Sierra and its premium services

Written: 13 october 2011
Travel time: 29 september — 8 october 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Hello everyone who is going to this hotel. We stayed there from September 29th to October 8th and there are a few management changes that I would like to share. They happened with us. From October 1, Sierra switched to the Premium All Inclusive system. We were called to the reception by a letter brought by the cleaner, where there was a request to come and change the bracelets. The blue ones were cut off and the gold ones were put on. They were given a book with tear-off tickets, according to which it was possible for FREE:
1. Play 1 game of tennis or go to the ice rink in Soho (there were good skates sharpened, the ice is good, you can ride until you get bored. We took our own socks, )
2. Visit Kulturama (a rare nudotina, a few photos of terrible quality about the pyramids and other tutankhamuns, plus mathematical information, according to which formula the pyramids were built). A little more astronomy, which stars were discovered by the Arabs, also with terrible quality pictures. School is even more interesting.

If it weren't for the free ticket, we'd be sorry if we paid £.35 (that's how much a ticket costs for everyone else). Advertisements hang everywhere that this is a sensational cinema hall with 9 screens, but there are no sensations there and close.
3.1 game of billiards or bowling. We chose bowling. Shoes are issued.
4.1 hour sauna in the SPA (107 degrees, spacious), jacuzzi or Turkish bath.
5.15-minute neck massage at the spa. Take a tip if you want not to be stroked, but to be massaged normally. Liked.
Gold bracelets also give you the opportunity to dine with drinks for free at many restaurants in Soho. We went to Hakuna Matata 2 times, once we ordered a shrimp dish - they brought 5 huge king prawns with rice, Moroccan sweets (reminiscent of Bounty's internal filling), Paraguayan mint tea. The second time we ate pizza with seafood. Also delicious. (The hotel is a rare muck). They also brought a kettle, cups, coffee, tea and sugar to the room.
With all this, half the people in the hotel continued to walk around with blue bracelets that did not give all these benefits. As we were later explained, not all tour operators have signed agreements. Our Anex and Ukrainian Turtess concluded, Russian Intourist, it seems, no. Find out.
And a few more personal observations and impressions.
HULLS. After reading the reviews, we dream not to get into the notorious 5 building. Hooray. Settled in the second. With luxurious views of the wall, hidden by eucalyptus trees and backyards. But how we appreciated it! Silence, no one wanders (the room was on the 1st floor), shade all the time, except for half an hour at 8.30 in the morning. Allegedly "thieves" 3 building was nearby, but we would not want to live there. The sun is beating all day long, the people in the pool are screaming, someone is constantly poking past and looking in the windows.
FOOD. They fed deliciously. I advise you to try the fish for lunch and dinner, mega-delicious. And the salads are disgusting. The beef was tough. But the chicken is nothing.

Stewed vegetables have always been tough for some reason. Squids were given every day, delicious. Pizza, as I already wrote, is disgusting, but tuna sandwiches on the beach are very tasty. Hot dogs and chicken sandwiches are okay too, hamburgers will be worse. Good pounding alcoholic cocktails.

SEA. I can only compare with Taba, and not in favor of Sharma. In Taba, the reefs are young, here they are half-eaten by parrot fish. The corals are old, semi-broken, few growing. There are enough fish, we even saw a stingray. Moray eel - caught my eye all the time, beauty.
TOUR OPERATOR. Anekstur with an inadequate guide. With questions, it is better to contact the girls on Guest Relation. Everything that they tried to find out from the guide turned out to be just the opposite. Bus to Naama? They will take you there, back on their own. Even though I took it back. The safe was broken and the door wouldn't close. The guide with a smart look says that you need to press the button on the back side, and the lock will go into the grooves.
We did not go on excursions, only to Old City for mangoes, hibiscus and souvenirs. Cheaper than in Soho, but they weigh like the last bastards, especially if there are old scales with weights and bowls on the tray. They weighed me over a kilo. True, seasonings were weighed nearby on electronic scales, so they immediately outweighed and threw a scandal. They did not return the money, but we took the missing mango to the named weight.
That, in fact, is all. There will be a question, write. In general, I liked the hotel very much. We have been to many countries and hotels, there is something to compare. With a clear conscience, we recommend it to everyone. But we won't go back. We don't go to the same place twice.
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