Ambiguous hotel

Written: 7 november 2014
Travel time: 19 october — 1 november 2014
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 5.0
Pros:
The far beach, which is taken by bus, is picturesque, equipped with a toilet and shower, and provides unlimited opportunities for exploring the underwater world. The sun loungers here are arranged so that you can sunbathe the entire first half of the day without moving anything.
The nearest beach is 10 minutes walk and can serve as a place to leave things and a starting point for a walk along the shore of the bay to where swimming and diving are much better. On this beach, the musical repertoire is tastefully selected, excluding the accidental entry of Russian pop music there, and good acoustics. In addition, ONLY HERE there is a bodybuilder's corner with a barbell and a selection of pancakes with a total weight of up to 80 kg, as well as dumbbells!
The hotel is located away from the noise of the city, on a hill, and it would be quiet there if not for the Russian animators-terrorists.

The hotel has a nice area with a beautiful garden. Rooms overlooking this garden are probably the best.
The waiters in the restaurant are quite friendly, although a little loose. The bartenders are friendly too. Both those and others have a sufficient minimum of the Russian language.
It is positive to have a modest set of vegetables for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. As well as eggplant dishes. Good thing there were always slices of lime and oranges on display.
It is allowed to replenish your bottles from coolers during the day.
Next to the hotel, on the same hill above the city, there is a magnificent, not yet completely filled, Genena City Mall, where you can walk around looking at objects stylized as the culture of Ancient Egypt.

Minuses:
The food in the restaurant is extremely monotonous. The fish in 9 out of 10 cases is represented by the sole, which disguises itself as different dishes, but is quickly recognized, and by the end of the second week it is already unbearable. From meat, you can choose between beef, chicken and fish. Lamb was perhaps only once.
Soups are no good: it seems that a few pieces of some kind of meat were added to the seasoning and poured with a huge amount of hot water. There is no grain bread. In pastries and desserts, what we have known since childhood as oriental sweets is rarely present. There was never any baklava, sherbet raised questions, dried fruits, nuts and muesli were not there either, but there was a huge amount of cakes and mousses on display, none of which were really tasty. Of the fruits, guava was the most worthy, fresh Egyptian oranges and unripe dates were also offered. There were no small spoons at all, they were replaced by plastic sticks for stirring sugar.
Of the drinks in the bars, only two types of beer were tolerable - draft in the pool bar, and bottled in the restaurant and in the bar at the reception. Cold beer can only be obtained by the pool.

In other bars, they put it in the refrigerator a minute before the opening of the restaurant and it does not have time to cool. Strong drinks leave the impression of diluted and they all taste the same. Coffee is offered only instant, as in a Soviet camp site - powder and a tank, where cold water is added from time to time, which is why boiling water is not always guaranteed.
For two weeks, we often changed towels, but never changed the bed.
Mosquitoes are present in the evenings stably. They are not as noticeable as Russian ones, and it is difficult to recognize them in a timely manner. There is a fumigator in the room, but you need to bring plates.
Egyptian flies are as intrusive as their traders.
The hotel's animators are hard of hearing and the music is turned on at full capacity, so wherever you are, until 23 o'clock you will not have a rest or read. They also like to call loudly.
The musical repertoire, which satisfies the tastes of the zhlobsky part of Russian tourists and drives everyone else to despair, consists of the worst examples of Russian pop and chanson and is apparently aimed at giving tourists from other European countries the impression that in today's Russia art and culture, as such, are absent. In addition to Russian pop music, overplayed and long-weary tunes of foreign pop music are also spinning. However, the most difficult test for the ears of anyone who even has a relative ear for music are karaoke evenings, where apparently only those who have been stepped on by a bear come to sing and listen. The singers not only shamelessly misrepresent the melodies, but also choose, as luck would have it, the most tedious and inexpressive samples from the entire Russian song wealth.
WiFi in the hotel is useless, it works only a stone's throw from the reception or above it, in the restaurant.
Loading onto a bus to and from a distant beach allows Russian citizens to demonstrate their worst qualities (pressing, dribbling, skillful work with elbows, center of gravity and beach bags). Foreigners watch with fear...
The nearest beach in the ranking ranks last in terms of its area and crowding of sun loungers, as well as water space. And the water here is not very clean. But it also has advantages (see above), besides, you can always go left and swim near the reefs.
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