Ожидание было другое The expectation was different

In Egypt for the first time and the choice fell on Ali Baba Palace 4 *. Read the reviews for this hotel and they were great. And you have a heated pool (a small piece with not very warm water), a heated water park (yes), staff who blow dust off you (only those with whom you do not intersect). We stayed at this hotel from 03/25/2021 to 04/01/2021.
We arrived at the hotel at 18:30, check-in was relatively short, about 30 minutes. There is no free wi-fi on site. At the hotel you can buy a SIM card and use the Internet safely, but it will be more expensive than at the airport. The territory of the hotel is well-groomed, beautiful, large, beautiful in the evening. Water park: open 3 hours a day. From 11:00-12:00.14:00-16:00. The water is warm, on adult slides the water is warmer than on children's slides. There are guys who keep order on the children's slides. Beach: clean, the sea is gorgeous and very cold, although people swam. There are sunbeds, but they are few. Near the pontoon there is a reef with fish, they are few, but there.
There is a heated pool on the territory, it is not big, the water is excellent if you go into it along the stairs that go from the side of the bar, it is more or less warm there, but go in and go out right away. Everyone splashes in this pool, from small to great, that is, you can’t swim or dive calmly. There are simply no places near this pool since 09:00. The policy of this institution says that everyone should be on sunbeds under an umbrella near the pool (they are not portable, these umbrellas cannot be moved), but there are more than enough free sunbeds. but even if you find a place not under an umbrella, spacious enough (and you came from a country where it’s cold and you want to soak up and sunbathe in the sun) be prepared for the fact that the “director of the sunbeds” will come running and will not communicate very well with you and kick foot this lounger, then pick it up and leave, and they wanted to spit on everything. Although local vacationers rested calmly and without umbrellas (they had no written rules).

Free ice cream is handed out from 15:00-16:00, for which there is always a queue, the portion is small (about like a tablespoon of thick sour cream without a slide, sometimes less, probably with luck). Children's animation - lasts 30 minutes, the program is the same from day to day. The same songs and dances, the children like it, and that is already good, but I would like variety. For adults, the program also lasts 30 minutes. Belly dancing and live music. Evening animation is tight here.
The hotel also has a kids club. I don’t know how it works during the day (whether it works at all) in the evening the club is open from 21:00 to 22:00, but be prepared for the fact that your children will not be involved there. Children are left to themselves. The girl (she is also a children's animator in the evening) is sitting at this time applying face painting to other children, the rest does not interest her. If you are worried about the child, then don’t let go (there were cases when children hit each other with a tolacar, one boy punched the other in the face with all the dope, and the children just fell down the hills and stuffed their foreheads), well, either sit and watch him many mothers did.
Restaurant: the first two days there were no crowds, places could be found easily, the next days the line in the lobby was very long, vacationers come here from the neighboring Aladdin hotel. As for food: in principle, everything is the same, you will not stay hungry. There is no seafood, but you will be offered 1 kg of shrimp for $ 23 at the Laguna restaurant, which operates on the beach (in Senzo Mall you can take 2 kg for this money, they cook it on the spot right away), once there was strawberries in chocolate (per person 4 pieces), from fruits it is a melon, an orange, and, well, there were still dates. The beach bar is open from 09:00 to 17:00.
If you are on the beach all day and are hungry, then you can take a meal from 12:30 (burgers, hot dogs, fries) until 16:45 (checked), then they just move their wall clocks 10 minutes ahead and figs what you tell them prove that it is now 16:50. In the lobby, where there is an a la evening show, not very nice bartenders who look at you like you are a piece of poo. If there is a desire to sign up for A La Carte, then probably do it immediately upon arrival. Then it starts, then the girl has a day off, then she went on business, then she just was and now she will come up and does not come for an hour...

In general, this hotel wins only because there is a water park and the territory is beautiful, which we bought into. After visiting this hotel, not a very good sediment remained. No more foot here.
P. S. Room cleaning was daily. the comrade who cleans the rooms fell asleep while wiping the toilet with a face towel, he left such an impression.