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Privé 100 2026 Boutique Hotel Nº6
The Privé Collection 2026 · A Private Experience

Al Moudira

A palace of domes, courtyards and palms built by hand on Luxor’s west bank, with the Theban hills behind and the tombs of the pharaohs minutes away.

A palace on the west bank
West Bank · Luxor, Egypt 25° 41.10′ N  /  32° 33.21′ E
Satopia Travel presents A cinematic travel experience In partnership with Al Moudira
The Hotel

One woman’s palace, built from salvage and imagination where the fields meet the desert.

Al Moudira, “the lady boss”, is what the workmen called Zeina Aboukheir while she built it, and the name stuck. Her palace rises where Luxor’s green fields give way to desert: high domes, hand-painted walls, doors rescued from old Ottoman houses.

It runs like a private world: twenty-minute breakfasts that become hour-long ones, courtyards of birdsong and bougainvillea, and the Valley of the Kings a short drive through the sugar cane.

Overview West Bank · Luxor
Setting
Where the fields meet the desert on Luxor’s west bank
Accommodation
A hand-built palace of domed suites around courtyards
Your rooms
Rooms taken together for your party, or the hotel exclusively
Getting there
About 30 minutes from Luxor airport
The stay
Stay 3 nights or more, and we plan your whole experience
Satopia experience
Tailor-made for you: tombs at opening time, feluccas and tables, arranged end to end
Domes & courtyards · 4:5
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Every experience begins with a single click. Tell us when and with who and we'll design a world around you.

Guests From 2 to 20 guests
2
Nights Minimum 3 nights stay
3
WhatsApp Email Satopia reservations
The Hotel

The ancient sites empty and refill by clock; the palace teaches you the clock.

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01 Accommodation

Domed suites, no two alike, painted by hand.

Each suite sits under its own dome, with frescoed walls, antique doors and beds you climb into. They ring the courtyards so that stepping out is stepping into palms, fountains and shade.

Held together around one courtyard, they make a private wing; taken entirely, the palace becomes yours, staff, gardens and all.

Suites
On confirmation
Sleeps
On confirmation
Outside
Courtyards, gardens & pool
Use
Your rooms, or the palace
Under the dome · 4:5
02 Culinary

Lebanese and Egyptian tables under the arches.

The kitchen cooks the eastern Mediterranean with Egyptian depth: mezze spread across the table, slow lamb, west-bank vegetables, bread from the oven. Dinner happens under the arches or beside the pool, candles multiplying in the dark.

Lunch after the tombs is the ritual: cold wine, shade, and the morning’s hieroglyphs still moving behind your eyes.

The table
The arches & the pool
The style
Mezze & the west bank
Dinner in the courtyard · 4:5
03 Experiences

The Valley of the Kings before the buses, then the river.

This bank of the Nile holds the densest ancient landscape on earth: the Valley of the Kings and Queens, Hatshepsut’s temple, the Ramesseum, nobles’ tombs still bright with paint. Staying on the west side puts you there at opening time, with an Egyptologist and almost no one else.

Afternoons belong to the river: a felucca at sunset, Karnak and Luxor temples across the water, and the palace pool in between.

Minutes away
The Valley of the Kings
Across the river
Karnak & Luxor temples
The west bank at dawn · 4:5
04 Wellness

Pool, hammam and the oldest cure here: shade.

The pool is long and palm-shaded, made for the hours when the sites shut their doors to the heat. A small hammam and massage rooms work the travel out of you.

Mostly, wellness here is the palace’s own tempo: courtyards, birdsong, a book under the arches, and nowhere you have to be until the light softens.

The pool
Long, palm-shaded
The spa
Hammam & massage
The pool & the palms · 4:5
05 Service

A household, not a front desk, and one designer behind it.

The team have run the palace for years and treat guests as the house’s own: names remembered, tables moved into the light, an Egyptologist summoned for tomorrow’s tombs with one word at dinner.

Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds the rooms, times the sites to the crowds and stays one call away throughout.

At the palace
A long-serving household
Behind it
One Satopia travel designer
Quiet hospitality · 4:5
06 Setting

Thebes: where Egypt kept its dead, and its best light.

Luxor’s west bank has been sacred ground for three and a half thousand years. Between the river and the cliffs run fields, villages and donkey paths, and then, cut into the rock, the painted underworld of the pharaohs.

The palace sits at the seam of it, close enough to be first through the gates, far enough that at night you hear only the desert.

