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Just got back from there.
What is wrong? All three of us, including the seven-year-old youngest, have had an intestinal infection. It was an infection - because upon returning it was also picked up by our eldest son, who stayed at home (studies at the university). Otherwise - the hotel is worth the money - that is, it is confident EGYPTIAN *****.
An indicator of the level of the hotel - there were a lot of Germans on our check-in. We lived in building C4 - (this is opposite the pool with a large bar and an amphitheater). The room is spacious and in good condition - Sea View, they chose and paid for this standard in Kyiv, and nothing was paid extra on the spot. They took all inclusive without ultra - and I didn’t see any special arguments in favor of ultra there - it’s quite normal to relax, eat and drink just according to AI. For those who paid for a ticket to Sport (in a new building) - there was a special offer at the reception - for only $ 5 per day to move to a room on the main territory. It seems to me that it would be worth it to fork out for it - although I was not in the "sport"
By the way - the hotel has an excellent photographer (desk at the shops) - he made his wife a first-class photo shoot - I had to fork out. I gave out one and a half hundred pictures (edited) - and the starting price of the session was $ 200. The amount puzzled me, since the very idea of the session was pure impromptu - but when I looked at the result, I was convinced that there was something to pay for - unless, of course, God had completely cheated your companion, and you decided to properly capture this providence of the Lord.
Be careful with the sun! When you see already pretty red sunbathers on the beach at 11 in the morning - and they sit in the sun until lunchtime and longer - you know - a nightmare awaits them. On the plane, on the way back, I saw children whose skin hung in patches from their hands and traces of burst bubbles were visible. Well, parents need to be so wooden and so overcook their own children!
My rule, developed a long time ago - at sea - no "tanning"!
Only a shadow - the sun is already quite enough for you while you go swimming - plus what shines through the wicker "fungi". You need to go to the beach in the morning immediately after breakfast, that is, in the morning - and at 11 o'clock, maximum at 12 - go home, relax. And at 4-5 pm you can again go to the beach - if the morning was not enough for you.
And not vice versa - as many of our tourists do. Once I broke this rule in Serenity - I stayed on the beach until lunch - and by the evening I found burns on my hands and neck, and got a couple of ruined days of rest
The sea was stormy almost all days, except for the last two - when the wind blew from the desert and brought intense heat. They said - so in Hurghada since the middle of summer - and there is not the slightest desire to go there in the high season. And before that, the wind from the sea dispersed a big wave (a couple of times they even closed the pontoon) - but it was not hot and stuffy.
There were enough sun loungers - even if you were late for the beach.
They are really unattractive in appearance there - it would not hurt the administration to refresh them with varnish - and touch up the rusted supports of fungi.
Otherwise, the beach is normal, the hotel area is quite well-groomed, green and all in pools and flowers - although the staff is busy with care work during the day and, as they say, gets under their feet.
And he's Arabic - and the Arabs have a way of falling out of character all the time and trying to sit on your head from time to time.
Russian tourists who can say hello to the servants, clapping their palms with them in a big way, and arrange noisy fraternization, the staff here, as in many other places, is pretty spoiled by familiarity and rudeness - but this is a separate issue.
Let me just say that if some hefty uncle began to destroy corals on the edge of the reef with galoshes, not paying any attention to the whistles of the security guards - or some mother dragged two children to swim directly from the reef, and even with a high wave - you can be sure - this in ten cases out of ten it was Russian tourists.
Not to mention the bearded man who resounded the whole restaurant with a monologue that not so long ago he could drink a liter - and not in one eye. But what to take from him - if he was wearing a white T-shirt with large letters LDPR - as well as on his aunt, who listened to his rantings. How do they all eat? Stringing huge pieces on a fork - and tearing off smaller pieces from them with your teeth. And in between, waving this fork with that piece in time with their speeches. Probably - this is how our ancestors ate in Trypillya-Kukuteni.
They also have strict rules: if they pour at the counter, then take at least 4 glasses of beer in one hand.
My wife is originally from Russia - but her former compatriots amazed her, perhaps even more than me.
By the way, most Germans live along the second line - and it's quiet there, and the servants in that area appear only at sunset. They rest quietly and inconspicuously.
