The most important thing is the opportunity to swim with the dugong

Written: 29 october 2021
Travel time: 2 — 16 october 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 8.0
Check in was quick, room was great.
I liked the attitude of the staff, the quality of cleaning, except for the lack of Wi-Fi in the room.
The food was okay. The choice of dishes is sufficient and everything was delicious. for me, the most important thing is that there has always been fish, vegetables and melon. It is very cool that there is a restaurant on the beach, it saves time.
I chose a hotel with the hope of swimming with a dugong in Mubarak Bay.

Almost all the time the outer reef was not allowed because of the waves. On the way to the port of Ghalib, several times we met blackfin sharks, bracken, moray eels, many large short-spined urchin fish. Lots of snorkeling in Mubarak Bay, where I was lucky to swim with a dugong. While looking for a meeting with a dugong on a sandy bottom, you can meet 1.5-meter green turtles, beautiful ringed stingrays, guitarfish, bracken, left-eyed spotted flounders and crocodile fish. I swam from Marsa Mubarak Bay to my hotel: the first half of the way the reef is richer and more interesting. There are almost always waves, but if you keep a distance from the surf, then you didn’t notice any currents, and even swimming against the waves is not difficult. We had to make our way to the outer reef between the reef and the moored ships (they arrive around 10 am).
I went with a guide Olga from Marsa Alam to three reserves: to the Sataya reef, to the Sharm el-luli reserve and to the Abu Dabab reserve. Swim with dolphins on the Sataya Reef. Sharm El Luli has a stunningly beautiful reef with many soft corals. In the Abu Dabab reserve, the kingdom of green turtles and a beautiful reef with eagles. I want to say that I went on another excursion, not with Olga, to another reserve, to the Hamata Islands, summary: next time I will go only with her. Excursions certainly saved the situation with snorkeling on the hotel's house reef.
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