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Written: 12 december 2011
Travel time: 16 — 26 november 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 6.0
I would like to say right away that there was a double impression of the vacation and the hotel.
There was me, who went to spend 10 days of active rest and there were three employees who went to a 5-star resort.
First about the stars. As someone rightly noted here, they went out one after another.
They quickly and without delay cling bracelets, and with the words "good, good, new number" they settle in Diamond 3. First floor 2303 and 2308. I'm glad that I don't need to walk up the stairs - this is a plus, but as it turned out the only one. The room is dark, as the windows face north and dense shrubs, the balcony is a checkpoint on the border with Israel. Civilization lighting is represented by two spotlights and bedside lamps, a run to the bathroom, cheers the brightest place, a fluorescent lamp mirrored, though it buzzes like a diesel, but it shines. We didn't have a bath or a shower.

There was a tray hung with a cloth (later it turned out that all this beauty was flowing and no one washed it to wash it) I sat on the toilet, put my legs on the "bathroom" and thought. Well, I’m going to choose the numbers now, but change them, waste my nerves, money, and most importantly, time, because the day is already disappearing. I looked at the girls, they were at the "foreign resort" for the first time, and spit in the restaurant for lunch.
Fed normally, as in Egypt. The girls ate delicious buns, cheese and eggs. No one got sick or poisoned, because you don’t need to take incomprehensible salads from yesterday’s sausage, and today don’t eat their jellied meats and pates. Were in all the restaurants of all hotels, well, yes, somewhere "beautiful", somewhere cleaner, but if you expect fresh tablecloths, napkins, individually served tables, then you won't wait. This is not a Hilton where waiters change clothes three times a day. Our restaurant was really dirty.
No one wiped the empty tables, just a tablecloth or napkins were shaken off on the floor and turned over. The tables are rocking and very crowded. We went up to the second floor for dinner, there was more freedom and there was no smell of a canteen. As for alcohol, they were worried about it, they tried to order cocktails a couple of times, but decided that health was more expensive. Personally, I was upset by the tea and coffee table, small beaten cups, non-boiling boiling water, and I, opening bags of Nescafe with my teeth. Brrr. Bar chocolate arrived with me, but I did not expect that there would be so many days without a decent morning coffee. In the morning they don’t cook anywhere, even for money.
I need the sea and space. I got a big clean beach, the sunbeds are quite new, light. The low tide does not stretch for a kilometer. The corals are nearby and of course they are dead, but they have been trampled on for so many years. At first I was upset by the smallness, but quickly got used to it.
You put on ankle-deep fins in the water and quickly into the depths on your back.
Animation on the beach and pools is excellent, there are exercises, several types of dances, water polo, aerobics. Camels are well-groomed and quiet, they don’t extort money for stroking and taking pictures.

The excursions offered on the beach are sometimes almost half the price of the pegasus. We screwed up on the submarine. Since my aunts do not dive, I fell for the enthusiastic story of Rufina (Pegasus) and for 70 dollars. from the person, plunged to the depth in the eyeliner. Complete disappointment. Everything is dark, muddy, outside the porthole a diver feeds a school of small herrings. Color picture-zero. Worthy walk "island of utopia". It’s not a long ride, it’s fun to swim, the sea is shallow, and from that with a mask you get that beauty and delight for which you return to the Red Sea.
This is where the duality of sensation comes in. I got a good rest because I went to the Sea!
and did not pay attention to the uncleaned room and the blind-deaf-mute staff, to the end of the crazed merchants and the indifferent-parallel representative of the pegasus. I do not recommend the hotel for families with small children, a large area and a lot of vehicles, not for the Sibarites and not for gourmets. Everything is very cheap and cheerful.
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