отдых 2009 vacation 2009

Review of Hilton Long Beach Resort 4*
Rest time January 22 - February 05.2009.
The cost of the ticket is 4.000 rubles for 15 days (super), all inclusive, travel agency "Atlanta - Tour", Kirov, tour operator PEGAS TOURISTIK.
I am in Egypt for the 2nd time, my MCH is the 3rd time, in Hilton Long Beach it is the 2nd time.
I have been to Turkey 10 times, so there is something to compare with.

Flight as usual 4.5 hours on a Boeing 757 of Nord Wind, everything went fine, the flight delay of 30 minutes did not upset : ))
Passport control passed in 10 minutes.
The whole bus went to Hilton Long Beach, 20 minutes and we were at the hotel.

There were a lot of people at the hotel by 15.00 to check in, they filled out the hotel cards, stood in line and settled in the room. At first, everyone is given families, we said that we were newlyweds and they gave us a bungalow on the 2nd floor (as requested), they said if we want it better, come tomorrow after 12.00. As a result, we decided not to change the room, anyway, it was only to sleep in it and there was silence around, which I really wanted.
Guide Natalya, told everything quickly, monotonously, with dignity, but sitting at this billiard table in front of tourists in a short skirt.

ROOM 1063: Bungalow floor 2:
Double (huge) bed with bedside tables, table and chairs, mini-fridge (1.5 liters of water, free of charge), a mirror with a table and drawers, a closet, a bathroom with a bathtub, a shower attached (it didn’t bother us), shampoo, air conditioning, there is a hairdryer, a small balcony, a chair and 2 plastic chairs, there is a sea view. The second window overlooked the desert and the hotel under construction, we liked it (peace and quiet), the room was almost on the outskirts not far from the diving club.
The furniture is not old, not loose, normal, everything worked. There is a free safe.
There are many magazines in English on the table + a description of all services in the hotel in all languages. There is an electronic clock with a radio.
The TV set has a reception of 2 Russian channels, the musicians are good.
The drain in the sink broke, they fixed it right away.

TERRITORY:
Huge!!!!
2 heated pools (very hot) At the family room (there is a bar and a jacuzzi) and also at the main building at the exit.
There is a pool and a bar at the top level of the bungalow, closer to the desert (it was close to us)
There is a swimming pool at the diving club, depth 3 meters (they teach diving)
I swam there even in the evening on the last day (it was warm)
The main pool is made in the form of a river (ice), but there were brave men bathing, respect to them : ))
The territory is beautiful, green, beautiful, looked after every day.
Everything is laid out with slabs, paths, swept, cleaned. In general, beauty !!!! ! Worthy!!

There is a gym (good, sportswear and sports shoes are required)
There is a spa, massages, and all treatments for 2 hours cost $60
There is a beauty center, pigtails - masks are braided : ))

Food: mashed potatoes, boiled eggs. scrambled eggs (fried according to your desire), yoghurts regular and in jars (0% fat content), tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, 3 types of cheese, carrots, fried bacon (delicious), 2 types of sausage, 3 types of muesli, milk, honey, jams 4 types, buns are beyond praise, fried sausages, fried tomatoes, fruit mixes (melon, apple, orange), there is a table with seasonings and finely chopped tomatoes, sweet peppers, onions. Olive oil, and 2 more types of something. Pancakes with chocolate and powdered sugar, there are nuts and coconut flakes (located by the muesli)
Freshly squeezed carrot juice (at least get drunk)
In vending machines, orange juice, such as Morsik juice, water, tea, coffee (regular), tea bags, milk, sugar on the tables.
We always had breakfast in Italian, although the assortment is the same.
LUNCH: from 12-30 - 15-30 days
Food: rice, potatoes (often also FRI), pasta, lasagna, 2 types of soup, a large selection of breads, chicken (in different variations), meat is also different (very tasty), fish (fillet, melts in your mouth), salads 7 types + tomatoes, cucumbers, greens, cabbage (3 types), carrots, olives, sweets 10 types of cakes, squids (there are definitely once every 2 days). Stuffed peppers and chicken. Pizza.
UPI juices, beer, wine, soda, tea, coffee are drinks for lunch and dinner.
DINNER: from 18-30 – 22-30 pm
Food: everything is the same as for lunch, only in Lotus every day there is a themed dinner, at the entrance you will see which day the nationality of the cuisine corresponds to.
I really liked Japanese cuisine: they cook rolls, transparent vermicelli, salads, in general, very tasty.
I also liked the fish evening: grilled crabs, fish, mussels, shrimp, squid and stewed and battered.
There is an Egyptian corner with a set of specific dishes for the Egyptians.
There is a children's table, look there more often, sometimes they hide tasty treats there : ))
Late dinner until 01.00 all the same practically left on the tables.
They always came to eat at different times, there is ALWAYS food, they add it as it disappears.
I always take OUR delicious mayonnaise with me, dishes with it are even tastier.
Service at the level, try!

