Great stay, good value for money

Written: 17 october 2009
Travel time: 26 september — 7 october 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
To begin with, I will answer the review of the respected Alexxandr: What you write about the hotel is complete nonsense:
You write about the fact that “it’s impossible to go into the dining room, it stinks, the food is all saturated with some kind of spices that just make me sick. Considering that I’m not picky about food, but on the 4th day I refused to eat at all, I just felt sick (I ate only fried eggs and pancakes that are prepared only for breakfast) there is nothing for children to eat at all. " If you are so picky, then you don’t need to go to Egypt or Turkey, because everything is saturated with spices there, especially in Egypt. This is an Arab country, they tend to use a large number of spices. The cuisine is quite normal, it cannot be said that it is very diverse, but there is plenty to choose from (although I am also quite picky). Minus in the kitchen - salads. Couldn't eat them. I just didn't like the local salads, although our people used them quite actively. This is already a matter of taste. Vegetables are best taken at a separate stand called the Vegetable Station - they are fresh there (but don't expect the familiar taste of tomatoes and cucumbers, I don't know why, but neither tomatoes nor cucumbers taste like ours). There are always several types of soups (soups in the European sense of the word, don't expect classic Slavic soups - both in Turkey and Egpit, soups are like liquid puree). But not everything is sweet. Personally, I didn't like much. This is natural, all cakes and all pastries in Turkey and Egypt are the same and not very tasty, although I liked some local sweets, but I don’t know what they are called.
As for fruits: the choice is really poor, especially for me: I ate only grapes and grapefruit, everything else like dates, figs, etc. I just don't like it. Every evening, something delicious is cooked on the grill near the entrance to the main restaurant (mainly fish, octopus, etc. , but since I am not a seafood lover, this place was not the most interesting for me). They also serve either watermelons or melons. But here, how lucky. One may get a ripe piece, and someone not so much. This is already as lucky.

As for plastic cups. The ideal solution. For our redneck carries glasses throughout the hotel, leaves them anywhere. Looks like in order to have less broken dishes and glass - glasses use plastic. They wash them well, but the fact that they sometimes come across worn out, well, sorry, if some mothers allow their children to use glasses on the beaches as bees, then this is already a clinic. What is the hotel here? This is culture.
Speaking of culture: how did this redneck, this washed-up scoop, get it. It is terribly disgusting to look at the eternally swollen swollen faces. Stupidly drink for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, on the beach... wherever there is an opportunity to drink there. I do not understand how you can drink local alcoholic drinks? This is fucking rare. Local alcoholic drinks in Turkey are disgusting, and even worse in Egypt. But for free and sweet vinegar. So they eat... Well, going into a restaurant in wet swimsuits and swimming trunks is in the order of things for ours (in this case, ours are Russians and Ukrainians and Belarusians, in general, the whole scoop). And the poor Egyptians write that do not go to a restaurant in swimsuits... USELESS. BADLOTA!!!! ! Well, there's nowhere to go. We must go to hotels where our people are not. Europeans do not allow themselves this.
As for the territory of the hotel: excellent, large green area. On the territory of 3 large swimming pools, which are regularly cleaned and cleaned. On the territory of the hotel there is a small souvenir shop with very reasonable prices, you can also buy all kinds of trifles such as creams, chewing gum, chocolates and other rubbish. Near the store is a branch of the National Bank of Egypt. There you can easily change money at the official rate. By the way, you need to go to Egypt with dollars, not euros. You can take a small amount of euros with you. For everything is calculated there in dollars (very rarely in euros) or in Egyptian pounds. So it’s better to have dollars and pounds with you and pay depending on the situation.
Another point that I would like to note: there is Picasso Diving College on the territory of the hotel. This is a great option for those who want to snorkel in the sea or try scuba diving. The guys there work great and their prices are 10 dollars lower than your guides from tour operators will offer you, and besides, in this case you will sail directly from the hotel. So do not rush to order sea excursions from guides.

As for the sea, the hotel has a lagoon with a shallow depth, which is perfect for children and those who do not swim well (by the way, the lagoon is separated from the sea by a net so that all kinds of malicious fish do not swim there). And who wants the sea and corals, please - go beyond the lagoon and before you swim with the sea with many fish and corals. And all this on the territory of the hotel. Here is such a hotel, economy five, but economy 5 *, and not elite 5 * as many would like. You pay extra 800 bucks and you will have elite 5 *.
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