Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
8.0
Service:
6.0
Cleanliness:
6.0
Food:
3.0
Amenities:
7.0
We were at the end of December 2018, we didn’t meet the New Year here, as we left a little earlier.
The hotel itself is nice, no frills, but not ancient junk, as it happens ..
The lobby is spacious, all the events were right here, which was a little surprising...Someone comes to the hotel and stumbles upon the height of competitions and dances...
Despite the assurances of our tour operator (burn in hell), it was not warm here, but even cool, we wore winter jackets every evening ...
The water in the pool was NOT warm, heated ...the rest of the pools were icy, including the one with the children's slides. Accordingly, all the tourists were pushing and splashing in one place ...Towels were given out nearby, 1 per card (which had to be taken away during the exchange / for loss, a fine like $ 5 for the price of a towel). Towels in 8 out of 10 cases are terrible and old, we wash the floor of the house like this. Tourists in hijabs were given new ones ...but maybe this is my excessive observation ..
Room - in my subjective opinion was excellent. We were very pleased with the child and grandmother. The floor is stone, no carpets, clean, a huge closet, a large single bed, we were not offered a baby crib, which is a pity (I didn’t look for it myself). TV - worked / did not work, repaired / worked), there are a lot of channels. but there was music. The fridge is small but works well.
Cleaning - which was surprising, was done only by young men, they cleaned quickly, silently and not everywhere (only if you ask / with a tip and without), the bathroom was cleaned every day, the bathroom (namely the room) is huge, beautiful and spacious, looked chic, with its own large window.
The territory is not huge, but not small either, we did not see anything special, pools, bridges. Separate respect for the gardeners, they plucked grass on all fours and watched the plants - well done! A couple of times my daughter (2 years old) was given flowers)))) the baby is delighted, the mother is pleasantly surprised)
Reception, resolved issues quickly, the service manager is smart and darling.
Restaurant - here was the worst (after the pools) experience. For many, the food was normal, I don’t understand these people, either they didn’t see the best, or they rested in much worse conditions. There is NO variety, tasty - NO, fruit - NO, Meat - chicken for lunch a couple of times for the rest. Drinks - NO, more precisely those liquids are NOT drinks.
A little more: cauldrons with rice, something brown, something light brown, something white like mashed potatoes, fish in sauce. In appearance and taste, many immigrants from the USSR will be familiar with all of the above. Typical dining room.
Fruit - for cruelty to fruit, I would flog you. Peeled apples, cut into slices and floating in huge bowls of water (perhaps with sugar or lim acid so that they do not darken). apples 2, and more often 3 types, all tasteless. There were also tasteless oranges, dry and also cut. Some other white fruit that looks like a pear.
/ bananas, pineapples, strawberries and at least something tasty you will not find here.
Desserts, if you have time at the beginning of the meal, you can catch beautiful figures, twice got on delicious purely local honey sweets - they are excellent, cakes and pies are monotonous and not interesting for my taste, but people ate, even rowing (against the background of the main dishes, maybe and edible).
Separately, I can notice that the food on the street is tastier, there is pasta, grill, french fries and pancakes in the morning - that's how I ate.
The restaurant itself is terrible, gloomy, dirty-looking, there are FEW tables, few chairs, there are a lot of people who came running, they sat down, the rest crumpled at the entrance - ADD TABLES TO THE STREET ! ! With a child, I had to run for a long time in order to at least somehow sit down.
* AS someone correctly noticed and wrote in the reviews (which I read late) YOU will not be hungry - this is true, BUT you will not enjoy the food either.
JUICES are not natural juices, but powder ones, they are poured on a separate, very scary bar, in scary and small plastic cups, worn to a dull transparent state. Tea is immediately packaged lipton ((Coffee is not coffee, a brown mass, an instant drink poured into a bowl with a large slide, from where everyone picks up with a spoon and adds boiling water. drink yourself 1 time.
By the way, for the first time in my life, the child had a stomach ache from the juice, it hurt me, but the toilet helped ...
A big man walks around with freshly squeezed juices for $ 2 - writes down on the room number. Fresh juices are delicious, sweet (he says that without sugar) - they only drank them.
Alcohol - I want to cry, I don't want to drink.
I have never drunk such a tasteless wine, but weathered beer (they open a bottle before your eyes, pour about 150ml into a cloudy glass and give it away, put the bottle in the bar for the next client). I once asked for beer, poured 50 ml from one bottle (xs how long it was open) and topped up the rest from another incomplete one.
The pool bar is also fu. "Cocktails" are not cocktails, but liquids for 80% of the composition, red, yellow and green syrups + 2/3 types of dumb local strong alcohol. As a result, the head hurts, the liver hurts, the stomach hurts, and this is after 1-2 cocktails. (in Turkey, for example, I drank 2-3 and felt adequate, without the symptoms listed earlier).