And here, where fewer Germans and more Eastern Europe are settled - the Arabs, having caught a different standard, can easily arrange a noisy roll call at 5 in the morning - or roll out a powerful Caterpillar to the beach at 6 pm so that it begins to level the sand with a dump, emitting thick exhaust - although nearby people still play volleyball. And then start unloading sand from the dump truck.
The cuisine in Serenity, as I said, is quite up to par for Egypt - and in the evening on the street - a mini-festival of national dishes.
There is one “but” in the kitchen of that one - in a week you already want native Ukrainian vegetables, our meat and other dishes - after all, those who say are right - you need to eat food that has grown on the land on which you live.
At the same time, breakfast, as it should be according to the European standard, is rather limited in assortment (do not forget about the scrambled eggs that the cook fries at the counter under the wall), lunch is more fun, and the main blow to the stomach occurs at night, i. e. at dinner.
Juices there - so-so, thinner on the beach, in the restaurant - closer to normal, beer - light and no big complaints, white and red wines - a normal table standard. This is all we basically drank, and we had enough.
Russian-speaking bartenders, it must be said, are a little rude, and sometimes they just get carried away. By and large, tourists would not be allowed into Egypt at all - the locals there do not understand well how to treat those tourists, and it is unlikely that they will ever really learn the proper treatment.
Of the things there, you can - if you search - find good cotton at a good price - and cheap souvenirs - a dollar or two and more (after the Cote d'Azur, where any "magnet card" starts at 5 euros - there is something to appreciate).
In the room - despite the upgraded class - there were no slippers, no shower-cap - but a powerful shower in a spacious shower compartment. By the way - on the side of the toilet - a combined bidet valve (it was discovered only on the second day). They didn't make a crocodile out of towels, but made a couple of swans - and we left a dollar for each for tea. After that, the room was cleaned quite casually and without straining.
But in general - if you don’t come with neurasthenia and don’t have the Soviet habit of emphasizing your aristocratic origin, looking for where something is wrong, then loudly express your fe, if you don’t roast in the sun, like a barbecue, and don’t eat, as if got from the country of gobies in a tomato straight to full communism (which all inclusive in fact is) and if you don’t drink at night as if an asteroid should fall to the ground in the morning, then you will rest there, relax, see enough corals and fish and pay tribute and body and soul. Unless, of course, the bacilli that we were calculated will bypass you
It can be boring for the young, violent and not yet walked there - since the hotel is away not only from the city, but also from other hotels - although its territory of 40 thousand squares (according to the administration) allows you not to look over the fence.
And the mountains of garbage that the Egyptians with enviable constancy unload on the side of their roads - as we eventually decided - this is for planting deserts. Oddly enough, grass grows quickly on them - so don't let them confuse you. Perhaps in 15-20 years they will cover the whole of Egypt - and golf courses will stretch there from Hurghada to the Nile. Again - if grass grows on them
Some useful tips:
- firstly - it's better to sign up for the shuttle to Hurghada in advance - it goes in the morning, afternoon and twice in the evening, the schedule is at the reception - sign up there (you can also use the internal phone)
- secondly - do not drag your suitcase all over the territory on the way back - order delivery at the reception and put your suitcases at the door to the corridor, and go lightly to board the bus to the airport - the world cannot look at people without compassion without this who got out of the Soviet era - and you, sadly dragging your luggage uphill along a long path, can simply cause streams of tears from the Gentiles
- thirdly, on the tenth offer of the operator on the beach to order a trip on a boat with a transparent bottom or an ATV for the day, answer with a smile - I already rode - and in a day or two he will start to recognize you and stop pestering you
do not be rude to the staff - the magic phrase, if you are not well served - I paid money! ! ! (with emphasis on the last word) - i. e. I PAID THE MONEY! - I assure you - it works
and if it does not work - calmly ask - where is your manager here? - and your opponent will immediately let go
- buy a mask, snorkel and fins in hurghada - it's not expensive there - if you didn't bring it all with you, like we did
and if you don't need them, then what are you doing in the Red Sea? Did you come there to drink beer? so it’s better to stay in Kyiv and go to the Ministerka - the Obolon brewery is nearby - and the beer is no worse
and one more thing - the luggage packer in the lobby brazenly lies that the packaging is more expensive at the airport (he takes $ 5 per suitcase) - in fact, at the airport it's cheaper
Take a trip to Luxor - the trip is worth it! Just wrap yourself from the sun and order a dry ration at the reception for the morning of the trip the day before. The trip will cost $ 50, per child - 25.4 hours one way. And take an inflatable pillow with an opening for the neck-head on the plane - it will be much more convenient to doze off - and on the bus too. I took this trip for my wife with a child (7 years old) at the office across the street from where the shuttle drops off - and picks up - in Hurghada. Departure was at 6.10, arrived back approx. 9 pm.
