Normal hotel but there are drawbacks that tour operators are silent about.

Written: 6 august 2014
Travel time: 25 july — 5 august 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
They flew well. We flew with Kharkiv Airlines. Everything is fine, the planes are comfortable, the crew and flight attendants are pleasant, clean, comfortable. It takes 10-15 minutes from the airport to the hotel (the plus is that the ride is not long, and the minus planes practically fly over the hotel on takeoff, for whom it doesn’t bother everything is fine). Settled in 15 minutes.
ROOM. The room is normal, not Turkey, but quite decent. Of course they clean the room disgustingly. Room cleaning consists in making your bed and, if you remind the cleaner, sometimes he will report shampoo, soap and an extra roll of toilet paper. Apparently they do not know about the existence of vacuum cleaners and powerful tools. You immediately thought we didn't tip. You are wrong. The first 4 days were left on the 1st dollar as usual, but this did not make the room cleaning better. For the sake of experiment, I threw a piece of toilet paper about 5x5 cm in size under the table. Result: I removed it myself on the third day, it hurt our eyes painfully. And for the last 4 days we have generally refused to clean the room, put up a DO NOT DISTURB sign and that's it. And trust me, the room didn't get any dirtier. It is better to give that dollar for tea to the waiters in the restaurant.
KITCHEN-WAITERS. This is where the guys deserve to be commended. Clean, tidy, smiling. I didn’t have time to sit down at the table, they come running to take the order and quickly bring the ordered drinks drinks. About food. The food is delicious. Breakfast is monotonous, but lunch and dinner are not inferior to restaurants in Turkish hotels. I will not list all the dishes because it is tiring and I don’t remember everything. Meat, fish, salads, vegetables, fruits, sweets. Trust me, you won't be hungry.

TERRITORY. A huge territory, very green and well-groomed, and at night almost all the bushes and trees glow. We have seen more than once how in the morning at 6-6:30 the gardeners washed the sidewalk with brushes. I have not seen this in Turkey. In a word, well done.
BARS. In the bars we met bartenders-louts. Do not be surprised because you are in Egypt. Immediately call the elder and complain. He can be sorted out by clothes, he quickly puts them in place. Feel free to stand your ground. In general, there is a senior everywhere: in a restaurant, bars, on the territory, on the beach.
BEACH. I don’t know why, but the tour operators and those who write reviews are silent about the fact that before lunch there is nowhere to swim in the sea. What's the catch? There is a strong wind before lunch and they are not allowed to swim from the pier, and you can’t swim much on the beach when the water is knee-deep at best. I didn't speak to my knees. Here you can simply lie down or sit on the bottom as you are lucky with the place. After lunch, the wind subsides and there is practically no water near the hotel, but you can dive from the pier with a mask and fins. And here the beauty of the Red Sea opens up. Very beautiful, colored corals a million colored fish. I saw a Napoleon fish, a small moray eel about 70 cm and even a sea snake (such a striped one). At first we thought it was an eel, but the rescuers said it was a sea snake and asked us to move further. And one more nuance with the sea. From the pier, if you swim, you need to swim well, because there the current carries away from the pier to the side. And one more plus. There are always free sun loungers on the beach with this everything is fine. No need to get up very early and borrow a deck chair. When you do not come, there is always a choice where to lie down.
EXCURSIONS. If you want to go on excursions, try not to go with Pegas turistik. In general, try not to go anywhere with a Pegasus. There are no guides. Load, hang noodles and then shrug their shoulders saying: - we can not do anything. And in general, many people told me that PEGAS is a complete garbage, but I did not believe it until I saw for myself. But if you still want to go to Jerusalem, for example, pay a little more and look for another tour operator TEZ-TOUR or ANEX-TOUR. These are responsible, reliable, proven by us and other tourists tour operators. They have normal comfortable buses with WI-FI, with normal quiet air conditioners and, most importantly, normal guides work there. For example, our trip to Jerusalem. We were told this: it will take 2-2.5 hours to get to the border with Israel (it took 3.5 hours), we quickly cross the border in 0.5 hours (the crossing took 2 hours, the young guide girl Natasha collected passports, handed them over for seals and we saw her again in no man's land 2 hours later. That is, some guy from another company who had nothing to do with ours had already handed out passports to us. Apparently, he felt sorry for us in that heat. Everyone began to resent that we were the first to hand over our passports and they crossed the border last, and on the drum she decided to see some of her questions). Further, according to their story, 1 hour drive to the Dead Sea, swimming, lunch and further to Jerusalem 3-3.5 hours. We drove to the Dead Sea for 2 hours, did not swim, had a quick lunch and drove on, so as not to stray from the tour schedule. Thank God that an Israeli bus and another guide Vera drove us through Israeli territory, God bless her. Another tour has begun. Great bus, good air conditioning, WI-FI all the way and a great educated historian guide. Here we are all 40 tourists and calmed down, because we were all really scared of this disorganization. Further along Israel and Palestine, everything was like clockwork, there was nothing to complain about. And already again in Egypt, on the way back, a new swing began, but this is a long time to write. What am I leading to. If you still decide to travel, then the time that you are told that you will spend on the road must be multiplied by 2. In fact, from our hotel to Jerusalem, we spent 12 hours on the bus. There we went toilets in Egyptian territory were free on the way back paid. How do you like this? The bus is half-killed, zasrany, somehow rides from the hump, and everyone overtook us uphill. The air conditioner worked like a tractor. We sometimes asked him to turn it off, his head really hurt from his work. In a word, Pegasus is complete garbage.

In general, the holiday was a success. If you evaluate the hotel on a 10-point system: ROOM-5, KITCHEN-WAITER-10, INFRASTRUCTURE-10, TERRITORY-10, SEA-7, BEACH-10.
PS. No WI-FI. And even if you pay for it, it's not a fact that you will use it, the speed is so low that sometimes it doesn't pull as much as wiber, not to mention SKYPE. Better to forget about the internet altogether. But if you really want to, people there said that they bought their SIM card. $20 enough for about 5-7 days of correspondence. Good luck and enjoy your holiday.
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