A selection of reviews about the hotel for those who are going to go.

Written: 21 may 2011
Travel time: 29 april — 7 may 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Before the trip, I read a bunch of reviews and made myself a brief summary of useful information. I want to share with everyone who plans to visit this hotel.
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The hotel at the entrance can be conditionally divided into 2 parts, the right where the reception and 3 small pools and the left where the main pool.
So, on the right side, the furniture is black - not good, the shower is built into the wall without a hose, on the left side there is pleasant light furniture, norms. shower. Our brother is settled by nature. where worse. The issue is resolved for $ 10-20 or per ball through a representative of the TEZ tour or your operator.
They gave us a very nice number 102 with a balcony and access to a small pool, a small baksheesh and lived in a family two-room suite. The room has a safe, by the way, it is free with a large balcony overlooking the pool in the courtyard
3-bed room No. 580, on the 1st floor by the pool. The room is chic. Staff service is excellent.

The room was cleaned and bed linen changed daily. All are polite and courteous. They prefer to serve the Germans in the first place, but they did not forget us and also served us politely. We left a $1 tip every other day.
$10 standard with balcony, $20 standard with pool view. The rooms are cleaned daily, in order to do it more willingly - leave tea (no more than $ 1)
Having paid a little extra at the reception, they settled in an excellent 2-room spacious suite with a large terrace on the main "street", which they were incredibly happy about, because when booking a standard one they did not expect to get such a spacious one on the second floor
By the way, everything was fast and after 15 minutes and 15 dollars in the passport we got decent rooms overlooking the food court. A friend got an extended room for three with a huge room divided into 2 and a separate dressing room.
how we got the coveted 10 bucks and said that we need a "good room".
After that, they became the happy owners of room 244 on the second floor with a balcony in one of the quiet courtyards, where no shows and parties are heard))
Classy 170.171, 172 on the first floor with a swimming pool by the veranda, 171 has a sofa, double bed, 172 with two separate beds.
They give a number for 4 - refuse immediately, but otherwise everything is OK!

Tours.

Saif tours. +20181116163; +20123989720; +20653442476 Natalia, Tamer www. safetour. com
Upon arrival and accommodation at the hotel, call or send SMS to tel. +20181116163 Natalia,
enter: name, hotel and room number. We will call you right away and arrange a meeting.
From local phones (in the room, call center) dial without +2, this is the code of Egypt

To the right of the entrance to the reception there is a firm. The prices are lower and you can bargain.

We took three excursions in a row! www. allegypt. net

Submarine adult: $50, child 30 - the child was delighted, I was delighted with the joy of the child)))
We sailed on a submarine, the windows of which also reveal the beauty of the underwater world.
This option is suitable for children and non-swimming masks. : )


Paradise Island adult-45 dollars, reb-20 - I liked it very much, decent yacht, awesome coral reef, where we stopped to dive on the way to the island, decent food, there is a paid bar with drinks and Nestle ice cream, beautiful gentle sand, like in an hourglass

From sea excursions to the "Paradise Island" I would not advise you to go. Yes, it's cool to ride on a yacht, but the island itself is just sand, umbrellas and a canteen. There is nothing heavenly there.

Paradise Island. It's worth seeing at least once in your life! White-white sand and the cleanest sea - super. This tour also includes snorkeling in the sea to see all the beauties of the Red Sea.

Our advice is a trip to Paradise Island and the Dolphin House. We swam and saw enough fish. We saw dolphins in their natural environment - impressive.

Turkish bath with massage. I liked it very much.
And we went to Paradise Island, a very good, fairly easy trip. We swam in corals with a mask, stayed on a beautiful island. They were not on other excursions, so it was not the first time in Egypt and they were everywhere.

We really liked the boat trip to El Gouna and brought a lot of pleasure! El Gouna is a resort north of Hurghada. Its peculiarity is that the whole land is pitted with canals, along which boats and small boats ply between the islets. Hotels are located on the islands, which are connected by bridges. A very romantic place to stay! During the excursion we fished from the yacht, dined on fresh fish, visited the aquarium in El Gouna and snorkeled on the coral reef. The guide told the history of the creation of the resort and its attractions. We rode a boat through the canals and looked at this wonderful piece of Venice.
El Gouna is nothing, but don't take a trip disk that is made by a local *operator* for the price of $22.
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Boat trip to El Gouna - also very impressed! This is a slightly different Egypt... , different energy - more European or something...: )

Excursion on the bathyscaphe - 30$/person I was surprised by the diversity of marine inhabitants of the Red Sea. Beautiful corals. colorful fish.


