ALADDIN - быт по-египетски ALADDIN - life in Egyptian

We rested at the ALADDIN Beach Resort with my husband and three-year-old daughter. I would like to share our impressions following the recent trails.

Of the undoubted advantages of the hotel - a huge, green and well-groomed area, you can walk around the territory of three sister hotels - ALLADIN, JASMIN VILLAGE and ALI BABA. It is interesting for children there - in all three hotels there are well-equipped playgrounds, in ALI BABA - a heated pool with a small area, a children's disco, children's rooms. A small car, stylized as a train, drives around the territory of JASMIN VILLAGE - for my technically oriented child it was the main pleasure of every evening - to wind a few laps around JASMIN VILLAGE on this train.

The children's room at the ALADDIN hotel did not make much of an impression on me - there are few toys, everything is so slightly broken, but for some reason my daughter liked it very much - we went there every day, she climbed plastic slides with other children, she was very pleased and called it place "kindergarten". The animators who work with the children are two Russian girls, they don't do anything special, but they are very friendly and the children like them.
JASMIN VILLAGE has a very nice sandy beach, gently sloping and clean.

Now to the cons:

The main and absolute minus of the ALLADIN hotel is the restaurant. The service there is not just bad, it's terrible. Firstly, if you want to eat at a universal time, "like everyone else", then you will inevitably find yourself in a situation where a queue accumulates at the entrance to the restaurant, there is simply not enough EVERYTHING - plates, cutlery, cups, napkins. For food (to fill the plate with the fight) - again the queue.
Drinks will wait for twenty minutes at least. There are quite decent waiters, but we also came across those who were frankly rude and ignored, in general, quite simple requests - bring a glass of cold water (to dilute the child with hot tea), pour milk for the child (the guy has an open bag of milk in front of his nose, and he tells me that I need to strain myself, go to the buffet and pour some milk, if I’m so impatient - this is my free translation of a hodgepodge of Russian, English and Arabic, in which he explained all this to me, and in a very unpleasant tone). True, after that, the husband became furious, went after dinner to our guide, went with him to the restaurant managers, poked everyone with his nose, and we never saw the waiter who was rude to us.

Since there are 80% of compatriots (as well as tourists from the CIS), this further exacerbates the impression of meals - the genetic memory of our people pushes seemingly well-fed and quite well-fed tourists to extreme behavior - they rush around the restaurant with empty and full plates with ferocious facial expressions, impose themselves so much that even ten people cannot eat in a day ...Well, in general, the picture is very far from idyll. Yes, and feeding a child for lunch or dinner is a problem! Everything is peppery and spicy, there is no children's menu, despite the fact that the hotel is family oriented. Everything is fine at breakfast - pancakes, scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, rice porridge, but lunch and dinner are a problem. (My child at dinner ate mainly bread and milk, of course, she refused to eat "bitter cutlets" that "burn the tongue". )
The second relative minus is the old rooms (in 10 days our toilet bowl broke twice, but it must be admitted that they repaired it very quickly). Shower - a divider sticks out of the wall, there is no shower on the flexible hose. It seems to be nonsense, but washing the priests of a three-year-old child turns into a complex acrobatic number. But, in general, it didn’t really bother us (the restaurant probably overshadowed everything else).

Oh, and one more thing - if you intend to go there with a child, take a fumigator - our child was brutally bitten by mosquitoes when we slept for two nights with an open window.

If you can’t stand the noise of planes over your head, you shouldn’t go there either (the hotel is located about 7 kilometers from Hurghada airport - this is both a plus and a minus, for someone like it).

Summary - we had a good rest in general (despite and contrary), but I won’t go there again - I can’t stand the queue in any of their forms, besides, somehow I don’t want everyday difficulties on vacation.