Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
4.0
Service:
4.0
Cleanliness:
4.0
Food:
2.0
Amenities:
4.0
It will be difficult to find censorship expressions to describe this "hotel", but I will try.
In short, this is the worst hotel I have ever seen in my life.
More. The food is very monotonous, tasteless. Immediately after the opening of the dining room lined up for about half an hour. There are many reasons. Firstly, there are not enough cups, plates, etc. for everyone. Those who did not have enough - stand and wait for it to be brought. Secondly, for breakfast, the main highlights of the program are scrambled eggs and pancakes. The speed of their preparation (in front of vacationers) - estimate for yourself. Fried eggs are fried on 2 gas burners in parallel. Each serving is approximately 2 minutes. In total, if you are the thirtieth in line, then you will get to the scrambled eggs no earlier than in half an hour. Nearby pancakes are fried at the same speed. In addition to these dishes, you can also eat "salads" (chopped vegetables) and some buns. Drinks for breakfast - either instant coffee, or instant tea, or something like "Yuppie" (when the water in the titanium runs out, they bring a pot from somewhere with a new portion of water and pour it into the titanium, I'm not sure if it has time to boil before how a visitor pours a portion of “boiling water” into a cup). Lunch and dinner also do not shine with a variety of dishes and you have to stand in line for just as long. There is really an option - to come for food an hour and a half after the opening of the dining room, then the queue will not be so big. The "soups" in the canteen seem to be boiled with water without any meat added. If you have any chronic diseases such as gastritis, I guarantee an exacerbation after eating in a hotel canteen. I won’t write much about little things like flies flying in the canteen, they just exist there. In general, when I was flying home, the food on the plane, which the flight attendants fed us, seemed to me a heavenly delight.
The guest himself can pour himself plenty of tea / coffee / yuppies only at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also in the interval between them, even for a glass of water, you have to go to the bar. In bars, especially in the one at the reception, there are often not enough clean glasses, and it seems that bartenders run to wash them in a nearby toilet. There were cases when the bars in the midst of their work ended either beer or other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (to the question of All Inclusive).
If my review does not scare you and you are still planning to go to this hotel, take a water heater with you, buy bottled water in a shop near the hotel (there it is half the price of a bar), and drink homemade tea as much as you want. I don’t advise you to boil and drink water from the tap, it seems to be desalinated. By the way, I read somewhere about the fact that allegedly in this hotel they “should” give out a closed bottle of mineral water to everyone in the bar. I asked the hotel guide, the information was not confirmed. So if you want water in a sealed bottle, pay the bartender £.5 (£.3 in the shop outside). Safe at the reception, paid, 1 dollar per day.
Number. On the whole, tolerable, but there are still things that I cannot but say. First, when I sat down on one of the two beds, there was a feeling that I was failing somewhere. The explanation was simple. Raising the mattress, I discovered that half of the boards under it were missing, on which it should rest (apparently the tourists stole it for souvenirs). I solved the problem simply - I took the missing boards from the next bed, since I lived in room one. The cabinet doors were broken, stood next to the cabinet. There is no hair dryer in the room. In addition to 2 pieces of soap with a half of a matchbox each upon check-in, and later on, there was nothing in the bathroom, so bring shampoo with you. There is a TV, but apart from the "snow" nothing is visible on the screen. The air conditioner can be left on, leaving the room, it will work (no electronic cards are provided to turn on the electricity in the room). By the way, once the electricity in the entire hotel went out for half a day, and the water supply did not work either. The rooms are cleaned according to the number of stars, no worse and no better.
The territory of the hotel is small, there was no particular desire to walk around it, so I won’t write about it in detail. I can only say that there are dull frozen construction sites around the hotel.
The pool is quite large, with a "paddling pool", the water is dirty (this is especially evident in the mornings, at 7 o'clock, when a motionless layer of brown sediment lies at the bottom).
