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A hotel positioned as 4* deserves a maximum of 3-*!
I write on "hot" emotions (until they become dull). Rested from 9.10 to 23.10. 2011
Tropitel was chosen according to the criteria of an affordable price for us, location on the first line, an abundance of reefs and fish, silence, lack of animation and a half-empty beach for children. In Sharm, the first line was not found.
This is what we got as we hoped. But along with this, we got disgusting food, not just monotonous, which is what most hotels in Dahab suffer from, but disgusting. They never considered themselves to be any super pretentious gourmets and nagging Russian tourists. The experience of holidays in Egypt is small - before Tropitel, they were only in Hurghada at the Hilton Hurghada Resort in April 2011. So, willy-nilly, they were compared with him. This is exactly what all tourists do.
So, about food: relatively (only relatively) without straining to eat at a local restaurant, which subsequently
A hotel positioned as 4* deserves a maximum of 3-*!
I write on "hot" emotions (until they become dull). Rested from 9.10 to 23.10. 2011
Tropitel was chosen according to the criteria of an affordable price for us, location on the first line, an abundance of reefs and fish, silence, lack of animation and a half-empty beach for children. In Sharm, the first line was not found.
This is what we got as we hoped. But along with this, we got disgusting food, not just monotonous, which is what most hotels in Dahab suffer from, but disgusting. They never considered themselves to be any super pretentious gourmets and nagging Russian tourists. The experience of holidays in Egypt is small - before Tropitel, they were only in Hurghada at the Hilton Hurghada Resort in April 2011. So, willy-nilly, they were compared with him. This is exactly what all tourists do.
So, about food: relatively (only relatively) without straining to eat at a local restaurant,
which later we called exclusively the canteen, you can only one week. I'll try to formulate it briefly, although the negative is simply bursting:
A hotel positioned as 4* deserves a maximum of 3-*!
This is the general opinion of many tourists with whom we spoke. Who came to Egypt for the first time, they asked, like:
-What happens differently? It doesn't seem so bad.
Breakfasts: at first glance it seems that not everything is so terrible. Knowing that in Egypt with meat in general we have strained: boiled, relatively edible sausage, in principle good cheese (for some reason diced), butter, boiled eggs, soft good omelet, omelet that the cook prepares in front of you, and since there is a queue for it, the omelette is always undercooked, the tomatoes and cheese in it remain finally unmelted. Egg toast. Too many eggs? Tasteless pancakes, pancakes, but probably with jam. Next: lobio-type beans (but not tasty), some kind of beans and other similar crap.
And then, in general, tin: not a separate rack of pieces of 8 beautifully decorated curd dishes. When tasting them, it turns out that the cottage cheese is either peppered, or salty, or with some vile spices. Everyone picks it up in tiny pieces. And carry them away almost untouched. Here is a holiday that is constant in the families of servants! And there are several jams and sour cream. Having tried to combine the above ingredients, I could not eat the resulting dish. The husband smeared the cake with the most neutral curd putty and ate it, just to somehow diversify and fill the stomach. The pastries are not bad, but all of the same puff pastry, only decorated and sprinkled in different ways. Croissants are empty (in the presence of jam).
You can forget about some fruit juices (as we had in Hurghada). Or you can “pamper yourself” with “juices” diluted 1:10. Don't forget yogurt either.
From fruits, always finely chopped, almost always tasteless melon, unripe oranges and grapefruits. There were phoenicia cut unripe guava. Bananas were given chopped once! Twice in two weeks they pampered their adored tourists with ripe and tasty watermelon! Here are the joys that the vacationers had! Although, perhaps we just got in the wrong season.
We bought ripe Yemeni mangoes for 20 pounds per kg in the city. They also bought juices and water (there will be a separate topic about it). Good one (all inclusive). Black tea, green, mint, anise, Nescafe coffee. Ahhh, how did I forget about the milk rice porridge, which I needed after poisoning (yes-yes-yes) in the same “miracle restaurant”. The porridge turned out to be cold, not just cold, but from the refrigerator! After a 5-minute insistent request to warm it up (as you already know, the staff finally doesn’t fumble in Russian, except for 2.3 memorized phrases), they poured hot milk over it, which I didn’t want at all.
Lunches: some not very clear mashed soups, but sometimes edible. Beef stew is always either finely chopped (goulash from the Soviet cafeteria), or it is only coarsely chopped. Looks like she's the one that got me hooked. Because even now I can’t think about this beef without disgust and bouts of nausea. They gave quite decently cooked liver several times. To which everyone was unspeakably happy. Always the same sea bass fish, very fatty and also stewed in something nasty-fat. From which it starts to feel sick already on the 3rd, 4th day. No more seafood, dear future vacationers, do not expect in a maritime country.
The chef (cutie and darling) praises her intensely, knowing full well that this particular miracle fish costs them a ruble per ton (absolutely accurate information from the locals).
Garnish with potatoes in many forms, (not bad), rice all the time (almost always not tasty), the so-called "pasta" and just pasta.
Always zucchini, skillfully cooked in different shapes and types, designed to create the appearance of an abundance of vegetables (actually like everything else in this canteen). Sometimes delicious eggplant. Stewed vegetables can be lightly steamed cauliflower, regular cabbage, carrots, squash, and bell peppers. Hard and inedible. A lot of beans, some kind of crap like lentils, and all sorts of inedible bean crap in a tasteless gravy.
And now the most tinny: our tourist comes up to the stand with vegetables and salads and what he is dumbfounded watching (from afar there are a lot and very enticing) - and the salads are from yesterday's half-eaten products.
I can’t help but list, for example, such masterpieces of Tropitel’s cuisine as cold mashed potatoes (left over from the evening or, at best, from the morning), gently decorated with chopped cucumbers by the caring hands of the cooks,
stewed potatoes mixed with melon, chopped sausage (well, in kind, disappear in the morning) and pomegranate seeds. Next: coarsely chopped eggs (from breakfast), again with melon and some rubbish. And the pinnacles of culinary art: figuratively carved melon and sausage from breakfast lovingly laid out on it.
In general, you can list another hour. Everything is about the same. Tourists (we are no exception) picked out simple beets from some masterpiece salad.
