Tirana has the best bay in sharm

Written: 6 april 2012
Travel time: 18 — 28 march 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
The hotel is really a solid 4+. First, I will write down the pros: If you are interested in the beauty of the underwater world of the Red Sea, then Tiran is your choice. The most beautiful coral bay is at this hotel (well, or at Melia Sinai, with whom they share the beach). This is confirmed by numerous reviews of tourists from other hotels, who were brought to our bay on excursions. And it's worth a lot. So don't forget your snorkeling mask and your vacation will fly by.
The hotel itself and its territory are clean and tidy, there is nothing to complain about, the staff is polite. Constantly greet and smile, already tired. But many do it really sincerely, and those who do not are very good at pretending to be similar.
Upon check-in, they slipped $ 10, whether it played or not on the choice of our room is not clear. They gave me a standard room with a view of the desert and mountains. But for us it was not so important. So give or not money, think for yourself. There isn't much of a difference.

The restaurant "fed" a couple of waiters. Every day, one or the other was left with a dollar. But sometimes you come, and a separate table is already waiting for you with a candle and drinks. For such a penny, a very pleasant trifle, you must agree.
Every day they left a dollar for the cleaner of the room, but in addition to the usual swans, he wove us hares and elephants and other animals. So it even became interesting what he would come up with today.
Disagree about food and water. 7-10 breakfast, 10-17 bar open, 12:30-15-00 lunch, 18-23 second bar, 19-22 dinner. So you can eat and drink for free almost always from 7 am to 11 pm. More for money. The food, if monotonous, with slight changes from day to day, is still quite a large selection. From meat daily chicken, fish, beef (pork in an Islamic country is a taboo apparently). More than 10 salads, all kinds of side dishes (vegetables, several types of potatoes, pasta, spaghetti, rice, etc. ) In general, for 11 days of our stay, we could always choose what to eat without limiting ourselves. The local alcohol is full of booze, but you can drink, no one seems to have been poisoned.
Cons: didn't notice, sorry.
Greetings to Russian girls animators from this hotel: Katya from St. Petersburg and Irishka from Novosib. Girls, if you read these reviews, say hello to Elvis and Eileen (red-haired Englishwoman, I hope I didn’t confuse the name). This is Max with Masha from St. Petersburg.
Animation, by the way, for five, they make fun during the day, (let's say, gymnastics) put on a show every evening. At night they go to discos. Yabsdoh in this mode.
We went on a couple of excursions, I'll tell you a little about them:
"The Secret of the Desert" - an awesome tour, 130 USD for two. 9 hours in time, of which 6 hours is quad biking around Dahab. Arrival at the oasis and drinking tea with the Bedouins, swimming in the harbor of Aqaba, a chic dinner with the Bedouins. The organizers deliberately recruit small groups, so the tour takes place in a relaxed atmosphere. We were 5 people. In general, super, I recommend.

"Lost Land" - I would rather call "Lost Time" for 170$ for two. Gorgeous walk through the canyons and the passage through the cave. Two hours of swimming, or rather waiting for the allotted time to pass near some puddle with the proud name of Fjord Bay (don't be fooled, it's a puddle, it's more colorful at the bottom of the Neva). Then the same nondescript half-hour boat ride around some kind of fortress, like our Koporye. A group of 40 people, there was a large group of adults who arrived together and from the very beginning staged a hubbub and whining so that everyone would go back to the hotel, begin to eat the sausage they had brought with them and drink vodka. I felt ashamed for my compatriots. In general, the tour is nothing, it is better to take a separate tour of "Color" or the Grand Canyon, it is worth seeing for everyone. And it'll be cheaper.
P. S. a little advice for those traveling to Sharm. The Sinai stamp is still valid, I met him at many in the hotel. Getting is not a problem. What is it? Google it. )
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