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From April 1 to 7, we rested in the Hilton Waterfalls with a large beautiful area, colorful greenery and palm trees, a super coral reef and fish.
HILTON WATERFALLS is well located between NAAMA BAY and the OLD TOWN (by taxi to the market in the OLD TOWN no more than 3 dollars for everyone, be sure to agree with the taxi driver before boarding). Keep in mind that next to the hotel to the right, about a hundred meters away, there is a shop where you can buy groceries and souvenirs at fixed prices and DELICIOUS STRAWBERRY on the day of our departure there cost $ 1 per package (almost a kg). And we bought a stale strawberry in the OLD TOWN late in the evening before the flight (6 kg each ! ! ) and brought it home with a “drunk berry in fermented juice”. "Reanimated" with sugar. Behind this shop, 10 minutes walk, you will find EL MERCATO SHOPPING STREET. On the market, the SET SILICONE MASK + TUBE cost no more than $ 7
- RECEPTION AT THE HOTEL: we arrived early, we were already at the hotel at 8 am ...
Settlement according to the rules of HILTON is not earlier than 12 o'clock in the afternoon (THIS IS THEIR RIGHT, THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD NOT BE ESPECIALLY OUTRAGED). Our PEGASA GUIDE confirmed this.
Of course, we were very tired, because from the moment we left our home to the long-awaited arrival at the hotel, 9 hours of a sleepless night had already passed and everyone began to solve problems with accelerating check-in in their own way. After registration, we were given the coveted red bracelets, but ...we were not allowed to eat and take drinks for free until we received the keys to the room ...This made us tense.
We paid for the most inexpensive standard 3-bed room ($640 per person for 6 nights of complete happiness, incl. fuel surcharge). After waiting 30 minutes, we gave $ 10 at the reception and we were given the keys to see the room. Having examined a small room on the 2nd floor overlooking the sea, we agreed ...but the manager offered to pay another 100 dollars ...THE FOCUS IS NOT SUCCESSFUL!
We were “angry” for the “divorce” and refused (the view of the HOT SUN and the sea for extra money did not interest us, because on vacation in good hotels we only spend the night in the room and change clothes before dinner). The manager was "offended"... gave us our $10 back (which we gave simply for accelerating the settlement without any "sea views")... and at 9.30 he gave us the keys to a larger room
- Hotel TERRITORY TERRITORY: upstairs reception, lobby bar and main restaurant, bank, shops, sauna, jacuzzi, spa and health club, relax pool, hammocks
Downstairs: many saltwater pools, 2 bars, snack cafe, animation-sports-aerobics
-The funicular has not been working for half a year (and is unlikely to be repaired soon), so the hotel prices have decreased. This did not upset us, because the Descent-ascent to the sea along the beautiful green area along the murmuring waterfalls is UNTIRED.
- ROOM 2728 on the ground floor: in the main building a spacious room with a balcony and access to a wonderful small cozy pool is very conveniently located: next to the main restaurant and reception, so we went down to the sea-pools-cafes-bars-sports games only 1 time after breakfast, in the afternoon bottled beer, chips in bars, dined at the snack bar by the pools, and went upstairs to the room only in the afternoon at six o'clock in the evening.
All BUILDINGS are TWO-STOREY, most with a view of the SEA and the HOT SUN.
The cleaner was left 1 dollar each, but he did not twist the crocodile swans out of towels. We don't litter much, so we only asked for a thorough cleaning 3 times in 7 days. He left free water (2 bottles of 1.5 liters each), updated shampoo gels, changed towels, threw out garbage, washed floors.
The third bed is a wide sofa disassembled forward (it creaked with springs, but we didn’t fold it, we just covered it with a bedspread - ONCE AGAIN THEY DID NOT INJURE the sofa)
The room has a free SAFE and IRON with ironing board.
In the room 2 bottles of water of 1.5 l + KETTLE and tea-coffee-sugar FREE OF CHARGE!
- ATTENTION! PAID MINI-BAR (2 small bottles of water and a lot of chocolates, juices in the fridge and cookies, chips on the table - this is a tricky ambush. When we entered the room, there were 2 small bottles of WATER on the table, but there were no free bottles, so there was a temptation ...but we do not recommend it: THE PRICE FOR THE MINI-BAR WILL SURPRISE YOU UNPLEASANTLY (+22% to the price).
