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GENERAL IMPRESSION. SUPER POSITIVE! I RECOMMEND THE HOTEL, YOU WILL NOT HAVE A REST, BUT A FAIRY TALE! Not a hotel, but a corner of paradise! I didn’t even think that I would want somewhere else a second time! But I really want to go to this hotel chain again! ))))))
I will write about the pros and cons of our holiday.
FIRST ABOUT THE SEA)))))
SEA. The first two days were at sea and in the pools, then every other day. The sea is very transparent and warm))) Fish from the pontoon can be seen well, BIG AND SMALL))) There are no sharks, they are afraid of the reef, and the reef is nearby. Entrance from the pontoon at the Sea Club, once a red flag hung in the afternoon, we did not come before 11.30, but from morning to evening a yellow flag hung all the days. WARNING 1: relax with a whistler! Whistles for any reason - when you swim close to the reef and when you swim far away. Whistles when it is not necessary, and when it is necessary - you will not achieve it! ATTENTION 2: in case of a strong current, sometimes not a red, but a yellow flag hangs. If you are swept out to sea, BETTER DO NOT SWIM!
I swam for an hour in a strong current next to the pontoon, until I was suddenly carried far away, but I swim well! It's good to have a guy around! "Can You Help Me? " "Yes, I'm mine, mine, and also drunk! "SAVED ME! Together they shouted to throw a circle to us, a circle on a huge rope, but we had to swim to it! THANK YOU, GRISHA FROM DONETSK! ! ! Come save me again! We will sing karaoke)))) ATTENTION 3: The pontoon closes at 6 pm! Once or twice we sat in the paddling pool, where they were allowed until half past six, and there were plenty of fish. There were no jellyfish. On the last day, we walked into the lagoon, to the right of Sea Life, about 1 km, approximately, there is water in the lagoon, really, like in the Bounty advertisement))) But we didn’t last long, because the water began to rise, and we ended up on an island!
On the way from the lagoon to the hotel, about 200-300 meters before reaching it, there is another lagoon, with a sandy bottom, you can swim from the shore there, and a few people swam, not shallow, the depth descends evenly, the reef is ahead, if only earlier Let's go swimming on this wild beach! There is nothing to do on the beach at Sea Life (shallow), go directly to the Sea Club beach (pontoon) or to the lagoon (normal entrance). On the beach there are dampers from the wind, fungi, in the beach bar everyone is friendly, drinks are served on the fly - "they throw regularly")))))))))
TRANSFER. In general, our flight was delayed, the travel agency warned a day in advance, everyone was blamed on Pegasus, and Pegasus on Aeroflot! We flew out not at 14.30, at 19.30, we entered the room at 23 o'clock! We also flew back early in the morning - as a result, 2 days were simply “stolen” from us, we rested not 10 paid, but 8 full days (9 nights) (((At the Sharma airport, with the words “no visa needed”, they let us through, putting a Sinai stamp. I didn’t need it at the entrance until August 31, now I don’t know.
If you are planning to go to Cairo, and visas have been introduced again, then be sure to take a visa, it costs $ 15, otherwise you will be detained there at the first post. You do not need a visa to Israel, and if you are not going on excursions, do not take a visa, put a Sinai stamp. Some get it without problems, some have a delay, but in the end they get it, decide for yourself whether to defend your rights or not take risks. After the counter with visas, fill in the migration card in English - all according to the international passport, then to passport control, and receive suitcases. We quickly got to the bus, at the exit from the airport the Russian-speaking guide will tell you the bus number. Yes, we prepared, as we deducted from the last review, to disembark in 10 minutes, because the hotel is the very first from the airport, but everything turned out exactly the opposite - we drove for 45 minutes until everyone was taken, we were dropped off last, returning back to entrance, because our hotel is on the other side of the road!
On the way back I bought a lot of sweets in Duty Free, Duty is expensive, cheaper in Turkey!
WEATHER. During the day at temp. +40 is not hot, constantly light wind, +30 in the evening, the heat is well tolerated. It's hotter in Volgograd.
RECEPTION. At the reception, the first one came up and asked for a quiet room with a garden ore other view on the second floor, invested $ 20 (you don’t have to invest, some of them checked into a regular room for free), after 5 minutes they gave out keys and cards for towels. The porter was given a dollar each upon check-in and check-out. I didn’t ask for a room by the sea, they wrote here that it costs $ 15 per day, I don’t know if this is so. They say that the guides help to settle by the sea for free, but at 23:00 there was no guide. Ask for the second floor, the first floor is noisy. At the reception, they understand Russian, but they don’t speak, they spoke English (learn it). When you break out into the light, go to the towel clerk by the pool, he will exchange your cards for towels. By the way, it's written here.
