan, here that great quarries cut deep into the earth to supply the granite monoliths for the Old Kingdom’s grandiose building projects, and here that traders and merchants converged to tout their goods at the last major urban stronghold on the Egyptian Nile.

Today, Aswan boasts a certain chilled-out charm that is mirrored by the slow-flow of the Nile, filtering its way down from the great dam on Lake Nasser. The impressive Temple of Isis is without question the most popular ancient site in the region, offering an insight into the religious and cultural Zeitgeist of the country during the transitory centuries of the late first millennium BC. That said, there’s a real melange of other historical points of interest too, from the shadowy Tombs of the Nobles, to the 4,000-year-old settlements on Elephantine Island