Loved the hotel, traveled with 2 small children

Written: 17 may 2014
Travel time: 4 — 15 may 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
We wanted to go to this hotel in the fall, but in the fall we preferred to Paris, but in the spring we went to Sierra for the May holidays, we rested for 11 days from May 4 to May 15.
We had 2 children (3 years and 5 years old), we took the Family Room, spacious, good.

We are not the first time in Egypt, in Sharm El Sheikh we were at the Continental Hotel. So in the Sierra, everything is better, except for the reefs. The reefs are much better in the Continental. In the Sierra, these lifeguard whistlers were asking, as soon as you swim close to the reefs, they whistle, they say, sail away from the reefs. And these buoys are very close to the reefs. Between the buoys and the reef, 5 meters, that's it. Swim in this lane.


We went with TezTour, Rosa Vetrov airline. The flight is normal, the food on the plane is delicious, there is a separate menu for children. We took chupa-chups with us for children so that their ears would not be blocked. On the plane, no one offered lollipops to the children. Drinks served 1 time. There are uncomfortable seats on the plane, they recline slightly, it is unrealistic to sleep, even the children did not fall asleep, they suffered.
Night flights are very inconvenient. The departure was at 5:40 am Kyiv time, we flew there, quickly arrived at the hotel by bus, at 9 we were at the reception, we were told that there were no available family rooms, because it was May 4, May holidays, a lot people from Russia. We left the luggage at the concierge, changed and went to the sea. We were not allowed to have breakfast because our tour starts at 12:00. Strange, they paid for 11 days, but they didn’t give breakfast, despite 2 small children.
They settled us already at lunchtime, they gave us a room in building 2, the room was good, large, the furniture was good.
Everything is standard in the room, a double bed, a single bed and a small one was added. Two armchairs, a small table, a dressing table with a mirror, a separate large mirror, a TV, a safe, large wardrobes, another low table for a suitcase.
A small refrigerator, a kettle, plenty of bottled water, Lipton tea, Nescafe coffee, dried cream, sugar, sweetener - this was replenished every day, we often drank coffee on the terrace after dinner while the children slept.
Bed-towels-robes are all white clean, slippers-soap-shampoo-body cream are all ok. Left a dollar, cleaned well. A couple of times they forgot to leave money, but the quality of cleaning was not affected.

The territory of the hotel is well-groomed, green, we lived next to the spa, mini-golf. Walking around the area is a pleasure! As for me, the location of the buildings is well thought out, everything is convenient, everything is nearby. My husband liked the big street chess. Our 5-year-old daughter loved to spend time in the Kids Club, they were taken by animators to bowling, and if they were recruited, then to the skating rink too. There is a big trampoline behind the children's club in a closed courtyard, during the day you can jump, it's not hot there.
There is plenty of entertainment for adults too.

Table tennis, table football, billiards, darts with animators at the main pool and on the beach. My husband and I liked to play a game with iron balls on the sand on the beach, I didn’t remember the name. We even took them ourselves and played together with my husband : ) I went to water aerobics - I didn’t like it, about nothing, very passively. I saw girls doing yoga, like Latin American dances by the main pool, but also passively.

The food in the restaurant is excellent, a lot of meat, fish, vegetables of any kind, I often ate moussaka, tomatoes, soft white cheese, spinach, grilled vegetables. From desserts, delicious donuts with chocolate icing! ! ! And some kind of yellow biscuit cake, moist inside, with coconut flakes. There are many fruits: watermelons, melons, oranges, tangerines, bananas, apples, guava 1 time, peaches, figs, dates, raisins, dried apricots, prunes. I liked fig jams in the morning. The children drank a lot of juice.
The juice is good, they poured it out of the bags, the children always ordered mango juice, yum-yum, it’s so expensive here.
The food in general is just great! On the beach after 12 you can take sandwiches, delicious with tuna. Near the 6th building, by the long pool, there is the Indiamo bar, where they took Sierra pizza for lunch, very tasty, and there are also different sandwiches, and a Cheesecake cake (it doesn’t look like a real one at all, but also delicious).
In the main restaurant, we only found out on the third day that there is still a room for children further to the right : )))) Children's dishes are available, not spicy, dietary, there are 3 large round tables with small chairs, it is convenient for children, there are on the tables paper posters on which you can color, find differences, circle labyrinths, a TV with cartoons works. And there are regular tables for parents.
Our children were reluctant to eat, under the cartoons you could put something in, and parents can eat in peace, the children watch cartoons, and not run around the hall.

I also really liked Cafe Chino Lebanese cuisine, in Soho, you can have dinner for free, I ordered Warak Enab there - pickled grape leaves stuffed with rice and something else, but there is little filling, there are mostly leaves, sour, and I ordered there grill mix, these are mini-kebabs from different types of meat and kebab. We also tried shawarma and some other dishes there, went there for dinner several times, Café Chino is open from 17:00. And then, around 21:00, we went to our main restaurant for a couple of slices of watermelon : )
By the way, the end of April - the beginning of May is a great time to travel to Sharm. It is moderately hot, the sea is warm, there are plenty of fruits, and in Ukraine at this time there are zero fruits, they are perfectly recharged with vitamins.

Much has been written about Soho, everything is very beautiful, a lot of entertainment.
Our daughter liked the ice skating rink, went there 4 times. I've been bowling twice. They never made it to the cinema. We went to the SPA for a massage, the boy is doing well, the cutest of them: )))) The girl is doing it weakly.

The hotel staff is polite, they smile, greet, play with children, they especially love kids 2-3 years old : )))) they just won’t pass by so as not to flirt with the kids.

We walked to the beach, only twice we went by bus from the beach, at lunchtime, it was hot. It is very pleasant to walk around the territory of the Savoy hotel, we found a path in the shade of beautiful flowering trees! ! ! The beach, by the way, was one of the criteria when choosing a hotel, I wanted a sandy entrance to the water, so that the children not only swam from the pontoon, but also could dig in the sand and wallow in the water near the shore. If there is no low tide, then the sea is just at such a level that 1-2 meters deep is a normal sandy entrance to the water. The last 2 days there was a strong ebb, that the corals were already exposed, the water was very gone.
The reefs are modest, we were at the Continental Hotel, where the reefs are more luxurious and there are more places where you can swim. In the Sierra Savoy, a small piece of reefs, to the right of the Sierra rocks, they began to build another hotel there, they are not allowed to swim the reefs there, swim only between the Sierra pontoon and the Savoie pontoon. And between the reefs and the buoy there is not much space for swimming, it was somehow a bit crowded. But we just have something to compare. Those who are in Sharm for the first time should like it.


In general, they were satisfied with the rest, the children were completely delighted, they did not want to leave. I think we will visit this hotel again!
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