Майские каникулы - гуд May holidays - good

The desire to leave Kyiv for May arose about three weeks before the "holidays". The Egyptian direction was chosen because of naive thoughts like we have a crisis, there is a revolution - few people travel now, everything is cheap. Yep, now. In the agency, through which we constantly travel, they quickly lowered us to the ground, showing options, prices, and that a lot is already on the "stop" for May. As a result of three days of painful searches, a gradual understanding that there are no “balls” and probably will not be anymore, I settled on the option initially recommended by the agency - Sunrise Royal Makadi Resort 5 * ultraall. The result - 04/30/11 - 05/07/1.2 adults, a child of 5 years old, TezTour, 2 thousand cu.
Now, step-by-step specifics, including personal impressions based on multiple trips to Egypt Sharm El Sheikh hotels from 3 * to 5 * and reviews read here.
Flight

Air carrier WindRose, Airbus A321, departure from Borispol from the new terminal F. Shed Galimy, how they are going to accept Euro12, it is not clear. At the check-in, the baggage acceptance tape stood up (some kind of gravitsa broke), they waited for 30 minutes, then the passengers began to manually throw their suitcases into a healthy pile on the tape. I don’t know when it started working, but things did fly. At the request to provide normal places, tk. we are traveling with a small child with a sweet smile, they gave 15 C, 16 A, 19 C (registered somewhere in the middle of the crowd). They flew out on time, fed on time, three menus - adults, small children and very small children. True, one fool began to demand meat instead of fish, citing the fact that because of this he SPECIALLY flew not from Kharkov but from Kyiv. There was no meat, and for another half an hour he yelled at the stewardesses. Declarations were handed out on the way, which was convenient.
Arrival
In Hurghada for the first time, the airport is miserable, as Hurghada itself and its environs later turned out to be. The first counter was the fight with the Tez sign and kindly sent me to the three counters of the same name to take off the first third of the voucher. In the same place, for 17 ye, they glue visas into passports, honestly warning that there are bank windows 20 meters away, where the same is for 15 ye. While I was standing in line to tear off the roots, my wife was among the first to go to passport control. Min. after 5, having given back the spine, I completely pasted stamps of 15 ye into each passport without a queue (the principle is simple - one passport - one stamp, if the child is entered in the passport, he does not need a visa). The queue at passport control just approached, another min. 10 for baggage claim and EVERYTHING, no more screenings. As a result, about half an hour after landing, we were sitting on the bus. Local time minus 1 hour.
Settlement
For no money in other buildings, except for the 10th, they do not settle (Russian building). This is the very first building at the entrance and the farthest from the beach on the left side of the central alley. There is nowhere to retreat - the desert. Uncle Zhora, who arrived two days later, and a company from the Comedy Club Ukraine lived above us. We were greeted warmly, promptly issued, taken to the golf car under the building, luggage was promptly delivered to the room.
Number

Shabby but clean, with a good view of part of the pool, part of the lawn. Bathroom - shower, pusher with bidet function, hairdryer, PHONE(? ). The main room has two beds, two armchairs, a table, a TV set, a refrigerator-stove, an individual air conditioner with a remote control in the wall. Attached for a child - a cross-legged dumb bunk as from a district tuberculosis dispensary. Loggia with two chairs and a table. In short, a solid 3, but to fall at night and tick in the morning is normal. The distance is not so far, with a child to get to food and the beach is not a problem. So I don’t see any sense in paying and arguing about the case closer.
Territory
Hood, large, moderately well-groomed, the paths are polished light limestone, barefoot is super in any heat. Many pools, with bridges and canals. The vegetation is not very good, in neighboring hotels it is much brighter. Toilets in an accessible proximity, in scope and condition, will give odds to many households. In short, it’s not dumb to go barefoot. Shops with essential goods, pharmacy.
Beach
Sad. Five lines with wooden “mushrooms”, under which there are three pieces of firewood, called deck chairs, which are covered with homeless mattresses. The first line is available from 6-7 in the morning, at 9-30 there is no more room on the fifth. And offhand, 30 percent is occupied just like that, Schaub Bulo (like on one of the three sunbeds there is some kind of waffle towel, a fucking book or a tattered slipper). All this was put aside, and Labanov, who came somewhere at 11 in the morning, turned on. Among the beach fights, the reservation and sale of fashionable places to foreign citizens flourishes. Completes the picture, located a hundred meters slightly to the right, such a sickly parking lot of diving boats, submarines, etc. Constant movement and a wave from their movements. Lack of corals and fish, such as the South Coast. But a very gentle, really SANDY entry into the sea, which is its only plus if you are traveling with a small child. For the rest, I recommend the beaches located to the left of the hotels. Walk 150 meters and there are about 1 km of almost empty sunbeds, an emerald lagoon, corrals, fish - everything is like in a bounty advertisement. True, harmful fights take things left on those sunbeds - like it’s impossible, someone else’s territory.
Food

