August

Written: 9 september 2012
Travel time: 12 — 22 august 2012
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: 5.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 7.0
Rested at the hotel from 12 to 22 August. For a hotel for the money it is not bad : ) but with great opportunities. . it is better to choose another.

The first thing I recommend to take with you is a fumigator and a mosquito spray, which are in abundance, even in the lobby on the first floor, where there is wifi. The second is pills for gastrointestinal disorders.

The hotel is far from the city, there are no shops nearby. . I didn't see fruit for sale. A taxi to the city costs $ 10, you can call it at the hotel, pay on the way back. All the same, driving without traffic rules is extreme, there are many roads with dividing lanes, there are no traffic lights. However, if necessary, the tourist bus can also move over the dividing strip. There is only one traffic light in Hurghada : ) We wanted to go to the city for shopping and a fish restaurant. First, the taxi driver took us to the street where there were three shops with oils, souvenirs and cotton, and leather bags.

In the first one, they immediately gave tea, and began a monotonous lecture about oils, our compatriot Luda will not let you go so easily. 250 ml of oils 55 bucks, a liter will give for 165 something like that. But. . we had a plastic card with us. . here we do not recommend taking it, or rather paying it off, immediately a "bank commission" appeared, which is added simply on the calculator 3%, for what and where it is written, do not even try to find out! Leather, low quality souvenirs, high prices. Then we went to Sheraton Street where you will be dropped off at a local shop from which you will be taken back and picked up by the owner's call. We went to the StarFish restaurant, the food is delicious, but the atmosphere is rather dull ...What you can cook right away, but in the price list where the price is negotiable, it’s better to bargain, plus 10% for service, plus a tip they want there, there’s also an Arab boy in the women’s dressing room toilet, designed to show how to wash hands, also for some reason does not want to leave, then wants money, or it is not clear.
The city is full of construction sites and small shops, a lot of garbage, apparently due to construction sites. It is better to choose a hotel more abruptly and not to walk anywhere from there : ))

The food at the hotel is rather average, omelettes, awesome cheese, yogurts, cereals are fried for breakfast. For lunch we went to a restaurant on the beach. Deep-fried fish, chopped cabbage is already a salad, steamed vegetables are spicy for some reason and it is impossible to eat, if the liver is fried, then it is difficult to be there. Tourists who yearn for my homeland come there mainly for french fries and REGULAR cola, sprite, fanta. The rest of the time you will indulge in adjustable yupis, terrible alcohol from the bar. The only thing you can drink is beer. . but it doesn't always fit. Water in a local shop 1 bucks for 1.5 liters, on the card + 7% bank commission : ) Dinner is the most tolerable, fruits, sweets, cakes are served. Once they gave dates, usually oranges and watermelons, melons are not sweet, grapes are good.

at 10 o'clock.
Approximately 30, near the bar next to the pool they distribute ice cream, more precisely, you can stand in line for half an hour under the heat, but it’s not a fact that you will get it : ) Especially caring people scoop out for several families, apparently.

Resting locals are held in high esteem there, children can roll on the floor in the dining room and squeal for their pleasure, which was unpleasantly struck. As a guide on the first day and explained better to keep apart to the maximum.

Excursions were taken from their operator, local competitors did not inspire confidence.

We rode quad bikes in the desert, drank local tea, smoked a hookah, rode camels, they also want money. 1 dollar is not enough for them, for which it is not clear. Then we went to the Jungle water park, the only water park that can be taken for half a day. The slides are high, there are enough sunbeds, what was missing was "cheesecakes".

What I didn’t like is that the safes, it is assumed that you will arrive immediately in a bathing suit, apparently, the safes in the women’s and men’s locker rooms cost separately like 3 bucks, you need to leave 10 as a deposit, the key with the FIG tag knows where to hide, after the claims made, rubber bands appeared to tie a key. The slides are good, screech for a long time, even a bruise can be obtained.

Most of all I liked the excursion ALS trip, by the name of the host country. We rode a yacht, which is nice not crowded, there is a place, look at the "paradise island", this is more entertainment for girls : ) white sand, colorful fish, clear water, then you will go to the reefs, swim in masks with fins, and life jackets to whom required, here it is really interesting, if there was an excursion at the beginning of the holiday, we would go a second time : )
The rooms are the most ordinary, in ours there was no safe, they could not solve this problem, they left things at the reception, which really returns everything safe, including money. The air conditioner has been repaired a couple of times. There was a problem with the iron, there was no camping one, but you can’t rent them, there is a price list for washing, ironing, depending on the type of what you give, in local currency. Reception just do happy, communicate with them better in English to be understood. Very friendly and polite! Room cleaning is mediocre, they left for a dollar, towels were changed, the bed was made when they weren’t left, swans were spun from towels, the logic was not clear : )) Animation during the day was not observed much, aerobics in the pool and water polo, in the evenings they put on some kind of show, we never went.

We went from the operator Biblio Globus, the guides were excellent!
An excellent Russian language, the guide Adam, who studied both in Russia and Ukraine and calmly poured Russian folklore, was especially surprised, it’s a pity that he was caught only on the last day.

Special thanks to the guide Hasan for his attention, I would like to congratulate you on your wedding! : ) There are Germans, Poles, Lithuanians in the hotel. For those who do not speak Russian, English, German, it is difficult there.


The sea is just a wonderful sunset knee-deep long, the sea is transparent salty. It is better to buy in duty free in Moscow, in Hurghada it is 1.5 times more expensive, and the choice is not very good.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original