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Having bought a tour from Deniz Travel Ukraine, I enjoy a great vacation at competitive prices. I just returned from vacation yesterday, so I'll try to describe everything in detail while it's fresh.
LOCATION
The hotel is located in the Hadaba area. The location is just great in a windless bay, which is very important in winter. Opposite is the Albatros Aqua park 4 * hotel where all lovers of water slides can buy a day pass and spend the day in the aqua park. Leaving the hotel and turning right, you can walk in 5 minutes to the Alf Leila Wa Leila complex, where after 20:00 an interesting evening show begins that will interest both children and adults. Tickets can be bought immediately at the entrance, if you come at 20:00 you get to 2 parts of the show, if you come at 22:00 you pay less and watch the second part (it is more interesting).
Representatives of tour operators take buses to this complex of vacationers from other hotels, but you can walk on your own and not overpay.
Behind the Alf Leila Wa Leila complex is a bazaar where you can buy souvenirs, clothes, shoes and fruits.
If you leave the hotel and turn left, then in 10 minutes you can walk to the famous Farsha hookah cafe among tourists. Hookah costs $3 there, the taste is average like everywhere else in Egypt, but it's worth visiting this colorful cafe at least once (we have a hookah $5 in our hotel).
ACCOMMODATION
We arrived in the evening, so they settled right away, at first they wanted to give an old room, since we had a promo room booked, but for a Ukrainian chocolate bar we got an excellent updated room in building 4 near the reception (no additional payments were made).
The only thing that, as many tourists wrote, room cleaning is lame, but when you catch a worker in the corridor and give $ 1, you need to show what you want specifically. I asked to wash the floor and clean it again and everything was done, I also wrapped the towels.
Drinking water without gas (1l) was left to us every day.
TERRITORY
Large, well-groomed, all in greenery on which the bus rides and brings you to restaurants and the sea. Lots of pools and steam heated.
NUTRITION
Everyone has their own tastes and preferences, but I would like to see what delicacies tourists eat at home, who write that they have nothing to eat.
Breakfasts are standard everywhere, eggs in any form, vegetables, cheese, sweet pastries, oatmeal, cereals.
For lunch, two types of soup, but I didn’t try them, they didn’t look appetizing to me. Garnished with delicious rice, pasta, several types of potatoes, there was always beef, chicken and fried fish fillet, they gave duck and seafood every day (crabs, octopuses, squids). Unfortunately, there were no shrimp, and usually only paws remained from crabs. Delicious hummus and baba ganoush! I advise you to try, especially delicious hummus with thin pita bread and tomatoes.
For dinner, you can choose from 3 restaurants - jaconda, the citadel by the sea and the grill restaurant.
In the grill every day the menu is the same but delicious! I really liked the kofte (grilled cutlets), reminded me of Istanbul : ) the meat is not spicy and without specific spices! It was strange to read the review of one tourist that the meat is spicy, it feels like they were resting in different hotels!
In other restaurants, the menu changes, beef is always delicious, seafood crabs and octopuses, but I didn’t really like them, I prefer shrimp and salmon.
I advise all seafood lovers the Fares restaurant (not far from our hotel).
On the beach in the afternoon, a cafe with snacks - pizza, burgers and a hot dog with Egyptian sausage (for an amateur).
The hotel rest Italians so pizza and pasta on every corner.
THE INTERNET
Free wi fi in the reception area.
At the airport, I bought a local Vodafone card for 2.2 GB and I advise you! The number of GB you can choose is different. The Internet can be distributed, therefore, having bought 1 SIM card, the Internet was with me and the guy. Do not buy at the hotel!! ! Spin 2 times!
SERVICE
There were mosquitoes in the room - we went to reception and they gave us an aerosol that solved the problem.
It was not cleaned - they called the reception and a guy came.
The average salary for hotel workers is $ 100, so don't take a couple of dollars for a tip, and you won't have any problems with cleaning.
But one moment was not pleasant! We ordered a tour not from Join up and they refused to give us a takeaway breakfast !! ! I have never seen this before, the hotel says that when ordering excursions, the guide must order breakfast for tourists, but the tourists themselves cannot do this. Although think for yourself what does the guide have to do with the food of tourists? There was no desire to swear, so we made sandwiches ourselves in advance from the products that were given for lunch.
BEACH
Big enough, I think many tourists do not see that the continuation of the beach is still on the rock on the left side if you face the sea. There were always sun loungers and it makes no sense to occupy them from 6 in the morning.
You have to adapt to the pontoon, the first time you ate it because it staggers a lot, and then you got used to it and ran. It is much better to swim from the pontoon, as I like to swim. There is a piece of the beach with cut corals, but there is waist-deep water and dead corals come across, so you need to walk carefully and look under your feet. There was even a sea urchin hiding in one coral, God forbid you step on its needles!
Nearby hotels Jaz Fanara and Faraana reef resort are half empty. We have a lot of vacationers in the hotel, 70% Ukraine, the rest are Belarusians, Russians and many Italians (for them, even animation in Italian and pizza and pasta in all restaurants).
TOURS
We took a survey of Sharm El Sheikh from join up. It's obvious that it's free. They showed the mosque and the church (1 hour) and drove the rest 3 hours shopping, you can see they have a percentage of sales to recapture this supposedly free tour. We also went to Soho Square in the evening. You can see once but there is nothing else to do there.
We took an excursion to Israel at the agency right in front of the Alf Leila Wa Leila complex. The cost is $75 per person. (At the tour operator $105). Of course, it is tiring to ride a bus for a long time and go through Israeli control for a long time. I went straight to the christening, so unfortunately they didn’t get to the Jordan River, on other non-holiday days they take them there.
