Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
7.0
Service:
6.0
Cleanliness:
6.0
Food:
8.0
Amenities:
5.0
The hotel is ok for the money, but a bit disappointing. I read reviews with a rating of 9-10, and chose this hotel based on them. To be honest, even for the low price of a voucher, the hotel does not get a score of "10". There are pros and cons.
Number: settled quickly, we arrived at lunchtime. gave a room in building 39, in the middle between the sea and the restaurant. The room is normal, not new, there was old furniture and a slightly battered bath, but we did not expect a suite. But there was a comfortable large bed. The view from our room was not very good (on the neighboring house), but we didn't care. The doors slam very loudly, you can hear the neighbors coming in and out in the morning.
Territory: huge. We averaged 25.000 steps a day just by swimming, going to bars and restaurants, and so on. There are cars that can give you a ride, but they don't run that often, so for people with children or the elderly, such a huge area can be a minus. But we were comfortable. The territory was cleaned every day, in principle it was clean.
Internet: there is free wi-fi in AquaLounge, but it worked very poorly, especially in the evening. We bought a sim. It’s better to take Vodafone, Orange’s Internet settings constantly flew off.
Nutrition:
I can give a plus for food. The food is varied, especially for dinner, they often cooked delicious kebabs on the grill. There is always chicken, fish, beans, rice, potatoes, cakes, fruit. From fruits there was a melon salad and finely chopped strawberries, oranges, dates, sometimes tangerines and bananas. The food is normal, not salty and not very spicy, made to suit our stomachs) Breakfast is always the same, but there is plenty to choose from: yogurt, balls a la Nesquik, eggs, pancakes, donuts and various jams and sauces. I was surprised that there was only one type of feta, soft. Before that, there were always 3-4 types in restaurants. There were queues at lunch, but it is clear that this is due to the coronavirus, and the fact that the cooks put food on you.
Also, according to reviews, I read that you can go to 3 Ala Carte restaurants, and almost every day, in fact, it turned out that they would not let you in more than 1 restaurant. And they say that there are no places, although when you pass by, the restaurants are half empty. Were in the International "Podium", liked it, the food was different from that in an ordinary restaurant, it was tastier.
Alcohol: you can drink. I liked the bartender on the beach next to the pier, the most friendly and polite, always poured everything, carried drinks directly to the sun lounger, made delicious pina colada. Wine and beer are also normal, you can drink)
Restaurant on the beach: I didn’t like it at all, we stood for almost half an hour in line for pizza, in the end it turned out to be just a cheese cake. It's not tasty. I didn’t like the burgers either, they were with strange meat, as if with liver. But on the plus side: they make popcorn. The hotel also has ice cream.
Beach and sea: there is no reef, I also read from reviews that you can find beautiful fish, but near the pier, in fact, there are a couple of species and very few fish themselves. It is better to jump into the water, because under the stairs we had a cold current, which in windy weather discouraged all desire to enter the water). I also upset the garbage in the water, there were often bags, cigarette butts. There are many sun loungers on the beach, the beach itself is huge. Yes, the sun loungers were broken, but it was not a problem for us to find better ones.
Swimming pool and water park: here, too, rather a minus. There is only one heated pool for adults and it is small. We had windy weather, and you can’t swim in cold pools. It is also very difficult to find a sun lounger, they occupy a place in the morning, sometimes the workers brought us sun loungers and tried to squeeze them in at least somewhere, then shouted "No dollar" and left indignantly. But most of all, the cold water in the water park upset me (It was impossible to ride the slides.
Entertainment: the plus of the hotel is that there are such entertainments as billiards, you can shoot from a bow, play table tennis. There is also tennis and mini-golf, but we didn’t play it, because we didn’t find anyone to ask (it was possible at the reception, but we didn’t).
Also, the advantage of the hotel is the gym, in principle, not bad, a lot of exercise equipment, orbitrek, treadmills. There is a water cooler. My husband and I always did 2m, there was no one else, which was also a plus for us) There is a spa near the gym, but it is paid. On the beach, massages, oils and excursions are constantly suitable, but this is a standard option for Egypt)
For me, it was a minus that there was nothing near the hotel (shops, etc. are far away, only hotel ones). I urgently needed to go to the pharmacy, I had an allergy, I needed to urgently buy medicine, as a result I just had to wait from 8 am to 10 am for the pharmacy to work in the hotel, although the advertisement says that they had to work from 8. To buy fruit, I also had to to go to Senzo Mall by taxi, ordered Uber.
