Good vacation

Written: 9 october 2007
Travel time: 9 — 16 september 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
Number 2-room living room and bedroom, a balcony overlooking the sea (the sea is far away, but this is nonsense) the bathroom is large, although the shower cubicle does not close because there are no doors, they put it in about 3 days later. We check with the attendant whether this room is standard (I don’t want to pay extra when leaving, if it later turns out that we were put in a room of a higher category), he says that this is a standard. We asked for a second bed, it was brought within 30 minutes, also a 2-bedroom one and installed in the second room (living room), luggage was brought along with it, in general, the rest began. Naturally, we gave tips for all this ($1 per luggage and per bed).
Restaurant: divided into 3 parts: central (for non-smokers), right and left (for smokers, there are ashtrays on the tables), there are some peculiarities in table service, for example: it’s better to sit at a table with appliances already lying, then you won’t have to catch the waiter and asking him for cutlery and ordering drinks is also better to do immediately, before you go for food, then by your return the table will already be completely packed, just then wait a long time until the waiter is free and will bring you what you ordered. And be sure to leave a tip, they will remember you and serve you much faster, we left a tip of $ 1 every day after dinner in a special envelope that lies on the table, and there were no problems with drinks and appliances.
The food is very, very good: breakfast - coffee (Nescafe), tea (Lipton) (standing on the tables), juice (order through the waiters), cereal, fruit salads, potato casserole with cheese, fried eggs in front of you as you like, the most delicious in my opinion, this is baking so many buns, rings, donuts, I have never eaten before, and given that I usually only have coffee for breakfast, it was something.


Lunch and dinner: All drinks through the waiters, red wine (good), white (bad) and rose (did not try) are given only in the restaurant and only during lunch and dinner, beer, soft drinks, coffee, tea, there is always fish , chicken, meat (beef, lamb), well, they never succeeded in meat, on the street during dinner near the restaurant something is grilled, usually it is crabs, once there was lulakebab, chicken, snails, other days not watched just enough in the restaurant.
Pasta (spaghetti) is prepared by a separate chef on request right in the hall, you come up and show what ingredients you put in the sauce, they stand right in front of them. I didn’t try it, my friend liked it, they give a portion so that you won’t try anything else.

Entertainment: After dinner, people smoothly flow onto the terrace between the restaurant and the pool, live music plays there, English, French, Latin hits sing very well, people dance, drink (all drinks are also through the waiters). Sometimes they forget about your order, they forgot about us once, a friend approached the bartender and was indignant in English (without hamswa and sorting things out), apologized, they quickly brought everything, as an apology they carried drinks as soon as we had time to drink the previous one.
In general, everyone on the territory of the hotel is very friendly and smiling, but in order to help you with any problem, you need to know at least a school course in English, or take a phrase book with you. At 23.00 animation starts, went 1 time, old contests, all this has been seen many times in Turkey. At 24.00 there is a disco in the grotto, we have never been there.

We went to Naama Bay and the Old Market, to Naama by bus from the hotel $ 5 round trip per person, taken away at 20.00, picked up from Naama at 24.00. Only a taxi goes to the Old Market from the hotel for $ 30 (round trip) per car, capacity 4 people, you tell in advance when to come back for you. You can catch a car or minibus on the road, but we preferred to use the services of hotel transport.
The hotel has retail outlets: souvenirs, masks with fins, etc. , but across the road, obliquely to the right, a small shopping center (well, this is of course an exaggeration, as there are several outlets and a call center) are cheaper there, we bought a mask with a snorkel there for $ 14, slippers for corals for $5.

Sea: they were on the hotel beach once - on the day of arrival, the sea was knee-deep, they didn’t reach the depth, plunged, were horrified, the next day they went to look for a wild beach, which they read about in the reviews. We found it very quickly, if you stand facing the sea in front of the hotel beach on a concrete path to the left, you won’t be mistaken, because they ride scooters along it, you pass 4 hotels (2 under construction, 2 operating), you reach the Tower Hotel under construction ( commissioning April 2008) on its territory there is a wild beach.
A great place: lovers of marine flora and fauna swim around the coral on the right, on the left a convenient place for swimming, you can swing on the waves when the wind is (and the wind is always there, so the heat is easier to bear). There are a lot of people from all nearby hotels, mostly Russians, but there are also foreigners.

Excursions: we bought from our guide, because we were warned that medical insurance is valid only if you go on an excursion from your tour operator, they didn’t take risks, which they didn’t regret, because they had the same drivers when they drove us on the mountain of Moses, the ears were pawned from the bends. We went on just two excursions (both $40 each): to Ros Mohamed, a coral reserve, and Mount Moses. I liked everything very much, a lot of impressions. On the eve of each excursion, a letter was slipped into the room under the door with a reminder, and the time when we should appear at the reception to leave for the tour. Convenient because

we came to the meeting with the guide only once, as soon as we arrived, and at the same time we bought excursions from him. There are many excursions, some repeat some of the others, for example, in Ros-Mohamed it is almost the same as on the coral islands. I wanted to go to Jerusalem, but it’s a little expensive ($ 260) in the evening at 23 o’clock they take me away, a day there, they bring me to the hotel around lunch or breakfast, I forgot something. Our friend went there, she really liked it, first they were taken to the Dead Sea, then to Jerusalem.

Departure: The day before departure, a letter was slipped under the door from our tour operator, stating that our flight was postponed from 23.50 to 02.50 and we were transferred at 12.00 to another hotel DOMINA GARDENIA PLAZA 4 * all inclusive before departure.
We were transported, resettled, of course the rooms were given the worst in the back building without balconies, but because of 10-12 hours you won’t go to swear, there is a disgusting smell in the room, in general the level is 3-*, the food is tasteless, the sea needs to go far to by bus, though the bus runs every half hour, we didn’t go, had lunch and lay by the pool, the territory itself is very small, in general, I would not want to relax in this hotel, but against the background of it, our Regency seems just a palace and the height of perfection. I looked at the prices for Domino when I arrived, it costs about the same as Reginsi. This is called feel the difference gentlemen.

if you have any questions please ask me (ir-ev-2006@mail. ru).
Summary: Good hotel, you can go
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