Rest is not bad, but there are shortcomings that need to be worked on

Written: 28 august 2019
Travel time: 20 — 26 august 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
1. Food is mediocre
Perhaps I am more of a gastrotourist, but the food seemed ordinary and very spicy to me. If you like it spicier and with the addition of pepper, you are here. Arabic cuisine is a priority . . vegetables, meat, potatoes, chili peppers are added to many dishes, if your liver hurts, think about what you eat. A couple of desserts were pleasantly surprised, delicious. Special thanks for shakshuka (scrambled eggs with tomatoes) it looks like in Israel. In general, you can live, but every day is almost the same. Drinks at the bar are diluted, if you want to feel the fortress, drink "Uzu" (the rest doesn't work : )) and has little to do with alcohol, rather coloring cola)
2. Discos and animation

Young people in the hotel have nothing to do, if you came here as a married couple and want silence, then yes - for you, the sea and swimming can be active here, otherwise the wilderness, lack of entertainment. Arab children up to 10 in the evening have a mini entertainment of dancing with the same music every evening, a dubious pleasure. By the way, the music at the pool and around the hotel is the same, there is little variety. But study the entire repertoire of Celine Dion on repeat every day. =)
3. Buying slippers at the hotel and souvenirs
There is a shop in the hotel where you can buy souvenirs and swimming slippers, the price can be brought down but it is difficult, since this is the only store where you can basically buy something, there is nothing like shops in the area of ​ ​ the hotel
4. Hotel security, beach and wifi
The first time I meet a hotel where wifi is paid, and only at the reception is free. The option to lie down on the beach with a phone will be available to you only for $ 15, while free Wi-Fi is only at the reception . . which you still need to get to, works intermittently.
The hotel is poorly guarded or not guarded at all, it seems to me that anyone can enter the territory of the beach, especially the flocks of dogs running around the hotel are frightening, of course the hotel staff cutely threw stones at them, but as a person who is afraid of dogs, they can run to the beach at any time , so that's important to me.
In the same way, regarding things - they can steal, on the beach there is an announcement that no one is responsible for things.
Beach - if you can call it that, it looks like the most ordinary rocky shore sprinkled with sand with umbrellas, there is garbage, old sunbeds, shallow entry into the sea, go to a depth of 200 meters with pits and other living creatures, in order to plunge completely you need to take many, many steps in sea ​ ​ . The bottom is sharp with pits, little animals... corals. Of course, it’s interesting with a mask, but it’s worth coming here just for the sake of swimming with fish. I will not say that it is bad, no, it is normal cognitive. For me, such a vacation for once.
5. Hotel staff

The staff at the hotel is responsive, relatively English-speaking, very clingy on any issue, if you are traveling alone, they will not leave you without attention, I’ll say more to a girl alone, it’s generally very difficult, they will pull for any reason... Sometimes I just missed the silence . . Some directly I had to say so as not to cling, the manager from the reception was especially annoying.
6. The public in the hotel
It’s difficult to meet our Russian-speaking people at the hotel... most Arabs... swim in the pool in a hijab or even in a burqa, an unusual phenomenon... after a couple of days you get used to it, you get the feeling that you are already not dressed enough, people are friendly, they won’t go into conflict, but condemnation you can still read that you are in an open swimsuit on your faces... not the most pleasant feeling =)
7. Living creatures in the sea - it’s easy to see fish, hedgehogs and stars, this is in abundance . . this is a plus that I would like to highlight nature and terrain . . you will think about every step in the sea so as not to get hurt and not to stand on something living , for an amateur
8. City - there is nowhere to go outside the hotel, on the one hand the desert, on the other, unfinished hotels... it's difficult to find a company... not really enthusiastic : ) met some people from Cairo, then still adequate.
9. Room cleaning and towels
Towels in my room were not changed from check-in, beach towels could be changed with a card. There is a lot of dust on the sofas in the hotel in the hall, garbage is lying around in the evening, cups. Not so much with cleaning. There are a lot of flies in the hall, they are very angry. there was a non-working safe in the room, the closet door was broken, everything was fixed on demand.
10. The management of the hotel wants improvements, they are obviously interested, they ask this commendably, but there is still a lot to be done to turn this resort into a European one.
11. Transfer
It’s a very long drive about 4 hours from Hurghada, along an empty highway at a speed of 120, it’s interesting and dangerous at the same time, it will be difficult to find help around the desert.

In general, my assessment is good, a tolerable vacation for reasonable money and certainly the feeling that you will visit another world. You will have the opportunity to see Egypt from the inside, to be on vacation with the locals, to plunge into the traditions and the sea full of living creatures. And then think for yourself.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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