Paradise Golden Five.
November 26-December 5.2008
If you are faced with the question: “To be or not to be at the Golden Five Hotel”, answer without hesitation - NO !!!
Egypt is a country of liars and deceivers. However, how do you deal with it. You can call their sweet lies the local mentality. At the airport, sticking a visa in the passport from me, my husband and a child of 3.5 years old, they took $ 34 instead of $ 15x2 = $ 30. Dumbfounded by a night flight, propped up by a queue, and also considering that on a foreign trip, for the first time, I gave $ 34.
After filling out the guest card and being in line at passport control, I thought: why the hell did we go through the tour operator CAPITAL TOUR? After all, she knew that they were not the main tour operator in Egypt. If the bulk were met and put into normal buses, with tour operator advertising on them, we were seated in a micro-micro-micro bus of unknown origin.
Hotel. The score is 0.5.
They settled us in just 1-1.5 hours. To the show on changing the number for extra. board have been prepared.
But it's so brazen to put us 2 adults and a child in a room with a total area of .6-7 m2 with one bed! Room on the 5th floor. To my question: “Where do you think the child will sleep? ". Smiling sweetly at me, they said that here the three of us, friendly, you will sleep! Again, since they were ready for this, they asked (well, it was necessary to yell, be indignant and talk not with the receptionists, but call the administrator) for another option. The option appeared in 30-40 minutes.
1st floor. No. 117.3 lorries, trellis, 3 bedside tables, 2 armchairs, a coffee table, a bench, a TV set on a pedestal are spaciously located on 30 m2. Seems OK. Only the smell of "Difhlofos" alerted. Moreover, according to reviews, the Golden Five Hotel is very fond of bedbugs. They assured me that this is a mandatory treatment before settling in and tomorrow the smell will disappear. We decided to believe, but in vain. Believe their smiles, their answers are IMPOSSIBLE!
We paid attention to a poorly functioning lock on the door, cracks in the glass doors, a table lamp that did not work, etc. little things. They nodded. See the story that follows from this.
Settled down, changed clothes, running to the sea.
I want to note that absolutely free of charge on the first night and then we had a show with mice! I woke up from my husband’s grumblings that someone was crawling and rustling, I was alert, Klopov was waiting, but they didn’t rustle! Maybe lizards! I took a flashlight. I lie, I wait. Something dark scurried across the pillow, lit a flashlight, I looked under the leg of the child's bed a mouse was sitting! After all, All inclusive! Mice, lizards ...My husband and I joked that tomorrow night there would be snakes, lions, cheetahs. With cries: “Mouse, mouse! » I rush to the reception. They, smiling idiotically, wah, wah, say that two mice in the room is normal (and this is five stars! ) nevertheless they send the administrator on duty. He looked, looked like ...But the mouse is not a fool. She calmed down, didn’t stomp, didn’t run around with him ...What a clever girl ...
The next day, at the reception (and it was necessary to demand an administrator! ) They demanded another room, not sure that they could even survive here ...I had to stay in this room.
Territory. Sea. Rating - 4.5.
Some reviews are not flattering about the territory of the hotel. In my opinion, given that this is a desert and it is a titanic work to grow plants here, the territory is quite tolerable. The distance from the Paradise building to the sea is 5-8 minutes of leisurely walking. The sea is normal. The beach is sandy. Sunbeds - 30% broken. But it didn't bother me. You can find a place in 3-5 minutes. Be careful with beach towels. They can drag them away, they constantly try to give 2 towels for 3 cards.
Water park - a large pool with 4 slides.
Food. The score is 0.5.
Without fear for life, you can only have breakfast. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs are cooked in front of you. Cheese, cheese - edible. Sausage, sausages - disgusting!
Baking: top notch. Various puffs, cake, 3-4 cakes.
Fruit: Only for lunch and dinner. Apples, bananas, oranges, persimmons, papaya.
Meat and fish: fish, beef (meat of a camel who died a natural death), sausages. Chicken for 10 days was 4 times.
Garnish: potatoes, pasta, rice, eggplant, cauliflower, broccoli.