Strawberries and fresh fruits can be bought at the bazaar in the city - a taxi like $ 4 or you can buy it in a store.
The beach is just wow. It might be worse, but I haven't seen it. The sunbeds are old, not well maintained, many are broken.
To the beach from the hotel there is a mini bus for + -20 seats, it is stated that it runs every 30 minutes. but this is not so, a couple of times they came at the time indicated for starting the movement and waited 40 minutes, in the sun with a child such an impression.
It's a 5 minute drive, you can easily walk in 10-15 minutes.
The beach itself is not beautiful, but not dirty, and thanks for that. It is separate and belongs to the hotel. The bar on the beach, like in the hotel, is fu and horror with the same dumb little glasses and pseudo cocktails. (By the way, English-speaking tourists were served tastier and fresher drinks, the British treated us to cocktails, so you could at least drink them). Food on the beach is only on schedule, like 2 times (like hot dogs in pita bread and some kind of cutlets) all this brings a bus with a dining room in the main building, I don’t recommend eating it.
The sea was icy (thanks to the tour operator, we did not cure bronchitis, but aggravated it). The entry into the sea is normal, the water seems to be clean, but we did not notice the beauties, yachts are moored nearby.
The beauty of the Red Sea on this beach is not in sight.
Benefits not listed above:
+ It is so close to the airport that you can almost walk on foot, from a difficult road this decides in favor of the hotel (we spent a day at the airport due to a flight postponement, thanks Join up and burn in hell)
+ Nearby, in 10 minutes by taxi ($2-3 directly from the hotel) is the most luxurious and stunning GRAND AQUARIUM! Hurghada Grand Aquarium - I wrote a separate review about it and it is necessary to go there and definitely WITHOUT TOURS, which representatives of tour operators will try to sell you. It's cheaper by ourselves, at any time, calmer and most importantly NOT GALLOPING with the crowd, but slowly and confidently, the pictures will be 100% cosmic! ) Read the review, see for yourself.
+ Close to shopping center and supermarket. 10 minutes by taxi about $2-3
I always took a taxi at the hotel, for some reason it costs more outside (which was surprising) and once I had to suffer, because the locals did not know where our hotel was located (we drove until we found ... ).
You can negotiate with a hotel taxi driver, he will get tickets to the aquarium at a discount and take them back to the store and wait, he will also make a discount.
Overall, I think 3 out of 5 stars.
The second time I will not come, I was in Egypt for the first and last time, of my own free will I will not fly again.
I wish the hotel to clean up the pools and do something with the food / bars and the beach.
The staff is good and as I met helpful and friendly.
The hotel itself is nice, no frills, but not ancient junk, as it happens ..
The lobby is spacious, all the events were right here, which was a little surprising...Someone comes to the hotel and stumbles upon the height of competitions and dances...
Despite the assurances of our tour operator (burn in hell), it was not warm here, but even cool, we wore winter jackets every evening ...
The water in the pool was NOT warm, heated ...the rest of the pools were icy, including the one with the children's slides. Accordingly, all the tourists were pushing and splashing in one place ...Towels were given out nearby, 1 per card (which had to be taken away during the exchange / for loss, a fine like $ 5 for the price of a towel). Towels in 8 out of 10 cases are terrible and old, we wash the floor of the house like this. Tourists in hijabs were given new ones ...but maybe this is my excessive observation ..
Room - in my subjective opinion was excellent. We were very pleased with the child and grandmother. The floor is stone, no carpets, clean, a huge closet, a large single bed, we were not offered a baby crib, which is a pity (I didn’t look for it myself). TV - worked / did not work, repaired / worked), there are a lot of channels. but there was music. The fridge is small but works well.
Cleaning - which was surprising, was done only by young men, they cleaned quickly, silently and not everywhere (only if you ask / with a tip and without), the bathroom was cleaned every day, the bathroom (namely the room) is huge, beautiful and spacious, looked chic, with its own large window.
The territory is not huge, but not small either, we did not see anything special, pools, bridges. Separate respect for the gardeners, they plucked grass on all fours and watched the plants - well done! A couple of times my daughter (2 years old) was given flowers)))) the baby is delighted, the mother is pleasantly surprised)
Reception, resolved issues quickly, the service manager is smart and darling.
Restaurant - here was the worst (after the pools) experience. For many, the food was normal, I don’t understand these people, either they didn’t see the best, or they rested in much worse conditions. There is NO variety, tasty - NO, fruit - NO, Meat - chicken for lunch a couple of times for the rest. Drinks - NO, more precisely those liquids are NOT drinks.
A little more: cauldrons with rice, something brown, something light brown, something white like mashed potatoes, fish in sauce. In appearance and taste, many immigrants from the USSR will be familiar with all of the above. Typical dining room.
Fruit - for cruelty to fruit, I would flog you. Peeled apples, cut into slices and floating in huge bowls of water (perhaps with sugar or lim acid so that they do not darken). apples 2, and more often 3 types, all tasteless. There were also tasteless oranges, dry and also cut. Some other white fruit that looks like a pear.
