Hacienda Bay chalets for rent
Sidi Abdel Rahman · North Coast
Hacienda Bay sits at Sidi Abdel Rahman on Egypt’s North Coast, in Matrouh governorate. Every home on this page is one we manage ourselves inside the compound, so what you read here is what is actually behind the gate — not a scrape of somebody else’s listings.
- Homes available
- 9
- bedrooms
- 3–5
- Sleeps up to
- 10
- from
- EGP 12,000
What Hacienda Bay is actually like
Hacienda Bay is a Palm Hills Developments resort community on the Mediterranean shore at Sidi Abdel Rahman. Unlike the older, denser North Coast villages that run in tight rows straight down to the sand, it is laid out around landscaped greenery, an inland lake and a golf course, with the beach and a marina as separate destinations you drive or buggy to rather than step onto from your terrace.
That layout is the single most important thing to understand before you book here, because it changes what "a good chalet" means. In a beach-row village the question is how many rows back you are. In Hacienda Bay the desirable positions are golf-front and lake-front — homes whose terraces look over open greens and water instead of a neighbour’s wall — and homes with their own private pool, which removes the walk to a shared one entirely.
It is a compound built for long, slow stays rather than day trips: full kitchens, generous open-plan living space, and a dining and retail cluster inside the gate. Most of the homes we manage here also include a separate staff room with its own bathroom — a detail that sounds unusual to visitors and is completely normal in this market, where families travel to the coast with a driver or a nanny for the season.
The homes we have in Hacienda Bay
Live availability and nightly rates, straight from our booking system. Prices move with the season, so the range below is the real span across the year rather than a headline number.
Nightly rates across the year: EGP 12,000 – EGP 35,000 per night
Every home here has: Air Conditioning, Kitchen, WiFi, Parking
ChaletPoolside Luxury Chalet — Hacienda Bay3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · sleeps 6from EGP 14,000 per night
ChaletUpper-Floor Chalet with Penthouse Terrace — Hacienda Bay4 bedrooms · 4 bathrooms · sleeps 8from EGP 15,000 per night
ChaletGround-Floor Senior Chalet — Hacienda Bay3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · sleeps 6from EGP 15,000 per night
ChaletLakefront Golf Chalet with Private Pool — Hacienda Bay3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · sleeps 6from EGP 23,000 per night
TownhouseFive-Bedroom Townhouse with Private Pool — Hacienda Bay5 bedrooms · 6 bathrooms · sleeps 10from EGP 25,000 per night
ChaletGolf & Lake View Chalet with Private Pool — Hacienda Bay3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · sleeps 6from EGP 23,000 per night
ChaletLuxurious Golf Chalet with Private Pool — Hacienda Bay3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · sleeps 6from EGP 22,000 per night
ChaletSenior Golf Chalet with Private Pool — Hacienda Bay3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · sleeps 6from EGP 22,000 per night
ChaletFirst-Row Golf Chalet with Private Pool — Hacienda Bay3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · sleeps 6from EGP 12,000 per night
How these homes differ from one another
Almost all of them are three-bedroom chalets sleeping six, which is the standard Hacienda Bay unit — so the choice between them is really a choice of position and outdoor space, not of size.
First-row golf chalets look straight over the greens from a shaded terrace or pergola. The lakefront homes hold a first-row position over both the golf course and the lake. A poolside chalet puts you beside the shared pool instead. Above that sit the larger layouts: senior chalets with a wider footprint and a bigger garden, an upper-floor chalet with a private rooftop terrace, and a five-bedroom townhouse with its own pool and garden for groups of up to ten.
The other real dividing line is the private pool. Most of the golf-front and lakefront homes here have one; the poolside and senior ground-floor chalets use the compound’s pools. If you are travelling with small children or in the hottest weeks, that difference matters more than the view does.
in this compound: Chalet, Townhouse
Getting to Hacienda Bay
Hacienda Bay is reached from the Alexandria–Marsa Matrouh coastal road, the single road that threads every North Coast compound together. Sidi Abdel Rahman is west of El Alamein along that road.
From Cairo there are two normal routes: out on the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road and across on the Wadi El Natrun–El Alamein road, which meets the coast around El Alamein and is the way most people go; or up to Alexandria first and west along the coastal road, which is longer but useful if you are stopping in the city. Published drive times from Cairo cluster around three hours, but treat that as a floor rather than a plan — see our guide to the Cairo–North Coast drive for when the road is genuinely bad and when it is empty.
We do not publish a kilometre marker for the compound because public sources disagree with each other about it, and an approximate number on a road where people navigate by gate name would not help you anyway. Your booking confirmation carries the exact address and directions for the specific home you have booked.
Before you book
- These homes are request-to-book
- None of them is set to instant book, so your dates go to the host for confirmation rather than being taken on the spot. Ask early for peak weeks.
- Check-in and check-out
- Check-in from 14:00, check-out by 11:00.
- Cancellation
- Every home here is on the Moderate policy: cancel more than 5 days before check-in and the accommodation cost is refunded in full; between 5 days and 24 hours, half of it; inside 24 hours, none. The service fee is not refunded on a guest cancellation.
- Cleaning fee
- None of these homes charges a separate cleaning fee.
- Service fee
- HOMESOUT adds a 12% guest service fee on top of the accommodation cost. It is shown in the price breakdown before you pay, never after.
Worth reading before you go
- How North Coast season pricing actually worksWhy two quotes for the same compound can look nothing alike, and what to ask before you agree a price.
- Driving to the North Coast from CairoWhich route, and far more importantly, when to leave so the drive does not eat your first day.
- What "chalet" means in Egypt — and how it differs from an apartment or a villaIt is not an Alpine cabin. Decoding the words Egyptian listings actually use, and what each one costs you.