A very mediocre hotel.

Written: 10 august 2017
Travel time: 28 july — 8 august 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 4.0
We arrived at 9:00 in the morning before check-in was 3 hours away. They offered to settle in advance for $ 15, agreed for $ 10. We asked for a room on recommendation in the main building, not in a bungalow. First of all, the porter was surprised, indignant that $ 1 was not enough to bring the bag to the room (next to the reception). The room is not big furniture and the TV is old It's not scary enough to spend the night. Looking around, it turns out that everything is covered in dust, in the toilet there are remnants of underused toilet paper, smeared shit on the floor, shampoos are half, already used by someone. The air conditioner is a large terribly rattling cabinet, but it cools. The safe is locked, they called the master to open it). We decided that after dinner they would clean it up, it wasn’t there, and the cat didn’t lie around. The next day, after the complaint, they cleaned it up a bit, paper and detergents were replaced. The air conditioner was turned on for the day at night, it was turned off, there was a strong roar, but sometimes it wasn’t enough until the morning, we woke up because of the heat. Judging by the air conditioner refiller constantly running around the territory, we were lucky somewhere.
The beach is fine sandy in the center of the bay, good for small children. there are small corals nearby. But a good beautiful reef is located on the left of the bay about 500m there, you can swim, but looking around carefully, there are a lot of boats, bananas, tablets, especially during the day everything is in full swing from water transport. The way out is to walk along the beaches and dive at the edge. The right side of the bay is deserted until the exit. Another surprise was the large number of sewers passing from the beaches into the sea and dumping their contents there, just like in the Crimea. Before that, this was not seen in Egyptian hotels.
The food did not shine with choice. Standard morning scrambled eggs, pancakes, cheese sausages, tea, coffee, yogurt, . Lunch is very poor. soup and stuff. Dinner is a little better. Almost no fruits and vegetables! Salads from withered cucumbers with an admixture of tomato, separately exotic tomatoes, purple and white cabbage. Fruits are dates, dried oranges and sliced ​ ​ unripe melons. For all the time once watermelon and once bananas. Traditionally, there are always pastries, a wide variety for dinner, but no tea and coffee! Bars, two are open by the pool and on the beach from 10-00 to 17-00, in the lobby from 17-00 to 24-00. Ice is only available at the beach bar. Ice cream is available from 15:00 to 17:00 according to the olyn system. There are two a la carte restaurants, but we saw people and visited only one "There there", only drinks to choose from, food as in a regular restaurant-dining room. just no choice.

One day they got drunk, they thought maybe alcohol, but the children of friends also didn’t feel well, the local guys said that this sometimes happens here with water, in drinks.
On one of the days, lunch was almost completely abolished, we all come empty, they say - eat soup and salad. When they started to resent, they brought a plate of rice and fish. True, after a complaint to the guide, when he called the administration to the carpet, it turns out that this happens, the situation has improved somewhat.
Leisure. The animation is weak, evening performances take place in the neighboring Ghazala garden hotel on a small patch near the lobby. You can freely walk around the territory of the neighboring Ghazala garden. For that, behind the hotel there is a good promenade, in the evening everything is buzzing, making noise, playing and dancing. The mass of outlets, bars, there are McDonald's and KFSi. True, buying fruit is a small problem and a small choice. Tour trips hit heavily in price. Jerusalem (with a stop in Jordan) - $90, scuba diving - $15-20.
Contingent. The hotel is half empty. Mostly Germans (by the way, the cost of vouchers is the same as ours), then Arabs, a few Hungarians, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Belarusians, no Russians. The staff is mostly friendly and kind.
Money, Egyptian pounds fell a lot, officially 1$ - 18 pounds, traders change 1.20.
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