And don’t go to Cairo from Hurghada - it’s too tiring and far away - although you need to go from closer places (Sharm al-Sheikh) - the filling of Tutankhamun’s tomb is one of those things that you must see before you die, with your own eyes
But there is also a less expensive attraction. For just 3 euros, you can be transported for 15 minutes to the mid-90s - when the computer has ceased to be an exotic curiosity, and the Internet has just emerged. The attraction is called in the hotel - "Internet" - and corresponds to all the realities of that time. That is, it barely crawls, hangs and gives rare moments of good luck in communicating in the virtual with the world's information space.
I can compare Serenity with Savoy in Sharm - the comparison is quite appropriate, although Savoy is considered more prestigious in class.
The reef and corals in Savoy are considered almost the best among the resorts of Egypt - but here it all seemed no worse, and the flat part of the coast was even better, because I walked along it without rubber shoes to the very edge of the surf - and nothing, but women loved to sit down there in natural mini-pools and get high - especially at low tide. The cuisine here also seems to be better, the territory is a little less refined, but more spacious. By the way - the pool with sea water is not bad - although at the beginning the pools were cold - much colder than the sea! The animation is so-so, pulled it out with the children of Lina, from the Baltic states, and one local fakir was great at hammering nails with his head - and the next day he had a birthday - and he went to a disco and turned out to be a nice guy and everyone liked it "in the world" - and the bruise on my forehead was real!
But I missed the whole belly dance - because in those hours my own stomach did this in my room ...
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What is wrong? All three of us, including the seven-year-old youngest, have had an intestinal infection. It was an infection - because upon returning it was also picked up by our eldest son, who stayed at home (studies at the university). Otherwise - the hotel is worth the money - that is, it is confident EGYPTIAN *****.
An indicator of the level of the hotel - there were a lot of Germans on our check-in. We lived in building C4 - (this is opposite the pool with a large bar and an amphitheater). The room is spacious and in good condition - Sea View, they chose and paid for this standard in Kyiv, and nothing was paid extra on the spot. They took all inclusive without ultra - and I didn’t see any special arguments in favor of ultra there - it’s quite normal to relax, eat and drink just according to AI. For those who paid for a ticket to Sport (in a new building) - there was a special offer at the reception - for only $ 5 per day to move to a room on the main territory. It seems to me that it would be worth it to fork out for it - although I was not in the "sport"
By the way - the hotel has an excellent photographer (desk at the shops) - he made his wife a first-class photo shoot - I had to fork out. I gave out one and a half hundred pictures (edited) - and the starting price of the session was $ 200. The amount puzzled me, since the very idea of the session was pure impromptu - but when I looked at the result, I was convinced that there was something to pay for - unless, of course, God had completely cheated your companion, and you decided to properly capture this providence of the Lord.
Be careful with the sun! When you see already pretty red sunbathers on the beach at 11 in the morning - and they sit in the sun until lunchtime and longer - you know - a nightmare awaits them. On the plane, on the way back, I saw children whose skin hung in patches from their hands and traces of burst bubbles were visible. Well, parents need to be so wooden and so overcook their own children!
My rule, developed a long time ago - at sea - no "tanning"!
Only a shadow - the sun is already quite enough for you while you go swimming - plus what shines through the wicker "fungi". You need to go to the beach in the morning immediately after breakfast, that is, in the morning - and at 11 o'clock, maximum at 12 - go home, relax. And at 4-5 pm you can again go to the beach - if the morning was not enough for you.
