The hotel is good, but swimming in the sea was difficult

Written: 5 april 2021
Travel time: 22 — 30 march 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 8.0
We stayed at the end of March with my family. Daughters 16 and 8 years old. Impressions are mixed, but generally positive. I'll start with the positives. Very good territory, a lot of greenery, flowers. Everything is neat and beautiful. An excellent water park - my youngest daughter really liked it, there is practically no wind and warm water. Good varied food, several times there were strawberries, melons, shrimp. Large selection of meat and fish dishes. Excellent evening animation for children.
We lived in a family room. The renovation is not new, but everything is clean and tidy. 2 rooms, one of them is walk-through. We lived on the 1st floor. Terrace overlooking the pool, table and chairs.
Internet sometimes catches in the room sometimes not, if you need a reliable connection you need to go either to the Reception or to one of the bars. By the way, there are a lot of them. 2 on the beach, 3 near the pools. There you can have breakfast and lunch overlooking the sea. A pond adjoins the terrace of the main restaurant, around which white herons walk, it is interesting to watch them. The beach is very big. Plenty of sun loungers and umbrellas. The entrance to the sea is gentle, coarse sand. Very petty. There are few fish, for those who like to watch the underwater world of the Red Sea it will be boring. The maximum depth of a meter is 1.5.

On the beach there is a club for renting and teaching windsurfing. Very good instructors, I tried it for the first time - they taught me in 30 minutes)!
Minuses. The reef is far from the coast. Meters 500-600. In order to get to it you need to go along a long pontoon. The hotel's own pontoon is closed for renovations. You need to go along the embankment to the pontoon of the neighboring hotel. Approximately 1 km. Electric cars ride for free. The pontoon opens for swimming at 9 am. Too late. Closes at 17.
Apparently the hotel is in a very windy area. Strong wind almost all the time. The pontoon is closed. Red flag. Out of 8 days, there was no wind for one day. He allowed me to swim off the pontoon a couple of times. Reef is so-so.
A ping pong table stands in the sun and wind. When the sun sets and the wind subsides a little, it closes. Is it really impossible to think over some kind of pavilion that protects from the wind with lighting?
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Mr. the director of the hotel, Mr. Emad. At our request, given the windy weather, several trips were organized to a magnificent windless beach with an excellent coral reef and a rich underwater world! Thanks )!
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