Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
8.0
Service:
5.0
Cleanliness:
6.0
Food:
5.0
Amenities:
8.0
Recently returned with my husband from Sol Y Mar Club Makadi. I will try to answer everything, if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer!
I will make a reservation right away: we were in Egypt for the first time, before that we spent two years in a row resting in Turkey, in 5-star hotels.
ARRIVAL AND MEETING. A deep bow to Transaero, we cannot but express our admiration.
So, we landed and went to the airport.
From the local "service" they were stunned even there, when our luggage was thrown into a pile even before we unloaded from the plane; while the luggage was lying aside, the passengers, like fools, stood at the tape and waited for suitcases, many cursed. Anyway.
I didn’t really like that the guides are all Arabs, it’s hard to perceive that they speak broken Russian there. True, a Russian woman met us at the hotel. They didn’t say anything special, they called for a meeting the next morning. I will describe this meeting in a moment. Arab Ahmed told about the excursions, about the fact that Luxor is 7 thousand years old and that the Nile is the longest river. He spoke dryly and uninterestingly about excursions, handed out pieces of paper to everyone, on which everything was briefly described. In Turkey, guides have always tried to sell more excursions, they told in detail and in colors. In general, we did not go anywhere. The travel agency did not advise us to go anywhere, and then we ourselves saw on Channel 1 what was happening in Cairo.
We were outraged that no one said anything about the underwater world and the dangers that may be there. The fact that sea urchins live in the sea, I learned from a pen pal from Germany, he also sent me a photo. Hedgehogs stick out even near the shore, and there, by the way, small children usually play. I understand that now is the age of information technology, but not all advanced Internet users, someone has no idea what can be found in the Red Sea.
Oh yes. There are life-affirming posters on the beach: "There are no lifeguards, so swimming is your individual risk. " We understood that.
ACCOMMODATION. We immediately liked the room, quite spacious, with a balcony. The bathroom is unpretentious, there is no shower cabin and no bathtub, just a faucet. There is TV, 3 or 4 Russian channels. Refrigerator, in which everything is paid; nuts and chips lie separately, also paid.
The air conditioner is old, it works in two modes: "heat" and "to go nuts, how cold. " It blows right on the bed. We regulated it, but we still fell under the cold stream; as a result, I got sick on the 3rd day and suffered until the end of the vacation. By the way, it was our honeymoon. . .
There is no safe in the room, only at the reception. Anyway, thank God, nothing was missing from the room. The cleaner is very good, we don't know his name only. All the time he made beauty out of towels, then we bought two cool soft camels, so he made such funny things out of all this! Well done, imaginative guy.
TERRITORY. Yes, really beautiful. A lot of vegetation, shrubs of bizarre shapes, flowers.
Hotels in Madinat Makadi each live their own lives, and tour operators do not need to flaunt the fact that “There are many hotels, a very large territory! ” You can just walk around Hurghada, for that matter; and then what to do? You can’t eat, you can’t borrow sunbeds... In a word, if you take a ticket to this hotel, don’t flatter yourself about the territory.
NUTRITION. You can't call a restaurant a restaurant, it's a dining room. Everywhere the roar of dishes, the screams and squeals of children, the hustle and bustle. Careless parents do not follow the kids, they rush about and almost knock people off their feet. Playing catch-up in an already cramped room is the norm for them. In my presence, a child crashed into a man, he spilled his drinks (well, not boiling water). The kids come to the table with the already meager desserts and touch everything with their hands, like piano keys.
There is not enough space, many times it happened that we came, and there was nowhere to sit at all. Outside, it's hot. The fact that there were no places was not so bad, and it often happened that there was no food. The food was running out and no one brought more.
The air conditioning system is as bad as in the room. There are places where you sit and sweat, and there are places where it blows right in the back. Frail people (like me) get sick right away.
