Great holiday by Egyptian standards!

Written: 8 may 2013
Travel time: 11 — 24 january 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
We bought a ticket at the Aqua hotel, which is on the second line, but we took the all-inclusive club, so we used the entire Sindbad club infrastructure, including the water park! I'll tell you about everything in order:
1) Check in: Checked in quickly and in a decent room overlooking the water park! We arrived at the hotel at about 12:30, immediately received bracelets and a key to the room, changed clothes and went to dinner. Perhaps due to the presence of a large number of free rooms at that time, we were settled immediately, or maybe this is just a feature of the hotel.
2) Food: There are many restaurants in Sinbad. Two large buffet restaurants, 2 mini-restaurants in the water park and 3 a la carte restaurants free of charge, by appointment. Before that, we were in another Egyptian hotel, owned by a well-known hotel chain, and there they did not indulge us with a variety of dishes, and besides, yesterday's salads were not infrequently displayed. In Sinbad, our entire vacation was a large selection of different food, we never saw anything stale. We got poisoned once, but we suspect that it was not from hotel food, but from drinks in a street cafe. So food for 4+

3) Territory: The biggest plus of the territory of the Sinbad club is its own water park! A lot of greenery, there is a wave pool! I counted 7 slides for adults, 1 water town and 3 mini slides with a shallow pool for children. In January, the water park was almost always free; there were no queues at all, and at lunchtime you could enjoy solo skating! If I'm not mistaken, then every Tuesday and Thursday tourists from other hotels are brought to the water park. They can be recognized by bracelets of other colors. For the guests of the water park, as well as for the guests of Sinbad, the all-inclusive system operates. That is, everyone who came to the water park from other hotels can also freely eat at the BarZar bar and the Lacabana restaurant absolutely free of charge, and also have unlimited ice cream. The territory of the Aqua Hotel and the Beach Resort is also well-groomed and attractive, but not as big as that of the water park. By the way, the Beach Hotel also has slides, although there are only three of them. And adults can use only two. As for sun loungers, there are plenty of them everywhere in my opinion. However, in summer and autumn, I think it will be a little more difficult to find free places.
4) Beach: The beach is located on the territory of Sinbad Beach. The beach is quite well-groomed, there are many sunbeds, there are palm trees. The beach itself is not wide, but long! Entry into the sea is good, but if you are not a fan of shallow water. That is, you won’t have to go to a decent depth for a long time. Literally 10 meters deep. Of course, the sea cannot be called perfectly clean, but compared to the previous hotel, we were pleasantly surprised.
5) Staff: I don’t know how it is now, but at that time the staff was mostly polite and friendly. It was not necessary to order drinks at the bar, the waiters themselves came up and asked: What would you like to drink? In large restaurants, drinks were also sometimes brought for dinner. In general, at that time the service was 4+, by the way, the attitude towards Russians was absolutely the same as towards Europeans. True, there were very few Europeans then.
6) Cleaning, beach towels: They were cleaned regularly, the bed was changed every two days, but bath towels were sometimes “forgotten” to change by the end of the vacation. Maybe because they stopped tipping. By the way, bring your own shower gels and shampoos, or you will have to buy everything in local stores. Because regardless of the tip, bottles of gels were simply not left. Although, even if sometimes left - the quality of the funds, to put it mildly, is not very good. Beach towels were always available. Clean, no stains or holes.
7) Animation: there is quite active. Afternoon gymnastics at Beach Resort, sports. games in the water park, in the evening an amphitheater in the back of the Aqua Hotel, and at night the Regina disco in the Beach Resort.
In general, the impression of the rest was very good. The vacation turned out to be varied due to the water park, several restaurants to choose from, a long walking area near the hotels, where you could take a walk in the evening. In general, everyone is happy!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original