Four-star One MICHELIN Key Mangroovy Beach, El Gouna
La Maison Bleue El Gouna
A pale blue house on the lagoon at Mangroovy, built for Samih Sawiris to receive his friends, with thirteen suites, frescoed walls and a marble pool.
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- MICHELIN
- One Key, 2026
- Suites
- 13, each one different
- Relais & Châteaux
- Member since 2024
- From the airport
- About 40 minutes from Hurghada, our estimate
The hotel
A private house on the lagoon.
La Maison Bleue began as a guest house and dock for Samih Sawiris, the developer of El Gouna, a place to put up family and friends. The antiques collector Amr Khalil and the architect Olivier Sednaoui designed it together. They mixed Minoan murals, Catalan mosaics, Syrian arches and Venetian tiles behind a pastel blue façade that stands out against the desert sky.
Inside there are parquet floors, marble stairs, velvet curtains and crystal and porcelain chandeliers, with antiques of a collector's standard in every room. No two of the thirteen suites are alike. The house opened to paying guests as a hotel, joined Relais & Châteaux in 2024 and holds one MICHELIN Key in the 2026 selection.
- The Roman spa A spa in the Roman manner with a sauna and hammam, and a marble-lined pool, heated, in the garden.
- Mangroovy Beach The house keeps its own stretch of private sand on the lagoon at Mangroovy.
- Painted walls Frescoes by local artists run through the public rooms and suites, under high ceilings.
Rooms & suites
Thirteen suites and a villa with a pool.
Sizes as given by Relais & Châteaux. Every suite is decorated on its own, inside one pastel palette.
- Suites Garden View, Sea View and Beachfront From 80 to 120 square metres, facing the garden, the sea or the sand directly.
- Upstairs Tower Suite About 100 square metres in the tower of the house.
- For four Pool Villa About 200 square metres, with its own garden and private pool.
Dining
A French chef and the garden.
Restaurants as listed by the MICHELIN Guide and Relais & Châteaux. Shown for information.
- Le Restaurant French and Egyptian Vincent Guillou, on the terrace, in the dining room or in your suite
- Botanica Light, health-minded dishes Beside the garden
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by noon.
- Children The house is for adults. Relais & Châteaux gives a minimum age of 16, while the MICHELIN Guide says children are not accepted. We confirm with the hotel before booking.
- Pets Not accepted.
Getting there
Flying to El Gouna.
Hurghada International, south of El Gouna, takes all international flights, scheduled and private; allow about 40 minutes by car, our estimate. The small El Gouna airstrip is used only after clearing customs at Hurghada.
- Cairo 50 min
- Riyadh 2 h 05
- Athens 2 h 20
- Munich 4 h 20
- London 5 h 30
Questions
What guests ask first.
- Does La Maison Bleue have a MICHELIN Key?
- Yes, one, in the 2026 selection.
- Who designed La Maison Bleue?
- The antiques collector Amr Khalil and the architect Olivier Sednaoui, for the El Gouna developer Samih Sawiris, who first used it to host family and friends.
- Can children stay at La Maison Bleue?
- It is an adults-only house. Relais & Châteaux sets the minimum age at 16; the MICHELIN Guide lists no children. Check with the hotel before you book.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to El Gouna?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to El Gouna, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in El Gouna
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Casa Cook El Gouna One hundred and twenty-nine rooms in stone-toned concrete that recalls Nubian villages, some with roof terraces or private pools; adults only, and one MICHELIN Key.
- The Chedi El Gouna Eighty-two rooms behind terracotta walls, a private beach, and a Japanese restaurant on the roof.
- Sheraton Miramar Resort El Gouna Michael Graves spread its 339 rooms over nine islands joined by wooden bridges.
- Steigenberger Golf Resort On the championship course laid out by Gene Bates and Fred Couples, with a beach on the lagoon.
- Ancient Sands Golf Resort Built around its own eighteen-hole course, with access to the sand of Marina Beach.
- Mövenpick Resort & Spa El Gouna Four hundred and twenty rooms ringed by lagoons, on a beach a kilometre and a half long, with its own kite spot.
Staying at La Maison Bleue El Gouna?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to El Gouna, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.