Where the pools are in El Gouna and Hurghada
El Gouna sits on the Red Sea about 20 kilometres north of Hurghada. It is a town built by Orascom Development around lagoons and islands, with Downtown, Tamr Henna Square and Abu Tig Marina as its three main areas. Hurghada runs along the coast from El Dahar, the old city centre, past Hurghada Marina at Saqala Square and Sheraton Street, down to Senzo Mall on Safaga Road and Hurghada International Airport. Further south are Sahl Hasheesh and Soma Bay. All of it is inside the area we cover.
Hotels and resorts hold many of the pools on this coast, alongside holiday villas, apartment compounds and houses on the lagoons. Whichever kind you have, it carries a lot of swimmers, in strong sun, close to the sea.
Hotel pools along the Hurghada coast
A hotel pool that shuts in season loses bookings and draws complaints. Our engineers size the filtration and turnover for the number of people actually in the water, then build the shell, the edge and the plant room as one system. Overflow edges, balance tanks, children's pools and pool bar shells all come from the same drawing set. For new hotel pools and full rebuilds, see our hotel and resort pool construction.
Resort pools in El Gouna, Sahl Hasheesh and Soma Bay
Resort estates run large pools: lagoon shapes, sand beach entries, long overflow edges and several pools on one plant. Heavy use, sunscreen and sand push the chemistry out of balance within hours. Automatic dosing and water treatment, sized to each pool, keeps the chlorine and the pH steady between visits, and the readings get logged for your inspection file.
Holiday villa pools on the El Gouna lagoons
Villas on the lagoons can have a private pool on the water side of the plot. If yours is let to visitors or opened only on holidays, the pool has to run with nobody at home. The pumps, filters and automation we specify come from Hayward, Pentair and AstralPool, with Schneider Electric controls, so the filtration, dosing and lights run on a schedule and a spare part is easy to find in Egypt.
Shared pools in holiday apartment compounds
Apartment compounds in Hurghada share one or two pools between a lot of households and short stay visitors. The management gets one named contact and a written record of every visit. Anything outside the contract is quoted in writing first and goes ahead only once management signs it off. Most compounds run on a maintenance contract with fixed visit days, agreed after the site visit.
Built for salt air and water that is never left alone
Salt in the air corrodes ladders, handrails, light housings, fixings and panel doors. Every metal part at the pool is specified for the coast, and the plant room is placed out of the spray. Shells are waterproofed with Sika or BASF Master Builders Solutions systems.
Strong sun and heavy use load the filter and burn off chlorine fast. So the filtration is sized for the real bather load, the dosing is automatic, and the circulation runs on a timer set to how the pool is used. Pumps and filters come from brands with parts on the shelf in Egypt, so a failed seal means a short wait.
Keeping a hotel pool open through the season
If you run a hotel or resort pool, you answer for every day it stays shut and for anything that happens in the water. Every fault gets traced to what caused it before a part is changed, so the budget stops paying for the same pump twice. Readings are written down on every visit and kept for your inspection records. Work that needs the water drained is planned with your operations team around occupancy. Hotels, resorts and estate managements contract with us directly, on commercial terms.
Call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818 and tell us how many pools you run and when your quieter weeks fall.
Why people in El Gouna and Hurghada choose us
- Founded in 2001, so twenty five years of building and looking after pools in Egypt, from one office in Nasr City.
- Structural, hydraulic and MEP engineers on our own staff, so the shell, the pipework and the plant are designed by the company that builds them.
- Site teams on our own payroll, the same people from the survey to the handover.
- One contractor accountable for the whole pool, from design through maintenance.
- Orascom Development Egypt, the developer of El Gouna, is on our published developer partner list.
- A 90-day programme for a standard residential build, written into the quotation.
- Milestone payments, or a deposit and six monthly instalments.
- A written warranty on every pool we build: 25 years on the structure, 10 on the waterproofing, 5 on the electromechanical works.
- We maintain and renovate pools that other contractors built.
Red Sea pools another contractor built
We take on pools other companies built in El Gouna, Hurghada and the resorts south of it, as they are. The first visit covers the water, the shell, the tiles, the pipework, the metalwork and the plant room. Every part gets a written verdict: sound, needs work now, or can wait. From that list we quote the repair, the renovation or the maintenance contract the pool actually needs.
