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We rested in this hotel with my family: me, my husband and 2 daughters: 5 and 10 years old, in the 1st decade of November. I am writing a review for the first time, before that I was in Turkey. At the reception, immediately upon check-in, they put $ 10 in the passport, asked for the norms. room. They returned the money to us, they gave us a room on the outskirts (No. 1144), next to the construction site, where they make noise even in the evening. Our requests to change were refused, they offered a bungalow for $ 20 per day. We agreed, but they didn't give us a bungalow either. They said: "Tomorrow at 12.00. " On the trail. day we came again, they said - come later - at 15.00, there is no bungalow. In the end, with great favor, they nevertheless gave the norms. room (#225) , for $40. With a broken cot, from which the husband fell off safely. (Changed only after the 2nd reminder, after 2 days. )
Pros.
The sea is excellent, entry into the water is suitable for children of any age. To the beach - down the stairs. Fish - a great variety, on the beach near the Ladorada restaurant, my 5-year-old daughter saw large and colorful fish, flocks in her arms. Octopuses, stingrays, lionfish, serpenttails on the shore, hedgehogs, crabs, goldfish....My husband stepped on one stingray by accident, and also saw a bunch of stingrays lying on the sand on the shallows. (After that, he went into the water only in special shoes). I saw right on the shore among the stones of the devilish scorpionfish. (Only now I found out what kind of "fruit" it is). I took many underwater photos. In general, don’t go without slippers, although it seems that the bottom is very ideal. )
Minuses.
1. Food: monotonous, if something is over from fruits or vegetables, then they will not be updated.
The main restaurant - the farther, the worse it was, the choice decreased....: breakfast: at first there were unsweetened yoghurts, processed cheese, after 4 days they were no longer given at all. There were yogurts in large “basins” (2 types maximum), butter, buns, a strangely working toaster, pancakes (I took it for my daughter, because she didn’t eat anything else for breakfast, there is a small queue for them, they give with desire - 2 pcs . , more than two - with obvious greed, with surprise in the question: Six? Yes, I answer 6 pieces. (They are thin at all, for a child 2 pieces is not enough. )... an omelet (there is a huge queue behind it, they fry for 2 small frying pans), some kind of beans, unappetizing potatoes, sometimes grapefruits, something like cottage cheese, cheese (at first - 4 types, later - 2-3)
Lunch and dinner: - lines all the time, the feeling that you are in a Soviet canteen. A decent soup was only 1 time in 10 days: and so some kind of water. Chicken every day, sometimes beef, rice (not always tasty), warm pasta - with a constant line to the Italian, who fries them with sauce, cold pasta - without a queue, warm without sauce - to the Italian, so that he dips them in a sieve in boiling water , queue on the other side). Potatoes are raw and tasteless. Zucchini - fresh, without salt, sometimes - beans or peas, color. cabbage. The fish is one and the same - something like a pangasius, for an amateur. Eggplant - 2 times in a salad. From fresh vegetables - sweet peppers all the time, cabbage, olives. Tomatoes - 1 time, cucumbers - 3 times. Some salads. In general, you can eat, but already on the 6th 7th day I lost my appetite, because eat the same. . . very annoying. Sweets - good, different biscuits, with nuts, sesame seeds, fruits.
From fruits: 2 types maximum: guava, dates, apples, 1 time oranges, grapefruits, 2 times pomegranates, large tangerines 1 time, 1 time bananas.
Drinks - tea, coffee, cocoa, UPI. Juice - only in the Aurora bars and near the reception, guava and mango, and even then not always, often the juice ended. Again, pour into small glasses.
There was a strong impression that everyone gives with effort, that they don't owe us anything. Juice was taken only to children, and then on the face of the bartender in Aurora - discontent. The unpleasant feeling remains, there is no desire to come there at all.
There is no children's menu, diets too. Children were opened in the evening. corner, but there - overcooked sausages mostly, pasta (already with sauce), sometimes rice, there were very spicy fish cakes 1 time....The result - what they feed small children (up to 3-4 years old) - is not clear. I don't think there is anything to feed them.
