Страсти по Египту Passion for Egypt

Good day, just from the plane and therefore I hasten to share my impressions about the rest in this hotel, I will start in order. We rested together with my wife and a one-year-old child at the hotel from August 16 to 27, in principle, we did not plan to go on vacation this year abroad with a one-year-old child, so everything turned out spontaneously. Initially, we considered Turkey as an option, but those hotels that interested us simply raised sky-high prices, so we didn’t give that kind of money for a vacation in Turkey, when we could have a vacation in the Caribbean Sea for this amount, and therefore on August 10 we bought Pegasa has a 12 day tour to Hurghada and since by this time most of the hotels were already on the stop, I had to be content with what was, so the choice fell on Dessole Pyramissa. The flight to Hurghada was scheduled for August 16 and that's where it all started, on August 14 and 15 mass unrest in Cairo, on August 16 riots in Hurghada,
the first thing we did, and not only us, rushed to the tour operator, were ready for anything, asked to rebook the tour to another country, return the money, just not to fly with a one-year-old child to Egypt, but Pegasa's answer was harsh, no refund there will be no tour, there is no official ban on visiting Egypt, there will be no rebooking of the tour to another country, as a result they sent us to hell, saying goodbye, fly pigeons, fly. We thought for a long time, decided, read the tourist forums and decided to fly anyway, relatives saw us off like we were going to war, saying goodbye forever. The flight was from Samara, special greetings to the management of the international terminal of the airport "Kurumoch", such a bestial attitude towards people is rare, the flight to Hurghada took place in anxious expectation, on the approach to Hurghada the imagination drew heartbreaking pictures, people peered into the windows of the aircraft, trying to see the smoke fires,
the plane was half empty, already in flight it turned out that more than 50 people still refused the trip, not daring to tempt fate. Landing on the Egyptian land, everything turned out to be not as depressing as the Russian news channels presented us, we quickly passed the border. control and customs and now we are on the bus. To be honest, I expected that we would go to the hotel accompanied by at least two armored personnel carriers or one tank, but the situation in the city was very calm, there was no curfew or martial law, tourists calmly walked the streets, all the shops were open . When we got to the hotel, we quickly checked in and here something interesting began, they settled us at the farthest end of the third building, on the first floor, after looking around the room, they immediately asked to change it, a lot of things in the room did not function, they asked for the second floor, instead, we dragged to the other side and locked,

there was no other word to express, with a small child, on the fourth floor, overlooking the transformer box and the construction site, there was no time to swear, the child was very tired and wanted to sleep, so we decided to stay in this room, at night it turned out that the air conditioner was not working. In the morning we learned that the hotel has a priority for vacationers who revisit the hotel, and for the so-called "first-timers" who rest at the hotel for the first time, slightly different conditions are provided, after long negotiations with the hotel staff, we were still given a more or less satisfactory we had a room with a view of the kids club and the adult pool, although we had requested a room with a view of the children's pool. It makes no sense to describe the territory and the beach, there are a lot of reviews on the hotel, everything is mostly of an enthusiastic nature, I will not argue, I will only add that the hotel resembles some kind of boarding house "Profsoyuznye Zori" of the Soviet period, with the corresponding public, incl.
vacationers. I don’t want to seem like a snob, I can’t remain silent about the gastronomic delights of the hotel cuisine, dear comrades, everything is very regrettable, I understand that for the amount that was spent on vacation in this hotel, one should not expect culinary masterpieces, but at least a standard set , which should be at least edible, can be expected from a hotel that claims to be five-star. In February 2013, we rested in Cuba in Varadero, a country in an economic blockade, a card system operates, but the hotel had an assortment of seafood, fish, edible meat, which was absolutely not there. I don’t understand the rave reviews about the hotel’s cuisine, you can pay tribute to pastries and confectionery, this is really a great choice, everything else not only does not cause appetite, but once again I don’t want to go into this dining room with not very pleasant smells. Dear friends, I'm not being dramatic
all this is true, but this is my opinion, at the same time I watched a picture of how people with appetite gobble up local gastronomy on both cheeks and look quite happy, washing it all down with tons of local draft beer, which tastes just like donkey urine and resembles something our exhausted "Zhigulevskoe". And yet, dear friends, if you go to this hotel for the first time, be more careful with the choice of food, I will explain that in 12 days I managed to get poisoned three times, although before visiting the hotel I carefully studied all the reviews on it and took all measures, although I never I didn’t have stomach problems, I’m used to eating porridge for breakfast, the hotel offers one kind, rice with milk, I tried it, so-so, as a result, severe poisoning, two days later, again for breakfast, toast with butter, a cup of coffee with milk, after twenty minutes poisoning, temperature with all the consequences, for the next three days I drank only water, since it is bottled in the hotel,
staggering along the beach as a pale shadow. The third poisoning overtook the day before departure, I decided to try the suddenly appeared fried squid at dinner, as a result, I was captured for the whole night by a white vase, so dear friends, if you are going to relax in this hotel and you have problems with the gastrointestinal tract, be careful.

And yet I want to sum up, in principle, I advise everyone to this hotel, especially families with children, a decent economy class vacation, it’s a pity if a full-scale war starts in the Middle East, the Americans are rushing to Syria, Egypt will be closed for Russians for a long time, still it remains to be hoped that this not happen, although just before flying home, it became known that all Russians would be taken out of Egypt before September 1, so I want to say thank you to the Egyptian sun, the Red Sea and the fortunate combination of circumstances, because my one-year-old son still had time to soak up the sun and swim in the sea,
and everything else doesn't matter.