About Faraana Reef Hotel

Written: 27 september 2018
Travel time: 21 — 30 september 2018
Your rating of this hotel:
1.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 4.0
We chose the hotel on the recommendation of a travel agency (this is the last time we cooperate with this travel agency).
14th time in Egypt.
A beautiful reef does not save this hotel.
So:
Beach - there is NO shower on the beach. The toilet is only in the nearby Farsha bar, which is not related to the hotel
Beach fight (more precisely, a scourge man))) early in the morning takes ALL the places in the first line, then sells them for 1 dollar.
The beach is equipped not typical for Egyptian hotels. Here, as usual, there is no umbrella for a couple of sunbeds and fences from the wind. One huge umbrella, around which there are eight to ten sunbeds (very uncomfortable).

The hotel does not have a pontoon. There is a public beach pontoon to the right of the beach, a passage to it through this beach and stones in which the garbage is located, they also replace the toilet for some (the aromas are not forgotten). Pleasure boats with tourists from all over Sharm are parked right in front of the beach every day. The maximum was 20 boats. Because of this, a film of oil products is constantly present on the surface of the sea.
Bar on the beach (it would be more accurate to say a hut) - Cola, Fanta, Sprite, highly diluted, various powdered "juices" from the apparatus. Beer. Water from the cooler.
The water in the cooler is very strange. The bottles look sooo old, they do not have the name of water on them and they are not closed with a sealing cork as usual. Everything is poured into disposable cups (which are sometimes washed).
Food (it can hardly be called food):
Breakfast - a set, in general, is almost standard for Egypt, except that pancakes and scrambled eggs are fried in used oil many times over and eggs are used in very dirty shells (both boiled and for frying). I never managed to drink tea because I never managed to find boiling water, all the time there was just warm water in which the bag was not really brewed. The coffee from the machine is tolerable.
Lunch - well, it’s easier to write a short menu here: lettuce, coarsely chopped cucumber, grated raw carrot (by the way, for some reason they don’t clean it at all, they just wash it), a salad of coarsely chopped cucumbers that they didn’t eat the previous day seasoned with a strange substance (most likely yogurt, which was not eaten in the morning), chopped peppers, olives.
One kind of soup in two pots
All main dishes and side dishes are handed out by the chef. The amount of food that they put on the plate is laughable to say the least (it looks strange for an Egyptian all inclusive).
Side dishes - boiled rice (sometimes it stinks of a dirty rag), boiled rice with small brown vermicelli, mashed potatoes in the consistency of sour cream.
Pangasius fried in batter. Yes, yes, it was Pangasius, there is no mistake here. What does it sometimes have to do with a piece of batter, in which Pangasius still needs to be found (I want to remind you that this is all fried in long and many times burnt oil).
Fried chicken, stewed beef.

Sweet: This is where the local chefs performed a miracle. They managed to spoil even the sweets that Oriental cuisine is famous for. 90% - just not tasty.
Fruits: mainly chopped apples, dates, sometimes green melon or watermelon, which are distributed to the cook in small portions.
Alcohol: Of the alcohol in restaurants, only "Stella" beer, which is poured by a special bottle boy. Yes Yes. This is not a mistake either. There is simply no wine or any other alcohol at all for lunch or dinner.
Well, the standard set of Cola, Fanta, Sprite from the device and powdered juices from the same device, standing next to it
Dinner: The same as for lunch, plus what was not eaten for lunch))) Plus some "exotic" dishes, such as sausage fried in chicken))))) ground beef fried with pepper, the same fried minced meat , but already packed in pita, etc.
Another thing that is not quite typical for Egyptian hotels, there are no signs that say what kind of food, so some dishes simply cannot be identified at all.
Povora in absolutely dirty clothes.
The result of this feeding was diarrhea for almost the entire stay in the hotel for everyone. Two out of four of the company had vomiting, one had a temperature of 38 for two days and antibiotics (it's good that they were with them).
There is simply no lobby bar, or rather there is a bar, but it does not work at all. There are two pool bars. A set of drinks and alcohol is standard for Egyptian fours.
There is a spa, but you can’t let women go there unaccompanied because there are harassment from masseurs. By the way, this is also not typical for Egyptian hotels. Usually only women do massage for women, here the situation is different.
Otherwise, the usual Egyptian four.
I will add later
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