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Rooms:
3.0
Service:
2.0
Cleanliness:
2.0
Food:
3.0
Amenities:
5.0
My husband and I spontaneously and within one day chose this hotel, or rather, we took what came first (according to the reviews, we read the photos a little, of course, we didn’t like everything, but we were happy and hoped for a wonderful honeymoon and certainly didn’t think about the bad and threw out the thoughts of the terrible). It so happened that we changed the date of the wedding, we got married on the same day and three hours later we were already sitting on the plane and were glad that we had an unforgettable wedding with adventures. We are naive children)))
Upon arrival in Sharm, all registration moments passed quickly, the representatives of Join-UP promptly loaded the arrivals and everything was quick and simple (which pleased). While we were on the bus to the hotel - an Egyptian representative of the same organization in broken and funny Russian told us about the beauties of the Red Sea and handed out an information brochure with excursions, also gave an introductory briefing... We were very tired (at the time of arrival at the hotel It was 21.00), we wanted to take a shower and relax as soon as possible.
The hotel met us with fuss and a large crowd of people who arrived in front of us (we flew on 12/28 to 01/07/2019 - for all New Year holidays and Christmas), there is no Internet at all (they will offer for $ 10 - this is a divorce of pure water, don't be fooled! ) The hall is spacious and the counter registration - everything looked decent enough (these are the first impressions), the reception is friendly and speaks good Russian. We were put on bracelets and sent to have dinner (from 19.00 - 22.00 dinner). Further, and in the course of all days, the quest begins... I will write in detail.
An employee of the hotel led us to the building, where the basement was being renovated (but we saw it only in the morning). The building where they brought us was with windows opening onto the main entrance of the hotel and onto the road, behind which there was a construction site and a desert... The furniture was all old, shabby. The telly is a cube, a rare junk. . . A refrigerator in the cabinet on which the TV was standing, also battered. . . The bathroom, combined with the bathroom, was huge, bright and quite decent and quite clean. There were 6 towels, but they were all like rags, they seemed fresh, but with stains and generally a creepy look... It smelled terrible of sewerage. In general, upon entering the room, you immediately felt the musty smell of an uninhabited and not cleaned room for a long time, but again, everything looked clean (but only looked). Of course, I was upset and asked to be immediately taken to another room, the escort (and he was not even an employee... without a uniform, without a badge) called the reception (yes, there was a landline phone in the room) and for a long time found out something on Arabic dialect, and then he said in broken Russian that there were no free rooms and we had to wait until the morning, of course I was in tears, but my husband also persuaded me to wait until tomorrow and solve this issue with a freshly rested head (yeah, nevermind... ) . They threw things indiscriminately, brushed their teeth, took a shower (without washing their heads) and dried themselves with a towel (just in case, which they took with them). The bed was dusty, the smell was unpleasant... but, unfortunately, I didn’t have the strength or nerves to go scold (and that’s what I wanted to do)...
In the morning, badly rested and shocked by the "hospitality"... we went for breakfast, with the intention of moving to another room (because in the voucher we had written standart, but they sent us to 100% economy) and explore the territory. The territory is very clean and beautiful, a lot of flowers, a lot of pools (but they are all of course ice-cold and no one heated them), a lot of installations and decorations to please the eye, there was also a spa with a bath - pretty good, but nothing unusual and cool. Just a SPA, a gym too there was mostly iron and dumbbells, one treadmill... I got the impression that we were in a cool hotel with all the attendants... but this is just an impression... if you get there, you will understand me. Everything is beautiful, tasty, interesting, soundly... but only at first sight, from the second, everything is old, ruined and tasteless...
As I wrote above, we arrived under NG... Before breakfast, we went to the reception and with the firm intention to change the room. We were politely sent away before 12:00, type. there are no rooms yet and the guests have not moved out, but they will definitely be! We have not started hinting or saying directly that we are ready to give $10 for resettlement, because Indeed, all the workers were worn like scalded, we took our word for it.
