Four with a stretch, a dirty dining room and a bunch of Arabs!

Written: 13 august 2017
Travel time: 25 july — 2 august 2017
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 2.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 5.0
Not a five for sure, and a four with a stretch. In Egypt for the fifth time, there is something to compare, it is clear that this is not the Turkish five, but still it should be somehow more decent. In summer, Egyptian hotels need to be more expensive, otherwise there will be a lot of local Arabs and a lot of dirt around them. In our case, "we hit", 70% of the tourists in the hotel were Arabs, with a lot of noise and dirt that they create around them.
By the way, WI-FI is free, at the reception and in the canteen. The speed is only suitable for correspondence via viber, but still there. From what I liked:
- a large green area (but artificial reservoirs without water, fountains are turned off). 300 meters to the sea on its territory, no roads or promenades need to be crossed.
- its own beach strip is long, there are a lot of sunbeds, you don’t need to borrow in advance, there are enough of them at any time. The beach is clean.
- the rooms are normal, spacious, without frills.

What doesn't fit a five, or even a good four, is the restaurant. The room is like an institute canteen, only dirtier. Everything is dirty: tables, dish mats, floors are generally washed in selective places. The plates are clean, the knives are dirty, on the tables the salt and pepper shakers are stuck and slapped, with dried food! In the morning, you can find the remains of yesterday's breakfast on the table, as for dinner, tablecloths are covered over unwashed tables. The food is monotonous, for dinner there are always 6 "pots": rice, potatoes, stewed beef, steamed vegetables, fish, stewed vegetables. The chef cuts the chicken and distributes it in portions. There is not even an elementary couscous, not to mention seafood. Very budget friendly. The taste is usually not bad. Alcoholic horror. For the first time, local drinks are so nasty, really fu. They are bottled from PLASTIC bottles! ! Vegetable soup: slices of carrots in fatty clear water with celery flavor. From fruits, finely chopped melon, filled with water and chopped oranges. There was a pear, cut and filled with water. The hotel, previously well designed and built, is in a terrible state of economy. Towels with holes in places.
The sea is sad. From the shore you need to go 300 meters in knee-deep depth, and then further waist-deep and again knee-deep. It will be fine with small children, but for adults you don’t swim much, you scrape the bottom with your knees. Of course there are no corals. Definitely do not recommend.
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