There is a beach, but no reef. 3* hotel

Written: 3 june 2021
Travel time: 18 — 23 may 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 4.0
Read reviews before buying! Is always!!!
Because I didn’t read it and got an unpleasant surprise in the form of a hotel in which the reef is like an elbow, you see, you won’t bite)))
But first things first:
HOTEL. Night redistribution and at 5 am we were at the hotel, settled pretty quickly, but extorted money. They didn’t give money - they got room 440 - dark, wooden doors and a tiny window, the air conditioner was noisy like a beast, but thanks for working, from time to time something started to whistle in it, then it went away by itself. The plumbing worked, but the same warm water flowed from both taps. The shower room is small, I am a medium-sized girl, but I constantly fought with my elbows and knees. Soap, shampoo in small jars are not available. Dispensers on the wall. Hairdryer - a huge square stray on the wall, the tube is wrapped with electrical tape, which from the hot air begins to melt and stick to your hands.

Towels were changed every day. Beach changed on demand. THEY DID NOT GIVE WATER - you need to collect it yourself in the coolers at the bars.
The hotel area is quite large, but! Part of the territory is an abandoned construction site, the part closest to the sea is rented out for paid cafes, and those crumbs of the territory that remain are completely built up. The freest place in this hotel is the surface above the pools.
BEACH its left very little. on the one hand, a summer cafe with a disco is being built, on the other, everything is abandoned. Only a third of the beach in the middle of the territory works, the sunbeds end at 9 in the morning. The beach itself is quite clean. A huge MINUS of this beach - its size, sawn from all sides by construction and abandoned - there is nowhere to sit, the music screams right into your ears, it's smoky, we spent an hour there in the morning and went to the pool.
SEA as I said a reef without a reef. This hotel is ideal for families with small children, for the older generation who likes to just float on the water like water lilies and for people who can't swim.
There is a large (by Egyptian standards) sandy beach and no pontoon or pier to the edge of the coral.
If you still swim across the coral (the narrowest place opposite the boat), you will be disappointed. There are few fish, very few rare fish. You can swim for fun to the yachts from which scuba divers dive and look from above how people are bred for money for diving, because there are few fish and nothing to look at)) I witnessed how 7 scuba divers "attacked" a baby stingray with cameras)).
I even went over the fence to the territory of the neighboring Reef Oasis and swam from its pontoon - but if there are no fish, then there are none.
BARS operates a beach bar and a pool bar. Drinks from 7am, alcohol from 10am.
CUISINE breakfast and dinner at the main restaurant, lunch at the restaurant on the beach. The quality of the food is dark. But don't get fat))

We were only 5 days and during these days I saw how the food is getting worse and worse. For example, when we arrived there were 7 types of vegetables (cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, olives, cabbage, lettuce, carrots) - by our departure there were only cucumbers and cabbage. There was beef and chicken. The fish was once every two days. The quality of cooking is terrible, the chicken is always overdried, the beef can somehow be eaten. For fruits, only watermelon and melon pleased. And a variety of fruits - 2 types. Sweets suck. The same biscuit in different forms. Oriental sweets and pastries were already once. In general, the food was poor and monotonous, and we are not particularly picky.
Pleased with coffee from coffee machines. Coffee of normal quality, you can choose your own type of preparation.
ANIMATION. in the morning there is gymnastics on the beach, aqua aerobics, but it all starts at 10:30, I went once, got a sunstroke and didn’t get stupid anymore) In the evening, the show in the amphitheater, like in all hotels.
Of the benefits - the pool bar is open until 12 at night and you can swim in the pool and drink)
FOR CHILDREN. there is nothing at all. kids club does not work, there is no animation, everything is at the "entertain yourself" level.
ENTERTAINMENT. If you are not afraid to leave the hotel - Old Market is a 30-minute walk, El Mercato is a 20-minute walk. Within a radius of 5-7 minutes there are shops.
RESULTS))
Do not be fooled by the stories of tour operators "The most beautiful bay in all of Sharm" - NO, there are bays and steeper both in terms of the number of fish and their diversity. "The most windless", well, maybe "The warmest". Probably nice here in January.
This hotel is SUITABLE for you if you are with small children, or you don’t know how to swim, or don’t like to swim, but like to stand in the water ))
If you don't need fish and just want to sunbathe.
The biggest plus of this hotel is its price. He's cheap. We spent $350 for a tour of 1 adult + 1 child (10 years old) for 5 days.
And it greatly humbled me with the shortcomings of this hotel))
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