Отель в который хочется вернуться! A hotel to return to!

HOTEL - ORIENTAL TALE! BECOME A SECOND HOUSE!
At first, I really liked that, upon arrival, all new tourists were invited first for dinner, and then to check in. The food is very varied, there are also many vegetarian dishes. Everything is very delicious. Then I liked the design of the rooms - oriental style, with all these lamps, lamps, and high ceilings creates an atmosphere. On the plus side, very friendly staff. They brought me a hair dryer as soon as I asked for it. The room has a safe and refrigerator.
The next plus is that on the beach of the hotel (Sharks Bay) there are beautiful reefs of all colors: blue, purple, yellow with sea shells and colorful schools of fish! Incredible beauty! Be sure to take a mask with a snorkel and, of course, aquashoes, because you can’t cling to corals with your feet (you can get hurt and burn yourself). Even if you do not snorkel, then take swimming shoes, entering the water on the beach is also rocky. There is also a good full body massage on the beach (does by Mahmoud at Sunshine Beach).

You don’t need to look for him, he will find you himself : ) I liked the quality and price. I am thin, they gave me an hour of massage for $ 10, the whole body, including the stomach, neck, head, feet. It is good to apply sunscreen especially if you have white skin : ) and especially if you fly in April or May, at this time there is often an allergy to the sun (photodermatitis). In addition to the pluses, the cleaning in the hotel is excellent, they put things in order, they make swans : ) they also leave water in the room after. Shops on site with cheap prices, much cheaper than the Old Market.
I advise you to visit: there are a lot of things and clothes, and food (spoilt, Turkish delight, strawberries, mangoes, dates) and cosmetics, oils and hibiscus, everyone can find something to their taste. Another plus is that the hotel is located a minute's walk from the stop, where blue local minibuses run EVERY MINUTE, on which for half a dollar (10 Egyptian feet) you can get even to the old market, where there is a beautiful Sahaba mosque, at least wherever you want. The main thing is to take with you a piece of paper with the name of the place where you want to go in English and, just in case, Arabic, and also the return address with the name of the hotel. If you know English then there will be no problems, many Arabs also speak Russian.
A trip on local transport is like a mini-excursion with feeling the whole flavor of another country and for such little money, consider it free. I really liked the mosque both from the outside and from the inside, they showed all the halls on all floors, beautiful patterns, an altar, carpets, chandeliers. The Old Market is also a good place where you can bargain and buy something at a good price: for example, pants for $5, a dress for $10. By the way, it is better to buy masks and tubes and shoes for corals in Egypt because the choice is much larger and the price is 4 times cheaper.
The shops on the beach also have good prices, aquashoes for $3, masks with snorkels from 250 to 400 pounds. exchange rate of the Egyptian pound: 17.3 pounds is equal to 1 dollar (at the time of April 2019). You can make purchases in dollars, but for all sorts of little things like travel, it is better to exchange water for local currency, so save. Now about the cons: they include the fact that the hotel's beach is not within walking distance, but you have to go by bus, it annoys someone, someone doesn't, see for yourself. But the plus is that this beach has a beautiful coral reef.

Also, the view of the lagoon is spoiled by ships that are loaded and set off there in the morning. But you can move a little further to the diving pier and not pay attention to it, again this is a matter of your attitude. Five minutes from the beach there is an observation tower-elevator climbing the stairs offers a beautiful view of the entire bay! Also, if you are one of those who find fault in the room with cobwebs in the corner and rust on the pipes under the sink, then this hotel may not be for you and you better take a five so as not to bother yourself.
Those who are more focused on the pros will like the hotel. I had a beautiful view from the balcony of the pool, and even the fact that it was constantly noisy there, the music and animation did not bother me. I saw that people are having a good time by the pool, playing darts, children are dancing, having fun, everyone is swimming and having fun.
About excursions: if you don’t want to bother, take it from the hotel, if it’s not hard for you, then you can contact many local travel agencies via viber and take exactly 4 times cheaper from them. For example, a jeep safari from a hotel is $ 40 per person, from a local travel agency - $ 10.
In general, I give the hotel a well-deserved four. I liked the hotel, especially the staff, reefs and food, I would love to come back again!