The cheapest hotel in Sharm

Written: 6 july 2007
Travel time: 6 — 13 june 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 5.0
Rested in June (2007) at the Sunrise Hotel *** (Sharm El Sheikh). My friend and I had 9 different excursions planned for 7 days and we needed the hotel solely to sleep there. For this purpose, it will fit all 100. The hotel is small, with a cozy courtyard, the rooms are decent enough, air conditioning, that is, exactly the place where you can spend the night, if you are not very picky about the fact that there are rusty spots in the toilet bowl, shabby plastic chairs on the balcony and other signs of poverty. If you count on a good rest in this hotel, then I'm afraid he is not very adapted for this. We were very lucky that it was a maximum of a quarter full, otherwise everything would be missing. There are 8-10 trestle beds near the pool, it is very difficult to call food a buffet. It's more like self service.

The whole week that we were there, the menu was the same every day, without a choice. A very unpleasant moment, they don’t give drinks for dinner, no! Bar prices are sky high.

Tea or lousy instant coffee for $2, a bottle of local beer $4. We solved this problem simply. We almost did not take things with us, and all the free space in the bags was filled with beer and water. Just enough for a week : )

The hotel is exclusively for Russians. A little digression, we rode ATVs and while we were sitting at the baboons drinking tea, we talked with one guy from Morocco. He praised his hotel for a long time and, as the main advantage, said that there were no Russians there. Then, when he found out where we were from, he apologized for a long time, asked not to be offended, saying that individually you are all good people, but when there are a lot of you, you occupy all the trestle beds, the entire pool, take out all the food and. etc. With regret, I have to admit that this is how it is.
The way some of our tourists behave, especially middle-aged and elderly Muscovites who have lived in shortage all their lives and have a complex that they will not have enough for the rest of their lives, so they walk with an expression on their faces, as if they take a piece of bread out of their mouths . And then they are still surprised how the Arabs accurately determine that they are Russians. More about the shortcomings, the service is not so hot. Periodically, they forget to put shampoo or towels in the room, but this is easily treated in a simple way - instead of a tip, a note is placed where you write what you are missing. The next day everything is ok. When there are few people, the attitude towards tourists is more careful, after all, their salaries are small, and the whole calculation goes to tips.

About the beach. The beach is not very bad. Small, cozy, clean. But again, very small and shared between several hotels.

If all these hotels were filled by more than half, a war would begin for a place under the sun, or rather in the shade. There was also an unpleasant moment with towels. We overslept one of the excursions and went to the beach. At the reception they said that they would give us beach towels. There were none on the beach. The beach manager said that our hotel constantly does not add them. I had to take a taxi and go to the hotel to sort things out. They immediately apologized, gave towels, returned the money for a taxi and brought it back. But they said to keep the towels, although, in theory, they should have been changed every day.

I will say a few more words about excursions. We did not take long, tedious excursions such as Cairo. They preferred water. Those boat trips that they offer are all the same, no matter what it is called - Ras Mohammed, oh. Tyrant or fishing. All this is a boat trip, with three stops near the reefs where you can dive, lunch at one stop.
In principle, not bad, more interesting than just lying on the beach. The truth really depends on what kind of contingent on the ship. Once we came across a lot of Arabs with a brood of their Arab chats. Until dinner there was such a noise and din, but then we got tired and calmed down. Don't go fishing! Fishing - this is at a big stop you are given a reel of fishing line with a hook and a piece of fish for bait. The hook is big, the fish is small. No, it’s certainly interesting to see in clear water how a small fish knocks down this bait, but you have to pay extra 15 bucks for this pleasure ....One of us caught a fish, so he just sharply pulled the fishing line and picked it up by the belly.

Water park and 1001 nights do not take in travel agencies. You just take a taxi there, drive up there and pay the entrance fee there. And here and there they tried to throw money. In 1001 nights, instead of an account, he came up and simply wrote the amount on a piece of paper. I noticed that he brought a bill to a neighbor, an Arab. I counted in my mind, 40 pounds does not converge.

Called the manager, demanded a bill. They brought it, it turned out he added a hookah to us and some other garbage. They apologized for a long time, but it was clear that they were very disappointed that this time it didn’t work. The same goes for the water park. There is a cash register there, but even there they knocked out two copies of what I ordered in the check. The same thing - sincere apologies and deep disappointment on the face. When riding ATVs, they stop at baboons that sell drinks. The general rule is to lower the price first, and for absolutely everything, knock it down twice and only then order. Many tourists think on the principle that a bottle of cola cannot cost more than it costs. It turns out it can! Those who first ordered and then asked the price were convinced of this : )

Where to take excursions. No need to take from Sasha who is right next to the hotel. He's doing well and keeps prices and service lousy. For example, he brought us to the Aquapark an hour before the opening.
On the contrary, near the karting there is an excursion stand, David works there, he is not so snickering in terms of prices and service.

Finally, where to get tickets in Kyiv. I first ordered through the otpusk website. com. I picked this hotel for myself, called their phones, they told me that everything is there, bring the money. In the heat, through traffic jams, I stuck to them on V. Vasilevskaya, paid, as soon as I returned to work, they called me and said that this hotel was not there, it was on the stop list, and again, due to heat and traffic jams, I was forced to go back to collect money. Although having stopped at another agency (Galatea Tour), I took this particular hotel without any problems. In addition, the promotion is written in huge letters on the site, literally "Get a coupon for $ 20! Each subscriber receives a coupon for $ 20, which is valid when buying any tour at the Hot Line travel agency *. If you were registered on the Vacation site.
com earlier, in order to receive a coupon, write to us through the Help page and provide your e-mail. "I registered, but when I came to them, the girl who works there, Alena, said that it was only for tours from $ 1.000???? . After I bought this ticket, I went to their forum and left my review. Immediately this Alyona (she did not sign, but it was clear that it was her) wrote an angry refutation. After I answered that I could document every word I said, the topic was simply deleted. I especially liked that in her rebuttal she wrote that the discount in I was given $ 20. That is, everyone guessed in whose pocket this discount goes? In general, I do not recommend contacting this site, scammer.

Everyone is tired of trampling Claudia. If you have specific questions or need photos, write to jucca@yandex. ru, I will answer briefly.
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