So-so

Written: 13 april 2007
Travel time: 13 — 20 september 2006
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 1.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
So-so.
My husband and I visited at the beginning of September 2006. After 7 months, everything seems not as scary as at the beginning. In order:

1) Number.

The flight was delayed by 6 hours, so we arrived at the hotel closer to midnight. They flew to Egypt for the first time and did not know that they had to give $ 10 at the reception. In addition, they took the "aqua" side - it was cheaper. And I didn't know that the tour operator should make a "Standart Ruum" meter, but we didn't have it. But in vain. The road from the reception to the room took about 5 minutes. Our building was almost in the backyard. The view of the room was shocking. Before that, we rested in Turkey in the new four. The difference was startling. The room was huge (2 bedrooms, a huge hall and a kitchen). It is curious that the building was clearly built quite recently, and the furniture in the room is old, painted with paint and dirty upholstery. I’m generally silent about the kitchen - there is a dead cockroach 4 cm long in the cabinet. The doors and all the furniture are painted gray with pink edging (the combination was probably invented by a color blind person).
All painted recently, but very sloppy. The bed is clean, but the bedspreads are stained. There was no safe in the room. There are curtains on the windows from some client. TV is old, with 10 non-Russian channels.
In general, seeing this nightmare, I rushed to the reception desk demanding to change the number. I was told that no one would help me until the morning, and in the morning I would contact the guide.
For 2 days we tried to solve something with the number, but without success. The girls flying with us were offered to pay $50 for a replacement for the remaining 6 days. Nothing has changed for us, motivating them. that we ourselves have chosen the "aqua" side and we do not have the mark "Standart Ruum". But people who lived in rooms near the sea (and not 10 minutes away like us) said that the furniture is old, but the rooms are more comfortable and tidy).
The water in the shower flowed rusty at first, but after about 5 minutes the drain was normal and only at room temperature from both taps.

2) Sea
The sea is great.

True, for the first 2 days, the husband was shocked by the room and the lack of a safe (there was no free one at the reception, and if there was, it would be small - the camera would not fit). In general, we carried the money and the camera with us to the beach. The beach of the hotel is sandy. We got to the pantone of a neighboring hotel (10-15 minutes to the left from Reemyvera beach) on the 3rd or 4th day. But here is the most interesting. You can walk to the corals from the shore (you need special slippers (so as not to chip yourself). Slippers can be bought at the hotel. It was just low tide and the water was up to my chest when we reached the corals. They are very diverse and beautiful. The fish are amazing. But you need be very careful - the needles of sea urchins stick out of the corrals, which, penetrating under the skin, immediately break off and cannot be reached in any way). And the needles are up to 20 cm long. Considering that a strong wind creates strong waves that throw at the corrals, those who cannot swim need to be more careful. For example, my husband held me while I looked at the fish through the mask).
But the pleasure is worth the risk.
It is also interesting to walk to the right of Reemyvera beach at low tide. Without water or in puddles there are corrals and all kinds of marine life (for example, we saw fry and giant snails - up to 15 cm in length, all kinds of sea urchins and stars).

3) Food
For food on the "4-" hotel probably pulls. The assortment is quite large, although not all meat is edible. Salads don't always look fresh. There is not much fruit, but vacationers said that in other hotels there is less in total. In general, at lunch and dinner you can find something edible (for breakfast, except for scrambled eggs and salads, there is nothing - but this is the case everywhere).
The tables in the dining room (as well as the waiters) are not always clean, rather the opposite. Waiters and servants are generally not always polite (they allow comments about women and indiscreet looks). Although, of course, not all. In general, their discipline is lame.

4) Territory.
Big and not very green, especially the distant buildings

5) Animation
Not in Russian.
It was a long walk and in the evening it was a bummer so we didn't see much of anything. But I think it's good.

6) Egyptians
It is better not to leave the territory of the hotel, and if you really want to, then women are paired with men and dressed in closed clothes. I don’t think it’s pleasant to hear: “Buy your wife clothes, otherwise she is naked. ” The Egyptians are terribly annoying. Seeing a tourist walking along the road, they run for 50-100 meters, almost grabbing their hands: "Write a review about my store. " If you behave, you will lose a lot of time, because you will definitely be brazenly sold something. There are also unobtrusive sellers, but there are not many of them.

When you walk along the highway, almost every passing car honks and stops with an obsessive offer to give you a ride somewhere (and this also applies to cars in the opposite direction). And you generally need to run along the shops - so that they do not have time to grab and drag. In Furgada itself, the sellers are more polite and not so intrusive.
Conclusion: it is better not to leave the hotel - the nerves will be safer.

7) Smell.
This applies not only to this, but also to the nearest hotels. It stinks constantly. Most likely due to the sewerage system. There is no such problem in Furgad.

FINDINGS
It is worth going only because of the sea (the corals are amazing and accessible even to those who cannot swim, there are many different marine life).

Tamara
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