The dining room is not a restaurant, not a cafe. It is a dining room and a nightmarish one at that (an example of a railway station). On the basement floor, with access to the pool and with a terrace (supposedly a summer cafe), there is an unpleasant "feeding" place, there is no other way to call it... The chairs are all greasy and soiled with old food, wet priests, drinks... the tables are all sticky and pokotsany, furniture, of course, all old, but soundly and efficiently once made and steadfastly endures all bullying. There were enough plates, they were reasonably clean. But the plastic glasses are 0.25 each! This is also a SHOCK... The feeling that you are an unwanted guest here appeared not only from the furniture, but from the mocking taunts of the cleaners, you can’t call them waiters, “dishwashers” - that’s an excellent definition, according to familiar behavior, according to obscene comments in Russian after the guys and girls, for throwing forks and spoons just on the table, for untimely cleaning... but the worst thing is that while you are eating and there are plates of food on the table, an awkward creature in a stained T-shirt, and the same trousers and he will pull out a plate with the remnants of food from under your nose and, in front of you, will throw these remnants into the garbage trough (it is right on the cart and dirty dishes are higher . . This is tin! ! Neither eat nor drink, not that you don’t feel like it... fights back The buns and croissants are good and quite fresh, there are a lot of sweets and all of them with a huge amount of glutamate and dyes (but this did not stop me from eating them in huge quantities, I have a crazy sweet tooth).
There was a lot of food! Most vegetables! There were not enough fruits... there were dates, oranges, pomegranates, melons (green, but tasty sometimes). The meat was sometimes grilled, mostly chicken legs, meat in gravy - the same legs and frail breasts... we don’t eat meat, so we didn’t care, there was good rice and excellent stewed vegetables, spaghetti all boiled and no sauce at all. . . diluted and had only a smell. . . (As for the food, here is my assessment - don’t wake up hungry, you will always find a bite to eat, a large selection of food and everyone had enough to eat from the belly! But! The quality of this food is bad, not very fresh vegetables, unwashed and stale fruits and they are sliced, no one follows the cleanliness and serving rules . . very dirty and smelly stove for making omelets in the morning... alcohol is very diluted, just obscenely, bottled beer and tolerable, even I would say not bad, instead of juices yuppies, coffee - instant bodyaga from the Nescafe coffee machine... milk is also powdered...
Let's go back to moving to another room, as I wrote above... on the second day in the morning, having already met another young couple, we came with reinforcements to storm the reception. A nice business Arab guy charged us $ 20 for a room with a sea view... we laughed and decided to bargain. In the reviews, I read about $ 10 and no more... but he was inexorable and all the arguments that we should not pay anything at all for relocation to normal conditions, we sent him gently and went to deal with the maid... he was talkative and polite. For $ 1, he licked the whole room for us and brought new towels, clean and fresh, changed the sheets and the room became very comfortable, wiped it to a shine! Sometimes they gave him a dollar each. We stayed of course, in general we did not even plan to stay in the room for more than a night. On the second day I met many and of course looked at some rooms but in different buildings - EVERYWHERE THE SAME FURNITURE! EVERYWHERE! The difference is only in the view from the window and in area... someone has less, someone more! If you are lovers drink and get drunk, get drunk to satiety, don't care what, fall on a sunbed and snore - this hotel is for you). THE CONTINGENT THERE IS EXACTLY SUCH! and younger... Drinking pot-bellied male gluttons of the same age. They drank everything, vomited and wallowed in a bar on the second floor on the balcony, they also ate everything and swore that little, but they were younger... there were couples with small children , but of course they all tried to do everything in their power to improve their vacation, first of all for the children... (
Beach and entrance to the sea. Pontoon.
Torn sunbeds, a bar with swill and the same nasty coffee and yuppies... pathetic and no animation, designed for drunk guests or those who overeat to death and cannot move... or vulgarity and shame for those who have drunk heavily and have lost themselves in the end . The entrance to the sea with pebbles and silty-sandy, you have to go for a long time so that it is waist-deep, 300-500 meters. There are no corals, not even dead ones, just sand and water everywhere. . . many offers for "diving", "parachuting", etc. . . towels give out old and torn, sometimes tolerable ones can be caught, but rarely. The sun loungers are also all killed and torn, just a mockery and disrespect. For families with children - the bottom and the very entrance to the sea, the beach, again, "Alkonauts" - that's it. To the left of the beach - Aboriginal shacks to the right - a kilometer of ruins and sand... but! On the right, if this is all to pass, a surprise awaits you)) After a full description of the hotel, I will tell you what way out of the deplorable situation with the hotel we found with my husband))
The hotel staff is polite and slightly intrusive, they know Russian well. Again, these are receptionists, cooks and some "on distribution", all the rest are very intrusive, ill-mannered, rude - who are "without soap... ". Bullying, especially if you are a pretty girl with a husband (boyfriend), we tried not to react and not even look at them...