Around you
Fields, desert & the Theban hills
The record
3,500 years of it
The Theban hills · 4:5
Moments

The palace, in motion.

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Image slot Domes going rose at first light.
Image slot An Egyptologist and an empty valley.
Image slot Long shade over the pool at noon.
Image slot A felucca crossing at sunset.
Plan your Experience

What's the forecast?

Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the flights, the cars, the guides, the tents held for you alone.

When to go
Best · October – April · warm, dry and clear; summer runs very hot
23°
Jan
25°
Feb
29°
Mar
35°
Apr
39°
May
41°
Jun
41°
Jul
41°
Aug
39°
Sep
35°
Oct
29°
Nov
24°
Dec
Rainfall Effectively rainless, all year round
Winter season · ideal Deep summer · very hot Rainfall trend
For the history

First through the gates.

An Egyptologist, opening-time tombs and afternoons to digest it all by the pool.

For two

Domes and candlelight.

A frescoed suite, dinner under the arches and a felucca at sunset. Egypt at its most romantic.

For families

The pharaohs, made real.

Tombs paced for young attention spans, donkey paths, and a pool for the hot hours.

For a gathering

A wing, or the palace.

Courtyard suites taken together for a milestone trip, with the household running around you.

Plan your journey

How far is it from you?

Choose where you would set out from. We'll estimate the flight and how much the time change is likely to ask of you.

The Satopia Advantage™

You choose the place.
We'll do all the planning.

We hold the relationship with Al Moudira, so we can hold your suites together on your dates, or take the palace exclusively. From there a single travel designer composes every day around you. You simply arrive.

What we secure

The right suites, ringed around one courtyard, matched to your party and the season. The access a direct booking rarely reaches.

What we arrange

Every day composed by one travel designer: the Egyptologists and the opening times, the feluccas and the cars, present when wanted, unseen when not.

People we bring to you, on request
Egyptologist guides
Drivers, door to door
Felucca & river days
Massage & hammam
Childminders
Photographers
Satopia Insider

A few things worth knowing.

Drawn from recent guests.

Base yourself on the quiet West Bank

Position yourself away from the city noise while keeping the major monuments within easy reach. Allow at least three nights here so you have adequate time to explore the ancient sites without rushing. Returning to a peaceful sanctuary each afternoon provides a necessary balance to days spent touring dusty ruins and temples.

Ayurvedic treatments and fresh garden produce

Ayurvedic treatments stand out as an exceptional way to restore physical ease after long days of exploring antiquities. These therapeutic sessions offer a quiet space for relaxation within the hotel grounds. Meals are prepared using fresh produce harvested directly from the property organic farm to complement the experience.

Extend your stay

Want to stay a little longer?
We'll plan that too.

Luxor anchors the classic Egyptian journey. A few we would pair the palace with, each arranged as one seamless experience.

Image slotThe Nile, by boat · 9:16
The river

A Nile voyage

Three or four nights under sail between Luxor and Aswan: temples at village pace, the river doing the work.

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Image slotCairo & Giza · 9:16
The capital

Cairo & the pyramids

Bookend with the capital: the new Grand Egyptian Museum, old Cairo, and the pyramids at first light.

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Image slotThe Red Sea · 9:16
The coast

The Red Sea to finish

End on the water: reefs, quiet sand and a few days of nothing after the dust of the tombs.

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Enquire · The Privé Collection 2026

Every experience begins with a conversation.

Tell us who is coming and your dates. We will shape the rest around you. Nothing is booked yet, and we reply within a day.

01

When would you like to come?

Choose one or more months, or tell us you're flexible on dates.

Ideal season · October to April

02

What's the occasion?

Choose any that apply.

03

An indicative budget?

An estimate of your budget for the whole stay helps us plan your experience. Below is an estimated nightly rate, excluding experience budget, to help you plan.

04

Who shall we reply to?

Included in your experience
  • Your suites, taken together
  • Breakfast in the courtyard
  • The pool, gardens and courtyards
  • Your Satopia travel designer, throughout
Arranged separately
  • Flights, transfers and drivers
  • Lunches, dinners and the cellar
  • Egyptologists, sites and river days
  • A palace buyout, on request

Al Moudira is priced by the suite, by night and by season, with winter at a premium. The figures shown are indicative. Once we check live availability we confirm an exact, all-in quote for your dates, and nothing is booked and no payment taken until you approve it in writing. A deposit then secures your dates, with the balance due before arrival. The full booking terms, cancellation policy and any security deposit are set out in your confirmation.

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