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Is it necessary to meet with a hotel guide?
There is no desire to listen to their delusional horror stories, but do they say something really worthwhile? Do they need to bring / show any documents or can they safely ignore and enjoy their vacation?
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So don't go if you don't want to. The hotel guide sells excursions, he does not need your documents. The guide can also tell something about the hotel, but you can ask the reception/guest relation the same thing.
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answered 7 years ago
I mostly go. I don't listen to horror stories. Sometimes there are good offers for excursions / clubs. Quite often they tell interesting nuances about hotels.
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answered 7 years ago
I am not interested in their excursions, and I myself know the nuances of the hotel or find out in the place))) Why did I ask if there would be any problems later that we did not come to the meeting, did not bring any vouchers or at the departure of some nuances, he will not tell you when the transfer will pick up or the flight will be rescheduled. Moreover, I do not think that he remembers all the tourists at the meeting. I understand that going to a meeting with a guide is not a mandatory procedure, right?
Meeting with the hotel guide is absolutely voluntary, there will be no problems with the transfer, information about the transfer and flight time is posted at the hotel the day before departure.
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answered 7 years ago
Yes, for absolutely nothing))
In an insured event, you must call the insurance company directly. In the insurance company, the operators are Russian-speaking, they themselves either invite the doctor to the hotel, or call the nearest clinic to which the patient himself goes. The reception will help only with the translation between you and the doctor. Or by calling a taxi to the clinic.
In an insured event, you must call the insurance company directly. In the insurance company, the operators are Russian-speaking, they themselves either invite the doctor to the hotel, or call the nearest clinic to which the patient himself goes. The reception will help only with the translation between you and the doctor. Or by calling a taxi to the clinic.
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answered 7 years ago
They used to go, now they don't. There is a stupid vparivanie tours and horror stories, so as not to buy tours from him, otherwise we are in for terrible troubles like, if something suddenly happens, then the insurance will be invalid. Will also try to get you to sign an appropriate undertaking not to buy tours from anyone other than him.
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answered 7 years ago
purpurpur "and what is this" corresponding obligation not to buy tours not from him. "" - well, this is one of the horror stories :)
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answered 7 years ago
You guides should not show any documents, let alone give them away. Stories about the fact that insurance is valid only on excursions organized by the tour operator are fairy tales.
If it's your first time in the country, it's worth going. It is possible that you will hear some useful information or you really want to go on an excursion.
All questions about the hotel can always be asked at the reception or guest relations. If you speak foreign languages, then in general there should be no problems with communication with the staff.
By and large, you need to meet with the guide in order to take his phone number just in case, he is also a viber or whatsapp for emergency communication. And in order for him to explain to you where, a day before departure, you can find information about the time of your transfer from the hotel to the airport.
If you are traveling with a family, it is quite enough if someone goes to the meeting alone.
You paid money for a ticket, which means that the guide is for you, and not you for the guide. He is the maintenance staff to complain about, if anything.
If it's your first time in the country, it's worth going. It is possible that you will hear some useful information or you really want to go on an excursion.
All questions about the hotel can always be asked at the reception or guest relations. If you speak foreign languages, then in general there should be no problems with communication with the staff.
By and large, you need to meet with the guide in order to take his phone number just in case, he is also a viber or whatsapp for emergency communication. And in order for him to explain to you where, a day before departure, you can find information about the time of your transfer from the hotel to the airport.
If you are traveling with a family, it is quite enough if someone goes to the meeting alone.
You paid money for a ticket, which means that the guide is for you, and not you for the guide. He is the maintenance staff to complain about, if anything.
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answered 7 years ago
purpurpur Concerning the doctor. Case of life. Corals, leg, scratch, feeling unwell, abscess. I'm going to the reception. They say the hotel has only a nurse, and a doctor only on call. We call the insurance company from a mobile phone. They find out where we are, call back the receptionists, so that we don’t spend money. Find out all the circumstances and the reason for the appeal. They call a doctor. At the reception we make a copy of the passport and insurance. We go to the doctor, give copies, get help. All in all it took over an hour. Maybe one and a half.
The second case from life. The son sprained his leg. I decided not to contact the insurance company, because. drank alcohol before. Called the doctor's number. He came to the room. Did everything you need to. The son paid him 20 bucks.
The second case from life. The son sprained his leg. I decided not to contact the insurance company, because. drank alcohol before. Called the doctor's number. He came to the room. Did everything you need to. The son paid him 20 bucks.
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answered 7 years ago
If you go to the hotel doctor, you will have to pay yourself. Well, the qualifications of the hotel doctor is unknown. I immediately call the insurance company, it's more reliable for me.
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answered 7 years ago
I’m flying to Egypt not for the first time, before that I went to meetings, I know what they say there. You sit and wait for everyone to come, then you listen for two hours about excursions (I’ve already been everywhere I wanted to go, I even went to Israel from Sharm), I don’t want to swim again on a yacht (I’ve already swum and seen everything I wanted to), diving / quad bikes and other entertainments are also not particularly interesting, since the rest will be quite economical (I’d rather bring home a mango than swim in a bathyscaphe, because all the same fish can be seen on the beach, and I’m not a big fan of diving, snork off the coast hotel is enough for me). Of the excursions, only Cairo and Alexandria are interesting, but you need to initially go to Cairo and Alexandria itself for a week, well, something like that, somehow I’ll definitely go in the winter. But I went because I thought it was a mandatory procedure. That's why I'm here to find out if it makes sense to go.
