Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
3.0
Service:
3.0
Cleanliness:
2.0
Food:
4.0
Amenities:
3.0
I was in Egypt for the seventh time, mainly resting in the Albatros hotel chain in both Hurghada and Sharm. I say right away that I do not advertise this hotel chain, I just made sure once again that you can’t chase cheap prices, because you will spend more and lose.
Decadence is the very name that characterizes the hotel where my vacation took place - Nubai. The overall picture is beautiful, but in reality...It's like looking at paintings: you need the right angle and the right distance to the canvas. Everything in the hotel is grubby, filthy, shabby, battered by life.
Please remember what a 5 * hotel with ultra all inclusive is. So let's go.
The general classification was founded in 1989 by the World Tourism Organization (WTO). She has developed standards by which a hotel must meet certain criteria. After passing the test, a certificate is issued, which indicates what level of quality a particular hotel provides.
So, 5 stars are the most elite hotels, which have everything that a traveler may need. Usually, in addition to comfortable rooms and meals, it also offers additional services in the form of spa treatments, organizing business meetings and negotiations, a children's entertainment program, etc.
1. Number, or rather a room in the building. The black hair, which has been lying since the very arrival, still lies (I have red hair). Cleaning is superficial, the floor is washed at most, sometimes bed linen and towels are changed.
We lived on the fifth floor. This turns out to be the best option, because many people who lived on the ground floor had things stolen, including from the safe, and the worst thing was constant insect bites. At first we thought it was fleas, but soon the doctor explained that these were bites ...bedbugs)). Mosquitoes are silent here, there are more flies than the entire population of the hotel.
The bed linen is mostly made of synthetics, there are many stains and holes, the blankets are light, out of season, the pillows ...well, a couple of them have already been changed, as well as some of the furniture. The room has not seen wet cleaning for a long time, the dust layer is about a few millimeters. Porters, like Pechkin's hat. As Elena Letuchaya would say: dirty! I rate 3-.
2. Public toilets - this is my favorite part of the rest everywhere, because it is an integral part of our life, this is a topic that needs to be talked about. So, the toilet, which is located near the sea. There it is common, cleaning, apparently, once a day. We go further, the toilet near the amphitheater also sees cleaning once a day, there have been drops on the partition for four days already. I think that everyone understood that this is not chocolate. We go further, the toilet is at the reception. It’s cleaner here, they clean more often, but the locking devices on the doors of the booths scroll or don’t work at all. And the most interesting...
the man who cleans there can easily stay there and clean when the young ladies relieve themselves. Paper towels and toilet paper are often missing. Rating 2+ for the fact that they clean up at least a little
3. Wi-fi)) Internet!! ! Here it is paid, 12 at. e. It costs 7 days of use. Ahaha! ! Great "high speed" internet, nothing more to say. In Belarus, for you to understand, this is the cost of the Internet per month with excellent speed. Rating 2+ for originality, you have to somehow make money on people.
4. Alcohol. Everything is classically a surrogate with different tastes, the same applies to all soft and carbonated drinks. I can say one good thing about iced Hibiscus tea, it seemed to me that it was natural. Bottled beer, almost non-alcoholic, something like our Zhigulevskoye beer. In general, goodbye cookies, not alcohol! You won’t drink normal coffee here, it’s like at school, made from coffee powder. Although for a fee everything is possible. Aaaaaa!
Favorite)) Fresh costs 2 c. u. e. anyone, but you can buy just a kilogram of fruit - I enclose the price. Guys, 4 at. e. per kg of oranges, which are served every day during the meal? )) Seriously? The water here...drink bottled water, because the water in the cooler often tastes like bleach. Tap water is also chlorinated. I hope it's not the same water. I put a confident and strong 3.
5. Animation. Here she is also wonderful - two girls, one, apparently an Egyptian, one - a Slav, 5 guys - also, apparently, Egyptians. You can see them in the morning, or rather one of them, around 10.00 during water gymnastics, then at 15.00, when it is already cold, during water polo, if, of course, a team is gathered. In the evening, standard mini-shows ...I didn’t see any animation for children. In general, very weak. Dear animators, some of you are obviously sitting on something...At least put your eyes on it and don't get hangover. I rate them a 3.