In general, the hotel is not bad, there are many advantages, for those who want to relax on a budget, I recommend it, the main thing is to go with the idea that you will not look for cons and find fault with it. But I advise you to read the reviews in more detail, as perhaps our choice would have fallen on another hotel, if not for the 10-star reviews.
Number: settled quickly, we arrived at lunchtime. gave a room in building 39, in the middle between the sea and the restaurant. The room is normal, not new, there was old furniture and a slightly battered bath, but we did not expect a suite. But there was a comfortable large bed. The view from our room was not very good (on the neighboring house), but we didn't care. The doors slam very loudly, you can hear the neighbors coming in and out in the morning.
Territory: huge. We averaged 25.000 steps a day just by swimming, going to bars and restaurants, and so on. There are cars that can give you a ride, but they don't run that often, so for people with children or the elderly, such a huge area can be a minus. But we were comfortable. The territory was cleaned every day, in principle it was clean.
Internet: there is free wi-fi in AquaLounge, but it worked very poorly, especially in the evening. We bought a sim. It’s better to take Vodafone, Orange’s Internet settings constantly flew off.
Nutrition:
I can give a plus for food. The food is varied, especially for dinner, they often cooked delicious kebabs on the grill. There is always chicken, fish, beans, rice, potatoes, cakes, fruit. From fruits there was a melon salad and finely chopped strawberries, oranges, dates, sometimes tangerines and bananas. The food is normal, not salty and not very spicy, made to suit our stomachs) Breakfast is always the same, but there is plenty to choose from: yogurt, balls a la Nesquik, eggs, pancakes, donuts and various jams and sauces. I was surprised that there was only one type of feta, soft. Before that, there were always 3-4 types in restaurants. There were queues at lunch, but it is clear that this is due to the coronavirus, and the fact that the cooks put food on you.
Also, according to reviews, I read that you can go to 3 Ala Carte restaurants, and almost every day, in fact, it turned out that they would not let you in more than 1 restaurant. And they say that there are no places, although when you pass by, the restaurants are half empty. Were in the International "Podium", liked it, the food was different from that in an ordinary restaurant, it was tastier.
Alcohol: you can drink. I liked the bartender on the beach next to the pier, the most friendly and polite, always poured everything, carried drinks directly to the sun lounger, made delicious pina colada. Wine and beer are also normal, you can drink)
Restaurant on the beach: I didn’t like it at all, we stood for almost half an hour in line for pizza, in the end it turned out to be just a cheese cake. It's not tasty. I didn’t like the burgers either, they were with strange meat, as if with liver. But on the plus side: they make popcorn. The hotel also has ice cream.
Beach and sea: there is no reef, I also read from reviews that you can find beautiful fish, but near the pier, in fact, there are a couple of species and very few fish themselves. It is better to jump into the water, because under the stairs we had a cold current, which in windy weather discouraged all desire to enter the water). I also upset the garbage in the water, there were often bags, cigarette butts. There are many sun loungers on the beach, the beach itself is huge. Yes, the sun loungers were broken, but it was not a problem for us to find better ones.
Swimming pool and water park: here, too, rather a minus. There is only one heated pool for adults and it is small. We had windy weather, and you can’t swim in cold pools. It is also very difficult to find a sun lounger, they occupy a place in the morning, sometimes the workers brought us sun loungers and tried to squeeze them in at least somewhere, then shouted "No dollar" and left indignantly. But most of all, the cold water in the water park upset me (It was impossible to ride the slides.
Entertainment: the plus of the hotel is that there are such entertainments as billiards, you can shoot from a bow, play table tennis. There is also tennis and mini-golf, but we didn’t play it, because we didn’t find anyone to ask (it was possible at the reception, but we didn’t).
Also, the advantage of the hotel is the gym, in principle, not bad, a lot of exercise equipment, orbitrek, treadmills. There is a water cooler. My husband and I always did 2m, there was no one else, which was also a plus for us) There is a spa near the gym, but it is paid. On the beach, massages, oils and excursions are constantly suitable, but this is a standard option for Egypt)
For me, it was a minus that there was nothing near the hotel (shops, etc. are far away, only hotel ones). I urgently needed to go to the pharmacy, I had an allergy, I needed to urgently buy medicine, as a result I just had to wait from 8 am to 10 am for the pharmacy to work in the hotel, although the advertisement says that they had to work from 8. To buy fruit, I also had to to go to Senzo Mall by taxi, ordered Uber.
In general, the hotel is not bad, there are many advantages, for those who want to relax on a budget, I recommend it, the main thing is to go with the idea that you will not look for cons and find fault with it. But I advise you to read the reviews in more detail, as perhaps our choice would have fallen on another hotel, if not for the 10-star reviews.
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