Paradise – рай для мух и гостей из Германии Paradise - a paradise for flies and guests from Germany

Having agreed with Pegas touristik and crossed themselves twice, they got into a taxi. Egypt opened its doors a little and we decided to fly through this crack with transit flights for a long vacation from 10/01/21 to 10/10/21 to Hurghada!
Having flown in total 6 hours and 3 thousand km, our middle-aged Airbus A300 of Turkish Airlines landed alone at the airport of sunny Egypt. A powerful pressure of 350 hungry travelers ran to give their $ 25 for a sticker in their passport.
After admiring other huge, glittering lights and luxury hotels, an intercity bus slowly delivered 20 Russian-speaking people to Paradise. The first pleasant impressions were that we would still be offered dinner, despite the late time. In the hall we were met by a waiter with a tray of cool lemonade. Another completed questionnaire, issued keys to the room, tired children, I wanted one thing - to quickly take a shower, turn on the air conditioner and wait: the sunrise, the warm sea, a delicious breakfast, the smiles of the staff and the happy faces of the vacationers.

Stubbornly not noticing other people's needs, BellBoy with our suitcase, not understanding English after 30 minutes, waved his hand: ". . . get yourself to your room... ", sent us around the territory in search of a plate with the number 611 on the door. After wandering for 10-15 minutes, we noticed a procession of tired faces with a proudly walking porter at the head. Understanding our intentions, the head of the procession nevertheless indicated that part of the world (darkness) where our room was located and an elderly 3-storey building in the style of a family hostel accepted us to stay.
Number: Rectangular room about 30 sq. m. with 3 beds, a coffee table, two armchairs, a country-style TV, a wardrobe in the corridor, a free safe, a shared (common air conditioning???!!! ) and a toilet at the entrance, met us with its cleanliness and simplicity - hurray!
Somewhere something went wrong - the beginning: The first night passed in the mode of hot - cold. The air conditioner operates in cold and very cold mode. 17-19 degrees, stubbornly issued from the nozzle of this device, instantly chilled out the room even in the Low mode. The blankets in the closet were not warm enough, and when the freezer was turned off, the African heat set in very quickly. After experimenting with climate equipment, a compromise solution was found for mixing hot air from an open window and an invigorating breeze from a refrigerating unit, but new adventures awaited us! With the first rays of the sun through the open window, the local fauna came to us in the form of flies and mosquitoes. Stop sleeping - it's time to wake up! At the reception they said that the number could not be changed. There are no free bungalows and never will be. We decided that we could somehow survive without a separate air conditioner and a large flat-screen TV.
Local flies are an unexpectedly mysterious flying object for a European. Amazingly nimble insect! Favorite places for mosquitoes to land are the eyes, ears and nose of a person, if the head starts to get nervous and make sounds, fly to the body, and then to the arms or legs. At the same time, the main condition is to sit on a bare part of the body, run 2-3 centimeters and take off again. Long flights for the owner and prediction of the place of impact with the palm are possible. Where can you find a reptile in large numbers? In the hotel room, in the dining room, on the beach! Tired locals hang fly traps on the street, and service personnel are given an electric fly swatter that resembles a tennis racket.

The main thing is to be on a good wave, we told ourselves!
Morning. A good breakfast of egg-sausage-cheese assortment, pancakes. Delicious buns and bread and butter, some sweets and delicious tea (highly recommended)! Fans of vegetable cuisine are always waiting for all kinds of salads and separately chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, carrots, peppers and lime slices for dressing. At some distance there are bottles with vegetable oils and vinegars. Even further spice bowls.
Beach: A hot sun and a rather strong wind, the feeling that a hair dryer was directed at you. It's +35 on the street, it's time to pretend to be a seal, to do what we came for. The equipment of the beach is on the verge of full development, but still alive. Chaise lounges wooden, mattresses + wicker stationary umbrellas, sand. The place was not immediately, but we managed to find it, and soon the bar will open. I'm all in heaven!
Somewhere something went wrong - continued: Having settled in the shade on the beach, the first thing to do is to swim! With an air of a seasoned man, pulling in my stomach as far as possible and straightening my shoulders, I dip my feet in the Red Sea with the gait of a terminator. Wow, b-r-r and the sea is cold!! ! The water temperature is not more than 22-23 degrees! But the path to the water's edge has been done, nothing can be done, you need to dive into the abyss. Getting used to comes after 10 minutes. Looking around, we see clean clear water, fish and divers in masks. Nearby there are several fabulously beautiful small reefs. Corals and aquarium fish of all colors of the rainbow, starfish and crabs on buoys. Calm, you don’t want to get out of the water, but you also need to warm up. The wife sunbathes while sipping drinks and warding off annoying flies and tour vendors. A child in the shade is trying to open a concrete slab with a scoop… Stop! It turns out that the entire beach is concrete slabs + 1-2 cm sand. You can build sand castles and make sand cakes only on the coastal edge. Poor fellow Beach Boys constantly, in the morning and in the evening, try to level this unfortunate centimeter with a special rake so that bald spots do not appear (strange, of course, because the desert with tons of sand is only 100 meters away)!