Near the beach there is a merchant Misha (he is local)... you can buy all sorts of rubbish from him on the cheap and almost without ripping off. But you can still run into tasteless sweets or a "nameplate". Everything is expensive in the shops in the hotel and the locals just want to fool you, you need to be able to count quickly and not have long conversations, be polite and have dignity, not be afraid and not be aggressive... look at the exchange rate, a local SIM card for $ 10 buy from your guide there 10 GB and you will have enough for a long time! It is useful to immediately find yourself a company and get to know guys and couples! We were lucky and we met a couple, where there was a very enterprising guy who flew in not for the first time and he was also unlucky with the hotel. He had local contacts and quickly arranged for our yacht trip - with lunch, trips to three picturesque bays with coral and fish, a dive (for a fee) for a full day for $15 and quad biking for $10! )) That was a really memorable adventure and very interesting and most importantly inexpensive! Do not smack the fever, do not grab the first offers for excursions from the guides! Explore the area! Meet someone! Here is the main rule of rest in Egypt, regarding all hotels. A minibus in the Old market costs $ 1, go yourself, bargain politely and with humor, but be on the alert... everywhere they fool with ingenuity... )
NG the holiday itself also passed and was held in the style of a "normal booze"... there was a good buffet, of course, but I'm not sure about the quality... the grilled crabs were icy inside and not fried squids in vinegar at all . . the smell is also unpleasant. . . there was a sea of u200bu200btheir sweets and everything was very tasty and varied, I’ll say the same about fruits, the organization itself is not even worthy of description. They ripped off $ 35 for it, it was a mandatory dinner, unfortunately. The tables were set in a literally impromptu tent near the pool and it was very cold. The uncleaned grill smoked and everything looked very poor, unfortunately.
My husband and I the next day after settling in decided to explore the area, because. I still managed to read a few reviews about the hotel and the beach, dragged my husband to adventure))
If you go to the right from the beach and pass abandoned buildings about 800m-1km, you will see the first coastline of classy hotels and, most importantly, a wonderful beach and pontoons, with breathtaking coral reefs!! ! After all, just for the sake of it, it is worth visiting Sharm El Sheikh in winter and putting up with an unsuccessfully chosen hotel! The reefs are the most beautiful on all 4 pontoons on the coast to the right of the Cyrene Island hotel! ! We always went swimming there with masks (be sure to buy a mask in advance, it will definitely come in handy for you!! ). Beautiful beaches and golden sand, comfortable sunbeds and polite staff, a view of Tiran Island - we enjoyed)) But, unfortunately, you will not be able to get there and take advantage of all this (and even pontoons with reefs and fish), if you are not a guest of some any of these hotels. There were a lot of tourists in NG and the cunning Egyptians decided to make money, let them swim with wonderful fish for money... $ 5 from the nose (It was very disappointing... But we found a solution - we pretended to be guests of a hotel and almost no one came to us found fault)) we had fun to the fullest)) We went to have lunch, dinner in these cool hotels, where there are a lot of foreigners and a wonderful atmosphere, cleanliness and relaxation)) YES, yes)) we sunbathed on comfortable sunbeds, we swam as much as we wanted in incredibly beautiful places near the pontoons and sometimes they swam across them enjoying the views and diving deep. We definitely won’t go to this hotel, but on the other hand, we explored other nearby hotels from the inside and tasted the cuisine and all the charms offered. It was a great experience as we were in sharm el sheikh for the first time and grabbed the first one was over the dates from the hotels. You can go to the hotel if you are young, inventive and do not lose heart! Not for children, but if there is no money, but you really want to go to the sea - take risks and fly with bright thoughts and a positive attitude. Photos of the hotel are everywhere in the main 8-10 years ago... but there are also recent years, everything is clear. We were sorry to waste time photographing the depressing sight of the dilapidated hotel and staff.
