Хороший бутик-отель Good boutique hotel

On a Bees Airlines flight, it was surprising that we were forced to wear masks over respirators. And despite the fact that many passengers had masks on their chins. Both flights from Zhuliany airport (Kyiv-Sharm, Sharm-Kyiv) were performed according to the schedule.
We arrived at the hotel at 7-50 and asked (for $ 20) a good room. At the reception there are employees who speak Russian well. At 10-10 we checked into room 1222 (it is a corner room) on the 3rd floor overlooking the 2nd hotel pool and partial sea view. True, the bracelets were put on only at 11-30. The room had an electric kettle and tea and coffee making facilities which were very convenient.
The hotel has a nice option - from about 6-00 in the lobby bar you can drink drinks from the coffee machine and eat croissants and two types of other buns. It's free. So we didn't need breakfast.

Everything in the room worked, except for the lock on the door to the balcony. The room had everything that is indicated in the description of the hotel. Pleased with the presence of drying clothes on the balcony.
They cleaned every day, at first around 9-30 (when we were on the beach), then between 11-00 and 12-00, when we had already returned from the beach and were going for lunch, but it did not bother. Bed linen was changed on the 5th day without a reminder from our side. The cleaner was left with a chocolate bar every day.
Extending the room (we had a late flight) costs $25 from 12:00 to 15:00 (including lunch) and $35 from 12:00 to 18:00 (including lunch).
From 10-00 animators work at the hotel: darts, yoga, bocha, water polo in the lower pool, etc. After dinner, there are animators' performances at the exit from the reception.
Yes, by the way, Wi-Fi in the hotel is paid - $ 10 for 7 days.
Beach
Here we were in for a series of troubles. Firstly, we were only able to get 1 towel on the cards. The second towel - only the next day, when we waited for the delivery of towels to the lower pool.
Something else was worse - almost all the places on the 6-level beach are occupied, although people sit on about 1/4 of the occupied sunbeds.
As a result, I had to take sunbeds every morning at 6-00, usually on the 3rd or 4th tier - there is more room between the sunbeds. In the evening (about 15-10) you could find free sunbeds, but there were not many of them (leaving the beach in the morning, we took our towels). By the way, for the loss of a towel or a card for it, a fine of 10 euros, as well as for the loss of a card from the room.
The swimming area, fenced with buoys, is very small. From the side of the coral on the hotel beach there are 2 lionfish - it's very dangerous!!!

I swam south towards the Sultan Gardens hotel (there is an uninteresting reef and few fish) to the pier of the Sunrise Arabian hotel. Here the reef is more interesting and there are more fish. If you sail north (Piramisa hotel beach), then the reef is more interesting than that of Sultan Gardens, especially 100 meters from the Piramisa pontoon. In the morning it is more interesting to sail there because of the better illumination of the reef (the sun shines in the back). There is a gentle current from Piramisa towards Xperience Sea Breeze beach. Therefore, it is very comfortable to swim back with a minimum of effort.
I swam every day several times, but more or less large fish (a flock of about 20 pieces of blue-finned horse mackerel about 60-75 cm long) were seen only once.
In general, in Sharks Bay (during several vacations I sailed it from the Siva Sharm Hotel to the Sunrise Arabian Hotel), there is neither a beautiful reef, nor a large number and variety of fish.
Hotel
This is a boutique hotel with a very small area - its width is about 50 m. But on this territory there are 4 pools, one of which has a water slide. There were 3 bars - at the reception, near the pool with a water slide and on the beach. In the last two from 12-30 you could eat fast food. The positive point is that the bartenders pour all the drinks without stint, and give as many glasses as you ask. 2 drinks like UPI and cold/hot water are always available. The staff is generally very friendly and almost everyone understands Russian.
There is a slight slope of the hotel towards the sea, this did not bother us at all, but for those who wish, a hotel bus runs inside the hotel along the fence with the Piramisa hotel.
In one of the reviews, I read that from the hotel for 20-25 minutes. you can walk to the main road along which the Old Market minibuses run - Nabq is not true.
It was comfortable to walk there, because you walk along the fence, the non-working hotel in the shade and the breeze blows. So we visited the Sinai Diorama for Biodiversity. Went about 40 min. It appeared that it was still under construction. But we saw a beautiful park, a flock of white herons and hoopoes.
If you go left when leaving the hotel, you will find yourself on a shopping street that is not much inferior to the well-known Il Merkato street.
Nutrition
The all-inclusive system works from 10-30 (those who like to drink beer in the morning will not like it). The main drawback is that drinks (except UPI and water) are served by waiters at lunch and dinner. To receive them on time, you need to give 1 dollar / day.

The food is very varied and plentiful. Every day fish: fried, baked or grilled. There is always beef, by the way, well cooked, kebeb, etc. , etc. For 10 days: king prawns were 3 times, squid, octopus, crabs. The restaurant is divided into two parts: where they serve Italian cuisine and international - Arabic cuisine.
Dishes are put by waiters who stand behind a glass partition into their own plates. They charge as much as you ask.
Free access: bakery products, pickles, vegetables, fruits (there is a drawback here - there has never been a watermelon, as a rule: guava, melon, grapefruit, orange, often grapes), pickles, culinary products.
In the morning, the queue for scrambled eggs can be 3 or 12 people. Similarly, there can be a lot of people for dinner - often 12-15 people stand at the back of the head to each other. Once, at dinner, we could not immediately find empty seats in any of the two halls of the restaurant.
There are fewer people in the hall at lunchtime.
Anti-Covid Measures
At the reception there is a sign "All hotel staff are vaccinated against covid. " In the restaurant, most of the employees wear masks, but many wear them on their chins. Due to the crowding in the restaurant, we, in the process of collecting food, wore respirators and took places in the most remote part of the restaurant.
The drinks
The local red and white wine is sour and unpleasant. Beer is nothing. By the way, in the restaurant the waiters serve drinks in glass. Strong alcoholic drinks of local production are diluted and very amateurish (as in all Egyptian hotels). The coffee from the coffee machine is so-so, but the hot chocolate is very good. Juices in bars are poured from packages, and they are thick and fragrant, especially liked the mango juice.

Pros: Friendly staff, good food.
Cons: "battle for sunbeds", small territory, uninteresting reef.