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Rooms:
6.0
Service:
7.0
Cleanliness:
7.0
Food:
5.0
Amenities:
6.0
Flight
8.10. 17 tour operator Anex tour and a / c Azur Air delayed the departure of flight QU4433 from 3-50 to 8-30. That is, almost five hours of the best morning time spent on the beach were stolen from us. The delay in departure became known only at 00:00, i. e. , many tourists spent an extra 5 hours at the airport.
Settlement
We booked a sea view room, because such rooms are closest to the beach. At the reception, we were greeted by Nina and took us to the Victoria bar, where we were kindly offered a soft drink, put on bracelets (it was about 13-00). Then we were taken to the room by electric car, after 10 minutes. Our suitcases were also brought there. We had a room on the second floor overlooking the quiet pool number 4 (children are not allowed there).
Anex tour guides
Our guide Ahmet took us from the airport. He gave out some information and intimidated us not to take excursions from anyone other than Anex tour.
At the same time, he didn’t say a word about protection from the hot sun, about the fact that you need to swim only in a mask with a snorkel (because you need to see what is around you) and either in corals on your feet or in fins (corals are very sharp).
Our information meeting was scheduled for the second day after arrival at 9-00, that is, when the beach is best. By 9-05 all the tourists who arrived the day before gathered, but the guide Saber was still 10 minutes away. I was talking enthusiastically with a colleague about something. In the end, we turned around and went to the beach. You don't value our time, why should we value yours?
What idiot scheduled the information meeting at the most inconvenient time for tourists? That it is impossible to hold it at 12-00 before lunch, when it is already hot on the beach?
Then other tourists told us that, as usual, the guide Saber spent more than 1 hour “sucking in” excursions for them, and only spoke about the hotel in passing. We then noted the voucher at the Anex tour counter.
Beach
Biggest disappointment of the hotel.
Approximately from the middle of the neighboring Concorde Hotel (in the north) to the end of the beach of the Savoy Hotel (in the south), the reef is half-dead. Moreover, the hotel's coral table is full of holes and bumps, and it is dangerous to walk on it, which children love to do so much. Very few fish. Only at the far ends of Sharks Bay (100 meters from the beaches of the Siva and Savoy hotels) do at least some flocks of small fish appear. From large, for 8 days. , I saw only a grouper about 1 m long.
You need to go down to the beach by a staircase with 88 steps, you can also go along a rather steep road going to the left of the stairs near number 344, i. e. there are no problems to go down to the beach with a stroller. There were always enough plastic sunbeds with a net, but a lot of them were torn and they are all very old - still from the Sunrise Hotel, that is, they are at least 7-8 years old.
There is no promised place for bathing children near the shore. And at high tide, the water goes more than 7 m.
By the way, this year at the beginning of October it was cool in Sharm - water maximum 26.5 degrees, air - 31 degrees. In 2015 and 2016
water and air were 3-4 degrees warmer. Therefore, for long swims, you need to somehow warm up (at least by wearing a T-shirt).
Tourists
The first few days there were quite a lot of Arabs, then they left about 25% of all tourists. There are many tourists from Ukraine, there are Belarusians and Kazakhs. In general, the hotel was 25-40% full. Arabs behave badly: they put a child 1.5 years old backwards on the table, although there is a high chair nearby; they take the pasta with their hands, and then they dump the excess with their hands back into the container with food. We managed to eat separately from them only 2 times at dinner in a la carte restaurants: Italian and fish. They both liked it very much.
Hotel
An important nuance is that some of the hotel rooms (401-484 - this is the entire southern part of the hotel) are in the process of being renovated. Therefore, from a number of numbers of the sea view category (for example, 327 and 329) a view ...of the shields enclosing the construction site. The sea view rooms have been renovated, but the furniture in them is “tired”. Even numbers on the 2nd floor, odd numbers on the first floor.
From rooms 301-317 - limited (by bushes or opposite building) or side sea view. The best sea view is from rooms 346 and 344.
There are two water slides (open 10-12 and 14-16). It’s more interesting to ride on the blue one, but if you accelerate, you can hit your feet painfully on the fence located too close in the main pool.
Number
It consists of 3 zones: a bedroom, a living room (with a soft sofa and an armchair + TV) and a bathroom. The bathroom is quite large and everything worked, but there were no grates in the drain holes of the tub and the sink. There was no soap yet. A container with a suspicious liquid called "Shower gel" is fixed on the wall, there was one tube of shampoo, after use it was not replenished. Also took away and did not replace the dirty foot towel in the bathroom. Soundproofing is good.
Every day 2 bottles of water of 0.6 liters are brought to the room. Bottled water (or semi-chemical drinks) can be collected in restaurants and beach bars. i. e.
there were no problems with water (which were written in previous reviews). The room has 2 air conditioners. There are 3 Kyiv and 3 Moscow TV channels.
