Nice hotel but not wow

Written: 28 december 2019
Travel time: 20 — 27 december 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 9.0
Everything was fine, for the first time I tried all inclusive with my wife. For those who do not want to plan a vacation, we recommend it. My wife and I decided that for that kind of money we could get more impressions (and there is experience - 20 countries visited on the list). All our days there was the following algorithm of actions: eat - at sea - eat - pool - eat - watch a performance - sleep. We went out to look at Sharm el-Sheikh itself once, no longer wanted to leave the hotel - this is not a city, but a set of working and unfinished hotels plus a bazaar.

The pros outweigh the cons.

Pros:
1) Gorgeous view and location of the hotel, excellent exterior design, landscape architecture, windows overlooking the sea. The sea is excellent.
2) Many pools with relatively warm water in close proximity to the rooms.
3) There are restaurants to choose from on an all-inclusive basis.
4) There is a gym.
5) Every evening there are performances - dancing or live music.

6) Animators do not let you get bored, but sometimes they get bored with constant advertising of various events.
7) The staff is very friendly and helps with questions of what and where, especially the animators, for all the time there were no complaints. Favorite service phrase: is everything good?

Minuses:
1) Although the food is varied, at some point you understand that there is nothing to choose from: fruits were often green (maybe because of the season), sweets are not as tasty as they look, vegetable dishes in large pots did not please the taste . We ordered tiramisu in a restaurant - although it was very tasty, it had little in common with tiramisu. The same with Margherita pizza - the dough is still tolerable, but the quality of the cheese and tomatoes is not very good. Especially when you are a vegetarian, you will take yourself fried potatoes every day, well, in extreme cases - rice. : )
2) Entrance to the beach only from the pontoon. After sunset (and in December the sun sets already at 5), swimming in the pools and in the sea is prohibited.
3) Some Egyptians know English and Russian so poorly that after you have talked to them, you don’t understand whether you are not able to recognize words, or whether they speak like that and this is considered normal. Sometimes it happens in a restaurant that you asked for something, but they either forgot to bring it to you, or they didn’t understand.
4) Small flies were seen in the hotel when we checked in, the Internet sometimes did not work well, but these are trifles.
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