Makadi Bay with an uncluttered look

Written: 15 november 2009
Travel time: 1 — 11 november 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
We rested in Makadi Bay from November 1-11.2009 through Pegas-Touristik. I'm abroad for the first time, boyfriend - one hundred and first)). After reading reviews on the Internet, they put $ 10 in the passport when checking in, settled for a long time. I went to the reception several times, the cunning Arab, who pocketed 10 tanks, made a frostbitten face and asked, "Are you moving out already? " After the scandal, a room on the 3rd floor was issued. The shower didn't work, had to call the master. The refrigerator did not freeze at all, our Arabic master said (or rather showed with gestures) that it freezes super)). We spat and decided not to swear, because. did not yet know if we would need this refrigerator at all.
There were no complaints about the cleaning of the room, the only negative is that our cleaner 10 times a day came to our room, examined everything in a businesslike manner and asked if everything was in order (they couldn’t send us out). From time to time he asked for a pack of Marlboro from duty-free, Ukrainian Kent did not suit him)). Once I went in and said, “Fse f paryadke? Otherwise, I’m leaving tomorrow, ”he was given 1 dollar, and the visits stopped there. Two days passed stupidly in search of towels and free sun loungers (because after a tired work week, we did not reach the beach before 11 am). There was a desire to cheer at the local disco on the 2nd floor of the reception. Three cripples and an incomprehensible bar employee who tried to take our drinks from the reception, arguing that drinks are paid at the disco, repulsed this desire for the rest of the rest. We decided that it would be much more productive to get enough sleep and go to the beach early. That's what they decided on.
The food in the dining room, in principle, is sane, but for my taste it is monotonous. Although I normally adjusted to my diet and upon arrival I found that I had lost 2 kg (maybe from poisoning? But more on that later). Crowds in the dining room - minus, of course. But try to feed a thousand people (520 rooms)? As for food, I generally don’t care, three meals a day is a lot for me.

We went to the beach in the direction of Azur, we looked at the fish there, behind the island. The rest of the beaches are not suitable for swimming at all. The water is knee-deep, to swim you have to go to the horizon. My boyfriend once went swimming, so I looked out for him every now and then like a small dot on the horizon. The dot for 5 minutes disappeared from sight and I got excited. I thought that by the time I got to the place, he would definitely drown or be eaten by fish)).
Booked a two-day tour of Cairo-Alexandria. In complete delight. Did someone resent the fact that they did not go inside the fortress and the library? Well, this, you know, is not a week-long excursion. Regarding the organization of excursions by Pegasus - respect, everyone who went is very satisfied . . Guides Yaser and Bassem are just smart. Well educated, attentive, they spit in Russian - God forbid. Not every Russian will say that. During and after the tour, we also talked on abstract topics. If not for the tour, I don't even know what we would have done in this hotel. Aerobics and volleyball get boring on the second day. No disco. The only thing that overshadowed the rest was poisoning. But I sin on fruits from the Cairo market. After the guava, I was twisted so that I lay in the room for a day and almost constantly slept. Another downside is the weather. In those days, there were just cold nights, and the air conditioning in the bus worked. We froze to the full, although we were in jeans and sweaters. It has been 4 days since we returned from Makadi, and 9 days since we returned from Cairo, and we still have a cough with a fever. And in our hysterical-gauze environment, we are generally like two lepers)) It is worth coughing in the minibus and people begin to change to the other side of the bus)). It took another day to burn through one day in a room with a temperature. And that - two days in the room were ill, sunbathed for three days. Three days of meaningless lying on the beach was enough for me personally.
Let's return to the discussion of the hotel. The staff is quite sane, the bartenders and waiters are friendly. Although I concluded that if it weren’t for my type that is so popular in this country (a pretty Russian blonde), no one would have brought ordered drinks to my Seryoga at dinner faster than we had time to sit down at the table. Girls in Egypt are definitely easier. You can find 10 differences between the rest of a man and a woman in the same period of time in the same hotel. In general, I agree with everything written below about: the dining room, the pools, the beach, the adjacent shops and the disgusting Egyptian swill. The only thing we drank was a gin and tonic with lime. If they do not paint over their UPI with this, then it is quite possible to use it. In general, there are many minuses, but the main thing is the mood. We wanted to rest - we rested. The rest is trifles. But even though it was my first time abroad, I would give this hotel a maximum of 4 stars.
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