On the first day, invite the manager and pack the entire paid mini-bar into a separate bag and into the locker along with the bill and the price list, checking the availability and absence of the price list and whether the water bottles are open. Say that you have all inclusive and you do not need a MINI-BAR. THE REFRIGERATOR WILL BE FREE! ! !
We almost "hit" with water, although we were warned from the reviews.
- FOOD: regular breakfasts, lunch only at the snack bar on the veranda, themed dinners. I am on a diet, so I tried not to eat what is delicious (cakes, cakes, pancakes, various complex dishes). Vegetables + greens + soft cheese dressed with olive oil and unsweetened yogurt - this is my side dish on all travels in all countries of the world + chicken (either fish or meat) - IT WAS EVERYTHING
Very tasty JUICES FROM PACKAGES (even they are poured into the machines from packages). They reveled in MANGO and GUAVA juices - thick and satisfying. Crabs on FISH DAY were not understood: it was somehow not interesting to suck hard claws. There are DIET DISHES.
- I liked dinner at the ITALIAN A-LA CART restaurant (by appointment): delicious squids in batter with tartar sauce, huge delicious pizza, lasagna. I was pleased with the free WHITE WINE from bottles.
SHISHA BAR with FREE SINKAH AND DRINKS under the STARRY SKY was by the way.
In the MAIN RESTAURANT, the manager sits at the tables (so that the tables are set and clean), but we always tried to eat outside in the fresh air, without waiting until we were told where to sit. There are a lot of vacationers and the waiters are all "on the move" clean-serve-bring drinks.
During the day, the beach bar and snack cafe offer unlimited free ice cream.
- SEA-BEACH : THE BEAUTIFUL RED SEA in EGYPT is the greatest joy of a holiday.
HILTON WATERFALL has a rich CORAL REEF with many bizarre colorful FISHES. Snorkeling lovers will be pleased. We swam from the PONTOON with the only stairs to the descent-ascent, but this did not bother us - everyone was very delicate and kindly yielded to each other. But the wind rose is so located there that the RED FLAG on our BEACH simply "settled and lived", although vacationers were carefully allowed to swim from the PONTOON under the supervision of a charming WATER-WHISTLE.
The second PONTON broke down from a strong wind and for some reason they were in no hurry to repair it. But cunning Italians in masks with snorkels quickly ran over it and into the water!
BEACH with a normal entrance to the sea - NO. There are coves with a beach, where in the morning until 11 o'clock you can swim above the corals, and beautiful fish swim with you right at the shore. During the day, the water near the shore became less (half a meter). Kids, under the supervision of their parents, could swim along the shore, played near the shore in the sand, and made Easter cakes.
- POOLS with sea water are beautiful, they hosted sports games, there is a basketball hoop in the water. There is a children's pool. GOROK NO. Surprisingly, the British have almost never been seen on a pontoon at sea, they spend the whole day with their families and fraternities exclusively by the pools.
Upstairs there is a RELAX area with a swimming pool and a pool with a jacuzzi near the SPA CENTER.
- ANIMATION: the guys are very nice, they try, they invite everyone to the games: bocha, volleyball, water polo.
Luckily for them, there are Slavic brothers who will gladly support the ANIMators with their participation.
They do aerobics and dance classes. At night, paid trips to famous CLUBS are organized.
In the evenings at the ARENA - tireless amateur performances. AMAZING, in a hotel where there are a lot of foreigners (English, Italians, Poles), but there has never been a PROFESSIONAL SHOW - this is a drawback.
- BEACH TOWELS: there are almost never enough of them and they are of “doubtful cleanliness”, so I advise you to take a light bedding towel from home (for example, a Turkish linen checkered towel for a hammam) And this problem will not “poison” your vacation in this wonderful hotel.
In addition, a towel can always come in handy on sea excursions.
Despite various minor shortcomings, WE LIKE THE REST IN THE HILTON WATERFALL!