More about nutrition. The all-inclusive system does not include bottled water and other drinks, all this is available only in coolers and special installations. Everyone takes water in bottles; you can’t do this with juices if the Arabs are over the soul (“Know, know, pliz! ”). For breakfast there are delicious buns, yoghurts, fruits, scrambled eggs, delicious feta cheese, cereal, oatmeal with milk, stewed vegetables, toast… The assortment is unchanged. For lunch - also vegetables, meat - delicious soft beef, delicious beef sausages and meatballs, sometimes dry chicken, somehow there was a quail. Of the side dishes - rice, tasteless fried potatoes, burnt mashed potatoes. Dinner is about the same. I liked the soups, there were different ones: vegetable, mushroom, seafood, borscht, tomato soup and others. There are few sweets, ordinary biscuits, jelly, some kind of baklava (and even then rarely). There were fruits. One day we tried to take a couple of bananas to feed a camel on the beach. One Arab waiter-butt-licking saw, ran up, almost took away; and told everyone. It's a pity they never read his name; rare ugly guy. Why do I write so badly? 1) Bananas are there, sorry, even eat with your ass, they don’t buy them; 2) German burghers can do anything, and they are smiling at the top of their lungs, but what about us? Yes, in general, subsequently, how many times they were convinced what Arabs were miser. In Turkey, we have not seen such rednecks, and no one snatched food from their hands. And here, right in the dining room, there are citizens in shirts and trousers, watching everyone.
Of course, there are more good people among the staff than fawning sluts. We are especially grateful to Mohamed and Osama, good guys, they are kind.
Oh yes. In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, delicious pizza is baked on the terrace by the pool, and crabs (grilled) are made in the evening. There is also a late breakfast, which consists of cold snacks and rolls. Nearby is a bar where you can drink various non-alcoholic cocktails during the day (by the way, there is a similar bar near the beach), tea, coffee and hot chocolate at some time. The pool bar serves ice cream, we only saw "popsicles". In the evenings, people sit down there, talk, smoke hookah and just relax in a pleasant atmosphere.
BEACH. The biggest minus of the hotel. The owners of Madinata Makadi are obviously greedy ghouls who make money on tourists without caring about their comfort. The system on the beach is the same as in the dining room: there are no places. Of course, there are free-standing free sunbeds, but not always; and you can’t count on a place under an umbrella at all. The “kiss a German in the ass” system immediately operates: this is when the Germans come to the beach, and a plump Arab grabs towels from them, rushes around, looks for free sunbeds (certainly under an umbrella !!! ), spreads these towels himself and with a gentle smile leaves. Russians - at least ring the bell, go there for half a day in search of a place, no one will think to worry. On the first day of our stay, we, out of ignorance, occupied a sunbed of the neighboring hotel Madinat Makadi (I don’t remember the name), an Arab immediately ran up and said that it was impossible (here’s the “huge territory”: what’s the point? ). That's when we saw for the first time how small the beach is, what a monstrous discrepancy with the number of vacationers!
Before leaving, an unpleasant incident happened to us: on the last morning before departure, we decided at least once not to rush about, but to come and settle in a normal place. To do this, they put sunblock on one sunbed, and a book on the other. We arrive in the morning, two old German women are lying in our place, our things are gone. In shock, we found two sunbeds not in the sun, then, having recovered, the husband went to deal with the fat man. Thank God the book was found. And almost a whole bottle of cream was gone. Yes, and this is not the point, but in the situation itself: German grandmas came, there was not enough space, the Arab took and liquidated our things. This is fine? Why throw them away, well, they would have put them aside, and that's okay. I think: it was necessary to put a book in German, then no one would have dared to do so. Dear fellow citizens, remember our experience and do not leave things unattended (only if you are not Germans).
As for entering the sea, there are no complaints. There are broken corals near the shore, and sand, then beautiful reefs (well, relatively beautiful, of course). We liked the beach of the neighboring hotel better - across the pier; the hotel is called Tia Heights. The beach is huge, wooden sunbeds with soft mattresses, and the shore is a fairy tale. At first it goes aground, the water is already hot there (in general, a cool wind always blew, this made it difficult to enter the water; maybe September is affecting), and at a depth the reefs are much more beautiful than ours. There corals are already branched, long; more fish. We highly recommend that if someone flies to Egypt, buy a mask with photo and video modes; we bought and did not regret it! In our city, purchased in a diving club. Still, the sea is really beautiful, it would be a shame if they didn’t bring photos (and, especially, video). The hotel sells camera cases, disposable cameras, but a mask is much better! And you swim and shoot at the same time.
ANIMATION. It was something like, but... We compare with Turkey, where in one of the hotels they even showed a Chinese circus! There is nothing of the sort, of course. A company of guys and girls, of which all Germans, one Ukrainian. It seems that they play with children (there is a children's Solino club there); we didn't see anything special. There were some dances in the amphitheater, once a girl danced an oriental dance (not an animator, but another), once the guys came and said: “We are all going to Makadi-San, there is animation today! ” We spat, joked that tomorrow we would go to the animation in Sharm el-Sheikh, and we just went for a walk. So it goes.