6. Nutrition.
Well, I can’t say anything bad here: sweets are on top, there is enough meat, very tasty chicken and beef like our roast. Vegetables are not the first freshness, but bearable. Fruit...always green dates, semi-green melon, delicious guava, pomegranate - bomb delicious. But plates and cutlery should be washed more thoroughly) Grade 4-
7. Beach. Coarse sand, always cleaned. If you want to swim, then you need to go through the pantone. Depending on the depth, you can go down the stairs and take a dip. The water is about 22 degrees. But there is a huge "BUT" in all this ...The wind sometimes blows your brains out. The owner of the hotel did not provide for the installation of wind protection near the sunbeds, as, for example, it is in Albatros, a 4-star hotel, by the way. There are already 7 pools here, but only one, which is near the reception, is warm. A rash has gone ...I can’t understand only from towels for the beach or from the water in which "one hundred or five hundred" people bathe. Attached is a photo of the rash.
Wind protection near the pool is also not provided. In winter, they mostly settle in buildings that are next to the reception, so to get to the sea, you need to walk about 7 minutes, plus another 5 minutes along the pontoon. In general, in order to swim normally, you need to cut almost a kilometer. There is a service "uncle take you to the sea", but this is for denyuzhki. This is the distance to the sea of the hotel of the second and third lines. Grade 3+.
To survive in this wonderful hotel you will need to know the following rules. Be sure to take with you:
1) mug. Yes, yes, the glasses here are unique: you drink whiskey-flavored tea or tea from their mug, which previously contained coffee with milk;
2) make additional insurance. Unfortunately, now there is a travel agency insurance franchise mainly for Belarusians, that is, if you go to a doctor, then you definitely need to pay 30 USD. e. , unless of course the case is insured.
From my own experience I will say that on the sixth day I had a terrible poisoning, which was accompanied, respectively, by severe vomiting and severe diarrhea. The husband went to the doctor (a Russian-speaking doctor, I won’t write from which country because of political convictions) to find out which pills to buy so that this miracle disease would recede faster. The medical worker refused to help, even simply did not advise the necessary medicines. Dear doctor, beautiful blonde in blue jeans and trendy glasses! I hope that you and your loved ones will always be fine and that none of your family members who, God forbid, were in a state of complete dehydration, the doctor will not refuse at least advice. Mom, thank you for being a doctor and I learned a lot from you. Probably this is happening because now they have stopped taking the Hippocratic oath. We need to bring back the tradition. Ahh!
Most importantly, on that day, seven other people were in the same wonderful condition as me, which indicates the quality of food or water. Husband well done, ate capsicum.
So, here comes another rule:
3) eat pepper! Capsicum red or green, at least once a day;
4) towel. All towels that you take for the beach are NOT WASHED. When you return them and receive a card, they are dried overnight and given back to the hotel guests to you. I'm attaching a photo of a towel with someone's goat.
5) if you want good Internet, buy a Vodofone SIM card right away: 5 GB for 10 USD. e. Better than Wi-Fi at the hotel.
6) Shops "Nifertiti" - don't just waste your time and money. This is the same "sect" as "Avon", "Oriflame", from Slavic women.
Apparently, some wealthy aunt wanted to make a good business)) Only aunts play big here, they take it by the fact that there is a fixed price and a huge discount, supposedly) I’ll just say this, a miracle black cumin oil costs 50 USD. e. for 500 ml, while they refer to the fact that they will give a check, without which everything purchased at customs will be taken away from you. In an ordinary pharmacy in Egypt, so that you understand, 220 ml of cold-pressed oil costs 10 USD. e. No one at the airport demanded any questions during export, including the presentation of a check. In a word, a scam for "newbies". I twist and turn, I want to deceive! I will not say anything else bad for political reasons.