WE WOULD RETURN HERE AND WILL DEFINITELY RECOMMEND A REST HERE TO OUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES.
- WEATHER: from April 1 to April 7 it was very HOT (from 10 to 15 hours 30 degrees in the shade) Under the warm breeze, "protecting" with sunscreen, for 7 days we did not notice how we got burned and our skin on the nose and shoulders peeled off three "skins" and more (before burns). Therefore, be vigilant. In recent days we have been walking and swimming in long-sleeved tunics.
One night there was even a brief RAIN!
We have not been to EGYPT for 2 years and we were very pleased that now there are no Bedouin taxis and broken-down minibuses. Taxi are all new foreign cars and decent adequate drivers.
Traders in the market seemed to us even more annoying and boorish (and to Europeans too)
It seemed too contrasting: perfect cleanliness in the hotel and ...garbage right outside the hotel.
It turns out that these people in the hotel “lick” the territory, and when they leave work, they throw garbage anywhere ...And why are there no cleaners in the city outside the hotels? Where are the wipers? Is there a CITY HALL in SHARM EL SHEIKH? Where to complain? KIDDING.
A couple of times I had to blush for our compatriots: there was a KARAOKE competition in a Spanish bar in the MAIN BUILDING and our tipsy comrade without hearing and voice “shouted” at the top of his lungs: “How disgusting it is in Russia in the mornings ... ” (instead of “How delightful evenings are in Russia” ... ) He “plowed” such a song and the song turned out to be so long ...how many verses in it we blushed because of him ...
There was also a funny grandfather, who answered the questions of the Egyptians like “how are you? »
invariably answered: “FIG DOLLAR! »
- EXCURSIONS (bought in the OLD TOWN in the market at the first turn to the shopping arcade to the right ZEKRI-TOURS)
ABU GALUM ($ 45): not far from the poor Bedouin DAHAB - RESERVE, reminiscent of a gypsy camp - a large garbage dump, a 20-minute camel ride along the seashore - A VERY Dubious PLEASURE ...Bedouin lunch on dirty dastarkhans - it's scary to remember ...Everywhere rubbish, untidy Bedouin begging children, plastic utensils and bags are lying everywhere both in the water and on the shore, which is disgusting to go into the water. And this "Bedouin" reserve is under the protection of UNESCO ...The underwater world on the coral reef in the Blue Lagoon is nothing special (it may be interesting for divers in the deep abyss)
MONASTERY OF SAINT CATHERINE ($35) - an interesting educational excursion, especially for Orthodox people. It is advisable not to yawn and “sit down” with some good guide. Time in the monastery is very limited, very dynamic tour.
Our guide told us that the EGYPTIANS IN SINAI are GUESTS, and the true OWNERS of the SINAI PENINSULA are BEDOUINS. Uneducated, without passports and driving licenses, they can freely travel by car anywhere and the police do not check their documents. They are known to be involved in the drug and arms trade. Never enter into conflict with them. Be gentle, kind and careful.
FROM NOW NO BEDOUIN CORAL RESERVES WITH CAMELS! ! ! ! Dirty and unsanitary!
Be attentive and friendly to people! When you see puzzled and frustrated newly arrived compatriots in "non-beach" clothes without the cherished red bracelets, waiting for check-in until 12 o'clock, offer them help, drinks, food after a long journey.
If you arrived at the hotel early in the morning and are waiting for check-in, then stand over your soul with the managers at the reception, and if they are adamant, then don’t be discouraged, change into beach clothes and go for a walk around the hotel (they give out red bracelets upon arrival immediately after filling out the questionnaire ) - You are already guests of the HILTON WATERFALL!
By the way, it's nice that on the last day, after the check-out of the room at 12 o'clock, RED BRACELETS are not cut off and you can eat, drink and enjoy the benefits of relaxation until the very departure without restrictions)
Usually we fly to rest in EGYPT (Sharm El Sheikh) only in WINTER (November-February), no more than 9 nights, in a good cheerful big safe hotel ALL INCLUSIVE with DRINKS inexpensively.
WE LOVE HOLIDAYS IN EGYPT: SUN-SEA - RICH UNDERWATER WORLD ALL YEAR ROUND!