Upon arrival, you will be supplied with 2 bottles of water, free tea, coffee, sugar. Take 2 bottles of water for free at the lobby bar. We took every night. Brush your teeth only with her, because tap water can cause diarrhea. There is a TV set, normal, but the remote control does not work (everything else worked), turn it manually. Plasma TV at the Sea Club, they said it was the same number. Take all bath accessories with you, there is only toilet paper and liquid soap. Yes, they left a dollar to a strange cleaner every other day, he wove swans when they didn’t leave a dollar, but he cleaned well. If you want the linen to be changed, put the blue cards on the bed so that the towels are changed - throw them on the floor in the bathroom. Although we have read that the room slams shut automatically, they themselves blundered together, and the keys remained in the room! I went to the cleaner, asked for English, opened it.
When we arrived, urgently from 11.30 to 14.
30 go to the See Club on the second floor on the left, the last table and sign up for three A la carte restaurants, they are paid, but you can sign up one time for free. We visited three in a week, a day later, when there were no excursions, because we signed up on time, next. in the morning, other Volgograd residents did not go that day and flew by.
RESTAURANTS. The three main ones are at the See Life 4*, See Club 5*, See Garden 4* hotels. The smallest Garden, have been there once. In restaurants for dinner, themed evenings, at the See Club stand, you can see which dinner is Italian, American, Mexican or other. Yes, whoever has a birthday or a romantic evening, the waiters congratulate you coolly, with songs and treats. At first, we liked it more in See Club, because there are a lot of people, there is live music upstairs in the evening, and there are donuts in chocolate, but then more in See Life, because it is much cooler there, and you can have breakfast, lunch, dinner for half an hour longer, you can dine until three, and not until half past two. The dishes are the same everywhere, but varied.
Not only chicken, as in Turkey, but also fish and meat in various forms, grilled, stewed, various, they cook "online"))) there are a lot of salads, bean - national, mango with apple, etc. Once Spaghetti ate, delicious sauce. In the morning, in all three restaurants, an omelet with ingredients and pancakes are prepared in front of you, with a few jams for the pancakes. A million different buns, pastries, cakes. A lot of fruits, juices, dates, apples, pears, oranges, watermelon was once. Stomach did not hurt, everything is fresh. Sausages are not soy. At the entrance to any restaurant, they smile at you and show you your table, and serve, pour drinks, coffee-tea in the morning and others, often come up and talk. Once in the morning they even joked COFFEE WHIVER VODKA? ? ? Yes, not only in the restaurant, everywhere you are welcome there, they talk, ask how you are. They understand Russian, but they say a few words, if you want to communicate, speak English. But some ask to speak Russian (learn the language).
If you want a good relationship, say a couple of local phrases, for example, SHUKRAN (thank you), ALF SHUKR (a thousand thanks), MASA EL KHEIR (good evening). Of the a la carte restaurants, I liked the Lebanese one more - a lot of salads in saucers, cast iron whole kebabs - which are still smoking - chicken, lamb, beef, and kebab, with onions, tomatoes, peppers, plus ice cream and drinks (we took juices), delicious! In the fish on the El Pescatore beach, they gave tiger prawns, lobster, and two types of fish, eat white, but we didn’t eat fatty fish, it’s better not to eat fish so that your stomach doesn’t hurt. And in Japanese, they gave us a whole performance with a fire show + you yourself go out and take part in the process of frying meat, in Japanese they took the chicken menu + rice for everyone, there is fish, and beef + mother-fanta + son cola))))) Leave a tip at a la carte.
THE SHOPS. In Life and in the Club and at the Club. Stock up on glasses in advance.
We took Maxima at the See Life store, barely bargained for $ 15, she doesn’t wear glasses, but they are needed for a quad bike tour. Hello Khalifa and Cosmos from the oil store, tell them that their oils saved us from burning + they gave us perfume))) Yes, Mario in the store at the Club, from whom they took coral slippers, speaks Russian perfectly. Hello to him from Elena and Maxim! By the way, if you swim from a pontoon, do not take these slippers, only if you go far to the corals from the "paddling pool", we took slippers for the lagoon, but we did not reach the reef! We bought gifts from the Sphinx. when we went to Cairo, it was cheaper there than in Naama Bay and than in the Old City. But whoever wants to, to the Old City and Naama Bay, a bus in the morning and at lunch is free, in the evening for a fee, you can take a minibus for $ 1. or a taxi, they didn’t use it, but they write that they don’t give more than $ 2 to a taxi driver, they ask for a lot. We did not exchange dollars for pounds. Everywhere accepted in dollars.
