Egypt only for diving

Written: 7 october 2010
Travel time: 26 september — 5 october 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 6.0
The hotel is old and shabby, 3 * at best, some door handles did not work. The hotel area is small. No animation. In our room, the TV showed well only Arabic mtv, the guys had 4 Russian channels. But I arrived, not to sit in the room and watch TV. You can close your eyes to this. The staff is friendly and the bartenders are also fun. The food is excellent, every time I ate to satiety. Dinners are especially good. I haven't been able to try everything. Of course, there is no pork, and the beef is tough, but the chicken skewers are excellent. The variety is great. Drinks are local, of course, not very good, but quite suitable for “achieving condition”. If you make friends with the bartenders, you can also constantly order different cocktails.
Our guide is Mansur, that deceitful goat. At the very beginning, they gave us broken-down semi-basement rooms, we refused them, and temporarily we were six of us in one large room. The next three days was a struggle for numbers. Mansur promised to settle first at 8-00, then at 18-00, and so on for three days. He came up with such ridiculous excuses as delaying the plane for a day or two, and so on, although planes fly overhead every 10 minutes. Promised three rooms side by side. As a result of all the calls two or three times a day, numerous crap, only on the fourth day we got rooms in different parts of the hotel! Guide Marnsur gave incorrect information about excursions. For example, he said that it took 4 hours to go to Cairo, it turned out to be 6, that there would be enough free water on excursions, but it turned out to be 0.5 liters per person per day. All this everyday lies terribly infuriated.
Excursions bought on the second day from him, we decided not to risk it. If they knew what kind of excursions, half would have been refused. I was at four.

Tour prices:
Cairo (pyramids) 75$
Water park 35$
Sea trip (diving) 55$
Quads 45$
The first most positive and leaving only good impressions is a boat trip with a dive. We had an Egyptian instructor (not an Arab), cheerful and well-spoken in Russian. Water and drinks were plentiful. I recommend diving to everyone. Very interesting and beautiful. For an additional fee, you can dive to 12 meters and get a certificate.
Aquark "Cleopark" - the biggest disappointment. Children's slides, the inability to bring water with you, terrible food, after which you are even more thirsty. Only those who have never been to water parks liked it. But there is nothing to do there! The only two pleasant moments are the slide boat, in fact, we spent a third of the time on it and water polo in the pool.
Quads. In general, it was interesting, we drove next to the mountains that can be seen on the horizon. But very hot, dusty, sweaty. Take more water with you. The desert is like a washboard, hands and ass bounce off.
Cairo (pyramids). I had a childhood dream - a trip to the pyramids. But to be honest, they didn't make much of an impression, just a bunch of old rocks. The Sphinx's face has almost completely fallen off. The move is quite difficult, if you are a gentle girl, you will not like it. The whole impression was also spoiled by the clouds of tourists and the ubiquitous pestering Arabs on dead dirty camels, selling all sorts of garbage twenty times more expensive. Do not take pictures with camels and do not sit on them, even if you are told that it is free. Getting off the camel will be very expensive.
Cairo itself is a city of construction, a city of garbage. The museum was interesting, but terribly stuffy. So that the head stops thinking, the excursion turns into torture and the only desire is that it ends quickly. I could not understand how the Egyptians, with their then dimensions (a meter with a cap in a jump), were able to create such structures. In the course of all the same, it was aliens)).

The beach is located 300m from the hotel. Sand, but there are also corals. And if you bought a mask and fins, then you can find almost as many fish as when diving!
When I read in the reviews that the Arabs got sick, I did not understand what they meant. So, the Arabs did not get sick, they FUCKED!! ! They pester, almost grab, lure in all possible ways, trying to ingratiate themselves and make friends. Know that this is all with only one goal - to breed you for money. BARGAIN! Moreover, if here in Russia, you can be deceived, cheated by 100 grams, then in Egypt you can easily be sold something 10 times more expensive. Having understood all this, we decided to go for souvenirs to the market in the "old city", where, as we were told, the prices are half as cheap. We spent over two hours there. Most things were bought 2-2.5 times cheaper than the original price. I was squeezed like a lemon after the selection, the wild trading, all the calculations and everything. Tired but happy, we left for the hotel. And a day later we realized that even having sold us things 2.5 times less, we were still FUCKED! We found a Panorama star store with fixed prices, so the same things were cheaper there! I was very angry.
The whole of Egypt is one big fuck-up.
Summary.
Pros of the hotel: good kicking, friendly staff. Everything else is cons.
If I ever go there again (which I doubt very much), then it will be 5 * and go beyond the hotel, I will be exclusively for diving (not through the tour operator), but in some Russian center .
Translated automatically from Russian. View original