Great choice for a reasonable price!

Written: 30 october 2017
Travel time: 11 — 24 october 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel; 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: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 8.0
If you do not take into account the flight delay of 22 hours from the Anex tour, then everything else looks pretty decent.
Azur Air does not have time to serve Anex tours, but the planes are quite worthy, and the pilots deserve praise. . .
Conclusion: I won’t fly anywhere else with the Anex tour, it’s better to go on my own through Turkey to Sharm...
There is a marketing move in Aneksa to attract and fool new customers: when booking a tour, they offer an early departure at 4 am and a late departure at 19.00. As soon as the client pays the money, the pandemonium begins with the transfer of flights. As a result, we get a late departure (not at 04.00 but at 21.00) and an early return flight (not at 19.00 but at 09.00), i. e. STEAL from clients 2 days of rest!! ! If suddenly you decide to fly with Anex, immediately cross out 2 days from your vacation ! ! (day of arrival and departure)

Now about the hotel: Club El Faraana Reef Resort, surprisingly, has kept its territory in perfect order, renovated part of the room stock in which it lodges tourists, keeps the pools clean and kept the infrastructure of restaurants and staff up to the mark. Unlike many 5-star hotels, which were in complete decline and devastation, or even completely closed, this 4-star looks pretty decent for the price for which it is being sold...
According to the guide, in Sharm today only a third of the hotels are open and working.
One of the bright pluses (+) of Pharaana is the Grill restaurant on the mountain, near the beach, where tourists are offered lunches and dinners by reservation. There was always fish, chicken, beef in various grills, barbecues, etc.
The main restaurant pleased with cleanliness, care and attention from the staff and the traditional Egyptian menu, which they managed to keep in such a difficult (crisis) time for them.
We got all the rooms that we expected for a conditional $5 baksheesh. There are no complaints about cleaning, crocodiles and elephants were molded in abundance from towels, and the famous ants, which everyone wrote about, were destroyed as a class with the help of some kind of crap that was constantly sprayed on curbs and baseboards...
Now about the natural virtues of Pharaana:
1. This hotel is located in the middle of Ras Um El Sid Bay, which protects the hotel's beach from strong northerly winds and big waves. This is the quietest and warmest place in Sharm in winter. . .
2. The hotel's beach has a fairly wide, protected by a reef ridge, SANDY lagoon for swimming, in which the water warmed up to +30 degrees in October. This is one of the best and safest SANDY beaches in Sharm!
3. And finally, the most important advantage is the coral reef of the bay of Ras Um El Sid, it was explored completely for one and a half kilometers both to the right and to the left... We saw the rays of Orlyak, Spotted and Electric, Three Napoleons from small to large... The latter generally likes to play and is not afraid of divers! Opposite the pontoon of the Reef Oasis hotel, a moray eel was seen, and many amazing inhabitants of the Red Sea, which cannot be counted... The reef in some places is still completely alive and pleases with bright colors and a variety of inhabitants. In general, I advise everyone to dive here, you will not regret it...

P. S. The last pleasant event was the attitude of the administration towards departing tourists: they did not remove our bracelets from us, they gave us the opportunity to have lunch, and in the afternoon they provided a separate room near the reception so that we could take a shower and get ready for departure.
So special thanks for the care and attention to the tourists of the administration of Club El Faraana Reef Resort.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original