Only in one store on the way from Cairo they accepted in pounds, the guide exchanged dollars for pounds for everyone.
TERRITORY. It’s just huge, at first I wasn’t happy, how will we get around it (? ), But then we walked along it with pleasure. At first, they give a map to their hands and everything is shown on it, where, what. There is also a card on the stand at each hotel. A lot of greenery, flowers, there are bizarre flowering cacti. Large chess, fountains, gazebos. You can use the territory, restaurants, swimming pools, lobby bars and everything in all three hotels - See Life 4 *, See Club 5 *, See Garden 4 *.
ENTERTAINMENT. Every day - performances in the amphitheater, cabaret (filmed), in the lobby bar they listened to a live violin (they play in all hotels on different days), in the sea club and in the sea life a girl sings (moves around the hotels), they watched a fire show by the beach, on Sundays at sea life - karaoke, oh, I regret that I didn’t sing, I love to sing! I filmed how the Englishman sings the song of Sting!
Before lunch, aerobics in the pools (I did it once), then, next to the pool, LATINO dances. Greetings to Oleg the dance instructor and all the animators! )))
TOURS. Before the trip, Tatyana from At Egypt wrote to me. They left her their full names, they did not leave the phone. Her prices are cheaper than those of large tour operators. Upon arrival, she didn’t call her, she was afraid that they would take all the money, so they took off for calls, but it was possible to send SMS, of course, but they decided not to wait, they took it on the next. day morning sightseeing in Pegasus. We did not go to an early meeting with the guide, because we arrived late, we came individually, the Pegasus-Ahmed guide is friendly, speaks excellent Russian. Three excursions cost $390. Tatyana called us back to the room, we had to refuse, but it was with her that some went, everything is fine, without delay. And with Pegasus, after all, incidents happened! We took three excursions - Supermotosafari (quad bikes (with a sunset in the desert), Cairo and Ras Mohamed (marine reserve).
Liked the most -
SUPERMOTOSAFARI))). But how did we get there ...We arrived 10 minutes earlier, some white, not new, clunker without inscriptions drove up, some native came out, I gave a ticket and said SUPERMOTOSAFARI, sitdown pliiz, NOBODY on the bus ...(it seemed suspicious). , and…. . he brings us to some stable! Offers to sit down, quad bikes pass nearby, but ...., past us! One aur asks about that? I say that of braids, I’ll drive for two hours, it brings out (whom do you think? ) HORSE! I'm screaming music horse we vant to drive cars! ))))))) Then I started calling somewhere and brought me to the right place! )))))) Well, yes, I came to Egypt to ride horses, otherwise we don’t have our own (! ) )))) Yes. Arafats were bought for $ 5 on excursions, at the hotel for $ 3, as they wrote, there was none. Quad biking is amazing! Especially at speed and at sunset))) We rode for 45 minutes, then on camels.
When the son went to ride a camel and the Bedouin boy brought the camel to the place, the boy demanded “one dollar”, Max did not have it, he brought back, again “one dollar”. Then, looking at the boy, I felt sorry for the dummy, and gave it to him. She gave a dollar in advance for herself (she rode the same camel), but upon arrival at the place one way and the other, he demanded another 2 dollars from me, she didn’t give 2 more. We rode shouting "Izhevsk rules! " And Volgograd! "We made friends with the girls from Izhevsk, with Gulnara and Margosha)) We were also in the Bedouin village, with dinner and red tea, we watched a performance-belly dance and a male dance in a skirt (I filmed a video of what kind of vestibular apparatus you need to have in order to spin for almost 15 minutes around)))), they offered a hookah on the spot for $ 5, the neighbors smoked, and we were involuntarily high! ))))
CAIRO. We take passports to Cairo.
