Очень неплохо Not bad

I'll tell you in order. Arrived in Sharm from Boryspil around noon. In the arrivals hall, we approached the Turtes counter, where the guy signed us up and, pointing to the queue for visas, said that there were visas for $ 15 and he had $ 20 without an additional queue. We got in line anyway. She passed in 3 minutes. Longer stood at the border control. There are many people. checkpoints 2. At the exit from the Airport, the boy from Turtess pointed to the bus stop and called the number and we quickly found it. At the bus I met the hotel guide Mukhamed - a short, handsome Egyptian with glasses. The road to the hotel takes about 15-20 minutes at low speed, since the hotel is 2-3 km from the airport in a straight line. And the roads in Egypt are straight, good, but with long detours. They brought us a whole bus. Near the reception they gave me to fill out a questionnaire, then waited some more time until they gave me a number. The reception desk is long, at that time 4 people were working. the rest of the time I didn't see more than two. But I didn't need more. The room was given in building 4. The building is two-story with a corridor system. The corridor is directed to the sea, the rooms are on both sides. Each room has a balcony at an angle so you can see the sea well, and you can see the island of Tiran, which is very huge and visible from all over the coast of Sharm.
A little about the bad to close this topic.
1) There was no soap dispenser in the room, only fasteners. After three reminders by the bellboys, the soap appeared.

2) There were no batteries in the safe (in the room), so it did not work. I called the reception, the question was accepted, but by the evening nothing happened. In the evening I came to them personally, they told me to sit in the room - the master would come. Without my presence, he's kind of unable to fix the safe. Waited. The master came with the key - what do you open? I say - there are no batteries in the safe - it does not work. He ran away, ten minutes later he returned breathing heavily, he said he fled. Inserted batteries - everything worked.
3) We are two adults, two children. The room has one large bed. They told the bellhops that they brought two more mobile beds.
4) We had to sleep with the windows closed, because mosquitoes ate us through the fumigator. But the air conditioning works, so it's not hot to sleep. They say that in the local pharmacy fumigator tablets are stronger. We didn't check. If it's windy outside, you can try to sleep with the window open, but we didn't risk it. It is likely that in summer and autumn there will be no more mosquitoes.
The "horrors" ended there.
We got to the room around 3pm. Lunch is already over, but the Fusion grill restaurant is open until 16-30. There we ate. In general, food was in three restaurants
1. Al Sakkya. located on the ground floor of the reception. The largest. It includes breakfast lunch and dinner.
2. Leaving the reception on the street, you can immediately get to the small restaurant Fusion. it has a little less choice. Breakfast lunch dinner. For dinner, on the other hand, different barbecues (fish, kebab, beef, crabs, etc. ). During the day, small pizzas are made near it.
3. La Speransa, downstairs, closer to the beaches. Only lunch and dinner. Sort of like Italian food. Unlike other restaurants - the chef preparing pasta is Italian.
Food is a personal matter, it is difficult to objectively evaluate. The main set, which is present in all hotels in Turkey and Egypt, such as starched sausage with sausages, chopped vegetables, salads, natural yoghurts (not to be confused with ours), sweets, etc. , is also present here. There is a lot of meat in the form of variously cooked chicken and turkey, many beef options. They say that other hotels have more. Probably. But my health is no longer enough. And so barely left after feeding.

Of course, the food is not ours. It must be adjusted with salt, pepper, oil, etc. Crabs and squids, I think, they spoil on purpose, because it is impossible not to know that they should be boiled with dill, and not fried on fire. Crabs and squid taste like a doormat. But it's not just this hotel. I guess it's ubiquitous.
The hotel itself consists of several zones and at different levels. From the sea to the reception, you will have to climb fifty steps or more through the labyrinths of stairs. But the appetite is working up.
1. The reception has three levels. Medium - basic. There is an entrance from the street, a reception desk, a bar, shops. Lower - there is a restaurant Al Sakkya, an evening bar, a kids club, a gym, a heated pool. The top one is just tables where you can sit, chat, sip drinks from the bar. In the evenings, a musician comes to the reception and, to electronic accompaniment, plays the guitar and sometimes sings. Several residential buildings are attached to the reception.
2. Large pool. Divided into two parts. Near the small one there is a good slide, and sometimes an artificial wave is launched in it.
In a large part of the pool, children ride on small catamaran boats and throw big balls. Adults hang out at the bar built into the pool.
3. Buildings with a corridor system descending to the sea with terraces.
4. Cottage-type buildings near the sea.
5. Villas with swimming pools. (I didn't see any residents).
There are beaches above the sea on a hill and by the sea - gorges have been dug in the cliffs and areas have been cleared. Who wants to sunbathe over the sea. I personally have always been by the sea. He came for him.

There are three beaches by the sea. The first is the most distant and largest. Two hundred meters wide. There, in the sea, a section of corals was dug out and a gentle sandy entrance to the sea was organized. Right and left corals remained. There are fish. This beach has a lot of mushrooms and sun loungers. There is a bar. Open from 10. There is a snack bar, open from 12-30. They serve burgers and fries. A cool bus with open walls and good ventilation constantly runs from the reception to this beach through the entire hotel. But it's more fun than a necessity. For those who want to walk uphill after the beach. The second beach is narrow. Sun loungers for 30. Nearby there is a bar. A floating pontoon leaves the beach into the sea, from which you can dive and go down the stairs. Next to this pontoon, a giant Napoleon fish was constantly swimming with us, probably a meter by half a meter in size.
The third beach is the same as the second, only an underwater concrete path goes into the sea, which breaks off at the edge of the corals into the abyss. Everywhere on the edge of the coral is full of various beautiful fish. There were also large ones: Moray eels, stingrays, barracudas, Napoleons. Sharks didn't get it.
There were no problems with the staff. They say hello on the streets. The bar always pours whatever you ask for, however, their faces do not shine with excessive joy, but I would not be able to work in this hustle and bustle for two days, and they plow constantly.
Since the hotel is far from shopping places, you have to travel. They usually go to two places.
1. Naami Bay. There are 7 kilometers to it. There are many shops, restaurants, discos, etc. You can take the hotel bus. It's $6 round trip. How long to walk - I do not know. You can take a taxi. $4-5 one way. You can take the bus. To do this, you need to leave the hotel and walk two kilometers to the highway. Jump to the other side. Both times a minibus was already waiting for us, having seen us from afar. The price is generally -3 pounds. For two, we gave $ 1. Back from us they demanded a dollar per person. But at the same time they took us straight to the hotel, which is away from the highway.
2. Old city. old market. It is 14 kilometers away. The taxi driver asked for $15 for both ends, took him to the old city, took him to the shop and showed the boy. When we walked up, we approached the boy, he called the taxi driver. Five minutes later, the taxi driver arrived, took him to the hotel, right to the reception, and only then did we give him 15 dollars. A hotel car costs $14 one way. You can take the same bus. This we found out later.
Animation is not very good. Vyalenko. Three or four animators for a huge hotel. They just melted into it. If the Egyptian show gets on the evening program, be sure to go. There, a man and a boy do breathtaking dances with tambourines and skirts.

The hotel guides of Turtessa left a good impression. This is an Afghan with a Russian face and Russian roots Nikita, as well as his assistant Mohammed. Tours are not imposed. At the same time, he answered questions extensively and interestingly, told many stories and background information. Questions about the hotel solved immediately. Thanks a lot.
In general, the hotel is very decent. We liked. If I get caught again for the right money, I will not refuse.
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