Be careful when choosing this hotel

Written: 19 april 2012
Travel time: 31 march — 10 april 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
Let me start by saying that I am a friendly and unpretentious person.
I myself always read reviews before choosing a hotel, and in my review I will describe the nuances that were a surprise for me when I arrived at the hotel, and may be useful to those who are going to MAGAWISH SWISS INN for the first time.
The hotel area is very large, but well-groomed at best, only half, where watered-watered-shorn-cleaned - very beautiful, but, unfortunately, a step to the left or right - and you find yourself in an untidy part of the territory, more like a Bedouin village, than a 4 * hotel: sand, dirt and garbage that no one cleans up for weeks. With a high occupancy of the hotel, there is a high probability of being settled in the "Bedouin village" and observing sand and garbage all the time you stay at the hotel.
The staff is friendly and welcoming, with a certain amount of obsession, but this is more of a local flavor.

Do not buy paid entertainment evenings at the hotel - a divorce of pure water. Meals will be the same as the buffet + for your $ 15, some clumsy lady will dance a belly dance for you in 15 minutes)) The hotel manager, who pushes these entertainments to vacationers, objectively assesses their quality, and does not offer anything like this again))
The food is delicious - you will not stay hungry, although somewhat monotonous. But with drinks everything is very bad. The so-called "yuppie juices" are available only in the morning and are diluted to such an extent that it is not clear how they retained their color. For lunch and dinner in coolers instead of juices - drinking water, in all departments ....I saw this for the first time ...The coffee in the main restaurant is also very diluted, it looks like slop, and even hot milk did not pass this into account - also diluted at least half with water. I can’t say anything about alcoholic drinks - it was just scary to try - health is more expensive.
The number of rooms is very old, it looks rather dull, of course, that they came to the sea, and not to consider the numbers, but still I would like to be at least a little more careful. There are a lot of mosquitoes in the bungalow, take something sticking into the socket with you to scare them away, otherwise you will be provided with entertainment "night hunting with a towel for mosquitoes".
The beach is long, in the central part with a very convenient sandy entrance to the water, and, unfortunately, like the territory, not very well maintained. The central part is more or less removed, the rest - as it should.
During my stay in the afternoon, a lot of garbage was brought to the shore by the tide - corks, bags, orange skins, pieces of onions, etc. Some of this sank in the water, some was washed ashore by water.
Where so much garbage comes from is hard to imagine, tourists are hardly able to throw so much overboard, there was a feeling that it was on boats and yachts floating nearby that the staff does not dispose of garbage, but simply shakes it overboard. In the evening, the garbage - what washed ashore - was removed with a rake, but swimming in the afternoon, when a pile of garbage floats near the shore, was not very pleasant ...


And finally - be careful on excursions. I bought excursions from Tez Tour. The guides are very inattentive - when moving between route points, tourists are not counted in buses - they just ask if everything is in place - and they go on. Taking into account the fact that there are tourists from different hotels on the bus and the bus is not 100% full, the absence of someone may simply not be noticed. So, on a trip to Luxor, our excursion almost left a married couple near the Karnak complex.
And they just forgot me at one of the points during a sightseeing tour of Hurghada. A call to the hotline helped - the bus returned for me half an hour later, but I am sincerely sorry for my frayed nerves.
Something like this.
I wish everyone who goes to rest - the warm sea, the gentle sun and a successful holiday.
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