In short, from vegetables we took simple cucumbers, blue cabbage (if we managed to suppress it a little). And bell pepper. There was no greenery at all. Oh, sorry, there was a green onion, with large heads, simply and alone lying on a plate. Tomatoes were given either by chemistry, or by something else.
Conclusion:
the hotel management should reward the chef and all the kitchen staff for the diligent and very careful distribution of funds allocated for feeding stupid tourists.
Dinners: were sometimes more or less acceptable. Almost always chicken stew, fresh but edible. On Mondays, near the veranda of the restaurant, the chef prepared barbecued chicken (not marinated at all, but delicious just because barbecue) and kebab. Kebab can only be eaten hot and with a lot of sauce. Since they do not know how to cook minced meat as such. But thanks for that, as they say... Twice the chef cooked something similar to shawarma, also not a fountain, but compared to everything else, just some kind of holiday! By the way, keep in mind that for the usual Heinz sauce you will have to run either around the tables or ask the waiters!
Pastries: not bad, but it is clear that 20 different dishes are prepared from two types of dough. I do not benefit from flour, so I was not fond of it. Although the husband was, in principle, satisfied.
But baking doesn't make up for everything else.
Briefly, somewhere like this. I didn’t expect that I would ever discuss food like that,
but in two weeks it boiled, just kapets !!! ! On the plane, I just ate a piece of boiled beef with pleasure and washed it down with tomato juice!
Dear gentlemen! Take plenty of stomach remedies for poisoning! I didn’t leave the room for a day (terrible diarrhea), thanks to my first aid kit, I helped out. 99% got poisoned at lunch in the Tropitel canteen! Naturally, this is not provable.
For feeding the cook for all his delights, except for baking, a solid deuce! (note not a unit! ).
Yes, red wine is quite tolerable, quite weak. Beer is also praised by everyone, from bottles.
Regarding all other drinks, these are: cola, fanta, sprite, tonic, extremely rarely guava juice from packages.
So everyone knows about local alcohol - shit is unreal.
A small sketch at the pool bar: I ask the bartender to build a Pina Colada cocktail. He has a moment's confusion... Me too, because I see that there is no mixer in the bar! I'm looking forward to what the bartender does next.
I get: rum + pineapple juice + milk. And that's it!! ! At the request to beat this magnificence and the question is where is the mixer? this glorious resourceful descendant of the pharaohs very briskly and convincingly suggested mixing and whipping the cocktail with a straw!!!!!! ! "Cocktail" was poured out, the miracle bartender is unhappy. That's it. . .
Now about drinking water!! ! It's just humiliation! We knew that bottled water is not provided in the room, but it can be collected from the cooler. Upon arrival in Tropitel in the evening, we ran out of water, and in the restaurant it was said that you can only take it in glasses, but not in a bottle !!! ! We just went crazy, went nuts and bought 1.5 liters of water for 5 pounds in Pasha's shop. It turned out later that their water is quite inexpensive. In Dahab, they bought 1.5 liters for 2-3 pounds, and a 7-liter eggplant for 8 pounds. This is what you have to be freaks and rednecks to save on water in the desert!!! ! for tourists who have all inclusive. Then we took the water in the cooler directly into the bottle, spitting on everyone. By the way,
we were told that 3-4 days before us the cooler was hidden behind the counter. And after a grand scandal that 3 of our tourists made for them, from whom they extorted $ 10 for settling a few hours earlier, they didn’t wear a bracelet, they didn’t give water, they put a cooler in the hall. How do you like this option?
By the way, Pasha is the only Russian-speaking friend in the hotel (he is not an employee) and our tourists constantly turn to him for translation in emergency cases.
Rooms: upon check-in, they gave a check of vodka at the reception and asked for a room with a good view on the second floor, which they got. But the side was sunny, it was impossible to go out onto the balcony all day, the heat was not real, and the wind blew everything away. Keep in mind that there are no ropes or clothespins! After two or three days, they moved to the first floor on the shady side, presenting chocolate and a pack of ordinary cigarettes to the reception. So it's not at all necessary
Dear gentlemen, tourists, pay with bucks, and even for 10 -20. We corrupt them ourselves.
Satisfied with number two. Unlike the first one, there were two wooden one-and-a-half beds pushed together with very good orthopedic mattresses.
So who needs a very good sleep, I recommend taking rooms with just such mattresses. Hairdryer, condo, TV, light, refrigerator - everything worked. They called the master to fix the outlet - he quickly did everything. But our room was on the first floor, and although we were warned, we still left the Marlboro and the lighter on the veranda and safely lost both in the morning. Someone's fins were stolen, etc. So be careful! Theft in the hotel takes place.
A lot of tourists shared different "original" cases when checking in.
The most egregious: a family of three adults paid the full and even more cost for three full seats ($1.500 for two,
they paid $2500 for three). And they brazenly began to settle in a room 2 + 1. (by the way, I saw this number - next to two stone beds they put a terrible old, collapsing folding bed), while extorting more money. People swore for 5 hours until the called guide arrived. These tourists were in constant shock from this and all the other "charms" of the hotel I have listed. They promised to get their tour operator upon arrival and write wherever possible. And believe me, friends, they were dumbfounded to hell...
Territory: small, not very green (in Dahab they don’t really bother with this). They take care of green spaces badly, it is clear that they don’t plant a damn thing, they water them a little. And the problem of landscaping is solved in a very original way: a tourist can buy some kind of palm tree in the garden center, order signs with his name and solemnly plant it near the pool to the applause of the administration and staff.
(observed such a picture).
By the way, I liked the pool. I had to spend more than one hour near him, "thanks" to the terrible wind on the beach, and the complete inability to swim.
Service: the staff in Russian does not fumble vaaasche !!!!
How it is? They accept up to 40% of Russian-speaking tourists and without even making inclinations to study Russian. For Egypt, this is simply nonsense! Why are tour operators so condescending to this? There were several unpleasant moments when I could not explain anything to the staff.
But in all possible places there are boxes for tips. Just arrogance and laughter.
I really wanted to write “thanks” to them there purely in some idiomatic Russian expressions. Too bad they can't read. By the way, in English too. I doubt very much that they can read Arabic as well.
