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Nubian Island
Nubian Village
Radison sas—Radison.
Nubial Village and Nubian Island are collectively called the Nubian Club.
Francorosso is an Italian operator who imports hundreds of Italians and whose boss rests in the Island.
Preamble: What is good for an Italian is bad for a Russian!
The hotel is located between Village and Radison. The Vilage from Island is free to enter, so it will be your second home.
Hotel dimensions:
Entrance to the main building (reception, bar, restaurant), then the pool and after 800 meters the second pool (near the Italian restaurant, gym, and a beach bar in the same building), then after 200 meters the sea. The width of the territory of the hotel is approximately 50 meters.
Vacation cons:
95% of Italians rest in the hotel, there are Germans in the Vilage, but Russians in both hotels are no more than 10%. Italians are very boring people, they sit in bars all day (not to squeeze through), drink coffee with croissants. Groups of 20 people gather by the pools and talk to each other continuously. In general, Italians gather in crowds anywhere and loudly, continuously bazaar that they can’t shut up.
They are not interested in discos and games, active entertainment, as they come with large families or are over 60 years old.
Hotel
There is no information in Russian about how it works, a hotel map, there is no memo. (partially in English) The territory is huge and well-groomed. In general, in Egypt, everything seems to be done on a grand scale and very clumsily. The rooms are large, beautiful - but the tiles are crooked, there are no carpets on the floor, our toilet was leaking, one closet door was half torn off from the other, nails were sticking out (there is a photo). There is an electronic safe in the room (free of charge), in the Vilage there is a safe at the reception. There is no tennis court or business center. TV shows 50 channels of them in Russian RTR and one Ukrainian channel. Change of linen daily. The air conditioner is individual, it makes noise and blows only with cold, the temperature is not really regulated, there is no remote control, you have to get up all night to turn it on and off.
On the first day, a cockroach the size of a matchbox ran in our room in the bathroom. All the days of our vacation, 2 men walked along the paths and painted them with nitro paint from a spray gun. At what it happened even at the pools where people were lying. There was a constant stench of paint in these places. At what they painted the same tracks several times. In the evening, another guy walked with a stainless cylinder, something sprinkled on the grass, it stank - dichlorvos (they say that he poisoned ants) 3 times a day a free bus runs to Nayama Bay, plus 2 times in the evening - for a fee. According to the stories of the neighbors in the Village, the rooms are much worse.
Pools.
One pool with jacuzzi, one without jacuzzi, and additionally one jacuzzi. All without heating, water is chlorinated. The first pool (the farthest from the sea) is the deepest, in some places the depth reaches 1.7 meters. The walls and bottom of the pools are made of concrete (in the neighboring Vilage, the pools are lined with tiles and plastic, but the deepest 1.
6 meters), so your swimsuits will have snags and pilling. Diving is allowed only in the first pool, but at the same time you risk scratching your knees and elbows on the bottom. Pools are cleaned from 10.00 to 12.00 in the morning (there is a corresponding photo)
Staff
The staff speaks some English, more Italian. Only one Amadeus bartender speaks a little Russian. Everyone hates Russians. There is a personal approach to Italians - beach towels are laid for them, towels are not only not laid for Russians, but they are given with difficulty then they refuse to accept them, uttering the magic phrase “Seven a clock! ". A Russian can only return a towel at 7:00 pm, but the towel cart closes at 6:30 pm. Early in the morning at 7.30 in the morning in the restaurant with a rolling ball, the staff wakes up somewhat after 8.00.
Restaurants
The hotel, contrary to all descriptions, has 2 restaurants. Main restaurant and Italian. Both have a buffet. The Italian restaurant is open only for lunch.
The menu of an Italian restaurant differs from the main one by the constant presence of pasta in 3 sauces, pasties and the lack of a choice of sweets. In the evening, the Italian restaurant operates as an a la card and changes its name to a fish restaurant. Fish dinner costs from $25 per person. Restaurants do not serve hard drinks. Tea must be carried from the nearest bar. Dishes and waiters are surprisingly clean.
