New Year in Golden

Written: 7 january 2013
Travel time: 28 december 2012 — 4 january 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 8.0
Good day to all! This is my 5th time in Egypt. I love this country, despite all its shortcomings. This time we decided to celebrate the New Year there. But first things first, in sections:
1. Accommodation and room
2. Nutrition
3. Location of the hotel and territory
4. Animation
5. Beach
6. Service
7. The contingent of vacationers
8. New Year in Shores Golden
1. Accommodation and room. We arrived at the hotel late, by the time the restaurant was closing, we were quickly fed. Then promptly settled in the room. Room No. 116, building 11. In the same building there is a fitness center and a spa. Past it you'll walk to the beach. The room is standard, a little shabby, but quite suitable. The minus of the room is the lack of a balcony (half of the hotel's rooms do not have balconies), the door to the "amenities" was not closed with a latch. Plus - sea view, ie. on the road between the hotels, hence the room is relatively quiet. It was very annoying that only one key was given to the room.

2. Food is good. Breakfasts are standard: eggs in all forms, pancakes, vegetables, fruit salad, all sorts of cereals, coffee, tea. buns. At lunch there is always chicken, fish or beef, as well as pasta, plus all sorts of salads, vegetables, fruits. For dinner, almost the same as for lunch, plus a grill, plus a soup. You can have a snack at the beach bar with vegetables, pizza and french fries, in the evening pancakes are baked in the relax zone. And everything would be fine if it weren’t for problems with tea and coffee, all this is present only at breakfast, for lunch and dinner you have to go to the pool bar for tea, it’s annoying, there is also no tea and coffee at the beach bar, well are they sorry? You can visit 2 restaurants Ala carte fish and Italian for free, all drinks there are paid. The fish salad has a very tasty seafood salad.
3. The hotel is located in a great location, very close to El Markato and 1000 and one night, you can walk there in the evening, buy souvenirs (be sure to bargain, the price is reduced by 2 times by rail). You can take a taxi to the Old Market for 3 bucks (you can also walk, but we were too lazy). In the Old Market there is a Dutik Free (although the choice there is small). A free shuttle goes to Naama for 2 hours, 2 times in the evening at 19-00 and 21-00. The hotel area is large, well-groomed, clean, in addition, you can walk along the Aloha, and in the evening we walked along the Amphora. A huge minus of the hotel territory is the watering of vegetation with sewage from morning to evening, the strongest smell of sewage all day long, hence the flies, which are just sick of it. Aloha is watered with the same and if the wind is from the shore, then on the beach you will not hide from this stink.
4. But the animation pleased. Everything seems to be the same everywhere, but somehow it was fun. Much, of course, depends on vacationers, there were a lot of people, the hotel contingent was young, cheerful and cheerful, and therefore the animation is the same. In addition to your own, you can visit the Aloha animation.
5. It takes 15 minutes to walk to the BEACH at a leisurely pace, you can also take a shuttle that runs every hour. The beach is great, big, there are always enough sunbeds for everyone. Entrance to the sea on a pontoon with a ladder, quite comfortable. There are many fish, a moray eel lives near the entrance to the sea, though not very big, but still beautiful. There is a buoy 5 meters from the shore, but there is enough space, and there is nothing further to see, all living creatures are near the reef. I didn’t see black hedgehogs at all and I didn’t see lionfish. There are better reefs in Sharm, but this one will do too.

6. The hotel staff is polite, many know Russian (the level of knowledge is different, but you can agree with everyone), everyone knows English. Problems with the equipment of the room are solved quickly. But here the cleaner not only didn’t do any frills from towels to us, he didn’t clean the room every day, despite the tip. He came in the evening asking if it was possible not to clean the room, because. There is a lot of work and he did not have time during the day. And why do we need to clean it up at 19 o'clock? So the cleaning turned out every other day, which I consider a minus, and the full workload of the hotel in this case is not an excuse.
7. Most of the vacationers (80%) were compatriots, there were also Italians, Germans, Slavs (I didn’t make out which ones). A lot of young people; also, probably 80 percent. Almost all people, despite the New Year, are adequate. In general, quite a pleasant company.
8. I am disappointed with the celebration of the New Year. The menu is normal, everything is delicious and beautiful, but for some reason, closer to 00 o’clock, everyone began to take away from the tables, and by 1 a. m. everything was over, and everyone was invited to a disco for 25 bucks. Moreover, this order was in all hotels of the Shores chain. But in other hotels the party was up to 4 o'clock and the fireworks were, and generally fun.
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