Pleasant stay at Old Palace Resort

Written: 9 january 2015
Travel time: 19 — 28 december 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
The main purpose of the trip was a "lazy" vacation, without excursions and fuss. This hotel suited us 100% in these parameters. From Hurghada airport we got to the hotel in 25-30 minutes, taking into account check-in at a couple more hotels. Lovely, gated area Saah Hashil. Quiet, clean and tidy. Guarded entrance. On the first night at the hotel, we were offered a chalet for free: separate buildings, a wonderful spacious room, good plumbing, access to the lawn, a large terrace. After living there for a day and having examined our standard room, we decided to make an additional payment and stay in the chalet. The standards in the hotel are quite old, from the bath to the TV. Small area, no iron and ironing board, not very powerful hair dryer. Standards overlooking the garden may be overlooking the internal hoz. patio. The hotel has a fairly large territory, with the correct layout, there are two swimming pools, a large one is cold, a small one is heated, there is a separate warm jacuzzi.
Lots of green lawns, palm trees, flowering trees, all neatly trimmed and well maintained. The beach is spacious, clean, with fine sand, a clean bottom and good entry into the water, there is no shallow water. If you take a mask, you can see a lot of fish on the left side of the beach if you are facing the sea. We advise you to take buns, finely crumble and feed this wonderful company, the impressions will remain wonderful. The hotel is located in a bay, so neither wind nor waves were noticed, the water was at a comfortable temperature, although it got cold early, at half past three or four everyone left the beach (what to do is a feature of the December weather). Sun loungers on the beach must be borrowed early in the morning, booking before 10 am is prohibited, things will simply be removed by the lifeguard and your umbrella will be occupied by other vacationers (things will be solemnly returned to you with your return to the beach and explained that you can book sun loungers after 10 am).
On the beach, if you do not want to communicate with hotel sellers of excursions and fur coats, take a bag with the inscription “do not disturb” and you are guaranteed a relaxing holiday. The food at the hotel is wonderful, they try very hard to bring it closer to European. There is no sensation of sweetness and aftertaste after meat dishes. Rolls and sushi are rolled, though vegetarian, without fish, with vegetables. Baking is beyond praise - well done. The service staff is friendly, polite, welcoming, wonderful chefs in the restaurant. The bulk of the staff is Russian-speaking, but many understand only English, so communicate, smile and they will wait for you, serve you as a favorite guest, bring you your plates of food, bring drinks, fruits, and all this is not for a tip, but just for good and friendly attitude towards staff. Separately, I want to note Daria and Yulia Guest Relation, beautiful girls, experts in their field, solve any issues.

Animation at the hotel is unobtrusively present: morning gymnastics, aqua aerobics, darts, table tennis, belly dancing, volleyball, football, children's room, children's disco and evening show. There are invited artists: for Christmas they brought Santa Claus, arranged a big children's program (it was interesting for adults too), arrange oriental evenings, with belly dances and skirts. By eleven in the evening the hotel freezes and everyone goes to bed. In the middle of our vacation there was a small incident, we lived in an adjacent chalet, a family arrived with a reservation of this particular adjacent chalet and they asked us to overpower us in a room of a category higher than a junior suite. What is a junior suite in Old Palace Resort: large room, main building, third floor, living room and bedroom, one bathroom, one huge terrace-balcony, corner room, so on the one hand a view of the fountain and the main pool, on the other hand - direct view of the sea, bay and fountains.
The room was excellent, all the furniture and appliances are new (the only negative is that the bath is not as good as in the chalet) - we were very pleased with the relocation. The room was brought a nice compliment-chocolate cake. The hotel has a free gym, paid spa. Regarding wi-fi, I’ll share a secret for those who, like me, like to be online and not pay extra for it: around lunchtime and until three o’clock, a free network appears near the large pool, so it was a pleasant and useful discovery, because the Internet at the hotel for a fee. Near the hotel there is where to walk. A very large and long walking path through the entire Saah Hashil, with shops, hotels, bars, cafes and restaurants. The salespeople are not pushy or pushy. And of course, colored fountains. They are located near our hotel, a very pleasant and beautiful place, especially in the evenings, we advise everyone for walks and photo shoots. In the morning it is pleasant to go jogging along the beach and along the pedestrian zone of the area.
After a ten-day vacation, I can say with certainty that the Old Palace Resort is for those who are looking for a calm, measured, high-quality and leisurely vacation.
Thanks to everyone who read)
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