Nice hotel but has its drawbacks

Written: 22 october 2009
Travel time: 3 — 10 october 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
I returned from the hotel 2 weeks ago. Rested with my husband and friends, also a married couple.
In principle, I liked the rest: the weather is super, the sea is fresh milk, because the beach is shallow, it warmed up, probably up to 30 degrees! The travel agency advised friends of the Laguna type rooms. We lived in the 70th building, on the 1st floor, a fairly favorable location: 2 minutes to the sea, 5 minutes to the central restaurant, a beautiful view from the window, in the evening it is quite quiet and comfortable. In Egypt for the 2nd time, compared with the previous vacation in the Caribbean World Resorts 5 *, Soma Bay, there are a number of minor shortcomings, but if you go with a good company and do not get hung up on them, then everything will be ok!
Among the advantages:
-beautiful, green and very well-groomed territory of the hotel, many flowers, all kinds of bushes, artificial rivers, etc.
-spacious, clean and rather beautiful rooms (around 40-50 sq. m)

-room cleaning, change of towels - everything is ok, there were no comments, on arrival they fill the mini-bar: water, 1 liter of cola, forfeits, sprite.
- normal food: meat - chicken, duck, turkey, beef, lamb, fish in various forms, delicious pastries and sweets, ice cream - after dinner at the beach bar, as well as the main restaurant,
-sandy beach, good entry into the sea (especially suitable if traveling with children, because the sea is very shallow)
-the presence of a pontoon from which you can watch the most beautiful fish, and if you wish, swim with masks, flippers, etc.
Minuses:
- despite the huge territory, the hotel is not quite designed for such a large number of vacationers, this is mainly manifested in the queues at the bars, the need to take sunbeds on the beach in the morning
-the beach is very shallow, which is not very cool for adults who want to swim and dive, in order to reach a depth at least waist-deep, you need to go and go...
- there is a parking lot of yachts and boats near the beach, they apparently refuel every day around 10-11 am, so a terrible smell of gasoline or diesel fuel is spread all over the beach (by the way, the hotel is adjacent to Sunrise Royal Makadi, the situation there is - similar).
-poor choice of cocktails in bars: when compared with Caribbean World Resorts 5 *, where they had a very large selection and they were all very tasty, for example, Pina Colada, which was only paid in TIA, and all All Inclusive cocktails were reduced to 2-3 types of different yuppies + their local alcohol.
-several times in the evenings, a not very pleasant smell was heard on the territory of the hotel (perhaps they fertilize the green spaces in this way).
In general, I can say that we liked the rest in the Caribbean more, but in TIA Heights it was also good and very beautiful!! !
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