The safe only worked after the dead batteries were replaced.
One day the cleaner did a wet cleaning of the room with us. We left him a chocolate bar every day, but there were no “swans” on the bed.
A major drawback is the presence of two balconies in the room. The second, French, goes to the stairs of the next room. The cleaner forgot to close his door, and around 19-40 a hungry three-colored cat came to our room. I had to feed them with the leftovers of the chop taken from Kyiv (they don’t serve food on planes anymore).
We were regularly gnawed by mosquitoes, despite the brought fumigator. We asked Nina the guesthouse to do the processing of the number. It stank for over 4 hours. One night the mosquitoes did not gnaw, then they began to gnaw again. The problem is that there is a gap under the front door.
Nutrition
Breakfast and lunch were at the main restaurant (this is near the reception and we had to go there about 6 minutes - far), dinner at the Fatima restaurant above the beach (there was a grill).
The food is a little short of Turkish 3+ (for example, Carbel hotel), but there are always 3-5 side dishes, fresh and stewed vegetables. At the same time, fish (it was in a day, and one evening there were even crabs in Fatime) you can take it yourself is not limited, but meat dishes (meatballs, chicken, fried meat and liver) and even shawarma, cooks give out in 2 different places . I was surprised that at breakfast cottage cheese (with sprinkling with various spices) and sliced u200bu200bsausage and hard cheese are given out by the cook. Cottage cheese is given out in pieces measuring 2x2x1 cm.
From fruits: dates, grapes, sliced: apples, melon and peaches. Sometimes the melon was cut into large pieces with the skin on. There was never a watermelon. Baking, as everywhere in Egypt, is an amateur.
From 15:00 to 17:00, fast food is offered near the beach bar.
In October 2016, the food was better at the sister hotel Siva.
Alcohol
The beer is very weak, the wine tastes of yeast, you can somehow drink vodka and Ouzy (Sambuca). Moreover, the dilution of alcohol with water is the least in the Hollywood and Victoria bar, in the main restaurant and in the bar by the main pool it is already greater, and most of all it is diluted in the beach bar. Glass is poured only in the Victoria Bar, the main restaurant and the Hollywood Bar. Every day in the bars a new cocktail of the day is free.
Animation
It starts at 10-00 and lasts until 23-00, after which they offer to go to a nightclub. You can play bocha, darts, beach volleyball (free of charge). In the evening at 21-30 in the amphitheater at the Hollywood bar, themed shows are held. The animators are trying.
WiFi
It is passwordless in the hotel, but very slow and every time you have to register again. The same situation with Wi-Fi in Soho Square, but there it is much faster.
walks
Soho Square is next to the hotel. Entering it is carried out through a metal detector.
At the same time, some people forget their wallets, watches, phones, etc. at the checkpoint. Soho has been somewhat updated.
It was interesting to walk north to the Baron Hotel with its unique reef and shallow sandbar. Go one way 40 min. Taxi - $5
We also walked south past Soho Square and the Dessole Royal Hotel. So it is possible on asphalt somewhere in 30 minutes. walk to a cozy bay near the Sharks Bay Umbi Diving villadge with cute boats at the pier and admire, against the backdrop of sunset and mountains, the planes coming in for landing.
Back
Do not forget to order a lunch bag at the reception and drink water from it before the airport.
Anex tour messed up again. We had a scheduled departure at 8-00, so we were picked up from the hotel (and it is the closest to the airport) at 4-30, and from the Cleopatra Luxury hotel (Nabq district), the most remote from the airport, tourists were taken at 5-25 . That is, they stole from us almost an hour of sleep. Worse than the other - the suitcases had to be loaded ...on the roof of the bus.
And then the fragile girls had to catch their suitcases, which the driver lowered onto their heads from a height of 3 meters. At the same time, the Anex tour guide stood aside and pretended that this did not concern him. Angry…
At the airport they were forced to take off their shoes (take either shoe covers or spare socks - the floor is very dirty) and then they carefully felt them. They took away not only 0.6 l of water, but also 100 g of juice given out in a lunch bag. packaging. They even took away a roll with the remnants of a packing film for a suitcase - this is already something new. Another tourist was confiscated round nickel-metal hydride AA batteries by pulling them straight out of the camera (and no one forbids transporting such batteries - this is not Li-ion). And of course, everyone himself found his suitcase in a pile of others, and carried it to the transporter on the plane.
15.10. 17 Azur Air delayed flight QU4434 by an hour. For this, none of the crew thought to apologize.
Conclusion
If you want beautiful coral and a lot of different fish, or even just a lot of fish, then you have nothing to do in Sharks Bay.
If you have any questions, write to sk_lora@ukr. net, answer
Alexander and Larisa
pros
Friendly staff. Acceptable food - no cases of poisoning have been heard.
Minuses.
