Спонтанные каникулы Spontaneous vacation

Good day, dear citizens tourists! I decided to share a review about the Rehana Royal Beach Resort & Spa 5 * hotel, upon departure from it, and about the tour in general. We rested in this wonderful hotel with a family consisting of dad Dima, mom Nastya, and two offspring Katya, 10 years old and Ilya, 3 years old, from March 25.2013 to "April Fool's Day" (01.04). For everything about everything, i. e. 7 nights 8 days, respectively, according to the "everything local for free" system, 77 thousand Russian people's money was spent through online booking. And then came the long-awaited March 25, departure time 9:30 from Domodedovo (we live there). Moscow and the region ... oops, in the sense of the weather, and we are looking forward to warming our belly on the beach at lunchtime! But it was not there, but it was only the beginning! We were driven into the 747th plane right on time and there seemed to be no signs of a delay, but after an hour in the plane, the commander of the board informed us about a fuel tanker that had somewhere stalled ! ! ! As a result, the delay is more than two hours, but throwing offense at the weather is stupid.
Well, the plane is like an airplane ... Transaero, Boeing 747-400, by age, my grandmother's grandfather, but wiry, and that says it all. Flight attendants, as always, with an artificially regulated smile, further: “Ladies and gentlemen, during the flight you will be offered soft drinks and breakfast, ” and for “breakfast”, as always, airplane food (even I spoke in verse)! Hooray, 4 hours have passed, we landed, by the way, respect and respect to the pilots, they sat down like on cotton wool! Step onto the ladder and ..... Painfully familiar hot air, with the smell of the sea and jet fuel; ). We unloaded from the aircraft, there were standard customs procedures, loaded up with the luggage received in the forefront and went out to meet everyone we knew ... We met well in the sense as usual, without any overlays, almost without: the meeting party was like coffee 3 in 1, the main the company Odeon turs and its subsidiaries Coral travel and Sunmar, because of this, at the meeting, a small "misunderstanding" turned out but not fatal.
Duty phrase: "Straight to the parking lot on the left bus number 2", found, sat down, let's go! And finally, the final stop for us, and the first stop along the way: Rehana Royal Beach Resort & Spa 5 *! Time from the port to the hotel 7-10 minutes. The theater begins with a hanger, but the opinion about a foreign hotel is formed accordingly from the reception! The general initial impression is good, but if you look closely, it is somehow "dumb"! ! ! It seems like sofas and armchairs look like chic leather products, but you sit down and ... Squeezed, bumpy leather "tortured dermantin", tables seem to have a marble top, but for some reason always sticky and with characteristic circles from glasses, despite the fact that that people in uniform and with rags are constantly rubbing something. Toilet: - the main thing is that it doesn't stink and it's not ......... and it's clean. And so, in principle, everywhere in the entire hotel in all rooms, it looks gorgeous from afar, but if you come closer, it doesn’t please the eye!

To be honest, I didn’t care, there was no dirt, okay, and not a big srach in an Egyptian hotel is a completely acceptable situation, and who doesn’t like it, welcome for 150 domestic currency to the European countries of the NATO coalition; ) The staff always smiles and this smile reads: “Give a tip, don’t care for what”, people at the counter, in principle, fulfill ordinary requests, but they don’t solve problems, they can’t or don’t want to, history is silent about this. All minor flaws are forgotten when you enter the hotel! Here, of course, the same story as with the interior space, but you will not look closely at the bushes and palm trees through a magnifying glass. And the territory, of course, is very rich in flowering greenery, but the design decision on where to plant all this is doubly pleasing. The hotel seems to have seven three-story buildings, plus the main building where the reception is and all sorts of shops, conference rooms, spas, and so on. etc.
, a restaurant building in which the main restaurant is located on the second floor, and on the first floor there are slot machines, three shops, a la carte restaurants, oriental and Italian, believe me, we went to them, and they had uneaten rice porridge with sprinkled almonds It’s on the menu for oriental sweetness and costs a small amount of local greens, and here you have a la carte for free, eat like a Russian tourist, rejoice, remember our kindness! Clowns though! There is also Chinese, but they want money for it, somewhere on the beach I don’t know where, there is a fish one, too, for a stable international currency, $ 20 from an adult nose and half for a kinder, people said delicious. We reserved this fish but then refused because on the eve in the old city we went to a similar one and these sea reptiles peeled off so much that the next day we could not look at all this food!
By the way, I highly recommend this restaurant, I don’t remember the name, but it’s easy to find it, either ask any Arab not far from the entrance where your fish is here or according to the scheme: from the main entrance to the bazaar, the first turn is not left, but after 30 meters don't pass by. It looks like an eatery, but they cook amazingly and only seafood, alcohol is prohibited in it, because the owner of the restaurant Musa. Something I was distracted, we'll catch a taxi and return to the hotel. We arrived at the hotel at three o'clock, handed in our passports and went for lunch, arrived somewhere at 14:50, the distribution was already half empty, and what was left was not possible, then I realized later that they don’t eat what is not edible, but there is not much to eat, to be honest, for those who are used to the frills, the cuisine of this particular hotel is by no means suitable, and those who are simpler like us, for example, will not die of starvation! There is something to eat!
While we ate the remnants of luxury, we were settled, and the settlement in the buildings, as I understand it, takes place on a national basis, we were assigned to the 4th Russian building, number 4120, the building is located, by the way, very conveniently, as if in the middle of the territory. The number is not Presidential but not Lokhovskaya, as I wrote above, tastefully but from under the ax and even with crooked hands! That's what an architect would come for so this is because between the toilet and the room the WINDOW is okay if it's frosted ! ! ! DEBIL we have children! To the greatest regret, it was found that instead of 4 large towels in the room there were only 2 of them. I went to the reception and said, and in response with a smile on my face: "No problems", and so two more times, but "problems" did not made up my mind! They didn’t swear, and for us it was absolutely not critical, and we lived with two large and four small towels! Horror, I do not understand how they survived ? !

