Price-quality - what you need.

Written: 19 october 2016
Travel time: 1 — 9 october 2016
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:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
1. We arrived late at night, at the airport I met the guide from the Anex tour and a tired bus, but with a perfectly working air conditioner.
2. Upon arrival, everyone was gathered at the reception, told to wait when they called to the counter for settlement. The most impatient or knowledgeable approached and talked themselves. There, everyone was offered to improve the room for $ 8.15 or 20 per day. Divorce number 1.
3. The room is spacious with expensive finishes and furniture, BUT, tired. The entire hotel needs a facelift. There are streaks on the plaster from air conditioners, broken-down bathroom accessories (toilet paper holders, towel holders... ) and a lot of traces of time throughout the entire hotel.

4. In the morning, AnexTour gathered all the newcomers at 9:00 and began to offer excursions at 30-45% more expensive than you can take on the beach or going out into the city. Divorce number 2. Example: Anex - diving with 2 dives $60, beach $40. And no difference in dive sites. Israel 1 day Anex - $105, around the city $65-70. + the reef is much more beautiful near the hotel than where we were taken.
5. "Free Shoptour" from Anex. Don't even think about going and wasting your time. Everything is inadequately expensive, because everyone shares with everyone. Divorce number 3.
6. I liked the food in the restaurant, there was plenty to choose from. A lot of specific local food, but there was enough similar cuisine to our head. Delicious, satisfying. +4kg in 8 days.
7. The beach pleased with fine sand, pantone from which you can swim and watch the life of the coral reef. I was not pleased with the old half-whole sun loungers, but this is only if it is late to go out when the first line is busy.
8. Bar on the beach. Great place to enjoy JUICES. Mango and guava juice is what I drank all day in large quantities and different cocktail variations. Thanks to the bartenders on the beach always pleased with delicious combinations. We didn't even try local alcohol.
9. First aid kit. The standard option for poisoning, sunburn and who can get sick. Panthenol is a must have!! ! There are mosquitoes, but few. They brought the fumigator with them and turned it on. They forgot solid soap, it was a problem to find it in the area, only in the market.
10. Sea. The first time we saw the reef and all its living creatures, delight! Be sure to bring or buy fins and a GoPro mask. Without them, there is no point in going at all? I spent so much time in the water that my back and legs got tanned at the back and burned more than the front.
11. The nature on the territory of the hotel is beautiful, it is monitored and watered, trimmed. Really beautiful.
12. Shops. On the territory there are 3. Pharmacy, souvenir and supermarket in the reception hall. In everything, a little bit of everything, the most necessary for the laziest. I advise the rest of the Old Bazaar.

13. Currency exchange. Here is the most interesting! The official exchange rate at the time of our vacation was 8.4 pounds for $1. This is a very bad course. The hotel changed $ 1-10 pounds, 1 € -11 pounds. At the Old Bazaar $ 1-12.5 pounds, 1 € -13-13.5 pounds. I heard about changers who gave 15 pounds for $ 1, but did not find them.
14. Old Bazaar. By taxi from the hotel $10.300 meters from the hotel $2-3 or 25-30 pounds. Or 20-30 minutes walk. Bargain at the market. Everywhere. With everyone. For every little thing. Pay in pounds, if you changed at a good rate, it's more profitable. You can trade a minimum of 50% of any named amount.
15. Staff. Almost everyone speaks and understands us. Full orientation to the Slavs. Everyone is polite and attentive, of course there are unpleasant ones, but these are few.

16. WiFi. The hotel reception works free, BUT does not go to social networks and Viber. They offer to use the service (Divorce No. 4) $ 5 per day, which is simply fabulously expensive. Everyone! I advise absolutely everyone to buy a local Vodafone starter package for $ 7-8 and have 3.5 GB of traffic and not worry about catching WiFi.
Generally. We went to Egypt for the first time, mostly positive impressions, there is practically no negative. I recommend the hotel. The price-quality ratio is optimal. Whether I will go there again, I don’t know, not in the next couple of years.
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