Given the price of the tour - a normal hotel.

Written: 10 january 2017
Travel time: 29 december 2016 — 5 january 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 7.0
Rested at the hotel this year and celebrated the New Year there.
The price of the ticket was very favorable (205 dollars per person for 7 nights, with food. Transfer and flight). They paid extra for the visa already in Hurghada and collected from us for 27. and not for 25 dollars (although the visa itself says. That it costs 25 dollars. When I asked what we have to pay more representatives of the Annex-tour just froze. Just the beginning. as it turned out for the money there breeding ...
We booked a tour to the Hawaii Riviera Resort & Aqua Park 5 *. but it was closed. and we were settled and the neighboring Hawaii Le Jardin Aqua Park 5 *. (there was no water park there, only one slide for children)
We drove to the hotel 20 minutes from the airport, where we were greeted with cocktails and music and taken to eat.
I can't say anything good about food. The choice is as great, but not all delicious. There was chicken from the meat.

The next morning we were gathered in the conference hall and the excursions began.
handed out brochures and began to tell what super discounts they have here, if you buy one tour you get a shopping tour in 3 stores for FREE (although the price of each is $ 60), and Wi-Fi will also be from the Annex tour, because the hotel is very bad ( in fact, when there were few people in the lobby, the hotel Wi-Fi normally pulled).
We took a super tour of Vitamin C and a safari, paid $ 110, although we would have somewhere around 135. But discounts.
The guide told us that ordinary people near the pools will offer us the same tours cheaper, but it is dangerous, because in any case no one is responsible for us. and if you take from the Annex tour. then they take out special insurance for you. And to be more convincing, he told the story. about a guy. who decided to save. fell off a cliff. he died and his parents paid $ 3.000 to transport his body to Ukraine. (I think it's just a fable for tourists).
On the same day we organized a shopping tour.
First there was a fur and leather shop, then essential oils. oil. cosmetics and textiles. souvenirs. sweets. This was the second unpleasant moment of extortion (the first visa).
Shitty magnet 1 dollar, 3 - 5 dollars, and at the box office you are fed from which hotel you are and what is the name of your guide. . What kind of fool? The guide clearly gets a percentage.
The same souvenirs, sweets. cosmetics can be bought either at the hotel or near it and much cheaper. . the same magnets 3 per dollar. So my advice to you. go before you buy something. price and most importantly, bargain, the more you buy the bigger the discount you can knock out. The sellers are all friendly and kind.
Then there was the celebration of the New Year! Extortion. . number three. .
Back in Ukraine, the tour operator warned that we have to pay $ 45 extra for a New Year's dinner. The price included dinner and a holiday program. There was enough food, but there were queues everywhere. Everything looked quite appetizing, but not everything tasted good.

The strangest thing is that even champagne was not included in the price of dinner, it could be bought for $ 20. So what did we pay for. . there were 6 of us at the table, all Ukrainians. . that is, of the 270 dollars we paid, at least 5 could not be spent on champagne?
The hotel bar is free, and all drinks, including alcohol, too, but something on New Year's Eve at 12 o'clock it was closed. Of course, alcohol could be bought. - What kind of all-inclusive is this?
Everything was not the best with the food either. . it was not reported. . that is, the ones you first put on your plate and it was your New Year's Eve dinner.
After the New Year there were excursions. . almost the only pleasant moment. . although it is PULLING number 4.
We paid $ 75 for vitamin C. . this price included a boat trip. diving, fishing. lunch. massage. riding a bathyscaphe and a banana. pills. The most interesting part is diving. a lot of fish, the sea is clear. class.
But the same tour was later offered to us for 35! ! ! !!
The safari was great.
First we were taken to the desert. showed Bedouins and of course offered to buy their supergrasses, rode camels, then ATVs and buggies. . the price also included dinner and a show, it all cost us $ 35, and other "dangerous" guides at $ 18.
And that seven-day vacation in Hurghada cost me $ 400.205 ticket prices, 27 visas, 45 holiday dinners, 110 tours and the rest - souvenirs.
Overall the hotel is not bad. Rooms are cleaned every day, although the repairs are done "haphazardly".
Employees are cute, smiling, asking how to spend your vacation.
The area is large, there are several pools where the water is heated, access to the sea.
But I would like you not to be robbed of money at every step, because the feeling that you have been thrown a little spoils the positive emotions.
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original