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SHORES GOLDEN 4 *
Yes, this is not Europe, not Turkey, not Thailand and not Tunisia. THIS IS EGYPT! Thanks to everyone who writes reviews. I decided to write a review about everything that I saw (photos attached). If you are recently from Turkey 5 * Ultra, then you are not here. Please be correct, you are going to 4 * on the second line for $ 500-700 for 1 person. and you are practically on another continent, in Africa. Learn a couple of phrases “Salamal Eikum! ” and “shUkran jazilAn” (thank you very much), download the phrasebook. I was very ashamed of the behavior of some compatriots from the CIS. Rested from 25.04. 2013 to 02.05. 2013. Do not take a $ 15 visa at the airport upon arrival, if you do not go to Cairo, Luxor, Alexandria, Ras Mohammed. If you are going to Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Mount Moses, St. Catherine's Monastery, Fr. Tiran, Abu Galum, Jeep Safari, Moto Safari no visa required.
I will say in advance that it is absolutely safe to go on excursions, there are police every 200-500 m, and even if the street agency does not have a license and permission for an excursion, then a car or bus simply will not be released from Sharm. At the airport, say, Please Sinay only, they will put a stamp on you and go. Upon arrival at the hotel at 21:00, they brought a cocktail and a damp towel soaked in something pleasantly smelling. Because of the long flight, I forgot to invest $10 in my passport. They gave room 259 without a balcony overlooking the construction site and the safe did not work. I immediately called the reception (from the phone in the room "O") they said that they would change it tomorrow at 12. They changed it the next day at 14:20 for $ 15, they asked for $ 30. A lady from Moscow paid $35 for the same number. Room 521 overlooking the relax pool and restaurant, with a large balcony. Use the safe - it's free. There is an available instruction on the safe in Russian. I heard that money and jewelry were stolen from someone, hidden even in dirty linen. Lots of mosquitoes and flies.

Stock up on fumigators and sprays, ointments, medicines (some had diarrhea, heart problems - very hot). Although at 18:00 a man with a “gun” goes around all the houses and sprays some kind of smoke from insects. The owner of the hotel chain Shores Amphoras 5 *, Shores Aloha 4 *, Shores golden 4 * is Italian, therefore it affects the menu. Food - normal, there were always vegetables, fruits, 3 types of pasta, rice, potatoes (mashed potatoes, french fries). Meat is given in portions (grill, chicken, veal), but you can just come up again and take what you like. For breakfast - muesli, yogurt, cheeses, sausage with vegetables, fresh fruits, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs and scrambled eggs, which are fried in front of you with whatever you want (cheese, mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, etc. ), pancakes and a lot all pastries and sweets. For lunch and dinner in the restaurant - dry white and red wine, bottled beer was poured in half a glass. Make friends with the waiters - give them souvenirs (a lighter, seeds, they love our Russian chocolate, etc. )
) and as soon as you sit down, a full glass of wine with ice (I like it so much) will be on your table. They love to talk and joke. At the large pool, alcoholic drinks (rum, whiskey, vodka, gin - all locally produced) are poured only into paper or 100-gram plastic cups (half is foam). And there is no tonic. You can dilute with soda from vending machines: Cola, Sprite, Fanta, gas. water. If you are going to drink, then stock up on alcohol from home or in Duty Free at the airport. The Old Market also has Duty Free, but my friends bought alcohol there and said that it was impossible to drink it. Although some tourists managed to drink from morning to night right in the pool, because there are such chairs, you sit in the water and drink. There is also animation, darts, tennis, water volleyball, polo. Who came for what? The relaxation pool has vending machines with iced tea and hibiscus. From 16:30, pancakes with jam and chocolate are fried at the relaxation pool.
Machines and coolers (cold and hot water) are turned off at the relaxation pool at 22:00 and turn on at 10:00. The large pool is turned off - at 23:00. So - if you want to drink at night, stock up on water in advance. There are warnings in the rooms that the tap water is not potable. There are supermarkets nearby - we bought a 6-liter bottle and used it for brushing our teeth, etc. On Tuesdays they have an Egyptian day and all the staff dress in national clothes, at 21:30 an evening show of belly dance and dance of Tanura (Dervishes) - a young man with skirts, a fire show, a fakir show (the artists tried hard, we really liked it). In Naama Bay: there is a free bus from the hotel at 19.00 and 22.00 there, and 20.45 and 00.00 back, except Saturday and Sunday, sign up at the reception in the morning. From 11:30 to 12:00 in a restaurant with a manager in a red shirt, you can sign up for free in a seafood restaurant (Shores Aloha), fish (Shores Amphoras), Italian (Shores Amphoras) and Mediterranean cuisine (Shores golden), ALL drinks there are paid.
In fish - a delicious salad of seafood. On the beach from 11:00 - french fries, pasta, rice, pizza, vegetables and the same soft drinks. The beach is big, there is enough space for everyone. It gets dark from 18:00. At 17:00, the shadow closes the beach. Animation on the beach - exercises, aqua aerobics in the Allohi pool. Parents are given a rest, the children will be taken away for a couple of hours, they will dance, play, ride the slides, paint them into supermen, spiders, etc. Sunbeds and mattresses are normal. Beach-boys always help to put a comfortable sunbed, put a mattress and fill a towel. Entrance to the sea on a wooden pontoon. If you swim to the right to the Amphoros pontoon - there are more cool fish (perches, moray eels, needle fish, tuna, swallows, pink, blue, green jellyfish and other fish, whose names I don’t know, but all the colors of the rainbow from bright yellow- orange-blue-green), colored corals. From 29.04. 13 there were waves and currents.

