ЭТО НЕ 5 ЗВЕЗД! THIS IS NOT 5 STARS!

looking at how the Arabs "decorate" their roads and cities with dumps / garbage dumps, I understand that keeping the room clean is an almost impossible task for the local mentality, but if the quality of cleaning, the number of tubes of gel and towels depends on the dollar on the TV - this is already hotel management problem...

By the way, about management - if you have problems, God forbid, and you haven’t even raised your tone yet, but are tense - be prepared for the fact that you will be instantly surrounded by 5-7 people of local staff who will solve the problem. you yourself won’t start, but they’ll be rude thoroughly ...I saw similar scenes more than once during the rest ...I was also rude demanding a deposit of 200 euros or my passport (!!! ) for taking out pillows during an excursion to Cairo, although this is what the leaflet recommends " what you need to take on an excursion to Cairo" from Odeon ...I'm freaking out, dear editors, as if I'm renting a car ...

(if anyone is interested, I can even tell you the personal number of this pretzel)

about baksheesh - that is, a bribe - it works !! ! if you want to move from a cheap dune to an expensive lagoon or "mine building" it costs 20 dollars at the reception when you check in even at the peak of the season as I have a place, only the money is not in the passport, but let's after you were told "eu" . . in the main building the most pleasant IMHO rooms start from the 80s: odd pool view, even outside view. Stories that there are distant houses in the lagoon and dune that almost half an hour on foot, especially from Muscovites, are ridiculous to hear - all the distances in the hotel beach-room-restaurant do not exceed the subway transitions at the Lenin Library-Arbatskaya stations etc. although there is, of course, a "backroom" and a "dune" being completed with distant houses, but still within 500-600 meters ...
TOUR OPERATOR: Coral-Odeon is greeted cheerfully, 40 seconds after entering the airport, the representative of Odeon has already shod for $ 2 each - by gluing an immigration stamp for $ 17 and not $ 15, to hell with him we are standing further in line. transfer is ok - on the way. However, the transfer fulfills its function: no one is forgotten, they are counted, although the route is often mysterious, one bus with fifty fellow citizens can make a hook to another hotel to stand there for 40 minutes to pick up one or two others. It is the Odeon guide who recommends leaving the suitcases at the entrance so that you can give a dollar to the porter - for some reason the Czechs / Germans carry the suitcases themselves. The procedure with a porter makes sense if you have a BuckRoom or the farthest house of the Dune - there is no ice uphill with suitcases ...In the main building - the wiring is clean.

Sale Excursions in the rhythm of the Waltz: "come on-come on-buy-discount_only_3_hours - tomorrow_it_will_be_more_more - from_other_buy_no_necessary" everyone who dealt with "personal sales" will smile sadly ...we ordered excursions on the first day - we decided at home - at the sight of bucks "guide" so quickly took my questionnaire that I did not have time to fill in the date and time of departure.
In my presence, my aunt complained to the Odeon guide that "my husband feels bad on the 2nd day, where is the doctor you promised yesterday? " In short, wait from the crowd of "guides", and their 10 people rub in the hotel for any help, by the way, they also warmly promised at the first "meeting sales tours" with any problems, whether any consultation outside of the "sell tour" is useless. In case of problems with the hotel staff, the Odeon guides take the side of the staff - which, by the way, is not surprising - you will leave, albeit dissatisfied, but they will stay.

TOURS:
if you get a Russian-speaking guide with a deep knowledge of rich history, you are lucky, because only a citizen of Egypt can work as a guide, and anyone who knows at least a little Russian gets on the bus as a guide. The stories about Egypt of all our guides came down to "kitchen gossip": the eternal president Mubarak, where is the money from the Suet Canal, the wealth of the Al-Fayeds (local Abramovich ; -) ), it's hard to get married and save up for a dowry ...

Do not buy back-to-back excursions - the time of departure and arrival is quite arbitrary ...inshaallah ...nevertheless, be precise yourself - no one will wake you up on an early excursion despite promises ...

Hurghada $ 8 from the nose - did not quite understand why the money is from us? Machine (in this case, bus) milking of tourists ...