Luxor, the son asked to bring a cartouche. The tour costs $ 80 (they made another $ 5 discount and gave a survey of Hurghada for free). That was a delight! ! ! True, it takes more than 4 hours by bus, but it does not bother. And the temples and tombs themselves are simply magnificent! The temple of Queen Hatchapsut was especially impressive. That day in Luxor the temperature was 49 degrees, but we all bravely endured, galloping up the stairs like goats.
Luxor, of course, struck. When the heat subsided, we were once in the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut - here we were able to walk normally, take a photo and take a breath. We arrived at the hotel at eleven o'clock in the evening, sat in the bar and went to rest.
Despite such inconveniences, we did not regret a bit that we went! It's worth seeing!
The temples are impressive, and how everything is preserved, even the smallest hieroglyphs - everything can be read. They were in the Valley of the Living - where the temples of Karnak and Luxor, the temple of Hatshepsut - the only female pharaoh, and in the Valley of the Dead - they found the tomb of Tutankhamun. It is forbidden to shoot in the valley of the dead, because earlier some Americans filmed there, and then they mounted porn in the tomb, and the Egyptian government forbade filming. Everyone. After the main part, they rolled along the Nile, brought papyrus to the museum and to the stone factory.

Bedouinka: We rode quad bikes, jeeps, buggies, saw how the local settlement lives, rode camels, watched the sunset, then there was a performance with snakes, dancers. . In general, very interesting! ))
Evening safari (quad bikes are super), do not rush to immediately order from the Tez-tour, they are much more expensive, locals go to the beach, I recommend a local black man named Akhmedushka. 2 times cheaper plus free arafatki. There is nothing terrible in this excursion, I got tremendous pleasure without driving experience. It is also interesting for the Bedouins.

Coral reserve (where I more than made up for everything lost among underwater coral cliffs and an abundance of fish of all colors and sizes. : )

Shopping.


If you walk towards the sea, then on the left near the road there is a Cleopatra store with fixed prices. There are various souvenirs, T-shirts, children's toys, fins, masks, slippers for the sea, bags, belts, oils, gold on the second floor. I brought perfume, the smell turned out to be so persistent, let's see what happens in a few months. Shop liked the prices are much lower than in the hotel.
Great Cleopatra store (with fixed prices).
The second Senzo Mall store, this one is located to the left of the hotel, there is no need to go to the sea. Leaving the hotel gate immediately to the left, passing by go-karting and paintball. There are chain stores such as we have in any shopping mall, eateries are also chain stores, a cool restaurant, attractions, also like ours, a bank, a grocery supermarket, where there are clothes and souvenirs, some of which are cheaper than in Cleopatra. I also advise you to visit the Planet of Africa cafe, a very original design
We have discovered a great store - Senzo Market. A very good shopping and entertainment center "Senzo Mall" has opened near the hotel. 10 minutes walk to Senzo mall, went there every other day for strawberries and mangoes

If you want to buy T-shirts, then contact Yura, his shop on the territory of the hotel is the farthest from the main entrance to the hotel itself, near the statues of pharaohs. Very nice person, you can talk and bargain.
It is better to go to the pharmacy in front of the beach of the Dana Beach hotel, in the same building where the Havana club, where prices are 2-3 times cheaper than on site.

On the way to the beach, you can buy strawberries for $1. , souvenirs and all sorts of things. Bargaining in the shops has not been canceled. Sweatshirts warm on the fleece are at a discount of 20-25 dollars. (although they begin to bargain with 60 dollars), silk tunics 7 dollars. , cotton tunics 10-12 dollars. , men's cotton T-shirts (normal quality) 6 dollars. , polo - 12 dollars. I bought a camel bag at the hotel for $70. and a travel bag for $30. And in general, I noticed that according to the degree of tanning, they are guided by how much to dump. You need to come in with a face like you've been here many times


In Hurghada itself, in the Sekkala district, there are many shops with fixed and quite reasonable prices, such as Nile Pharaos. The product is naturally Chinese, but there is a choice, it looks better than in "priceless shops" and at an inexpensive price.

