Summer in Egypt: the season?

Written: 17 june 2010
Travel time: 1 — 11 june 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Long doubted about the summer holidays in Egypt. Read reviews, etc. Well, I really wanted the Red Sea, corals and fish. Having weighed all the pros and cons, and relying on Russian chances, a group of 8 St. Petersburg tourists gathered. We chose a hotel. The tour operator turned out to be Pegas Touristik. Paid tickets and waited in the wings. For 10 days, we received a call and were told that the hotel we had chosen had double sales. And, of course, the Russians were denied. That is OK. Of the proposed replacement hotels, we chose Resta Reef Resort 4 *. Looking ahead, I will say that they did not regret it. Well. Now in order. Flying with Oreinburg Airlines. There are no complaints about them or the tour operator. We were met in Hurghada, put into a minibus. Everything is fast and organized. The transfer to the hotel was 3 hours. A very talkative guide brightened up the trip. It was quite fun, and at the same time we learned a lot about Egypt. We arrived at the hotel at night and were checked in quickly. In the room, 2 bottles of water, by the way, were given every day (this is included in ALL). Food is normal and standard. Lots of fruit and cakes and cakes. Nobody had any poisoning. True, tap water is very, as it were, softer, with a smell. But this is not why we went to Mars... Now about the main thing - about the sea and the weather.
The hotel has its own bay, we called it a puddle. In principle, for beginners with a mask to swim is even nothing. You just have to be extremely careful, there are a lot of sea urchins. We saw a stingray, a moray eel, a wart, and an octopus there! It also has its own pontoon. (We, ksati, were very worried, we knew that it was broken by a storm). So, the pontoon was repaired! Of course, a fabulous reef. Beautiful. Fortunately for us, we met a large gray moray eel, bracken, manta. And when we looked at the turtle from the bowels of the sea, a reef shark 2 meters long rose to us. I personally ran away from her, faster than my own thoughts... BUT, there are other moments.
1- weather. It seems to be summer and not the season of winds, but out of 11 days of stay, complete calm was only on the day of departure. The black flag hung for 6 days - access to the sea was closed. Of these, there was a storm for 3 days. The rest is red - this is when there is a wave, and you yourself decide to swim or not. We got tired of the puddle very quickly and when the sea was closed, we went to the neighboring bay. There is also very good, less wave. Here. True, the wind, if not very strong, is a definite boon for this time of year. Air temperature + 35-37 degrees. Without wind it is very difficult, with a light wind - well, but in a storm I didn’t even want to swim - COLD! "Freeze" in June in Egypt!! ! but it's true.

2- and this, rather, is the wish of the hotel administration, the bridges in the sea go into the zone of the breaking wave. Hence, there are many injuries, and it is dangerous to go out, even with a small wave. It would be necessary to make another ladder, further into the sea, 3-4 meters (for example, from the flag).
Returning to the hotel. There was some kind of animation. But we were not bored without her. At 10 pm, at least put matches in your eyes. And in the morning rise at 7 and into the sea. So we drove across the sea and the sun. Both received in full.
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