This did not stop us from swimming, it was even interesting to snorkel over the coral closer to the shore at high tide, where fish and coral are very close. But if you are a bad swimmer, count your strength. We had to rescue two ladies who couldn't handle the current.
The hotel is located in a quiet and good place, in the area of ​ ​ Hadaba. Two exits: The first one is from the reception - we go to the right for 2 minutes - a small market; we go LEFT on our side of a large building - a former BMW salon (shops, tour companies, a supermarket 24/7 with fixed prices), across the road from it on our side of Sharm Reef, and opposite - Sabena Marmara. Further on the other side is the shopping center Il Mercato (10-15 minutes). We pass by the crocodile show (the performance starts at 16:00 and goes for 1.5 hours, $25), and without crossing the road to Leila, we turn right after it, there will be an Internet cafe and then the Metro store. If you do not turn off and go along the road DIRECTLY from the HOTEL (20 minutes) it will be "1001 nights".
The second exit is to the beach past Shores Amphoras and to the territory of Shores Aloha. There is also a supermarket and a bank. Walk 10 minutes. There is a bus: to the beach from 9:30 to 15:30 and from the beach from 10:00 to 18:00 every hour. Everywhere there are constantly honking taxi drivers who will ask you to drive with them even for free. From the hotel we went to the Old Market. Firmly say $ 2, if you nodded your head, then you agreed.
Upon arrival, they changed (there is a bank in the hotel) a few dollars for Egyptian pounds. Rate on 27.04. 2013 - 1$=6.85 lbs. Sometimes it's better to pay in pounds. See when you are recalculated in $ (some have a rate of 7-9 pounds). In stores, smile, praise the product, take your time. They love to talk and get the experience of communicating in Russian or English. You will be offered tea, hibiscus, coffee, mineral water, Pepsi everywhere for free. You need to bargain, the price can drop by 30-70%. Communicate with other tourists and they can tell you interesting information.

SHOPPING: corrals 3-5$, t-shirts 2-25$, plastic masks 5$, masks with silicone snorkel 20-25$, case for underwater photography on the camera 20-25$, arafatki 1-5$, oils, perfumes 4.20$, teas, hibiscus - from 1$ per 100g, "Hand of Mary" (this is such a dry flower-branch that you bring home, fill it with water and it comes to life and blooms beautifully) 2 pcs for 1$, 3 magnets for 2$ , leather wallets, belts, bags. In 1001 Nights, shop No. 925 bought: a silver chain, a cartouche (a two-sided pendant on which your name, amulets, etc. will be typed at the factory), a bracelet and a ring - all for $ 140. In the Old Market there is a two-story store with a sign "LEATHER" (we look at the Pharaohs, we go in, to the left - the market, we go RIGHT a lot of shops in a semicircle and this store is approximately in the center). Genuine leather bags (I bought 5 pieces + ballerinas and a snakeskin clutch) all for $225. Belts -15$. Exactly the same bags in Il Mercato cost $ 90-100 for one.
In general, if you take a lot of goods in one store, then you will be happy, they will give you souvenirs, drink free drinks, make big discounts and take you to the hotel for free.
EXCURSIONS: Contacted Irina Sharm in advance and booked excursions.Sheansweredquestions,eventhosenotrelatedtoexcursions http://allsharm.com/. This site has all the information on excursions: the cost, what to bring with you, how to be dressed, what you will see and reviews. Arrived - wrote SMS to Irina. Replies immediately. Abu Galum in jeeps THIS IS EXTREME BUT WE ALL LOVED IT. Picked up from hotel at 7:00 am. Jeep - Land Cruiser for 8 people. The rear seats have been removed, instead benches have been installed along the windows 30 cm from the floor, that is, if you are taller than 170 cm, then your knees will be in the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ the ears. There is nowhere to put bags either, and you have masks, slippers, flippers, towels, breakfast, water (take more water, it will cost $3 for 0.5l in ABU, $3 for 1.5l in Dahab).
BUT EVEN if you go from TezTUR 70$ (from Irina 40$), then the jeeps will be the same. Then they gathered people in hotels. They put me in a jeep with foreigners, I called Irina and said that I wanted to go with the Russians. At the parking lot before leaving Sharm, I was transferred to a jeep with Russians. Everything is very OPERATING. THANKS AGAIN. Next, the police with a passport check. Departure to the desert, Dahab, the police and again the desert with dunes and you will jump up to the ceiling. Take comfortable shoes with you, a very beautiful canyon, but this is not in Europe where you walked 300m and boarded an air-conditioned bus. You were unloaded in the desert, i. e. sand in moccasins, then a canyon down 20-30m along slippery stones and about 1 hour in a hot desert, where you need to descend 3m along sheer cliffs, sometimes only in a “soft spot” and climb too, climb through a 30cm hole between the rocks and all this in 40º heat. NICE! At the end of the canyon are the Bedouins who offer Lipton tea?? ?

We returned to Sharm around 17:00. For several days everything hurt: arms, legs, muscles. So we didn't go anywhere else. Time has already passed, but you still can’t forget 10 hours in the desert! Great! GO! ! ! GOOD LUCK AND GOOD REST ALL! ! !