The SETI SHARM 4 hotel conquered us with its nature - beauty!

Written: 13 december 2012
Travel time: 30 may — 12 june 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
The hotel was previously called Sety Sharm 4stars. The hotel has excellent infrastructure. A huge number of palm trees, flowers, climbing two-meter shrubs, various greenery. Lovers of photography and video will have something to do. On the left side you can see mountains, rocks of a mountainous type. We were given a room with a beautiful sea view. At night, indescribable beauty opens from the balcony (although due to the large amount of greenery of the sea, it was not visible - all the buildings are two-story). It was like being in a fairy tale about Aladdin and a magic lamp. When the dark time of the day comes, as if everything blooms with different colors - these are two-three-meter colored shrubs, flowers (crimson, lilac, red, white), the sky is very bright, and if you look to the right (from the balcony), you see mountains. And there is some kind of illusion! The mountains are as if covered with snow - white! This is so beautiful! Need to see once. Since I am not the first time in Egypt, I have not seen such beauty in other hotels. And at the same time, a whole plantation of palm trees grows on the beach. There are about 200 of them seated. They are all green, well-groomed! The sand on the beach is dark brown. There is a city beach nearby, but there are not often people there (this happens to several people. Since our hotel beach is fenced, there is security, they don’t let anyone in (from the seashore). Food is like everywhere. They do a lot on the grill and meat and fish. Sometimes a little burnt. Drinks are also Egyptian. Dry wine, red and white, beer, and the rest, we didn’t order anything stronger. If we go from the beach to the left side along the coast, then we run into rocks and a deserted beach "It's better not to take anything valuable with you. Despite the fact that there is a booth with the police and one (two) policemen in white uniforms are constantly on duty. So local Arabs come down from these rocks hiding and can steal your things (if these are bags , bags). Therefore, if you went to the reefs together, then all the time when one of you swims in a mask, the other is always on duty and looks after things! We usually went to the coral reefs as a whole company. But before you go those to the deserted rock, you need to buy coral slippers. They are not expensive ($10. e. ) Since it is very difficult to go over the stones from the shore and from the refraction of rays in the holes of the stones it is not always possible to see sea urchins, and there are a lot of them. When I was swimming through the stones, I caught a hedgehog with my foot a little - I pierced my leg, but thank God everything worked out. Nothing treated and the leg did not rot. But the pain was terrible. So there are such awesome coral reefs. As in the pictures. Pink, lilac, red, a very large coral reef and a lot of fish swim and needle fish saw one and a half meters, and rays swam under us and sergeant fish, clown fish, several couples - swan fish.... In general, such beauty! You will only see this when you are scuba diving. You will hardly find such a reef near other hotels!! ! Further there sometimes ply boats with a transparent bottom. The tour cost $50. But the boats are sailing away from you. You, as it were, are looking at corals aground at a depth of about 5-6-7 meters. A simple mask with a snorkel is enough. So do not be afraid of a boat if it appears, one maximum two times in those 3 hours that you swim on top of the water and get tremendous pleasure and a lot of adrenaline. I don’t remember what they are called, but we saw mini sharks, they are somewhere up to a meter, but they swim, they don’t rise to the top at a depth! We were so stupid, I took a bag with a long loaf (I tied a long loaf in a bag) and also fed and fed the fish. And it turns out to be very dangerous. Since a lot of colorful fish swarmed near us, of various species and long, flocks, they have huge fins that if the fish swims very close to the body, they can simply cut through strongly (like with a knife). But recently we were not allowed to take food out of the canteen. And we hid a boiled egg in a bag or a woman's bag. It doesn’t get so wet, it’s more convenient to peel it off with a fingernail and throw it at least a meter away from you (and aground when you stand waist-deep in water and at depth, but one hand with food should not be under water, that is, in water) and admire various giants - fish. But when you swim, be sure to clean the shell and put the garbage in your bag, which you will then throw away at the hotel. On these rocks and reefs, the water is turquoise-colored, all in transitions of various turquoise and blue! Awesome beautiful. Here you can take pictures as you like. . And on the beach (right there on the rocks) there are a lot of octopuses aground, don’t be afraid, they don’t bite, you can put them on the body with an asterisk and take a picture. But remember to go to the rocks along the coast to the left, you will see these rocks. Pass one 5 star hotel. (I don’t remember the name) the landmark is a huge egg that can be seen standing on a rock, and from the hotel itself you can see the descent to the beach (by elevator) from the rock. And pass another beach of another hotel. Then the wasteland (booth with security) begins. Move away from the booth 200-300 meters and