Where do stars come from in Egyptian hotels?

Written: 13 may 2008
Travel time: 14 — 21 may 2008
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 7.0
Rested from April 30.2008 at the Brayka Bay Hotel in Marsa Alam. According to the travel agency, he is supposedly 5 stars.
Before the vacation, we thought - we will go further away (270 km from Hurghada), but for such torment with the move, we will get a really five-star vacation. But, there has never been such a feeling that you have been “divorced”. It started with the rooms - cheap furniture, poorly opening doors to the bathroom, closet, etc. , a refrigerator with two bottles of water, relying on the whole rest, rumbles like a tractor. It was still possible to transfer everything, but I have not seen such a number of Flies in any hotel. As it turned out, they are not poisoned at all. Therefore, you can calmly remain motionless only with your arms and legs completely closed. It's just terrible, here I began to understand how bad cattle feel, how poor cows are forced to constantly whip themselves with their tails in order to somehow escape these annoying insects.
Let's go further. It is impossible for children to swim in the sea: sand is only on the beach, then 50 meters of stones and knee-deep, then immediately depth.

Nutrition. After 2 days of rest, we already knew exactly what would be for breakfast, lunch and dinner. No variety.
There was also no animation. Only in the evenings they "showed" something. We went once and realized that this was not for Russians (Zadornov still correctly tells about foreigners).
Tennis is free, but rackets are chargeable, so bring your own.
Table tennis is completely free, but definitely take your rackets with you if you don’t want to play with dead boards.
"Killed" billiard tables and table tennis tables are practically on the street, so you can imagine the game during the day (hot).
The attitude of the hotel staff is expressed by the following words: "you come and go, but we stay. " The answer to any questions is “we will do everything TOMORROW”. This also applies to Russian speakers, namely to the hotel worker Yulia and to the representative of our tour operator Dmitry, from them - no participation and help.
All this is aggravated by the fact that the Brayka Bay hotel stands alone in the middle of the desert, that is, you can’t even go ANYWHERE and everything that is sold in the shops at the hotel is, to put it mildly, expensive.
This could still be ignored, but FLIES are just awful. The children returned all bitten.
IN SHORT - VERY Pitifully SPENT WITHOUT PLEASURE VACATION AND MONEY.
I WOULD NOT GIVE THREE STARS TO THIS HOTEL.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original