Don't forget to go outside for dinner where the grill is cooked.
In Italian, they were at dinner 1 time, they didn’t like it, it was stuffy and there were a lot of people, there is more emphasis on pasta (all kinds of pasta). We always went to the Lotus for dinner.
Hanes sauce (I don’t remember exactly) ask the waiter, toothpicks are in the same place.

FRUITS: tangerines, oranges, bananas (breakfast), pitted persimmons, dates (very sweet), probably guava (a mixture of banana and pear reminds us, we called Jerusalem artichokes : )))
There is a paid restaurant "Merkhaba" friends from Ukraine went, they said they cook disgustingly, they spent $ 50
Everywhere there is a trolley-wiring : )) they offer drinks, they are PAID!!!
BARS: open from 10-30 am
There are many of them, 2 on the beach (from 10-30 to sunset, to 17-00), 1 by the main pool (from 10-30 to sunset, to 17-00), 1 by the upper pool in bungalows, 1 by the family room , 1 at the reception (terribly smoky room, from 10-30 to 00.00)
1 bar in the aqua bar. (from 10-30 to 00.00)
Drinks: brandy whiskey, gin, vodka, red and white wine, 2 types of cocktails are prepared (with menthol and guava), beer (good, drank with pleasure) Sprite, cola, fanta, tonic, coffee (regular), espresso for money !! ! , tea, ice cream on the beach and pool, 4 types. Juices from packages of 4 or 5 types
We drank: gin-tonic-guava-lemon, brandy-cola, beer (with Klin crackers mm. mmmm I always take it with me), tried white wine (I liked it, although according to reviews wine does not taste good every day), orange and menthol delicious only half a glass : ))
On the street, booze is served in plastic.
They cook shawarma and hot dogs, by the main pool and on the beach, delicious, you can have a bite!
We added cheese and our sometimes mayonnaise to shawarma (yum yum)

Towels are exchanged for cards, they write down the number of your room in a notebook, they are changed at almost all pools and on the beach. Where they took it and hand it over, deleting themselves from the list!

Transport to Hurghada: there is a timetable at the concierge desk, time in Hurghada is 2.5 hours!
The cost per person is 3 euros.
As always, they bring their “friend, brother and father-in-law” to the store : )) Sakkala district, not far from the Regina Style 3 * hotel and McDonald's.
We didn’t have enough 2.5 hours, everything was running, in the end we bought everything at the hotel in the Aqua Bar.

WEATHER:
Of the 15 days, there were 2 days that were not sunny with a strong cold wind.

Since the end of January 2009 every day has been hotter and hotter, the sea is getting warmer, the wind was pleasant!
Advice go in February (the locals told us so until February there is nothing to do here)
But still she wore a windbreaker only 3 times !!!!
Having read reviews about walking in down jackets !!! ! I practically didn’t take anything open, but in vain: (((I was very sorry, it was warm and warm again !! ! Unless, of course, you don’t sit on the beach in the evening and freeze : )))
Warm things like turtlenecks and sweatshirts were not useful ! ! But there were not enough dresses!
Who will go windbreakers and jeans is enough!