We wish you interesting travels and sunny weather!
HILTON WATERFALLS is well located between NAAMA BAY and the OLD TOWN (by taxi to the market in the OLD TOWN no more than 3 dollars for everyone, be sure to agree with the taxi driver before boarding). Keep in mind that next to the hotel to the right, about a hundred meters away, there is a shop where you can buy groceries and souvenirs at fixed prices and DELICIOUS STRAWBERRY on the day of our departure there cost $ 1 per package (almost a kg). And we bought a stale strawberry in the OLD TOWN late in the evening before the flight (6 kg each ! ! ) and brought it home with a “drunk berry in fermented juice”. "Reanimated" with sugar. Behind this shop, 10 minutes walk, you will find EL MERCATO SHOPPING STREET. On the market, the SET SILICONE MASK + TUBE cost no more than $ 7
- RECEPTION AT THE HOTEL: we arrived early, we were already at the hotel at 8 am ...
Settlement according to the rules of HILTON is not earlier than 12 o'clock in the afternoon (THIS IS THEIR RIGHT, THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD NOT BE ESPECIALLY OUTRAGED). Our PEGASA GUIDE confirmed this.
Of course, we were very tired, because from the moment we left our home to the long-awaited arrival at the hotel, 9 hours of a sleepless night had already passed and everyone began to solve problems with accelerating check-in in their own way. After registration, we were given the coveted red bracelets, but ...we were not allowed to eat and take drinks for free until we received the keys to the room ...This made us tense.
We paid for the most inexpensive standard 3-bed room ($640 per person for 6 nights of complete happiness, incl. fuel surcharge). After waiting 30 minutes, we gave $ 10 at the reception and we were given the keys to see the room. Having examined a small room on the 2nd floor overlooking the sea, we agreed ...but the manager offered to pay another 100 dollars ...THE FOCUS IS NOT SUCCESSFUL!
We were “angry” for the “divorce” and refused (the view of the HOT SUN and the sea for extra money did not interest us, because on vacation in good hotels we only spend the night in the room and change clothes before dinner). The manager was "offended"... gave us our $10 back (which we gave simply for accelerating the settlement without any "sea views")... and at 9.30 he gave us the keys to a larger room
- Hotel TERRITORY TERRITORY: upstairs reception, lobby bar and main restaurant, bank, shops, sauna, jacuzzi, spa and health club, relax pool, hammocks
Downstairs: many saltwater pools, 2 bars, snack cafe, animation-sports-aerobics
-The funicular has not been working for half a year (and is unlikely to be repaired soon), so the hotel prices have decreased. This did not upset us, because the Descent-ascent to the sea along the beautiful green area along the murmuring waterfalls is UNTIRED.
- ROOM 2728 on the ground floor: in the main building a spacious room with a balcony and access to a wonderful small cozy pool is very conveniently located: next to the main restaurant and reception, so we went down to the sea-pools-cafes-bars-sports games only 1 time after breakfast, in the afternoon bottled beer, chips in bars, dined at the snack bar by the pools, and went upstairs to the room only in the afternoon at six o'clock in the evening.
All BUILDINGS are TWO-STOREY, most with a view of the SEA and the HOT SUN.
The cleaner was left 1 dollar each, but he did not twist the crocodile swans out of towels. We don't litter much, so we only asked for a thorough cleaning 3 times in 7 days. He left free water (2 bottles of 1.5 liters each), updated shampoo gels, changed towels, threw out garbage, washed floors.
The third bed is a wide sofa disassembled forward (it creaked with springs, but we didn’t fold it, we just covered it with a bedspread - ONCE AGAIN THEY DID NOT INJURE the sofa)
The room has a free SAFE and IRON with ironing board.
In the room 2 bottles of water of 1.5 l + KETTLE and tea-coffee-sugar FREE OF CHARGE!
- ATTENTION! PAID MINI-BAR (2 small bottles of water and a lot of chocolates, juices in the fridge and cookies, chips on the table - this is a tricky ambush. When we entered the room, there were 2 small bottles of WATER on the table, but there were no free bottles, so there was a temptation ...but we do not recommend it: THE PRICE FOR THE MINI-BAR WILL SURPRISE YOU UNPLEASANTLY (+22% to the price).
