On Hurghada’s southern Corniche, Steigenberger ALDAU Beach is built for daylight and water: a broad private strand, a 5,000 m² pool that drifts into a lazy river, and gardens that keep the Red Sea in frame from morning to blue hour. It reads resort-scale yet composed—quiet lines, long views, and service that appears before you need it.

All-suite after its recent renovation, the hotel now carries around 400 suites, most with furnished balconies angling to sea or gardens. Inside, the mood is calm and contemporary—space to exhale between beach hours and dinner, with 24-hour room service and barrier-free access down to the sand.

Days settle into an easy cadence. Start with a swim—either in the gentle lagoon of the main pool and lazy river or on the nearly half-kilometer private beach—then decide between a sail with the Ilios Dive Club & Aqua Center (its own marina sits just in front) or a late-afternoon loop on the resort’s floodlit 9-hole par-3 course. Spa time is simple to build in: Pure Spa spreads roughly 1,000 m² of sauna/steam and treatment rooms for an unhurried reset.

Evenings keep the water close without turning dinner into theatre. The resort mixes generous buffets with focused à-la-carte rooms; bars and terraces take over as the gardens cool. The feeling is polished rather than showy—the kind of place where a nightcap stretches because the horizon refuses to end. (If you want more buzz or slides, the sister Aqua Magic next door has you covered, while ALDAU Beach stays the quieter, classic side.)

What you’re booking is a sea-first, suite-only resort with real breadth: a serious pool-and-beach scene, on-site diving and watersports, night-lit short-game golf, and a spa that resets the tempo—ten minutes from town, yet content to be its own address.