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Written: 15 august 2011
Travel time: 26 july — 7 august 2011
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The hotel has received some controversy. Before that, there were in the Nubians (neighboring hotels) and Albatros Moderna, the hope was that the global brand Radisson Blu would be no worse. But only the price of $ 70 per day for one (or even cheaper) will make us go there. Well, now a personal opinion, what is good, what is not very good.
The first positive: this is the price (Crimea is resting) and this is the main thing, the price made me turn a blind eye to many things. We were lucky with the number, my wife went to take shape and did not fail, in front of us the family paid $ 20 for a settlement and they were in the 3rd building overlooking the pool, and we were without money in the 1st building 2nd floor. (1201) overlooking the main restaurant, fountains, dance floor, obelisk. But there are rooms with a terrible location: access to the technical road, the fence and walls of neighboring hotels (the floor of the hotel is like that), the first floor, you can shudder. Rooms with sea views, in my opinion, it makes no sense to take in this hotel, only one name, plus: closer to the sea, but further to food.
Here in the Nubians, it really has a sea view, but in the Radisson Blu there can be a couple of rooms, and then in a 2-storey building. Immediately at the reception they refused the mini-bar (it is paid) and slept peacefully, cooled water from the restaurant, fruits in the refrigerator. Standard rooms are large, full bath with bidet, hair dryer, etc. . safe for free. The minus of the second floor is the key card, which you can’t leave for air conditioning, charging, you won’t enter the room without it, you can exit the first floor through the veranda. Once the water disappeared in the morning in the hotel, after two hours they fixed it. For 12 days they only changed the bed once, and then when they stopped leaving $ 1, and so they just turned it over. Swans and other figurines, flowers, petals, and do not expect something to be at the kindergarten level, uncomplicated, but the room, the balcony is washed, cleaned. A thrown towel on the floor, when, somehow, it may turn out to be changed again, I checked: I put marks.

The territory is green, flowers, lawns, flowing water, fountains, bridges, pools, everything is fine in this, but there are simply NO water slides, not for children, not for adults, in Nubins and in Albatross they are just super slides. Animation ZERO, just BIG ZERO. Who needs a party, it's not in this hotel, on Friday 3 hours of live music, that is, one person sings to a musical recording, one clown animator or two, did not understand that's all! This was not the case in any hotel. Restaurant-canteen (OLIVOS) is actually one, all the rest are paid. On the beach only from 11 to 16, but as a diner no more. Enough food: in the morning scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, pancakes, donuts, French. toasts, milk, hot chocolate, salads, etc. For lunch and dinner, stewed, boiled, grilled chicken, duck, fish, squid, barbecue, kebab, etc. , but garnish is only rice, pasta, potatoes (it was not always possible to eat) and a hit: french fries (queue for 15-20 people).
Drinks in coolers by the quality of boxed nectar, if it has not yet been diluted with ordinary bottled water (I somehow observed this). The main shock: watermelons only for money! They could no longer look at the melons, twice there were apples, peaches, one pear, constantly oranges, bananas, dates and that's it. But the main thing: they were not hungry, the first days they barely crawled out. Now about the peculiar: coffee and tea, wine, beer, etc. are served only by waiters (there is no counter where you can take it yourself), the restaurant is divided into different parts that serve a different composition of waiters and cleaners, and where you sit only your waiter who you can order “drink” and you can wait a long time, we solved this issue with a small tip (1-2 pounds), we tried to sit in one place and everything was fast, and when there were few seats and the administrators were seated, we turned to them, and they already knew who they needed call.
But by the end of the holiday, this , , drink , , got sick of bottled water in the same way or go to bars to take there. Water is only 750 ml each . . I also got the impression that the instructions for waiters, bartenders, cooks are to try to pour less, give small portions. I constantly had to say: now share, then report, it already gave the impression that you were some kind of beggar and were taking the last thing from the people of Egypt. And it doesn't matter who you are: from the former Soviet Union, European, Arab - it was interesting to observe the expression on people's faces. My dachshund has a larger portion of meat. At first, we just smiled at them and asked them to add, when they got used to us, they just showed on their fingers how much of something and everything became normal. Once my wife was poured less than half a cup of coffee, she asked to add a little, he took it and poured it with a grin.
But the plus of this hotel is that there was always a hotel manager (Englishman) in it, who constantly went around the whole hotel in the morning and you can chat with him. And when we said that we would inform the general manager about the behavior, and immediately apologize, and then: how are you, everything is fine? If you have good English and are very scrupulous - this is a huge plus, you can drip. So they removed the bartender from the beach, at whose bar counter drunk youngsters hung out all day long, sat with their feet on the refrigerators, took something themselves, poured it, zero attention was paid to you (we can only see this), cocktails were made just swill and who something complained, for three days the manager went to check the beach, the bartender was immediately different and it became more or less (at least there was order). By the way: cocktails have one name, but in essence - swill. They thump half a glass of their alcohol and dilute the rest with something (ice is generally a problem! ).

watched as two ladies ordered three different cocktails in turn and so not one could not drink. And then the servants offer good alcohol for money. And we showed how much to pour alcohol and so on, then ok! one recipe: gin 15-20ml the rest is sprite or schwebs, lime slice and (if you're lucky) ice. Beer near the reception is bottled, and so is keg, normal. I even managed to drink good tomato juice several times. Ice cream only for kids, the rest for money, three times it was for dinner for everyone. Ventilation, i. e. air conditioners, in the dining room and lobby, at the open door level. And the lobby is more like a waiting room at an average train station with stale air. It seems that the motto of this hotel is "sit less, eat less, drink less. "
For those who like to relax by the pool, there is one large one in the central part and one near the sea. Visually, there was enough space for everyone, but we are sea lovers.
The beach is large, there was always enough space, even when the beach workers occupied sunbeds for tipping (closer to the pontoon) and came from Park Inn 4 *. As there is no such place for swimming from the shore, the level is waist-deep and if 5-10 people entered there is no place, everyone just sat on their asses, for that you can’t watch the kids, no one has drowned in a puddle yet. But the water was warmer than the body, while the storms sat in the water for hours or went to the Nubians, there they further expanded the entries. plus the location of the hotel in the August heat, a refreshing breeze always blows, especially good in the early morning and evening. Well, the main thing: a reef and a pontoon. In the morning, as always, a storm (it doesn’t matter spring or summer), only two days in the morning we swam (the hope was at least in the summer in the morning it would be possible to swim) and naturally in the afternoon on the pontoon of pandemonium. Four hotels on one pontoon, what else can you expect, three and two years ago this was not the case. Everything is like according to Zadornov: only legs, that you can’t see the fish
. the motto is "All to the Reef". we know how to swim, we don’t know how, it doesn’t matter: we will sit on the steps, hold on to the stairs, in a vest near the stairs, whatever you like - all on a reef in the sea. So be prepared to remember the actions in the bazaars and sail far enough from the pontoon. I swam to the pontoon of Cleopatra and became envious, everything is calm, wide entry, calm fish. Now Cleopatra is on notice. And here they walk on corals, break them, swim on the head with their hands, flippers - a complete extreme. But the sea, fish, corals compensate for everything. We bought a camera case several times cheaper than ours, got a lot of pleasure, I advise. Across the street is a shopping center and compared to previous years, the crisis knocked down many, many closed and became more accommodating, do not write off, bargain, prices fell very significantly. Last year, they barely bought new fins, and now they just restrained themselves. The $110 price drops to $40, good timing.

It seems that everything that you didn’t write means it doesn’t matter, THE MAIN THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE HOTEL WRITED. For those traveling for the first time - good, but we can only be lured by a super price!
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