The beach is about 1 kilometer, you have to cross the roadway. On the beach, after presenting the card that is issued at the hotel upon check-in, you can get a beach towel (the card is taken away). When you leave the beach, the towel is exchanged back for a card. A sunbed is also provided free of charge (many of them are faulty - the headrest is not fixed) and an umbrella. If you come to the beach at 9 am, you may not get a sunbed. Towels are brought to the beach by car late, between 9 and 10 in the morning, so I preferred to wear and use my own, especially since hotel beach towels emit a barely noticeable but unpleasant smell of bleach. The seabed on the beach near the hotel is not very clean, there is rubbish. But the water is clear, through the mask you can see the bottom many meters down (the sea is generally the only thing worth going to Egypt for).
Right on the beach, I bought an excursion to the so-called Paradise Island for $ 25 (it costs $ 45 from a hotel guide). The island itself is nothing special (a lot of people, the sand on the beach is cleaner than in the city, there are corals and some fish in the sea). There we swam and sunbathed for about an hour, then got back on the boat and swam to the big reefs. Here we dived (with a mask, snorkel and fins) and admired the wonderful corals and a huge variety of fish, sea urchins, etc. I recommend everyone to go snorkeling, the experience is wonderful.
As you all know, hotel guides do not recommend buying excursions on the street. So, on our boat there were tourists who bought excursions from their hotel guides-employees of the most famous tour operator operating in the Russian market. Only the price, for sure, was more expensive than what I paid.
It takes 10-15 minutes to walk from the hotel to the nearest neighboring hotels. There are several banks in the city where you can exchange foreign currency for local pounds, including in the immediate vicinity of the Duty free store (tourists can use it within 2 days after arriving in the country). Before buying souvenirs, I advise you to get to the shops with the original names of Ramstore, Yolki-Palki and Hurghada Star (they are all located next to each other a little further Duty free on the same road), they are quite large, the assortment is varied and, most importantly, their prices are fixed. This is necessary in order to at least roughly know how much all sorts of papyri and stone figurines cost, otherwise you can buy all this in small street shops 5 times more expensive than in the above stores, and then you will bite your elbows. To get to these shops, you can walk along the road towards the beach (of course, without turning towards it). But to go to them is quite far, about 8 kilometers, past small shops with annoying barkers.
You can also get to these shops by taxi (this pleasure costs 10 pounds, if the taxi driver starts haggling, send him away, another taxi driver will arrive in a minute and will happily take you where you need to for 10 pounds). Taxi drivers know Pharaoh Club under the old name - Santa Maria, and they should call it before getting into the car along with the price for which you want to get to it. At night, walking from the Pharaoh Club to the nearest hotel, the Hilton, is quite scary - it's dark all around and empty frozen construction sites. By the way, an interesting incident happened to me on this road. I was just starting a hike from the Hilton towards the Pharaoh Club, that is, I was returning “from the center” (I remind you that it takes about 10 minutes to go there). It was the night before the flight home. Taxi drove past (usually they honk, passing by a pedestrian, if you wave your hand, they stop and put the passenger on). One car stopped near me, although I did not wave to the taxi driver, the driver asked where I was from and where I was going. I called the hotel. Then the taxi driver offered to take me to the hotel for FREE. I was surprised, but got into the car. Immediately after that, the car drove off, and the taxi driver confessed his love to me in bad English (and, apparently, he repeated “I love you” several times to be convincing), after which he offered to go smoke hashish. Declarations of love from other men somehow do not inspire me, so I refused from the hand and heart of an Egyptian taxi driver, as well as from hashish. Then he, as if nothing had happened, drove me to the hotel and asked for 10 pounds. I reminded him about the free ride, to which the taxi driver said that he did not offer anything like that. I had to give this freak 10 pounds. True, in addition, he received a portion of the mat in English and, it seems, was offended. So keep in mind - free cheese is only in a mousetrap.
On the last day of my stay at the hotel, I handed over the key to the room, the safe, the beach card, the bus arrived. We got to the airport and went inside. There, in addition to the usual Duty free, there were a huge number of the same souvenir shops as in the city, selling the same range of goods (from hibiscus, beach towels and T-shirts to Egyptian stamps and coins). So if you have unspent pounds left, you can spend them on additional souvenirs. By the way, there is no bank at the airport (in the part where the departing tourists are), so it will not be possible to simply exchange pounds for dollars or euros.
