Отличный отдых. Great vacation.

Vacationing with my wife. She was in Hurghada for the second time (before that she was in the top three Hor Palace - I also liked it) from Bella Vista in awe.
Transfer.
We flew with Coral & Odeon at the airport, met at 9:10, immediately to get a visa, bypassing the general queue (although the Coral queue was not small), for this the visa cost $ 17 instead of 15. Filled out the questionnaires, passport control without problems .
Upon receipt of the luggage, the traffic controller first sent the negro to the wrong conveyor (by the way, upon departure, the guide also sent the check-in to the wrong counters), so we just carefully look at the flight number on the scoreboard.
Obviously, because they did not immediately find the luggage, they got into the wrong bus where they were waiting for us, but nevertheless they took us to the hotel without any problems at 11:30.
Hotel.

We checked in, waited a bit (we thought it would be longer - check-in at the reception at 15:00 according to the rules, although it was written at 14:00 in the voucher) and at 12 we were put on bracelets and given the keys to room 221 building B. We left at the reception a present - a set of chocolates "Ukraine" (they took 28 UAH in ATB, I saw the same one in Duty in Boryspil twice as expensive as $ 7).
The room is excellent spacious, in the hallway there is a large closet with a safe ($ 3 per day, at the reception $ 2 per day), bath, shower, hairdryer, soap, gels, shampoos, a balcony with plastic chairs and a table.
The room has a good TV (two Russian programs, a bunch of other Arabic, English, German, Polish, etc. ), a small refrigerator with a minibar (beer - 20 each, drinks-juices-chips-chocolate - 10, water 0.5 - each 5 Egyptian pounds). They didn't use the bar either, they kept Ukrainian beer, sausage, cheese, and mineral water in the refrigerator. Then water, juices that were given out on excursions, something even reached Ukraine.
Immediately settled on the balcony overlooking the sea and yachts, celebrated the arrival of wine, fruit, sandwiches. Under the balcony is a small green garden with palm trees, oranges, flowers. Behind a high hedge, also strewn with flowers, is the city beach, which is absolutely deserted at this time of the year.
The inner courtyard of the hotel is small beautiful green with a variety of vegetation. There are almost no flies, mosquitoes - the plants are treated daily with smelly smoke, at 11 o'clock when all the people are on the beach.
Beach.

The beach is right next to the hotel, mushrooms covered with reeds, sunbeds with mattresses, beach towels are issued. There are sun loungers on the upper deck, on two floating pontoons, by the pool in the courtyard, there are two beaches: at the Caribbean bar, open-air (there is Internet Wi-Fi, free if you know the password); and on the right more sheltered in the lagoon behind the pier and pontoons. The water is clear, warm, sometimes there is a breeze, then it is cool to get out of the water (according to the sensations of Crimean September). It is convenient to enter the water on fine sand, a little further there are corals with a mass of marine life, so a mask with a snorkel will not be superfluous attributes (all this is in shops around hotels, prices are comparable to Ukrainian ones, if not cheaper).
Nutrition.
We had HB (breakfast dinner), more than enough.
Breakfast. At the entrance to order, an omelette (or scrambled eggs) is prepared, the ingredients for them (cheese, onions, paprika, sausage, tomatoes) you choose yourself and bake pancakes (water with honey, chocolate).
In the dining room there are a lot of salads, potatoes, sausages, boiled eggs, bean cat-lettuls, muesli flakes with milk, a lot of all kinds of pastries, two types of juice, tea, coffee.
Dinner. The only minus of HB for dinner is no drinks. They put up a For All Inclusive Only sign. In general, it was not very controlled, in the evening with a long sleeve the bracelet was not visible, but it was slightly annoying. The lack of drinks was compensated by an abundance of fruits: oranges, huge dates, guava, pomegranates, small bananas, melon. (I have never eaten so many pomegranates at one time in my life). For dinner, rice, potatoes, pasta, fish (very tender and tasty), squid, grilled chicken, any dish from the chef (a couple of times there was not very baked fish (like cod), in another if it looks like goose meat - too dry), two types of soup, 20 kinds of salads, sweets, cakes, pastries, Italian pasta, chops are prepared in front of the entrance.
Tours.
The hotel guide is more expensive than street agencies and on the beach.
But they still took it from him, both from the point of view of security and out of respect for a pleasant person (Muhammad, marshaban! ).
Luxor. ($80 with a discount for one). My wife was already there six years ago, absolutely delighted. Wanted more. For me it is interesting, informative - but I saw all this in films in more detail and colorfully. I am more impressed by natural objects, preferably without traces of civilization. But this is a matter of taste. Beloved is delighted with the ruins, palaces, temples, well-groomed parks, museums, antique furniture, clothes, paintings - I miss museums a little.

Paradise Island. ($45 each). A trip on a motor yacht with two landings in the sea for scrolling (mask, snorkel, fins are given in the port, but I would advise you to at least have your own snorkel mask, we didn’t get one set very well and the diving experience was slightly underwhelming -cheno). The richness and beauty of corals, fish and other living creatures are stunning. Near the beach, the corals are also beautiful, but in the open sea - this is no words... Landing on Giftun Island, in itself a desert frying pan with excellent sand and accessible coral shallows. But there are two fenced landscaped areas "Mahmya-Insel" and "Paradise-Insel" with canopy mats, a restaurant and a bar (lunch with drinks included in the price), we were dropped off in Paradise. Excursions are cheaper landed on the bare shore and lunch on board the boat.
Desert secret. ($60 each). On jeeps to Safari Land, a brief instruction on driving a quad bike, wrapped up arafatki and forward through the desert (40 minutes with stops to take pictures), it’s a pity you won’t accelerate properly in the convoy all the time, but it’s still great. Further in jeeps deep into the desert to the Bedouin camp (some groups go on quad bikes along the same route, we envied them at first, but when we returned in the evening in the cold and in the dark, we were pleased with the jeeps). They showed mirages, with a certain amount of imagination - you can say they saw it.
We rode in pairs on a buggy, but ten minutes was not enough. A small terrarium mind, a zoo, various shops with persuasion to buy something... A short camel ride (on the occasion of Bedouin children and women)... Dinner with a hookah, a fakir, belly dance and a skirt show. We had no worse performances at the hotel. It was dark and cold and I wanted to go home. And finally, they gave me a look through the telescope. It was aimed at Jupiter, but since my vision is -4, and the knobs were not allowed to turn, I saw only a bright blurry spot. However, the night sky was magnificent even without a telescope...
Outcome.
In general, the impressions from the rest, hotel, excursions are quite favorable.