But in the room there is Wi-Fi with this, life is different, but this Internet is absolutely ok for me, here’s my wife without him, even how, and the price bites $ 15 a day and the speed is not so hot, but access points throughout the hotel, this is a test for who needs it ! Before and after dinner on the first floor of the restaurant building there is a fast food and of course a bar! Speaking of birds, there are 4 bars in the hotel. The first one, respectively, is the lobby, where you can drink around the clock, and alcohol is also around the clock, which is rare, there is also a bar next to the main building and the amphitheater, but they don’t serve takeaway from it (takeaway is in paper and in place in plastic but the glasses are large), the third, as I already wrote in fast food, there is the same story about takeaway and the fourth near the main pool, the most outlandish and at the same time the most popular bar!
About him a little more in detail: at 10:00 a line is lined up, believe it or not, about 50 people, the “scoop” is resting, closer to the finish line is divided, one half lines up along the counter and waits for beer to be poured, which, well, a very strict pourer gives out no more than two glasses in one hand but you can take it out, it’s not worth waiting for the sludge of the foam, it won’t fill up and even scare the guards, for all that, since he’s the only one there, the second half of the queue is waiting for cocktails and all kinds of other drinks, then those waiting change roles, in a word - a circus that left ... If you pass by this bar, and there is no queue, then the beer at this bar is over ! ! ! How do you like this arrangement?
I really liked how the pools were originally made, there are a lot of them in the hotel and they are small near the buildings and inside some buildings, I honestly didn’t even count how many, but the main three are: so to speak, a quiet pool near the main building is made like a pool in a pool with it next to the bar from which they don’t give takeaway, then down the territory there is a pool with three large slides, my daughter says the joints on these slides are very cruel, so I didn’t dare to ride, but you won’t give a damn about the children, right next to the children’s with three small slides that gradually deepen but for safety from the children are separated by a rope and under water with something in the form of racks over which the little ones cannot climb, his son 3.5 years old did not take the obstacle.
Then this kind of double pool is connected by a winding and rather long channel through which many wooden bridges are thrown over with the main and deep pool, where all daytime animation takes place. About her dear: the animation team is not afraid of this word STRONG, consisting of two Russian girls, but everyone speaks Russian and not badly. During the rest, the wife had a Jam Day, so they put on a real show for her for a certain amount of American money at the evening show, it turned out to be a hit! There are three waterfalls on the territory, which fit very well into the theme and complement the street splendor!

