Bad hotel, good sea

Written: 25 november 2014
Travel time: 13 — 23 november 2014
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 4.0
We rested in Dreams Beach 5 * Marsa Alam from 11/13/14 to 11/23/2014. This was the sixth trip to Egypt. The sea is wonderful. There are often strong winds and big waves, a red flag is often hung on the pier and swimming in the sea is not allowed. But along the coastline there are lagoons in which there are practically no waves and you can swim in any weather. White herons live on the territory, they are very beautiful. The hotel rooms are standard. Ahmed cleaned our room, thanks to him for the good cleaning.
But that's where all the good ends.
Now for the bad:

- a very ugly restaurant, old, shabby. Tables are never washed, napkins (something like straws) are all stained, dirty, they have not been changed even once in 11 days of our stay. The crumbs are simply shaken off on the floor, forks, knives are placed and the place for the next guest is ready. Apparently, they don’t know about tablecloths there, they put only one paper napkin. It is dark at dinner in the restaurant (the lamps are of various sizes, partially broken and various energy-saving lamps are sticking out of them. A depressing sight.
- there is almost no meat and fish on the menu. If chicken - then these are wings in batter (one dough). Fish (such as sole) is also battered. Once they gave barakuda. If cutlets - then there are a lot of greens and seasonings, you won’t even understand if there is meat there. Moreover, they are very strongly fried, the thickness of the cutlets is 0.5 centimeters. Once they came - they serve a turkey. When they tried it, it turned out that only the skin was from the turkey and it was stuffed with unknown minced meat, it does not smell like a turkey. Meat, fish, cheese are given out in small pieces, you can’t take it yourself. And it's called "all inclusive"! In sufficient quantities only rice, pasta, vegetables. Nothing can be taken out of the restaurant.
- for 11 days there were no apples or bananas. There were sliced ​ ​ oranges, dates, green melon. 2 times gave persimmon.
- wine glasses are very small, pour a little higher than half. When asked to pour a whole glass was the answer: "That's enough friend. " You can't pour wine yourself.
- Lipton tea 3-4 bags put in teapots and pour boiling water several times.
- bottled water is given only upon arrival (0.5 per person), and then you have to go to the cooler with this bottle.
- at the end of each meal, senior managers come, falafel (an Egyptian dish) is sometimes prepared for them, falafel is not given to hotel guests.
- in the beach bar only beer, coffee, tea and local spirits. Pancakes are fried, but they are undercooked. people come and fry once. Didn't see any pizza or fries. When asked about pizza, it turned out that pizza was only served during lunch, i. e. or you go to lunch in a "restaurant" or go to the beach for pizza, apparently they are afraid that they will not eat too much.
- there are too many animators, but the animation is weak, at the level of amateur performances by local animators. Visiting artists and groups with national repertoire are not invited.

- the pools are cold, even the children's pool is not heated, so only a few come to water aerobics. Well, who wants to do winter swimming. Thank God the sea was not yet cold, we only swam in the sea.
In general, they save on everything, but declare themselves as 5 *.
But, as they say, the devil is in the details. And these little things after 2-3 days of rest are so annoying that I am not happy with any rest. Wasted time and money. I don't recommend anyone to go there.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original