Went to a fish restaurant: $44 for 2 adults, kids free. They invited us to a table, sat down, brought juice and wine. We are sitting... Suddenly everyone rushed somewhere, the whole crowd. We thought that the show had started. . . It turns out - no, you have to queue for food! Pasta with shells and sand. (Terrible grit on the teeth, I could not eat). Some kind of fish, shrimp, crabs (in my opinion - tasteless), squid. Salads are more interesting than in the main. restaurant. But there was such a specific smell that my children didn’t eat anything at all, the youngest was generally afraid of crabs, sat with her nose closed, and was capricious. In general, having swallowed something, they left without waiting to be entertained. programs. Went to the main restaurant for tea.
We went 2 times to an Italian restaurant: pizza - normal, without tomatoes. , only cheese and something else in very small quantities, again: the first time the pizza was tastier than the second. The salad is delicious. First time delicious mashed potato soup, 2nd time tasteless spinach soup. Here, oddly enough, everything is brought, but the wait is long.
In general, my children ate only pasta all 10 days, chicken, sometimes rice. Only 1 time was a deliciously cooked fish, cut off a small piece in 1 hand, if you ask for more - already displeasure on the face of the cook.
What else…. Towels on the beach in the morning brazenly lay out the Arabs, at 7 am almost everything is already occupied by them, they release them for a dollar. There was also an unpleasant incident... We liked the beach near the Ladorada restaurant, where we spent all the main. time. So, my daughters were building from sand and pebbles on the shore, the “chief Arab” ran up on this beach, started yelling something, almost breaking the sand castle built by the children. “You can’t dig here, ” he says, “you can only dig on another beach. ” My husband spoke to him sharply, explained what was happening. Half an hour later, his boss came, in general, after 5 minutes of talking, so be it, they allowed the children to dig.
Somehow they came after dinner - but our towels left on the beach under an umbrella - no. In our places lie an Arab and his wife. I got a normal beach worker, he brought us other towels.
Animation - on the main beach: noticeable for Italians, for Russians and others - unobtrusive. I saw only girls inviting children to play in the sand, to build with sand…. and water aerobics in the sea - for everyone. The mini-disco started at 21.15, the evening show at 22.00, we were already asleep, so I don’t know what was there.
Playground: there are slides, 3 hanging swings, (by the end of our vacation 2 broke down, only one was left. ). In the evening, everything is lit, except for the playground, the darkness is such that you can play and ride only by touch.
Aquapark. 5 slides for all ages (My eldest daughter liked it very much), 2 slides for small children. They work 2 hours before lunch, 2 hours after.
There are shops where you can buy masks, snorkels, souvenirs. But here we are completely screwed up, because. we were not sure that there would be shops at the airport, and we did not go to Hurghada. Bought souvenirs in David's shop 2-3 times more expensive than it can be done at the airport. Upon arrival, we found that instead of 2 plates intended for grandmothers, we have one....Unpleasant.
Cleaning service: often left a dollar tip. Towels changed every day, bed hardly. Dust - not wiped, the floor is not washed, partially swept. Garbage bins are cleaned, rugs are shaken out. Sometimes big ants ran through. My husband saw a MOUSE in our room. (Thank you for not telling me during the rest, because I only had suspicions about this....in the form of nocturnal rustling).
The safe was bolted to the wall, nothing seemed to have been stolen.
Drinking water daily in bottles of 0.5 liters you take from the bar near the reception.
In general, it is imperceptible that guests are welcome there, that is, vacationers. Everything is kind of mediocre. Around - dirty, poorly cleaned, windows in the stairwells - it feels like they have never been washed.
