The lobby and building don’t look bad, but the rooms are old and shabby and quite dirty. Floors were filthy (bare feet are black in seconds). This hotel (the rooms, anyway) would be less than 1 star, most places in the world. The TV was 30 years old, with only fuzzy Arabic channels (no BBC, no CNN, no other English standards available elsewhere). No internet access in the room (and $5 an hour in the lobby, but Reception staff did not provide it, the one time I asked). Twin beds (many rooms seem to have 3 twin beds in them!) are small and not too uncomfortable, but with bad foam pillows and dirty bedspreads. The bathroom is basic, with old fixtures and filthy old shower curtains. The hotel is near the sea (photos on line make it look like the rooms overlook the pool and beyond to the beach and sea), but it is a huge complex, with most rooms set way back (blocks away) from the sea. I asked for nice rooms (for our group of 7 people – a consultant team - arriving from Cairo for 3 days of meetings), with views, etc….they put me upstairs on the 3rd floor (overlooking a parking lot), whereas my colleagues were all on the 1st floor overlooking the street. The Reception staff said no rooms overlook the sea – the options are garden view or street view (and it is a very noisy street). When you walk around the complex, you eventually find the large outdoor pool area, and see beyond to the (locked) gates that lead to the walkway, beach, and ocean. You cannot go through these gates to the boardwalk and beach, and the “security” guy sitting near the pool seemed more a pest than a guard….beckoning me over and pointing to the hotel, I think telling me I could not walk around the pool area and paths (this was evening time). He and his pals were strange, and rather creepy. There were numerous rooms much closer to the beach than ours were, but maybe these are apartments - it's not clear. The building surrounds the pool area in a huge horseshoe shape, and was largely empty (think “Shining” in a shabby hotel), until Thursday (start of the weekend in Egypt), when several groups checked in, including some loud teenagers all congregating in the halls and a few rooms on my floor. The traffic outside on that night was also incredible, and loud (and my colleagues with rooms facing the street suffered). The highlight of the hotel was the breakfast buffet, which was quite big and varied, with breads, cereals, yogurt, cheese and salad makings, an egg/omelet station, and various hot foods. Coffee was in instant packets, offered with hot milk. The hotel’s web site indicates there is a gym, but it is a 5-7 min walk outside and down the sidewalk, around the corner (if you are a woman, you certainly do not walk in your gym clothes or shorts - this is a very conservative, repressive feeling town - annoying). Although affiliated (and connected to the hotel complex), the gym is private and charges hotel guests 40 pounds (about $7) to use it. There are designated ladies’ hours, and men’s hours (you can only use the gym during your gender’s time slots/days). I asked to see the gym before paying my entrance fee one evening during ladies’ hours, was taken upstairs (and I assumed I would have the place to myself given the day and time), but the small gym was full of women, with every treadmill and other machine (including weights) occupied. This was 7PM on a Thursday night. So, this was not a good option, and I did not use it. My room was quite cold, and although it had an AC/heater unit, it only cranked out cold air (even with the temp set on 32C). One of the guys at Reception was trying to be helpful when he called me at 10:30PM the night we checked in, to ask if I liked my view (I said what view, I'm looking at the parking lot), and then called again after 11PM to ask if my CNN was working (it still wasn't, and never did). He also showed me, the next night, how to use the AC remote (which I already knew how to use), but said the heat wouldn't be available until later in the winter (the same machine has AC and heat settings). He gets points for trying, but he was clueless.
Our party was very happy to leave both this dirty hotel, and Port Said itself. One has the feeling this town is moving backwards, sadly. With even a little effort (and some major cleaning!), it does not have to be this way.

the room in very bad shape, a lot of maintenance is needed the clean level is low
the breakfast in restaurant is good 5 stars level
the location is good

Stayed one night alone on business trip - and was acceptable, did not use the pool, just ate and slept and used the internet in the foyer (paid by the hour).

Staff were ok, but i was a low maintenance customer, just in and out during a quiet time.