Релакс Relax

Attention! If you are under 30, do not read this review and look for another hotel. For the rest I report the following.
1. The hotel is 320 km away. from Hurghada (4 - 5 hours drive), on a strip 800 m wide between the highway and the shore of the bay. Behind the highway is a staff camp and a shopping center. From the north at a distance of 1.2 km. a hotel is being built (no noise is heard) at this interval there is a deserted coast with camel thorn and mangroves. From the south, as far as you can see, the desert coast.
2. The hotel consists of 1.2-storey buildings. Oriented by balconies (verandas on the 1st floor) towards the sea, to the east. 100% with sea view. It is clearly visible on Google Earth. In the middle of the building there is a reception and a restaurant. In front of the reception there is a swimming pool, a playground and a pool bar.

3. Settled without problems. We arrived at 4 - 30 in the morning, filled out the cards and received the key. The receptionist took our passports, explaining what they say is for our good. Seeing that the passports of all the guests were stored in special cells, he did not object. He asked (in English, they do not understand Russian) on which floor is our room? On the first. I want the second. The dude thought. May I offer you a small baksheesh? Nods his head. I give you 10 euros. Vigorous activity immediately begins. Some kind of fight grabs suitcases and carries them to the second floor of building 5. Then it turned out that some Italian prince lived in our symmetrical room, with whom not only local managers, but also visiting managers (owners) of the hotel rushed about. Those. the receptionist worked his top ten. Then we looked where the “free” room was located, it’s also not bad, but I don’t like the 1st floor. They just entered, threw down their clothes and began to undress, a knock on the door. The boy brought a tray with plates of food and fruit, water. The reception dials the number, it turns out that this special service is free of charge only for us, i. e. for nothing. But, nevertheless, he reports that he works in the morning until 10 o'clock. Oh kay, I stopped by in the morning and gave another 5 euros. And as it turned out, not in vain. When we left, they gave us 2 boxes of dry rations, although we were picked up at 12 noon and lunch was not paid. In my opinion, the best corps are 3.4, 5 (numbers start at 3.4, 5)
4. The sea, we went to such a distance because of it. NOT wrong. We were in Marsa Alam in 2007 at the Iberotel Lamaia. It's tighter here. There are corals in the bay itself from 2 sides. In the middle is a meadow overgrown with algae. Outside the bay, the current is from north to south. The entrance to the sea is gentle with fine, pleasant sand on which children splash. The bottom gently descends. You can swim in the bay or walk north 800 meters along the coast. There, in the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ mangrove bushes, there is a shallow, along which without slippers you can go to the depths and from there raft downstream to the beach. Water 24 deg. Off the coast 28 degrees. However, outside the bay, they got into cold currents, so it was comfortable in a wetsuit (especially for my wife). There were no waves in the bay even in a strong wind, but due to the sand there was poor visibility. In the bay at depth we met a small shark and 3 species of large stingrays: one with a 1.5 m wingspan (apparently electric) and a bracken with a 2 meter tail. There are many small blue stingrays in the shallows. Outside the bay we saw a not weak barracuda 1.3 m. and dolphins similar to the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin. Swimming 2 small turtles. On the beach there is a small bar where drinks are poured into disposable cups, mushrooms and metal sunbeds. Towels were received on cards, mattresses were brought without any baksheesh. From the side of the desert there are fences from the wind, sometimes they were very relevant. From the room to the sea 30 meters. There is a shower, toilet and foot-washer. The beach, the bay and the sea in general are the main advantages of this hotel.
5.90% of the guests are Italians. Accordingly, the animation - 8 Italians, but friendly guys, speak only Italian. The rest are Germans. The Russians could not stand it for more than 2 days. The Italians on the beach are yelling like fishmongers on Privoz. The men throw their cigarette butts on the sand. Before this trip, I was sure that only Russian speakers could take places on the beach. But no, Italy fled at 7 - 00 threw towels, then went to the dining room. This is wild for me, especially since there are 20 percent more sunbeds than people on the beach. He is a cormorant and in Italy a cormorant. The difference from ours is that no one walked ugraty in the smoke.
6. The staff is friendly. On the first day, I tossed a little to the pool bartender and the chef of waiters in the restaurant. Served quickly. Drinks as everywhere in inexpensive hotels. Yupi juice, hibiscus, bottled beer, local alcohol. Ice is not placed. Only in cocktails for payment. For the wife in the pool bar cocktails gin, cola, hibiscus, syrup, cola. Wife liked it. I drank beer and sometimes a little whiskey. In the restaurant, drinks are served by waiters at lunch and dinner. Usually one glass per nose. Sometimes, without any request, they brought us 2 each. The food was not striking in variety, BUT they cooked very tasty, the cooks in English are not in the tooth with their feet, but as far as I am strong in Arabic, I think they are from Tunisia. Dinner was spent on the open veranda, the Italian sang in a bad voice under the plywood, lit candles on the tables. Nice to sit. I have already said about the food, I will only add, we ate plenty of watermelons and peaches with dates. Salads were not eaten in principle. There were whole tomatoes and peppers on the tables. There was a knife and a cutting board. My wife cut the magnificent vegetables and we ate them with pleasure and without consequences. (They often write, with indignation, that they throw everything into ready-made salads that they didn’t eat the day before. And what do you think, what salads are made from in supermarkets? From the same. ) The cakes are super, and for my birthday they gave me a cake, the Arabs sang Happy bertday, a trifle, but nice, especially since no one asked them about it. Everywhere you have to sign bills, money is not required at the end of notes. IF you have All.

