The hotel is great value for money

Written: 22 december 2020
Travel time: 14 — 21 november 2020
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: 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: 10.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 10.0
I want to write for the pioneers =)
The hotel is just a luxury for their penny money. You essentially pay for accommodation in 4 *, but you will spend all the time in the 5 * Albatros Aqua Park hotel. The first thing I would like to advise those who are traveling to Egypt for the first time and got to the hotel is not to go to a meeting with the guide, it is a waste of your time, the purpose of meeting with the guide is to sell you excursions and tell you about the territory of the hotel. Second - in no case do not take a taxi from the hotel, you will be sold the most expensive service. Round trip from this hotel to Soho is $14. Tell the taxi driver behind the hotel that you are ready to go with him for 14, and if he does not agree, then just leave, he will stop you and say that he agrees. From the hotel from 20 to 30 dollars will be asked. The dollar is no longer the master of your holiday, everyone is taught and appreciates Ukrainian chocolate, Roshen or Alenka bars work wonders.
Since Egypt is a tourist country, and those who work in it are mostly from Cairo, and thanks to their work they live in Sharm, they try to earn extra money and get a chocolate bar - it’s for them to sell it for 10 bucks or to please their kids. But at the hotel it’s best to leave $ 1 for cleaning every 2 days, they do the cleaning, but there is no beauty from towels and flowers... I think that chocolate for them for their own work is very fat. When going to Aqua Blue, remember that you should give chocolates only after going on vacation to the Aqua Park, where they will create a mood for you for chocolate, and they will bring you drinks in beautiful glasses to any corner. Waiters also come up in the dining room and ask if someone has a birthday or a wedding, but you don’t need to think that it’s from the hotel for free, most likely you will be offered to set a beautiful table and make a romantic atmosphere, after which they will ask for some amount.

I didn’t really like the food on the territory in the canteens, it’s not the worst, but it’s not something that I can say that it was delicious. There is an Italian restik with pasta and pizzas, it’s delicious, they also make a grill between the canteen and the restik, the meat doesn’t smell, it’s very tasty, but not so tasty if you cooked it yourself. In general, the hotel’s cuisine is out of 5 points for 4. You can also eat on the territory of your neighbor’s Albatross Water Park across the road, but not in restaurants, but in bars, they also serve delicious food with burgers and everything else. The area for photo shoots in the Albatross Water Park is very cool, in some corners the jaw drops from beauty =)
Of the minuses, when you check in, they meet you and deliver things, when you leave, no one will offer you help and a free luggage trolley is hidden somewhere and taken away so that you run and look for someone to give a dollar for denunciating things to the bus. This is the biggest and most obvious disadvantage. Near the territory of the hotel there is Mirkato Square, you can walk there on foot, it's safe, no one will steal you and nothing will be done. According to the criminal situation in Sharm - it simply does not exist, the locals - there are thieves and pickpockets, but they only steal from their own, they have not abolished the death penalty and they are very afraid of the tourist police. So go easy at night.
It is worth visiting Mirkato at night and daytime, during the day as enika, at night the square comes alive in the lights. It is also worth visiting the FARSHA cafe at night, for you it will be a chic discovery and a favorite place, a mini-city on the outskirts of a rock in the lights with an Egyptian music lounge, free fruits, chips, nuts and pay only for cocktails. Naami Bay area, it costs 8 dollars to get there and back. Not as beautiful as in Soho, but you can visit once.
Another observation, it’s hard to call it a minus, but here 50/50 is a very bad beach, yes, they feed there, but it’s not a beach, but something incomprehensible, to be honest, it’s better to swim and relax in the Aqua Park in heated pools. For 4 dollars there and back you can go to the Old City and buy 1 kg of shrimp for 10 dollars or 1 kg of king prawns for 12 dollars, you choose how you cook them, this is included in the price, you walk for 20 minutes. and then take you to the hotel. And here is a big plus of the hotel, food from the rests can be taken to the rooms and taken out of the canteen, I have not seen this before in hotels in Egypt.

Of course, where without our color, when the collective farm creatures come and think that they owe everything, they row food in the canteens to "beat off the ticket" and even if it doesn’t climb, it will shove into itself. They fly to buses, to the beach as if they were on their last journey, and if they don’t sit down, they will die. I would like to relax in hotels with foreigners, where there is culture and respect for each other. A fat pig will come, settle down and yell that no one wears anything to her, they treat her badly and then write bad reviews that the hotel is ha... but, the staff ha... but. The hotel is chic for the money, I repeat. You will definitely not regret if you go to it. It is better to overpay 80 bucks per person and enter the Water Park, of course, but you save money and live in 4 * and spend all the time in 5 *.
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