Holidays without a twist

Written: 20 may 2019
Travel time: 9 — 16 may 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 3.0
In May 2019, I vacationed with my family at the AMC Royal Hotel & Spa.

The hotel is located on the outskirts of Hurghada, it takes about 15 minutes by taxi to Sheraton Street. Taxi one way is $4-5. There are no free or paid shuttles from the hotel to Hurghada.
The hotel consists of one multi-storey building made in the form of the letter "P". There are lifts and ramps for wheelchairs.
The hotel lobby is large and beautiful in marble, with leather sofas, a real piano, where a pianist played periodically in the evenings.
A good lobby bar where they make good cocktails in glass, in a bar on the beach and in the pool they pour it into plastic cups.
It is worth noting the work of Guest Relation, the girls are competent, provide the necessary assistance when applying. During the rest, they called the room several times and asked how the rest was going, if there were any wishes and comments.

There are also several shops in the lobby and a "pharmacy" with inadequate prices. For an antibiotic for a child, they asked for $ 20, while the cost in Hurghada was $ 4.
Standard room: two single beds, a sofa, bedside tables, a 32-inch TV with several Russian and Ukrainian channels. The room was cleaned well.
The refrigerator was replenished daily with two juice bags and two 1.5 liter bottles of water.
The room also has a kettle and a few bags of coffee, tea, sugar.
The furniture is not new, but alive. Plumbing is working. Hairdryer did not work well, they called to repair. Shampoo, shower gel and towels changed and replenished regularly.
The dining room is large, located under the hall. The food is very monotonous, there is no choice of meat, fish, side dishes are in abundance. Sweets, a standard Egyptian set - a lot, but all to one taste.
Fruits: bananas, apples, dates, oranges, occasionally there were melons and once watermelons.
We have the opinion that the food is worse than in other hotels in Egypt, where we rested before.
The hotel has one large pool, divided into several zones in depth and a small one for children.
There is no water heating in May. In the first half of the day, the water is quite cool, it warms up (by the sun), after 12.00.
There are several small hills. The territory of the hotel is small, there is nowhere to walk in the evening.
Outside the hotel, you can walk to the right, where the Hawaii hotel chain is located with a beautiful area, waterfalls.
To the left of the hotel there are only abandoned hotels, unfinished buildings and wastelands.
We didn’t see animation during the day : -(, in the evenings, a standard children’s program and after a program for adults. Evening animation is held in a disco bar. If there are a lot of vacationers, it’s quite stuffy there.
The beach is wide, there are enough umbrellas and sun loungers, there are awnings to protect from the wind.
The sea is shallow, 300-350 meters, knee-deep at low tide, waist-deep at high tide. For children expanse, the water warms up well during the day.

On the right is a capital pontoon 450 m long. There are 4 descents into the sea on the pontoon: two in the shallow part and two where deeper. There are no corals, there are fish, but not bright ones.
It is better to go into the sea in corals, because there are stones, shells ...
We went on excursions around Hurghada, to Luxor, rode a bathyscaphe, this brightened up our stay at AMC Royal a little.
The hotel itself is not bad, the staff is trying, but our stay in it was "without a twist".
Translated automatically from Russian. View original