This hotel can be visited once, but no more.

Written: 14 may 2010
Travel time: 15 — 29 april 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
1) The hotel itself. Immediately upon arrival at the hotel, when issuing a room, the administrator tried to breed for money. He supposedly offered a better room if we gave him $30. He refused to bargain for less. I advise you not to agree, but to go first to see the number. We did not scandalize, the number suited us. In the room: the safe did not work, there were no bathrobes, but in principle it was clean, comfortable, a good bed. At the reception, if anyone has WiFi access on a laptop - the Internet is free. If there is no laptop, then the use of a computer - they say for a fee, but do not sell. We had to transfer photos from cameras to a USB flash drive at the reception in Radisson (opposite the Park Inn).
The beach is sandy. Little sand. Sea with corals. You need to swim in the sea in special shoes to protect against corals. You can buy it from the hotel. For 130 meters from the shore it is very shallow - you can’t really buy here. After 130 meters, the coral bottom abruptly breaks off - immediately a very great depth. Here you are allowed to swim only from the pontoon. Since I swim badly, especially such a great depth, I swam in a life jacket, which I bought near the hotel. There are a lot of all sorts of fish, which is a plus for the beach. But the pontoon did not work for more than half of the time of our vacation - in fact, this time is obtained without the sea.
The water park on site is very good. Lots of pools and slides. True, different slides have their own time limits. Very beautiful landscape design on the territory of the hotel.

What they call a jacuzzi is actually a small indoor pool. Health club and SPA - below all criticism. For the price they ask, it's not worth it. Massage - they just do not know how to do. You can safely save on this without losing anything.
Meals in the restaurant - buffet. Several snack bars. The food is average for a 4 star hotel. Very tasty meat and sausages cooked on fire. Salads, where I recommend not to eat a lot of components - I suspect they cut the leftovers from the previous meal. When I ate them, there were: 1 day vomiting, 3 times (days) diarrhea. Sometimes the restaurant smelled strongly of formalin (you can read that on the Internet).
A very big minus - the hotel staff is very arrogant, cheeky, importunate. Constantly pestering everyone in a row. The first two days, when everyone you meet shouts to you: Hey you, how are you? – maybe it’s cool, but then it’s definitely annoying. Vacationers are trying in different ways to breed for money. Not to earn, namely to breed.
Another very big disadvantage is the local population. The impression is that if it were not for the protection (everywhere), then the tourists would simply be torn apart. Everyone looks at the tourists with wide eyes. And if they see that you are Russian-speaking, they can swear (many people know the Russian language). Souvenirs are all made in China. And what are the Bedouins - you can't even imagine!
2) Excursions.
A) I advise you to go on a tour of Jerusalem-Petra (2 days). Petra is the best! Most of all people liked in Jordan. In Jerusalem, everything looks completely different than on TV, it stinks of urine. At the border, Israeli girls "smoke" to the fullest. It is better to buy cosmetics, souvenirs in Jordan, it is much cheaper there.

B) Excursion to Cairo and the pyramids - one big scam. This is in order to say that he was on the pyramids. Only the treasures of Tutankhamun in the museum are truly impressive. In Cairo - mountains of garbage and crowds of beggars. Neil is the same. Pyramids only in photographs look interesting. Everything is covered in dust, dirt, or how it is not arranged. Crowds of Bedouins are running around, some incomprehensible people who climb to tourists, trying to sell some complete crap. And God forbid you give them at least a dollar or buy something. Then they will run after you for another 40 minutes, demanding money, trying to snatch your bags. At the papyrus factory: very high prices, drawings - replicate the same ones. A visit to a perfume factory - megalochotron. At first, they try to allegedly give tea to drink (it is not clear what is actually there). Some tourists felt bad after him. What they actually pour (on tap!!! ) to tourists under the guise of perfumery is a big mystery. Well, and so on.
3) Conclusion: This hotel can be visited once, but no more.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original