Amazing Moscow summer for the New Year

Written: 11 january 2013
Travel time: 30 december 2012 — 6 january 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
For the first time we decided to celebrate the New Year in the southern latitudes. We went in a good company (8 adults, 2 children and 2 teenagers).
The holiday was just amazing! I never thought that I could change my mind about Egypt by 180 degrees (I never went myself, but I read negative reviews).
Of course, we were very lucky with the hotel: the staff was excellent. They are like bees - they work all the time. And the virtuosity of the chefs. . . is a separate story.
He stands so important in a huge starched cap, the whitest uniform... And he starts, for example, frying fried eggs in 6 pans. Juggler! You fail to follow. So he also pours pancakes on a baking sheet! I am delighted!
They fed amazingly. There are several restaurants there. In one you start, in another you continue, and in bars you drink cappuccino (or brandy ; -)

Several pools were heated. And in the water park, the water warmed up from the sun during the day. The kids didn't come out. The purest water. Employees are constantly changing filters. We decided to count how many times a day, but lost count.
The animators did a good job: exercises, oriental dances, aqua aerobics - that's all until lunch.
A huge tent was built for the New Year, I think, a thousand and a half people gathered. In the center are tables, tables, tables. . . And along the perimeter there is a huge amount of something tasty and sometimes incomprehensible. No, I recognized a whole roasted calf. . But I didn’t believe my eyes (I even asked again) when I saw a whole roasted ostrich, a camel! I never thought that such delicious bread is baked in Africa. And the cheeses! Are the cheeses on this continent decent? They are wonderful!
Just an ode to food turned out.
I don’t know if the remoteness of the sea can be considered a minus. There is a bus every 30 minutes. And we walked, it took about 15 minutes to the hotel of our own network, standing on line 1, and another 10 minutes on the territory of this hotel. In winter, there is a very strong wind on the seashore. It was not comfortable enough. Therefore, having plunged (it is impossible, having arrived at the Red Sea, to completely ignore it! ) We returned to our hotel with a sense of accomplishment.
In fact, negative emotions arose only on the night of arrival. One of the reception staff at check-in openly extorted money, asking whether to give a good or not very good number. Judging by our company, the rooms where we were placed (and these are 5 different rooms) differ little. The rooms had either one large double bed and 2-3 single beds or 4 single beds.
The territory of the hotel is simply huge. Green, well-groomed. From early morning, the Egyptians wash something, dig, water, often singing something at the same time.
Thanks for a great New Year's Eve!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original