conflicting feelings

Written: 11 march 2009
Travel time: 16 — 30 september 2008
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I went to the site, read the reviews and decided to leave my own. When we arrived from Egypt last year, I didn’t even want to write a review, because I didn’t like the hotel, people write that the hotel is good and suddenly I’m here...
well, nothing, probably really - it depends on the time of arrival. We went in September (my husband and daughter with her husband and child), because the child was small - one year and 3 months old, we were afraid of acclimatization. Usually we used to go to Marlin Inn (every year since 99) for the last 3 years we didn’t go - the grandson was born, the hotel was renovated. My daughter and son-in-law love Egypt very much and persuaded me to go. Moreover, we need help with our grandson.
So: we flew from the tess of the tour, recently the tess for Egypt have been working quite well. The hotel was chosen carefully. In September there were a lot of people! the hotel was 120% full - a few of ours, a few Germans and very hungry Poles, Poles, Poles. It was terrible. In the dining room, they pulled out spoons, dishes, queues for 40 minutes. All inclusive - on the beach only beer, no wine, all the time arguing with the bartender. or there is no wine, or there is no opener, or there are no glasses, and when they complained to the manager, the wine appeared, but they poured half a glass, you have to stand in line to take something. juice, cola, alcohol. VERY boorish attitude of bartenders on the beach to Russian speakers. in Russian, even if you speak English, they may not pay attention. And they also sold bottles of alcohol, so they didn’t want to pour it. The first time I encountered this. Or they talk on the phone for 5.10, 15 minutes, and people stand and waiting! and I, with a child in my arms (because he is bored to stand and he strives to climb somewhere), stand and wait for juice, and this impudent Arab sees that the people are standing, and some with children and zero attention! and once he just started to scoff when I asked for apple juice, he says, it’s over, I ask for another, too, then there is no glass, (and the child is in his arms). Even the Germans could not stand it, they began to swear with him! I went and complained to the manager - immediately the juice appeared and glasses!

The dining room (I don’t dare to call it a restaurant) is always full of queues, the tables are all occupied whenever you come. There are no appliances, they begged for cucumbers and tomatoes for breakfast. we don’t eat cabbage, cabbage and carrots are from salads, since the waiters liked us, and they brought us that meat. sometimes vegetables, sometimes fruits, otherwise you would have to chew unboiled and poorly cooked disgusting things. but everything is very overcooked, or half-baked, the fish is smelly, the fruit is one kind of green orange or unwashed quince. In general, a paragraph! The room was cleaned by a Negro. Once they came - he cleans - tries - he says give me money for cleaning well, my husband gave 2 dollars, he was so offended that he gave so little, and immediately left, even forgot the mop, they didn’t give him more money, it didn’t affect as cleaning. Bed, towels changed every day.
Lagoon: the water is muddy, rubbish is floating (onion husks, watermelon and melon peels, etc. ) although the fish swim, the music plays very, very loudly and for those who want a little silence or with small children, it is better to lie down at the end of the lagoon or on beach with corals. It is, of course, a wonderful song. It is necessary to take slippers for walking along the corals (but you can buy it nearby in a store) - you can cut your legs - a mask and a tube. at low tide, the water is knee-deep, at high tide, chest-deep, at the end of the beach it is deep, but fish, hedgehogs, corals, and various living creatures are shallow, and especially at depth. I took bread in the canteen and fed the fish from my hands. to do in Thailand. The sea, of course, pays for everything. The Red Sea is one of the most diving. The most transparent water and tame fish. And the fish-dogs how they play!
There is no internet in the hotel! We went to the city to Marlin Inn and worked on the Internet there.
In the city: this has never happened before. traveled several times to the city by taxi. With my husband, child, and the driver, he began to talk about sex and make sexual proposals to me, and once an ananist got caught! Our men almost stuffed the faces of the drivers.
And in general, for them, a female person is from 10 to 70 years old - sorry, damn. We only walked around with our husbands and at the same time constantly encountered boorish Arabs. And it’s not surprising, judging by the behavior of our compatriots. So they think that everyone Russian B.... i. This is despite the fact that we have local acquaintances, many years of friendship, normal people, and they say that many Russian ladies come to Egypt for sex!

Conclusion: we won’t go to this hotel in September, and we won’t go to this hotel at all. and the Internet is there and everything is familiar, and there are no impudent Arabs. In that area, even the atmosphere is somehow different. And my husband said that he no longer travels to Egypt. Thailand is a completely different matter. But I like Egypt. Each country is good in its own way And the main thing is not to fly 10 hours. but only 4, but whoever likes what. who sands and desert, who jungle and greenery.
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