Unforgettable vacation (continued)

Written: 4 april 2011
Travel time: 18 — 27 march 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
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I continue. Seeing such a mass of people, we panicked a little, having no idea where the representatives of the marhabu service were. But then we settled down with fellow travelers from the flight (they spoke a little English), found lists and signs, and then girls in uniform. (I am writing about this in such detail because for me the worst thing was the Dubai airport. Maybe my notes will help someone). The girls, by the way, do not speak Russian at all, although everyone in our group was Russian. Having somehow explained ourselves, we handed over our passports, they were taken away somewhere, and we were left to wait ourselves, not knowing what. And this went on for about 20 minutes. Then a man who spoke Russian very well appeared, reassured us all, explained everything, and after 5-10 minutes our passports were returned to us. And that's all. In general, I highly recommend this service. I read from someone in a review that they went through the control faster, but when we went to collect our luggage, passengers from Domodedovo, who took off at 9.30, received luggage on the next belt.
There were no problems with luggage, received quickly. For some reason, this Russian-speaking friend took a liking to us (or maybe he sympathized with us as the most stupid in the group) and led us to the baggage belt, and then to the exit. He found our driver, and we did not offer him any money.
With that, everything we feared ended. We didn’t touch things anymore, the driver loaded them into the cart, and then into the car. This hotel has an individual transfer, it is better to pay for it at the time of booking the tour. Of course, you can take a taxi, but why the extra hassle. Well, I've finished with the airport, now about the rest. The first thing that struck me when we left the cool station was the warm wind. But according to local time, it was already the beginning of 7. I remember that in Egypt I was constantly freezing in the evenings and did not take off my jacket. The car was comfortable, the driver did not speak Russian, so he did not impose sights on us. Although we did not see any noticeable places. Mountains, sand, some miserable thorns, camels chewing these thorns. No nature. A palm grove flashed near Dubai, but all dusty, uninteresting. There is a lot of garbage along the road (no less than ours), although there are often trash cans.

But the road surface itself is very even and somewhere around 1.5 we were at the hotel. Our things were immediately taken away, and we went to the registration. The manager at the reception speaks Russian with almost no accent, her speech is very correct, literary, so there are no explanations on the fingers. Her name is Nadezhda, she is from Germany. While they were making out the room, they gave us juice to drink. The room was given on the 6th floor, corner, so the balcony got huge. And, of course, I really liked the number. Very spacious, comfortable and well furnished. The bathrooms are simply gorgeous. Bath, toilet, shower - everything is separate. Bathrobes, slippers. But children do not rely on bathrobe and slippers, so the child needs to take a bathrobe, and slippers too. TV, two, like, Russian-language channels, DVD, hair dryer and IRON with IRONING BOARD! I draw your attention to this, because in one of the reviews the lady lamented about the crumpled evening dress. But you need to take a needle and thread from home, you never know. Fruits in the room were not particularly waiting for us. There were 3 oranges, and some kind of cookie. But water, coffee, cream, green and black tea, sugar - all this was in sufficient quantity and replenished regularly. We never had to go there to ask for coffee or water. (In Egypt, we had to do this several times, although the hotel was also not the cheapest). Well, what else is the number? The dressing room is not a closet, but a small room. And the hangers there are not screwed to the crossbar, there are a lot of drawers and shelves. Everything is very comfortable and freely placed. Now about mosquitoes, air conditioners and linen, which does not seem to be changed. All this I took from the reviews. We immediately adjusted the air conditioner to 24.5. So it's not true that the room can freeze. Linen is changed at least every day, but for this you need to put a special sign on the bed in the morning. Towels, if they are hanging on hooks and not stacked on a shelf, are changed every day. So there is nothing to be offended about either. There are no mosquitoes in the room. True, they wrote about the first floor, but the first floor with the rooms corresponds to the third, it is above the restaurant and reception, so it is quite high. But maybe they get there, I don't know. Immediately they brought us a memo in Russian, which we are entitled to with the all-inclusive system. And that, in my opinion, is quite sufficient.
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