Positive emotions. What, more important than them, can be on vacation?

Written: 23 june 2011
Travel time: 4 — 18 june 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
If you choose a hotel, I advise you to read to the end. In short, it's a good hotel, and we spoil our vacation ourselves. . . Returned 5 days ago. Rested 15 days - 2 adults and 2 children. I read the reviews, they are all true. Both positive and negative. If a person did not like the rest, it means: "I don't like anyone on Mondays" - the state of mind of this person. I can say that when choosing a tour, initially you need to tune in to the country you are going to. Accept her for who she is and play by her rules. That is, if you are going to Egypt, please be so kind as to receive what is included with it. If you want to hear German or Italian speech around, you are welcome, at least to Croatia. And since I have chosen Egypt, Hurghada (not Alexandria), and even the "Rose of the Desert", then you need to enjoy what you have chosen. Or write that I, in my native Motovilovka, got used to the daily change of bed linen and my diet consists of wines and products that are never repeated once a month. Understand that rest in this hotel with its service, food and animation costs exactly as much as you paid for it. . In Istanbul, on the banks of the Bosphorus, there is a hotel, the former palace of the Sultan's daughter, where there is definitely nothing to complain about, although we will find creaking parquet there too. By the way, a night in it costs a little more than $30.000. If we look for only negative points, then we will be haunted: sea urchins, missing pool seats, uncleaned room, a waiter who does not speak Russian, an annoying seller of "Babirus" and taxi drivers constantly honking. And for dessert, there is also an 8-hour delayed departure of the plane, when all things, including swimwear, are closed in the hotel's storage room in zipped suitcases. If you tune in positively, and even specifically to Egypt, then we will certainly get the following: I noticed a sea urchin in the stones - "Thank God, I didn’t step on it, " I photographed it. There are no places by the pool with a bar or slides, I went to the "Olympic", I found a corner, not very successful. But it is at this place that in five minutes you will be offered to try diving for FREE and you will get the pleasure that is comparable to the first parachute jump, when, after landing, you want more. Well, they didn’t clean your room, nothing, these are people, not cars, they are simply mistaken. They missed your number, for example, because the authorities, constantly running around and controlling, distracted. Or one of the vacationers unexpectedly offered a dollar and asked to urgently get out of it. The overjoyed cleaner and "gave a blunder". Well, forgive him, be generous. Smile and say: "Merkhaba, Kul, evryday, ten days, clean my number, got it? " and hand him a small bill (I gave him $5 for the remaining 10 days). See what he will do in the remaining ten days. . . Try to treat annoying street vendors and honking taxi drivers, as they say philosophically. After you say "no", click your tongue, roll your eyes. These are the signs that in Eastern countries show the highest degree of refusal, the rejection of all proposals and the end of the conversation. Of course, he can continue to cling to you, such is his work and the Arab mentality. But after all, you, in a state of sober mind and solid memory, have not forgotten that you are not in Amsterdam, but in Hurghada. Specifically, I can advise you to do all your shopping at the "Cleopatra Bazaar", 500 meters to the right of the hotel, on the other side of the street. And it is better to go to him on the other side of the street, where there are no shopping arcades, where there are other hotels. Well, taxi drivers will honk, do not pay attention to them and they will immediately leave behind. In my particular case, the return flight was delayed by as much as 8 hours. But after all, our bracelets were not cut off at 12-00, as they do in some hotels in Hurghada. We were not taken out on time to the airport, where "like a butt on the head" we would learn about all the delays. We were asked to wait on the hotel grounds, not just in a cool lobby, but on or outside the territory. We went to Cleopatra, bought more souvenirs for the mother-in-law, what's wrong with that? We ate goodbye, drank "for the road" and, look, everything seems to be "and nothing. " Optimism and positive thinking, in life, are not my virtues, but when you find the strength to use them, everything becomes much better and friendlier around. Do not shout to the waiter: "Learn Russian, bast"! On the contrary, I can advise you to learn a few words of welcome. For example: "Merkhabaa" - hello, "Kelfekhaalek" - how are you, "Shokuraan" - thank you. And when the mastery of pronunciation, on the third or fourth day of communication, will make you round your eyes and raise your eyebrows, an Arab who is blurry in a smile, it seems to me that you, as a normal person, will get only positive emotions from this. And what, more important than them, can be on vacation? Well, except maybe health. Yes, do not mix incompatible foods and drinks, you have a high chance of spoiling yourself from two to six days of vacation by spending it in a not very large room in your room. I will not write about the infrastructure and territory of the hotel, a lot has been written about this here. If anyone needs advice, please ask. Yes, I have been to several countries on three continents, both on business trips and on vacation, beach or sightseeing. There is something to compare. I wish you all good, and most importantly, a positive holiday. Have a good mood and everything will be “Mio-Mio”, as the Arabs say.
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