Great stay in a great hotel

Written: 6 december 2017
Travel time: 24 — 30 november 2017
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: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
Just returned from a trip, I will try a little bit of everything. We rested together with a friend, the tour was only 6 nights ((, this is very little. Previously, we had already rested in Hurghada. We were met by the new Hurghada airport on the morning of November 24.17. Transfer to the hotel is included in the tour price. All tourists were brought along the way, ours was the last, 30 people went out at Seagal at once! The hotel is located in the very center of the city, on the well-known Sheraton Street. Tourists are accommodated in the "old" seagal and the "new" seagal, they are located next door. their reception, everything else: food, swimming pools, a water park, beaches, absolutely everything in common. It's super. We got off the bus at 12.05, a bracelet on our hand at 12.17 !!! ! We left our luggage and went to inspect the area and catch free Wi-Fi.
At the reception, Wi-Fi is paid, in the food court area (these are football, volleyball courts, a beach area and open-air restaurants where dinners are held for all guests) - free, but until 18.00 it catches it once, it doesn’t catch it three times. Not convenient, I bought a local SIM card 1.5GB for 65 pounds (you need a passport) opposite the hotel in the Vodafone store and is in touch everywhere, for example, I spoke via viber with a child in the Karnak temple in Luxor !! ! Restaurants invite you for lunch from 13.00, 4 kitchens to choose from, tables under awnings, a bar (soda, cola, beer, strong alcohol (from bottles) everything is served in glass! ) There are coolers with drinking water, you can take it in your container, if you have need. Also tea and coffee. There are no problems finding a place at the table, the waiters clean quickly. After lunch, having filled out the documents, received at the reception a key, a memo, and bonus offers (1 free visit to a fish restaurant, billiards, real tennis and squash), accompanied by a porter, we took the elevator to the room.
Building 5 (main building) on ​ ​ the 4th floor. N20, a panoramic view from the balcony of the sea, Sheraton Street and the body of the old cigar, let down only the view below, well, that's it. The room has 2 beds, plasma with 3 grew. channels, refrigerator with 4 bottles. water for 0.6l, safe with combination lock. Everything valuable was stored in it, there were no problems. A large closet, cabinets, placing things is not a problem, there is a lot of space. The key is electronic, one per room (not very convenient), it is also on / off the overhead light. The lighting is excellent, several zones. The bathroom has a shower and hairdryer. Cleaning is normal, wet on request, change of towels, reward is welcome, for this in a bonus +1 baht. water and figurines from towels. All information is at the reception of the old seagal, there are meetings with the guide and Russian-speaking guest girls are sitting at the computer.


Nutrition. We had breakfast in our restaurant, and dined in the old seagal, the hall is larger and there are always free tables. There are 4 cuisines at the food court at lunchtime: Indian, Italian, Chinese and Oriental.
Ice cream of 2 types in the Dolphin beach bar in the old sea for everyone, snacks, drinks. No complaints about the food at all, the choice is excellent, everything is delicious. Very good soups for lunch and dinner. Rose wine from bottles, white from packs. Cola, various yupis. Chicken, duck, stewed beef, fish (according to the chef Seabas), there was also something like kebab, liver, meatballs. In the evenings, grills are held near both restaurants. Side dishes, fresh and pickled vegetables, black olives, limes, salad dressings. An abundance of desserts, fruits: guava, oranges, grapefruit, dates, physalis, apples. Delicious guava jam, two types of honey. In the morning two types of cheese, such as feta and hard, sausages, tea, coffee, hot chocolate. Chamomile tea in the lobby bar.

Beaches. There are two of them. More often they were on their own, and when it was windy, on the old sigal, it was like in a bay, there was no wind. Animation activities, water aerobics, stretching are also held there.
The entrance to the water is good, the depth is normal, swimming is excellent. From the steps the bottom is rocky, from the shore it is sandy. On the beach of the new seagal, a place for kiters is fenced off with buoys, where you can also snorkel near the coral islands. There are beautiful fish, up to a dozen species, but I'm not good at names, I only recognized surgeons. The bottom is good, smooth entry to the depth. The water is warm and clear as a tear. Loungers are full. There is a shower, rinse with fresh water, a toilet, pretty decent. Very clean and tidy toilets near the receptions, the girls clean, they also rub the glass doors to a shine. The cleaning of the entire hotel without complaints.


Territory. Large, a lot of greenery, beautiful, a lot of flowering plants, everything is clean and well-groomed everywhere. Very nice in the evenings, lights everywhere. Lots of pools. There is a water park with 3 adult slides and a couple of children's slides.
There is a children's club, I don't know if there is children's animation, we were without children, so this topic was not very interesting. There is a mini-menagerie: a crowned crane, pigeons, parrots and monkeys. Cheerful animation team, counted 4 girls and 4 guys. Starting in the morning, they invite people to exercise, water aerobics, dancing, boccia, volleyball, and football. Evening show and disco. They invited me to a party, to the Little Buddha club.

The contingent of vacationers. In my opinion, there were more foreigners than Russian speakers: Germans, Czechs, Poles, Balts, few Arabs, Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians. It’s hard to say how full the hotel is, maybe 80%, I didn’t specify, I could be wrong.

Leisure. The hotel is centrally located on Sheraton Street. Exchanges (we exchanged $ for pounds in an exchange office across the road to the right of the hotel), shops, pharmacies, cafes, fruit shops, markets with fixed prices where you can pay by card or pounds.
Near McDonald's, perpendicular to the Sheraton, is Sherry Street, where there is an excellent store of oriental sweets, packaged individually with fixed prices. To the Marina embankment on foot about 15 minutes slowly, to the right of the hotel and to the sign, easy to find. The city is calm, in the evening the lighting is excellent.


Tours. On the second day of stay at 9 am there was a meeting with the guide from Join Up. 5 minutes of general useful information, and 30 minutes about excursions. They issued a questionnaire, ostensibly for registration with the police, and on the reverse side you need to enter excursions. “Think” was given until 11.00, and the guide warned that only he can say what time and from which airport the return flight will be, you must definitely come in a day and find out, otherwise we won’t have any problems. In short, I didn’t take excursions from him, but information about the departure was on inf. stand of the old seagal, after 19.00. on the eve of departure, you yourself learned everything, you should not worry, fly away without the help of a guide.
chose Luxor and Paradise Island. Luxor exceeded all expectations, a great tour, our guide Ahmed, he is Ramses the 12th)) well done, pro, interestingly told, were in the Karnak temple, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, at the colossi of Memnon, plus Banana Island with a walk along the Nile and a good dinner. Thanks to the large comfortable bus, there was no fatigue. Excursions are super, however, the organization and cost pleased as always. I wrote more about excursions in the attractions section https://www.turpravda.ua/places/eg/luksor/Karnakskij_hram-s1615/r276457.html and https://www.turpravda.ua/places/eg/luksor/Hram_Hatshepsut-s3053/r276567.html

In conclusion, summing up, I recommend the Sea Gull hotel to everyone with pleasure, I won’t even consider other hotels on my next trip, this one was 100% satisfied. For such a low price, everything is just fine. It seems to have written everything, if I missed something and have questions, ask, I will answer. Have a great holiday everyone!
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