Rest Egypt Hurghada Hotel Ali Baba 4*+

Written: 2 may 2012
Travel time: 23 january — 2 february 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
10.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
Rested from 23.01. 2011 to 02.02. 2011.10 nights 11 days. Tour operator CORAL TRAVEL. Departed from Perm at 09-00 local time, in Egypt it was 10-00 local time (time difference minus 1 hour). I bought a visa upon arrival, you can buy it for $15, if you fill out the questionnaire on your own, issued at a special counter and stand in line for the visa itself for 15-20 minutes, or you can buy it at the same counter where the questionnaires are issued for $17, and the questionnaire this one will be filled out for you. Drive to the hotel min. 10 if the bus does not call at other hotels.
The hotel is located on the Red Sea, 13 km from the airport and 20 km from the center of Hurghada
Description of the hotel «Ali Baba Palace 4*+»

The hotel was at 11-00, check-in is scheduled at 12-00, but a smile and a greeting in Arabic (advice, learn a couple of phrases before the trip in Arabic, such as "Hello", "How are you", "Thank you" and you are all will be good) did their job, I was treated to a cocktail, put on a bracelet and escorted to the room. I lived on the first line in a two-storey building.
The room itself is about 30 square meters, a balcony, 2 beds, a couple of lamps, a refrigerator, a 32-inch LCD TV (there is a Russian channel), a telephone, individual, air conditioning, carpet, a safe, a seating area, clean bottled water and glasses. Bath - bathtub, shower, hair dryer, all soap and ryl accessories. The room is good, the bed linen is clean, the towel was changed daily, you just need to throw a towel on the floor, which you want to change for tea, leave 1 pound every other day, but the quality of cleaning has not changed. There is a swimming pool, a heated pool, a bar, a spa center, etc. . To the sea 3 minutes walk.
There are a lot of cats in the area. The cats are clean and well fed.
There is a good hookah, often sat there in the evenings.
The territory is very large, clean, and green, is part of a complex on an area of ​ ​ ​ ​.150, 000 sq. m. It consists of three hotels: Jasmine, Aladdin and Ali Baba, on the territory of which all guests of the complex can move freely, there is animation, but not annoying, the program They are designed for 7 days, then repeat. The animators are trying their best, since the hotel positions itself as a “Family” for a quiet and relaxing holiday, the animation team is small, and a small team will naturally not show any masterpieces, but all the guys are normal, I met everyone. Every evening I went to a local disco in Aladdin - most of all I liked it there. Although Black Out in Ali Baba's territory is also top notch! Very incendiary music, very relaxing atmosphere! The disco is free, drinks too, although I repeat, they really like it when they try to speak their native language with them and the attitude towards you completely changes, so they never took money from me, at least for drinks. I went on excursions to Cairo and Luxor, I really liked it.
Bars and restaurants:
-3 restaurants
- beer pub;
- pool bar
- beach bar
- lobby bar "Ali Baba's";
- disco bar.

For food: I'm not a gourmet, so I was not hungry. For breakfast, as in all hotels, scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, potatoes, sausages, local sausage, vegetables. What I liked was freshly squeezed juices - orange, grapefruit, carrots. There was even watermelon juice. What was very pleasing was that you don’t have to queue for drinks anywhere, waiters are everywhere, the only exception is a bar on the beach, although even there, if you communicate with them in Arabic, they will also bring what you order to a sun lounger , anyway, they wore me.
It was possible to dine at the main restaurant and at the beach bar, the food is not varied, but you can always find something tasty, so everything suited me. For lunch there was always pasta, several kinds, french fries, some meat, chicken (always), fish. There were also fruit and desserts with pastries. In all bars and restaurants, juices are only from packages, orange, mango, guava, apple. Alcohol is the same as everywhere else: local wine, beer is served from 9:00 am to 1:00 am, beer is poured from cans, also with cola, fanta, etc.
The bar on the beach had hamburgers, shawarma tortillas, fish, etc, but every day something different. French fries, vegetable salad, desserts - every day.
From 15-00 to 17-00 in the pool bars there was ice cream for everyone.
I want to note that almost everywhere where you order something, you will be issued something like an invoice and asked to write the room number and sign, do not be alarmed, they will not take money from you, they have a kind of accounting and some of their bonuses.
For an additional fee, massage, laundry, dry cleaning, diving and aqua centers, water sports center, health club, sauna, jacuzzi, steam room, hairdresser, billiard room.
The beach is sand, the entrance to the sea is gentle, there are no fish. There was always enough space, I came at 8:30. Umbrellas, deck chairs, mattresses: free of charge. Beach towels: free of charge. By the pool: umbrellas, sun loungers, mattresses: free of charge. The length of the beach is 300 m.
Small fish can be found if you go a little into the sea, take a couple of pieces of bread for breakfast and all the surrounding fish will be around you, but they are not as beautiful as those that are shown on TV. For beautiful ones, you need to go on an excursion.
The evening program is designed for 7 days, nothing special, I liked only the "Cobra Show"
On the territory there are shops with souvenirs, a pharmacy, an ATM.

On the day of departure, we had a departure at 17-00, we were picked up from the hotel at 13-00, at 12-00 (check-out time) I came to the reception with a suitcase, knowing not three words in Arabic, but five or six began to fill out the questionnaire. The bracelet was not cut off for me, and I used all the bars and services until the very departure, this once again confirms that if you are good to them, then they are good to you as well.
Rest was satisfied!
Thank you for a good stay hotel "Ali - Baba"!
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