7. Cleaned the room every day. Bed linen changed 3 times in 10 nights. Denyuzhka for 5 local currency units they left, in return they taught all sorts of curiosities on the bed, which the cleaning boy twisted from CLEAN towels. Picked up the dirty ones right away. I couldn't explain what to do the other way around. Further interesting. On the 3rd day of my stay, my wife reached into her suitcase for a purse - a gift for her beloved husband. I put 50 UAH in my purse at home. ($10, there is a custom to give wallets only with small change), look, and denyuzhki bye-bye. The freak stole these 50 hryvnias, not knowing the fool that hryvnias. to the southeast in Egypt do not change. My wife was trying to make a showdown, but I dissuaded her, maybe the dude has hungry children crying or there is not enough money for dowry. And I don’t want to deal with issues on vacation. We didn't give him any more money. Cash, photo and video cameras were kept only in a safe (free in the room). The room is large, about 30 sq. m. , the ceiling is arched. 2 decorative windows - stained-glass windows with multi-colored glasses, the main stained-glass window on the balcony is broken, but there is a mosquito net. The air conditioner works. In general, poor little but clean, it is clear that it was recently renovated. There are plastic chairs on the small balcony.
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The only thing that bothered me was the fight against flies and the flies themselves. If there was no wind the flies attacked on the beach. They poisoned flies at 1900 and 530. We slept with the window open to the sound of the surf. At 5:30 I got up, closed the balcony, turned on the air conditioner and slept on. If you don't hear the roar of the cannon, you'll wake up from a gas attack.
Teztur brought - took without questions. We talked to the guide by phone (free of charge). This hotel is very far from the Tezturovsky trails. But you need to remind yourself so as not to be forgotten on the way back. They said that we do not need excursions. We drove through the desert at night on ATVs for 90 dollars. for two. Super.
You can travel with Italy in the surrounding bays. BUT the house reef is no worse. And they have already been to Abu Dabab.
There are no discos in the hotel. At 2300 everything calms down - the only exception is one evening, when 2 musicians came from Hurghada and arranged a dance party for those over 30. As they got to Latino, people began to jump into the pool. Cool. The musicians, as for Egypt, played and sang very well. Better than the whole factory of stars.