Upon arrival in Sharm, all registration moments passed quickly, the representatives of Join-UP promptly loaded the arrivals and everything was quick and simple (which pleased). While we were on the bus to the hotel - an Egyptian representative of the same organization in broken and funny Russian told us about the beauties of the Red Sea and handed out an information brochure with excursions, also gave an introductory briefing... We were very tired (at the time of arrival at the hotel It was 21.00), we wanted to take a shower and relax as soon as possible.
The hotel met us with fuss and a large crowd of people who arrived in front of us (we flew on 12/28 to 01/07/2019 - for all New Year holidays and Christmas), there is no Internet at all (they will offer for $ 10 - this is a divorce of pure water, don't be fooled! ) The hall is spacious and the counter registration - everything looked decent enough (these are the first impressions), the reception is friendly and speaks good Russian. We were put on bracelets and sent to have dinner (from 19.00 - 22.00 dinner). Further, and in the course of all days, the quest begins... I will write in detail.
An employee of the hotel led us to the building, where the basement was being renovated (but we saw it only in the morning). The building where they brought us was with windows opening onto the main entrance of the hotel and onto the road, behind which there was a construction site and a desert... The furniture was all old, shabby. The telly is a cube, a rare junk. . . A refrigerator in the cabinet on which the TV was standing, also battered. . . The bathroom, combined with the bathroom, was huge, bright and quite decent and quite clean. There were 6 towels, but they were all like rags, they seemed fresh, but with stains and generally a creepy look... It smelled terrible of sewerage. In general, upon entering the room, you immediately felt the musty smell of an uninhabited and not cleaned room for a long time, but again, everything looked clean (but only looked). Of course, I was upset and asked to be immediately taken to another room, the escort (and he was not even an employee... without a uniform, without a badge) called the reception (yes, there was a landline phone in the room) and for a long time found out something on Arabic dialect, and then he said in broken Russian that there were no free rooms and we had to wait until the morning, of course I was in tears, but my husband also persuaded me to wait until tomorrow and solve this issue with a freshly rested head (yeah, nevermind... ) . They threw things indiscriminately, brushed their teeth, took a shower (without washing their heads) and dried themselves with a towel (just in case, which they took with them). The bed was dusty, the smell was unpleasant... but, unfortunately, I didn’t have the strength or nerves to go scold (and that’s what I wanted to do)...
In the morning, badly rested and shocked by the "hospitality"... we went for breakfast, with the intention of moving to another room (because in the voucher we had written standart, but they sent us to 100% economy) and explore the territory. The territory is very clean and beautiful, a lot of flowers, a lot of pools (but they are all of course ice-cold and no one heated them), a lot of installations and decorations to please the eye, there was also a spa with a bath - pretty good, but nothing unusual and cool. Just a SPA, a gym too there was mostly iron and dumbbells, one treadmill... I got the impression that we were in a cool hotel with all the attendants... but this is just an impression... if you get there, you will understand me. Everything is beautiful, tasty, interesting, soundly... but only at first sight, from the second, everything is old, ruined and tasteless...
As I wrote above, we arrived under NG... Before breakfast, we went to the reception and with the firm intention to change the room. We were politely sent away before 12:00, type. there are no rooms yet and the guests have not moved out, but they will definitely be! We have not started hinting or saying directly that we are ready to give $10 for resettlement, because Indeed, all the workers were worn like scalded, we took our word for it.
