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Rooms:
3.0
Service:
5.0
Cleanliness:
3.0
Food:
3.0
Amenities:
3.0
We stayed at this hotel from 03.05 to 10.05. 17. Externally, the hotel is simply chic - Spanish-Moorish style, lots of vegetation. When checking in, we gave money, and at the reception they told us that they give a very good room on the 3rd floor - 2301 (it is at the junction with the Makady Palace hotel). Decryption 2 - 2 building, 3 - 3rd floor, 01 - 1 room. Odd numbers 2301 ...2311 with a sea view, even - no. On the 1st and 2nd floors of this building, the numbering of rooms is different.
Guide.
We traveled from the tour operator Join up, a hotel guide from the host company Sun International Ali Hanafi. He did not give information about the hotel (I had to ask for it at the reception, see the attached photo) and did not help us activate the Vodafone Internet card purchased at the Hurghada airport for $ 5. The fact is that the card received an SMS in Arabic, which Ali Hanafi did not translate, saying that he had a different mobile operator. But it is over 40 minutes. “sniffed” excursions.
Number.
Everything is very sad. Firstly, it is very dark - part of the balcony is under the canopy, and the room is dark even during the day.
Something was breaking in the room all the time. On the first day it was impossible to open the door from the bathroom. My wife unscrewed the outer handle with a screwdriver, prying off the latch and let me out. Then, it was on, then there was no light in the corridor and in the toilet (it is separated from the bathroom by a separate door and the switch is inside the toilet), then the light in the room went out. Water was leaking from the flush hose. In the morning there was often no cold water. And this is a "good number", as we were told at the reception.
There are 4 Russian-language TV channels: TNT, "1" and Kyiv 1 + 1 and 2 + 2 (they did not work for 4 days).
There are very uncomfortable slopes to the hotel pool - they are where there are no sunbeds. We swam in the pool of the neighboring Makady Palace hotel, where there are no such problems.
The hotel is about 90% middle-aged and older Germans. The rest are Slovaks, Poles and Russian speakers. Wi-Fi is available only at the reception. It is passwordless and very slow.
There is also a water park at the Sunwind waterworld hotel (it's about 1 km from The Grand Makady hotel) (open 10-00 ...12-00).
There are two of them: for children (at least somehow it’s a bit interesting to ride downhill) and an adult - it sucks.
Beach.
Very bad. There are many passages from the beach of The Grand Makady hotel to the depths. But even at high tide, to swim, you have to go through a very uneven coral for about 120 steps. At low tide, more. There is no Pantone. You can swim from the pier, but it is quite long - 250 steps. In addition, there is always a strong wind.
Coral is so-so - this is not Sharks Bay or Chabad in Sharm. Yes, there are fish, but we didn’t see a single one more than 60 cm in length in a week. Sad. I was very "tired" of a huge number of lilac jellyfish, swimming among which is sheer torment. Yes, there are plenty of them on the beach. We have never experienced this before in Egypt.
We went to the beach of the Sunwind waterworld hotel where you can enter the sea from the shore. The problem is that after 9-00 there are no places there. I had to tip the beach boy so that he brought us whole sunbeds from afar. The sunbeds are old and some of them are broken or with protruding nails.
But on the beach at the Sunwind waterworld hotel, at least the windscreens are new, and you can dry things on them. And on The Grand Makady beach, the windbreaks are scary and rusty, and the sunbeds are even worse.
At Sunwind waterworld beach, the corals are fenced off. At low tide to a place where you can swim - 50 steps, at high tide - 5-20 steps. The most interesting thing is to swim over areas of fenced off corals. Yes, the water is warmer. Aquashoes are a must.
For the first time, we encountered the fact that at high / low tide the water is just cold - near the shore it is 27 degrees, and when leaving the coral to a depth - 18 ...20 degrees. In fact, we did not encounter strips of water of different temperatures (there were up to 5 of them) in Egypt before.
Nutrition.
Very bad. At Sunrise Diamond Select 5* (Oct. 2015) and at Siva Sharm 5* (Oct. 2016), the food was not just much, but incomparably better.
Even chopped tomatoes at The Grand Makady weren't available every day. The fish is pangasius from the mouth of the Mekong, that is, the cheapest and most harmful of all.
At lunch they give the so-called barbecue.
These are overcooked and absolutely inedible vegetables + chicken burned to the state of coal. It cannot be eaten. The meat is only undercooked, which simply cannot be chewed - the sole. Ate burgers - it's fast food, it's bad, but there's nothing else for lunch.
Fruits are a separate topic: bananas, sliced oranges and grapefruits, sliced melon, guava, dates, apples ...and that's it. Sweet - almost inedible biscuits and cakes. But there is a plus - we did not get poisoned (because we thought what we could eat and what not).
Bars at The Grand Makady open at 10:00 a. m. and at Sunwind waterworld from 9:00 a. m. At the same price per tour, Sunwind waterworld looks much better, especially considering that it is almost new. True, in Sunwind waterworld they steal, or rather replace dollars in a safe (complained about this on the beach). Consider this.
Alcohol.
Wine is served only in restaurants (in glass glasses) and in the Pergola Fish bar (in plastic). Rose wine is nothing.
fakir show and fire show. And every day for 12 euros / person. (21 euros/person with lobster) a la carte dinner by the sea.
Very bad.
We had a late flight (23-10) and we decided to extend the room. Usually it costs 40-60 dollars per room. But not in this hotel. We were “charged” at the reception for an extension from 12-00 to 16-00 (with lunch) 27 euros per person, and from 12-00 to 20-00 (lunch + dinner) 47 euros per person. That is, we were forced to pay 103 dollars in order not to sit at the reception for 8 hours. And this is at a cost of 7 days. tour from Kyiv $ 911. Such an extension of the number is just a robbery.