Go to the hotel boldly, the bay is calm, the food is good, negotiate for the rooms, it makes no sense to change the local currency.
LOCATION
The hotel is located in the Hadaba area. The location is just great in a windless bay, which is very important in winter. Opposite is the Albatros Aqua park 4 * hotel where all lovers of water slides can buy a day pass and spend the day in the aqua park. Leaving the hotel and turning right, you can walk in 5 minutes to the Alf Leila Wa Leila complex, where after 20:00 an interesting evening show begins that will interest both children and adults. Tickets can be bought immediately at the entrance, if you come at 20:00 you get to 2 parts of the show, if you come at 22:00 you pay less and watch the second part (it is more interesting).
Representatives of tour operators take buses to this complex of vacationers from other hotels, but you can walk on your own and not overpay.
Behind the Alf Leila Wa Leila complex is a bazaar where you can buy souvenirs, clothes, shoes and fruits.
If you leave the hotel and turn left, then in 10 minutes you can walk to the famous Farsha hookah cafe among tourists. Hookah costs $3 there, the taste is average like everywhere else in Egypt, but it's worth visiting this colorful cafe at least once (we have a hookah $5 in our hotel).
ACCOMMODATION
We arrived in the evening, so they settled right away, at first they wanted to give an old room, since we had a promo room booked, but for a Ukrainian chocolate bar we got an excellent updated room in building 4 near the reception (no additional payments were made).
The only thing that, as many tourists wrote, room cleaning is lame, but when you catch a worker in the corridor and give $ 1, you need to show what you want specifically. I asked to wash the floor and clean it again and everything was done, I also wrapped the towels.
Drinking water without gas (1l) was left to us every day.
TERRITORY
Large, well-groomed, all in greenery on which the bus rides and brings you to restaurants and the sea. Lots of pools and steam heated.
NUTRITION
Everyone has their own tastes and preferences, but I would like to see what delicacies tourists eat at home, who write that they have nothing to eat.
Breakfasts are standard everywhere, eggs in any form, vegetables, cheese, sweet pastries, oatmeal, cereals.
For lunch, two types of soup, but I didn’t try them, they didn’t look appetizing to me. Garnished with delicious rice, pasta, several types of potatoes, there was always beef, chicken and fried fish fillet, they gave duck and seafood every day (crabs, octopuses, squids). Unfortunately, there were no shrimp, and usually only paws remained from crabs. Delicious hummus and baba ganoush! I advise you to try, especially delicious hummus with thin pita bread and tomatoes.
For dinner, you can choose from 3 restaurants - jaconda, the citadel by the sea and the grill restaurant.
In the grill every day the menu is the same but delicious! I really liked the kofte (grilled cutlets), reminded me of Istanbul : ) the meat is not spicy and without specific spices! It was strange to read the review of one tourist that the meat is spicy, it feels like they were resting in different hotels!
In other restaurants, the menu changes, beef is always delicious, seafood crabs and octopuses, but I didn’t really like them, I prefer shrimp and salmon.
I advise all seafood lovers the Fares restaurant (not far from our hotel).
On the beach in the afternoon, a cafe with snacks - pizza, burgers and a hot dog with Egyptian sausage (for an amateur).
The hotel rest Italians so pizza and pasta on every corner.
THE INTERNET
Free wi fi in the reception area.
At the airport, I bought a local Vodafone card for 2.2 GB and I advise you! The number of GB you can choose is different. The Internet can be distributed, therefore, having bought 1 SIM card, the Internet was with me and the guy. Do not buy at the hotel!! ! Spin 2 times!
SERVICE
There were mosquitoes in the room - we went to reception and they gave us an aerosol that solved the problem.
It was not cleaned - they called the reception and a guy came.
The average salary for hotel workers is $ 100, so don't take a couple of dollars for a tip, and you won't have any problems with cleaning.
But one moment was not pleasant! We ordered a tour not from Join up and they refused to give us a takeaway breakfast !! ! I have never seen this before, the hotel says that when ordering excursions, the guide must order breakfast for tourists, but the tourists themselves cannot do this. Although think for yourself what does the guide have to do with the food of tourists? There was no desire to swear, so we made sandwiches ourselves in advance from the products that were given for lunch.
BEACH
Big enough, I think many tourists do not see that the continuation of the beach is still on the rock on the left side if you face the sea. There were always sun loungers and it makes no sense to occupy them from 6 in the morning.
You have to adapt to the pontoon, the first time you ate it because it staggers a lot, and then you got used to it and ran. It is much better to swim from the pontoon, as I like to swim. There is a piece of the beach with cut corals, but there is waist-deep water and dead corals come across, so you need to walk carefully and look under your feet. There was even a sea urchin hiding in one coral, God forbid you step on its needles!
Nearby hotels Jaz Fanara and Faraana reef resort are half empty. We have a lot of vacationers in the hotel, 70% Ukraine, the rest are Belarusians, Russians and many Italians (for them, even animation in Italian and pizza and pasta in all restaurants).
TOURS
We took a survey of Sharm El Sheikh from join up. It's obvious that it's free. They showed the mosque and the church (1 hour) and drove the rest 3 hours shopping, you can see they have a percentage of sales to recapture this supposedly free tour. We also went to Soho Square in the evening. You can see once but there is nothing else to do there.
We took an excursion to Israel at the agency right in front of the Alf Leila Wa Leila complex. The cost is $75 per person. (At the tour operator $105). Of course, it is tiring to ride a bus for a long time and go through Israeli control for a long time. I went straight to the christening, so unfortunately they didn’t get to the Jordan River, on other non-holiday days they take them there.
Go to the hotel boldly, the bay is calm, the food is good, negotiate for the rooms, it makes no sense to change the local currency.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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