Beach, sea: the beach itself is quite large and almost always half empty. There were always enough sun loungers and umbrellas for everyone. The reef is amazing
but the wind and waves were almost always. Of the 13 days had 3 quiet days. And then in them I managed to fall between the corals and severely injure one leg, and then slip on a wet pier and twist the other. By the way, there every fifth tourist demonstrates to each other any injuries and injuries.
For example, I have my own little phobias. I am afraid of waves and getting water in my mouth and nose. So to swim with a mask, but it turned out a little.
And just to swim we went to the lagoon. Super!! ! Sand, surfers. . . small corals found about 30 meters from the beach with lionfish and ball fish.
I’ll tell you a little secret: in the lagoon near the Dahabiya hotel and between the pier with boats there is a free city beach with umbrellas but without sunbeds, we didn’t need them there. You can take the Tropitelevsky free bus to the center, and then for 10 pounds by taxi you can get to the public beach. Back to Tropitel paid 20 pounds.
Excursions: we took from the agency on the King Safari embankment to the monastery of St. Catherine, for two $50. We were both in a minibus. But without a guide. Tour operators have 45 bucks per person, but with a guide. Pts. liked. We bought a booklet there for 20 pounds on the street, inside the monastery it is more expensive. Even through the same agency sailed on a boat with a glass bottom. Also together and also great.
The blue hole seemed to us far away (obviously not 3 kilometers) and halfway on foot we braked the jeep and drove. We have nothing to catch there. The hole itself can only be seen from a height, and the reef is like this everywhere. But I recommend everyone to visit. Returned for 30 pounds. We sat, lay on the canyon, drank Bedouin tea for unrealistic money. But it's not a pity, because och. I liked to relax on the beds (laying your own towel and watching the divers. ). Initially, it was planned to go to the hole on camels, to which, unexpectedly for myself, I kindled with great interest and tenderness,
but when she saw the girl on crutches and in the first days she herself injured her legs and heard that she had fallen from a camel and the dislocation was being corrected under anesthesia, she limited herself to feeding, stroking and photographing them.
By the way, the second girl on crutches fell off the ATV
A big advantage is that Tropitel has its own shuttle bass. (how did they become generous? ) We went to Dahab on the embankment six times. We dined at one of the numerous zucchini on the waterfront for 150 pounds for two, a large portion of the freshest grilled grouper with all the bells and whistles. They also sold 0.5 vodka for $15.
Despite the nasty hotel, our holiday was a success thanks to travel, geographical location, marine life, nature and chorus. mood no matter what.
Pts. I liked Dahab itself and its surroundings. Next time we want to stay in a hotel in the lagoon. And you can go to Tropitel on his own bus a couple of times. Go to the canyon and the same Tropitelevsky pier.
Summary: the hotel sucks. As our guide said, sighing heavily, listening to the same complaints every time, that in Dahab only two more and or even one hotel are worse.
So draw your own conclusions, gentlemen! Tropitel is for super unpretentious tourists, divers, avid snorkelers who are able to dive in any waves and actually eat garbage. And even then only a week.
If you are interested in details, I will answer.
and we called exclusively the canteen, you can only one week. I'll try to formulate it briefly, although the negative is simply bursting:
A hotel positioned as 4* deserves a maximum of 3-*!
This is the general opinion of many tourists with whom we spoke. Who came to Egypt for the first time, they asked, like:
-What happens differently? It doesn't seem so bad.
Breakfasts: at first glance it seems that not everything is so terrible. Knowing that in Egypt with meat in general we have strained: boiled, relatively edible sausage,
in principle, good cheese (for some reason diced), butter, boiled eggs, a soft, good omelette, an omelette that the chef prepares in front of you, and since there is a queue for it, the omelet is always undercooked, tomatoes and cheese in it remain finally unmelted. Egg toast. Too many eggs? Tasteless pancakes, pancakes, but probably with jam. Next: lobio-type beans (but not tasty), some kind of beans and other similar crap. And then, in general, tin: not a separate rack of pieces of 8 beautifully decorated curd dishes. When tasting them, it turns out that the cottage cheese is either peppered, or salty, or with some vile spices. Everyone picks it up in tiny pieces. And carry them away almost untouched. Here is a holiday that is constant in the families of servants! And there are several jams and sour cream. Having tried to combine the above ingredients, I could not eat the resulting dish.
green, mint, anise, Nescafe coffee. Ahhh, how did I forget about the milk rice porridge, which I needed after poisoning (yes-yes-yes) in the same “miracle restaurant”. The porridge turned out to be cold, not just cold, but from the refrigerator! After a 5-minute insistent request to warm it up (as you already know, the staff finally doesn’t fumble in Russian, except for 2.3 memorized phrases), they poured hot milk over it, which I didn’t want at all.
Lunches: some not very clear mashed soups, but sometimes edible. Beef stew is always either finely chopped (goulash from the Soviet cafeteria), or it is only coarsely chopped. Looks like she's the one that got me hooked. Because even now I can’t think about this beef without disgust and bouts of nausea. They gave quite decently cooked liver several times. To which everyone was unspeakably happy. Always the same sea bass fish, very fatty and also stewed in something nasty-fat.
From which it starts to feel sick already on the 3rd, 4th day. No more seafood, dear future vacationers, do not expect in a maritime country.
The chef (cutie and darling) praises her intensely, knowing full well that this particular miracle fish costs them a ruble per ton (absolutely accurate information from the locals).
Garnish with potatoes in many forms, (not bad), rice all the time (almost always not tasty), the so-called "pasta" and just pasta. Always zucchini, skillfully cooked in different shapes and types, designed to create the appearance of an abundance of vegetables (actually like everything else in this canteen). Sometimes delicious eggplant. Stewed vegetables can be lightly steamed cauliflower, regular cabbage, carrots, squash, and bell peppers. Hard and inedible. A lot of beans, some kind of crap like lentils, and all sorts of inedible bean crap in a tasteless gravy.
And now the most tinny: our tourist comes up to the stand with vegetables and salads and what he is dumbfounded watching (from afar there are a lot and very enticing) - and the salads are from yesterday's half-eaten products.