Buying Cartouche
1. Recently made 3 things in Luxor. So so.
Gold is not recommended. Firstly, they are very thin, look unattractive. There are no gold chains for them (at least they didn’t offer us), they cost $ 50. A silver cartouche in a gold edging looks very solid and your name is written in ancient Egyptian characters on a black or white background in gold letters. Everyone took only these, and on a black background. Over time, in 5-6 years, the black background will be slightly wiped off and the cartouche will become even more expressive, antique. It costs $35. Well, there are also purely silver ones for $18, but this is not for everyone. Chains are only silver from $30 - the thinnest, up to $50 - the largest men's. Thin ones for girls are ugly, that's why they didn't take them. The men's are slightly better, but also nothing fancy, although $50 is a lot. Enjoy the shopping.
If only the symbols are gold and everything else is silver, then this is indeed the case.
The factory is located in Luxor and they made us gold symbols on a black background, and around the oval around the black field there is a gold edging, 4 mm wide, from below the golden image of Skorobei, and from above a golden image of either Ramses or Tutankhamun and a gold ring for the chain. I think that's the difference. Looks much prettier. A silver cartouche, in my opinion, is not made in silver letters at all. There such a cartouche with golden letters costs $18. I asked for a golden cartouche with silver symbols. Refused, we don't do that.
2. By the way, I bought cartouches - for my son from silver (allegedly) for 18 dollars, for myself - silver with gold for 35 dollars. The view is awesome, they turned black immediately upon arrival in Russia. Now you have to order a copy of real gold from a jeweler.

Beach, pools.


Water park: We went to the water park of the hotel "Jungle Park". If you go through the central entrance of the water park, then the cost per person is 15 USD. e. (we did just that, but in vain).
On the last day, we learned that for vacationers in Leila the entrance is FREE, you only need to take a coupon at the reception (“thanks” to the animator for the information, although we asked on the second day upon arrival).
You can also go along the path along the Jungle, there is a loophole in the fence. You can easily go there for free : )) there is no fence as such, you can walk along the path along the territory straight to it, carefully covering your bracelet with a towel or T-shirt just in case. For free, it’s not difficult to figure out on the spot along the path immediately to the hotel, bypassing the Jungle reception.
you can ask our people who are in Jungle, we have a common beach with them, but they have coffee-colored towels, as well as the Dana Beach hotel.

Sea: Along the left pier stretches a long shoal for 200 meters, and bends to the right, protecting the lagoon from the sea.
From this sandbank towards the sea you can swim with a mask, and just swim, the water is warm, there are more than enough living creatures, standing knee-deep in the water, lower your face in the mask into the water and see - here it is! Red sea! Lives! Just don’t step on a sea urchin, there are a lot of them here! So I lay face down in the water every day for several hours and was crazy about beauty! : )
If you go to the end to the right - a shallow, immediately behind it is a destroyed coral reef. But there are still fish. You can dive with a mask and see. We saw small moray eels, a stingray, a turtle there
There are small islands of dead coral, there are not many fish - it is located on the far pier, where yachts

About the beach. There will be enough places for everyone, but entering the sea is much better in Dana (the same Albatross), we meet pebbles. In the bar on the beach you can have a full lunch, drink beer, but french fries are always a side dish

Hurghada.

In Hurghada, by taxi, the price from the hotel to the center, for example, to 1st Street, is 20 pounds and no more.

Near the local "McDonald's" there is a wonderful restaurant "Romantic" with swings instead of tables and chairs - excellent cocktails, a good soft hookah and pleasant unobtrusive service. .

Miscellaneous.

Evening Animation on the territory of the hotel takes place in the amphitheater - in the far left corner, but do not confuse it with the show 1001 nights. Children's dances were held in the amphitheater, once they watched a show with snakes - cool)))

In the evening, an awesome show "1001 Nights", for hotel guests for free, every day in different languages ​ ​ ​ ​ (Russian + English + French + Italian), stories about the pyramids, singing fountains, dance of men in skirts))). The show consists of 2 parts: 1 part. The light show "History of Egypt" with illumination of models of the most famous historical monuments of Egypt (all of them are located on the territory of the hotel, around the stage, then during the day we rummaged around and took pictures several times), horseback riding and a show of dancing fountains. All this takes place in a special viewing area near the arena.
Part 2 - a transition to the African theater, there is a show of belly dance and men dancing and spinning in skirts (spinning in one direction for about 20 minutes), I don’t know what exactly they are called)))

The reception has a terrace on the street, where we saw animation several times in the evening - the boy sang all the songs of Lasky May, by the way I liked it))), and karaoke is great!

The territory of Dana is at your disposal including children's slides, catamarans and boats that carry to the beach. You can safely walk around the territory of Dana, ride nice catamarans along the channels that are located on its territory, and participate in animation. Swim with children on catamarans on the artificial river "Dana".

Entertainment for children: mini golf, tennis and horse riding, camel riding - all this for half an hour a day per room free of charge by appointment (for horses at the reception, for golf and tennis where towels are issued, by the main pool).

There is also a museum on the territory of the hotel, with copies of all the famous things of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (in which you can’t take pictures), but you can take a picture in the hotel’s museum.

It is interesting to take a walk in the evening near the disco "Havana Club", the entrance to it for hotel residents is free, unlike vacationers in other hotels!
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