On the first day, invite the manager and pack the entire paid mini-bar into a separate bag and into the locker along with the bill and the price list, checking the availability and absence of the price list and whether the water bottles are open. Say that you have all inclusive and you do not need a MINI-BAR. THE REFRIGERATOR WILL BE FREE! ! !
We almost "hit" with water, although we were warned from the reviews.
- FOOD: regular breakfasts, lunch only at the snack bar on the veranda, themed dinners. I am on a diet, so I tried not to eat what is delicious (cakes, cakes, pancakes, various complex dishes). Vegetables + greens + soft cheese dressed with olive oil and unsweetened yogurt - this is my side dish on all travels in all countries of the world + chicken (either fish or meat) - IT WAS EVERYTHING
Very tasty JUICES FROM PACKAGES (even they are poured into the machines from packages). They reveled in MANGO and GUAVA juices - thick and satisfying. Crabs on FISH DAY were not understood: it was somehow not interesting to suck hard claws. There are DIET DISHES.
- I liked dinner at the ITALIAN A-LA CART restaurant (by appointment): delicious squids in batter with tartar sauce, huge delicious pizza, lasagna. I was pleased with the free WHITE WINE from bottles.
SHISHA BAR with FREE SINKAH AND DRINKS under the STARRY SKY was by the way.
In the MAIN RESTAURANT, the manager sits at the tables (so that the tables are set and clean), but we always tried to eat outside in the fresh air, without waiting until we were told where to sit. There are a lot of vacationers and the waiters are all "on the move" clean-serve-bring drinks.
During the day, the beach bar and snack cafe offer unlimited free ice cream.
- SEA-BEACH : THE BEAUTIFUL RED SEA in EGYPT is the greatest joy of a holiday.
HILTON WATERFALL has a rich CORAL REEF with many bizarre colorful FISHES. Snorkeling lovers will be pleased. We swam from the PONTOON with the only stairs to the descent-ascent, but this did not bother us - everyone was very delicate and kindly yielded to each other. But the wind rose is so located there that the RED FLAG on our BEACH simply "settled and lived", although vacationers were carefully allowed to swim from the PONTOON under the supervision of a charming WATER-WHISTLE.
The second PONTON broke down from a strong wind and for some reason they were in no hurry to repair it. But cunning Italians in masks with snorkels quickly ran over it and into the water!
BEACH with a normal entrance to the sea - NO. There are coves with a beach, where in the morning until 11 o'clock you can swim above the corals, and beautiful fish swim with you right at the shore. During the day, the water near the shore became less (half a meter). Kids, under the supervision of their parents, could swim along the shore, played near the shore in the sand, and made Easter cakes.
- POOLS with sea water are beautiful, they hosted sports games, there is a basketball hoop in the water. There is a children's pool. GOROK NO. Surprisingly, the British have almost never been seen on a pontoon at sea, they spend the whole day with their families and fraternities exclusively by the pools.
Upstairs there is a RELAX area with a swimming pool and a pool with a jacuzzi near the SPA CENTER.
- ANIMATION: the guys are very nice, they try, they invite everyone to the games: bocha, volleyball, water polo.
Luckily for them, there are Slavic brothers who will gladly support the ANIMators with their participation.
They do aerobics and dance classes. At night, paid trips to famous CLUBS are organized.
In the evenings at the ARENA - tireless amateur performances. AMAZING, in a hotel where there are a lot of foreigners (English, Italians, Poles), but there has never been a PROFESSIONAL SHOW - this is a drawback.
- BEACH TOWELS: there are almost never enough of them and they are of “doubtful cleanliness”, so I advise you to take a light bedding towel from home (for example, a Turkish linen checkered towel for a hammam) And this problem will not “poison” your vacation in this wonderful hotel.
In addition, a towel can always come in handy on sea excursions.
Despite various minor shortcomings, WE LIKE THE REST IN THE HILTON WATERFALL!
WE WOULD RETURN HERE AND WILL DEFINITELY RECOMMEND A REST HERE TO OUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES.
