Sky View at Paradise Inn Metropole Hotel

Sky View occupies the rooftop of the Paradise Inn Metropole Hotel near Saad Zaghloul Square in downtown Alexandria, Egypt, combining a dinner terrace with evening drinks and occasional live entertainment against sunset views over the harbour. The crowd is a mix of hotel guests, local diners marking special occasions, and tourists exploring the nearby Corniche and Bibliotheca Alexandrina area, skewing toward couples and families in the early evening and a more adult, drinks-focused crowd after 9PM. Dress code is smart-casual, reflecting its dual role as both a dining venue and an evening lounge. Live entertainment, when scheduled, typically features a solo vocalist or oud player performing Arabic classics rather than a resident DJ, giving the venue a more traditional, listening-lounge atmosphere than the area's club-leaning rooftops. The drinks programme includes standard cocktails, Egyptian and imported beers, and a house wine list intended to complement the dinner menu, with cocktail offerings more limited than at dedicated cocktail bars nearby. The venue opens daily around 6PM and runs to roughly 1AM, with weekend evenings (Thursday and Friday) bringing fuller reservations for the dinner seating and correspondingly busier late-evening drinks service; weeknights are noticeably quieter and better suited to walk-in visits. There is no cover charge for drinks-only visitors, though dinner reservations are recommended on weekend evenings given the terrace's popularity for sunset seating. Bottle service is not a feature here; it operates as a table-service restaurant-bar rather than a nightclub. Visitors aiming to catch a sunset over the harbour should book a table for the 6-7PM window, since the best-positioned tables are tied to the dinner seating rather than available on a first-come basis later in the evening.