One of my worst holidays in Egypt in 15 years

Written: 25 may 2021
Travel time: 11 — 18 may 2021
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 1.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 3.0
First, the good things about this hotel. Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, a few Germans and Italians live in the hotel, and then a lot of Egyptians arrived. Settled at 5 am without any problems and money, though the room was later changed, but more on that below. Large spacious room, good variety of food. Several water slides work on time, but this is a plus or a minus for someone.
Cons and there are many. The rooms are cleaned badly, don't leave a dollar - it won't become cleaner. Our friends' feet stuck to the floor, our soles without shoes turned black.
Sea. Disgusting. Very shallow, the first 200 meters ankle-deep, then below the belt 300 meters and dreams of polyps and ankle-deep 200 meters. Walking 800-900 meters to the reef is tiring. The first 2 days were calm and it was possible to swim both to the right of the stairs and to the left. But not one and a half kilometers, as they wrote here, but no more than 20 meters in any direction, the rescuers forbid further. Then for 5 days they were allowed to swim only to the left, to the right a red flag all the time. The current is very strong, the depth is very large, the wave carries quickly, many needed the help of a friendly lifeguard. On the first day the reef is interesting, then boring. There are few fish. We saw a small turtle, small stingrays and moray eels. Completely all the positive kills the number of people per square meter in the sea. The descent into the water and the ascent back is unforgettable and kills all positive phenomena. Mothers and fathers who are trying to teach their child to swim at a depth of 15 meters a kilometer from the shore, and that poor child clutched the handle and neither here nor there. Or those who like to swim in fins, which must be worn on the stairs, the width of which allows 2 people without ammunition to barely miss each other in order to swim their 10 meters. Or girls from African countries, with one mask for all and not able to swim at all, taking on an unusual shape, this is when the mask is under water, and the whole body is on the ladder, blocking the passage so that even a child cannot pass through the remaining gap, while the girls deaf when you talk to them.

The host's guide in Egypt, TPG, is called Mohammed, a rare ill-mannered redneck and boor. I don't know how these workers are kept in such jobs.
Wi-Fi only works at the reception and in the restaurant. The hotel has a problem with communication in general. In the first issue, nothing worked at all, I didn’t even catch local operators. An Egyptian card was bought at the airport, they are also sold at the hotel, but they all work intermittently, and in many places they don’t catch at all. We took the distributing android phone outside, then roaming and Wi-Fi somehow worked in the room, and then with varying degrees of success. Who needs to be in touch all the time, this is not your hotel.
Excursions. The guide has prices from $ 65 for 15 km of transportation to the beach-reserve. Luxor $ 120 per person, this is provided that the ride is almost as much as from Safaga, where it costs $ 40 per person. The hotel has its own office. The seller Akhmed, who is still a swindler, really speaks Russian well. We bought a tour from him to Sharm Elluli, this is a very beautiful place with golden sand. We were 13 adults and 2 children, all from Ukraine. Travel more than 100 km one way. The price includes the rental of snorkeling equipment. As it turned out, almost 100 percent of the masks had broken valves, the children got drunk on sea water, my wife and I were with our masks. First, we were brought to some kind of puddle, where for half an hour we walked in ankle-deep water to some kind of tree. Everyone was waiting for the meeting of Sharm Elluli. But these hotel swindlers brought us to some beach, on which there were 5-6 Egyptians. in the Water there are not the promised reefs and 115 species of fish, but polyps and 10-15 fish in general. THESE CROOKS HAVE BROUGHT US IN THE WRONG!! ! We turned on the navigation and it showed that we did not reach the place for 37 km! The driver turned on the fool-my yours do not understand! Let's go back. On the way back, we were taken to a "fashionable restaurant" for lunch, as promised. , even the assistant manager came, but he is also on the side of the cheaters.
Purity. I wrote about the numbers above. On the 3rd day of our holiday, a lot of Egyptians came. And the territory of the hotel turned into one continuous big trash can. Plastic plates and glasses, food leftovers, spilled sauces, fruit skins everywhere and no one cleans up! One solid big dump (((and which no one cleans up. Cherry on the cake. On the approach to the pontoon on the right hand there are large mowed beautiful lawns. And on one of them there are chicken bones, a bunch of plastic cups and everywhere a sea of ​ ​ dog piles, 20-30, or maybe forty. Days 4-5, and before our departure, no one cleaned anything!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original