First and last vacation in Egypt

Written: 9 may 2021
Travel time: 1 — 11 may 2021
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 6.0
Hello!
After reading laudatory odes here, I decided to choose this hotel and the impressions are rather negative.

1. Territory
1.1 The territory of the hotel is green and well-groomed. The lawn is neatly mowed and clean.
1.2 The beach is clean, but there is one thing. There are not enough sun loungers under the awnings, the local contingent (more about it below) practices throwing towels on in the morning, and if you come to the beach after breakfast, then your destiny is to burn in the sun. You can normally go to bed around 16:00.
1.3 The sea is clean, it is better to have a look at the tide chart, because during low tide the water is knee-deep and swimming is uncomfortable.
1.4 Pools are normal.

2. Hotel

2.1. Come to the counter to settle and you are immediately told in plain text that there are 2 rooms: the one that you are supposed to (killed) and the normal one for an additional fee. In general, the feeling that in Egypt at every step they are trying to swindle you for money and this is very annoying.
2.2 Numbers. I live in a room on the first floor overlooking the pool.
The room is not killed, but the plug in the bathroom had to be removed because the mechanism that raises it is broken. There is a refrigerator, but it is very small in size and you can only put something into it sideways (there were difficulties with half a watermelon). Noise isolation is very poor, you can hear everything that happens outside. If you sleep lightly, you will constantly wake up.
2.3 Room cleaning at the level. We left a tip for the cleaner (didn't risk it without a tip).

3. Services
3.1 Internet. There is Wi-Fi on site, but it is paid. You can sit in the lobby for free, but the speed, to put it mildly, leaves much to be desired. I bought a sim card from a local operator (Orange) and their 4G is, in principle, not bad. On the beach, someone complained that he was not catching, but I don’t know what kind of operator it was (I caught it everywhere).
3.2. Massage is so-so. The general lasted as much as 30 minutes and cost $40.

4. Entertainment:
4.1 Animation for beauty, but I would not recommend dressing them up in feathers and making them meet guests in the hall.
The competition for who will shout "Ukraine" louder in the lobby was shocking.
4.2 Bars work, but the quality of alcohol leaves much to be desired (beer, in principle, is normal). Ice cream is just frozen syrup diluted, although I met people who liked it (in my opinion it has nothing to do with normal store-bought ice cream). Yes, and the horns are full of holes from below, get ready for the fact that it will flow.
4.3. There is a disco every few days, takes place near the pool next to the beach. Rattles until three in the morning. Heard throughout

4.4 At the entrance to the hotel building there is some kind of stage where some kind of competitions are held every evening. I didn't go there and can't say anything more.

5. Nutrition.
5.1 Main dining room

Let's start with the dishes. The quality of her washing is not controlled. After the dishwasher, the campaign is immediately taken out and set. Dried food remains on plates and cutlery.
There is a queue in the hall (as with sunbeds), in the evening you can walk for 20 minutes with a plate to find a place for yourself. There seems to be a choice of food, but 80% of the food is tasteless. And you eat all the time only proven options. You want to spit out most of the desserts right away and drink something to remove the aftertaste.
Normal waffles, buns, vegetables and some pastries. Sausages are 100% soy, both regular and those that say they are beef. Re-feeding of products is widely practiced. For example, today mashed potatoes for dinner, and tomorrow for breakfast the same mashed potatoes, but with traces of heating it in a pan. Boiled eggs with a black yolk and spoiled cheese are commonplace. The feta looks delicious. Meat cuts are 100% soy. Cheese cuts are disgusting. It looks like it's made from camel's milk. Local juices are diluted UPI and there is not a single gram of natural there.
5.2. Went for dinner at the Italian restaurant on site. There are 2 sets of dishes to choose from.
Dishes like grandma's. Spaghetti - the usual vermicelli with gravy. I'll cook a hundred times better pancake. It feels like the chef is some kind of vocational school student.

5.3. Gala dinner. This event deserved a separate item. First, they keep everyone in the lobby and give them cocktails to drink (I got a good one, xs how are the others). When the whole hall is packed, the doors are opened and this whole crowd runs into the hall like Americans in a shopping center on Black Friday. Some kind of madness begins, everyone runs back and forth, the dishes fall. Children run around waist-high with plates from which food falls on the floor. People surround the seafood table in three tight rings. The first ring is picking up 20 pieces of sushi on one plate, the second ring is trying to grab at least something from behind, and the third ring is picking up phones and with outstretched arms trying to remove the table to quickly show off in the story. Such a game, it was already a shame that these were my compatriots.
Sushi is rice from the last meal (sticky), inside is a roughly cut crab stick, on top is a piece of fish as thick as a sheet of paper. The shrimp were not yet fully defrosted and xs how long they lay. Tastes so-so. That shrimp that lay on a rice patty and passed out as sushi tasted, to put it mildly, not very good (I couldn’t force myself to eat it).

6. Contingent. There is cattle. Sitting by the pool at night, drinking and yelling all over the territory is the norm. It's okay if someone sleeps in a nearby room. Some individuals do not see anything shameful in yelling obscenities at their child across the entire corridor, at 7 in the morning, because he ran ahead. Children squeal along the corridors, run, the stairs rattle as if all this is happening in your room. Shouting at children on the beach or something to each other under the closet is commonplace. It feels like I've arrived in Zatoka. The beach is a lot of bred for massages and other services.
I watched a couple of times a showdown on the beach for a place under the fungus.

7. Surrounding area. Civilization ends as soon as you cross the road from the hotel. There are shops nearby. I recommend walking to the store "George Clooney", in all the rest there are sellers-breeders who cannot add up the price of the goods and are trying to sell moldy strawberries. If you want to have a normal meal, then it makes sense to walk 2km to the Arab Bucks cafe, where they have delicious grilled shrimp and seafood soup. Reasonable prices.

If you have rested at least once in a normal hotel in Turkey, then it is better not to come here. You will be greatly disappointed.
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