Внимание! Экскурсии! Attention! Tours!

Were in "Grand Plaza" at the end of September. Before the trip, we studied reviews for a long time, compared options. Basically, we weren't disappointed. The hotel is good, the service is at the level, the food in restaurants (and there are 3 of them on the territory - you can have breakfast in one, dine in another, and dine in the third) is quite edible.
There are two main disadvantages:
1. Access to the sea only from a long pantone, which: a) is closed in a storm; b) at normal times it is filled with people, which means that in order to go down into the sea or climb the stairs and then back, you need to wait for a decent queue. Yes, and you can’t sit there for a long time, because there is not enough space - accordingly, we swam a couple of times in the sea after breakfast, and then we still returned to the pool, and already there we rested comfortably on sun loungers.

2. Excursions. First, they fool around with prices. You can go to the same place for completely different money. It all depends on where, how and with whom you are willing to bargain. For example, a three-hour excursion to the bathyscaphe (a boat with an underwater showroom, where you can see the beauty of the Red Sea through the windows) cost us $35 per person, our hotel neighbors $50 each, and the fare “1 ticket = 20 dollars. " Although, to tell the truth, the red price of this excursion is “ten”.
The story about the trip to Jerusalem deserves special attention. Our hotel guide Tamerlane described this tour to us so vividly and colorfully (in which, as it turned out later, he could never be by definition, since Egyptians are not allowed into Israel, and Israelis into Egypt), that out of 10 people did not agree to go only two. I won’t go into details, I just want to warn you that we stood at the border in the city of Taboo for 5 hours (! ) - without a toilet, water and the opportunity to simply sit down somewhere. It was very hard to endure the day of moving and hiking. Yes, the Dead Sea is probably useful, and Jerusalem and Bethlehem are places of worship, but I will remember this border for a long time, negative impressions did not interrupt my holy places. In the opposite direction, we returned faster, without queues, but already on the Egyptian side we sat on the bus for 2.5 hours, and until there was a scandal, no one took us anywhere. We barely made it to the plane back home. . .
Oh yes, I also forgot. Settle in this hotel only at 14.00. Provided that we arrived at the place at 10.00, staggering in the forty-degree heat for 4 hours is a dubious pleasure...