7) medicines. There is a pharmacy in the Old City, where a beautiful Egyptian lady works, she has excellent prices and she is no worse than any pharmacist. The price corresponds to the quality, I enclose the link of prices and names - https://egypt-hrg. ru/stati-i-zametki/83-aptechnyy-servis-v-egipte.html I forgot about the taxi driver.
Adam, Bad boy))) he sits near the reception and, if necessary, he will take you to Marina for 15 USD. e. , and to the Old Town - for 10 c. u. That is, back and forth, he will give you time to take a walk and return you to the hotel, it is he who will tell you where it is better to go shopping (about the pharmacy - just say, take me to this pharmacist girl in a veil). Marina. . be sure to go there. This is a small Europe: clean, beautiful and just a piece of happiness. Prices are reasonable, coffee costs $2. e. , seafood mix - about 15-20 c. u. e. WARNING! DO NOT EAT AT THE FISH MARKET! There, of course, everything is beautiful and fresh, but complete unsanitary conditions during cooking, there were many poisonings. If you still decide to try your luck - see point 4 - eat pepper!
By the way, at the end of the holiday, when I started my activities as a villain and photographed all the "beauties" of the hotel, my uncle began to follow me and see what I was photographing. Dear uncle! Only the naked truth and nothing but the truth!
Worse than it really is, I will not write, do not worry.
So, summing up, I give this hotel a rating of 3.
Conclusion: if you want to relax so that there are wonderful moments, then do not skimp and do not see cheapness, book time-tested hotel chains during the off-season period and do not read wonderful reviews, because the animators ask you to write only good things about the hotel in them. Let's not be radishes and give each other at least a chance to have a wonderful vacation!
Dear owner, I ask you to stop saving on us and stop thinking that the majority of vacationers - Belarusians and Ukrainians - have bags of gold and suitcases of dollars. This is not true. I got the impression that in the off season you do not pay staff, but only feed them. They let them swim freely, they say, make money on the Internet, fresh, fruits, which is enough for fantasy.
If you cannot maintain a hotel that, for a moment, is 5 *, in the winter, then you do not need to make simple hardworking people suffer from this.
R. S. I attach a photo of the most beautiful Christmas tree)
Decadence is the very name that characterizes the hotel where my vacation took place - Nubai. The overall picture is beautiful, but in reality...It's like looking at paintings: you need the right angle and the right distance to the canvas. Everything in the hotel is grubby, filthy, shabby, battered by life.
Please remember what a 5 * hotel with ultra all inclusive is. So let's go.
The general classification was founded in 1989 by the World Tourism Organization (WTO). She has developed standards by which a hotel must meet certain criteria. After passing the test, a certificate is issued, which indicates what level of quality a particular hotel provides.
So, 5 stars are the most elite hotels, which have everything that a traveler may need. Usually, in addition to comfortable rooms and meals, it also offers additional services in the form of spa treatments, organizing business meetings and negotiations, a children's entertainment program, etc.
1. Number, or rather a room in the building. The black hair, which has been lying since the very arrival, still lies (I have red hair). Cleaning is superficial, the floor is washed at most, sometimes bed linen and towels are changed.
We lived on the fifth floor. This turns out to be the best option, because many people who lived on the ground floor had things stolen, including from the safe, and the worst thing was constant insect bites. At first we thought it was fleas, but soon the doctor explained that these were bites ...bedbugs)). Mosquitoes are silent here, there are more flies than the entire population of the hotel.
The bed linen is mostly made of synthetics, there are many stains and holes, the blankets are light, out of season, the pillows ...well, a couple of them have already been changed, as well as some of the furniture. The room has not seen wet cleaning for a long time, the dust layer is about a few millimeters. Porters, like Pechkin's hat. As Elena Letuchaya would say: dirty! I rate 3-.