Food
Average scall. The choice is large, but everything is cooked without a soul, or bitter or whatever. Crabs are impossible to eat. And you can cook soup with crab broth at home according to the following recipe: take 1 liter of water, a couple of terribly dirty men's sweatshirts, manganese for color and cook for 2 hours. Indistinguishable from the original. All vegetables are wooden. Fruits for lunch - apples, pears, grapes, bananas, figs, dates. Compared to Turkey, a world producer of high-quality vegetables and fruits, all this is a pitiful semblance.
In Turkey, in a 3 * hotel, there is less choice, but the food is much tastier!
Binge
Only 4 bars. 2 in the pools, 1 under the Italian restaurant, (type Bedouin bar) 1 in the main building. Bars in the pools are open from 10.00 to 18.00 (until sunset). The Bedouin bar is open from 10.00 to 18.00 (after 18.00 all drinks are paid) - this is the bar closest to the beach, only 200 meters. During the day it has free ice cream, drinks, hamburgers, french fries in the evening.
The main bar, next to the reception, is open from 10.00 to 24.00 - free of charge. Carbonated drinks, unlike Turkey, are not real, they are called SunFresh, a pathetic imitation of CocaCola products. Expresso and cappuccino for free, Turkish coffee for a fee. In the bar, a bottle of vodka 0.5l - Finland costs $60.
Entertainment
Volleyball according to the scheme, take the ball and play. Only Italian music from 11.00 to 17.00, with a break for lunch. There is no evening disco, no animation, stupid half-hour performances once a week in the Village. After sunset at 18.00 - the hotel is quiet, not a soul on the territory.
Vilage has a night disco from 00.00. For you, Italian music, colored lanterns and usually 3 lonely girls in the disco area.
Sport
Gym for free, Finnish, Turkish sauna $4 per hour per person, massage $50 session. At Radison, the sauna costs $3.5 per person for the whole day.
Sea
5 days of storm, 1 day of calm. The waves are constantly blowing to the right. Nothing to do with kids. Entering the sea is an adult high-risk activity. You can swim in the sea only from the pier, which is one for 3 hotels. On the platform of the pier measuring 6 * 6 meters, 100 people gather and go down four rusty stairs (2 meters high) one by one into the sea.
Findings:
If you are used to a fun holiday like in Turkey, you are not here. Throughout the charm ate a lot of Italians neck. If you still want to go to Egypt, then go to Hurghada, where Italians are a minority.
Your small child in this hotel will not be able to feel the delights of the red sea.
Resting in Islan every day, you will painfully think about what to do and suffer from idleness. At night in our hotel, a drunk girl ran along the paths and yelled at the top of her lungs “Where are the Russians, are there Russians here? ”
If you are over 50, you speak Italian fluently, you are interested in communicating with Italians, you do not plan to actively splash in the sea - this is the hotel for you.
10 tips for those who are going to go to the Island.
1. In a restaurant, you can ask for ketchup for free.
2. Chips are provided in any bar
3. Going out to the beach at 7.00 and passing by a cart with towels, you can discreetly take a souvenir in the form of an unlimited number of towels that you will not have to hand over later.
4. Take drinks in any bar and drink them on the veranda of your room. What you can do with the remaining wine glasses, mugs, spoons, you can guess for yourself.
5. If by mistake an extra towel is brought to your room ...
6.
Go to the radison - there is a beautiful grotto, you can take some beautiful photos.
7. Room cleaning does not depend on a tip to the maid. You can not leave money - it will still be well cleaned.
8. If you forgot to make a photocopy of your passport (just in case), you can take a picture of it with your digital camera or phone.
9. Inside the safe, the cell phone normally receives calls.
10. In the region of October 1 in Egypt, the clocks are moved back 1 hour to winter time. Then the difference with Moscow is 2 hours. (22.00 Moscow = 20.00 Egypt)
Nubian Island
Nubian Village
Radison sas—Radison.