I don't want to go there again. And indeed the hotel scared away from Egypt. According to our impressions, in Turkey the service is much better. When we bought a ticket, there was not much to choose from. However, we expected better. People who were in this hotel last year rested with us, they said that the hotel had changed a lot for the worse. For 10 days we managed to swim enough, sunbathed. These are pluses. Everything else is a minus for a 5 star hotel. Of course, this is not 5 stars. I want to add that I am a non-scandalous person and not very fastidious. Therefore, they did not pay much attention, they swam, sunbathed, read, watched fish, the eldest daughter swam, rode on slides, the youngest was also in sea water a lot. Where else at this time you will find a warm sea. Rested, but without much comfort.
Pros.
The sea is excellent, entry into the water is suitable for children of any age. To the beach - down the stairs. Fish - a great variety, on the beach near the Ladorada restaurant, my 5-year-old daughter saw large and colorful fish, flocks in her arms. Octopuses, stingrays, lionfish, serpenttails on the shore, hedgehogs, crabs, goldfish....My husband stepped on one stingray by accident, and also saw a bunch of stingrays lying on the sand on the shallows. (After that, he went into the water only in special shoes). I saw right on the shore among the stones of the devilish scorpionfish. (Only now I found out what kind of "fruit" it is). I took many underwater photos. In general, don’t go without slippers, although it seems that the bottom is very ideal. )
Minuses.
1. Food: monotonous, if something is over from fruits or vegetables, then they will not be updated.
The main restaurant - the farther, the worse it was, the choice decreased....: breakfast: at first there were unsweetened yoghurts, processed cheese, after 4 days they were no longer given at all. There were yogurts in large “basins” (2 types maximum), butter, buns, a strangely working toaster, pancakes (I took it for my daughter, because she didn’t eat anything else for breakfast, there is a small queue for them, they give with desire - 2 pcs . , more than two - with obvious greed, with surprise in the question: Six? Yes, I answer 6 pieces. (They are thin at all, for a child 2 pieces is not enough. )... an omelet (there is a huge queue behind it, they fry for 2 small frying pans), some kind of beans, unappetizing potatoes, sometimes grapefruits, something like cottage cheese, cheese (at first - 4 types, later - 2-3)
Lunch and dinner: - lines all the time, the feeling that you are in a Soviet canteen. A decent soup was only 1 time in 10 days: and so some kind of water. Chicken every day, sometimes beef, rice (not always tasty), warm pasta - with a constant line to the Italian, who fries them with sauce, cold pasta - without a queue, warm without sauce - to the Italian, so that he dips them in a sieve in boiling water , queue on the other side). Potatoes are raw and tasteless. Zucchini - fresh, without salt, sometimes - beans or peas, color. cabbage. The fish is one and the same - something like a pangasius, for an amateur. Eggplant - 2 times in a salad. From fresh vegetables - sweet peppers all the time, cabbage, olives. Tomatoes - 1 time, cucumbers - 3 times. Some salads. In general, you can eat, but already on the 6th 7th day I lost my appetite, because eat the same. . . very annoying. Sweets - good, different biscuits, with nuts, sesame seeds, fruits.
From fruits: 2 types maximum: guava, dates, apples, 1 time oranges, grapefruits, 2 times pomegranates, large tangerines 1 time, 1 time bananas.
Drinks - tea, coffee, cocoa, UPI. Juice - only in the Aurora bars and near the reception, guava and mango, and even then not always, often the juice ended. Again, pour into small glasses.
There was a strong impression that everyone gives with effort, that they don't owe us anything. Juice was taken only to children, and then on the face of the bartender in Aurora - discontent. The unpleasant feeling remains, there is no desire to come there at all.
There is no children's menu, diets too. Children were opened in the evening. corner, but there - overcooked sausages mostly, pasta (already with sauce), sometimes rice, there were very spicy fish cakes 1 time....The result - what they feed small children (up to 3-4 years old) - is not clear. I don't think there is anything to feed them.
