Budget
Boomerang Luxor
5 star beds, super clean, many bathrooms, roof-top, great staff.
Fontana Hotel
clean and friendly, breakfast included, do haggle over the price!
Oasis Hotel
breakfast and internet included. Lovely breezy rooftop where tea and cake are served daily at sunset. Big rooms with firm beds and ceiling fans. Super close to train station - good for stumbling in after deboarding an overnight train. Note, internet is often turned off at night because it needs to 'rest'. Also, prices among the guests widely vary for a room - bargain hard. Moderately decent place to stay. Note that when they say free tea with breakfast which isn't good - cornflakes in Egypt... they mean the first tea is free. Same with the tea after sunset. You may be unpleasantly surprised with a bill if you think it is free after the first one.
New Everest Hotel ( [email protected])
breakfast, internet, wifi, bike rental, student discounts, helpful staff for trip organisation.
Midrange
Nefertiti Hotel
Clean and friendly. Roof terrace with view over the Nile, pool table, internet unreliable in rooms and lobby, simple breakfast included
Philippe Hotel
a good mid-range hotel, well-located with a rooftop garden, bar and pool
Horus Hotel
basically comfortable, the front rooms have a great view over Sharia Karnak to the northern end of Luxor Temple perhaps not as great as it sounds - quite a bit of street noise goes with that and the mosque within the temple will guarantee an unforgettable early morning wake-up call from its muzzein....
Rezeiky Camsite and hotel
Basically comfortable, Rezeiky Camp has more than 60 of single and double rooms. All rooms overlook the swimming pool and the garden. Hotel offers home-cooked Egyptian buffet.
Top end
Winter Palace
Built in 1886 during Queen Victoria's reign, this Sofitel chain hotel is the place to stay in Luxor. It is very central, well-appointed, and has good service and quite a bit of history. It was on the bulletin board in their lobby that Howard Carter first announced his discovery of King Tut's tomb. Often block-booked by tour groups, so reserve well ahead if you want to stay or be prepared to be flexible with dates.
Jolly Ville Mövenpick Luxor Resort
A nice comfortable hotel with 332 rooms & suites. All the rooms are bungalow style, with satellite TVs, direct dial telephones, mini-fridge, private baths with showers and bath and individually controlled air conditioning. There are also terraces which usually face large garden areas and sometimes unusual for Egypt, non-smoking rooms. Recreational activities include an outdoor swimming pool, four tennis courts with flood-lighting, a jogging track, soccer field, table tennis, bicycles, a billiards room, volleyball courts, gymnastics, massages and felucca sailing. The main restaurant is good for breakfast but the dinner Buffet is expensive.
Various large chains like Hilton, Sheraton, Novotel and Steigenberger also have high-end hotels in Luxor.