On the way to Cairo, tea sets are offered - feel free to take it, inexpensively. We took 2 sets - one includes 1 kg of red, 1 kg of yellow tea (healing), halva, honey, all this in a beach bag ($ 40), the other set was taken by relatives - 1 kg of red tea and half a kilo of yellow ($ 15) I liked the tour, especially the pyramids, the feeling of freedom))))))) We arrived back not at 23:00, but at 4:30 in the morning! (((But we don’t regret it! ATTENTION: take a dry breakfast in the morning, we took it in the lobby bar, because during this time they only serve one lunch, so get yourself something for dinner on the way back or eat breakfast! The pyramids have impudent sellers, do not accept gifts, they are paid. Buy everything from the sphinx. We went down to the small pyramid for 10 minutes, the entrance was 1 pound, but I had only 10 dollars, they let me through the guide for free, they didn’t dare to go to the big one - 40 minutes to walk stuffy and afraid of the "curse" ....The sphinx has cool pictures, but very annoying sellers, handed over what was not necessary!
Papyri 10 pieces for 5 dollars, gave 10, did not give change, demanded to find change, ran for 2 minutes, pretended not to, wanted to ask the guide, but then took a big cat for change. The cat turned out to be wooden and liked it very much at home, they put it in a prominent place, bought a pyramid souvenir, cosmetic bags, handbags with embroidery, a bunch of magnets. They didn't get married twice. The Bedouin boy flew up again, snatched a smartphone from my son and started taking a picture of me, then he snatched it from me, in the end he took a good picture, but then he asked for 5 dollars all the way to the bus, gave 2. On the way, we stopped by an oil factory, a papyrus workshop and a jewelry store. Then there was a walk along the Nile with songs and dances (filmed on video), a wonderful relaxation, only drinks for a fee - a jar of sprite for $ 4.
And then - the Cairo Museum with burial grounds and things of the pharaohs, the tombs of the pharaohs of the museum were looted during the revolution of 2011 (the burnt Parliament building next to the museum), it's a pity you can't take pictures there! By the way, we were not stopped anywhere, only our passports were checked before the border once. The excursion on the road was accompanied by the guide Suleimen, and in Cairo - by Yuri, both speak good Russian, and Yuri is so humorous)))
RAS-MUHHAMED. Take your passports, despite the fact that the guide said that they are not needed! Check on the yacht! They don’t let you go on a tour without a mask, take masks, we had one without a snorkel, but on the way they sell masks with snorkels and fins for everyone, for $ 4 a mask and $ 4 fins. Take soft fins (I took them), it's easy to swim in them, it's hard without fins (people said) and it's also inconvenient with hard fins (Max took it). You sail on a yacht for several hours, after an hour the first dive.
Around - awesome beauty))))) In Ras Mohammed there are three dives of 40-45 minutes, I didn’t go for the first one (the current and waves are strong), which I regret, on the second I saw a stingray, needle fish, huge and small fish . And on the third, the cook got attached to me, jumped into the sea after me, showed me a reef and fish, I refused to swim alone, then he took his son by the other hand, but showed us even more fish, and a moray eel too. CONCLUSION. Just talk to him, then YES! I had to fight back with flippers))))) ATTENTION: there is no whimsical photographer on the yacht, if you yourself did not come up, you will be left without a photo! We forgot to take a photo and stayed on the beans! And from the smartphone, the pictures miraculously DISAPPEARED! The tour was accompanied by a guide Hassan, speaks Russian just fine, even all the endings are correct)))
POOLS. We liked ours more at See Life, because a beautiful waterfall adjoins it, and you can cling to the rotunda, spin around it and pull yourself up and there are a lot of shadows, and there is no whistler. Russians around
. The See Club pool is also good, but sometimes the whistler comes (in the evening). See Garden has the largest pool and a waterfall, but we were uncomfortable there, only Germans hung around.
PECULIARITIES.
* Bungalow No. 6.7, 8.9 - with a view of the sea and the pool. We had a house number 2, overlooking the garden.
*Entry to restaurants on the first day from 11.30 to 14.30 in See Club
*Brush teeth with bottled water, take in the lobby bar.
*Do not take ice, it made others stomach ache.
*Go to aerobics, dancing (in the pools), and fitness equipment (in the Club)
*Fluid for combustion and tanning in the store Sea Life at Khalifa, your cream will not help
*On the CAIRO tour without changing money, do not give change, you will not get change!
*Dinner plan on the scoreboard in the Sea Club, entertainment plan was seen at the Sea Life restaurant
* Souvenirs are cheaper in Cairo at the Sphinx, and in the Old City, everything is expensive in the hotel!
* In Soho, to the left of the hotel, 5 minutes $ 4 by taxi, you can take a walk in the evening, see the singing fountain, performances of artists, although you will not be bored without this trip!
* You can swim in any weather from the shore in the nearest lagoon, 200-300 meters to the right of our hotel.
