В принципе нормальный отель, но только на 1 раз. In principle, a normal hotel, but only for 1 time.

Arrived from Stella 2 days ago.
In principle, there are no questions to the TEZ operator, except that at the last moment the planned Dniproavia charter was suddenly replaced by a shabby joint charter from Windrose with someone there... In short, savings on everything, delays, an overcrowded airplane, tired passengers. . .
Everything was perfect from the host side: guides, transfers, excursions. . . Well done! Separate respect to the guide Abdo in Stella.
The hotel itself, including the reception, rooms, infrastructure, service staff, in my opinion, is just excellent. The attitude towards Europeans (about 70% of the people) and towards ex-scoops is absolutely the same, polite and courteous. No one asks for tips anywhere, the staff rustles like ants: conscientiously and almost imperceptibly. Not enough shade, but this is due to the fact that the hotel is young and the greenery has not yet grown.

I know the specifics of Egyptian hotels, so I didn’t expect more from Stella and it’s useless to compare Stella with good Turkish 5 stars. In Turkey, this concept is much more invested.
I will dwell on the "cons", which many do not seem to be such. This is my personal opinion.
A huge minus is the lack of a normal beach. In fairness, I will say that I knew about this earlier and was ready. But many, probably the majority, go to Stella, and then sadly ask aloud the question "Where is the beach? "
My child and I went to the beach next to the right. There was a good entry and a sandy bottom and the baby was great. There is no wind and no waves. Sawing along the pier for 350 meters in each direction in the scorching sun personally seems masochistic to me, although the beauty of the corals and the variety of fish are worth going back and forth at least a couple of times a day.
The wind. . . He just got it! Well this is the season. . .
Water sports are all paid, although even in a nearby hotel you can take surfing, kite, catamaran, snorkel with flippers, etc. , for a couple of hours daily for free...
Restaurant. . . Well, first of all, a purely Egyptian tradition to castrate the level of food AI / 5 stars and make A la carte restaurants paid - this is already a parable of talk of the tongue. . . Greed is a vice!

In the main restaurant, the variety of dishes is small, for example, fish dishes are only 1-2... The food is cooked with high quality, but very monotonous. Even dishes from different cuisines of the world taste almost the same. The word "salad" is apparently not familiar to the chef. The most delicious dishes either do not replenish or replenish slowly. Queues near the grills. Beer, wine or cocktail pours only one slow Arab. I think that this is one of the types of savings - to do everything slowly so that people just break off standing in lines... Fresh fruits were daily, but a good half was either not tasty or not ripe. The grenades ran out an hour after the restaurants opened and were never replenished. Sweets are monotonous and not tasty. The most delicious is Turkish baklava (baklava), but it is always in small quantities, only on one delivery and is not replenished...
There are no freshly squeezed and natural juices at all. All juices are diluted drinks like Jupi, solid chemistry.
Ice cream only in one place on the beach and only 1 time per day.
In short, the food is not higher than the "C grade".
Animators... There are many of them, but they are all somehow tired, not smiling, they do not speak languages ​ ​ and do not provide normal leisure and entertainment. And the most disgusting thing is that the animators yell into the microphone all day long that something is not quite articulate. It would be nice if they yelled in their native language, but when an Arab or Italian who considers themselves experts in Russian or English starts yelling into a microphone, then this is not for the faint of heart... In short, the animators at Stella need to seal their mouths, take away microphones and forbid use sound-amplifying equipment. . . There is nowhere to hide from the noise in the afternoon after dinner or in the evening after the evening performance. . .
The only thing they more or less succeed in is a children's disco. They know how to have kids. Nothing more good. . .
In the children's club, a daily bored, taciturn animator, who is already tired of all this, along with the children.
I will summarize. The hotel itself with the staff: excellent. Beach: bad. Meals: so-and-so, but well-prepared. Entertainment: frustratingly bad, boring and very noisy. . .
For Egypt, Stella is a decent hotel, but next time I will go there only when the child can tolerate excursions normally and with interest in order to pay attention to historical monuments, natural attractions, for example, combine a seaside vacation with a tour of the Nile on a boat...