Five available catering points, of which 2 are free - the main one in the reception building and Around the World. The rest of the Fish, Asia and Italian evening by appointment type today for tomorrow. Each pool has a bar, where from 12-00 fast food of good quality. The first main one is the trade union canteen of the southern resort town. Long queues of fat-assed and round-bellied Slavs for traditionally popular positions such as scrambled eggs, natural meat, strawberries. Then on the tables there were three plates per snout, one was champed, the other two were bitten. By the way, explain to me - have you NEVER seen strawberries in your life? Why stand in a huge queue for a watery mint berry, pick up a full plate of it, greedily stuff yourself and your children, and then proudly walk with diathesis? An agonizing search for a free, and most importantly reserved place. But the largest selection of food, air conditioners, a children's corner with small tables and their own food. Recommend only for early breakfast. Around the World is a complete restaurant - full of space, cleanliness, peace and quiet. A battle is constantly available, which brings drinks almost instantly. Small, but quite a decent selection of food, lack of air conditioning, for that quickly and you can safely cram a child. I recommend lunch and dinner. Custom restaurants are cool, but not for every evening. Quality but even more limited selection of food. I recommend Asia. But in general, the food is on the level, not clogged with spices, there is enough natural meat and fish, it is impossible not to feed any child. My wife was traveling with a stomach ulcer, no problem. The first hotel where no one had stomach problems.
The drinks
Good beer. Cocktails are beaten either from the list at the bar, or whatever you wish. According to the effect on the central nervous system, they are more tonic than invigorating, so when ordering for each alcoholic ingredient, you need to clearly and loudly, with a stern eyebrow frowning, say double. The uall concept implies local and foreign alcohol, but the campaign does not apply to everyone. Foreigners are silently poured imports into glass with a smile, local booze is severely poured into disposable cups for us, like drunks in a bread cellar under my house. The same stern look, coupled with a couple of words, as a rule, returns the conscience to the bartender. At least for me, all subsequent portions were poured by default as they should.
Animation
Sad
Fitness
Volleyball, yoga, water aerobics, water polo. The gym is sad, it seems to be pretty bad equipment, but partially does not work, it is broken. I went a couple of times, then scored - it didn’t work.
Service.
They cleaned, changed, replenished normally, but “our” battle got some kind of insane. From the first day I began to pester my wife with some kind of massages, and when I left with a little, I constantly burst into the room like here's paper for you, here's water for you, etc. On the fourth day I wound a healthy crocodile out of towels. Since all this did not particularly bother, but made me laugh more, I simply advised my wife to hide the nightgown away from sin - you never know what will come into his head at his leisure.
Results
There is no ideal in life. Quiet, hassle-free, measured family vacation for “non-moving” couples with children. The crowd would have been better. The main thing is not to stuff yourself, as from a hungry land, and not to abuse the pool. And there were no critically negative moments. And this is the main thing. Will I go there again - probably not.
Departure

Promptly, without delay. When the plane took off from the runway, the flight attendants ran dumbly in, then loudly asked if there was a doctor. Some woman has a heart, loss of consciousness, vomiting. The hour was pumped out. Then it turned out that two couples with children were so pissed off at the airport that one carrot almost grunted in the air at all, and the second one was already in Boryspil staggering around the airport with a bag, periodically kissing it. When we landed and got off the plane, there was a distinct smell of shit and a tickle in my throat. Hello Motherland!