And not vice versa - as many of our tourists do. Once I broke this rule in Serenity - I stayed on the beach until lunch - and by the evening I found burns on my hands and neck, and got a couple of ruined days of rest
The sea was stormy almost all days, except for the last two - when the wind blew from the desert and brought intense heat. They said - so in Hurghada since the middle of summer - and there is not the slightest desire to go there in the high season. And before that, the wind from the sea dispersed a big wave (a couple of times they even closed the pontoon) - but it was not hot and stuffy.
There were enough sun loungers - even if you were late for the beach.
They are really unattractive in appearance there - it would not hurt the administration to refresh them with varnish - and touch up the rusted supports of fungi.
Otherwise, the beach is normal, the hotel area is quite well-groomed, green and all in pools and flowers - although the staff is busy with care work during the day and, as they say, gets under their feet.
And he's Arabic - and the Arabs have a way of falling out of character all the time and trying to sit on your head from time to time.
Russian tourists who can say hello to the servants, clapping their palms with them in a big way, and arrange noisy fraternization, the staff here, as in many other places, is pretty spoiled by familiarity and rudeness - but this is a separate issue.
Let me just say that if some hefty uncle began to destroy corals on the edge of the reef with galoshes, not paying any attention to the whistles of the security guards - or some mother dragged two children to swim directly from the reef, and even with a high wave - you can be sure - this in ten cases out of ten it was Russian tourists.
Not to mention the bearded man who resounded the whole restaurant with a monologue that not so long ago he could drink a liter - and not in one eye. But what to take from him - if he was wearing a white T-shirt with large letters LDPR - as well as on his aunt, who listened to his rantings. How do they all eat? Stringing huge pieces on a fork - and tearing off smaller pieces from them with your teeth. And in between, waving this fork with that piece in time with their speeches. Probably - this is how our ancestors ate in Trypillya-Kukuteni.
They also have strict rules: if they pour at the counter, then take at least 4 glasses of beer in one hand.
My wife is originally from Russia - but her former compatriots amazed her, perhaps even more than me.
By the way, most Germans live along the second line - and it's quiet there, and the servants in that area appear only at sunset. They rest quietly and inconspicuously.
And here, where fewer Germans and more Eastern Europe are settled - the Arabs, having caught a different standard, can easily arrange a noisy roll call at 5 in the morning - or roll out a powerful Caterpillar to the beach at 6 pm so that it begins to level the sand with a dump, emitting thick exhaust - although nearby people still play volleyball. And then start unloading sand from the dump truck.
The cuisine in Serenity, as I said, is quite up to par for Egypt - and in the evening on the street - a mini-festival of national dishes.
There is one “but” in the kitchen of that one - in a week you already want native Ukrainian vegetables, our meat and other dishes - after all, those who say are right - you need to eat food that has grown on the land on which you live.
At the same time, breakfast, as it should be according to the European standard, is rather limited in assortment (do not forget about the scrambled eggs that the cook fries at the counter under the wall), lunch is more fun, and the main blow to the stomach occurs at night, i. e. at dinner.
Juices there - so-so, thinner on the beach, in the restaurant - closer to normal, beer - light and no big complaints, white and red wines - a normal table standard. This is all we basically drank, and we had enough.
Russian-speaking bartenders, it must be said, are a little rude, and sometimes they just get carried away. By and large, tourists would not be allowed into Egypt at all - the locals there do not understand well how to treat those tourists, and it is unlikely that they will ever really learn the proper treatment.
Of the things there, you can - if you search - find good cotton at a good price - and cheap souvenirs - a dollar or two and more (after the Cote d'Azur, where any "magnet card" starts at 5 euros - there is something to appreciate).
In the room - despite the upgraded class - there were no slippers, no shower-cap - but a powerful shower in a spacious shower compartment. By the way - on the side of the toilet - a combined bidet valve (it was discovered only on the second day). They didn't make a crocodile out of towels, but made a couple of swans - and we left a dollar for each for tea. After that, the room was cleaned quite casually and without straining.
