Good budget hotel

Written: 21 october 2016
Travel time: 8 — 15 october 2016
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 6.0
In this review, I will try to address those questions that I have not found answers to in other reviews. Rested at the hotel from 8 to 15 October. The hotel is a budget 5-ka, so do not count on special novelty and luxury. We went for the sake of the sea, so I'll start with this.
Sea. The beach is large, located in tiers in a bay, mostly protected from waves. For 7 days, the waves were only 1 time in the afternoon for 2 hours. There is no entry from the shore, only from pantones, immediately deep (one pantone is floating, the other wooden one is very short). The corals are beautiful, especially if you swim to the vip zone of the Hyatt hotel (approximately in the middle of the bay to the right, 2nd wooden panton). There they have a lot of live, colored corals. There are not many fish, especially large ones (compared to how many there were about 6 years ago), but such a picture is now almost along the entire coast of Sharm. A very good boy (beach boy) works on the beach, he allowed swimming until dusk.
Hotel. We were settled in the 2nd building from the sea. There were very few people in the hotel, especially when we arrived, then the number of tourists doubled, but I think it was still no more than 100-150 people. Everything in the room worked. The furniture is old, but we did not pay attention to it. Very wide beds. The bathroom has a hair dryer, soap, shampoo, shower gel. The hotel staff is friendly, most of them speak good Russian. Wi-Fi is available only at the reception, although very weak. It is better to come in the morning or in the afternoon, because. In the evening, a lot of people connect and it is very difficult to go anywhere.

Nutrition. More than 4. It can be seen that this is due to the small number of tourists. When there were more people, the food also improved a little. The meat was chicken, fish and beef. There are few fruits. Coffee from the coffee machine is paid. The restaurant has filtered coffee in a huge thermos. He was good in the morning. Bottled water 0.5 can only be taken from the bar near the reception. In other bars only in glasses. A couple of times put a bottle of water 1.5 in the room. Fresh mango costs $2, but it is diluted with something, so that it was done without dilution, we had to negotiate.
Neighborhood. There is nothing near the hotel (except for neighboring hotels, but they did not work). You can only walk to Hollywood (if you walk along the highway). This is a new park. Entrance $5. We didn't go there, so we don't know for sure. Once we went for a walk in Naama. For 3 they paid $2 one way. We walked to the highway, then caught a taxi. In the lobby of the hotel near the entrance there is a counter with a taxi sign. When we went to the Old market they gave us a $5 minibus for 5 pax one way. Then the same bus took us from the market. Very comfortably. Given that everyone was returning loaded with purchases, and taxis from the street do not enter the hotel, but drop you off at the barrier in front of the hotel (you still need to walk to the entrance). In the market, 1 kg of mango costs $1 ($2 in Naama). Fresh mango (real, not diluted) 10-15 pounds depending on the size of the glass. Now it is even more profitable to buy for $, because. the official rate is much lower than the rate on the black market (the official rate is slightly less than 9 pounds for $ 1, and on hand 13-14 pounds. The hotel guide changed us 11 pounds each). Most of the exchanges are closed. In general, everything on the market has fallen significantly in price, because. very few people. You have to go there for shopping.
We flew with Join Up. Everything went smoothly. There are no complaints about them. The guide at the hotel was almost every day, on arrival gave all the necessary information about the hotel. By the way, on the plane they no longer feed for free. Only drinks are free. Therefore, if you want to eat on the plane, then take it with you.
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