Реальность хуже, чем ожидания Reality is worse than expectations

Are you going to visit Egypt with a child? See fish, swim, sunbathe, eat fruits and fresh seafood? You contacted the agency and at a good promotional price they advised you “a solid five in Sharm” “Regency Plaza Aqua park and SPA”. 4 pools, 11 slides, many bars and restaurants, 24-hour service, super beautiful area, gorgeous beach, interesting animation and amazing SPA. Simply heaven! Gotta fly!
Departure from Boryspil at 14.30 by Azur Air. At 14.00 another plane leaves for Sharm. But our plane flew better and faster and both sides arrived at the same time. During the flight it was possible to drink some water, which was actively distributed by flight attendants and with which happy vacationers washed down delicious sandwiches prudently taken from home and alcohol purchased in duty-free. Vacationers who arrived on two sides at the same time cheerfully lined up in a huge queue to two representatives of the Anex Tour tour operator in order to mark their voucher and get the coveted bus number on which they will be taken to the hotel. Such a queue can be seen at the airport of Frankfurt or Amsterdam, when a dozen huge Boeings arrive at the same time, and even then very rarely. But the quick-witted guides of Anex Tour very competently solved this little problem. Out of nowhere, six more kind Arab men appeared who, for a small fee, only 5-10 dollars (as you bargain), marked your vouchers without a queue and said your bus number. Unfortunately, it should be noted that those who took advantage of this well-organized additional service did not get to the hotel earlier anyway, because. the buses departed only when the last person in this huge line marked his voucher.
The road from the airport to the hotel is short, 15-20 minutes. At the hotel, you are warmly greeted with an amazing orange soft drink with a strange chemical taste, and after some formalities, you are put on bracelets and given a room key. The guests go to their rooms and after a while, lo and behold, they meet again at the reception with the same desire - to change their number to another. Someone does not have a safe and drain in the toilet, someone is just picky about the condition of the room in the “solid five”, in our case we got a room with two magnificent single beds for a family of three in the building farthest from the beach. . .

At the reception, they were very sympathetic to our little problem and offered to go for dinner for now, because it would end very soon. Which we gladly did. At first glance, the "restaurant" impresses with its appearance. The whole space is very, very densely crowded with tables, and the strangest thing is that only a few light bulbs are on, which is why in the soft and cozy subdued light, dirty curtains and uncleaned tables are not visible at all. The restaurant has a magnificent terrace overlooking a wasteland with a playground. There is a grill on the terrace, the pleasant smoke from which will make you clearly understand that it is here that amazing beef burns, which beckons you with black coals on the buffet, next to salads carefully mixed in mayonnaise sauce from the freshest vegetables left after breakfast and lunch. When you come up for drinks, you will have to stand in line for a while, because the bartender, right in front of you, is pouring water from a large 20 liter bottle into the purest orange and apple juice. At the end of dinner, you can no longer count on wine, but they can pour you beer not from a keg, but from a bottle. There are a lot of open bottles of beer at the bartender. While waiting for you, he prudently mixed the beer from the keg with some water, and this made the beer even lighter and more refreshing. We took just water, squeezed lemon into it, added some sugar and enjoyed the taste of great homemade lemonade.
In the room we were waiting for a pleasant change. Two single beds were pushed together and a third one was added to them. Why our room turned into one big luxurious bed, which could only be passed from one side. They forgot to put the third set of towels and the third blanket, but nothing. Mom and daughter dried themselves with one towel, and dad changed his blanket to his daughter's sheet. After that, whiskey and Baileys, bought in Boryspil, were opened and the evening became even more pleasant.
Woke up early. It was possible to sleep longer, but the mattresses were so thick that it looked like sleeping on boards. This is probably useful to someone, but not to me - there was a feeling that you were beaten all night.
The balcony of the room overlooked the pool with a water park, which pleased with the peace and tranquility. Children's laughter and conversations of their parents have never been heard here. The water park was always empty. And all because the water was less than 20 degrees. True, at the reception they confidently and proudly declare that there are all 21))
Bitter, smellless instant coffee was already waiting for us at breakfast. The tea bags were much nicer. Everything is great! The windiest bay in Sharm, Nabq Bay, welcomes its guests. Where is the heated pool? Vacationers with experience going to the meeting cheerfully answered that they had not found one in 10 days, maybe you will be lucky. I will say right away, so as not to return to that issue, despite numerous complaints at the reception of all parents with children, we also did not find it) But we came for the sake of the sea and for the sake of fish ! ! Faster to the beach!

Having shown perseverance, ignoring the arguments that moving the beds together is very good, we changed the room to a larger one with a double bed and a sofa and went to the beach. The territory is beautiful: live palm trees, flowering and intricately trimmed shrubs between which birds, similar to small herons, walk - everything created a good mood. And unpainted benches, shaky wooden bridges, concrete crocodiles in a pond with a peeled bottom created a special vintage spirit, reminiscent of the former splendor of this solid five.
The beach of the hotel is very wide with a sufficient number of umbrellas and fences from the wind. The beds and mattresses are old but still usable. On the beach you can play volleyball and bocha. You can drink beer at the bar and even have a bite to eat good snacks. The decoration of the beach is a super long pontoon. After passing 200 meters along it, you can go down the first ladder and plunge at a depth of 100-120 cm. You can try to bathe especially hardened children there. If you go another 300 meters, then there will be another ladder, with a rope tied to it and a depth of about 2.5 meters... then the pontoon ends, and the same amount remains to the reef with corals, if not more. All this strengthens you in the idea that you need to go on a sea excursion for fish.
The maximum smile always works wonders. We were moved to another room. With a normal double bed, a sofa for a child and a view of the main pool and flowering lawns. Rest is getting better, especially when your faithful friends Jamison and Beilis are nearby. Strong liquor in restaurants and bars can be drunk if you like to swallow a bitter, nasty liquid. You will not achieve the effect of alcohol either from cocktails or from pure drinks. For the sake of the experiment (maybe all alcohol is like this in Egypt? ) We went to the nearest store and for 17 dollars. bought 0.7 local rum - a completely different matter, However, then came the two-week groundhog day. Animation was made only by evening mosquitoes, which from time to time did not give the opportunity to sit outside at the bar. For 5 dollars per person, we went to a pajama party organized by the animators. For this amount, they were able to fight with pillows and drink a cocktail with a smell, but also without a degree. We visited two a la carte restaurants. The grilled meat was delicious. We drank a bottle of local wine for Meat for 15 dollars. We went for a sea trip. There were people on the yacht with us who bought an excursion on the street at half the price of what we bought from our guide. Back they had their own transfer, they could easily buy fruit on the layouts. Our guide was very nervous, shouting loudly, not allowing anyone to linger at the fruit. They bought it anyway, why was nervous, it is not clear. Wi-fi sometimes met, but after suffering for several days, we bought a SIM card. We visited all the children's discos - the child is delighted. During the day in the kids club, the children were treated to ice cream, one portion per hand. One day a large group of Chinese arrived. This day there was a more varied menu in the restaurant. Might be a coincidence. The final chord of the rest was a perfectly organized huge queue at the airport. Why, you ask? Everything is simple, to offer tourists to use the service to skip the line for $ 20. Some did just that and then with an important look stood in the drive, admiring how the general queue gradually decreases. Will we return to Egypt again? Definitely yes! After all, we love warmth in winter and always hope that we will be lucky in this lottery and the next vacation will be more comfortable, but even cheaper)