But in general - if you don’t come with neurasthenia and don’t have the Soviet habit of emphasizing your aristocratic origin, looking for where something is wrong, then loudly express your fe, if you don’t roast in the sun, like a barbecue, and don’t eat, as if got from the country of gobies in a tomato straight to full communism (which all inclusive in fact is) and if you don’t drink at night as if an asteroid should fall to the ground in the morning, then you will rest there, relax, see enough corals and fish and pay tribute and body and soul. Unless, of course, the bacilli that we were calculated will bypass you
It can be boring for the young, violent and not yet walked there - since the hotel is away not only from the city, but also from other hotels - although its territory of 40 thousand squares (according to the administration) allows you not to look over the fence.
And the mountains of garbage that the Egyptians with enviable constancy unload on the side of their roads - as we eventually decided - this is for planting deserts. Oddly enough, grass grows quickly on them - so don't let them confuse you. Perhaps in 15-20 years they will cover the whole of Egypt - and golf courses will stretch there from Hurghada to the Nile. Again - if grass grows on them
Some useful tips:
- firstly - it's better to sign up for the shuttle to Hurghada in advance - it goes in the morning, afternoon and twice in the evening, the schedule is at the reception - sign up there (you can also use the internal phone)
- secondly - do not drag your suitcase all over the territory on the way back - order delivery at the reception and put your suitcases at the door to the corridor, and go lightly to board the bus to the airport - the world cannot look at people without compassion without this who got out of the Soviet era - and you, sadly dragging your luggage uphill along a long path, can simply cause streams of tears from the Gentiles
- thirdly, on the tenth offer of the operator on the beach to order a trip on a boat with a transparent bottom or an ATV for the day, answer with a smile - I already rode - and in a day or two he will start to recognize you and stop pestering you
do not be rude to the staff - the magic phrase, if you are not well served - I paid money! ! ! (with emphasis on the last word) - i. e. I PAID THE MONEY! - I assure you - it works
and if it does not work - calmly ask - where is your manager here? - and your opponent will immediately let go
- buy a mask, snorkel and fins in hurghada - it's not expensive there - if you didn't bring it all with you, like we did
and if you don't need them, then what are you doing in the Red Sea? Did you come there to drink beer? so it’s better to stay in Kyiv and go to the Ministerka - the Obolon brewery is nearby - and the beer is no worse
and one more thing - the luggage packer in the lobby brazenly lies that the packaging is more expensive at the airport (he takes $ 5 per suitcase) - in fact, at the airport it's cheaper
Take a trip to Luxor - the trip is worth it! Just wrap yourself from the sun and order a dry ration at the reception for the morning of the trip the day before. The trip will cost $ 50, per child - 25.4 hours one way. And take an inflatable pillow with an opening for the neck-head on the plane - it will be much more convenient to doze off - and on the bus too. I took this trip for my wife with a child (7 years old) at the office across the street from where the shuttle drops off - and picks up - in Hurghada. Departure was at 6.10, arrived back approx. 9 pm.
And don’t go to Cairo from Hurghada - it’s too tiring and far away - although you need to go from closer places (Sharm al-Sheikh) - the filling of Tutankhamun’s tomb is one of those things that you must see before you die, with your own eyes
But there is also a less expensive attraction. For just 3 euros, you can be transported for 15 minutes to the mid-90s - when the computer has ceased to be an exotic curiosity, and the Internet has just emerged. The attraction is called in the hotel - "Internet" - and corresponds to all the realities of that time. That is, it barely crawls, hangs and gives rare moments of good luck in communicating in the virtual with the world's information space.
I can compare Serenity with Savoy in Sharm - the comparison is quite appropriate, although Savoy is considered more prestigious in class.
The reef and corals in Savoy are considered almost the best among the resorts of Egypt - but here it all seemed no worse, and the flat part of the coast was even better, because I walked along it without rubber shoes to the very edge of the surf - and nothing, but women loved to sit down there in natural mini-pools and get high - especially at low tide. The cuisine here also seems to be better, the territory is a little less refined, but more spacious. By the way - the pool with sea water is not bad - although at the beginning the pools were cold - much colder than the sea! The animation is so-so, pulled it out with the children of Lina, from the Baltic states, and one local fakir was great at hammering nails with his head - and the next day he had a birthday - and he went to a disco and turned out to be a nice guy and everyone liked it "in the world" - and the bruise on my forehead was real!
But I missed the whole belly dance - because in those hours my own stomach did this in my room ...
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