Average hotel

Written: 25 december 2019
Travel time: 4 — 11 december 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 4.0
The hotel was the first time. Let's evaluate everything in order:
1. Caught boor at the reception. For the first time, they demanded money for a settlement in a "super room". As it turned out later, the hotel was almost empty, even the main restaurant was closed on the second day due to lack of tourists.
2. Bracelets were put on only at the end of breakfast. Although the number was given a little earlier. This is the first time I’ve come across this, usually hotels do not save on breakfast and invite you to go out to eat, and given that we arrived at the hotel at six in the morning, this is significant. We waited until 9:30. The hotel time is an hour ahead.
3. We got bracelets and decided to eat at the bar on the beach, but here's a surprise - there is nothing else besides alcohol, tea, coffee and cookies left over from breakfast. I had to wait for dinner.

4. Food in restaurants is normal for Egypt, one might even say delicious. The choice is limited, but it is quite possible to find something to eat. Always a couple of meat dishes, there are fish, seafood, salads, fruits, pies. Paste. Breakfast pastries and croissants are delicious. NO ICE CREAM.
5. We ate at the Spice restaurant in the Harem, where the lobby is also free, unlike the Oasis, which was a shock to me. Even tea and coffee for money.
6. We also dined at Domina Club, but it looks more like Savdepov's canteen there. In general, it is better to take a taf-taf # 1 or # 2 from the Oasis and to Spice.
7. The beach is good. There is a huge coral reef, a pontoon with sea pools and a sandy entry into the sea. Enough loungers. Fish and corals are gorgeous, this is perhaps the only plus of the hotel. On the beach animation. A couple of Ukrainians, and the rest are Italians. There is bocha, volleyball, water gymnastics, dancing, table tennis, yoga. There is a club for kids but we were without kids and can't comment.
You can buy a mask in shops for 8 euros.
8. The pools are icy, no one swam there.
9. The weather is sometimes cloudy, sometimes windy, sometimes warm. Once it was so windy and overcast, we thought it would rain.
10. Rooms are very tired but clean. The mattresses are old, the upholstery is stained. We had room 33258 and 33259. Sea view. They gave it for free after refusing to pay for a good room. Shampoo, shower gel, cap, soap. Sewing kit, two glasses. The lock didn't work when we checked in, everything was fixed. Safe for free. There are a lot of mosquitoes, take a cream or spray for the evening and a fumigator in the room. Please note that sockets are switched on by switches.
11. From our room 10 meters to the reception, and then to the elevator and 2 minutes to the beach through the market. Towels take-change all day, only in the booth in which he took it. Cards are numbered.
12. The territory is huge, but stupid, it takes a lot of time to travel by bus. There is really no place to walk, because everywhere the walls, the road and the villas of the Italians. This area does not even glow, since no one lives there. A lot of unkempt place, little greenery.

13. Once the lights were turned off and, instead of the elevator, we got through labyrinths to the room, and there he was not there for several hours.
14. Met a family from the Harem. They had problems with hot water in the room, the boiler could not cope.
15. Glass goblets were only in the restaurant for wine and beer during lunch and dinner. In the evening, the bar near the beach, the bar in the lobby and the bar on the beach were poured only in disposable glasses.
16. Evening animation was, but we got only 2:1 is a fairy tale about Aladdin, and 2 - The Michael Jackson Show. You can see. I've never heard of a mini disco, but I'm not sure.
17. Summing up, I will say that the territory is huge and stupid. Italians in favor. Everything for them. Almost everything is paid, if we take other hotels in comparison.
18. Guide from Join Up Ham. I have never seen such an attitude anywhere.
Pros:
1. Sea.
2. Beach.
3. Cleanliness.
4. We had a late check out. We rented a room at 12, left bracelets, cards for towels. We had lunch, sunbathed, swam until the evening. Based on this, I don’t understand why they don’t give bracelets immediately upon arrival.
5. It was a wedding anniversary, they brought a cake, congratulations and a plate of fruit to the room. It was nice.
6. At the market, in the hotel, there is a shop where mangoes cost two dollars. People carry boxes in hand luggage home. Try it. Very tasty. Cheaper than Soho. At the airport in Egypt, no one weighs suitcases; hand luggage is also not weighed or counted.
7. In this market, you can bargain well, they will definitely drop the price twice, and there, as you can add. In Soho and in the old town, such prices could not be negotiated. In the old city, they took boiled shrimp, average $ 9 per kilogram. You can sign up for a trip to Naama Bay and the old city at Domina Club for $ 3 per person Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Very cheap.
In general, summing up, we will not come a second time, as there was something to compare with.

A separate place is occupied by clients of the Domina Club, most likely either the owners of villas or regular customers. They have tables in the restaurant behind the fence, beautifully served, separate sofas at the reception, welcome cocktails... It looks very ugly. We were kicked out of the sofas, although no one was sitting on them, people in the restaurant from the tables, although they were also empty. On the tables they always had tablecloths, glasses, waiters ran around, water in large bottles, and you can’t ask for water for yourself. They would have done a separate reception and a restaurant, otherwise you feel like you are second-rate. This is the first time I've seen this and hopefully the last.
In general, if you go for the first time or on a last minute trip, then it is quite tolerable. But for a tourist with experience, hunting is no longer.
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