Went to a fish restaurant: $44 for 2 adults, kids free. They invited us to a table, sat down, brought juice and wine. We are sitting... Suddenly everyone rushed somewhere, the whole crowd. We thought that the show had started. . . It turns out - no, you have to queue for food! Pasta with shells and sand. (Terrible grit on the teeth, I could not eat). Some kind of fish, shrimp, crabs (in my opinion - tasteless), squid. Salads are more interesting than in the main. restaurant. But there was such a specific smell that my children didn’t eat anything at all, the youngest was generally afraid of crabs, sat with her nose closed, and was capricious. In general, having swallowed something, they left without waiting to be entertained. programs. Went to the main restaurant for tea.
We went 2 times to an Italian restaurant: pizza - normal, without tomatoes. , only cheese and something else in very small quantities, again: the first time the pizza was tastier than the second. The salad is delicious. First time delicious mashed potato soup, 2nd time tasteless spinach soup. Here, oddly enough, everything is brought, but the wait is long.
In general, my children ate only pasta all 10 days, chicken, sometimes rice. Only 1 time was a deliciously cooked fish, cut off a small piece in 1 hand, if you ask for more - already displeasure on the face of the cook.
What else…. Towels on the beach in the morning brazenly lay out the Arabs, at 7 am almost everything is already occupied by them, they release them for a dollar. There was also an unpleasant incident... We liked the beach near the Ladorada restaurant, where we spent all the main. time. So, my daughters were building from sand and pebbles on the shore, the “chief Arab” ran up on this beach, started yelling something, almost breaking the sand castle built by the children. “You can’t dig here, ” he says, “you can only dig on another beach. ” My husband spoke to him sharply, explained what was happening. Half an hour later, his boss came, in general, after 5 minutes of talking, so be it, they allowed the children to dig.
Somehow they came after dinner - but our towels left on the beach under an umbrella - no. In our places lie an Arab and his wife. I got a normal beach worker, he brought us other towels.
Animation - on the main beach: noticeable for Italians, for Russians and others - unobtrusive. I saw only girls inviting children to play in the sand, to build with sand…. and water aerobics in the sea - for everyone. The mini-disco started at 21.15, the evening show at 22.00, we were already asleep, so I don’t know what was there.
Playground: there are slides, 3 hanging swings, (by the end of our vacation 2 broke down, only one was left. ). In the evening, everything is lit, except for the playground, the darkness is such that you can play and ride only by touch.
Aquapark. 5 slides for all ages (My eldest daughter liked it very much), 2 slides for small children. They work 2 hours before lunch, 2 hours after.
There are shops where you can buy masks, snorkels, souvenirs. But here we are completely screwed up, because. we were not sure that there would be shops at the airport, and we did not go to Hurghada. Bought souvenirs in David's shop 2-3 times more expensive than it can be done at the airport. Upon arrival, we found that instead of 2 plates intended for grandmothers, we have one....Unpleasant.
Cleaning service: often left a dollar tip. Towels changed every day, bed hardly. Dust - not wiped, the floor is not washed, partially swept. Garbage bins are cleaned, rugs are shaken out. Sometimes big ants ran through. My husband saw a MOUSE in our room. (Thank you for not telling me during the rest, because I only had suspicions about this....in the form of nocturnal rustling).
The safe was bolted to the wall, nothing seemed to have been stolen.
Drinking water daily in bottles of 0.5 liters you take from the bar near the reception.
In general, it is imperceptible that guests are welcome there, that is, vacationers. Everything is kind of mediocre. Around - dirty, poorly cleaned, windows in the stairwells - it feels like they have never been washed.
I don't want to go there again. And indeed the hotel scared away from Egypt. According to our impressions, in Turkey the service is much better. When we bought a ticket, there was not much to choose from. However, we expected better. People who were in this hotel last year rested with us, they said that the hotel had changed a lot for the worse. For 10 days we managed to swim enough, sunbathed. These are pluses. Everything else is a minus for a 5 star hotel. Of course, this is not 5 stars. I want to add that I am a non-scandalous person and not very fastidious. Therefore, they did not pay much attention, they swam, sunbathed, read, watched fish, the eldest daughter swam, rode on slides, the youngest was also in sea water a lot. Where else at this time you will find a warm sea. Rested, but without much comfort.
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