Thanks to everyone who replied for the advice. For myself, I already realized that it is not necessary to go to a meeting, it is better to lie down on the beach this time.
Thanks to everyone who replied for the advice. For myself, I already realized that it is not necessary to go to a meeting, it is better to lie down on the beach this time.
purpurpur "You sit and wait for everyone to come, then you listen for two hours about excursions", Well, this is if 50-100 people visit the hotel. And when, like ours, there are only two of us from the entire flight to the hotel, then the meeting with the hotel guide takes place in a friendly atmosphere for 10 minutes :)))
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answered 7 years ago
In any Vodafone store, including at the airport.
Ask the seller to help with the settings later, because all service messages come, of course, in Arabic.
Or in almost any souvenir shop, or in shopping centers such as Senzomol in Hurghada.
We always have free hotel Wi-Fi.
True, in our hotels it is free throughout the territory.
Ask the seller to help with the settings later, because all service messages come, of course, in Arabic.
Or in almost any souvenir shop, or in shopping centers such as Senzomol in Hurghada.
We always have free hotel Wi-Fi.
True, in our hotels it is free throughout the territory.
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answered 7 years ago
purpurpur is the cheapest SIM at the airport. There is a vodafone counter at the airport exit. It turns out something about $ 3 for 3 GB. But earlier they wrote that you can pay either in local currency or with a bank card.
In all stores, stalls with the inscription Vodafone they want about $ 5 for 1.5 GB. I replenished by 1.5 GB 2-3 dollars.
In all stores, stalls with the inscription Vodafone they want about $ 5 for 1.5 GB. I replenished by 1.5 GB 2-3 dollars.
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answered 7 years ago
This is only at your discretion. Insurance is in your hands (if they help you figure it out at the reception). Information and nuances about the hotel will also be explained at the reception. Regarding the return flight, the guide is obliged to leave information at the hotel. Regarding the intimidation of mandatory registration for the flight - you have a ticket in your hands, you do not need to register anywhere!
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answered 7 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtC2-Tu_l2M myths and tricks of hotel guides
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answered 7 years ago
If you do not go to a meeting with a guide, he will get you out of the ground through the hotel workers. It will take no more than an hour of your time.
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answered 7 years ago
Alexey1983____ we never go to meet a guide, we don't even know him by sight, and, imagine, no one bothers.
Hotel staff and guides are independent persons, they have different employers. Why would they create a tandem?
"It will take no more than an hour of your time." ____ and why on earth should a tourist spend an hour of his vacation listening to all sorts of nonsense and outright lies?
Hotel staff and guides are independent persons, they have different employers. Why would they create a tandem?
"It will take no more than an hour of your time." ____ and why on earth should a tourist spend an hour of his vacation listening to all sorts of nonsense and outright lies?
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answered 7 years ago
The guides also try to sell freebie lovers and beginners a free sightseeing tour of Sharm, which boils down to the fact that you will be taken to shops and souvenir shops all day long. The guide from this has a percentage of the sale of what you buy, and you will lose almost a whole day of beach holidays.
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answered 7 years ago
zaeugene, do you happen to know if the Vodafone counter at the airport works at night? And I’m also interested in the Dutik at the airport, maybe someone knows if it works at night? Our flight always arrives at 02.35.
As for the meeting with the hotel guide: if you arrived at the hotel for the first time - we go, if not the first - we do not go.
As for the meeting with the hotel guide: if you arrived at the hotel for the first time - we go, if not the first - we do not go.
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answered 7 years ago
inna_sharkevich I did not arrive before 8 am. So I won't suggest. If it does not work, then buy elsewhere, but a little more expensive. But at the exit in the Dutik, I don’t remember anything other than alcohol. And you will not get into the dutik, which is in the departure hall, upon arrival. There is also a dutik in Soho in Sharm. But I didn't go there.
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answered 7 years ago
thanks zaeugene. The Dutik is interested in alcohol. In Soho, they always bought Canadian Club whiskey, inexpensive and very pleasant. But it ended there in the winter - in the spring and is still not there, yesterday I asked my friends who work in Soho. As for the SIM card: is it only for the Internet, or can you also call? In Vodafone in Soho they asked about a micro SIM card, they said that an empty one costs $5. You still need to put money on it. Didn't buy.
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answered 7 years ago
inna_sharkevich I always bought a SIM card "for the Internet", but you can call from / to it. The last time in November last year I bought in a shop near Rehana. I do not remember exactly, but 4 or 5 dollars for 1.5 GB. In real life there is not 1.5, but 1.25. And he also took a replenishment for 1.5 GB for 2 or 3 dollars.
And in Tamra, in a store on site, they wanted 15 euros for the same SIM card with the same tariff :)
And in Tamra, in a store on site, they wanted 15 euros for the same SIM card with the same tariff :)
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answered 7 years ago
zaeugene, thanks for the answers! Soon again on the beloved Red Sea! Have a great holiday everyone!
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