SWIMMING POOL. If someone needs it... In general, there were few people around the pool, although it is quite large. In one half, children splash, in the other - 150 cm deep. Everyone, probably, comes overseas, so they don’t spend time by the pool.
CONTINGENT AND NATIONAL PECULIARITIES. Recently, the program “Let them talk” was noisy on TV, they talked about a Russian girl whom the Arabs raped and doused with boiling water. When we left, we were strictly warned at the agency that these people are “like that”, they don’t see women naked, they are wild... Do you know what I will say about this? They are not savages at all, they are quite accustomed to tourists, but I think that we should not behave like many of our compatriots: my husband and I watched an amusing posing scene on the pier, three young Russian ladies in bikinis flexed in front of the lens like snakes. The Arabs stood aside, licking them with their eyes and discussing them with the appropriate expression on their faces. So where is the brain? Why be surprised then? Not only did they come without men (it is not necessary to be married, but there are brothers and friends), they also behaved more than defiantly. And then tragedies happen and everyone shakes their heads: “Oh, what a pity! ” And I'm not sorry. There is nothing to provoke, wagging your bare ass. Yes, the men there are a little wilder than in Turkey, but just like that, no one will throw themselves at anyone.
As for the national composition, you probably already understood: most of the vacationers are Germans.
Who is this hotel for? For mothers and fathers with children, and also their grandparents. This is clear. When we were young, there were several couples, the rest - ALL with children, or old people.
At the end of our stay, Muslims came, and every day their number increased. There was a feeling that Arab women were giving birth right there: they had babies in general. A madhouse began, it became even harder to be in the dining room.
CONCLUSION. My husband and I decided that if we first went to this hotel, and only then to two Turkish "fives", we would have loved everything. Naturally, there is nothing to give “4+” here, although the travel agency told us that many Egyptian “4s” are like Turkish “5s”. Rave. After this hotel, we can't believe it, and if we ever fly anywhere, it will be Turkey. Alas, there is no faith in Egypt.
Those who have already bought tickets - do not be upset and do not take my review to heart, because it is subjective for you; You may very well like this hotel! Once again I say: depending on what to compare. There is nothing wrong, that's for sure. Well, we are glad that we saw the Red Sea and this country.
I will make a reservation right away: we were in Egypt for the first time, before that we spent two years in a row resting in Turkey, in 5-star hotels.
ARRIVAL AND MEETING. A deep bow to Transaero, we cannot but express our admiration.
So, we landed and went to the airport.
From the local "service" they were stunned even there, when our luggage was thrown into a pile even before we unloaded from the plane; while the luggage was lying aside, the passengers, like fools, stood at the tape and waited for suitcases, many cursed. Anyway.
I didn’t really like that the guides are all Arabs, it’s hard to perceive that they speak broken Russian there. True, a Russian woman met us at the hotel. They didn’t say anything special, they called for a meeting the next morning. I will describe this meeting in a moment. Arab Ahmed told about the excursions, about the fact that Luxor is 7 thousand years old and that the Nile is the longest river. He spoke dryly and uninterestingly about excursions, handed out pieces of paper to everyone, on which everything was briefly described. In Turkey, guides have always tried to sell more excursions, they told in detail and in colors. In general, we did not go anywhere. The travel agency did not advise us to go anywhere, and then we ourselves saw on Channel 1 what was happening in Cairo.
We were outraged that no one said anything about the underwater world and the dangers that may be there. The fact that sea urchins live in the sea, I learned from a pen pal from Germany, he also sent me a photo. Hedgehogs stick out even near the shore, and there, by the way, small children usually play. I understand that now is the age of information technology, but not all advanced Internet users, someone has no idea what can be found in the Red Sea.
Oh yes. There are life-affirming posters on the beach: "There are no lifeguards, so swimming is your individual risk. " We understood that.
ACCOMMODATION. We immediately liked the room, quite spacious, with a balcony. The bathroom is unpretentious, there is no shower cabin and no bathtub, just a faucet. There is TV, 3 or 4 Russian channels. Refrigerator, in which everything is paid; nuts and chips lie separately, also paid.
The air conditioner is old, it works in two modes: "heat" and "to go nuts, how cold. " It blows right on the bed. We regulated it, but we still fell under the cold stream; as a result, I got sick on the 3rd day and suffered until the end of the vacation. By the way, it was our honeymoon. . .