Program: "factory" of oils in a wasteland - a mosque that cannot be entered - an Orthodox (as it turned out later, Catholic) church in the basement of a residential building - travel along both of the 2 existing streets - a "gallery" of papyrus - a "gallery" of souvenirs - "welcome drink" in a new restaurant...if you are not going to stock up on oils from the barn at the price of Dior - take a taxi at the hotel - for $ 30 + 2 ...3 the driver will take you around Hurghada in a circle - where it is interesting - go out and wander, to be honest IMHO there are very few such places there, mostly construction / garbage dump ...by the way, our driver spoke Russian better than the guide and knew more, including shops where it is cheaper to buy, but it is in the format of informing - if you don’t want to stop - you don’t need ...I realize that I was lucky, unfortunately I did not remember the name / number of the carrier tag

Cairo $80 (discounted!! ! ) keep in mind - one way 8(!! ! ) hours on the bus. think you really want to see the pyramids? Right?
You will see the pyramids surrounded by an extremely dirty and unpleasant city - I think 100 years ago it was a really impressive building next to a great river, and now there are 3 mountains of stones inside the city, the Nile retreated 10 km and look under your feet so as not to find the "exhaust" of a tourist camel . About the fact that at the pyramids you don’t have to take anything in the hands of someone else and let them hold their own, they wrote many times. The city itself makes a strong impression - smog, garbage heaps, building up with unplastered "window-to-window" houses, an eternal unfinished building with protruding fittings. Multi-level flyovers along the canals from which they scoop out with an excavator directly onto the road ...well, you guessed it yourself ...The only thing that impressed me was the Cairo Museum of the Pharaonic period - I would gladly walk in it for an extra 2-3 hours instead of visiting another "galleries of oils", but I understand - business is business - oils and "papyrus" must be sold. Bus...
Here I can’t help but say fi Germans ...how do they not feel sorry for selling such an excellent bus to the Arabs? one process of filling the bus with water when not only the water tank is poured from the hose, but also the control unit of the toilet (with sparks and smoke) ...the mileage is only 55 thousand, and the bus is already tired in places ...by the way, how do you smell the dry closet 18 hours to row? somewhere the hood was closed, and the pressurization was left - all the smell in the cabin ...


Tobia $45 (discounted) - here I recommend to everyone - an hour on an island with thin sand - an hour swimming near a large coral - an hour near "4 pillars" with an enchanting amount of fish in blue clear water. No one is trying to sell anything to anyone - a wonderful sea, corals, a fabulous underwater world and an active tan. Fins, masks, snorkels are free to rent at the pier...
by the way - you don’t have to starve either - they feed and water on the boat (only non-alcoholic, which, by the way, is right - don’t get drunk into the water) for $20 you can buy directly at the hotel, but I would recommend stocking up on a digital camera water box at home)

Motorcycle safari $25 (discounted) - the hotel has something like 8 ATVs, cool, but dusty - buy Arafat in advance - again, it's nice that the program does not include a visit to the oil and papyrus factory.

BACK TO THE HOTEL.

CLEANING: In the early days, the dollar on TV inspired the janitor with waves of blankets and swans of towels...
but after a week, the magic dollar ceased to work at all, so I stopped it and left it - the janitor's return move - reducing the number of towels from 8 to 3, tubes of gels and sand on the floor - I didn’t see the point in swearing - I scored ...

ROOM (I'm talking only about MainBuilding) is large enough to easily accommodate 3 "one and a half", the floor is tiled, the furniture is old but good - the beds do not creak, air conditioning, light, refrigerator, TV and remote control check when you check in, there are sometimes interruptions in water and light, but very short-term - here, as they say, without pretensions.

FOOD: the most important thing is clean, there are no those horrors that are told about other hotels like "Regina Resot" with nightmarish lines, black greasy plates and smelly waiters.

According to the "all inclusive" is plentiful, but really monotonous, the most correct phrase in the reports is "you won't be hungry", we were 2 weeks - it's dreary to start every day with even a very tasty omelet. Local yoghurts are very peculiar - it would be more correct to say that this is sour curd - we will write off the national taste. We tried local salads - didn’t like it, baked bread, sweets - very tasty ...on the beach every day french fries, hamburgers and fresh vegetables, in the main hall we feed before lunch and in the Docker on the street in the afternoon we feed freshly baked pancakes, quantity approaches to the tables depends only on your abilities ...the most plentiful in terms of dishes is dinner - save up kilograms on your waist ...there were no stomach problems ...not Turkey, but there are 4 plus.
it’s better to go to “restaurants” before opening - the tables are cleaner and there is a choice, there are fewer queues, there are enough appliances, the assortment really becomes scarce by the end of the reception, the worst time to go for lunch and dinner is an hour after opening - you will look for a table, a plate, wait in a short, but in line ...(however, the fact that there is a queue for five minutes IMHO is not critical) I personally like the restaurant on the 2nd (3rd) floor more, I haven’t tried other a la carte restaurants ...