you can enjoy your vacation. By the way, we used to go there often. And together with a friend, and in four. The main thing is to go out early (not in the sun), apply protection. And at first, do not take valuables with you, except for pareos, towels and panama hats. To be able to swim together. By the way, there is a mosque near the hotel on the mountain. The ringing of the bell is constantly heard and their prayer service is heard, it is very beautiful to listen to, though on. . . the eleventh day is boring. But not loudly heard, but echoes. I liked it very much when you leave the hotel and stand with your back to the hotel, cross the road and turn left to go a little and the market begins. You can buy anything your heart desires for nothing. There is everything from spices, teas, soaps, clothes, bags, embroidered tablecloths,... to gold. We have to bargain. After smiling for about five minutes, you can ask for a "present" - a gift, the Arabs, if you buy something, regardless of the price (they can give a gift, goons are very rare). You can even show them what you want. For example, they gave me just a magnet, a couple of large papyri, a marble scorpion the size of a plum. But the truth is, I don’t remember, someone wanted to be photographed with me as a keepsake, and my friend chose towels to go home and scarves, so I don’t remember the names, she asked me to tie their national scarf on my head. But there is one thing, but when you walk along the road without touching anyone, there is some kind of local not from the market, or a thief, or it’s still unclear who can shout “Natasha” in the wake. But we were warned that all the locals were afraid of the police. And in the case of such a cry, I turned around and said in English that I would now take him to the police. They are afraid of it. When you go to the market, you may come across one or two people, who again may not shout, but simply say Natasha. I no longer threatened the police with this, but you yourself said Natasha! If you go straight from the hotel without turning anywhere, you will see a regular supermarket across the road. Prices for everything penny, except for whitefish. If you go to Sharm al-Sheikh to the central square, you should understand the goods exactly the same as in the huge market near the Sety Sharm hotel, but the prices are more expensive!! ! If someone wants to buy pearl beads. Be sure to ask for a needle to be pricked and a pearl to be pierced in front of you (a real pearl will not be in danger, it will not split). Put real pearls against your cheek, it will be cold. Since I wanted black pearls, but they don’t have it - I came across a fake, I bought a white one. If you don't like pearls (they won't be perfect as jewelry beads), you can ask to be restrung and choose from two or three beads. And you can see a real pearl with a small dot). And most importantly, I went around many shops on the main street, but in very few they were ready to check with a needle and give a certificate. And I forgot to say that the reefs and rocks were shown to us by Muscovites who already at that time had a rest for the third year in a row. And we met such people not alone in the hotel, but (with several)! So I wish you a pleasant stay! Despite the fact that the hotel Sety Sharm is four stars, go and you will like it. I remembered the rooms are normal, but the furniture is not new. But again there are very good rooms (in the sense of new ones! ). But after looking at this hotel after a few years, it became even better! But the photo numbers are very updated! And I’ll tell you a joke, like walking with a friend at night with a disco on the wall in the hall (corridor) where the entrances (doors) to the rooms, there was a huge cockroach the size of my index finger, I have never seen such muck in my life. Then, for the rest of the rest, I was afraid to sleep at night, everything seemed to me that in a dream it would climb on me. But despite the fact that we neatly and inconspicuously took yogurts, eggs, bread, cheese - packed in small triangles, butter from the canteen and made tea and coffee in our room, we always had a very clean room in the sense of crumbs, we did not see cockroaches . Until the end of the holiday period, we did not come across cockroaches anywhere in the hotel. And I’ll say that they have one indoor restaurant (where you have breakfast and dinner), and another indoor restaurant (it stands on the side of the palm grove, so sometimes small birds fly up there (they look like something like our sparrows), but at the same time we like a couple of times we saw on such big wheelbarrows they collect dirty dishes and these birds fly up. So welcome to Sety Sharm, the hotel is good, you will not see such a beach anywhere (in the sense of many beautiful high-altitude palm trees)! Yes, I forgot to say there at the local market, we bought an underwater camera (an ordinary soap dish with a loaded film) and took pictures with fish underwater. Seti Sharm is a good hotel, but if you dig deep you can find flaws! . To be honest, I would go there again and again! Only for the sake of coral reefs, mountains, many palm trees!! ! I'll post pictures of the fish for you to see. The photos were taken aground in the rocks. And after sailing there, the real beauty of the underwater begins. Pust Sety Charm does not shine with cool luxury, but it is impossible not to fall in love with it, as there are other advantages!
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