Nubial Village and Nubian Island are collectively called the Nubian Club.
Francorosso is an Italian operator who imports hundreds of Italians and whose boss rests in the Island.
Preamble: What is good for an Italian is bad for a Russian!
The hotel is located between Village and Radison. The Vilage from Island is free to enter, so it will be your second home.
Hotel dimensions:
Entrance to the main building (reception, bar, restaurant), then the pool and after 800 meters the second pool (near the Italian restaurant, gym, and a beach bar in the same building), then after 200 meters the sea. The width of the territory of the hotel is approximately 50 meters.
Vacation cons:
95% of Italians rest in the hotel, there are Germans in the Vilage, but Russians in both hotels are no more than 10%. Italians are very boring people, they sit in bars all day (not to squeeze through), drink coffee with croissants. Groups of 20 people gather by the pools and talk to each other continuously. In general, Italians gather in crowds anywhere and loudly, continuously bazaar that they can’t shut up.
They are not interested in discos and games, active entertainment, as they come with large families or are over 60 years old.
Hotel
There is no information in Russian about how it works, a hotel map, there is no memo. (partially in English) The territory is huge and well-groomed. In general, in Egypt, everything seems to be done on a grand scale and very clumsily. The rooms are large, beautiful - but the tiles are crooked, there are no carpets on the floor, our toilet was leaking, one closet door was half torn off from the other, nails were sticking out (there is a photo). There is an electronic safe in the room (free of charge), in the Vilage there is a safe at the reception. There is no tennis court or business center. TV shows 50 channels of them in Russian RTR and one Ukrainian channel. Change of linen daily. The air conditioner is individual, it makes noise and blows only with cold, the temperature is not really regulated, there is no remote control, you have to get up all night to turn it on and off.
On the first day, a cockroach the size of a matchbox ran in our room in the bathroom. All the days of our vacation, 2 men walked along the paths and painted them with nitro paint from a spray gun. At what it happened even at the pools where people were lying. There was a constant stench of paint in these places. At what they painted the same tracks several times. In the evening, another guy walked with a stainless cylinder, something sprinkled on the grass, it stank - dichlorvos (they say that he poisoned ants) 3 times a day a free bus runs to Nayama Bay, plus 2 times in the evening - for a fee. According to the stories of the neighbors in the Village, the rooms are much worse.
Pools.
One pool with jacuzzi, one without jacuzzi, and additionally one jacuzzi. All without heating, water is chlorinated. The first pool (the farthest from the sea) is the deepest, in some places the depth reaches 1.7 meters. The walls and bottom of the pools are made of concrete (in the neighboring Vilage, the pools are lined with tiles and plastic, but the deepest 1.
6 meters), so your swimsuits will have snags and pilling. Diving is allowed only in the first pool, but at the same time you risk scratching your knees and elbows on the bottom. Pools are cleaned from 10.00 to 12.00 in the morning (there is a corresponding photo)
Staff
The staff speaks some English, more Italian. Only one Amadeus bartender speaks a little Russian. Everyone hates Russians. There is a personal approach to Italians - beach towels are laid for them, towels are not only not laid for Russians, but they are given with difficulty then they refuse to accept them, uttering the magic phrase “Seven a clock! ". A Russian can only return a towel at 7:00 pm, but the towel cart closes at 6:30 pm. Early in the morning at 7.30 in the morning in the restaurant with a rolling ball, the staff wakes up somewhat after 8.00.
Restaurants
The hotel, contrary to all descriptions, has 2 restaurants. Main restaurant and Italian. Both have a buffet. The Italian restaurant is open only for lunch.
The menu of an Italian restaurant differs from the main one by the constant presence of pasta in 3 sauces, pasties and the lack of a choice of sweets. In the evening, the Italian restaurant operates as an a la card and changes its name to a fish restaurant. Fish dinner costs from $25 per person. Restaurants do not serve hard drinks. Tea must be carried from the nearest bar. Dishes and waiters are surprisingly clean.
