Decent hotel, even reaching 5 stars

Written: 1 september 2025
Travel time: 19 — 26 august 2025
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; 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: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
We rested at the hotel from 19 to 26.08. 2025 (2 adults, a teenager 17 years old and a child 12 years old).
We settled in the building opposite the first pool, which is located near the main restaurant (room 503 and 504). The rooms are a bit outdated, the cleaning is unobtrusive, like "do you want to clean it? ", we left 1 dollar on the first day, nothing special was left on the towels (figures, etc. ). Therefore, usually in the morning by 9 o'clock the cleaner came and we asked to remove the garbage, take water and change the towel.
Regarding the territory, it is compact, but not small, wi-fi throughout the territory, even on 1 lane, 2 pools, the first right at the entrance to the main restaurant, there is a bar until 6 pm, there were many free sunbeds, another pool (divided into 2 zones), with 3 water slides, quite decent, next to the pool area with bar stools, right in the water. The bar is open until 11 pm, that's for sure, there are also evening programs.

There is also pizza, french fries and hot dogs here at lunchtime. Pancakes at lunchtime.
Children's animation at 21, primitive, for adults it is also not at "5", somewhere for half an hour maximum - fire show, oriental dances, magic tricks. It is possible to go to the 1st line for animation or animators are invited to the hotel of the same chain in Amforas Beach.
Beach. Considering that this is the 2nd line, the bus runs, the schedule is at the reception (the transfer stop is right behind the pools with slides, near the children's club, not the central entrance / exit!! ! ).
The first two days the schedule was at 8.09-30.11-30 and then until 17 in an hour and a half, back 09-40.12. But then they did (maybe there were more vacationers) every hour, starting from 8 am to 15, from the beach from 08-30 and until 18-15 the last. The beach is not far from the stop on line 1.2 minutes.
If you walk, we rested at high temperatures, then not very much, because walking along the road is tiring in the heat, well, about 10 minutes.
Regarding the infrastructure of the first line, that is, Amphoras Blue (there is a beach), you can use both swimming pools and bars. Quite tasty draft beer. Here from 12-30 to 14-30 pizza, french fries, hot dogs.
The beach is comfortable, a little cascade, you don't lie on each other's heads. There is no sandy beach, there is a lagoon, but there is a tide and I advise you to stay in corals. There is one pontoon, with wooden steps, but there is a BUT, quite often a red flag, current. The lifeguard said that if there is a current, then there may not be, somehow it migrates between neighboring hotels. The area fenced for swimming is not very large, if there are a lot of people, it is not entirely convenient, if there is a current, they ask you to swim to the right, but every 2-3 meters there are lifebuoys, and if there is a current, you can get to the pontoon along the cantata. The reef is normal, there was a moray eel, a lot of fish.

The contingent - considering that there are many locals on vacation in August, we were not stressed. There are Ukrainians, many Italians, Poles and, unfortunately, our "neighbors", some of the behavior was not adequate. We chatted in Ukrainian among ourselves, somewhere in Surzhyk, and with the service staff, it is clear that either in English or Russian.
Food. I was very surprised, because for the first time (and I also rested during the mango season, in July, November) they gave me mango for dinner. The cook is standing and you come up and he cuts it into 3 parts in front of you and he is not greedy enough in this regard. In 7 days there was mango 3 times.
Menu: breakfasts are monotonous, but it is like that everywhere, even at 5 *. Boiled eggs, omelet, scrambled eggs, fruit, lots of pastries, there is a delicious one with custard, croissants, various vegetables, hummus, hard cheese like Dutch, processed cheese, butter, jams, honey, sausage, you can even eat chicken. There is a toaster, people made cheese, sausage into pita bread and drove it on the toaster, which works like a conveyor belt. There are cereals, muesli, dry breakfasts, 3 types of yogurt, falafel.
Lunches and dinners are always on the street by the pool (entrance to the main restaurant), something on the grill - chicken, beef steaks, burger patties, red fish, chicken drumsticks, shrimp, crabs.
Several side dishes (rice, couscous, lasagna, fries), necessarily a separate cook for pasta, lots of baked, boiled vegetables, sauté ed, stewed, stewed cabbage, squid, some meat sauces. There is a cook in the hall and there is a dish of the evening - lamb, tuna, turkey, duck. There is a lot of food. There are also cakes and pastries, but not just monotonous biscuits, there were cakes with mango praline, with fresh, very tasty, with dates and bananas, chocolate, various baklava.
Fruit - mango every other day, dates, figs, melon of 2 varieties, guava, orange, grapes.
I really liked it, this hotel can be safely rated as a good 4 and probably even 5 *. You can walk left and right, there are shops and a pharmacy.
Alcohol is peculiar in Egypt, we took our own, but beer and wine are delicious.

I would go again, yes, but not in the summer, so as not to depend on the bus, because there were cases when you arrive and the red flag, at 9 am, the bar from 10, and if you want to refresh yourself and it is not clear how long it will hang.
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original