Lunch: Coming to the opening at 12.30 is pointless, unless, of course, there is a love for queues. French fries with ketchup and pasta with tomato sauce, rice. Beef and chicken, delicious battered fish (boneless). Mass of stewed and stuffed vegetables, salads. Sometimes grapes, always melons and never watermelons, many varieties of dates, sliced ​ ​ oranges and grapefruits. Baking and desserts. Flies. You crawl out barely alive and wander to the hotel for a little rest. The room is already clean and cool, leaving the air conditioner on is not prohibited. Arriving workers put the bed and toilet in order, change towels and bed linen daily, starting from the ground floor.
On the street + 38-40, the sun is at its zenith. For those who do not want to change their skin layer to a newer one, there is time to sleep or go shopping. We will find the islands of trade, leaving both to the right of the hotel and towards Safaga. If you like something in the shop, you can and should bargain hard.
Sunset: The luminary leaves approaches the horizon very quickly, the most comfortable hours of rest come. The sea has warmed up to 24-25 degrees, the sand no longer burns, the beer in the bar has not yet ended, and it will not work to get burned. Feel free to get out from under the umbrella. Between the bar and the dining room on the tables in trays are muffins or sweets. The guests of the hotel have a peaceful afternoon mood. With the last rays, the rescuers drive everyone out of the sea and out of the pool. in the evening the "evil barracuda" comes.
Evening: We see a farewell ray of sun at the sixth hour, and more than an hour before dinner. In the room we wash ourselves off from sea water and fine sand, we wash ourselves, out of the corner of our eye we look at NTV or two news channels in Russian. We succumb to the general flow “closer to the kitchen”, move to the lobby, where there is poor but free WiFi, or a bar where the French and Germans are already in full swing, drinking powdered juice and beer.
Dinner: It's time for a hearty dinner. In the hotel you can forget about all diets, figures and so on, and surrender to the sin of gluttony! On the street, cooks are rampaging cooking meat, or fish, or sausages on the coals, the hungry mass grabs plates and places at the tables. It's hard to leave on an empty stomach. Most of the dishes were left from lunch, but desserts and delicacies were added. There were even king prawns, squid and scallops in batter!

Nighttime: The evening lights of Paradise illuminate the most beautiful and romantic places of numerous flowerbeds and benches with lanterns, urging you to take a break from the heat and talk about the eternal. We strive to take places closer to the stage, where, under the spotlights of spotlights, animators are preparing a fun pastime. From 20.00 to 20.30 children's disco, and from 21.00 to 22.30 shows. To admit that, having been in different hotels, we saw good and bad animators. Here, it seemed that for the most part the guests entertained themselves and only visiting actors aroused keen interest among the entire public! In any case, the center of the universe in the evening was the bar and the surrounding area. You can play billiards for three dollars an hour. Table tennis is available, where sometimes serious international tournaments were played! All movements and gatherings ended at 24.00, when the bar switched to paid mode.
Of the fat pluses in the karma of the hotel: Food, cleanliness of the rooms and the availability of hot water. Until the skin is covered with a tan - the friendliness of the staff. Free table tennis and gym. On the territory you can take tours on a yacht and join diving. There is a paid Fresh bar, and for those who like to sit with a can of beer and spend their hard-earned money watching the views of the sea, there is a separate cafe. And absolutely for the fastidious and dissatisfied with the local cuisine, from the end of the hotel, at any time, you can taste local food in the Aladdin cafe. There are paid SPA procedures.
Of the minuses: I would like to note the unexpectedly cold sea, a small hotel area for Egypt. The schedule of the free bar (begins to work at 10.00 am) to drink tea or juice, you need to get dressed and overcome the evil eyes of the breakfasters, defile through the entire dining room to the boilers. Flying insects - I have never seen such nimble and arrogant ones. The beach is also difficult to call exemplary. The entire first and second coastline is occupied by abandoned things and towels, and straw fences that protect from the wind can only be found in the first rows. The thickness of the sand cover and the cleanliness of the beach, cigarette butts, flying cups. Not in delight and from artificial reservoirs. Having let the child go for only an hour, we get the blue ichthyander from the children's part of the freshwater area! There is no water park, slides are only in the paddling pool. Who needs a pool with a water temperature of 22-23 degrees? During the second half of our stay, the hotel's population grew and the local staff turned into clumsy, unsmiling, grumbling employees - no ice! There were not enough places in the dining room, or rather clean places, the waiters did not have time to remove the dirty dishes. The Octopus disco announced in the announcements is not working - but I wanted to dance.
Somewhere something went wrong - epilogue: Russian tourists, the best guests, the guides told us. Who was not afraid to travel from Egypt when sharks appeared on the seashores in 2010? Even when Coronovirus is rampant, and this hotel does not know what anti-covid measures are, there are still more Russians than everyone else! Vendors in local stalls are also glad to see us. First of all, animators learn Russian, because no one except us takes part in their competitions, Europeans look at those who take part, like animals in a circus. How sad it was to realize when you are given a half-filled disposable cup, and the German standing behind you is poured into a glass glass to the top. It's a shame to see that the waiters do not have time to clean the dirty tables, because they carry wine and beer on trays for the burghers and the Dutch, begging and smiling for a pretty penny. I myself saw how a plump woman from the local staff hid several bottles of alcohol from the tourist stock in the bar in her shorts. In the evening, after 23.00, for some reason, all the alcohol always unexpectedly ended. It is also incomprehensible that the anger with which the bartender pours whiskey and cola if this is not the 1st glass. In a glass, a proportion of 2/3 whiskey and 1/3 cola was obtained, you had to ask for cola separately. During the day there was not enough clean dishes and it was unusual to see people with empty and not clean dishes in their hands in the queue for drinks! All this attitude towards “ours” exploded the patience of even the most decent, intelligent people. I have seen and heard of such incidents many times. Now it is clear why the Russian-speaking guide from Pegasus named Amr was constantly on duty at the hotel!