Хороший отель и безопасное море Good hotel and safe sea

Good day everyone!
We rested in Menaville Safaga in late October - early November 2021. In Egypt 4 times.
Immediately I want to appeal to those who write reviews - please write once you have rested. If you rested in Egypt for the first time, then your wows are understandable, but you should not write reviews, because they are not objective, you have nothing to compare with and you are misleading with your wows.


So, immediately about the main thing, this is the SEA. The beach and sea are wonderful. The beach is large, sandy, gently sloping entrance, the depth starts from 10 meters. The sea was different, and transparent, and the water with milk, very beautifully shines under the water. There was no storm, no big waves, no flag was seen at all. The water was cooler than usual for this time of year, but it always floated for just as long and never froze. There is no coral reef nearby, but there are living coral islands and many small fish, I saw new fish every day, big fish also swim up to 1 m, but this is closer to the buoys and behind the buoys.
And most importantly, every day we swam with turtles, mostly with one or two in one swim, I was delighted! Turtles are different, I counted 4 or 5 different ones. Three times I saw stingrays, once a huge “wing span” of more than two meters swam above the turtle. Several times I spotted gray moray eels grazing in a field with grass next to corals, and many times I saw cuttlefish swimming in a row.

ACCOMMODATION: the room is good, spacious, bright, clean. The mattress is firm but comfortable. The bathroom is large, there was hot water around the clock, the water pressure was good, there were shower gel, shampoo, and soap from cosmetics. Cleaning is good, upon request. They always left $ 1 for a tip, they played swans, elephants, boats, etc. for us.

FOOD: very good for my taste, thanks to the chef, it's a pity that he never went out into the hall, as in the second hotels (or maybe we didn't see it). At lunch and in the evening, fish, chicken, meat in stock, i. e.
prepared differently every day. Side dishes - potatoes, rice, pasta are also prepared in different ways, that is, the food is not tired. Vegetables, salads. Of the fruits during the rest were guava, melon, pomegranate, dates, figs, grapes, orange, persimmon. Pastries in the morning are varied and delicious. But I didn’t like pies and cakes, mostly biscuits. I love puff and sand, but there were very few of them and only by the opening of the restaurant, but probably it's for the best - I didn't get fat.

I would like to note the friendly and helpful staff at the reception, thank you!

MINUSES:
There are no normal juices in the bar on the beach, there is only a type of yupa, that is, solid chemistry, I really missed it on the beach.
Weak entertainment program in the evenings, the same all days, at 8 pm a children's disco, then a girl dances a belly dance, and then a young man twists skirts, and that's all.

I turn to the administration, it is possible, and the necessary program for at least 5-6 days, every day for the arrival (7 days) is different.
Another disadvantage is that there is not a single Ukrainian TV channel.
Another unpleasant surprise was the waiters in the restaurant. In the first days they rush towards, smile, greet. And then, if you do not pay a tip, then they do not see you point-blank. In the evenings, waiters occupy tables for paying customers, so it takes a long time to look for a table immediately after the start of dinner, once the senior hall manager had to make a wow, so they vacated the table in a second. This phenomenon is also present in Makada - Bay, where mostly Germans. In Hurghada and Sharm, we did not observe this. I appeal to the administration, teach your waiters, especially the older one, at least to say hello for free and not to pretend not to see. And I don't need their artificial grin. Of course, this does not apply to everyone, there were those who greeted and smiled naturally, but they were few.
I want to say a few words about the tour operator. The TEZ-tour, as always, is on top, convenient and almost without rescheduling the departure time (postponed by 1 hour). A well-organized excursion to Abu Simbel, discovered a completely different Egypt - Nubia, very interesting, thank you! One minus, at night it is very cold in the minibus, we caught a little cold, the necessary climate control system.

In general, in a nutshell - I recommend the hotel!

P. S. I wrote in Russian so that the hotel staff, who do not understand Ukrainian, could read.
All is well, may you be lucky!