At first it seemed terrible, then it became tolerable

Written: 3 january 2009
Travel time: 23 december 2008 — 2 january 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
It takes half an hour to the airport, 20 minutes to Nuweiba, and an hour and a half to Dahab. Near (to the right of the hotel) the Mercato shopping complex, it has many European shops and restaurants (including Adidas and McDonald's). Even further in the same direction (5-10 minutes on foot) are the shopping arcades of the Egyptian merchants "Promenade". Everything's there.
The territory as a territory, there is a pool (without heating), water slides, saunas, no jacuzzi.
Rooms in separate 2-storey buildings. Everywhere there is a balcony, a shower. View from all rooms - on the indoor pool. Rooms with extra the washbasin in the bedroom has cockroaches and ants. It seems that all the rooms on the first floor are colder and there are ants. A number of rooms are located close to the utility block, from which the hum of running engines constantly comes. A number of rooms - next to the fence, behind which there is a construction site. There is noise from equipment and the hubbub of workers. Therefore, refusing to pay $40 requested at the reception at the beginning, and having changed both described options for rooms, on the second day after the bargaining they paid $20 and got a normal room - ON THE SECOND FLOOR, WITHOUT A FAUCET IN THE BEDROOM AND WITHOUT ANY NOISE.

Other than the deliberate extortion of money for a nice room (with the hotel half empty), the staff is generally friendly. Only the main manager at the reception knows a little Russian, the rest - a few words. The general manager speaks English well, he did not check the others.
There are many minor damages in the rooms, which are better to ignore in order not to spoil your mood (such as batteries falling out of the remote control, etc. )
We had half board and the food was good. In the end, the endless sausages for breakfast were somewhat annoying. Dinner had a variety. In the afternoon we ate at the "Smile pizza" pizzeria (if you walk from the coral beach, you will find it on the right side [approximately opposite the "Feila Leila") - delicious pizza from the oven, cheap and cheerful.
Coral beach - half an hour from the hotel on foot. Clean sea, beautiful corals. We recommend swimming to the depths with a mask and turning to the right to swim along the coral - very beautiful. Everything else is bad - the hotel shares the beach with 6 other hotels. Few sunbeds, little space, all sunbeds are fixed, most in the shade. The evil managers of sunbeds do not understand anything in Russian and pretend that they do not understand English.
SANDY BEACH - 2 hours walk from the hotel. Enough sun loungers and space, but the muddy sea and the lack of fish, as the beach is a closed sandy bay.
This is DEFINITELY not 4 stars, only meals at dinner can pull 4 stars. Everything else is at level 3. You can go only if it's cheap and taking into account our experience.
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