Другая 4* Other 4*

The hotel, bought out by the Turks and Pegasus, which was allegedly almost a 5-star before, now does not even reach 4 *.
Two years ago I was in another 4 *, in which Europeans rested - so here it is 4k with a plus, and this is one name.......: (
Joyce has two 2-storey buildings with tiny rooms. Ours was on the first floor with loose curtains, a constant smell of dichlorvos. The condo worked, hair dryer, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, mini bar fridge + bottled water - everything is there.

Let me tell you first: Egypt met with hellish heat after the first day with snow in Moscow. They smartly did that they changed at the airport in Sharm. We arrived at the hotel around 10 o'clock. We (rested with a friend) put on bracelets and we went to have breakfast. Then hours of waiting. the manager at the reception for a long time explained to everyone about the rules: check-out at 12-00, check-in at 14-00, but, given that the hotel, in principle, was Pegasovsky and the rooms were already free, since someone flew that plane, to the cat. we arrived, everyone was hoping for an earlier check-in. We sat opposite the reception and looked at the manager through the eyes of Shrek the cat. I checked in at the beginning of the first one . . they didn’t even offer money, then they heard stories on the beach that it didn’t really help.
The food is not very diverse, tomatoes and cucumbers, oil were generally quickly sorted out and new ones were not given. Of the fruits, there were only smelly quinces, oranges and dates. Sometimes they gave melon and grapes, apparently not the season for fruit. Dinners are themed each time (cuisine of different peoples). Especially pleased with Saturday-Oriental cuisine. Delicious tender lamb, freshly baked bread, Bedouin tea, oriental sweets.
Every breakfast was cooked on the street scrambled eggs and pancakes, lunch and dinner, there was always a different pasta, dinner, different grilled meats: chicken, liver, beef. Very tasty mashed potatoes were given at first)) then the current baked potatoes in their uniforms. There was always rice, stewed vegetables, azu, fish. But somehow it all looks sad.
The water is great, the sun is hot. You have to go to the sea through the 5 * building next to it and Dessole Waves. 15 minutes. Walking under the sun is simply impossible. It’s still normal there, down the hill, but back down the hill is a real feat. Seven local minibuses constantly run to the sea from Joyce.
Take places on the beach until 9 am, or then, already at 11-11.30, many leave. At 13-00 you can go for lunch in a restaurant on the beach shared with two hotels. There is even more variety of food than in Joyce in the hotel and melon always. (we don’t know how they fed in Waves). But in Waves there are large and apparently cleaner rooms and silence.
Animation in the morning and afternoon: exercises on the beach, volleyball and boccia, then exercises and other games by the Joyce pool until 17-00. In the evening, children's animation and adult animation in the Waves amphitheater. Then a disco in Joyce.
But in Waves there is only one pool bar and the most nasty bartender of the hotel worked there. and in the evenings before the animation there were always not enough glasses.
Joyce also has a 24-hour Safari snack bar near the pool. They eat and drink there.

There is also a bar on the beach and food is served from 11 to 13, and then after lunch (while the upper restaurant was working, the snack table was not working on the beach) until 16
Over all the staff needed management control. So on Saturday and Sunday, when in general all the bosses and their friends were constantly on the territory, there was generally order. All the bartenders and waiters worked clearly and it was pleasant to look at.
Since we are decent girls, we didn’t drink and didn’t hang out much, we know many stories only by hearsay: and at the expense of drugs, cat. they offer it in almost every bar, and about the Arab mafia, and about Aladdin and Hooligan cocktails cutting down for a day, and about how the guy broke his neck, because at night he rolled drunk from the turned off slide into the children's pool.
At the expense of theft: this is not the first time we have a rest in Egypt and Turkey - naturally, so that there are no problems, all the money, phones, passports, cameras and gold were put away in a safe. And it is clear that the representatives of the hotel and the tour operator will not help you much, because. they repeat many times at meetings with guests about safes
The representative of the hotel Tatyana is really an unpleasant person. And almost all the representatives of the guide were sitting in the lobby with disgruntled faces, only if you do not buy excursions.
They improved relations with the bartenders with a smile and thanks, but by 11-12 pm some of them got impudent and made dates, and because they can’t get away from the workplace, we said that we were going to the disco, and we ourselves ran to sleep.
On our visit. a good bartender worked on the beach. By the end of our week, we also established a relationship with the main service manager. It was och. useful acquaintance. It seems his name is Ashram. (he does not speak Russian. The rest speak a little).
I can only advertise the massage - I liked it. Girls make girls, boys make boys.

There are a lot of young people in the hotel. Everyone drinks, screams at night under the windows . . in short, they have a good rest, but the rest do not care. Many of the vacationers who came from the expanses of the Urals and central Russia (no offense to those who read the review) generally behaved disgustingly.
It remained to be patient and wait for the end of the holiday.
I just didn’t want to leave the sun and this amazing warm emerald-sapphire Red Sea. (by the way, there are fish + corals. Not very diverse, but you can swim with a mask and fins. The beach is sandy, hollowed out in the rock, so that the rocks are closed from neighboring beaches (the cat is very far away), the entrance to the sea is knee-deep in the sand , then corals. Most conveniently from the pontoon.