Do not take tours to this hotel with a late departure - it will become very expensive for you.
The hotel outwardly, in appearance, seems to be like 5 *, but in fact 3 ...3 + *. Think before you go to it. There will be questions - write the answer.
Alexander.
Guide.
We traveled from the tour operator Join up, a hotel guide from the host company Sun International Ali Hanafi. He did not give information about the hotel (I had to ask for it at the reception, see the attached photo) and did not help us activate the Vodafone Internet card purchased at the Hurghada airport for $ 5. The fact is that the card received an SMS in Arabic, which Ali Hanafi did not translate, saying that he had a different mobile operator. But it is over 40 minutes. “sniffed” excursions.
Number.
Everything is very sad. Firstly, it is very dark - part of the balcony is under the canopy, and the room is dark even during the day.
Something was breaking in the room all the time. On the first day it was impossible to open the door from the bathroom. My wife unscrewed the outer handle with a screwdriver, prying off the latch and let me out. Then, it was on, then there was no light in the corridor and in the toilet (it is separated from the bathroom by a separate door and the switch is inside the toilet), then the light in the room went out. Water was leaking from the flush hose. In the morning there was often no cold water. And this is a "good number", as we were told at the reception.
There are 4 Russian-language TV channels: TNT, "1" and Kyiv 1 + 1 and 2 + 2 (they did not work for 4 days).
There are very uncomfortable slopes to the hotel pool - they are where there are no sunbeds. We swam in the pool of the neighboring Makady Palace hotel, where there are no such problems.
The hotel is about 90% middle-aged and older Germans. The rest are Slovaks, Poles and Russian speakers. Wi-Fi is available only at the reception. It is passwordless and very slow.
There is also a water park at the Sunwind waterworld hotel (it's about 1 km from The Grand Makady hotel) (open 10-00 ...12-00).
There are two of them: for children (at least somehow it’s a bit interesting to ride downhill) and an adult - it sucks.
Beach.
Very bad. There are many passages from the beach of The Grand Makady hotel to the depths. But even at high tide, to swim, you have to go through a very uneven coral for about 120 steps. At low tide, more. There is no Pantone. You can swim from the pier, but it is quite long - 250 steps. In addition, there is always a strong wind.
Coral is so-so - this is not Sharks Bay or Chabad in Sharm. Yes, there are fish, but we didn’t see a single one more than 60 cm in length in a week. Sad. I was very "tired" of a huge number of lilac jellyfish, swimming among which is sheer torment. Yes, there are plenty of them on the beach. We have never experienced this before in Egypt.
We went to the beach of the Sunwind waterworld hotel where you can enter the sea from the shore. The problem is that after 9-00 there are no places there. I had to tip the beach boy so that he brought us whole sunbeds from afar. The sunbeds are old and some of them are broken or with protruding nails.
But on the beach at the Sunwind waterworld hotel, at least the windscreens are new, and you can dry things on them. And on The Grand Makady beach, the windbreaks are scary and rusty, and the sunbeds are even worse.
At Sunwind waterworld beach, the corals are fenced off. At low tide to a place where you can swim - 50 steps, at high tide - 5-20 steps. The most interesting thing is to swim over areas of fenced off corals. Yes, the water is warmer. Aquashoes are a must.
For the first time, we encountered the fact that at high / low tide the water is just cold - near the shore it is 27 degrees, and when leaving the coral to a depth - 18 ...20 degrees. In fact, we did not encounter strips of water of different temperatures (there were up to 5 of them) in Egypt before.
Nutrition.
Very bad. At Sunrise Diamond Select 5* (Oct. 2015) and at Siva Sharm 5* (Oct. 2016), the food was not just much, but incomparably better.
Even chopped tomatoes at The Grand Makady weren't available every day. The fish is pangasius from the mouth of the Mekong, that is, the cheapest and most harmful of all.
At lunch they give the so-called barbecue.
These are overcooked and absolutely inedible vegetables + chicken burned to the state of coal. It cannot be eaten. The meat is only undercooked, which simply cannot be chewed - the sole. Ate burgers - it's fast food, it's bad, but there's nothing else for lunch.
Fruits are a separate topic: bananas, sliced oranges and grapefruits, sliced melon, guava, dates, apples ...and that's it. Sweet - almost inedible biscuits and cakes. But there is a plus - we did not get poisoned (because we thought what we could eat and what not).
Bars at The Grand Makady open at 10:00 a. m. and at Sunwind waterworld from 9:00 a. m. At the same price per tour, Sunwind waterworld looks much better, especially considering that it is almost new. True, in Sunwind waterworld they steal, or rather replace dollars in a safe (complained about this on the beach). Consider this.
Alcohol.
Wine is served only in restaurants (in glass glasses) and in the Pergola Fish bar (in plastic). Rose wine is nothing.
fakir show and fire show. And every day for 12 euros / person. (21 euros/person with lobster) a la carte dinner by the sea.
Very bad.
We had a late flight (23-10) and we decided to extend the room. Usually it costs 40-60 dollars per room. But not in this hotel. We were “charged” at the reception for an extension from 12-00 to 16-00 (with lunch) 27 euros per person, and from 12-00 to 20-00 (lunch + dinner) 47 euros per person. That is, we were forced to pay 103 dollars in order not to sit at the reception for 8 hours. And this is at a cost of 7 days. tour from Kyiv $ 911. Such an extension of the number is just a robbery.
Do not take tours to this hotel with a late departure - it will become very expensive for you.
The hotel outwardly, in appearance, seems to be like 5 *, but in fact 3 ...3 + *. Think before you go to it. There will be questions - write the answer.
Alexander.
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