Garden of Eden

Written: 2 june 2009
Travel time: 19 — 30 may 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
This hotel is heaven.
The hotel was chosen according to the principle "to be quiet and not to have a Russian obscenity". In May at Hilton Nuweiba 70% are British, the rest are Germans and a little bit of Czechs. There were few Russians besides us, we saw a maximum of 3 people. One guy working on the beach said that in September there was an influx of Russians and they were quite noisy, so we were lucky; ) But in principle, they didn’t notice any discrimination against us, on the contrary, many employees were even interested in practicing Russian. The service is excellent, the waiters and other staff almost all speak several languages, so you can always explain yourself. It's better to explain yourself in English. Not to say that there were no problems at all, but they were solved instantly. Once we saw 2 ants in the bathroom - after a call to the reception, the ants disappeared. They forgot how to program the safe - they immediately sent an employee who politely explained everything for the second time; I'm sure he would be 10 times as polite. They forgot to change the shower gel - we reminded, and since then they began to bring us two at once. The view from all the rooms, in my opinion, is excellent (we could see palm trees, and the sea, and the pool, and flowers, and mountains), in general, the layout of all buildings is very successful, every little thing is thought out. When we arrived, they tried to ask us for $20 for the "best" room, but we were quite satisfied with the standard room, and we did not pay extra, but maybe we would have settled in a bungalow or a villa, I don't know. All wishes, the slightest whim are fulfilled immediately, if only you were comfortable and comfortable. On the first evening, we managed to have dinner at the restaurant (until 23:00), and when we returned to the room, we found 3 giant dishes with a "late dinner" on the table (cheeses, sausage, chicken, buns, juices, peaches (greenish) and something else) then); and you are provided with food every time you leave somewhere and do not have time to eat at the hotel, I don’t even know who is able to eat it all. Cleaning, change of linen every day, shampoos, hair conditioners, lotions, soaps (all of excellent quality) are changed regularly, the minibar (2 bottles of water and 2 sodas) is also free and replenished every day. After cleaning, swans and flowers were piled for us, once a crocodile was folded out of towels. The territory of the hotel is just a fairy tale, palm trees, ficuses, flowers are everywhere, there are benches and swings everywhere to admire this beauty. If you are taking pictures, a gardener or some other employee will run up to you and offer you a freshly cut flower or a beautiful palm branch to take a picture with. In general, everyone shows constant unobtrusive attention to you. There are always free sun loungers and umbrellas on the beach, we constantly rested by the sea, employees periodically walk along the beach and invite them to diving / massage / entertainment programs, etc. , but if you do not want to communicate, they will not pester you. There are several shops on the territory of the hotel, we accidentally went to the perfume shop of oils, where the owner Reda offers all guests to try the Cleopatra mask for free (we liked it very much), treats him to yellow tea and allows him to try various aromas.
The food is varied and tasty, you can eat almost constantly (until 23:00; foreigners have ultra-all inclusive, they seem to be able to eat and drink in the middle of the night, but I don’t know who needs it). Lunch and dinner are delicious and varied, there is both European and Oriental cuisine. On the street in front of the restaurant in the evenings they cook meat / fish on fire and grill. We tried to choose more or less familiar dishes so as not to have stomach problems. Fruits are not very diverse: mostly melon, dates, oranges, apples, hard peaches, a couple of times there was a watermelon. A lot of different sweets, all delicious. Very tasty bread. I advise you to refrain from drinks with ice and drinks in general at the bar, at least during the day: in the evening during the animation - dancing, live music - the waiters deliver drinks in glass glasses, and during the day they give out suspicious-looking plastic glasses, somehow unpleasant. But the ice cream in the bar on the beach is given out in disposable cups, quite tasty, I ate fearlessly : ) The choice of alcohol is not very diverse, the local wine is not bad, but we rarely took it. For breakfast, there is always freshly squeezed orange juice, delicious croissants, all kinds of cereals / scrambled eggs / yogurts, etc. - in general, I do not know what you can be dissatisfied with. The restaurant, although a buffet, still looks like a restaurant, very clean, the waiters are well-trained, although some allow themselves to be cheeky, but in general they follow this at the hotel. Just keep in mind that this is a foreign country with a completely different culture, and the waiter can interpret your innocent smile as familiarity, so women should try to be more modest. Everyone is very attentive to children, they approach, flirt, if a child bursts into tears in a restaurant, someone will immediately come up to calm him down, and they calm them down better than their parents! The restaurant also has a children's corner with a TV and a children's menu.

The beach is huge, sandy, the entry into the sea is convenient, there are no corals with poisonous living creatures near the coast. I’ll make a reservation, I specifically chose a hotel without corals, because I’m afraid of hedgehogs and wouldn’t want to swim in fish soup at all, but for someone, maybe this is a minus. All kinds of moray eels, flute fish, etc. in the late afternoon you can watch from the pier on the beach, there are benches for the convenience of vacationers. When we went on an excursion to Cairo, one of the vacationers in Taba boasted that he had seen two five-meter sharks - black and white; such happiness, thank God, did not sail to us in Nuweiba, and could not swim - there is a completely calm bay. Waves appear several times a day when ships from a neighboring military base pass by. Opposite are the mountains of Saudi Arabia. The hotel also gives all visitors a gift - 1 hour of a catamaran and 1 hour of swimming with a mask and fins for free. If you swim further away, you can see the most beautiful butterfly fish, some poisonous winged fish. They say 2 turtles still live there, but we didn't see it. In general, the purity of water at any depth is amazing, I saw fish at a depth of several meters, just swimming on a mattress away from the shore.
It is more convenient to go on excursions to the Colored Canyon, Mount Moses and St. Catherine's Monastery - they are close. It is also convenient to travel from Nuweiba to Israel, but we did not go. It takes a long time to go to Cairo - 6 hours - but we went and did not regret it.
In general, who wants a relaxing and happy holiday - feel free to go to this hotel, you will not regret it!
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