The most important thing is your own reef

Written: 25 august 2016
Travel time: 31 july — 6 august 2016
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
The hotel has two big pluses:

+ Service. Not intrusive as usual with the Egyptians, but polite. Everyone you meet is happy with their work, smiling, saying hello, trying to help, and not expecting money for every breath.

+ Coral reef. The reef is right next to the hotel and continues about 400 meters to the right along the shore. The accumulation of fish and the first corals begin 40-50 meters from the main beach. Corals, sponges, fish, snails, crabs are in abundance - everything is colorful, alive and moving. One day we decided to take a boat trip to the nearest island. But we were completely disappointed - the reef near the hotel is better than where we swam on the excursion.

There are also many smaller pluses, for example, food that is not bad by Egyptian standards, for a 4 * can generally be considered chic. Beautiful buildings in the national style, a large and pleasant area, all covered with lawns, but there is not much greenery.

Many pools, some inhabited, others almost empty. Dive snorkeling center with their own yachts, so you can go to Paradise or other islands directly from the hotel. Own stable, you can ride horses in the surrounding areas. Large rooms, in-room safes, etc. etc. .

Minuses:
- Wi-fi only at the reception, and weak. During peak hours after breakfast, after lunch and dinner, people gather in the lobby and there is simply no Internet. If you need normal Internet, you need to catch time in the morning until 9 or late in the evening.
— There is no infrastructure near the hotel at all, you can only go somewhere by taxi.
— There are a lot of Arabs in the hotel (if this is a minus for you)
- Dry. the ration that is given out at an early check-out is an outright mockery. But this is the last impression of the hotel!

Adviсe:
— Do not take an excursion to the coral islands
- There is a taxi at the reception, you can bargain.
For example, we were not going to apply there, but we carefully looked at the tariffs before going to the track to catch a car. So this seller caught up with us and gave the rate that we hoped to take on the track.
- Go to Senzo Mall (Senza Mall), a fairly large shopping center with a large supermarket. There are 15 (! ) kinds of mangoes in the supermarket from 10 to 35 LE ($1-4) per kilo. And we have never eaten such a delicious mango in our lives.
— Be sure to take a mask with a snorkel, the hotel has an excellent coral reef where you can swim every day.
— August is a great time to relax in Egypt.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original