How a pool in El Gouna or Hurghada gets priced
The size of the pool, the number of people who use it, the plant room already there, access through a working hotel or estate, the estate's rules for contractors and the distance from Cairo all move the figure. None of it shows over the phone, so the price follows the site visit. The visit, the consultation and the quote are free, and the quote comes in writing, item by item, with a programme.
People who should call another company
If you want someone at the pool every morning to skim it, a contractor based on the Red Sea will suit you better. If you want a figure for a hotel pool before anyone has seen its plant room, we cannot give one. And if the fittings are to be chosen on price, a cheaper company will suit you better, and you will replace them sooner.
Our Nasr City office and the way in from the Red Sea
Surveys and visits happen at your pool. Drawings, tiles, finishes and equipment can be settled at the office in Cairo, by appointment.
We are at 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, in Nasr City, just off Abbas El-Akkad.
- From Abu Tig Marina, Downtown El Gouna, Tamr Henna Square or TU Berlin Campus El Gouna: make your way back to Cairo, come into Nasr City and pick up Abbas El-Akkad.
- From El Dahar, Hurghada Marina or Sheraton Street: make your way back to Cairo, come into Nasr City and pick up Abbas El-Akkad.
- From Senzo Mall, Hurghada International Airport, Sahl Hasheesh or Soma Bay: make your way back to Cairo, come into Nasr City and pick up Abbas El-Akkad.
Ring +20 102 626 1818 when you are close and we will guide you in. Office hours are Saturday to Thursday, 9am to 5pm. Closed Friday.
On the Mediterranean, we also look after chalet and compound pools on the North Coast, confirmed after a site visit the same way.
Frequently asked questions in El Gouna and Hurghada
Do you cover El Gouna, Sahl Hasheesh and Soma Bay as well as Hurghada? Yes. El Gouna, Hurghada, Sahl Hasheesh and Soma Bay are all inside the area we cover. Every project outside Greater Cairo is confirmed after a site visit.
Can you work on our hotel pool without closing it in season? Which jobs need the pool closed is set out at the site visit, before you sign. Those jobs go into the weeks your operations team picks, and the rest of the work is planned around the pool staying in use.
Our pool goes cloudy when the hotel is full. What causes that? Usually the filtration, the turnover or the dosing was sized for the water volume and falls behind when the pool is busy. We check all three on the first visit and tell you in writing which one needs changing.
Do you keep records for inspections? Yes. Readings are written down on every visit and kept for your inspection file, and any fault is reported in writing with its cause.
Do you work on lagoon and sand beach pools? Yes. We build and look after lagoon shaped pools, sand beach entries, overflow edges and children's pools, designed by our own structural, hydraulic and MEP engineers.
Our villa is let to visitors most of the year. Can the pool run while we are away? Yes. Automation runs the filtration, the dosing and the lights on a schedule, and a maintenance contract covers the visits in between, with the readings sent to you.
Do you work on pools another company built? Yes. We survey the whole pool on the first visit, including any fitting the sea air has corroded, and you get each finding in writing.
Do we have to come to your office? Only if you want to. The survey happens at the pool. Drawings, tiles and equipment can be seen at our Nasr City office, by appointment.
Do you also work in Ain Sokhna? Yes. We look after weekend house and resort pools in Ain Sokhna as well, and projects there are confirmed after a site visit too.
Do you give a warranty? On pools we build, yes, in writing: 25 years on the structure, 10 on the waterproofing, 5 on the electromechanical works. On a repair to another company's pool, the term is agreed for that job and written on the quote.
Book the site visit for your pool
If you need a swimming pool company Cairo hotels and holiday homes can hold to a written programme on the Red Sea, call or WhatsApp +20 102 626 1818 and tell us where the pool is and how it is used. Or email info@arcgroup-eg.com with the location, and we will set the date for the free site visit.
Al Rowad Constructions & Pool Services, 15 El-Lewaa Mahmoud Samy Basha, Al Mintaqah as Sādisah, Nasr City, Cairo Governorate 10506, Egypt.