Dead coral. Lack of fish. Anex tour guides. Air travel delays
8.10. 17 tour operator Anex tour and a / c Azur Air delayed the departure of flight QU4433 from 3-50 to 8-30. That is, almost five hours of the best morning time spent on the beach were stolen from us. The delay in departure became known only at 00:00, i. e. , many tourists spent an extra 5 hours at the airport.
Settlement
We booked a sea view room, because such rooms are closest to the beach. At the reception, we were greeted by Nina and took us to the Victoria bar, where we were kindly offered a soft drink, put on bracelets (it was about 13-00). Then we were taken to the room by electric car, after 10 minutes. Our suitcases were also brought there. We had a room on the second floor overlooking the quiet pool number 4 (children are not allowed there).
Anex tour guides
Our guide Ahmet took us from the airport. He gave out some information and intimidated us not to take excursions from anyone other than Anex tour.
At the same time, he didn’t say a word about protection from the hot sun, about the fact that you need to swim only in a mask with a snorkel (because you need to see what is around you) and either in corals on your feet or in fins (corals are very sharp).
Our information meeting was scheduled for the second day after arrival at 9-00, that is, when the beach is best. By 9-05 all the tourists who arrived the day before gathered, but the guide Saber was still 10 minutes away. I was talking enthusiastically with a colleague about something. In the end, we turned around and went to the beach. You don't value our time, why should we value yours?
What idiot scheduled the information meeting at the most inconvenient time for tourists? That it is impossible to hold it at 12-00 before lunch, when it is already hot on the beach?
Then other tourists told us that, as usual, the guide Saber spent more than 1 hour “sucking in” excursions for them, and only spoke about the hotel in passing. We then noted the voucher at the Anex tour counter.
Beach
Biggest disappointment of the hotel.
Approximately from the middle of the neighboring Concorde Hotel (in the north) to the end of the beach of the Savoy Hotel (in the south), the reef is half-dead. Moreover, the hotel's coral table is full of holes and bumps, and it is dangerous to walk on it, which children love to do so much. Very few fish. Only at the far ends of Sharks Bay (100 meters from the beaches of the Siva and Savoy hotels) do at least some flocks of small fish appear. From large, for 8 days. , I saw only a grouper about 1 m long.
You need to go down to the beach by a staircase with 88 steps, you can also go along a rather steep road going to the left of the stairs near number 344, i. e. there are no problems to go down to the beach with a stroller. There were always enough plastic sunbeds with a net, but a lot of them were torn and they are all very old - still from the Sunrise Hotel, that is, they are at least 7-8 years old.
There is no promised place for bathing children near the shore. And at high tide, the water goes more than 7 m.
By the way, this year at the beginning of October it was cool in Sharm - water maximum 26.5 degrees, air - 31 degrees. In 2015 and 2016
water and air were 3-4 degrees warmer. Therefore, for long swims, you need to somehow warm up (at least by wearing a T-shirt).
Tourists
The first few days there were quite a lot of Arabs, then they left about 25% of all tourists. There are many tourists from Ukraine, there are Belarusians and Kazakhs. In general, the hotel was 25-40% full. Arabs behave badly: they put a child 1.5 years old backwards on the table, although there is a high chair nearby; they take the pasta with their hands, and then they dump the excess with their hands back into the container with food. We managed to eat separately from them only 2 times at dinner in a la carte restaurants: Italian and fish. They both liked it very much.
Hotel
An important nuance is that some of the hotel rooms (401-484 - this is the entire southern part of the hotel) are in the process of being renovated. Therefore, from a number of numbers of the sea view category (for example, 327 and 329) a view ...of the shields enclosing the construction site. The sea view rooms have been renovated, but the furniture in them is “tired”. Even numbers on the 2nd floor, odd numbers on the first floor.
From rooms 301-317 - limited (by bushes or opposite building) or side sea view. The best sea view is from rooms 346 and 344.
There are two water slides (open 10-12 and 14-16). It’s more interesting to ride on the blue one, but if you accelerate, you can hit your feet painfully on the fence located too close in the main pool.
Number
It consists of 3 zones: a bedroom, a living room (with a soft sofa and an armchair + TV) and a bathroom. The bathroom is quite large and everything worked, but there were no grates in the drain holes of the tub and the sink. There was no soap yet. A container with a suspicious liquid called "Shower gel" is fixed on the wall, there was one tube of shampoo, after use it was not replenished. Also took away and did not replace the dirty foot towel in the bathroom. Soundproofing is good.
Every day 2 bottles of water of 0.6 liters are brought to the room. Bottled water (or semi-chemical drinks) can be collected in restaurants and beach bars. i. e.
there were no problems with water (which were written in previous reviews). The room has 2 air conditioners. There are 3 Kyiv and 3 Moscow TV channels.
The safe only worked after the dead batteries were replaced.
