Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
8.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
10.0
Food:
10.0
Amenities:
10.0
Last year we were in Sunrise Diamond Beach, but this time the travel agent recommended the Royal Grand Sharm, so the review will mainly be based on a comparison of these hotels.
1. Territory
The territory is quite well-groomed - during the whole rest, the workers cut, cleaned, and moved something. Although there are 30 percent of sunbeds with broken backs on the beach, this did not cause much discomfort - you could always find serviceable ones. As in Sunrise, the territory cascades down from the main building to the sea, but in Royal for the especially lazy there is an elevator that will take you from the main pool to the lobby.
2. Beach
Clean, well maintained beach. I really liked the fact that between Royal and Sunrise there is a small green area on the very shore, at 16.00 yoga classes are held there, and the rest of the time you can bask on the grass and enjoy the view of the sea.
The only disadvantage of the beach is that it is not delimited into a zone for smokers and non-smokers, so you won’t relax much, because every 2 minutes someone smokes next to you. Our request to make zoning of the beaches, since there are 5 of them, the administration ignored.
3. Sea/reef
The entrance to the sea is through a floating pantone. There is only one in the hotel and it is located at the very end of the territory, which is not very convenient. The sea itself is somehow a little cooler than near Sunrise (probably due to currents), but the coral reef is incredibly beautiful - much better than in Sunrise! Lots of live colorful corals. During our vacation we saw a lot of large and small schools of fish, and even a few stingrays.
4. Kitchen
Honestly, we do not understand people who say that there is nothing to eat here. A very wide variety of food: for lunch and dinner, they cook several types of meat (chicken or lamb), barbecue, kebab, cooked quails with rice three times (very tasty!
), fish (tuna, fish in dough, fish with vegetables, grilled fish), crabs were served several times, there are always quite tasty vegetables (lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes) and fruits (melon, pomegranate, dates, grapes, figs) , you could also buy fresh mango ($ 2). Sweets were mostly for lunch. The choice is not as big as in Sunrise, but you could always find a couple of delicious desserts. The side dishes were always pasta, various stews, french fries, rice and some legumes from the local cuisine. Pretty good pizza. Moreover, everything is quite tasty - spices are not monotonous, each dish has its own taste, rarely comes across something overdried or overcooked. At breakfast, of course, not so great - pancakes, scrambled eggs, yogurt, cereal.
5. Staff
At the reception, the guys do not respond to any wishes (more precisely, they nod their heads and do nothing), the loader, even for a tip, did not want to help load the suitcases into the car.
But the rest of the staff is very friendly and efficient. The cleaners did a good job and it was they who changed our faulty refrigerator. The waiters always occupied a table for us, brought water with ice and gave flowers to my wife). Initially, we prepared $100 in small bills for tips and this had a very good effect on our stay at this hotel.
6. Rooms
The rooms are tired but clean. We did not feel any discomfort - the air conditioner worked, there were no problems with the bed, the plumbing was in good order. The only problem was in the refrigerator, which did not work (I was convinced for a long time that this was not a refrigerator, but a minibar).
7. Animation
We did not take part in the animation, because we did not like it. We only went to yoga. But it was very good that there was always good music on the territory of the hotel (Egyptian or foreign, not Russian pop music).
8. WiFi
As the guide said, there is a bad free one and a bad paid one.
It works only in the lobby and even messengers worked poorly for us. For comparison, in Sunrise, the Internet was even in the room.
1. Territory
The territory is quite well-groomed - during the whole rest, the workers cut, cleaned, and moved something. Although there are 30 percent of sunbeds with broken backs on the beach, this did not cause much discomfort - you could always find serviceable ones. As in Sunrise, the territory cascades down from the main building to the sea, but in Royal for the especially lazy there is an elevator that will take you from the main pool to the lobby.
2. Beach
Clean, well maintained beach. I really liked the fact that between Royal and Sunrise there is a small green area on the very shore, at 16.00 yoga classes are held there, and the rest of the time you can bask on the grass and enjoy the view of the sea.
The only disadvantage of the beach is that it is not delimited into a zone for smokers and non-smokers, so you won’t relax much, because every 2 minutes someone smokes next to you. Our request to make zoning of the beaches, since there are 5 of them, the administration ignored.
3. Sea/reef
The entrance to the sea is through a floating pantone. There is only one in the hotel and it is located at the very end of the territory, which is not very convenient. The sea itself is somehow a little cooler than near Sunrise (probably due to currents), but the coral reef is incredibly beautiful - much better than in Sunrise! Lots of live colorful corals. During our vacation we saw a lot of large and small schools of fish, and even a few stingrays.
4. Kitchen
Honestly, we do not understand people who say that there is nothing to eat here. A very wide variety of food: for lunch and dinner, they cook several types of meat (chicken or lamb), barbecue, kebab, cooked quails with rice three times (very tasty!
), fish (tuna, fish in dough, fish with vegetables, grilled fish), crabs were served several times, there are always quite tasty vegetables (lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes) and fruits (melon, pomegranate, dates, grapes, figs) , you could also buy fresh mango ($ 2). Sweets were mostly for lunch. The choice is not as big as in Sunrise, but you could always find a couple of delicious desserts. The side dishes were always pasta, various stews, french fries, rice and some legumes from the local cuisine. Pretty good pizza. Moreover, everything is quite tasty - spices are not monotonous, each dish has its own taste, rarely comes across something overdried or overcooked. At breakfast, of course, not so great - pancakes, scrambled eggs, yogurt, cereal.
5. Staff
At the reception, the guys do not respond to any wishes (more precisely, they nod their heads and do nothing), the loader, even for a tip, did not want to help load the suitcases into the car.
But the rest of the staff is very friendly and efficient. The cleaners did a good job and it was they who changed our faulty refrigerator. The waiters always occupied a table for us, brought water with ice and gave flowers to my wife). Initially, we prepared $100 in small bills for tips and this had a very good effect on our stay at this hotel.
6. Rooms
The rooms are tired but clean. We did not feel any discomfort - the air conditioner worked, there were no problems with the bed, the plumbing was in good order. The only problem was in the refrigerator, which did not work (I was convinced for a long time that this was not a refrigerator, but a minibar).
7. Animation
We did not take part in the animation, because we did not like it. We only went to yoga. But it was very good that there was always good music on the territory of the hotel (Egyptian or foreign, not Russian pop music).
8. WiFi
As the guide said, there is a bad free one and a bad paid one.
It works only in the lobby and even messengers worked poorly for us. For comparison, in Sunrise, the Internet was even in the room.
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