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For a good rest, this hotel is definitely not suitable for you.
Traveled with my boyfriend in October 2018. They flew from Kyiv, themselves from Belarus. I would like to write right away that before the rest we read the reviews on this site and did not understand why the overall rating is 4.24 stars, and the rating for the last 2 years is 2.29 stars. Now I can explain: until 2015, this hotel was in the top hotels, but unfortunately after that there was no repair or any updates. Therefore, the reviews of those years still keep this hotel afloat on the website and the photos of the hotel are not at all what you will see upon arrival.
We arrived at 6 am, filled out the documents and immediately settled. To say that we did not like the room and the hotel is an understatement. The room has air conditioning, TV, hair dryer. On arrival in the morning there was no hot water, it appeared in the afternoon. Everything in the hotel is very old, shabby, dirty.
NUTRITION. The hotel has two bars. Alcohol is diluted with water. There is no wine. Martini bottles and Jack Daniels bottles filled with dye water. (photo attached). Water on the sea and in the room is not given, only poured and drank from the boiler at the bar. The food itself is worse than in the canteen. Breakfast was the most meager and monotonous. Every day they fried an omelette and had cereal with milk, that's all. They give different sweets, but it is impossible to eat them. For dinner, meat was always given liver and fish. One salad - Greek, and then not every day. For dinner, they gave a piece of chicken, more than two pieces of chicken would not be given. Almost always gave different soups. Although spicy, they are delicious. There was no bread, only sandwich rolls. Sometimes they gave jelly. Every day there were dates, fruits were melon, orange, pamella, apple. They didn’t eat sweets, the buns are either not fresh, or they have such pastries, here it’s already an amateur.
ANIMATION. The hotel does not have it! On the third day of rest, we found out that we have some animators who held a show at 10 pm, they came once, the show did not wait because of the small number of people, they decided not to hold it. For the whole holiday we saw only one show and it was very boring and I wanted to leave.
POOLS. There are two in the hotel. Didn't swim in one. In our presence, bleach was poured from a bucket in a very large amount, and I doubted the cleanliness of the pools.
SEA. Here you can write for hours. For the first time I was on the Red Sea and now I will advise everyone to come there, just for the sake of the sea. Underwater world of unreal beauty. There are 2 beaches from the hotel. The first beach is close - on Naama Bay, we always walked, but when you come to it you will be disappointed, very dirty and the poorest and worst of all the beaches. We came to our beach, left our things and walked along the coastline to better beaches, where we swam and watched corals. The second one is further away, it takes 20 minutes by bus, but it's worth going there. For all tourists, this beach is paid and boat trips, where people pay to look at the corals, take place there. But only for our hotel there is free admission and swim at least for hours. There is a separate pantone, very beautiful corals, fish and rocks. All my photos are mostly from there. Be prepared that there will be a big problem on two beaches with water to wash. On one beach there is no shower at all, on the second there is almost always water, but the conditions are terrible. (I attach a photo).
Be prepared that there are very few tourists from Ukraine and Belarus in the hotel, the entire hotel is Muslims with children. There are also few Slavs on our beach, only Arabic music. All beaches close at 17:00, at 17:30 it was already dark. Swimming is prohibited at night.
TOURS. We went on two excursions. The first is a Jeep safari. The tour lasted from 9 am to 5 pm. The price includes camel riding for 15 minutes, snorkeling in the blue hole (about 170m deep), where you will see beautiful corals, but few fish due to the large number of people. There we were fed a piece of chicken with vegetables. The cost was $20 + $4 rental of life jackets per person. On the way back we stopped in the canyon for about 20 minutes. If you decide to buy this tour, it is better to take a bus than a jeep. It's cheaper by $ 5, eat with air conditioning and it's much more comfortable to sit. The second excursion is quad bikes. Here I don’t even know, I liked the quad riding itself, but the organization is terrible. We were told that we would ride for about 2 hours, in the end it turned out to be a maximum of 30 minutes. While we gathered all the people in hotels, it took about 40 minutes until we reached the place. Don't expect to be able to drive wherever you want and at any speed. The movement occurs strictly one after another and at a low speed. The echo in the canyon, which they advertise is generally funny. In our Belarusian forests, it is 3 times louder. Tea in the Bedouin village - there is no village there, there are many p-shaped chambers where you can sit and give ordinary black tea. Field village tour ends. I advise you not to buy excursions from a guide from your tour operator, he is much more expensive. Better go down to the city, there are many wards with excursions at normal prices.
WiFi. Reception only. Uploading photos and sending messages is possible only early in the morning or late in the evening. The rest of the time there are a lot of people and the modem can not cope.
Be sure to bargain when buying souvenirs, take off almost half the cost. Be sure to try the mango, I have never eaten such a delicious mango anywhere, it is something incredible. We went down to the city twice to eat seafood (crabs, lobsters and shrimp), make it on the grill or just boil it. We really liked it, for two it will be about $ 20-25 for 2 crabs, 2 lobsters and 10 king prawns. If you want to try the taste of seafood, then it’s better to ask them to just cook it, their grilled garlic sauces really interrupt the taste and smell.
If you are unlucky and you also bought a ticket without reading reviews and on the advice of a tour operator, then the only thing I can advise you is to take masks with you, buy alcohol in Duty free and spend all your free time outside the hotel (go to SOHO Square and excursions, walk around the city and enjoy the sea). Our bitter experience brightened up the sea and the sun of Egypt.