Salads: Cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, olives, onions.
In fact, you can only eat pasta and rice. My husband has an upset stomach on the 2nd day, in me - on the 4th, in the child - on the 8th day.
Alcohol: you can drink only wine (tap) and beer drink. Do not even experiment with vodka, rum, whiskey. Poison!
Dirty dishes are quickly removed from the tables, but when setting the table for the next visitors, the tables are not wiped. So, if you want to sit at a more or less clean table, come to the opening.
Animation. Rating - 3 points.
Regarding children's animation, I did not leave my child in their Kids Club. Children's animators did not inspire confidence.
Animation for adults: 9.30 type of exercise. 10.00 - stretch, 10.
The norm is to my indignation about the mice in the room, to say that so, rats also walk around the hotel.
I looked with envy at representatives of other tour operators who were in the hotel lobby from 9.00 to 18.00.
Final story.
1 day before departure for lunch, a note under the door: “Urgently come to the reception! ". I'm running. Thoughts about home. Something happened! They told me: “Did you shoot the glass? ". Not understanding anything what they are talking about, I naturally say that I did not take off the glasses. Wait, they say, in the room, the supervisor will come to you. In the room, I examined all the glass, everything seems to be intact. The supervisor comes in the company of a cleaner and a representative from the reception, no one speaks English or Russian. Broken, broken! yell and point to a crack in the door that was (see above). "Must pay! ", - they say. To my indignation that it was, they calmly repeat it and that’s it!
Asking how much it costs and finding out the possible consequences if we do not pay, we realized that it is cheaper for ourselves to pay them 175 pounds = 33 dollars.
Summary.
The sludge is complete. So do all the vacationers with whom we talked in this hotel. Star hotel with a stretch of 2+.
I read in the reviews that the owner of the hotel is very stingy and the staff is spinning as best they can. I remembered an anecdote. A man got a job in the cops. A month does not come for wages, two, three, four. The boss calls him to his place, why they say you don’t take the salary. The man was surprised. And I thought they gave a gun - and spin as you want!
November 26-December 5.2008
If you are faced with the question: “To be or not to be at the Golden Five Hotel”, answer without hesitation - NO !!!
Egypt is a country of liars and deceivers. However, how do you deal with it. You can call their sweet lies the local mentality. At the airport, sticking a visa in the passport from me, my husband and a child of 3.5 years old, they took $ 34 instead of $ 15x2 = $ 30. Dumbfounded by a night flight, propped up by a queue, and also considering that on a foreign trip, for the first time, I gave $ 34.
After filling out the guest card and being in line at passport control, I thought: why the hell did we go through the tour operator CAPITAL TOUR? After all, she knew that they were not the main tour operator in Egypt. If the bulk were met and put into normal buses, with tour operator advertising on them, we were seated in a micro-micro-micro bus of unknown origin.
Hotel. The score is 0.5.
They settled us in just 1-1.5 hours. To the show on changing the number for extra. board have been prepared.
But it's so brazen to put us 2 adults and a child in a room with a total area of .6-7 m2 with one bed! Room on the 5th floor. To my question: “Where do you think the child will sleep? ". Smiling sweetly at me, they said that here the three of us, friendly, you will sleep! Again, since they were ready for this, they asked (well, it was necessary to yell, be indignant and talk not with the receptionists, but call the administrator) for another option. The option appeared in 30-40 minutes.
1st floor. No. 117.3 lorries, trellis, 3 bedside tables, 2 armchairs, a coffee table, a bench, a TV set on a pedestal are spaciously located on 30 m2. Seems OK. Only the smell of "Difhlofos" alerted. Moreover, according to reviews, the Golden Five Hotel is very fond of bedbugs. They assured me that this is a mandatory treatment before settling in and tomorrow the smell will disappear. We decided to believe, but in vain. Believe their smiles, their answers are IMPOSSIBLE!
We paid attention to a poorly functioning lock on the door, cracks in the glass doors, a table lamp that did not work, etc. little things. They nodded. See the story that follows from this.
Settled down, changed clothes, running to the sea.