I can’t help but list, for example, such masterpieces of Tropitel’s cuisine as cold mashed potatoes (left over from the evening or, at best, from the morning), gently decorated with chopped cucumbers by the caring hands of the cooks, stewed potatoes mixed with melon, chopped sausage (well, in kind, disappear in the morning) and pomegranate seeds. Next: coarsely chopped eggs (from breakfast), again with melon and some rubbish. And the pinnacles of culinary art: figuratively carved melon and sausage from breakfast lovingly laid out on it.
In general, you can list another hour. Everything is about the same. Tourists (we are no exception) picked out simple beets from some masterpiece salad.
Briefly speaking,
also not a fountain, but compared to everything else, it’s just some kind of holiday! By the way, keep in mind that for the usual Heinz sauce you will have to run either around the tables or ask the waiters!
Pastries: not bad, but it is clear that 20 different dishes are prepared from two types of dough. I do not benefit from flour, so I was not fond of it. Although the husband was, in principle, satisfied.
But baking doesn't make up for everything else.
Briefly, somewhere like this. I myself did not expect that I would once discuss food like that, but in two weeks it boiled, just kapets !!! ! On the plane, I just ate a piece of boiled beef with pleasure and washed it down with tomato juice!
Dear gentlemen! Take plenty of stomach remedies for poisoning! I didn’t leave the room for a day (terrible diarrhea), thanks to my first aid kit, I helped out. 99% got poisoned at lunch in the Tropitel canteen! Naturally, this is not provable.
For feeding the cook for all his delights, except for baking, a solid deuce! (note not a unit! ).
Yes,
and in the restaurant it was said that you can only take in glasses, but not in a bottle !!! ! We just went crazy, went nuts and bought 1.5 liters of water for 5 pounds in Pasha's shop. It turned out later that their water is quite inexpensive. In Dahab, they bought 1.5 liters for 2-3 pounds, and a 7-liter eggplant for 8 pounds. This is what you have to be freaks and rednecks to save on water in the desert!!! ! for tourists who have all inclusive. Then we took the water in the cooler directly into the bottle, spitting on everyone. By the way, we were told that 3-4 days before us the cooler was hidden behind the counter. And after a grand scandal that 3 of our tourists made for them, from whom they extorted $ 10 for settling a few hours earlier, they didn’t wear a bracelet, they didn’t give water, they put a cooler in the hall. How do you like this option?
By the way, Pasha is the only Russian-speaking friend in the hotel (he is not an employee) and our tourists constantly turn to him for translation in emergency cases.
Rooms: upon check-in, they gave a check of vodka at the reception and asked for a room with a good view on the second floor, which they got. But the side was sunny, it was impossible to go out onto the balcony all day, the heat was not real, and the wind blew everything away. Keep in mind that there are no ropes or clothespins! After two or three days, they moved to the first floor on the shady side, presenting chocolate and a pack of ordinary cigarettes to the reception. So it is absolutely not necessary, dear tourists, to pay with bucks, and even for 10 -20. We corrupt them ourselves.
Satisfied with number two. Unlike the first one, there were two wooden one-and-a-half beds pushed together with very good orthopedic mattresses.
So who needs a very good sleep, I recommend taking rooms with just such mattresses. Hairdryer, condo, TV, light, refrigerator - everything worked. They called the master to fix the outlet - he quickly did everything.
But our room was on the first floor, and although we were warned, we still left the Marlboro and the lighter on the veranda and safely lost both in the morning. Someone's fins were stolen, etc. So be careful! Theft in the hotel takes place.
A lot of tourists shared different "original" cases when checking in.
Most egregious: a family of three adults paid full and even more for three full seats (two were $1.500, they paid $2.500 for three). And they brazenly began to settle in a room 2 + 1. (by the way, I saw this number - next to two stone beds they put a terrible old, collapsing folding bed), while extorting more money. People swore for 5 hours until the called guide arrived. These tourists were in constant shock from this and all the other "charms" of the hotel I have listed. They promised to get their tour operator upon arrival and write wherever possible. And believe
friends, they were so dumbfounded to hell...
Territory: small, not very green (in Dahab they don’t really bother with this). They take care of green spaces badly, it is clear that they don’t plant a damn thing, they water them a little. And the problem of landscaping is solved in a very original way: a tourist can buy some kind of palm tree in the garden center, order signs with his name and solemnly plant it near the pool to the applause of the administration and staff. (observed such a picture).
By the way, I liked the pool. I had to spend more than one hour near him, "thanks" to the terrible wind on the beach, and the complete inability to swim.
Service: the staff in Russian does not fumble vaaasche !!!!
How it is? They accept up to 40% of Russian-speaking tourists and without even making inclinations to study Russian. For Egypt, this is simply nonsense! Why are tour operators so condescending to this? There were some awkward moments.
And just to swim we went to the lagoon. Super!! ! Sand, surfers. . . small corals found about 30 meters from the beach with lionfish and ball fish.
I’ll tell you a little secret: in the lagoon near the Dahabiya hotel and between the pier with boats there is a free city beach with umbrellas but without sunbeds, we didn’t need them there. You can take the Tropitelevsky free bus to the center, and then for 10 pounds by taxi you can get to the public beach. Back to Tropitel paid 20 pounds.
Excursions: we took from the agency on the King Safari embankment to the monastery of St. Catherine, for two $50. We were both in a minibus. But without a guide. Tour operators have 45 bucks per person, but with a guide. Pts. liked. We bought a booklet there for 20 pounds on the street, inside the monastery it is more expensive. Even through the same agency sailed on a boat with a glass bottom. Also together and also great.
The blue hole seemed to us far away (obviously not 3 kilometers) and halfway on foot we braked the jeep and drove.
We have nothing to catch there. The hole itself can only be seen from a height, and the reef is like this everywhere. But I recommend everyone to visit. Returned for 30 pounds. We sat, lay on the canyon, drank Bedouin tea for unrealistic money. But it's not a pity, because och. I liked to relax on the beds (laying your own towel and watching the divers. ). Initially, it was planned to go to the hole on camels, to which, unexpectedly for myself, I kindled with great interest and tenderness, but when I saw the girl on crutches and in the first days she injured her legs and heard that she had fallen from the camel and the dislocation was corrected for her under anesthesia, I limited myself to feeding them , stroking and photographing.
By the way, the second girl on crutches fell off the ATV
A big advantage is that Tropitel has its own shuttle bass. (how did they become generous? ) We went to Dahab on the embankment six times.
