Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
9.0
Service:
9.0
Cleanliness:
10.0
Food:
10.0
Amenities:
6.0
I chose a hotel based on a small budget, but not less than 8 rating. Just for this hotel there was a promotion from Join Up for several days and at the same time the new year fell, which was also an important condition.
Spoiler immediately: There were no surcharges for the New Year's Eve dinner, and at this price they offered lower-rated hotels + Gala dinner surcharge, which immediately made the total cost much higher.
I read the last review from a person who was with us at about the same time, I’m sure I could even recognize him by his face, because there weren’t too many people. Mostly at that time there were Slavic tourists (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus a little). I do not agree with the review, or rather I look at some of the described things from a completely different angle. About everything in order:
- Quote: "Check-in at the hotel: at the reception they extorted $20 for checking into a room overlooking the courtyard, they took $10. "
- indeed, upon arrival, they agreed to check us in earlier than expected (literate people know that this is 14-00 +/-) with the above-mentioned surcharge, but if you really ask, the surcharge could be reduced. We were settled for "thank you" and a chocolate bar was brought from the heart. But WE WERE CHECKED IN AND FEED HALF A DAY EARLY, which is really very cool, considering that we had a night flight and we were at the hotel around 7 in the morning. And we were able to relax and eat, and for this I am very grateful, so I consider this a plus (and by the way, for the price of the room, I can say that they could charge much higher for early check-in through the cash desk). Of the staff, only the porter was annoying by the fact that he brazenly demanded a tip.
- we also had a room in the courtyard, there is no sea view, maybe 3rd line (if I'm not mistaken), but the view of the pool is not always good, it's noisy in the evening, thanks to the tourists. And we have children and we wanted to sleep. The room was spacious enough, not ideal, but clean with comfortable beds (not the newest, but I knew that the hotel was not renovated) and still it was good enough, I can compare with 5 * were no better rooms. Everything worked out for me!
- upon arrival there were really few people, but they arrived every day and by the new year the number of tourists had probably increased 15 times. although it was still not crowded, which I liked, in the restaurant all the tables for the new year were occupied, but there was enough space for everyone.
- I quote: "Then the food is disgusting, they ate pasta, scrambled eggs, bread and fresh vegetables, the rest was tasteless and smelled bad. "
- at our first breakfast, it also seemed to me that there was a little food, but we came to the end of breakfast and there were not very many tourists that day, but already from lunch, I was absolutely satisfied with the choice of food, we visit Egypt often, I can say that the diet was adapted to European cuisine. There were a lot of fresh vegetables, for which we do not have a season at all, so this could not but rejoice us. Plus there was fish every day!! ! and not some kind, but mackerel or some other, I don’t remember its name, such a very soft white. Pasta (Pasta) for Egypt is a must, and this hotel is no exception, but it’s still quite well cooked, there was also chicken, duck (or turkey) and beef (cutlets) cooked in their own way, but quite tasty, even the children ate . For New Year's dinner they gave SHRIMP! And once again I ask you to note "no surcharges for dinner"!
and so on: potatoes, salads and sweets, mostly biscuits, from fruits: seasonal (tangerines, oranges, a little greenish melon, and guava, if I'm not mistaken in the name), strawberries were bought at a local store for $ 1
The waiters are a special section, very attentive and courteous, while not intrusive and did not require any tips. The very best of the staff.
- Next quote: "The entertainers are busy with themselves. The cold water pools 1 turned on the heating in the last 3 days. 1 slide worked 3 times for 15 minutes. "
- Animators - tried, and were not very intrusive, except for one girl who constantly pulled to the club. There was a kids disco, standard daytime entertainment which we skipped as we went to the beach, and every day after the mini disco there was a show and a disco at the adult bar! EVERY DAY and quite normal, I have seen discos in other hotels, believe me, very good!
The pools are cold (damn winter after all), but when the tourists arrived, they began to heat one up, we would swim there more often, but always drunk men often swam there, so they mostly enjoyed the sea. There are 4 pools on the territory (1 of them with 2 slides and one for children) out of 4 worked 2 (apparently not enough tourists). Cleaned every day. The slides really worked very little, to be honest: I never even got on a working slide. I consider the postscript "Aqua Park" undeserved. Probably one significant minus of the hotel.