DRINKING: "local alcohol" available from 10 am to 12 am is tolerable, although rum and brandy with 30% vol are somewhat unusual, not "martel" of course, but not cologne, as they wrote here. Juices are like diluted powder, but quite decent - you can drink, also cola-sprite-fanta is available from 10 ...up to 10 only "juices", tea and coffee only in the dining room.
for an amateur, of course, but there is no point in taking "ultra-all" IMHO - you can stock up on good cheap drinks right at the airport - at the exit from the baggage claim hall on the right there is duty free, and fresh ($ 3) they are the same everywhere.

BEACH AND TERRITORY: the beach is clean, good entrance to the water, long gentle sand at low tide knee-deep at high tide - waist-deep - a great place for bathing children. "Coral" slippers are not needed at all, where the coral begins, you can already swim - on the right is a coral with baited fish - not to be afraid of swimmers at all, and everyone approaching the coral from the sandy beach is generally met by a crowd, clearly hoping to devour ...at high tide, the variety of fish increases - TAKE a mask / snorkel or buy on the spot - $15-35 - without them you will miss 90% of the buzz, Away from the beach - closer to the boats there is another reef, but there are not so many fish on it. The territory is large, but I personally like the neighboring Liberot more - there is much more greenery and phytodesign.

Lawns are watered with slop everywhere - there's nothing to be done - water is scarce in local areas. In the evening it is better to keep the windows closed.

ANIMATION: there are locals, there are ours, they try, the belly dance is “taught” by a man, and he dances really well - a funny sight. In the evening, a singer sings by the pool, or rather, a singer yells, something even in Russian like “Vladimirsky Central”. I never drank enough to listen to him.

STORES: in Tia Heights itself - a standard assortment - hookahs-cats-pyramids-gold-butter - there are no set prices, they didn’t try to buy anything in particular ...there is a bank and an ATM with a currency exchange function, you won’t change rubles ...
To the right of the hotel, if facing the sea, a conglomerate of hotels - jazz, liberotel, something else there is a shed ...divided according to an incomprehensible sign.
On the main street there are several buildings with shops below - unlike Tia, they sell products, the rest of the assortment is similar, the prices are visually close, if you bargain - they drop ...
on the left, SanMar is a more expensive hotel, more designed for Europeans - in the hotel there are shops with declared prices, which are clearly lower than the initial prices in Tia and LiberotMakadi, I didn’t find out if it was possible to bargain.

CAR TRAFFIC:
THIS IS SOMETHING, “a truckload of hand grenades has been delivered to the monkey nursery!! ! » For those who are going to rent a car, I would advise you to first try to just find an unbeaten and unshorted car on the street/parking lot...even cars for transporting luggage on the airport runway are shoveled in different colors in a circle - even there they overtake and drive in the oncoming lane.

Although the priority signs are mostly duplicated by speed bumps, there are no “right hand rules”, head-on overtaking is in the order of things, as is rebuilding like turning from the right lane to the left. AT NIGHT EVERYONE RIDES ON DIMENSIONS, this is compensated by repeated winking with high beams and beeping when passing oncoming people. In Cairo, most of the traffic lights do not work, in Hurghada, in general, I saw only one. In short, if life, health, money and time are dear to you - take a taxi or buses - they are accustomed to this disgrace - they will somehow take you.

EVERYTHING ELSE INSIDE:
1. buy the cheapest hotel in this hotel then move for a "smile + 20 bucks"
2. airport - officially entry stamps are sold directly to the right of the entrance - there are no queues, at the "greeting odeon" everything is the same, but for 2 bucks more expensive from the nose, you can also change the currency
3.
on the way back, let a large duty-free shop at the airport where you can quickly, cheaply and without tedious bargaining buy everything you need at fixed prices - souvenirs, hookahs, alcohol, cosmetics, etc.

GENERAL CONCLUSION:
Do not think that I am a beech and a bore - with most of the staff at this time we were nice and quite friendly, a smile and a friendly attitude, occasionally supported by a dollar or two, did their job, minor shortcomings are quite forgivable if you immediately admit that according to European yes what is there ...by Moscow standards, "Thia Heights" falls short of 3 stars at best.

Just keep in mind right away that the Arabs are a completely different people with a different mentality, much that is normal and correct for them will be ...mmmm ...unpleasant for you. Probably, representatives of the civilized and well-groomed Old Woman of Europe also look at the Russians ...Take it easy on their "tourist business" built on petty deception of tourists - this is almost everywhere ...
Well, in the worst case, you will lose $10-$20, and tips on how not to lose them - read the reviews on the sites - almost everything that I read about the hotel in other reviews was fully confirmed. That is why I was not too lazy to write this text "a lot of bukAF"; -)