I write on "hot" emotions (until they become dull). Rested from 9.10 to 23.10. 2011
Tropitel was chosen according to the criteria of an affordable price for us, location on the first line, an abundance of reefs and fish, silence, lack of animation and a half-empty beach for children. In Sharm, the first line was not found.
This is what we got as we hoped. But along with this, we got disgusting food, not just monotonous, which is what most hotels in Dahab suffer from, but disgusting. They never considered themselves to be any super pretentious gourmets and nagging Russian tourists. The experience of holidays in Egypt is small - before Tropitel, they were only in Hurghada at the Hilton Hurghada Resort in April 2011. So, willy-nilly, they were compared with him. This is exactly what all tourists do.
So, about food: relatively (only relatively) without straining to eat at a local restaurant, which subsequently
A hotel positioned as 4* deserves a maximum of 3-*!
I write on "hot" emotions (until they become dull). Rested from 9.10 to 23.10. 2011
Tropitel was chosen according to the criteria of an affordable price for us, location on the first line, an abundance of reefs and fish, silence, lack of animation and a half-empty beach for children. In Sharm, the first line was not found.
This is what we got as we hoped. But along with this, we got disgusting food, not just monotonous, which is what most hotels in Dahab suffer from, but disgusting. They never considered themselves to be any super pretentious gourmets and nagging Russian tourists. The experience of holidays in Egypt is small - before Tropitel, they were only in Hurghada at the Hilton Hurghada Resort in April 2011. So, willy-nilly, they were compared with him. This is exactly what all tourists do.
So, about food: relatively (only relatively) without straining to eat at a local restaurant,
which later we called exclusively the canteen, you can only one week. I'll try to formulate it briefly, although the negative is simply bursting:
A hotel positioned as 4* deserves a maximum of 3-*!
This is the general opinion of many tourists with whom we spoke. Who came to Egypt for the first time, they asked, like:
-What happens differently? It doesn't seem so bad.
Breakfasts: at first glance it seems that not everything is so terrible. Knowing that in Egypt with meat in general we have strained: boiled, relatively edible sausage, in principle good cheese (for some reason diced), butter, boiled eggs, soft good omelet, omelet that the cook prepares in front of you, and since there is a queue for it, the omelette is always undercooked, the tomatoes and cheese in it remain finally unmelted. Egg toast. Too many eggs? Tasteless pancakes, pancakes, but probably with jam. Next: lobio-type beans (but not tasty), some kind of beans and other similar crap.
And then, in general, tin: not a separate rack of pieces of 8 beautifully decorated curd dishes. When tasting them, it turns out that the cottage cheese is either peppered, or salty, or with some vile spices. Everyone picks it up in tiny pieces. And carry them away almost untouched. Here is a holiday that is constant in the families of servants! And there are several jams and sour cream. Having tried to combine the above ingredients, I could not eat the resulting dish. The husband smeared the cake with the most neutral curd putty and ate it, just to somehow diversify and fill the stomach. The pastries are not bad, but all of the same puff pastry, only decorated and sprinkled in different ways. Croissants are empty (in the presence of jam).
You can forget about some fruit juices (as we had in Hurghada). Or you can “pamper yourself” with “juices” diluted 1:10. Don't forget yogurt either.
From fruits, always finely chopped, almost always tasteless melon, unripe oranges and grapefruits. There were phoenicia cut unripe guava. Bananas were given chopped once! Twice in two weeks they pampered their adored tourists with ripe and tasty watermelon! Here are the joys that the vacationers had! Although, perhaps we just got in the wrong season.
We bought ripe Yemeni mangoes for 20 pounds per kg in the city. They also bought juices and water (there will be a separate topic about it). Good one (all inclusive). Black tea, green, mint, anise, Nescafe coffee. Ahhh, how did I forget about the milk rice porridge, which I needed after poisoning (yes-yes-yes) in the same “miracle restaurant”. The porridge turned out to be cold, not just cold, but from the refrigerator! After a 5-minute insistent request to warm it up (as you already know, the staff finally doesn’t fumble in Russian, except for 2.3 memorized phrases), they poured hot milk over it, which I didn’t want at all.
Lunches: some not very clear mashed soups, but sometimes edible. Beef stew is always either finely chopped (goulash from the Soviet cafeteria), or it is only coarsely chopped. Looks like she's the one that got me hooked. Because even now I can’t think about this beef without disgust and bouts of nausea. They gave quite decently cooked liver several times. To which everyone was unspeakably happy. Always the same sea bass fish, very fatty and also stewed in something nasty-fat. From which it starts to feel sick already on the 3rd, 4th day. No more seafood, dear future vacationers, do not expect in a maritime country.
The chef (cutie and darling) praises her intensely, knowing full well that this particular miracle fish costs them a ruble per ton (absolutely accurate information from the locals).
Garnish with potatoes in many forms, (not bad), rice all the time (almost always not tasty), the so-called "pasta" and just pasta.
Always zucchini, skillfully cooked in different shapes and types, designed to create the appearance of an abundance of vegetables (actually like everything else in this canteen). Sometimes delicious eggplant. Stewed vegetables can be lightly steamed cauliflower, regular cabbage, carrots, squash, and bell peppers. Hard and inedible. A lot of beans, some kind of crap like lentils, and all sorts of inedible bean crap in a tasteless gravy.
And now the most tinny: our tourist comes up to the stand with vegetables and salads and what he is dumbfounded watching (from afar there are a lot and very enticing) - and the salads are from yesterday's half-eaten products.
I can’t help but list, for example, such masterpieces of Tropitel’s cuisine as cold mashed potatoes (left over from the evening or, at best, from the morning), gently decorated with chopped cucumbers by the caring hands of the cooks,
stewed potatoes mixed with melon, chopped sausage (well, in kind, disappear in the morning) and pomegranate seeds. Next: coarsely chopped eggs (from breakfast), again with melon and some rubbish. And the pinnacles of culinary art: figuratively carved melon and sausage from breakfast lovingly laid out on it.
In general, you can list another hour. Everything is about the same. Tourists (we are no exception) picked out simple beets from some masterpiece salad.
