Spontaneously so ... on vacation!

Written: 19 june 2010
Travel time: 9 — 16 june 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Spontaneously, we packed up and went... or rather, flew: me, my wife and two children 2.2 years old and 3.8 years old : )
Read on (although I swore that I would not read the reviews) I was already expecting everyone.
And now, in order: we took off from Kyiv at 13.20 (delay 20 minutes), which we caught up in flight. We arrived on schedule, luggage... stomped on the living signs of Pegasus (our tour operator)... plunged into the bus with a cool air conditioner... since the hotel is located on the edge of the earth, or rather Hurghada - we drove for about an hour until we took other tourists around other hotels. We jumped on speed bumps for a long time, and as a result, we and another married couple came to ours : )

We immediately took away the luggage, filled out the card and immediately gave the keys to the room... we stomped into the room... with some unsettling feeling. We went into the room, everything is clean and tidy... the room is on the first floor, with a small terrace and living bushes and flowers; Yes, with a view of the construction site, but there is a whole park alley between the construction site and the room. I quickly checked whether everything was working... everything turned on and off : ) We stomped to have dinner, otherwise the stomach rumbled a little!
About dinner and further food: there was always something to eat, do not believe the one who says that there is nothing to eat - it's not true! Yes, sometimes some dishes were not great - but there were others that no one forbade taking, but there were not enough fruits (quite monotonous)... but, sorry, I didn’t go to get drunk... and at home I don’t have this every day abundance. . .
After dinner, I tried to change the room to the courtyard... Ok... no obstacles + 20c. u. for every day and even now... but I thought that they were only going to spend the night in the room... and refused, which I did not regret later... Why: every evening in the main courtyard there was the so-called animation with loud music, which would simply interfere with rest after busy days! : ) so guess which is better. Yes, about the evening animation - it left much to be desired, but the daytime animation did not interest me...
As for the sunbeds on the beach... if you are not lazy and run to the beach before breakfast (around 7 o'clock in the morning), then you can choose any beach anywhere... closer to 8, I agree, most of the sunbeds are on the first line busy : ) for the entire holiday were on the first line : ))))
The territory is small, but clean and well-groomed... there is an opportunity to walk around the territories of neighboring hotels to the right, if you stand with your back to your own), which are 98% ready, but do not yet accept tourists - an alley of palm trees (about 400-500 !! ! meters in length), colored fountains, etc.

About cleaning the room and staff! Good people, if you buy tickets for a lot of money, do not be stingy with tips, which for 7 days of rest will take about 10-20 dollars (of the cost of the ticket - this is a minuscule amount that will add, believe me positive)... in short, then: did you know that the guys who clean your rooms. . . in any hotel, at least where I've been. . . don't even serve dinner. Do they work from morning to evening? But do you know that their salary, depending on the level of the hotel, ranges from 50 to a maximum of 150 dollars?... and you yourself saw the prices in the city! What am I talking about?... so from the first day I talked with our cleaner, the child gave him a dollar and we went to the beach... upon arrival in the room there were clean linen, towels, 2 bottles of water (although it seems like 1 - the norm)... the next day I talked to him (by the way, cleaners rarely speak any language other than their own, but ours spoke a little in English, which was enough)... I asked him if I could bring him something to eat? he tried to say with a hungry look that it was not worth it... but while he was cleaning in the next room, we had lunch and brought him all sorts of things (then several more times)... I won’t talk about words of gratitude and about carefully rearranging the food... but after that, we had various surprises in the room all week... starting from various figures made of towels and blankets and ending with fresh flowers, and just good-natured communication on an equal footing (they really need it)... the issue of cleanliness or freshness in the room I don't "get over it" anymore. . .
The sea is clean compared to even the sea in the city!! ! It's 100%. they have their own small corals and fish (there are quite a lot of them, but it’s not Charm, but here the depth is up to the shoulder blades, and around you there is a whirlpool of fish... sometimes it even became scary....and if you throw another piece of bread, then the water began to boil : )) the main thing is that even small children like mine can see them... if you walk 150 meters from the hotel to the left, then on the shore of the unfinished building, where the depth is knee-deep... you can lie in the water comparable to fresh milk... it is advisable to have rubberized slippers with you in the water, since a lot of all sorts of creatures still come across at a distance of 10 meters from the shore... I personally saw hedgehogs (even caught them : ))) note, I also saw a moray eel 1 time, though at a depth, and near the shore some kind of snake 35 centimeters long... beige everything with brown dots....but when approaching, she herself fled somewhere far away, and it was from the very in the morning, when no one disturbed the sea yet : ))))
We went on an excursion to the Siskop (a boat with a glass underwater hold), the children were delighted, and I got a little sick : ))) were in the city, went to the bazaars, bargained, as always : ))) We gave our minibus 5 c. u. so he gave his hand at the exit and opened and closed the doors... although we didn’t understand each other : ) he spoke only Arabic!... Yes, I forgot to say getting from this hotel to the city is difficult! A taxi through the reception will cost 35 USD...... expensive! An option to leave the hotel in some other way, and then by taxi for 10-15 USD. return. We went on a tour in a minibus... and returning, on the fingers and with the help of a driver's friend and English on the phone, I was able to explain to the driver where I want to go..... and that's all))) it doesn't matter to him - the task is to bring us to hotel....but 30 minutes earlier or later... another question, but 5 c. u. - beyond praise for him!! ! : )
Wow, I told you so much... maybe I missed something, I don’t even know. To summarize: a family-friendly hotel, not very noisy with poor animation, but this is Egypt : ))) with good food and good service (if you don’t bother : ))))....

And I will probably come back to this hotel again.
Keep it simple and have a great vacation!!!! !
Translated automatically from Russian. View original