SEA: fine sand.
Upon arrival, it was just ice! ! My legs were already cramping, it was getting warmer every day, a week later you could swim after dinner, and since February you could already afford to swim in the morning!
Many write in the reviews of the sea in the hotel there is no, there is ....
Yes, indeed, go to a depth of 100-150 meters, but if you want to plunge right away, 3 are dug there ! ! Lagoons, yes ...they are with small gray fish, but swimming and swimming is the very thing !!
If you want fish (super) then go to the pier! ! There is a huge reef with all sorts of different swimmers, from the pier you can see early in the morning when the sea is without waves, colorful, hedgehog fish, needle fish and many others.
True, there are yachts and there are gasoline stains, but not very noticeable.
You can feed the fish with rolls in shallow water, even needles and colored minke whales come to eat, you can at the stoves (in the sea). They ate 3 rolls from me.
There are NO problems with sunbeds anywhere, at any time freely.

BEACH:
They write that the minus of the beach is packed sand. For us it was a plus, there are such territories!! ! , if you walk on the sand after 5 minutes you will hesitate (your legs will get tired), but here it’s convenient like on a path. And they bring food and drinks to bars by car.
There are bars on the beach, there is a diving center, they make tattoos from 20 bucks!!! ! (go crazy)

They do massage on the beach, there is a shop, there is windsurfing.
The camel Faros and Maksimka are walking (many people know him from the Regina Style Hotel)
We fed him fruit, he stinks terribly, unlike Oscar (according to Regina Style).
They play volleyball on the beach, the music from the animators plays.

ANIMATION:
Weak at once I will say, but normal for Egypt.
There are many animators, they do gymnastics, yoga, belly dance, volleyball every day.
SHOW TIME is held every evening in the Aqua-bar or at the disco (wooden door from the jewelry store at the exit from the Lotus restaurant
The program is designed for them as a whole for 7 days, then everything was repeated except for a couple of days.
It is not very convenient to take tables in advance, otherwise it is not very convenient to watch while standing.
The negro is very funny with them : ))

TIPS:
For cleaning the room left a week of 5 pounds + sweets every day, NO sense.
The rugs were never exhausted, as the garbage lay and remained lying, they usually changed sheets and towels, only a strange system for changing towels they don’t live at 16.00 break, despite the sign to change towels, although tidying up took place in the morning at 9.00.
In short, I got tired of this business and we didn’t leave a tip anymore, I really wanted petals and animals from towels : ((
They also fed their waiters and bartenders with tips from 5 pounds to 5 bucks, sometimes with packs of cigarettes (they took a malbaro blog, next time you need to take 2)
They figured out the head of the bar, the SHERIFF is called, they gave us a bottle of vodka and cigarettes, in general they never knew problems with chairs and a table for animation, as well as drinks at the disco, they even let us in with our own drinks
: )) (when there is no show)
He brought us a photo of his wedding and even invited us to dinner, the Egyptian wife will cook everything ! ! did not go.

DISCO: We didn't like it, mostly boom boom music.
There was a foamy disco 5 euro entrance, bought, but did not go : )))

The disco is not big, but there is enough space, there are few young people in the hotel.
Planes fly occasionally, do not interfere, on the contrary, they are beautiful and fly so low ......

An iron is provided free of charge at the hotel upon request.
Sockets of different types, no adapter needed.
Excursions are offered 100 times a day everywhere, we said we are students, we have no money, everyone was smiling, but they didn’t pester anymore : )))
Topless lovers can sunbathe, and you will not be the only one : ))
There are NO mosquitoes in the hotel, there are flies : ((((
Departure from the room at 12.00. cut off bracelets or offer to extend the number from 15 to 50 bucks per person.
We acted smarter, on the 2nd day of rest they said that 1 of us lost the bracelet, we were given a new one, we hid the old one, later we found another 1 bracelet and on the last day we ate and drank calmly in the hotel with bracelets : )))))))) although, of course, it’s a pity for Hilton that they cut off bracelets, how much do we eat on the last day: (((after all, Hilton

Vacationers: Russians, Germans, British (few), Ukrainians, Arabs.
The hotel would advise as FAMILY, young people are bored there.
REST was a success, we were lucky with the weather! We would like to return there in May 2009.
The staff is kind, helpful, everyone smiles sweetly, hello. We were loved.
Changed my opinion about Egypt for the better!!!! ! Only positive emotions after the rest!
BELOVED, THANK YOU for the rest!

MINUSES in the hotel were not found and were not looking for.
I wish you all a pleasant stay, the hotel is really worthy!