GOLDEN FIVE EMERALD - good family holiday

Written: 15 december 2009
Travel time: 28 august — 4 september 2009
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HOTEL AND TERRITORY.
The hotel is the newest of the five in the Golden Five complex. Everything is fine. The staff is friendly and welcoming. The lobby is always cool. The hotel pool is almost always empty. And it's wonderful. There is a small children's pool with a fountain. The child really liked it. Change of towels - until about 17:30.

The 5 main slides on the territory of the complex are characterized by strange opening hours, low height / steepness and low safety. Slides workers do not always follow what is happening in the pool as they should. “Caught up” with two kids on a spiral slide (they just sat there and played. no one was hurt, except for my psyche) and slammed all my 100 kg into the back of a gaping woman during the takeoff. All the same, these small flaws did not prevent me from wiping 2 pairs of swimming trunks on the slides.

There is no water on the children's slides, which should flow down the chute.

Caring fathers and mothers constantly blurted a little in order to somehow reduce the force of friction and increase the joy of their children. Another minus.

On the territory there is a diving center, 2 lagoons with beginner surfers and experienced sea urchins right on the shore, a gym, mini-golf and tennis (1 hour per room for free). The area is beautiful and huge.

ROOM
Settled in a great room on the 3rd floor overlooking the sea, slides and other delights. A company of soldiers will fit on the bed. Cleaned and changed bed linen every day. Water was brought every other day for 3 bottles + a small juice for the child. In the room, among the necessary things and devices, there is a mini-bar (it is also a mini-fridge), a hairdryer, a safe (free of charge) and even an electronic floor scale to control the nutritional saturation of the body. From unnecessary things - TV. The lighting system is a little strange, but we got used to it - if you turn off the light at the entrance to the room, the sockets in the room also turn off.
We turn on the sockets already in the room - the light at the entrance turns on. Sleeping with light is unusual. Be vigilant when leaving your phones/batteries to charge overnight.

SEA.
The sea is wonderful. Maybe the choice of fish for inspection is not as great as in Sharm, but still very, very beautiful. It will be boring without a mask and snorkel.
The entrance to the sea is sandy, in places there are pebbles. The beach is large, but sun loungers are still sorely lacking. They occupy sunbeds “just in case” either russo turisto obliko morale, or cunning beach workers. These unique ones are simply incredible. With the naked eye you can see where people use temporarily occupied property, and where they suffer garbage. Just a couple of sunbeds you like are selected and towels are dumped from them in one pile on one sunbed. For all the time that they did this, no one came to these sunbeds.

Animation
Animation is : )

They constantly run along the beach and pools and invite to various events like miss bikini or beach volleyball. I saw people doing yoga. There are constant dances near the slides and on the beach. Among the animators there are Russian girls. beautiful; )
Children's animation is not very good. At 21:30 every day mini disco in the amphitheater. Went down once. Despite the fact that 99% of the children are Russian, the animator was an Arab girl and the children did not understand what was required of them. Failed. My little princess didn't like it : )
Adult uncles and aunts - dancing and dry volleyball on the beach and water in the Emeralda pool.

Food.
The food is monotonous. From what you can eat - chicken, beef, vegetable salads, pasta and soups. There were no fish at all. There are packaged juices (tomato, apple, guava, mango, even strawberry), but mostly UPI. NEVER EAT FRUIT SALADS. Poisoning, fever and diarrhea are provided.
Fruits that you did not eat yesterday and the day before are cut into these salads.
Fruits include melons, grapes (seedless: ), guava, plums.
Jelly cakes with a touch of soda.
The service in the restaurant is very good. Already unnecessary plates sometimes disappear with lightning speed. At my request to bring the missing disposable cups, the manager immediately materialized several packages.
Everything that I wrote refers to the Emerald restaurant. For a change, you should definitely go to the restaurant of the main building Paradise.
The bar on the second floor has drinks (all inc alcohol and yupi) and ice cream missing from the main restaurant.
They did not stint on dry rations when leaving the hotel. It was wrapped with a dozen buns for three, fruits and vegetables. Prepare a separate suitcase for breakfast cereals.

TOURS
My wife and child went on a Seascope - a boat with a glass bottom. Those who dived with scuba will be completely uninteresting. You shouldn't go.
My wife really liked the Turkish bath with massage. ($40+$30) the guide at the hotel didn't warn that it would be possible to order an additional massage, so grab some money - you won't regret it. (not very suitable for men, because there is no female among the workers of this wonderful health institution)


In general, the holiday was a success. We really enjoyed.
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