Food
Average scall. The choice is large, but everything is cooked without a soul, or bitter or whatever. Crabs are impossible to eat. And you can cook soup with crab broth at home according to the following recipe: take 1 liter of water, a couple of terribly dirty men's sweatshirts, manganese for color and cook for 2 hours. Indistinguishable from the original. All vegetables are wooden. Fruits for lunch - apples, pears, grapes, bananas, figs, dates. Compared to Turkey, a world producer of high-quality vegetables and fruits, all this is a pitiful semblance.
In Turkey, in a 3 * hotel, there is less choice, but the food is much tastier!
Binge
Only 4 bars. 2 in the pools, 1 under the Italian restaurant, (type Bedouin bar) 1 in the main building. Bars in the pools are open from 10.00 to 18.00 (until sunset). The Bedouin bar is open from 10.00 to 18.00 (after 18.00 all drinks are paid) - this is the bar closest to the beach, only 200 meters. During the day it has free ice cream, drinks, hamburgers, french fries in the evening.
The main bar, next to the reception, is open from 10.00 to 24.00 - free of charge. Carbonated drinks, unlike Turkey, are not real, they are called SunFresh, a pathetic imitation of CocaCola products. Expresso and cappuccino for free, Turkish coffee for a fee. In the bar, a bottle of vodka 0.5l - Finland costs $60.
Entertainment
Volleyball according to the scheme, take the ball and play. Only Italian music from 11.00 to 17.00, with a break for lunch. There is no evening disco, no animation, stupid half-hour performances once a week in the Village. After sunset at 18.00 - the hotel is quiet, not a soul on the territory.
Vilage has a night disco from 00.00. For you, Italian music, colored lanterns and usually 3 lonely girls in the disco area.
Sport
Gym for free, Finnish, Turkish sauna $4 per hour per person, massage $50 session. At Radison, the sauna costs $3.5 per person for the whole day.
Sea
5 days of storm, 1 day of calm. The waves are constantly blowing to the right. Nothing to do with kids. Entering the sea is an adult high-risk activity. You can swim in the sea only from the pier, which is one for 3 hotels. On the platform of the pier measuring 6 * 6 meters, 100 people gather and go down four rusty stairs (2 meters high) one by one into the sea.
Findings:
If you are used to a fun holiday like in Turkey, you are not here. Throughout the charm ate a lot of Italians neck. If you still want to go to Egypt, then go to Hurghada, where Italians are a minority.
Your small child in this hotel will not be able to feel the delights of the red sea.
Resting in Islan every day, you will painfully think about what to do and suffer from idleness. At night in our hotel, a drunk girl ran along the paths and yelled at the top of her lungs “Where are the Russians, are there Russians here? ”
If you are over 50, you speak Italian fluently, you are interested in communicating with Italians, you do not plan to actively splash in the sea - this is the hotel for you.
10 tips for those who are going to go to the Island.
1. In a restaurant, you can ask for ketchup for free.
2. Chips are provided in any bar
3. Going out to the beach at 7.00 and passing by a cart with towels, you can discreetly take a souvenir in the form of an unlimited number of towels that you will not have to hand over later.
4. Take drinks in any bar and drink them on the veranda of your room. What you can do with the remaining wine glasses, mugs, spoons, you can guess for yourself.
5. If by mistake an extra towel is brought to your room ...
6.
Go to the radison - there is a beautiful grotto, you can take some beautiful photos.
7. Room cleaning does not depend on a tip to the maid. You can not leave money - it will still be well cleaned.
8. If you forgot to make a photocopy of your passport (just in case), you can take a picture of it with your digital camera or phone.
9. Inside the safe, the cell phone normally receives calls.
10. In the region of October 1 in Egypt, the clocks are moved back 1 hour to winter time. Then the difference with Moscow is 2 hours. (22.00 Moscow = 20.00 Egypt)
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