Vacation not ruined

Written: 6 april 2014
Travel time: 27 march — 3 april 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 5.0
I will try to be objective, but only what concerns us. Third time in Egypt. Have always been satisfied. This time there are nuances. They sat at the reception for about an hour, did not pay extra, and did not offer. We have two numbers. Family and standard. The family room is structurally pleasing, two rooms, a kitchenette with a stove and pots, wooden doors to the balcony and internal ones. Even the bell at the entrance : ). Seems great! But in what state is it? The kitchen is so dirty! Everything is in grease and unwashable soot, the stove is covered in rust, plaster is falling off on the ceiling and water is dripping, cockroaches are walking. But a normal refrigerator with a broken freezer door, so it cools drinks well! In the bathroom, the sink is torn off the countertop, the shower door is skewed and does not close, therefore, water from the shower splashes onto the floor. But we did not use it almost, because there is no hot water. Only cold. Appeals to the reception and the guide did not help. We washed in another building in the standard for children. They are cleaner, but everything is also old, dead, the chipboard is painted over with ordinary paint and there are cracks everywhere. It really doesn't stop me from living. Worse is the smell of insecticides. After a while you get used to it. But mosquitoes from this does not become less. They seem to be immune to everything. Oils and repellents help very little, especially OFF. The Raptor liquid fumigator is still working, not perfect, but it saves. There are no complaints about cleaning. True, according to tradition, when 5 pounds were left, when a dollar, they made our beds and wiped the water in the bathroom. But they did not try to wash the kitchen : ) probably - this is not customary with them. The area is clean, lots of flowers, smells good when mosquitoes are not poisoned. Buildings are tight. two pools, smaller and larger. There are enough sun loungers, although the bourgeois, in their manner, cover them with towels in the early morning and go to fill up : ). The pools are well cleaned. With food, you won't go hungry. There will be no variety. But always in the evenings there is meat on the distribution (chicken, turkey) and meat (fish, squid, jacket) on the grill. Good rice, and pasta with gravy, various steamed vegetables. All this is located in one row, so there was always a long queue. . Somehow in other hotels they managed without such queues due to the more spaced arrangement of tables with different types of food. There are no fruits, perhaps because of spring. You need to buy bottled water, even at an all-inclusive, otherwise only glasses. Fortunately, there are shops nearby with the loud name SUPERMARKET. You can't buy food there. But water, chips, soda, Snickers, and so on. Subjectively, I really did not like the bus schedule to the beach. Rarely walks. We had no luck with the guide. Although from Teztur, but since we did not take excursions from him, the attitude towards us was very cool. Not a single answer to questions or solutions to questions turned out. We figured it out ourselves. By the way, excursions, almost everything is much cheaper to take from street agencies. There was an agency "Gena and Cheburashka" on our street, we took ATVs and buggies from them. Have others in the old city trip to Jerusalem. It was also necessary to take from Cheburashki. The point is that street agencies and hotel guides book entertainment from the same local tour operators. Only local agencies charge much less for mediation. With regards to a trip to Jerusalem, they are taken to the border by a local bus, and there, regardless of the agency, purchases are transferred to a chic Israeli bus, and then everywhere. Here with the bus to the border there may be nuances. For 4 hours you can ride in a BIG bus of varying degrees of comfort from good to very good. From Teztour you are guaranteed to get the same bus as you were brought to the hotel, from others - in different ways. You choose. Now about the beaches. There is a coral with a pontoon, several hotels are brought there. Construction site nearby. It takes about five minutes to climb up to the road to the store with beer and water. The four of us always had enough space on the beach, but we had to look. The beach snack was obtained by ourselves in the store. There are cool fish, but there are beaches and more interesting. The second beach is sandy in the old town. Entrance from the shore, shallow and muddy. You can't have your own beer. Local bottle $5 loud music. Did not like. Look like that's it! Your questions?
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