The dining room is not a restaurant, not a cafe. It is a dining room and a nightmarish one at that (an example of a railway station). On the basement floor, with access to the pool and with a terrace (supposedly a summer cafe), there is an unpleasant "feeding" place, there is no other way to call it... The chairs are all greasy and soiled with old food, wet priests, drinks... the tables are all sticky and pokotsany, furniture, of course, all old, but soundly and efficiently once made and steadfastly endures all bullying. There were enough plates, they were reasonably clean. But the plastic glasses are 0.25 each! This is also a SHOCK... The feeling that you are an unwanted guest here appeared not only from the furniture, but from the mocking taunts of the cleaners, you can’t call them waiters, “dishwashers” - that’s an excellent definition, according to familiar behavior, according to obscene comments in Russian after the guys and girls, for throwing forks and spoons just on the table, for untimely cleaning... but the worst thing is that while you are eating and there are plates of food on the table, an awkward creature in a stained T-shirt, and the same trousers and he will pull out a plate with the remnants of food from under your nose and, in front of you, will throw these remnants into the garbage trough (it is right on the cart and dirty dishes are higher . . This is tin! ! Neither eat nor drink, not that you don’t feel like it... fights back The buns and croissants are good and quite fresh, there are a lot of sweets and all of them with a huge amount of glutamate and dyes (but this did not stop me from eating them in huge quantities, I have a crazy sweet tooth).
There was a lot of food! Most vegetables! There were not enough fruits... there were dates, oranges, pomegranates, melons (green, but tasty sometimes). The meat was sometimes grilled, mostly chicken legs, meat in gravy - the same legs and frail breasts... we don’t eat meat, so we didn’t care, there was good rice and excellent stewed vegetables, spaghetti all boiled and no sauce at all. . . diluted and had only a smell. . . (As for the food, here is my assessment - don’t wake up hungry, you will always find a bite to eat, a large selection of food and everyone had enough to eat from the belly! But! The quality of this food is bad, not very fresh vegetables, unwashed and stale fruits and they are sliced, no one follows the cleanliness and serving rules . . very dirty and smelly stove for making omelets in the morning... alcohol is very diluted, just obscenely, bottled beer and tolerable, even I would say not bad, instead of juices yuppies, coffee - instant bodyaga from the Nescafe coffee machine... milk is also powdered...
Let's go back to moving to another room, as I wrote above... on the second day in the morning, having already met another young couple, we came with reinforcements to storm the reception. A nice business Arab guy charged us $ 20 for a room with a sea view... we laughed and decided to bargain. In the reviews, I read about $ 10 and no more... but he was inexorable and all the arguments that we should not pay anything at all for relocation to normal conditions, we sent him gently and went to deal with the maid... he was talkative and polite. For $ 1, he licked the whole room for us and brought new towels, clean and fresh, changed the sheets and the room became very comfortable, wiped it to a shine! Sometimes they gave him a dollar each. We stayed of course, in general we did not even plan to stay in the room for more than a night. On the second day I met many and of course looked at some rooms but in different buildings - EVERYWHERE THE SAME FURNITURE! EVERYWHERE! The difference is only in the view from the window and in area... someone has less, someone more! If you are lovers drink and get drunk, get drunk to satiety, don't care what, fall on a sunbed and snore - this hotel is for you). THE CONTINGENT THERE IS EXACTLY SUCH! and younger... Drinking pot-bellied male gluttons of the same age. They drank everything, vomited and wallowed in a bar on the second floor on the balcony, they also ate everything and swore that little, but they were younger... there were couples with small children , but of course they all tried to do everything in their power to improve their vacation, first of all for the children... (
Beach and entrance to the sea. Pontoon.
Torn sunbeds, a bar with swill and the same nasty coffee and yuppies... pathetic and no animation, designed for drunk guests or those who overeat to death and cannot move... or vulgarity and shame for those who have drunk heavily and have lost themselves in the end . The entrance to the sea with pebbles and silty-sandy, you have to go for a long time so that it is waist-deep, 300-500 meters. There are no corals, not even dead ones, just sand and water everywhere. . . many offers for "diving", "parachuting", etc. . . towels give out old and torn, sometimes tolerable ones can be caught, but rarely. The sun loungers are also all killed and torn, just a mockery and disrespect. For families with children - the bottom and the very entrance to the sea, the beach, again, "Alkonauts" - that's it. To the left of the beach - Aboriginal shacks to the right - a kilometer of ruins and sand... but! On the right, if this is all to pass, a surprise awaits you)) After a full description of the hotel, I will tell you what way out of the deplorable situation with the hotel we found with my husband))
The hotel staff is polite and slightly intrusive, they know Russian well. Again, these are receptionists, cooks and some "on distribution", all the rest are very intrusive, ill-mannered, rude - who are "without soap... ". Bullying, especially if you are a pretty girl with a husband (boyfriend), we tried not to react and not even look at them...