I repeat. The Pharaoh Club hotel is the worst hotel I've ever stayed in and I won't go back even for free.
In short, this is the worst hotel I have ever seen in my life.
More. The food is very monotonous, tasteless. Immediately after the opening of the dining room lined up for about half an hour. There are many reasons. Firstly, there are not enough cups, plates, etc. for everyone. Those who did not have enough - stand and wait for it to be brought. Secondly, for breakfast, the main highlights of the program are scrambled eggs and pancakes. The speed of their preparation (in front of vacationers) - estimate for yourself. Fried eggs are fried on 2 gas burners in parallel. Each serving is approximately 2 minutes. In total, if you are the thirtieth in line, then you will get to the scrambled eggs no earlier than in half an hour. Nearby pancakes are fried at the same speed. In addition to these dishes, you can also eat "salads" (chopped vegetables) and some buns. Drinks for breakfast - either instant coffee, or instant tea, or something like "Yuppie" (when the water in the titanium runs out, they bring a pot from somewhere with a new portion of water and pour it into the titanium, I'm not sure if it has time to boil before how a visitor pours a portion of “boiling water” into a cup). Lunch and dinner also do not shine with a variety of dishes and you have to stand in line for just as long. There is really an option - to come for food an hour and a half after the opening of the dining room, then the queue will not be so big. The "soups" in the canteen seem to be boiled with water without any meat added. If you have any chronic diseases such as gastritis, I guarantee an exacerbation after eating in a hotel canteen. I won’t write much about little things like flies flying in the canteen, they just exist there. In general, when I was flying home, the food on the plane, which the flight attendants fed us, seemed to me a heavenly delight.
The guest himself can pour himself plenty of tea / coffee / yuppies only at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also in the interval between them, even for a glass of water, you have to go to the bar. In bars, especially in the one at the reception, there are often not enough clean glasses, and it seems that bartenders run to wash them in a nearby toilet. There were cases when the bars in the midst of their work ended either beer or other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (to the question of All Inclusive).
If my review does not scare you and you are still planning to go to this hotel, take a water heater with you, buy bottled water in a shop near the hotel (there it is half the price of a bar), and drink homemade tea as much as you want. I don’t advise you to boil and drink water from the tap, it seems to be desalinated. By the way, I read somewhere about the fact that allegedly in this hotel they “should” give out a closed bottle of mineral water to everyone in the bar. I asked the hotel guide, the information was not confirmed. So if you want water in a sealed bottle, pay the bartender £.5 (£.3 in the shop outside). Safe at the reception, paid, 1 dollar per day.
Number. On the whole, tolerable, but there are still things that I cannot but say. First, when I sat down on one of the two beds, there was a feeling that I was failing somewhere. The explanation was simple. Raising the mattress, I discovered that half of the boards under it were missing, on which it should rest (apparently the tourists stole it for souvenirs). I solved the problem simply - I took the missing boards from the next bed, since I lived in room one. The cabinet doors were broken, stood next to the cabinet. There is no hair dryer in the room. In addition to 2 pieces of soap with a half of a matchbox each upon check-in, and later on, there was nothing in the bathroom, so bring shampoo with you. There is a TV, but apart from the "snow" nothing is visible on the screen. The air conditioner can be left on, leaving the room, it will work (no electronic cards are provided to turn on the electricity in the room). By the way, once the electricity in the entire hotel went out for half a day, and the water supply did not work either. The rooms are cleaned according to the number of stars, no worse and no better.
The territory of the hotel is small, there was no particular desire to walk around it, so I won’t write about it in detail. I can only say that there are dull frozen construction sites around the hotel.
The pool is quite large, with a "paddling pool", the water is dirty (this is especially evident in the mornings, at 7 o'clock, when a motionless layer of brown sediment lies at the bottom).
The beach is about 1 kilometer, you have to cross the roadway. On the beach, after presenting the card that is issued at the hotel upon check-in, you can get a beach towel (the card is taken away). When you leave the beach, the towel is exchanged back for a card. A sunbed is also provided free of charge (many of them are faulty - the headrest is not fixed) and an umbrella. If you come to the beach at 9 am, you may not get a sunbed. Towels are brought to the beach by car late, between 9 and 10 in the morning, so I preferred to wear and use my own, especially since hotel beach towels emit a barely noticeable but unpleasant smell of bleach. The seabed on the beach near the hotel is not very clean, there is rubbish. But the water is clear, through the mask you can see the bottom many meters down (the sea is generally the only thing worth going to Egypt for).