In short, from vegetables we took simple cucumbers, blue cabbage (if we managed to suppress it a little). And bell pepper. There was no greenery at all. Oh, sorry, there was a green onion, with large heads, simply and alone lying on a plate. Tomatoes were given either by chemistry, or by something else.
Conclusion:
the hotel management should reward the chef and all the kitchen staff for the diligent and very careful distribution of funds allocated for feeding stupid tourists.
Dinners: were sometimes more or less acceptable. Almost always chicken stew, fresh but edible. On Mondays, near the veranda of the restaurant, the chef prepared barbecued chicken (not marinated at all, but delicious just because barbecue) and kebab. Kebab can only be eaten hot and with a lot of sauce. Since they do not know how to cook minced meat as such. But thanks for that, as they say... Twice the chef cooked something similar to shawarma, also not a fountain, but compared to everything else, just some kind of holiday! By the way, keep in mind that for the usual Heinz sauce you will have to run either around the tables or ask the waiters!
Pastries: not bad, but it is clear that 20 different dishes are prepared from two types of dough. I do not benefit from flour, so I was not fond of it. Although the husband was, in principle, satisfied.
But baking doesn't make up for everything else.
Briefly, somewhere like this. I didn’t expect that I would ever discuss food like that,
but in two weeks it boiled, just kapets !!! ! On the plane, I just ate a piece of boiled beef with pleasure and washed it down with tomato juice!
Dear gentlemen! Take plenty of stomach remedies for poisoning! I didn’t leave the room for a day (terrible diarrhea), thanks to my first aid kit, I helped out. 99% got poisoned at lunch in the Tropitel canteen! Naturally, this is not provable.
For feeding the cook for all his delights, except for baking, a solid deuce! (note not a unit! ).
Yes, red wine is quite tolerable, quite weak. Beer is also praised by everyone, from bottles.
Regarding all other drinks, these are: cola, fanta, sprite, tonic, extremely rarely guava juice from packages.
So everyone knows about local alcohol - shit is unreal.
A small sketch at the pool bar: I ask the bartender to build a Pina Colada cocktail. He has a moment's confusion... Me too, because I see that there is no mixer in the bar! I'm looking forward to what the bartender does next.
I get: rum + pineapple juice + milk. And that's it!! ! At the request to beat this magnificence and the question is where is the mixer? this glorious resourceful descendant of the pharaohs very briskly and convincingly suggested mixing and whipping the cocktail with a straw!!!!!! ! "Cocktail" was poured out, the miracle bartender is unhappy. That's it. . .
Now about drinking water!! ! It's just humiliation! We knew that bottled water is not provided in the room, but it can be collected from the cooler. Upon arrival in Tropitel in the evening, we ran out of water, and in the restaurant it was said that you can only take it in glasses, but not in a bottle !!! ! We just went crazy, went nuts and bought 1.5 liters of water for 5 pounds in Pasha's shop. It turned out later that their water is quite inexpensive. In Dahab, they bought 1.5 liters for 2-3 pounds, and a 7-liter eggplant for 8 pounds. This is what you have to be freaks and rednecks to save on water in the desert!!! ! for tourists who have all inclusive. Then we took the water in the cooler directly into the bottle, spitting on everyone. By the way,
we were told that 3-4 days before us the cooler was hidden behind the counter. And after a grand scandal that 3 of our tourists made for them, from whom they extorted $ 10 for settling a few hours earlier, they didn’t wear a bracelet, they didn’t give water, they put a cooler in the hall. How do you like this option?
By the way, Pasha is the only Russian-speaking friend in the hotel (he is not an employee) and our tourists constantly turn to him for translation in emergency cases.
Rooms: upon check-in, they gave a check of vodka at the reception and asked for a room with a good view on the second floor, which they got. But the side was sunny, it was impossible to go out onto the balcony all day, the heat was not real, and the wind blew everything away. Keep in mind that there are no ropes or clothespins! After two or three days, they moved to the first floor on the shady side, presenting chocolate and a pack of ordinary cigarettes to the reception. So it's not at all necessary
Dear gentlemen, tourists, pay with bucks, and even for 10 -20. We corrupt them ourselves.
Satisfied with number two. Unlike the first one, there were two wooden one-and-a-half beds pushed together with very good orthopedic mattresses.
So who needs a very good sleep, I recommend taking rooms with just such mattresses. Hairdryer, condo, TV, light, refrigerator - everything worked. They called the master to fix the outlet - he quickly did everything. But our room was on the first floor, and although we were warned, we still left the Marlboro and the lighter on the veranda and safely lost both in the morning. Someone's fins were stolen, etc. So be careful! Theft in the hotel takes place.
A lot of tourists shared different "original" cases when checking in.
The most egregious: a family of three adults paid the full and even more cost for three full seats ($1.500 for two,
they paid $2500 for three). And they brazenly began to settle in a room 2 + 1. (by the way, I saw this number - next to two stone beds they put a terrible old, collapsing folding bed), while extorting more money. People swore for 5 hours until the called guide arrived. These tourists were in constant shock from this and all the other "charms" of the hotel I have listed. They promised to get their tour operator upon arrival and write wherever possible. And believe me, friends, they were dumbfounded to hell...
Territory: small, not very green (in Dahab they don’t really bother with this). They take care of green spaces badly, it is clear that they don’t plant a damn thing, they water them a little. And the problem of landscaping is solved in a very original way: a tourist can buy some kind of palm tree in the garden center, order signs with his name and solemnly plant it near the pool to the applause of the administration and staff.
(observed such a picture).
By the way, I liked the pool. I had to spend more than one hour near him, "thanks" to the terrible wind on the beach, and the complete inability to swim.
Service: the staff in Russian does not fumble vaaasche !!!!
How it is? They accept up to 40% of Russian-speaking tourists and without even making inclinations to study Russian. For Egypt, this is simply nonsense! Why are tour operators so condescending to this? There were several unpleasant moments when I could not explain anything to the staff.
But in all possible places there are boxes for tips. Just arrogance and laughter.
I really wanted to write “thanks” to them there purely in some idiomatic Russian expressions. Too bad they can't read. By the way, in English too. I doubt very much that they can read Arabic as well.
