Лотос Lotus

To get from Hurghada 60 km, whoever is lucky in time. We drove for 1.5 hours, as the bus was large and brought guests to other hotels.
We arrived almost at night, they gave us the keys (they never gave a normal room in Egypt without a baksheesh, but I always hope and again in vain... ). The room is dead, I can stand it, but the air conditioner hummed like a jet plane and spewed water from the inside onto the bed, but then I had to get money and go to the reception for an exchange. $20 solved our room problem but the mood was already ruined. They showed me a new room, gave me the key, and I decided that it would be easy to find. We took bags and went to wander through the labyrinths of identical streets and houses. This went on for a very long time and, realizing that I couldn’t cope on my own, I decided to ask for help from the passing staff, they were also confused, but after 40 minutes we found the room. I kept thinking why my husband was so quiet at that moment and dutifully rolled his suitcase, and then I saw a bottle of drunk whiskey from Duty Free! Thank God this store exists.
The room is good, renovated, far from the hustle and bustle, room 243 if anyone is interested, this is the first floor.

Restaurant. I am not a fan of oriental food. Everything is standard here, I have nothing to eat, it’s good that there are toasts and good-tasting soups, they bake cakes for dinner. Very poor food and fruits. My husband disagrees with me. The main thing is that there is air conditioning.
Beach. Good, wide. There are a couple of islands with semi-dead corals, we have seen the turtle many times, it comes to have breakfast, sometimes for dinner.
I want to mention the rescuer Ali, good friendly, but most importantly, he helped those who stepped on the hedgehog. I'm always a part-time interpreter in places like this. People, learn English, well, it’s a shame that everyone knows, and Ukrainians and Russians in general can only poke a finger, and even then, not always in the right place. So, in my presence, he saved three of them from hedgehog thorns and from being ripped off by a local doctor, saving each of them $200. There are a lot of boats on the sea and there were fears that this would cause inconvenience in the form of smells or debris in the sea, but, fortunately, this did not bother us. And the garbage was driven from the city beach, where the locals crap to the fullest, they throw everything into the sea, a very sad sight.
Infrastructure. There is a main pool, everyone swims there and there is on the beach, near the spa, it was our personal one, no one swam there, but in vain, the views are gorgeous. There are two bars, one by the sea, where foreigners plunge into the world of alcohol to the hits of the 80s and the second near the animation, it is noisy there, but not as interesting as in the drunken one by the sea.
Animation. I liked the fact that my teenage child disappeared there for some time and did not eat my brain with a teaspoon that she was bored. Aladdin is a good animator, friendly, well done, he devoted himself to work at 100. Aquajim, volleyball, bocha and evening animation.
Spa. Offered on site. The guides are all liars, they offer a spa in Hurghada, but they are silent about it.

I liked it (I almost always take the spa in the hotel, so this Turkish hammam is very good). First, a bath, a hammam, then peeling, foam masses and a relaxing body mass. The whole procedure lasted 1.5 hours, bargained for $25. Attention! No jacuzzi and this is not Turkey, good for Egypt.
Exit outside the hotel. Opposite there are markets, shops, cafes. There is a pharmacy on the right. We bought mango. In the green store you will definitely be fooled. The first time I sold a mango for 4 dollars, although everywhere for 2, the second time we exchanged money for pounds and downloaded a table of Arabic numerals. The price is announced 46 pounds, on the price tag 37, the seller was very upset. But for the third time he took off the price tag and still sold more expensive (he had a good variety, with a small bone), but we let him do it. Be careful. Everything else is standard - buy a T-shirt, aaaaa....greedy. They tried to explain that a T-shirt with the inscription Egypt is no longer relevant, but everyone remained unconvinced.
The rest is good, the Red Sea is beautiful, I love Egypt in the summer for the warm sea and the warm pool.