On the third day of our mini-vacation and within three days there was not a big natural calabs: on the sea in the afternoon, suddenly a very strong current came from nowhere, the people began to pull apart like leaves on the water, one girl was literally barely saved, and at night she got up a strong but warm wind, and a storm at sea, a wave of three to four meters for two days was! On the third day, the wind died down and the wave fell, but the sea remained not calm, the red flag was lowered, they let you swim in the sea at your own risk and current with flippers, seriously! At least I swam and, in principle, I didn’t feel any danger in the water, though once the water warden who was on duty in the water didn’t let him close to the reef, swam up to me and pushes me away from the reef towards the pier, I don’t understand in a mask, why miracle Yudo pushes me, something gesticulates for me there, then it dawned on me, sailed away. These are the Egyptians, caring!
Well, I won’t be especially sprayed about the red-sea-Akiyan, who knows who was, and whoever wasn’t will look for himself - they go there! The beach is not very good, it used to be better to say so! The entrance to the sea is rocky and gently sloping, knee-deep to the reef, but there it’s immediately 22 meters and the beauty of a edren loaf, and to whom give a white pyasochak - the Maldives are waiting!
Well, what a tour without a scandal, they didn’t ramble for towels, but with the hotel guide of the aforementioned trio of operators, but still appearing as Odeon turs, Muhamed Salah, their tongues tipped in earnest in raised tones! In a nutshell: he was deeply offended that we did not listen to a lecture on the topic "Give me a tour" ....... But everything ended smoothly.
And if anyone has read up to this point, it means you will be interested that the eve of our departure from the Russian-folk health resort of Sharm El-Sheikh has come, and for this reason, somehow, by chance, I drank cocktails, although I drank 4-5 all the rest glasses of real Egyptian "non-alcoholic" beer, in general, noted the departure.
Long live the great holiday "April Fool's Day", i. e. April 1, I don’t believe anyone ! ! ! With such slogans, we woke up like fools at 6 am in order to still fill our stomachs for free before leaving, which was supposed to take place at 09:05. At 8 zero zero we arrive at the main building of this beautiful hotel! They handed over the room, pomoyachev in front of their noses with ten local money sent for luggage, which consisted of two huge and smaller suitcases, like everyone else, a healthy travel bag and, accordingly, a huge pact, well, a backpack and ala two ladies' bags do not count.

We sit and wait for X time, we didn’t hand over the bracelets - I started the morning with their bar beer, which is still free for those hard-earned 77 thousand, because yesterday there were free cocktails. At 8:50 the beer ends and suddenly out of nowhere at 09:10 the Odeon turs bus! And an elderly couple was sitting next to us, so the "bus boss" says: I'll take them, you're gone! Well, where you sit down on us, as they say, there you climb, "Call, " I tell him, "Somewhere, find out something" The bastard called! "Your flight is delayed for an hour at 10:30, the bus will come for you" and left with the old people! Here we are stunned! Well, what to do? We wait! Just before the bus, when they ran out of beer, we cut off the cherished bracelets, and then sit here, that’s not a problem ... I’ll go, I think, I’ll beg one bracelet, but I didn’t even have to explain why, I gave the bracelet without question, well, and brought beer! At "General's" (in the literal sense) 10:40 local time, no equipment came for us!
I call our brawler guide, talking to him I understand that he is calling somewhere on the second and then says that in five minutes. And so it happened! Collected the rest of the hotels and in the air harbor of the resort. And then on the way to the port from the guide we get another negative information into the brain: it turns out that on the way back to our historical homeland we are not going to Transaero, and even more so not to 747-400, but to some incomprehensible Kulavia ! ! ! Well, eiy, so eiy, There's nothing to be done ... Next, the airport, standard procedures, I won't say anything about registration at all, no one even knew that Transaero was canceled, and another company was flying for its place ! ! ! But then they figured it out, registered it, and even at the request they gave normal places. Ah, good old Egypt! Two more hours and now, oh God, announced! Hooray, let's go to the plane! And what do we see? And we already see the third airline and its name is Vimavia (we know they flew) in the fleet of which there are 11 pieces.
757-200 which are older than the grandfather on which we flew to Sharm, but there was Transaero, which is in the top 10!!!! ! ! The flight to the homeland took place in real, I will repeat it again in real fear! ! ! The board was so bouncy that “mom don’t cry”, and even this nasty number 200 in the marking of the board, there was at least a semblance of a smile on the faces of the flight attendants ... But still we landed on our native land, in our native and so close in all respects international airport Domodedovo, and here everything is your own, dirty, cold and rainy, but there is such a word as Motherland!
The summary of my story will be short! We were satisfied with the trip, the hotel is not new, but it is not falling apart either. Normal, average Egyptian five with awesome territory and standard Egyptian food! Of course, there are even cooler fives, but, as you know, they are more expensive, and we had a budget and we met it and were satisfied! With regards to price-quality, the tourist who does not want cheaper but better is so bad ...

Some statistics: they started their tour experience in 2006, respectively, from Egypt. April 2006 - Egypt Hurghada; November 2007 - Egypt Shaml; August 2010-Turkey Alanya, April 2011-Thailand Phuket; August 2011-Charvatia Dubrovnik, August 2012-Greece Rhodes; March 2013-Egypt Sharml. Plans for the future: August 2013-Spain Palmo de Maerca; spring 2014-Goa, and then life will show!! !
Relax and enjoy, have a great vacation wherever it takes place!