Beach, sea: the beach itself is quite large and almost always half empty. There were always enough sun loungers and umbrellas for everyone. The reef is amazing
but the wind and waves were almost always. Of the 13 days had 3 quiet days. And then in them I managed to fall between the corals and severely injure one leg, and then slip on a wet pier and twist the other. By the way, there every fifth tourist demonstrates to each other any injuries and injuries.
For example, I have my own little phobias. I am afraid of waves and getting water in my mouth and nose. So to swim with a mask, but it turned out a little.
And just to swim we went to the lagoon. Super!! ! Sand, surfers. . . small corals found about 30 meters from the beach with lionfish and ball fish.
I’ll tell you a little secret: in the lagoon near the Dahabiya hotel and between the pier with boats there is a free city beach with umbrellas but without sunbeds, we didn’t need them there. You can take the Tropitelevsky free bus to the center, and then for 10 pounds by taxi you can get to the public beach. Back to Tropitel paid 20 pounds.
Excursions: we took from the agency on the King Safari embankment to the monastery of St. Catherine, for two $50. We were both in a minibus. But without a guide. Tour operators have 45 bucks per person, but with a guide. Pts. liked. We bought a booklet there for 20 pounds on the street, inside the monastery it is more expensive. Even through the same agency sailed on a boat with a glass bottom. Also together and also great.
The blue hole seemed to us far away (obviously not 3 kilometers) and halfway on foot we braked the jeep and drove. We have nothing to catch there. The hole itself can only be seen from a height, and the reef is like this everywhere. But I recommend everyone to visit. Returned for 30 pounds. We sat, lay on the canyon, drank Bedouin tea for unrealistic money. But it's not a pity, because och. I liked to relax on the beds (laying your own towel and watching the divers. ). Initially, it was planned to go to the hole on camels, to which, unexpectedly for myself, I kindled with great interest and tenderness,
but when she saw the girl on crutches and in the first days she herself injured her legs and heard that she had fallen from a camel and the dislocation was being corrected under anesthesia, she limited herself to feeding, stroking and photographing them.
By the way, the second girl on crutches fell off the ATV
A big advantage is that Tropitel has its own shuttle bass. (how did they become generous? ) We went to Dahab on the embankment six times. We dined at one of the numerous zucchini on the waterfront for 150 pounds for two, a large portion of the freshest grilled grouper with all the bells and whistles. They also sold 0.5 vodka for $15.
Despite the nasty hotel, our holiday was a success thanks to travel, geographical location, marine life, nature and chorus. mood no matter what.
Pts. I liked Dahab itself and its surroundings. Next time we want to stay in a hotel in the lagoon. And you can go to Tropitel on his own bus a couple of times. Go to the canyon and the same Tropitelevsky pier.
Summary: the hotel sucks. As our guide said, sighing heavily, listening to the same complaints every time, that in Dahab only two more and or even one hotel are worse.
So draw your own conclusions, gentlemen! Tropitel is for super unpretentious tourists, divers, avid snorkelers who are able to dive in any waves and actually eat garbage. And even then only a week.
If you are interested in details, I will answer.
and we called exclusively the canteen, you can only one week. I'll try to formulate it briefly, although the negative is simply bursting:
A hotel positioned as 4* deserves a maximum of 3-*!
This is the general opinion of many tourists with whom we spoke. Who came to Egypt for the first time, they asked, like:
-What happens differently? It doesn't seem so bad.
Breakfasts: at first glance it seems that not everything is so terrible. Knowing that in Egypt with meat in general we have strained: boiled, relatively edible sausage,
in principle, good cheese (for some reason diced), butter, boiled eggs, a soft, good omelette, an omelette that the chef prepares in front of you, and since there is a queue for it, the omelet is always undercooked, tomatoes and cheese in it remain finally unmelted. Egg toast. Too many eggs? Tasteless pancakes, pancakes, but probably with jam. Next: lobio-type beans (but not tasty), some kind of beans and other similar crap. And then, in general, tin: not a separate rack of pieces of 8 beautifully decorated curd dishes. When tasting them, it turns out that the cottage cheese is either peppered, or salty, or with some vile spices. Everyone picks it up in tiny pieces. And carry them away almost untouched. Here is a holiday that is constant in the families of servants! And there are several jams and sour cream. Having tried to combine the above ingredients, I could not eat the resulting dish.
green, mint, anise, Nescafe coffee. Ahhh, how did I forget about the milk rice porridge, which I needed after poisoning (yes-yes-yes) in the same “miracle restaurant”. The porridge turned out to be cold, not just cold, but from the refrigerator! After a 5-minute insistent request to warm it up (as you already know, the staff finally doesn’t fumble in Russian, except for 2.3 memorized phrases), they poured hot milk over it, which I didn’t want at all.
Lunches: some not very clear mashed soups, but sometimes edible. Beef stew is always either finely chopped (goulash from the Soviet cafeteria), or it is only coarsely chopped. Looks like she's the one that got me hooked. Because even now I can’t think about this beef without disgust and bouts of nausea. They gave quite decently cooked liver several times. To which everyone was unspeakably happy. Always the same sea bass fish, very fatty and also stewed in something nasty-fat.
From which it starts to feel sick already on the 3rd, 4th day. No more seafood, dear future vacationers, do not expect in a maritime country.
The chef (cutie and darling) praises her intensely, knowing full well that this particular miracle fish costs them a ruble per ton (absolutely accurate information from the locals).
Garnish with potatoes in many forms, (not bad), rice all the time (almost always not tasty), the so-called "pasta" and just pasta. Always zucchini, skillfully cooked in different shapes and types, designed to create the appearance of an abundance of vegetables (actually like everything else in this canteen). Sometimes delicious eggplant. Stewed vegetables can be lightly steamed cauliflower, regular cabbage, carrots, squash, and bell peppers. Hard and inedible. A lot of beans, some kind of crap like lentils, and all sorts of inedible bean crap in a tasteless gravy.
And now the most tinny: our tourist comes up to the stand with vegetables and salads and what he is dumbfounded watching (from afar there are a lot and very enticing) - and the salads are from yesterday's half-eaten products.
I can’t help but list, for example, such masterpieces of Tropitel’s cuisine as cold mashed potatoes (left over from the evening or, at best, from the morning), gently decorated with chopped cucumbers by the caring hands of the cooks, stewed potatoes mixed with melon, chopped sausage (well, in kind, disappear in the morning) and pomegranate seeds. Next: coarsely chopped eggs (from breakfast), again with melon and some rubbish. And the pinnacles of culinary art: figuratively carved melon and sausage from breakfast lovingly laid out on it.