Right on the beach, I bought an excursion to the so-called Paradise Island for $ 25 (it costs $ 45 from a hotel guide). The island itself is nothing special (a lot of people, the sand on the beach is cleaner than in the city, there are corals and some fish in the sea). There we swam and sunbathed for about an hour, then got back on the boat and swam to the big reefs. Here we dived (with a mask, snorkel and fins) and admired the wonderful corals and a huge variety of fish, sea urchins, etc. I recommend everyone to go snorkeling, the experience is wonderful.
As you all know, hotel guides do not recommend buying excursions on the street. So, on our boat there were tourists who bought excursions from their hotel guides-employees of the most famous tour operator operating in the Russian market. Only the price, for sure, was more expensive than what I paid.
It takes 10-15 minutes to walk from the hotel to the nearest neighboring hotels. There are several banks in the city where you can exchange foreign currency for local pounds, including in the immediate vicinity of the Duty free store (tourists can use it within 2 days after arriving in the country). Before buying souvenirs, I advise you to get to the shops with the original names of Ramstore, Yolki-Palki and Hurghada Star (they are all located next to each other a little further Duty free on the same road), they are quite large, the assortment is varied and, most importantly, their prices are fixed. This is necessary in order to at least roughly know how much all sorts of papyri and stone figurines cost, otherwise you can buy all this in small street shops 5 times more expensive than in the above stores, and then you will bite your elbows. To get to these shops, you can walk along the road towards the beach (of course, without turning towards it). But to go to them is quite far, about 8 kilometers, past small shops with annoying barkers.
You can also get to these shops by taxi (this pleasure costs 10 pounds, if the taxi driver starts haggling, send him away, another taxi driver will arrive in a minute and will happily take you where you need to for 10 pounds). Taxi drivers know Pharaoh Club under the old name - Santa Maria, and they should call it before getting into the car along with the price for which you want to get to it. At night, walking from the Pharaoh Club to the nearest hotel, the Hilton, is quite scary - it's dark all around and empty frozen construction sites. By the way, an interesting incident happened to me on this road. I was just starting a hike from the Hilton towards the Pharaoh Club, that is, I was returning “from the center” (I remind you that it takes about 10 minutes to go there). It was the night before the flight home. Taxi drove past (usually they honk, passing by a pedestrian, if you wave your hand, they stop and put the passenger on). One car stopped near me, although I did not wave to the taxi driver, the driver asked where I was from and where I was going. I called the hotel. Then the taxi driver offered to take me to the hotel for FREE. I was surprised, but got into the car. Immediately after that, the car drove off, and the taxi driver confessed his love to me in bad English (and, apparently, he repeated “I love you” several times to be convincing), after which he offered to go smoke hashish. Declarations of love from other men somehow do not inspire me, so I refused from the hand and heart of an Egyptian taxi driver, as well as from hashish. Then he, as if nothing had happened, drove me to the hotel and asked for 10 pounds. I reminded him about the free ride, to which the taxi driver said that he did not offer anything like that. I had to give this freak 10 pounds. True, in addition, he received a portion of the mat in English and, it seems, was offended. So keep in mind - free cheese is only in a mousetrap.
On the last day of my stay at the hotel, I handed over the key to the room, the safe, the beach card, the bus arrived. We got to the airport and went inside. There, in addition to the usual Duty free, there were a huge number of the same souvenir shops as in the city, selling the same range of goods (from hibiscus, beach towels and T-shirts to Egyptian stamps and coins). So if you have unspent pounds left, you can spend them on additional souvenirs. By the way, there is no bank at the airport (in the part where the departing tourists are), so it will not be possible to simply exchange pounds for dollars or euros.
I repeat. The Pharaoh Club hotel is the worst hotel I've ever stayed in and I won't go back even for free.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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