I want to note that absolutely free of charge on the first night and then we had a show with mice! I woke up from my husband’s grumblings that someone was crawling and rustling, I was alert, Klopov was waiting, but they didn’t rustle! Maybe lizards! I took a flashlight. I lie, I wait. Something dark scurried across the pillow, lit a flashlight, I looked under the leg of the child's bed a mouse was sitting! After all, All inclusive! Mice, lizards ...My husband and I joked that tomorrow night there would be snakes, lions, cheetahs. With cries: “Mouse, mouse! » I rush to the reception. They, smiling idiotically, wah, wah, say that two mice in the room is normal (and this is five stars! ) nevertheless they send the administrator on duty. He looked, looked like ...But the mouse is not a fool. She calmed down, didn’t stomp, didn’t run around with him ...What a clever girl ...
The next day, at the reception (and it was necessary to demand an administrator! ) They demanded another room, not sure that they could even survive here ...I had to stay in this room.
Territory. Sea. Rating - 4.5.
Some reviews are not flattering about the territory of the hotel. In my opinion, given that this is a desert and it is a titanic work to grow plants here, the territory is quite tolerable. The distance from the Paradise building to the sea is 5-8 minutes of leisurely walking. The sea is normal. The beach is sandy. Sunbeds - 30% broken. But it didn't bother me. You can find a place in 3-5 minutes. Be careful with beach towels. They can drag them away, they constantly try to give 2 towels for 3 cards.
Water park - a large pool with 4 slides.
Food. The score is 0.5.
Without fear for life, you can only have breakfast. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs are cooked in front of you. Cheese, cheese - edible. Sausage, sausages - disgusting!
Baking: top notch. Various puffs, cake, 3-4 cakes.
Fruit: Only for lunch and dinner. Apples, bananas, oranges, persimmons, papaya.
Meat and fish: fish, beef (meat of a camel who died a natural death), sausages. Chicken for 10 days was 4 times.
Garnish: potatoes, pasta, rice, eggplant, cauliflower, broccoli.
Salads: Cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, olives, onions.
In fact, you can only eat pasta and rice. My husband has an upset stomach on the 2nd day, in me - on the 4th, in the child - on the 8th day.
Alcohol: you can drink only wine (tap) and beer drink. Do not even experiment with vodka, rum, whiskey. Poison!
Dirty dishes are quickly removed from the tables, but when setting the table for the next visitors, the tables are not wiped. So, if you want to sit at a more or less clean table, come to the opening.
Animation. Rating - 3 points.
Regarding children's animation, I did not leave my child in their Kids Club. Children's animators did not inspire confidence.
Animation for adults: 9.30 type of exercise. 10.00 - stretch, 10.
The norm is to my indignation about the mice in the room, to say that so, rats also walk around the hotel.
I looked with envy at representatives of other tour operators who were in the hotel lobby from 9.00 to 18.00.
Final story.
1 day before departure for lunch, a note under the door: “Urgently come to the reception! ". I'm running. Thoughts about home. Something happened! They told me: “Did you shoot the glass? ". Not understanding anything what they are talking about, I naturally say that I did not take off the glasses. Wait, they say, in the room, the supervisor will come to you. In the room, I examined all the glass, everything seems to be intact. The supervisor comes in the company of a cleaner and a representative from the reception, no one speaks English or Russian. Broken, broken! yell and point to a crack in the door that was (see above). "Must pay! ", - they say. To my indignation that it was, they calmly repeat it and that’s it!
Asking how much it costs and finding out the possible consequences if we do not pay, we realized that it is cheaper for ourselves to pay them 175 pounds = 33 dollars.
Summary.
The sludge is complete. So do all the vacationers with whom we talked in this hotel. Star hotel with a stretch of 2+.
I read in the reviews that the owner of the hotel is very stingy and the staff is spinning as best they can. I remembered an anecdote. A man got a job in the cops. A month does not come for wages, two, three, four. The boss calls him to his place, why they say you don’t take the salary. The man was surprised. And I thought they gave a gun - and spin as you want!
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