Good hotel for a family vacation

Written: 6 september 2019
Travel time: 29 august — 5 september 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
10.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
SEA, SUN AND WATER.

Booked a tour in Anex Tour, flew through AzurAir, the departure was originally scheduled for 29.08. 1.12:55, then the flight was postponed to 29.08. 19 at 04:05, the day before departure the departure time was changed again to 04:25, upon arrival at the airport departure was delayed for another 40 minutes and we departed at 05:05.

The plane was for 300 people and was almost completely full.

Arrived in Sharm at 08:00 local time, was very surprised by their passport control:

first of all: migration cards were issued to everyone at the tour operator's counters. Couldn't they have been released on a plane?

Secondly, when you passed passport control, no one checked or compared your migration card with your passport, but immediately put it aside.

Third: All passengers had their fingerprints scanned (except for small children)


After passport control, your things are scanned again, and the operator who puts things on the scan just throws them and constantly shouts to put their things faster.
And on arrival, many passengers of our flight found their luggage with torn handles.

Customs clearance took about an hour.

Now at the hotel:

We arrived at the hotel at about 10:00 local time, our group was about 30 tourists from one flight, met us with wet and cool towels and immediately sent to the conference room, where we were all given bracelets, children were not given bracelets, also brought we still have cool juice. Questionnaires were issued for check-in at the hotel, after filling out we were all taken for a late breakfast to the bar by the main pool. After breakfast we walked for about half an hour, an hour and we were accommodated in the room.

The room impressed me, it was a chic room of two 52 square meters, a chic two twin beds, for me it was very important because we came with two children. We were reinforced on the ground floor with a terrace and a view of the garden with pool.
Cleaned, changed bed linen, towels every day. I gave $ 5 to Rumba, so I immediately got bathrobes and slippers, and he brought a clothes dryer on the street.

For solid 5 * rooms

Before leaving for Egypt, I read negative reviews about the staff, what they said: not attentive, boor, you almost do not spit at every meeting. I want to assure you that they are all very friendly and responsive to your requests. Bartenders always smile at you, and if you greet and talk to the bartender, he will always fill your glass with a cool drink under the wreaths, and not as on our first day a little more than half, the administrators quickly fulfill your requests.

For 5 * service

Bars and cuisine:

On the territory of the hotel I personally used 3 bars (maybe more, but I have not seen more), the best bar on the terrace of the administrative building, there is always poured into glassware, make more different cocktails and you can chat with them. Live music is also available at the bar in the evening. Egyptian alcohol for me is not very tasty and with its own specific taste. The beer is not diluted and not bad, I am somewhat reminiscent of Ukrainian light beers from Chernihiv and Obolon breweries. And if you ask the bartender to fill a glass of beer with Stella (local beer) from a bottle, I really liked it.

The main restaurant has two zones, a common area and an area for adults only. The range of dishes is large, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, you can make the right and delicious choice. But all these dishes for the 6th day are so boring and I want borscht)))
You need to sign up for Alya Card restaurants for a day, we visited a Chinese restaurant, this restaurant is somewhere for 3, it is already tastier and with spicy dishes, it is an Indian restaurant solid 4. And the most delicious, for our family is a Libyan restaurant, very tasty dishes, solid 5.

So for the kitchen I put 5 *

Sea and pools:

The hotel has three entrances to the sea to get to the sea will have to go down a few steps, there are not many, on the beach only one pontoon 30-40 meters long, the pontoon is not in very good condition and it is only one for the whole hotel, which is very small. When swimming from the pontoon you will see a beautiful reef and a lot of fish, I even met a moray eel. Many surgeon fish live under the pontoon, so be careful. There are still concrete passages on the beach, but they are half destroyed. Personally, it was enough for me to swim once or twice a day for 15 minutes and all, and then went to the pools.
Yes, I forgot to mention the sunbeds, there are many, but our Slavic nature occupies 4 sunbeds with a towel and does not lie there, because of this they were not always enough, although it was possible to find. Mattresses on deckchairs have probably seen Tutankhamun. )))

The pools are very beautiful with very warm water under 35 degrees, it is pleasant and safe to swim in them, there are a lot of sunbeds around the pools and there are enough of them for everyone. There are 3 pools, one main by the sea, it is divided into several zones. Then the pool with slides, the third is a children's pool with small slides for children.

The pools are clean, with a lifeguard sitting by each pool.


And I forgot to write about the lazy river, it is long, but shallow so you can not swim, if there is an air mattress, or a large circle, the current will carry you and you will just relax and have fun.

For the sea and the pontoon 4 *, pools 5 *

The animation is not bad, but monotonous.
There is a children's cinema near the main restaurant, from 18:30 they play cartoons for children.

And finally I want to write about the guides of the Annex tour at the hotel Ahmed and Nargis.

When you are settled you will have a meeting with them, they will demand that all those who came come here, it's all to save you dear, very expensive tours, they try to manipulate guests and places humiliate them. I spent two hours of my rest at this meeting. Not very nice people. If you need a tour, take a better look at local sites, where the price is 40 percent different from Ahmed's prices.

I am very pleased with the hotel, the kitchen, the staff is very good. I would like to go back there again.
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original