There is no safe in the room, only at the reception. Anyway, thank God, nothing was missing from the room. The cleaner is very good, we don't know his name only. All the time he made beauty out of towels, then we bought two cool soft camels, so he made such funny things out of all this! Well done, imaginative guy.
TERRITORY. Yes, really beautiful. A lot of vegetation, shrubs of bizarre shapes, flowers.
Hotels in Madinat Makadi each live their own lives, and tour operators do not need to flaunt the fact that “There are many hotels, a very large territory! ” You can just walk around Hurghada, for that matter; and then what to do? You can’t eat, you can’t borrow sunbeds... In a word, if you take a ticket to this hotel, don’t flatter yourself about the territory.
NUTRITION. You can't call a restaurant a restaurant, it's a dining room. Everywhere the roar of dishes, the screams and squeals of children, the hustle and bustle. Careless parents do not follow the kids, they rush about and almost knock people off their feet. Playing catch-up in an already cramped room is the norm for them. In my presence, a child crashed into a man, he spilled his drinks (well, not boiling water). The kids come to the table with the already meager desserts and touch everything with their hands, like piano keys.
There is not enough space, many times it happened that we came, and there was nowhere to sit at all. Outside, it's hot. The fact that there were no places was not so bad, and it often happened that there was no food. The food was running out and no one brought more.
The air conditioning system is as bad as in the room. There are places where you sit and sweat, and there are places where it blows right in the back. Frail people (like me) get sick right away.
More about nutrition. The all-inclusive system does not include bottled water and other drinks, all this is available only in coolers and special installations. Everyone takes water in bottles; you can’t do this with juices if the Arabs are over the soul (“Know, know, pliz! ”). For breakfast there are delicious buns, yoghurts, fruits, scrambled eggs, delicious feta cheese, cereal, oatmeal with milk, stewed vegetables, toast… The assortment is unchanged. For lunch - also vegetables, meat - delicious soft beef, delicious beef sausages and meatballs, sometimes dry chicken, somehow there was a quail. Of the side dishes - rice, tasteless fried potatoes, burnt mashed potatoes. Dinner is about the same. I liked the soups, there were different ones: vegetable, mushroom, seafood, borscht, tomato soup and others. There are few sweets, ordinary biscuits, jelly, some kind of baklava (and even then rarely). There were fruits. One day we tried to take a couple of bananas to feed a camel on the beach. One Arab waiter-butt-licking saw, ran up, almost took away; and told everyone. It's a pity they never read his name; rare ugly guy. Why do I write so badly? 1) Bananas are there, sorry, even eat with your ass, they don’t buy them; 2) German burghers can do anything, and they are smiling at the top of their lungs, but what about us? Yes, in general, subsequently, how many times they were convinced what Arabs were miser. In Turkey, we have not seen such rednecks, and no one snatched food from their hands. And here, right in the dining room, there are citizens in shirts and trousers, watching everyone.
Of course, there are more good people among the staff than fawning sluts. We are especially grateful to Mohamed and Osama, good guys, they are kind.
Oh yes. In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, delicious pizza is baked on the terrace by the pool, and crabs (grilled) are made in the evening. There is also a late breakfast, which consists of cold snacks and rolls. Nearby is a bar where you can drink various non-alcoholic cocktails during the day (by the way, there is a similar bar near the beach), tea, coffee and hot chocolate at some time. The pool bar serves ice cream, we only saw "popsicles". In the evenings, people sit down there, talk, smoke hookah and just relax in a pleasant atmosphere.
BEACH. The biggest minus of the hotel. The owners of Madinata Makadi are obviously greedy ghouls who make money on tourists without caring about their comfort. The system on the beach is the same as in the dining room: there are no places. Of course, there are free-standing free sunbeds, but not always; and you can’t count on a place under an umbrella at all. The “kiss a German in the ass” system immediately operates: this is when the Germans come to the beach, and a plump Arab grabs towels from them, rushes around, looks for free sunbeds (certainly under an umbrella !!! ), spreads these towels himself and with a gentle smile leaves. Russians - at least ring the bell, go there for half a day in search of a place, no one will think to worry. On the first day of our stay, we, out of ignorance, occupied a sunbed of the neighboring hotel Madinat Makadi (I don’t remember the name), an Arab immediately ran up and said that it was impossible (here’s the “huge territory”: what’s the point? ). That's when we saw for the first time how small the beach is, what a monstrous discrepancy with the number of vacationers!