*If you need honey. help, contact the reception, and the guide, so that they accept it for free under insurance, the doctor at the hotel is paid.
I miss the hotel and everyone - everyone)))
I will write about the pros and cons of our holiday.
FIRST ABOUT THE SEA)))))
SEA. The first two days were at sea and in the pools, then every other day. The sea is very transparent and warm))) Fish from the pontoon can be seen well, BIG AND SMALL))) There are no sharks, they are afraid of the reef, and the reef is nearby. Entrance from the pontoon at the Sea Club, once a red flag hung in the afternoon, we did not come before 11.30, but from morning to evening a yellow flag hung all the days. WARNING 1: relax with a whistler! Whistles for any reason - when you swim close to the reef and when you swim far away. Whistles when it is not necessary, and when it is necessary - you will not achieve it! ATTENTION 2: in case of a strong current, sometimes not a red, but a yellow flag hangs. If you are swept out to sea, BETTER DO NOT SWIM!
I swam for an hour in a strong current next to the pontoon, until I was suddenly carried far away, but I swim well! It's good to have a guy around! "Can You Help Me? " "Yes, I'm mine, mine, and also drunk! "SAVED ME! Together they shouted to throw a circle to us, a circle on a huge rope, but we had to swim to it! THANK YOU, GRISHA FROM DONETSK! ! ! Come save me again! We will sing karaoke)))) ATTENTION 3: The pontoon closes at 6 pm! Once or twice we sat in the paddling pool, where they were allowed until half past six, and there were plenty of fish. There were no jellyfish. On the last day, we walked into the lagoon, to the right of Sea Life, about 1 km, approximately, there is water in the lagoon, really, like in the Bounty advertisement))) But we didn’t last long, because the water began to rise, and we ended up on an island!
On the way from the lagoon to the hotel, about 200-300 meters before reaching it, there is another lagoon, with a sandy bottom, you can swim from the shore there, and a few people swam, not shallow, the depth descends evenly, the reef is ahead, if only earlier Let's go swimming on this wild beach! There is nothing to do on the beach at Sea Life (shallow), go directly to the Sea Club beach (pontoon) or to the lagoon (normal entrance). On the beach there are dampers from the wind, fungi, in the beach bar everyone is friendly, drinks are served on the fly - "they throw regularly")))))))))
TRANSFER. In general, our flight was delayed, the travel agency warned a day in advance, everyone was blamed on Pegasus, and Pegasus on Aeroflot! We flew out not at 14.30, at 19.30, we entered the room at 23 o'clock! We also flew back early in the morning - as a result, 2 days were simply “stolen” from us, we rested not 10 paid, but 8 full days (9 nights) (((At the Sharma airport, with the words “no visa needed”, they let us through, putting a Sinai stamp. I didn’t need it at the entrance until August 31, now I don’t know.
If you are planning to go to Cairo, and visas have been introduced again, then be sure to take a visa, it costs $ 15, otherwise you will be detained there at the first post. You do not need a visa to Israel, and if you are not going on excursions, do not take a visa, put a Sinai stamp. Some get it without problems, some have a delay, but in the end they get it, decide for yourself whether to defend your rights or not take risks. After the counter with visas, fill in the migration card in English - all according to the international passport, then to passport control, and receive suitcases. We quickly got to the bus, at the exit from the airport the Russian-speaking guide will tell you the bus number. Yes, we prepared, as we deducted from the last review, to disembark in 10 minutes, because the hotel is the very first from the airport, but everything turned out exactly the opposite - we drove for 45 minutes until everyone was taken, we were dropped off last, returning back to entrance, because our hotel is on the other side of the road!
On the way back I bought a lot of sweets in Duty Free, Duty is expensive, cheaper in Turkey!
WEATHER. During the day at temp. +40 is not hot, constantly light wind, +30 in the evening, the heat is well tolerated. It's hotter in Volgograd.
RECEPTION. At the reception, the first one came up and asked for a quiet room with a garden ore other view on the second floor, invested $ 20 (you don’t have to invest, some of them checked into a regular room for free), after 5 minutes they gave out keys and cards for towels. The porter was given a dollar each upon check-in and check-out. I didn’t ask for a room by the sea, they wrote here that it costs $ 15 per day, I don’t know if this is so. They say that the guides help to settle by the sea for free, but at 23:00 there was no guide. Ask for the second floor, the first floor is noisy. At the reception, they understand Russian, but they don’t speak, they spoke English (learn it). When you break out into the light, go to the towel clerk by the pool, he will exchange your cards for towels. By the way, it's written here.