/ bananas, pineapples, strawberries and at least something tasty you will not find here.
Desserts, if you have time at the beginning of the meal, you can catch beautiful figures, twice got on delicious purely local honey sweets - they are excellent, cakes and pies are monotonous and not interesting for my taste, but people ate, even rowing (against the background of the main dishes, maybe and edible).
Separately, I can notice that the food on the street is tastier, there is pasta, grill, french fries and pancakes in the morning - that's how I ate.
The restaurant itself is terrible, gloomy, dirty-looking, there are FEW tables, few chairs, there are a lot of people who came running, they sat down, the rest crumpled at the entrance - ADD TABLES TO THE STREET ! ! With a child, I had to run for a long time in order to at least somehow sit down.
* AS someone correctly noticed and wrote in the reviews (which I read late) YOU will not be hungry - this is true, BUT you will not enjoy the food either.
JUICES are not natural juices, but powder ones, they are poured on a separate, very scary bar, in scary and small plastic cups, worn to a dull transparent state. Tea is immediately packaged lipton ((Coffee is not coffee, a brown mass, an instant drink poured into a bowl with a large slide, from where everyone picks up with a spoon and adds boiling water. drink yourself 1 time.
By the way, for the first time in my life, the child had a stomach ache from the juice, it hurt me, but the toilet helped ...
A big man walks around with freshly squeezed juices for $ 2 - writes down on the room number. Fresh juices are delicious, sweet (he says that without sugar) - they only drank them.
Alcohol - I want to cry, I don't want to drink.
I have never drunk such a tasteless wine, but weathered beer (they open a bottle before your eyes, pour about 150ml into a cloudy glass and give it away, put the bottle in the bar for the next client). I once asked for beer, poured 50 ml from one bottle (xs how long it was open) and topped up the rest from another incomplete one.
The pool bar is also fu. "Cocktails" are not cocktails, but liquids for 80% of the composition, red, yellow and green syrups + 2/3 types of dumb local strong alcohol. As a result, the head hurts, the liver hurts, the stomach hurts, and this is after 1-2 cocktails. (in Turkey, for example, I drank 2-3 and felt adequate, without the symptoms listed earlier).
Strawberries and fresh fruits can be bought at the bazaar in the city - a taxi like $ 4 or you can buy it in a store.
The beach is just wow. It might be worse, but I haven't seen it. The sunbeds are old, not well maintained, many are broken.
To the beach from the hotel there is a mini bus for + -20 seats, it is stated that it runs every 30 minutes. but this is not so, a couple of times they came at the time indicated for starting the movement and waited 40 minutes, in the sun with a child such an impression.
It's a 5 minute drive, you can easily walk in 10-15 minutes.
The beach itself is not beautiful, but not dirty, and thanks for that. It is separate and belongs to the hotel. The bar on the beach, like in the hotel, is fu and horror with the same dumb little glasses and pseudo cocktails. (By the way, English-speaking tourists were served tastier and fresher drinks, the British treated us to cocktails, so you could at least drink them). Food on the beach is only on schedule, like 2 times (like hot dogs in pita bread and some kind of cutlets) all this brings a bus with a dining room in the main building, I don’t recommend eating it.
The sea was icy (thanks to the tour operator, we did not cure bronchitis, but aggravated it). The entry into the sea is normal, the water seems to be clean, but we did not notice the beauties, yachts are moored nearby.
The beauty of the Red Sea on this beach is not in sight.
Benefits not listed above:
+ It is so close to the airport that you can almost walk on foot, from a difficult road this decides in favor of the hotel (we spent a day at the airport due to a flight postponement, thanks Join up and burn in hell)
+ Nearby, in 10 minutes by taxi ($2-3 directly from the hotel) is the most luxurious and stunning GRAND AQUARIUM! Hurghada Grand Aquarium - I wrote a separate review about it and it is necessary to go there and definitely WITHOUT TOURS, which representatives of tour operators will try to sell you. It's cheaper by ourselves, at any time, calmer and most importantly NOT GALLOPING with the crowd, but slowly and confidently, the pictures will be 100% cosmic! ) Read the review, see for yourself.
+ Close to shopping center and supermarket. 10 minutes by taxi about $2-3
I always took a taxi at the hotel, for some reason it costs more outside (which was surprising) and once I had to suffer, because the locals did not know where our hotel was located (we drove until we found ... ).
You can negotiate with a hotel taxi driver, he will get tickets to the aquarium at a discount and take them back to the store and wait, he will also make a discount.
Overall, I think 3 out of 5 stars.
The second time I will not come, I was in Egypt for the first and last time, of my own free will I will not fly again.
I wish the hotel to clean up the pools and do something with the food / bars and the beach.
The staff is good and as I met helpful and friendly.
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