2. Public toilets - this is my favorite part of the rest everywhere, because it is an integral part of our life, this is a topic that needs to be talked about. So, the toilet, which is located near the sea. There it is common, cleaning, apparently, once a day. We go further, the toilet near the amphitheater also sees cleaning once a day, there have been drops on the partition for four days already. I think that everyone understood that this is not chocolate. We go further, the toilet is at the reception. It’s cleaner here, they clean more often, but the locking devices on the doors of the booths scroll or don’t work at all. And the most interesting...
the man who cleans there can easily stay there and clean when the young ladies relieve themselves. Paper towels and toilet paper are often missing. Rating 2+ for the fact that they clean up at least a little
3. Wi-fi)) Internet!! ! Here it is paid, 12 at. e. It costs 7 days of use. Ahaha! ! Great "high speed" internet, nothing more to say. In Belarus, for you to understand, this is the cost of the Internet per month with excellent speed. Rating 2+ for originality, you have to somehow make money on people.
4. Alcohol. Everything is classically a surrogate with different tastes, the same applies to all soft and carbonated drinks. I can say one good thing about iced Hibiscus tea, it seemed to me that it was natural. Bottled beer, almost non-alcoholic, something like our Zhigulevskoye beer. In general, goodbye cookies, not alcohol! You won’t drink normal coffee here, it’s like at school, made from coffee powder. Although for a fee everything is possible. Aaaaaa!
Favorite)) Fresh costs 2 c. u. e. anyone, but you can buy just a kilogram of fruit - I enclose the price. Guys, 4 at. e. per kg of oranges, which are served every day during the meal? )) Seriously? The water here...drink bottled water, because the water in the cooler often tastes like bleach. Tap water is also chlorinated. I hope it's not the same water. I put a confident and strong 3.
5. Animation. Here she is also wonderful - two girls, one, apparently an Egyptian, one - a Slav, 5 guys - also, apparently, Egyptians. You can see them in the morning, or rather one of them, around 10.00 during water gymnastics, then at 15.00, when it is already cold, during water polo, if, of course, a team is gathered. In the evening, standard mini-shows ...I didn’t see any animation for children. In general, very weak. Dear animators, some of you are obviously sitting on something...At least put your eyes on it and don't get hangover. I rate them a 3.
6. Nutrition.
Well, I can’t say anything bad here: sweets are on top, there is enough meat, very tasty chicken and beef like our roast. Vegetables are not the first freshness, but bearable. Fruit...always green dates, semi-green melon, delicious guava, pomegranate - bomb delicious. But plates and cutlery should be washed more thoroughly) Grade 4-
7. Beach. Coarse sand, always cleaned. If you want to swim, then you need to go through the pantone. Depending on the depth, you can go down the stairs and take a dip. The water is about 22 degrees. But there is a huge "BUT" in all this ...The wind sometimes blows your brains out. The owner of the hotel did not provide for the installation of wind protection near the sunbeds, as, for example, it is in Albatros, a 4-star hotel, by the way. There are already 7 pools here, but only one, which is near the reception, is warm. A rash has gone ...I can’t understand only from towels for the beach or from the water in which "one hundred or five hundred" people bathe. Attached is a photo of the rash.
Wind protection near the pool is also not provided. In winter, they mostly settle in buildings that are next to the reception, so to get to the sea, you need to walk about 7 minutes, plus another 5 minutes along the pontoon. In general, in order to swim normally, you need to cut almost a kilometer. There is a service "uncle take you to the sea", but this is for denyuzhki. This is the distance to the sea of the hotel of the second and third lines. Grade 3+.
To survive in this wonderful hotel you will need to know the following rules. Be sure to take with you:
1) mug. Yes, yes, the glasses here are unique: you drink whiskey-flavored tea or tea from their mug, which previously contained coffee with milk;
2) make additional insurance. Unfortunately, now there is a travel agency insurance franchise mainly for Belarusians, that is, if you go to a doctor, then you definitely need to pay 30 USD. e. , unless of course the case is insured.