Upon arrival, you will be supplied with 2 bottles of water, free tea, coffee, sugar. Take 2 bottles of water for free at the lobby bar. We took every night. Brush your teeth only with her, because tap water can cause diarrhea. There is a TV set, normal, but the remote control does not work (everything else worked), turn it manually. Plasma TV at the Sea Club, they said it was the same number. Take all bath accessories with you, there is only toilet paper and liquid soap. Yes, they left a dollar to a strange cleaner every other day, he wove swans when they didn’t leave a dollar, but he cleaned well. If you want the linen to be changed, put the blue cards on the bed so that the towels are changed - throw them on the floor in the bathroom. Although we have read that the room slams shut automatically, they themselves blundered together, and the keys remained in the room! I went to the cleaner, asked for English, opened it.
When we arrived, urgently from 11.30 to 14.
30 go to the See Club on the second floor on the left, the last table and sign up for three A la carte restaurants, they are paid, but you can sign up one time for free. We visited three in a week, a day later, when there were no excursions, because we signed up on time, next. in the morning, other Volgograd residents did not go that day and flew by.
RESTAURANTS. The three main ones are at the See Life 4*, See Club 5*, See Garden 4* hotels. The smallest Garden, have been there once. In restaurants for dinner, themed evenings, at the See Club stand, you can see which dinner is Italian, American, Mexican or other. Yes, whoever has a birthday or a romantic evening, the waiters congratulate you coolly, with songs and treats. At first, we liked it more in See Club, because there are a lot of people, there is live music upstairs in the evening, and there are donuts in chocolate, but then more in See Life, because it is much cooler there, and you can have breakfast, lunch, dinner for half an hour longer, you can dine until three, and not until half past two. The dishes are the same everywhere, but varied.
Not only chicken, as in Turkey, but also fish and meat in various forms, grilled, stewed, various, they cook "online"))) there are a lot of salads, bean - national, mango with apple, etc. Once Spaghetti ate, delicious sauce. In the morning, in all three restaurants, an omelet with ingredients and pancakes are prepared in front of you, with a few jams for the pancakes. A million different buns, pastries, cakes. A lot of fruits, juices, dates, apples, pears, oranges, watermelon was once. Stomach did not hurt, everything is fresh. Sausages are not soy. At the entrance to any restaurant, they smile at you and show you your table, and serve, pour drinks, coffee-tea in the morning and others, often come up and talk. Once in the morning they even joked COFFEE WHIVER VODKA? ? ? Yes, not only in the restaurant, everywhere you are welcome there, they talk, ask how you are. They understand Russian, but they say a few words, if you want to communicate, speak English. But some ask to speak Russian (learn the language).
If you want a good relationship, say a couple of local phrases, for example, SHUKRAN (thank you), ALF SHUKR (a thousand thanks), MASA EL KHEIR (good evening). Of the a la carte restaurants, I liked the Lebanese one more - a lot of salads in saucers, cast iron whole kebabs - which are still smoking - chicken, lamb, beef, and kebab, with onions, tomatoes, peppers, plus ice cream and drinks (we took juices), delicious! In the fish on the El Pescatore beach, they gave tiger prawns, lobster, and two types of fish, eat white, but we didn’t eat fatty fish, it’s better not to eat fish so that your stomach doesn’t hurt. And in Japanese, they gave us a whole performance with a fire show + you yourself go out and take part in the process of frying meat, in Japanese they took the chicken menu + rice for everyone, there is fish, and beef + mother-fanta + son cola))))) Leave a tip at a la carte.
THE SHOPS. In Life and in the Club and at the Club. Stock up on glasses in advance.
We took Maxima at the See Life store, barely bargained for $ 15, she doesn’t wear glasses, but they are needed for a quad bike tour. Hello Khalifa and Cosmos from the oil store, tell them that their oils saved us from burning + they gave us perfume))) Yes, Mario in the store at the Club, from whom they took coral slippers, speaks Russian perfectly. Hello to him from Elena and Maxim! By the way, if you swim from a pontoon, do not take these slippers, only if you go far to the corals from the "paddling pool", we took slippers for the lagoon, but we did not reach the reef! We bought gifts from the Sphinx. when we went to Cairo, it was cheaper there than in Naama Bay and than in the Old City. But whoever wants to, to the Old City and Naama Bay, a bus in the morning and at lunch is free, in the evening for a fee, you can take a minibus for $ 1. or a taxi, they didn’t use it, but they write that they don’t give more than $ 2 to a taxi driver, they ask for a lot. We did not exchange dollars for pounds. Everywhere accepted in dollars.