One day the cleaner did a wet cleaning of the room with us. We left him a chocolate bar every day, but there were no “swans” on the bed.
A major drawback is the presence of two balconies in the room. The second, French, goes to the stairs of the next room. The cleaner forgot to close his door, and around 19-40 a hungry three-colored cat came to our room. I had to feed them with the leftovers of the chop taken from Kyiv (they don’t serve food on planes anymore).
We were regularly gnawed by mosquitoes, despite the brought fumigator. We asked Nina the guesthouse to do the processing of the number. It stank for over 4 hours. One night the mosquitoes did not gnaw, then they began to gnaw again. The problem is that there is a gap under the front door.
Nutrition
Breakfast and lunch were at the main restaurant (this is near the reception and we had to go there about 6 minutes - far), dinner at the Fatima restaurant above the beach (there was a grill).
The food is a little short of Turkish 3+ (for example, Carbel hotel), but there are always 3-5 side dishes, fresh and stewed vegetables. At the same time, fish (it was in a day, and one evening there were even crabs in Fatime) you can take it yourself is not limited, but meat dishes (meatballs, chicken, fried meat and liver) and even shawarma, cooks give out in 2 different places . I was surprised that at breakfast cottage cheese (with sprinkling with various spices) and sliced u200bu200bsausage and hard cheese are given out by the cook. Cottage cheese is given out in pieces measuring 2x2x1 cm.
From fruits: dates, grapes, sliced: apples, melon and peaches. Sometimes the melon was cut into large pieces with the skin on. There was never a watermelon. Baking, as everywhere in Egypt, is an amateur.
From 15:00 to 17:00, fast food is offered near the beach bar.
In October 2016, the food was better at the sister hotel Siva.
Alcohol
The beer is very weak, the wine tastes of yeast, you can somehow drink vodka and Ouzy (Sambuca). Moreover, the dilution of alcohol with water is the least in the Hollywood and Victoria bar, in the main restaurant and in the bar by the main pool it is already greater, and most of all it is diluted in the beach bar. Glass is poured only in the Victoria Bar, the main restaurant and the Hollywood Bar. Every day in the bars a new cocktail of the day is free.
Animation
It starts at 10-00 and lasts until 23-00, after which they offer to go to a nightclub. You can play bocha, darts, beach volleyball (free of charge). In the evening at 21-30 in the amphitheater at the Hollywood bar, themed shows are held. The animators are trying.
WiFi
It is passwordless in the hotel, but very slow and every time you have to register again. The same situation with Wi-Fi in Soho Square, but there it is much faster.
walks
Soho Square is next to the hotel. Entering it is carried out through a metal detector.
At the same time, some people forget their wallets, watches, phones, etc. at the checkpoint. Soho has been somewhat updated.
It was interesting to walk north to the Baron Hotel with its unique reef and shallow sandbar. Go one way 40 min. Taxi - $5
We also walked south past Soho Square and the Dessole Royal Hotel. So it is possible on asphalt somewhere in 30 minutes. walk to a cozy bay near the Sharks Bay Umbi Diving villadge with cute boats at the pier and admire, against the backdrop of sunset and mountains, the planes coming in for landing.
Back
Do not forget to order a lunch bag at the reception and drink water from it before the airport.
Anex tour messed up again. We had a scheduled departure at 8-00, so we were picked up from the hotel (and it is the closest to the airport) at 4-30, and from the Cleopatra Luxury hotel (Nabq district), the most remote from the airport, tourists were taken at 5-25 . That is, they stole from us almost an hour of sleep. Worse than the other - the suitcases had to be loaded ...on the roof of the bus.
And then the fragile girls had to catch their suitcases, which the driver lowered onto their heads from a height of 3 meters. At the same time, the Anex tour guide stood aside and pretended that this did not concern him. Angry…
At the airport they were forced to take off their shoes (take either shoe covers or spare socks - the floor is very dirty) and then they carefully felt them. They took away not only 0.6 l of water, but also 100 g of juice given out in a lunch bag. packaging. They even took away a roll with the remnants of a packing film for a suitcase - this is already something new. Another tourist was confiscated round nickel-metal hydride AA batteries by pulling them straight out of the camera (and no one forbids transporting such batteries - this is not Li-ion). And of course, everyone himself found his suitcase in a pile of others, and carried it to the transporter on the plane.
15.10. 17 Azur Air delayed flight QU4434 by an hour. For this, none of the crew thought to apologize.
Conclusion
If you want beautiful coral and a lot of different fish, or even just a lot of fish, then you have nothing to do in Sharks Bay.
If you have any questions, write to sk_lora@ukr. net, answer
Alexander and Larisa
pros
Friendly staff. Acceptable food - no cases of poisoning have been heard.
Minuses.
Dead coral. Lack of fish. Anex tour guides. Air travel delays
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