Egyptian expanse

Written: 1 june 2010
Travel time: 23 — 30 may 2010
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:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
Last September I vacationed in Turkey, Alanya, in a 5 * good hotel, the rating of which on all sites is 4.5 and higher. The Aqua Blue 4 * service is almost no worse, except for little things. What pleased Egypt in comparison with Turkey: Russian scope. Space, rooms are large (there is a lot of space in the desert), reproductions hang in the toilets; electricity all around burns all night, no motion sensors; as much water as you want, no limiter buttons, linen and towels changed every day (leave a dollar to the cleaner every other day, but he would change it anyway, because he made swans out of towels once a day without a tip), you pour soda everywhere yourself, drink up; the service is not intrusive and a lot of staff can explain themselves in Russian.
The hotel is located on the second coastline, between two other albatross hotels. First from Hurghada comes Vista (bronze bracelet for adults), then Aqua blue (white bracelet), followed by Garden (green). All these 4 * hotels do not have clear boundaries between themselves and vacationers there live as one friendly family. On the first ber. lines, across the highway opposite the Garden there are 5 * albatrosses: Beach (blue bracelet) through it, a passage to the beach, and then the Palace (scarlet br seems). The Aqua Blue is a compact and quiet hotel, nothing too noisy except for the wave pool, which sounds like the piles are clogged but only turns on for 5-10 minutes before and after dinner.
There is enough information about the hotel, so I will focus on a few negative points. Tezturovites meet you at the Airport and offer to buy a visa right away for $17 or in a nearby customs booth for $15. . Fill out the form yourself, you need a pen. When checking in, the dude-menager at the reception, who, as I understand it, is also responsible for communication with Russian speakers, promised a good room for 20 bucks, which was done. The standard room was given on the second floor, overlooking the inside, the pool (choir), three (we were with a child) twin beds (can be moved), but the hotel upgrade apparently did not affect all rooms, and this room was not affected, the furniture was shabby. It didn’t bother me, so I didn’t arise, besides, most of the rooms have a view of the opposite buildings or neighboring hotels, where it’s noisier. Airplanes flying low - for me it’s very good, some kind of variety, and it’s interesting for children. Arabs water the numerous green area of ​ ​ three hotels with sewage water, so in the evenings while walking, it often gives off a not very pleasant smell in the nose. The beach is common for all albatrosses. There is a left pier on the beach for our 4 * hotels, there is also an entrance to the sea to the left of the pier (great sand at entry, with a shallow at low tide), but the wind always blows on the left side, on some days of such strength that there impossible to be. The sunbeds are all taken apart in the morning, our people, from their lack or because of the wind, try to stay closer to the middle and right parts of the beach (which belong to Beach and Palace), but sometimes they drive from there, calculating our brother by bracelets and other colors of towels (our sunbeds are old, painted with paint, and from 5 * hotels are varnished. 4-re Water slides in the Garden are very high, like a 5-storey house, but uninteresting: all of the same height, curves, open, not designed properly. Safely you can ride on your ass or on your stomach upside down, if on your back in the right way, then you can be unpleasantly thrown from side to side or thrown into a turn so high that your side will be 15-25 cm above the edge of the side! white hill: it has the highest acceleration at the exit, and every left-wing people who do not understand the danger of a collision like to hang out in this pool (the employees below do not give any warnings, they do not monitor safety).

For souvenirs, you can go on foot (or taxi) for 3 km in the direction opposite to Hurghada, there is a large building on which it says: Peak Albatros, Sun City. In its left wing there is a store "Cleopatra Bazaar" with a fixer. good prices. Such prices can also be found when flying to duty free, where there are papers with prices stuck on the product. By the way, in one small dutik, be more careful with the purchase of alcohol, the price can be set one, but at the checkout there will be another one and they don’t give a receipt.
I am completely satisfied with my vacation.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original