Only in one store on the way from Cairo they accepted in pounds, the guide exchanged dollars for pounds for everyone.
TERRITORY. It’s just huge, at first I wasn’t happy, how will we get around it (? ), But then we walked along it with pleasure. At first, they give a map to their hands and everything is shown on it, where, what. There is also a card on the stand at each hotel. A lot of greenery, flowers, there are bizarre flowering cacti. Large chess, fountains, gazebos. You can use the territory, restaurants, swimming pools, lobby bars and everything in all three hotels - See Life 4 *, See Club 5 *, See Garden 4 *.
ENTERTAINMENT. Every day - performances in the amphitheater, cabaret (filmed), in the lobby bar they listened to a live violin (they play in all hotels on different days), in the sea club and in the sea life a girl sings (moves around the hotels), they watched a fire show by the beach, on Sundays at sea life - karaoke, oh, I regret that I didn’t sing, I love to sing! I filmed how the Englishman sings the song of Sting!
Before lunch, aerobics in the pools (I did it once), then, next to the pool, LATINO dances. Greetings to Oleg the dance instructor and all the animators! )))
TOURS. Before the trip, Tatyana from At Egypt wrote to me. They left her their full names, they did not leave the phone. Her prices are cheaper than those of large tour operators. Upon arrival, she didn’t call her, she was afraid that they would take all the money, so they took off for calls, but it was possible to send SMS, of course, but they decided not to wait, they took it on the next. day morning sightseeing in Pegasus. We did not go to an early meeting with the guide, because we arrived late, we came individually, the Pegasus-Ahmed guide is friendly, speaks excellent Russian. Three excursions cost $390. Tatyana called us back to the room, we had to refuse, but it was with her that some went, everything is fine, without delay. And with Pegasus, after all, incidents happened! We took three excursions - Supermotosafari (quad bikes (with a sunset in the desert), Cairo and Ras Mohamed (marine reserve).
Liked the most -
SUPERMOTOSAFARI))). But how did we get there ...We arrived 10 minutes earlier, some white, not new, clunker without inscriptions drove up, some native came out, I gave a ticket and said SUPERMOTOSAFARI, sitdown pliiz, NOBODY on the bus ...(it seemed suspicious). , and…. . he brings us to some stable! Offers to sit down, quad bikes pass nearby, but ...., past us! One aur asks about that? I say that of braids, I’ll drive for two hours, it brings out (whom do you think? ) HORSE! I'm screaming music horse we vant to drive cars! ))))))) Then I started calling somewhere and brought me to the right place! )))))) Well, yes, I came to Egypt to ride horses, otherwise we don’t have our own (! ) )))) Yes. Arafats were bought for $ 5 on excursions, at the hotel for $ 3, as they wrote, there was none. Quad biking is amazing! Especially at speed and at sunset))) We rode for 45 minutes, then on camels.
When the son went to ride a camel and the Bedouin boy brought the camel to the place, the boy demanded “one dollar”, Max did not have it, he brought back, again “one dollar”. Then, looking at the boy, I felt sorry for the dummy, and gave it to him. She gave a dollar in advance for herself (she rode the same camel), but upon arrival at the place one way and the other, he demanded another 2 dollars from me, she didn’t give 2 more. We rode shouting "Izhevsk rules! " And Volgograd! "We made friends with the girls from Izhevsk, with Gulnara and Margosha)) We were also in the Bedouin village, with dinner and red tea, we watched a performance-belly dance and a male dance in a skirt (I filmed a video of what kind of vestibular apparatus you need to have in order to spin for almost 15 minutes around)))), they offered a hookah on the spot for $ 5, the neighbors smoked, and we were involuntarily high! ))))
CAIRO. We take passports to Cairo.
On the way to Cairo, tea sets are offered - feel free to take it, inexpensively. We took 2 sets - one includes 1 kg of red, 1 kg of yellow tea (healing), halva, honey, all this in a beach bag ($ 40), the other set was taken by relatives - 1 kg of red tea and half a kilo of yellow ($ 15) I liked the tour, especially the pyramids, the feeling of freedom))))))) We arrived back not at 23:00, but at 4:30 in the morning! (((But we don’t regret it! ATTENTION: take a dry breakfast in the morning, we took it in the lobby bar, because during this time they only serve one lunch, so get yourself something for dinner on the way back or eat breakfast! The pyramids have impudent sellers, do not accept gifts, they are paid. Buy everything from the sphinx. We went down to the small pyramid for 10 minutes, the entrance was 1 pound, but I had only 10 dollars, they let me through the guide for free, they didn’t dare to go to the big one - 40 minutes to walk stuffy and afraid of the "curse" ....The sphinx has cool pictures, but very annoying sellers, handed over what was not necessary!