- Quote: "The rooms are all dirty and dead, the cleaning was: they made the bed and put 2 bottles of water at 0.5. "
- Our room was described above, if I find a photo, I will definitely add it to the review, but at the expense of cleaning, I strongly disagree with the author: cleaning WAS DAILY!! ! everything was clean after cleaning, towels were folded, swans were wrapped (whether it was $1 or not) and 2 bottles of water were always delivered. This is just a plus!
And in principle, the entire territory of the hotel was well-groomed, some plants were sheared and undermined in our presence, but they did it quite imperceptibly, and everything was clean, tidy, the territory was small and closed, there was either no wind, or it was closed with buildings, just I'll try to find a photo.
It was difficult with transportation to the beach in the first days, apparently they didn’t expect tourists to arrive and there was only one bus, then they entered the recording, but not everyone was used to recording and there was not enough bus, I had to quarrel with a group of people, I could have put it as a fat minus, but The situation was quickly corrected and the mood improved. The beach itself is very good in Sharks Bay, there is a gentle entrance, corals and a pontoon up to 10 meters.
I heard that people really complained about mosquitoes, but we didn’t have them on the 1st floor, and in my opinion, someone flew by our friends on the 2nd floor. There was no disinfection. But it didn't bother me at all.
And the last thing, for the sake of which we went: New Year's dinner was much brighter than a regular dinner, we were greeted at the entrance with cocktails and a tunnel from the staff, and personally by the Owner of the hotel (the latter, by the way, was always among the guests and not only during dinner and was often interested, is everything good) at dinner were: SUSHI (though it would be a little to teach them how to do it))) but they were and I'm glad about it, Shrimps, meat fried in wine, several types of salted and smoked fish, in general, a lot to everyone, but grateful guests entered hurricane to the restaurant and demolished everything that was seen in the first 20 minutes, leaving more familiar food. During dinner, a violinist played (by the way, 2 times a week a violinist and a guitarist accompanied dinner) and there was a children's disco by the end of dinner, after which there was an adult disco with a solemn countdown of 12 hours and still lasted about 2 hours. I recently danced for the first time at New Year's Eve dinner. all the time we hung out with small children, so personally my family was delighted with such a holiday! I can say that it was one of the best New Year holidays in recent years. . . a lot ))
as a conclusion: it all depends on you and your attitude to rest, as well as the correspondence between the expected and the actual, in my case the second surpassed the first.
P. S. There is no Wi-Fi here AT ALL!! ! Only when buying a SIM card in a store (at the hotel), so take care of the SIM card in advance.
Spoiler immediately: There were no surcharges for the New Year's Eve dinner, and at this price they offered lower-rated hotels + Gala dinner surcharge, which immediately made the total cost much higher.
I read the last review from a person who was with us at about the same time, I’m sure I could even recognize him by his face, because there weren’t too many people. Mostly at that time there were Slavic tourists (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus a little). I do not agree with the review, or rather I look at some of the described things from a completely different angle. About everything in order:
- Quote: "Check-in at the hotel: at the reception they extorted $20 for checking into a room overlooking the courtyard, they took $10. "
- indeed, upon arrival, they agreed to check us in earlier than expected (literate people know that this is 14-00 +/-) with the above-mentioned surcharge, but if you really ask, the surcharge could be reduced. We were settled for "thank you" and a chocolate bar was brought from the heart. But WE WERE CHECKED IN AND FEED HALF A DAY EARLY, which is really very cool, considering that we had a night flight and we were at the hotel around 7 in the morning. And we were able to relax and eat, and for this I am very grateful, so I consider this a plus (and by the way, for the price of the room, I can say that they could charge much higher for early check-in through the cash desk). Of the staff, only the porter was annoying by the fact that he brazenly demanded a tip.
- we also had a room in the courtyard, there is no sea view, maybe 3rd line (if I'm not mistaken), but the view of the pool is not always good, it's noisy in the evening, thanks to the tourists. And we have children and we wanted to sleep. The room was spacious enough, not ideal, but clean with comfortable beds (not the newest, but I knew that the hotel was not renovated) and still it was good enough, I can compare with 5 * were no better rooms. Everything worked out for me!
- upon arrival there were really few people, but they arrived every day and by the new year the number of tourists had probably increased 15 times. although it was still not crowded, which I liked, in the restaurant all the tables for the new year were occupied, but there was enough space for everyone.