Traveled with my boyfriend in October 2018. They flew from Kyiv, themselves from Belarus. I would like to write right away that before the rest we read the reviews on this site and did not understand why the overall rating is 4.24 stars, and the rating for the last 2 years is 2.29 stars. Now I can explain: until 2015, this hotel was in the top hotels, but unfortunately after that there was no repair or any updates. Therefore, the reviews of those years still keep this hotel afloat on the website and the photos of the hotel are not at all what you will see upon arrival.
We arrived at 6 am, filled out the documents and immediately settled. To say that we did not like the room and the hotel is an understatement. The room has air conditioning, TV, hair dryer. On arrival in the morning there was no hot water, it appeared in the afternoon. Everything in the hotel is very old, shabby, dirty.
NUTRITION. The hotel has two bars. Alcohol is diluted with water. There is no wine. Martini bottles and Jack Daniels bottles filled with dye water. (photo attached). Water on the sea and in the room is not given, only poured and drank from the boiler at the bar. The food itself is worse than in the canteen. Breakfast was the most meager and monotonous. Every day they fried an omelette and had cereal with milk, that's all. They give different sweets, but it is impossible to eat them. For dinner, meat was always given liver and fish. One salad - Greek, and then not every day. For dinner, they gave a piece of chicken, more than two pieces of chicken would not be given. Almost always gave different soups. Although spicy, they are delicious. There was no bread, only sandwich rolls. Sometimes they gave jelly. Every day there were dates, fruits were melon, orange, pamella, apple. They didn’t eat sweets, the buns are either not fresh, or they have such pastries, here it’s already an amateur.
ANIMATION. The hotel does not have it! On the third day of rest, we found out that we have some animators who held a show at 10 pm, they came once, the show did not wait because of the small number of people, they decided not to hold it. For the whole holiday we saw only one show and it was very boring and I wanted to leave.
POOLS. There are two in the hotel. Didn't swim in one. In our presence, bleach was poured from a bucket in a very large amount, and I doubted the cleanliness of the pools.
SEA. Here you can write for hours. For the first time I was on the Red Sea and now I will advise everyone to come there, just for the sake of the sea. Underwater world of unreal beauty. There are 2 beaches from the hotel. The first beach is close - on Naama Bay, we always walked, but when you come to it you will be disappointed, very dirty and the poorest and worst of all the beaches. We came to our beach, left our things and walked along the coastline to better beaches, where we swam and watched corals. The second one is further away, it takes 20 minutes by bus, but it's worth going there. For all tourists, this beach is paid and boat trips, where people pay to look at the corals, take place there. But only for our hotel there is free admission and swim at least for hours. There is a separate pantone, very beautiful corals, fish and rocks. All my photos are mostly from there. Be prepared that there will be a big problem on two beaches with water to wash. On one beach there is no shower at all, on the second there is almost always water, but the conditions are terrible. (I attach a photo).
Be prepared that there are very few tourists from Ukraine and Belarus in the hotel, the entire hotel is Muslims with children. There are also few Slavs on our beach, only Arabic music. All beaches close at 17:00, at 17:30 it was already dark. Swimming is prohibited at night.
TOURS. We went on two excursions. The first is a Jeep safari. The tour lasted from 9 am to 5 pm. The price includes camel riding for 15 minutes, snorkeling in the blue hole (about 170m deep), where you will see beautiful corals, but few fish due to the large number of people. There we were fed a piece of chicken with vegetables. The cost was $20 + $4 rental of life jackets per person. On the way back we stopped in the canyon for about 20 minutes. If you decide to buy this tour, it is better to take a bus than a jeep. It's cheaper by $ 5, eat with air conditioning and it's much more comfortable to sit. The second excursion is quad bikes. Here I don’t even know, I liked the quad riding itself, but the organization is terrible. We were told that we would ride for about 2 hours, in the end it turned out to be a maximum of 30 minutes. While we gathered all the people in hotels, it took about 40 minutes until we reached the place. Don't expect to be able to drive wherever you want and at any speed. The movement occurs strictly one after another and at a low speed. The echo in the canyon, which they advertise is generally funny. In our Belarusian forests, it is 3 times louder. Tea in the Bedouin village - there is no village there, there are many p-shaped chambers where you can sit and give ordinary black tea. Field village tour ends. I advise you not to buy excursions from a guide from your tour operator, he is much more expensive. Better go down to the city, there are many wards with excursions at normal prices.
WiFi. Reception only. Uploading photos and sending messages is possible only early in the morning or late in the evening. The rest of the time there are a lot of people and the modem can not cope.
Be sure to bargain when buying souvenirs, take off almost half the cost. Be sure to try the mango, I have never eaten such a delicious mango anywhere, it is something incredible. We went down to the city twice to eat seafood (crabs, lobsters and shrimp), make it on the grill or just boil it. We really liked it, for two it will be about $ 20-25 for 2 crabs, 2 lobsters and 10 king prawns. If you want to try the taste of seafood, then it’s better to ask them to just cook it, their grilled garlic sauces really interrupt the taste and smell.
If you are unlucky and you also bought a ticket without reading reviews and on the advice of a tour operator, then the only thing I can advise you is to take masks with you, buy alcohol in Duty free and spend all your free time outside the hotel (go to SOHO Square and excursions, walk around the city and enjoy the sea). Our bitter experience brightened up the sea and the sun of Egypt.
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