This truly is a 5 star hotel - you are totally spoilt from arrival to departure. The food was amazing - particularly the gala dinners - an awesome amount of food beautifully displayed. The staff are so friendly and make you feel very special - nothing is too much trouble. The Thomson team were also excellent - really friendly, always available and ready to help with any enquiries. I particularly enjoyed Jodi's wellbeing sessions - made me feel like I wasn't being totally lazy! A fabulous holiday.

We decided to spend Christmas and New Years Eve in Hurghada and Le Reve. We do not regret that. Below, I will provide my comments regarding this hotel. In order to facilitate, I have divided the review into sections.

Location
The hotel is not located in Hurghada but some 20 km away. That is not a problem since Hurghada does not offer much which you can not get at the hotel. Prepared to not leave the hotel unless you are off for a trip to Cairo etc.

Rooms
We had a standard room and was perfectly happy with the size and the equipment. The bathroom was very large (=good).

Front desk
The staff is polite and helpful. However, compared to the other sections, they are not very polite and helpful, just polite and helpful. Some of them speak good english but surprisingly many do speak very poor english or almost none at all.

Guest relation
Olga is a star. Nothing more needs to be said. She is awesome and sorted out the (few) problems that arose. She speaks very good english.

Main restuarant
The chefs do an excellent work in making every meal a success. It is very hard to make a 14 days all inclusive stay filled with thrilling meals but they try hard and they succeeds. After 14 days, we were not tired of the meals served (which is the case almost everywehere else after just a few days). The waiters are with few exceptions very nice and helpful. - In my experience, the fish was overall the best choice, making the meals slightly healthier than usual as well. The breakfast includes fresh orange juice.

Chinese, seafood and Italian restaurants
These three restaurant are free of charge once a week. All of them are very good. To my taste, the Chinese was the best, but I guess opinions vary. The waiters are quick, nice and polite.

Beach staff
You will get a towel each day and there is always waiters walking around taking order, polishing the sun glasses and making your stay comfortable. The boys are very nice, friendly and always smiling.

Gym
The hotel has a decent euipped gym. I say "decent" and comparing with my gym at home. It is excellent when comparing the the "gyms" at other hotels (which usually only have a few pieces of euipment). This gym is fully equipped and has AC. It is possible to get a good exercise here.

Spa
This is the draw back. The spa has several sellers walking around and trying to sell yu treatments. They are as aggessive as in other hotels, no more, no less. They are very much trying to sell and if you politly decline, they will show how disappointed they are. The prices are very hefty, even compared to Swedish prices. You can easility negotiate a 50 percent discount, making it more affordable. We got a treatmet from our travel agent for free and used it. We discussed our experience with a few other guests and shared the view "not worth the money" (it should have costed, even with 50 percent discount).

Management
We had a few contacts with the management and where impressed by the quick responses and how well any complaints where dealt with.

Cleaning
"Our" cleaing boy was working almost 24/7 but never seemed to get the time to clean our room. He could have used some help obviously, since our room was seldom cleaned when we got back from the pool at 15.30. That could have been better. The boy wass very, very friendly and always appologised for not being able to clean the room in time.

Smoking
Yes, this hotels have smoking areas and sadly enough one can smell the smoke where one may not like it. The reception area (where internet is available) is a rather "smoky" place albeit there is only allowed to smoke in some areas. Do not stay at 4th floor unless you can accept smoking. We changed room to 2th floor and that was far better.

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All in all, an excellent stay will await the ones arriving at this hotel.

Fantastic time. Stayed from 23rd November for two weeks. If you are after a relaxing, peaceful and pampered holiday then I would highly recommend the Premier Le Reve. Staff were all more than happy to look after your requirements. The beach and pool boys certainly go out of their way (Melad).
The restaurant staff were also very attentive (Said) and the food very good. The chefs were more than happy to cater for dietary requirements.
It has been mentioned in some reviews that the drinks may have been watered down. I can say I am 100% sure that this was not the case on our visit. On the contrary the drinks were well made and the measures generous and certainly not diluted !!
The snorkelling was very good especially if you went a little further around from the jetty entry point.
We also booked some massages and can only speak very highly of them. My wife holds a diploma in sports massage and was very very impressed with Bujuna and her treatments and professionalism. The massages are a little expensive but it is worth haggling on the prices.
I must also add that the service provided by Mr Fouquet was outstanding. Always impeccably dressed and often seen walking around the hotel talking to guests and enquiring upon their welfare. Not only was he there on our arrival to welcome us but also to bid us farewell and wave the mini bus goodbye.

We have just returned from the Premier Le Reve for Christmas and New Year, our first time away from home at this time of year. Never have we experienced anything quite like it. This was our 11th Visit and become part of the family.
You, Mr Fouquet you are one very special gentleman with amazing staff alongside you, are what makes this hotel so very special, whether you’re a first timer or a repeater your aim is to make sure all needs are catered for and you do this so beautifully.
We have both travelled extensively throughout the world and experienced some very fine food, but nothing quite like Dinner on New Year’s Eve, this was Spectacular and would compare with, we are sure some of the finest Cruise Ships.
How can we mention individual staff? We feel it would not be possible and unfair as they all deserve a mention, but thank you all for being so special.
We have no plans to repeat on anything else regarding the hotel, as we feel it as all been said. Simply Amazing!!!!
All being well we look forward to seeing you all in March, May, June/July, October and then Christmas once again.
Joyce and Brian