Отличный отдых Great stay

At the end of the summer, I began to look for a hotel for November for my next trip to Marsa Alam. This time I got together with a friend and her daughter, who swim poorly, but really wanted to see the underwater world of the Red Sea, tempted by my photos and stories. Therefore, I chose a hotel in a bay without a sharp bottom topography. In September, prices sank (it was necessary to seize the moment), but then they began to grow. Accordingly, some hotels have disappeared due to the high cost (Royal Break, Break Bay), some (Equinox, ShamsAlam) were in the stop on the scheduled dates. Pre-stopped at Aurora Bay and Pensions. But in the bay of Aurora, there is not a very good entry into the sea (rocky bottom, a long walk aground, then sharply deep), and there were a lot of negative reviews about Pension.
Unexpectedly, Join Up had quite democratic prices for Malikia, which, because of the Abu Dabab Bay, has always kept a high bar. And besides, the cost decreased every day, so I waited for it to be cheaper, taught by the bitter experience of early booking. But then the cost began to rise, so I immediately booked it, and in a timely manner (literally by the end of the day the price increased by 3000 UAH, and a few days later the hotel was in the stop until the end of November).


The flight was at night, we arrived at the hotel in the morning (at 9 o'clock), settled immediately without any problems. I see the last two reviews of this hotel are negative (mainly complaints about service and food), so I was a little worried so as not to spoil the impression of my companions, who are for the first time in Egypt and abroad in general. But everything was fine, the rest was a success.
Food: I am not a gourmet at all, as for me, then the standard set of dishes for Egyptian hotels (during my five trips to Egypt, I did not see any significant difference), everything was tasty and enough for us. To be completely objective, yes, unripe tomatoes, melons come across, some pieces of meat are peppered. But for us, these are all trifles, such trifles were not given importance.
Some in the reviews write that some kind of not so Coca-Cola and ice cream. I don't know, chemistry is chemistry. I do not think that in some hotels in bars they pour freshly squeezed juices for free or give ice cream from natural milk. True, I agree that the coffee in the dining room is not so hot, so it is better for coffee lovers to take it with them. We did just that. There are kettles in the rooms.
Staff: friendly and not intrusive. True, they didn’t take me to the room, but showed me where to go. But this fact did not strain, only saved a dollar. Once the sink got clogged and the cistern in the toilet bowl dripped - they quickly fixed it. At the reception there is Kristina - a girl from Slovakia. Since our English is not very good, when some questions arose, they turned to her more, and they understood each other very well in Ukrainian-Slovak-English.

Excursions: Popular sea excursions (Sataya, Sharm El Lully, Hamata Islands) are sold at affordable prices at the reception. On the beach - quad bikes and diving. We wanted to go to Luxor, but 6-7 hours one way, departure and arrival at night, you get more tired than you get impressions (and even more so a child), we decided to spend an extra day at sea.
Room: everything is standard, no complaints. TV - four Russian channels and one Ukrainian.

Entertainment: during the day on the beach, in the evening at the disco bar, there was even foam (I'm not a fan, but my companion took part with pleasure). Slides (adults and children), open from 10 to 12 and from 14 to 16, my girls were delighted. Well, beach volleyball, boccia, billiards, table tennis - in general, a standard set.
Sea: I won’t write much about the famous Abu Dabab bay, it has been written a million times: corals, fish, turtles - everything is in place. There were plenty of free sunbeds on the beach - choose any suitable place. True, most of the time it was windy, a red flag hung. BUT! The waves are mostly in the middle of the bay, on the edge (where the coral reefs are), as a rule, the sea was calm, quite suitable for snorkeling. And also note that when it is stormy in one part of the bay, it can be calm in the other (as I understand it, it depends on the direction of the wind). When there were waves on our side, we went to the Hilton, and it was quiet there. And in general, for good swimmers, the red flag is not a hindrance.
I basically did swims along the reefs, then swam to the middle to watch turtles, swam to the shore and did not feel much discomfort. Turtles are great, of course. I came across four at a time. You hover over it and wait for it to pop up to take a breath of air - in this moment the whole buzz. It floats up, takes a breath, falls a little lower, then rises, takes a second breath and already floats to the bottom to pluck the grass. At the moment of the ascent, you are next to her, you can touch her, the sensations cannot be conveyed.
Tours are brought from the Hilton side, so there are a lot of people, ten people around one turtle. And from the Maliki side, only your vacationers, you swim alone with turtles (maximum 2-3 people).
Another advantage of this bay is a smooth entry along the sandy bottom, and corals begin immediately, there are a lot of fish. Just right for very young children who do not know how or poorly swim and want to see the beauty of the underwater world.
The construction of the pontoon has already been completed, it should open soon. For snork lovers it will be great.
In general, the rest was super, my companions were delighted, a week was not enough. But all good things come to an end. Just waiting for the next trip.


Yes, they don’t poison insects, so take a fumigator, there are mosquitoes in the room, they didn’t let you sleep at night. This is perhaps the only negative point for the entire period of stay at the hotel.
I strongly recommend the hotel for a holiday.