Papyri 10 pieces for 5 dollars, gave 10, did not give change, demanded to find change, ran for 2 minutes, pretended not to, wanted to ask the guide, but then took a big cat for change. The cat turned out to be wooden and liked it very much at home, they put it in a prominent place, bought a pyramid souvenir, cosmetic bags, handbags with embroidery, a bunch of magnets. They didn't get married twice. The Bedouin boy flew up again, snatched a smartphone from my son and started taking a picture of me, then he snatched it from me, in the end he took a good picture, but then he asked for 5 dollars all the way to the bus, gave 2. On the way, we stopped by an oil factory, a papyrus workshop and a jewelry store. Then there was a walk along the Nile with songs and dances (filmed on video), a wonderful relaxation, only drinks for a fee - a jar of sprite for $ 4.
And then - the Cairo Museum with burial grounds and things of the pharaohs, the tombs of the pharaohs of the museum were looted during the revolution of 2011 (the burnt Parliament building next to the museum), it's a pity you can't take pictures there! By the way, we were not stopped anywhere, only our passports were checked before the border once. The excursion on the road was accompanied by the guide Suleimen, and in Cairo - by Yuri, both speak good Russian, and Yuri is so humorous)))
RAS-MUHHAMED. Take your passports, despite the fact that the guide said that they are not needed! Check on the yacht! They don’t let you go on a tour without a mask, take masks, we had one without a snorkel, but on the way they sell masks with snorkels and fins for everyone, for $ 4 a mask and $ 4 fins. Take soft fins (I took them), it's easy to swim in them, it's hard without fins (people said) and it's also inconvenient with hard fins (Max took it). You sail on a yacht for several hours, after an hour the first dive.
Around - awesome beauty))))) In Ras Mohammed there are three dives of 40-45 minutes, I didn’t go for the first one (the current and waves are strong), which I regret, on the second I saw a stingray, needle fish, huge and small fish . And on the third, the cook got attached to me, jumped into the sea after me, showed me a reef and fish, I refused to swim alone, then he took his son by the other hand, but showed us even more fish, and a moray eel too. CONCLUSION. Just talk to him, then YES! I had to fight back with flippers))))) ATTENTION: there is no whimsical photographer on the yacht, if you yourself did not come up, you will be left without a photo! We forgot to take a photo and stayed on the beans! And from the smartphone, the pictures miraculously DISAPPEARED! The tour was accompanied by a guide Hassan, speaks Russian just fine, even all the endings are correct)))
POOLS. We liked ours more at See Life, because a beautiful waterfall adjoins it, and you can cling to the rotunda, spin around it and pull yourself up and there are a lot of shadows, and there is no whistler. Russians around
. The See Club pool is also good, but sometimes the whistler comes (in the evening). See Garden has the largest pool and a waterfall, but we were uncomfortable there, only Germans hung around.
PECULIARITIES.
* Bungalow No. 6.7, 8.9 - with a view of the sea and the pool. We had a house number 2, overlooking the garden.
*Entry to restaurants on the first day from 11.30 to 14.30 in See Club
*Brush teeth with bottled water, take in the lobby bar.
*Do not take ice, it made others stomach ache.
*Go to aerobics, dancing (in the pools), and fitness equipment (in the Club)
*Fluid for combustion and tanning in the store Sea Life at Khalifa, your cream will not help
*On the CAIRO tour without changing money, do not give change, you will not get change!
*Dinner plan on the scoreboard in the Sea Club, entertainment plan was seen at the Sea Life restaurant
* Souvenirs are cheaper in Cairo at the Sphinx, and in the Old City, everything is expensive in the hotel!
* In Soho, to the left of the hotel, 5 minutes $ 4 by taxi, you can take a walk in the evening, see the singing fountain, performances of artists, although you will not be bored without this trip!
* You can swim in any weather from the shore in the nearest lagoon, 200-300 meters to the right of our hotel.
*If you need honey. help, contact the reception, and the guide, so that they accept it for free under insurance, the doctor at the hotel is paid.
I miss the hotel and everyone - everyone)))
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