- WEATHER: from April 1 to April 7 it was very HOT (from 10 to 15 hours 30 degrees in the shade) Under the warm breeze, "protecting" with sunscreen, for 7 days we did not notice how we got burned and our skin on the nose and shoulders peeled off three "skins" and more (before burns). Therefore, be vigilant. In recent days we have been walking and swimming in long-sleeved tunics.
One night there was even a brief RAIN!
We have not been to EGYPT for 2 years and we were very pleased that now there are no Bedouin taxis and broken-down minibuses. Taxi are all new foreign cars and decent adequate drivers.
Traders in the market seemed to us even more annoying and boorish (and to Europeans too)
It seemed too contrasting: perfect cleanliness in the hotel and ...garbage right outside the hotel.
It turns out that these people in the hotel “lick” the territory, and when they leave work, they throw garbage anywhere ...And why are there no cleaners in the city outside the hotels? Where are the wipers? Is there a CITY HALL in SHARM EL SHEIKH? Where to complain? KIDDING.
A couple of times I had to blush for our compatriots: there was a KARAOKE competition in a Spanish bar in the MAIN BUILDING and our tipsy comrade without hearing and voice “shouted” at the top of his lungs: “How disgusting it is in Russia in the mornings ... ” (instead of “How delightful evenings are in Russia” ... ) He “plowed” such a song and the song turned out to be so long ...how many verses in it we blushed because of him ...
There was also a funny grandfather, who answered the questions of the Egyptians like “how are you? »
invariably answered: “FIG DOLLAR! »
- EXCURSIONS (bought in the OLD TOWN in the market at the first turn to the shopping arcade to the right ZEKRI-TOURS)
ABU GALUM ($ 45): not far from the poor Bedouin DAHAB - RESERVE, reminiscent of a gypsy camp - a large garbage dump, a 20-minute camel ride along the seashore - A VERY Dubious PLEASURE ...Bedouin lunch on dirty dastarkhans - it's scary to remember ...Everywhere rubbish, untidy Bedouin begging children, plastic utensils and bags are lying everywhere both in the water and on the shore, which is disgusting to go into the water. And this "Bedouin" reserve is under the protection of UNESCO ...The underwater world on the coral reef in the Blue Lagoon is nothing special (it may be interesting for divers in the deep abyss)
MONASTERY OF SAINT CATHERINE ($35) - an interesting educational excursion, especially for Orthodox people. It is advisable not to yawn and “sit down” with some good guide. Time in the monastery is very limited, very dynamic tour.
Our guide told us that the EGYPTIANS IN SINAI are GUESTS, and the true OWNERS of the SINAI PENINSULA are BEDOUINS. Uneducated, without passports and driving licenses, they can freely travel by car anywhere and the police do not check their documents. They are known to be involved in the drug and arms trade. Never enter into conflict with them. Be gentle, kind and careful.
FROM NOW NO BEDOUIN CORAL RESERVES WITH CAMELS! ! ! ! Dirty and unsanitary!
Be attentive and friendly to people! When you see puzzled and frustrated newly arrived compatriots in "non-beach" clothes without the cherished red bracelets, waiting for check-in until 12 o'clock, offer them help, drinks, food after a long journey.
If you arrived at the hotel early in the morning and are waiting for check-in, then stand over your soul with the managers at the reception, and if they are adamant, then don’t be discouraged, change into beach clothes and go for a walk around the hotel (they give out red bracelets upon arrival immediately after filling out the questionnaire ) - You are already guests of the HILTON WATERFALL!
By the way, it's nice that on the last day, after the check-out of the room at 12 o'clock, RED BRACELETS are not cut off and you can eat, drink and enjoy the benefits of relaxation until the very departure without restrictions)
Usually we fly to rest in EGYPT (Sharm El Sheikh) only in WINTER (November-February), no more than 9 nights, in a good cheerful big safe hotel ALL INCLUSIVE with DRINKS inexpensively.
WE LOVE HOLIDAYS IN EGYPT: SUN-SEA - RICH UNDERWATER WORLD ALL YEAR ROUND!
We wish you interesting travels and sunny weather!
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