MIXED FEELINGS

Written: 11 february 2019
Travel time: 31 january — 8 february 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 10.0
We gathered in Egypt in early January, began to read reviews and pick up something. The travel agent advised Pyramis, citing the fact that people had recently been there and they liked it. - Well, okay, if we liked it, then it’s not bad and we need to book (we decided). After booking, they started reading reviews and it would be better if we didn’t do this, we set ourselves up as if we were flying into some kind of hell.
Arrived at 7 am, from the airport to the hotel 10 minutes. Upon check-in, they gave $ 20 to check in early and in a better room (because we were driving from the Dnieper to Zhuliany, and there the road is terrible and not only were we late for the flight (although we left early) upon arrival at the airport we find out that the flight was recently transferred to Borispol , please check all the changes on the websites. ) we just wanted to take a break from this race and to our surprise we were settled immediately.
Number

Since we had a company of 7 people, we had 3 rooms (No. 109, No. 220 triple, No. 208) suddenly come in handy for someone) and we compared them with each other. In general, the rooms are for four, there would be 5 if the bathroom was better (toilet, bidet is normal, but the bath itself is dirty and the shower faucet was broken, my husband had to fix it with improvised means) check these nuances when you check in, do not be shy!
Our room was on the first floor and the balcony went directly to the garden (very beautiful and well-groomed) in the evening you can relax. The parents had a room near the reception and they just had a balcony and there were no breakdowns in the bathroom. Number three is fine too.
Service
ooh, this is probably the most interesting. There is a friendly staff (we had a bartender on the beach and a suitcase porter) all the rest are arrogant, the cleaner in our room just crawled on the floor with a mop, took out the garbage and just made the bed and then not completely (once he made us swans for $ 1) at that time, the parents in the room were cleaned and folded crocodiles, peacocks, etc. from the towels. only because they left something for him every day. But these are still flowers, when we went to an Italian restaurant and at the end of dinner we got up and didn’t leave anything for tea (read the reason in the chapter below), the waiter caught up with us near the door (-tea, tea? - I don’t want tea (dad answered him ))))) - No tea for me! ! -we did not take with us (mother answered him) -how is it? nothing at all? ) we laughed at first, and then we were shocked.
Food and alcohol
The food is monotonous, rice all the time, only slices of potatoes baked in spices, pasta . . beef is sometimes tasty, sometimes rubbery, grilled mackerel, pangasius fried or baked, and chicken.
there are salads to make.
For breakfast, everything is the same, I constantly ate cereal with milk and good waffles (but pancake dough), I got fed up in 7 days.
The bar near the amphitheater makes hamburgers.

The most interesting was going to an Italian restaurant (when checking in, they give 1 voucher per person to the restaurant and you fill it out together with the hotel employee Alexandra, you can choose only Italian and Indian rest. ) In general, you can order 4 dishes per person (you can choose from an appetizer or soup , pizza or pasta, main course and dessert) some dishes were not available. . we ordered seafood risotto, seafood soup, lasagna, warm apple pie and sundae. .
1) soup with seafood - some kind of sour gravy with onion frying and pieces of pangasius.
2) lasagna with soup sauce - just pasta . .
3) risotto doesn't even smell like seafood
4) a warm cake from the main restaurant, which is put up for dinner
5) ice cream with fruit - they brought only fruit, to the question where is the ice cream, the waiter (as they said above) answered (-and I forgot to say, the ice cream is over)
when all 7 people were sitting in shock, he decided to smooth everything out with one tiramisu (yes, it was delicious)
6) the main dish was (chicken with parmesan under bechamel sauce with fries and salad) - it was also delicious but no parmesan was found.
Alcohol is local, we concluded that it is made on the same terrible alcohol, that tequila, that whiskey, that vodka. they don’t know how to make cocktails at all, on the beach the bartender made me a surprise at the end of the holiday and brought some delicious and beautiful cocktail (I’ll add a photo), beer is even nothing.
We went on excursions from join up, also not bad.
Souvenirs were bought in a store from George Clooney (there are two of them, they bought in the first one if you left the pyramid and go to the grand rotana. ) He makes a lot of gifts and bargains well, his name is Maxim Perepelitsa)))))))
To sum up, in general the hotel is good, but there are minuses. Especially when you consider that it was closed for 2 years and was just launched (and this is a huge colossus, which is not so easy to launch). The owner learns from vacationers minus and tries to fix it. There are a lot of Arabs even in winter and they make a mess out of date (in public toilets, horror after them).
A very big plus is the reef, they wrote that in this hotel it is dead, then I imagine what kind of unkilled reef. There are a lot of fish and corals, we even bought a map to find out what they are called.
By the way, on excursions we talked with people from other hotels, there are fives and even worse . .
Translated automatically from Russian. View original