Hurghada's Tourist Promenade Has Been Left to Decay After Millions Were Spent on It, Al-Masry Al-Youm Reports
The Egyptian daily says the walkway, built at a cost it puts in the millions of pounds, has deteriorated because nobody is maintaining it. The report names no responsible authority and gives no repair plan.
5 September 2026
Hurghada's tourist promenade has fallen into disrepair for want of maintenance, the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported on 5 September, years after what it describes as millions of pounds were spent building it.
The report puts the problem on upkeep rather than construction: the money was spent, the walkway was delivered, and it has since gone without the maintenance that would keep it usable. Al-Masry Al-Youm does not name the authority responsible for the walkway, does not give a figure beyond "millions of pounds", and does not say when it was built.
In a city whose economy depends on how it looks to visitors, a public walkway is not a cosmetic detail. The promenade is one of the few stretches of Hurghada that residents and tourists use in the same way and at the same hours — a free evening walk in a city where much of the waterfront sits behind hotel gates.
It also sits awkwardly beside the governorate's other waterfront activity. Hurghada News reported recently on the "Art Beach" nights bringing Alexandria and Matrouh folk troupes to the seafront as a free public draw — programming for public space at the same time as, on this account, public space goes unrepaired.
What the report does not establish is scale: how much of the promenade is affected, what state the surfaces, lighting and seating are in, whether a repair budget exists, or whether the Red Sea Governorate disputes the account. None of that appears.
For residents and visitors the practical effect is an asset that was paid for once and is, on this account, wearing out — with no published timetable for fixing it.