нам понравилось в Сафага we liked Safaga

We stayed at the Amira Hotel in Safaga from 7 to 14.11. 2009. The hotel is small but cozy. Indeed there is table tennis and darts on the second floor near the pool. We always take our own rackets, balls and darts, so the presence of a tennis table pleases us. The food is like a 3 * very normal. Salad pieces 10-15, soups - 2 types, garnish - rice all the time, potatoes, steamed vegetables, pasta with different seasonings. From meat - mainly chicken, sausages, beef. There were fish a couple of times. Alcoholic drinks are served at the bar, tea and coffee are also served at the bar. Standard rooms are small, extra troubles are difficult to fit, which I told the guide from the meeting side of the TEZtour, I did not complain, but simply expressed surprise at the small number. And what was our surprise when the next day the director of the hotel, Mr. Gaber (my husband called him Jaber) personally handed us the key to the 2-room suite. We immediately moved our things and were very pleased. We also played tennis with him, he plays well, by the way. The hotel has a shop where we bought coral slippers for $8 and a very good quality snorkel with a mask for $12, which is much cheaper than in Kyiv. The beach is not in front of the hotel across the road, but you need to walk 5 minutes, and secret paths - 3 minutes. Some traveled by bus. We always walked to the beach. But the beach is a dream, each fungus has its own palm tree and protection from the wind. By the way, as soon as we arrived there was no wind, and then there was three days. Well, it is clear that they also poured on the beach. Hookah for money - 10 pounds. Coral is where they wrote, between the first and second buoy. I fed the fish with a bun, but you need to feed it not above the coral, but nearby, so that the bun does not fall on the coral, because it can deteriorate. To the left of the beach there is a half-sunken ship, and under it there are coral thickets, the beauty is indescribable. Opposite the beach there is an island, and it would be possible to swim, but there is a military base on it and the problem of swimming has disappeared by itself. We went on excursions to the coral islands, we really liked it. We walked around Safaga both in the afternoon and in the evening, I bought myself folk Arab clothes. In Safaga, sellers do not grab hands and do not drag them into their store, there, as in normal countries, you need to buy something. And one more thing that I could not understand before the trip - a map of Safaga - from the side of Hurghada: hotels, then 5 km of road along the sea without residential buildings, then a little city, then our hotel, followed by a city, and then a port that stretches and stretches , we did not go to the end of the port. Our main occupation was photographing the underwater world with an underwater camera, which is exactly what we went for. The Olympus 850 SW worked well, got a little wet because you can't keep it in salt water for more than 1 hour, but when dry it worked as before.