- I quote: "Then the food is disgusting, they ate pasta, scrambled eggs, bread and fresh vegetables, the rest was tasteless and smelled bad. "
- at our first breakfast, it also seemed to me that there was a little food, but we came to the end of breakfast and there were not very many tourists that day, but already from lunch, I was absolutely satisfied with the choice of food, we visit Egypt often, I can say that the diet was adapted to European cuisine. There were a lot of fresh vegetables, for which we do not have a season at all, so this could not but rejoice us. Plus there was fish every day!! ! and not some kind, but mackerel or some other, I don’t remember its name, such a very soft white. Pasta (Pasta) for Egypt is a must, and this hotel is no exception, but it’s still quite well cooked, there was also chicken, duck (or turkey) and beef (cutlets) cooked in their own way, but quite tasty, even the children ate . For New Year's dinner they gave SHRIMP! And once again I ask you to note "no surcharges for dinner"!
and so on: potatoes, salads and sweets, mostly biscuits, from fruits: seasonal (tangerines, oranges, a little greenish melon, and guava, if I'm not mistaken in the name), strawberries were bought at a local store for $ 1
The waiters are a special section, very attentive and courteous, while not intrusive and did not require any tips. The very best of the staff.
- Next quote: "The entertainers are busy with themselves. The cold water pools 1 turned on the heating in the last 3 days. 1 slide worked 3 times for 15 minutes. "
- Animators - tried, and were not very intrusive, except for one girl who constantly pulled to the club. There was a kids disco, standard daytime entertainment which we skipped as we went to the beach, and every day after the mini disco there was a show and a disco at the adult bar! EVERY DAY and quite normal, I have seen discos in other hotels, believe me, very good!
The pools are cold (damn winter after all), but when the tourists arrived, they began to heat one up, we would swim there more often, but always drunk men often swam there, so they mostly enjoyed the sea. There are 4 pools on the territory (1 of them with 2 slides and one for children) out of 4 worked 2 (apparently not enough tourists). Cleaned every day. The slides really worked very little, to be honest: I never even got on a working slide. I consider the postscript "Aqua Park" undeserved. Probably one significant minus of the hotel.
- Quote: "The rooms are all dirty and dead, the cleaning was: they made the bed and put 2 bottles of water at 0.5. "
- Our room was described above, if I find a photo, I will definitely add it to the review, but at the expense of cleaning, I strongly disagree with the author: cleaning WAS DAILY!! ! everything was clean after cleaning, towels were folded, swans were wrapped (whether it was $1 or not) and 2 bottles of water were always delivered. This is just a plus!
And in principle, the entire territory of the hotel was well-groomed, some plants were sheared and undermined in our presence, but they did it quite imperceptibly, and everything was clean, tidy, the territory was small and closed, there was either no wind, or it was closed with buildings, just I'll try to find a photo.
It was difficult with transportation to the beach in the first days, apparently they didn’t expect tourists to arrive and there was only one bus, then they entered the recording, but not everyone was used to recording and there was not enough bus, I had to quarrel with a group of people, I could have put it as a fat minus, but The situation was quickly corrected and the mood improved. The beach itself is very good in Sharks Bay, there is a gentle entrance, corals and a pontoon up to 10 meters.
I heard that people really complained about mosquitoes, but we didn’t have them on the 1st floor, and in my opinion, someone flew by our friends on the 2nd floor. There was no disinfection. But it didn't bother me at all.
And the last thing, for the sake of which we went: New Year's dinner was much brighter than a regular dinner, we were greeted at the entrance with cocktails and a tunnel from the staff, and personally by the Owner of the hotel (the latter, by the way, was always among the guests and not only during dinner and was often interested, is everything good) at dinner were: SUSHI (though it would be a little to teach them how to do it))) but they were and I'm glad about it, Shrimps, meat fried in wine, several types of salted and smoked fish, in general, a lot to everyone, but grateful guests entered hurricane to the restaurant and demolished everything that was seen in the first 20 minutes, leaving more familiar food. During dinner, a violinist played (by the way, 2 times a week a violinist and a guitarist accompanied dinner) and there was a children's disco by the end of dinner, after which there was an adult disco with a solemn countdown of 12 hours and still lasted about 2 hours. I recently danced for the first time at New Year's Eve dinner. all the time we hung out with small children, so personally my family was delighted with such a holiday! I can say that it was one of the best New Year holidays in recent years. . . a lot ))
as a conclusion: it all depends on you and your attitude to rest, as well as the correspondence between the expected and the actual, in my case the second surpassed the first.
P. S. There is no Wi-Fi here AT ALL!! ! Only when buying a SIM card in a store (at the hotel), so take care of the SIM card in advance.
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