From my own experience I will say that on the sixth day I had a terrible poisoning, which was accompanied, respectively, by severe vomiting and severe diarrhea. The husband went to the doctor (a Russian-speaking doctor, I won’t write from which country because of political convictions) to find out which pills to buy so that this miracle disease would recede faster. The medical worker refused to help, even simply did not advise the necessary medicines. Dear doctor, beautiful blonde in blue jeans and trendy glasses! I hope that you and your loved ones will always be fine and that none of your family members who, God forbid, were in a state of complete dehydration, the doctor will not refuse at least advice. Mom, thank you for being a doctor and I learned a lot from you. Probably this is happening because now they have stopped taking the Hippocratic oath. We need to bring back the tradition. Ahh!
Most importantly, on that day, seven other people were in the same wonderful condition as me, which indicates the quality of food or water. Husband well done, ate capsicum.
So, here comes another rule:
3) eat pepper! Capsicum red or green, at least once a day;
4) towel. All towels that you take for the beach are NOT WASHED. When you return them and receive a card, they are dried overnight and given back to the hotel guests to you. I'm attaching a photo of a towel with someone's goat.
5) if you want good Internet, buy a Vodofone SIM card right away: 5 GB for 10 USD. e. Better than Wi-Fi at the hotel.
6) Shops "Nifertiti" - don't just waste your time and money. This is the same "sect" as "Avon", "Oriflame", from Slavic women.
Apparently, some wealthy aunt wanted to make a good business)) Only aunts play big here, they take it by the fact that there is a fixed price and a huge discount, supposedly) I’ll just say this, a miracle black cumin oil costs 50 USD. e. for 500 ml, while they refer to the fact that they will give a check, without which everything purchased at customs will be taken away from you. In an ordinary pharmacy in Egypt, so that you understand, 220 ml of cold-pressed oil costs 10 USD. e. No one at the airport demanded any questions during export, including the presentation of a check. In a word, a scam for "newbies". I twist and turn, I want to deceive! I will not say anything else bad for political reasons.
7) medicines. There is a pharmacy in the Old City, where a beautiful Egyptian lady works, she has excellent prices and she is no worse than any pharmacist. The price corresponds to the quality, I enclose the link of prices and names - https://egypt-hrg. ru/stati-i-zametki/83-aptechnyy-servis-v-egipte.html I forgot about the taxi driver.
Adam, Bad boy))) he sits near the reception and, if necessary, he will take you to Marina for 15 USD. e. , and to the Old Town - for 10 c. u. That is, back and forth, he will give you time to take a walk and return you to the hotel, it is he who will tell you where it is better to go shopping (about the pharmacy - just say, take me to this pharmacist girl in a veil). Marina. . be sure to go there. This is a small Europe: clean, beautiful and just a piece of happiness. Prices are reasonable, coffee costs $2. e. , seafood mix - about 15-20 c. u. e. WARNING! DO NOT EAT AT THE FISH MARKET! There, of course, everything is beautiful and fresh, but complete unsanitary conditions during cooking, there were many poisonings. If you still decide to try your luck - see point 4 - eat pepper!
By the way, at the end of the holiday, when I started my activities as a villain and photographed all the "beauties" of the hotel, my uncle began to follow me and see what I was photographing. Dear uncle! Only the naked truth and nothing but the truth!
Worse than it really is, I will not write, do not worry.
So, summing up, I give this hotel a rating of 3.
Conclusion: if you want to relax so that there are wonderful moments, then do not skimp and do not see cheapness, book time-tested hotel chains during the off-season period and do not read wonderful reviews, because the animators ask you to write only good things about the hotel in them. Let's not be radishes and give each other at least a chance to have a wonderful vacation!
Dear owner, I ask you to stop saving on us and stop thinking that the majority of vacationers - Belarusians and Ukrainians - have bags of gold and suitcases of dollars. This is not true. I got the impression that in the off season you do not pay staff, but only feed them. They let them swim freely, they say, make money on the Internet, fresh, fruits, which is enough for fantasy.
If you cannot maintain a hotel that, for a moment, is 5 *, in the winter, then you do not need to make simple hardworking people suffer from this.
R. S. I attach a photo of the most beautiful Christmas tree)
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