Before leaving, an unpleasant incident happened to us: on the last morning before departure, we decided at least once not to rush about, but to come and settle in a normal place. To do this, they put sunblock on one sunbed, and a book on the other. We arrive in the morning, two old German women are lying in our place, our things are gone. In shock, we found two sunbeds not in the sun, then, having recovered, the husband went to deal with the fat man. Thank God the book was found. And almost a whole bottle of cream was gone. Yes, and this is not the point, but in the situation itself: German grandmas came, there was not enough space, the Arab took and liquidated our things. This is fine? Why throw them away, well, they would have put them aside, and that's okay. I think: it was necessary to put a book in German, then no one would have dared to do so. Dear fellow citizens, remember our experience and do not leave things unattended (only if you are not Germans).
As for entering the sea, there are no complaints. There are broken corals near the shore, and sand, then beautiful reefs (well, relatively beautiful, of course). We liked the beach of the neighboring hotel better - across the pier; the hotel is called Tia Heights. The beach is huge, wooden sunbeds with soft mattresses, and the shore is a fairy tale. At first it goes aground, the water is already hot there (in general, a cool wind always blew, this made it difficult to enter the water; maybe September is affecting), and at a depth the reefs are much more beautiful than ours. There corals are already branched, long; more fish. We highly recommend that if someone flies to Egypt, buy a mask with photo and video modes; we bought and did not regret it! In our city, purchased in a diving club. Still, the sea is really beautiful, it would be a shame if they didn’t bring photos (and, especially, video). The hotel sells camera cases, disposable cameras, but a mask is much better! And you swim and shoot at the same time.
ANIMATION. It was something like, but... We compare with Turkey, where in one of the hotels they even showed a Chinese circus! There is nothing of the sort, of course. A company of guys and girls, of which all Germans, one Ukrainian. It seems that they play with children (there is a children's Solino club there); we didn't see anything special. There were some dances in the amphitheater, once a girl danced an oriental dance (not an animator, but another), once the guys came and said: “We are all going to Makadi-San, there is animation today! ” We spat, joked that tomorrow we would go to the animation in Sharm el-Sheikh, and we just went for a walk. So it goes.
SWIMMING POOL. If someone needs it... In general, there were few people around the pool, although it is quite large. In one half, children splash, in the other - 150 cm deep. Everyone, probably, comes overseas, so they don’t spend time by the pool.
CONTINGENT AND NATIONAL PECULIARITIES. Recently, the program “Let them talk” was noisy on TV, they talked about a Russian girl whom the Arabs raped and doused with boiling water. When we left, we were strictly warned at the agency that these people are “like that”, they don’t see women naked, they are wild... Do you know what I will say about this? They are not savages at all, they are quite accustomed to tourists, but I think that we should not behave like many of our compatriots: my husband and I watched an amusing posing scene on the pier, three young Russian ladies in bikinis flexed in front of the lens like snakes. The Arabs stood aside, licking them with their eyes and discussing them with the appropriate expression on their faces. So where is the brain? Why be surprised then? Not only did they come without men (it is not necessary to be married, but there are brothers and friends), they also behaved more than defiantly. And then tragedies happen and everyone shakes their heads: “Oh, what a pity! ” And I'm not sorry. There is nothing to provoke, wagging your bare ass. Yes, the men there are a little wilder than in Turkey, but just like that, no one will throw themselves at anyone.
As for the national composition, you probably already understood: most of the vacationers are Germans.
Who is this hotel for? For mothers and fathers with children, and also their grandparents. This is clear. When we were young, there were several couples, the rest - ALL with children, or old people.
At the end of our stay, Muslims came, and every day their number increased. There was a feeling that Arab women were giving birth right there: they had babies in general. A madhouse began, it became even harder to be in the dining room.
CONCLUSION. My husband and I decided that if we first went to this hotel, and only then to two Turkish "fives", we would have loved everything. Naturally, there is nothing to give “4+” here, although the travel agency told us that many Egyptian “4s” are like Turkish “5s”. Rave. After this hotel, we can't believe it, and if we ever fly anywhere, it will be Turkey. Alas, there is no faith in Egypt.
Those who have already bought tickets - do not be upset and do not take my review to heart, because it is subjective for you; You may very well like this hotel! Once again I say: depending on what to compare. There is nothing wrong, that's for sure. Well, we are glad that we saw the Red Sea and this country.
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