Great stay

Written: 5 may 2007
Travel time: 6 — 13 april 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
The hotel is great if you do not need animation, in other words, if you can entertain yourself. Half board (breakfast-dinner), a little confusing for newcomers to ban their own food and drinks at the hotel, but this is only for beginners. The rule is simple, if the guard found something like that at the entrance, then she takes it away until your next exit from the hotel. But the security is not very rampant...the area of ​ ​ the room is a sacred place where you can relax the way you want...i. e. drink and eat whatever you like...rarely, about once a week , you will be shown an Egyptian show, where there are quite decent (quality) numbers.

Quite decent bars can be found in the district, where, having ordered some trifle, for decency, you can dance.

If you suddenly want to have lunch, inexpensive, but tasty, then the Old Market (Old Town) has fish and meat house kitchens, where you choose fish (a piece of meat) and the way they are cooked, and after about an hour, come and pay very reasonable money, according to compared to restaurants and cafes, and you get your food hot and packaged, plus in a regular store you buy a bottle of water, cola, a pack of juice or boil tea in your room, if you carry food correctly and have a boiler - here you have a luxurious lunch.

Beach - the hotel has two beaches, some inconvenience is that the bus schedule is not very convenient there 10-00.10-30.11-00.11-30.12-00, back 14-00.16-00. But, you can use a taxi, its average cost is 10 Egyptian pounds, from the hotel to the old city or back, the beach is next to the old city, some of the hotels manage to negotiate for 5 pounds. If you go from the hotel to the New City, then a taxi costs 15 pounds and back, respectively.
the technology of using a taxi is as follows, you clearly name the destination, for example, the name of the Mercure Luna Sharm hotel, you can add that it is located in Chabad, if the driver agreed, then the gardener and take out the money - show it to the driver, but do not give it away, until the end of the trip, just hold in your hands. In no case do not use the services of agents, negotiate directly with the driver. such a system will allow you to avoid many misunderstandings, and maybe troubles. In case of misunderstandings, suggest the driver to contact the police to resolve the conflict, they are all afraid of her like fire. The language of communication is broken English, which is usually sufficient.
Far from the beach - that beach, it is also called the first one, it is closer to the old city, it is quieter, calmer, from it along the coastline you can walk to a wild beach, where in the sea, of course, with a snorkel and flippers you can look at quite decent corals, I would say no worse than on an excursion to a coral reef. However, remember the safety precautions, on this beach, after a few meters, a sea urchin sits under almost every stone, and this thing, well, very unpleasant, and in general, it’s better not to touch anything with your feet or hands, even ordinary coral, if does not emit any poisonous muck, it may just have very sharp edges. But all this is very beautiful.


The most popular shoes in Sharm El Sheikh are good, solid slippers, well, very comfortable, and in the evening, ordinary sandals are suitable for dancing.
Shops, the cheapest souvenirs, can be found in the old city, somewhere in the depths, there are, as it were, warehouses where merchants from other shops buy goods for themselves in order to sell us later at three prices. But industrial goods, such as masks, flippers - it is better to buy in a new city. In general, you need to bargain very, very persistently, reducing the primary price, almost twice, and then gradually find a common language with the seller, it is more convenient to do this with a calculator.
Nearby is a very beautiful complex "1000 and one night, they show paid shows, but they are a bit long, how to say boring. But you can go once.
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