In general, you can list another hour. Everything is about the same. Tourists (we are no exception) picked out simple beets from some masterpiece salad.
Briefly speaking,
also not a fountain, but compared to everything else, it’s just some kind of holiday! By the way, keep in mind that for the usual Heinz sauce you will have to run either around the tables or ask the waiters!
Pastries: not bad, but it is clear that 20 different dishes are prepared from two types of dough. I do not benefit from flour, so I was not fond of it. Although the husband was, in principle, satisfied.
But baking doesn't make up for everything else.
Briefly, somewhere like this. I myself did not expect that I would once discuss food like that, but in two weeks it boiled, just kapets !!! ! On the plane, I just ate a piece of boiled beef with pleasure and washed it down with tomato juice!
Dear gentlemen! Take plenty of stomach remedies for poisoning! I didn’t leave the room for a day (terrible diarrhea), thanks to my first aid kit, I helped out. 99% got poisoned at lunch in the Tropitel canteen! Naturally, this is not provable.
For feeding the cook for all his delights, except for baking, a solid deuce! (note not a unit! ).
Yes,
and in the restaurant it was said that you can only take in glasses, but not in a bottle !!! ! We just went crazy, went nuts and bought 1.5 liters of water for 5 pounds in Pasha's shop. It turned out later that their water is quite inexpensive. In Dahab, they bought 1.5 liters for 2-3 pounds, and a 7-liter eggplant for 8 pounds. This is what you have to be freaks and rednecks to save on water in the desert!!! ! for tourists who have all inclusive. Then we took the water in the cooler directly into the bottle, spitting on everyone. By the way, we were told that 3-4 days before us the cooler was hidden behind the counter. And after a grand scandal that 3 of our tourists made for them, from whom they extorted $ 10 for settling a few hours earlier, they didn’t wear a bracelet, they didn’t give water, they put a cooler in the hall. How do you like this option?
By the way, Pasha is the only Russian-speaking friend in the hotel (he is not an employee) and our tourists constantly turn to him for translation in emergency cases.
Rooms: upon check-in, they gave a check of vodka at the reception and asked for a room with a good view on the second floor, which they got. But the side was sunny, it was impossible to go out onto the balcony all day, the heat was not real, and the wind blew everything away. Keep in mind that there are no ropes or clothespins! After two or three days, they moved to the first floor on the shady side, presenting chocolate and a pack of ordinary cigarettes to the reception. So it is absolutely not necessary, dear tourists, to pay with bucks, and even for 10 -20. We corrupt them ourselves.
Satisfied with number two. Unlike the first one, there were two wooden one-and-a-half beds pushed together with very good orthopedic mattresses.
So who needs a very good sleep, I recommend taking rooms with just such mattresses. Hairdryer, condo, TV, light, refrigerator - everything worked. They called the master to fix the outlet - he quickly did everything.
But our room was on the first floor, and although we were warned, we still left the Marlboro and the lighter on the veranda and safely lost both in the morning. Someone's fins were stolen, etc. So be careful! Theft in the hotel takes place.
A lot of tourists shared different "original" cases when checking in.
Most egregious: a family of three adults paid full and even more for three full seats (two were $1.500, they paid $2.500 for three). And they brazenly began to settle in a room 2 + 1. (by the way, I saw this number - next to two stone beds they put a terrible old, collapsing folding bed), while extorting more money. People swore for 5 hours until the called guide arrived. These tourists were in constant shock from this and all the other "charms" of the hotel I have listed. They promised to get their tour operator upon arrival and write wherever possible. And believe
friends, they were so dumbfounded to hell...
Territory: small, not very green (in Dahab they don’t really bother with this). They take care of green spaces badly, it is clear that they don’t plant a damn thing, they water them a little. And the problem of landscaping is solved in a very original way: a tourist can buy some kind of palm tree in the garden center, order signs with his name and solemnly plant it near the pool to the applause of the administration and staff. (observed such a picture).
By the way, I liked the pool. I had to spend more than one hour near him, "thanks" to the terrible wind on the beach, and the complete inability to swim.
Service: the staff in Russian does not fumble vaaasche !!!!
How it is? They accept up to 40% of Russian-speaking tourists and without even making inclinations to study Russian. For Egypt, this is simply nonsense! Why are tour operators so condescending to this? There were some awkward moments.
And just to swim we went to the lagoon. Super!! ! Sand, surfers. . . small corals found about 30 meters from the beach with lionfish and ball fish.
I’ll tell you a little secret: in the lagoon near the Dahabiya hotel and between the pier with boats there is a free city beach with umbrellas but without sunbeds, we didn’t need them there. You can take the Tropitelevsky free bus to the center, and then for 10 pounds by taxi you can get to the public beach. Back to Tropitel paid 20 pounds.
Excursions: we took from the agency on the King Safari embankment to the monastery of St. Catherine, for two $50. We were both in a minibus. But without a guide. Tour operators have 45 bucks per person, but with a guide. Pts. liked. We bought a booklet there for 20 pounds on the street, inside the monastery it is more expensive. Even through the same agency sailed on a boat with a glass bottom. Also together and also great.
The blue hole seemed to us far away (obviously not 3 kilometers) and halfway on foot we braked the jeep and drove.
We have nothing to catch there. The hole itself can only be seen from a height, and the reef is like this everywhere. But I recommend everyone to visit. Returned for 30 pounds. We sat, lay on the canyon, drank Bedouin tea for unrealistic money. But it's not a pity, because och. I liked to relax on the beds (laying your own towel and watching the divers. ). Initially, it was planned to go to the hole on camels, to which, unexpectedly for myself, I kindled with great interest and tenderness, but when I saw the girl on crutches and in the first days she injured her legs and heard that she had fallen from the camel and the dislocation was corrected for her under anesthesia, I limited myself to feeding them , stroking and photographing.
By the way, the second girl on crutches fell off the ATV
A big advantage is that Tropitel has its own shuttle bass. (how did they become generous? ) We went to Dahab on the embankment six times.
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