We have spent a week in Sunrise Palacio and our impression is unfortunately not positive.
Builging 4 is very noisy due to the construction and the evening entertainment. If possible choose building 5 or 6 (10 USD extra "baksis" only).
Variety of meal was very very poor. Always the same kind of foods (roasted beef or poultry, chicken and fish) in the restaurant and snack bar (hot dog, nudless and chips). You get your drink in plasitc glas in the Snack and Beach Bar.
The beach is a joke and (I think) very dangerous for children. After few steps 2,5 and 4 meter deep.

Myself, my two boys aged 11 and 13 and my wife booked this hotel as a last minute thing, for late February 2005, for what we hoped would be a 5star all inclusive sunny break, it didn't turn out like that! The rooms were fine if a little far away from the bars and restaurants. Firstly the wind nearly blew you off your feet and sent sun loungers flying into the lagoon, the balcony doors blew open in the middle of the night, when questioned, the staff said its the windy season! The restaurant was awfull, it was too busy, too smokey and the food was terrible. The main problem was within 36 hours of arrival I fell ill with food poisoning, this laid knocked me out for 3days and made feel drained for about 7days. We spoke to the very few brits we found and they were dropping like flys with same problem, infact some were put on drips. My wife even had to comfort a fellow guest she found crying because she was so worried about her sick husband, and this was while I was confined to our room sick as well!

The majority of the guests were loud, chain smoking, beer and vodka swilling russians, who thought all their christmas's had come at once, but treated the local staff like dirt. It was trully the worst holiday we have ever had. The rest of my family fell victim to the dreaded stomach troubles that was so apparent at this resort. We actually suffered from upset stomachs for virtually the the whole holiday, it made us scared to eat in the dreaded restaurant. The bars were useless as well, when you could attract a bar tender, the drinks were dreadfull, and I mean dreadfull.

The first choice rep was useless, if I could have found the strength, I would have liked to have rallied the suffering brits up together and taken the place to court for compensation. As I said never ever again!

My husband and I visited the Sunrise in March 2005 - the day we arrived was very windy, and we were told by our rep that this was very unusual and it would blow over in a day or so - well, after 7 days the wind never let up. We couldn't sleep at night as the balcony door kept rattling and when we spoke to the locals, we were told that this was normal for the area!
The hotel itself is fine. The rooms are adequate and if you really do want a hairdryer (as mentioned previously) you only have to ask the hotel. The staff are brilliant and the rooms and cleanliness of the rooms are good too. The restaurant is very inadequate for the size of the hotel. We only went All Inclusive because it was a last minute holiday and reasonably cheap, but the food is not very good, the drinks are not very good, the wine is awful and the service (changing tables, etc) is very, very slow. I don't mean to be rude about our European neighbours, but the resort is full of Germans and Russians, who are very rude, start drinking from 9.00 am in the morning, take lots of food and leave it on their plates and are very loud around the beach and pool areas and treat the Egyptians like slaves. If you are English - stay away, or go somewhere else!

The sun shines every day, which is a bonus and the locals are fabulous, but all in all, we were very disappointed with the experience. We went to Taba in Egypt last September, which is wonderful and are going back this September, but will never go back to Hurghada. Sorry!

This is an enourmous hotel. Sadly they have 1 main buffet restaurnat for 1500 people, which seats at most 300 - 400 people, ques in the restaurant breakfast lunch and dinner are huge. I found eating in this hotel a complete nightmare if you normally go All inclusive you would think the quality of the food here very 2*. The restaurant is so busy the staff can't even keep the cloths on the table changed and clean, and with one person trying to bbq for 1500 portion control is the order of the day. The cleanliness of the main restaurant is poor and puts you off eating anyway.
The Italian and Fish restaurants are much better but they only have limted availabilty 1 visit per stay. The rooms are well appointed but no hairdryer in situ. The 2 day trip to luxor is fantastic the sites are amazing in the valley of the Kings and staying at the hotel Movenpick in Luxor is a luxury after the sunrise. Did the star gazing trip didn't really enjoy this 1 hour jeep safari in the desert boring bumpy etc, stars were good. The eygptians are very friendly and staff very helpful, but do take plenty of dosh for tips. Ladies ask for a woman if you go for a massage as the men are to friendly and you get a grope for your money, which I found very unpleasent. I loved eygpt but not this hotel maybe look at 5* if poss. This hotel I rate as 2-3*.