Near the beach there is a merchant Misha (he is local)... you can buy all sorts of rubbish from him on the cheap and almost without ripping off. But you can still run into tasteless sweets or a "nameplate". Everything is expensive in the shops in the hotel and the locals just want to fool you, you need to be able to count quickly and not have long conversations, be polite and have dignity, not be afraid and not be aggressive... look at the exchange rate, a local SIM card for $ 10 buy from your guide there 10 GB and you will have enough for a long time! It is useful to immediately find yourself a company and get to know guys and couples! We were lucky and we met a couple, where there was a very enterprising guy who flew in not for the first time and he was also unlucky with the hotel. He had local contacts and quickly arranged for our yacht trip - with lunch, trips to three picturesque bays with coral and fish, a dive (for a fee) for a full day for $15 and quad biking for $10! )) That was a really memorable adventure and very interesting and most importantly inexpensive! Do not smack the fever, do not grab the first offers for excursions from the guides! Explore the area! Meet someone! Here is the main rule of rest in Egypt, regarding all hotels. A minibus in the Old market costs $ 1, go yourself, bargain politely and with humor, but be on the alert... everywhere they fool with ingenuity... )
NG the holiday itself also passed and was held in the style of a "normal booze"... there was a good buffet, of course, but I'm not sure about the quality... the grilled crabs were icy inside and not fried squids in vinegar at all . . the smell is also unpleasant. . . there was a sea of u200bu200btheir sweets and everything was very tasty and varied, I’ll say the same about fruits, the organization itself is not even worthy of description. They ripped off $ 35 for it, it was a mandatory dinner, unfortunately. The tables were set in a literally impromptu tent near the pool and it was very cold. The uncleaned grill smoked and everything looked very poor, unfortunately.
My husband and I the next day after settling in decided to explore the area, because. I still managed to read a few reviews about the hotel and the beach, dragged my husband to adventure))
If you go to the right from the beach and pass abandoned buildings about 800m-1km, you will see the first coastline of classy hotels and, most importantly, a wonderful beach and pontoons, with breathtaking coral reefs!! ! After all, just for the sake of it, it is worth visiting Sharm El Sheikh in winter and putting up with an unsuccessfully chosen hotel! The reefs are the most beautiful on all 4 pontoons on the coast to the right of the Cyrene Island hotel! ! We always went swimming there with masks (be sure to buy a mask in advance, it will definitely come in handy for you!! ). Beautiful beaches and golden sand, comfortable sunbeds and polite staff, a view of Tiran Island - we enjoyed)) But, unfortunately, you will not be able to get there and take advantage of all this (and even pontoons with reefs and fish), if you are not a guest of some any of these hotels. There were a lot of tourists in NG and the cunning Egyptians decided to make money, let them swim with wonderful fish for money... $ 5 from the nose (It was very disappointing... But we found a solution - we pretended to be guests of a hotel and almost no one came to us found fault)) we had fun to the fullest)) We went to have lunch, dinner in these cool hotels, where there are a lot of foreigners and a wonderful atmosphere, cleanliness and relaxation)) YES, yes)) we sunbathed on comfortable sunbeds, we swam as much as we wanted in incredibly beautiful places near the pontoons and sometimes they swam across them enjoying the views and diving deep. We definitely won’t go to this hotel, but on the other hand, we explored other nearby hotels from the inside and tasted the cuisine and all the charms offered. It was a great experience as we were in sharm el sheikh for the first time and grabbed the first one was over the dates from the hotels. You can go to the hotel if you are young, inventive and do not lose heart! Not for children, but if there is no money, but you really want to go to the sea - take risks and fly with bright thoughts and a positive attitude. Photos of the hotel are everywhere in the main 8-10 years ago... but there are also recent years, everything is clear. We were sorry to waste time photographing the depressing sight of the dilapidated hotel and staff.
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OTHER REVIEWS ABOUT THE HOTEL
- I do not recommend!
- I do not recommend to anyone
- Normal, suitable for children and pensioners, WF-Fi is paid and only at the reception
- Good hotel
- Terrible hotel
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