I liked everything, but not anex tour

Written: 9 february 2018
Travel time: 16 — 26 january 2018
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Hello dear ladies and gentlemen.
I want to leave my comments about the rest at the Sonesta Beach Resort & Casino.
You rested with the company from 16.01. 2018 to 26.01. 2018.
Rest, of course, enjoyed! We came to relax, swim in the cleanest sea, sunbathe, eat heartily and drink various drinks from the belly. With what mood you will relate to the rest and others, so they will treat you. Be friendly, and kind, and you will like EVERYTHING.

Connection.
There is practically no connection at the hotel, every day you need to enter a new password to receive WI FI. This was a little stressful. But later we learned from neighbors that upon arrival, at the airport, the guys offered to buy local SIM cards with 2GB traffic for some $5. They install and connect themselves. It was enough to talk even from the beach, and send pictures, and not be nervous, as we are every evening.
Hotel.
Settled in the eight-hundredth room, but they did not suit us because of the size. Very small.

Then we were taken to the 2000s, which is two minutes further from the beach. I'll tell you it was worth it. The rooms are huge, spacious, and the furniture is less shabby. In principle, the hotel is quite old and has not been renovated for a long time, but if you pay attention to the little things and mumble on every occasion, then this is how you will rest. Cleaned the room, changed all linen and towels every day. They twirled all sorts of little animals out of towels. The first 3-4 days they left a dollar, and then just a chocolate bar. They really appreciate our chocolate. The hotel has three heated pools and a lot of unheated ones. The territory is huge, well-groomed. Lots of palms and flowers. The animators are all very good Gulya and Timur and Masha, but the very, very best is etooooo KKKOOOOOSSSTTTTYAYAYAYA. How children, women, are drawn to him, you should have seen. What guys do a show every night. This is the level, thanks to Masha. Never seen animators under the closet. Always help and advise.
Kostya is the best.
Bars.
The bars are open from 10 am to 11 pm, on the beach from 10 am to 5 pm. Many complained about the small DISPOSABLE cups, so I will tell you that this is a guarantee of exceptional cleanliness. Just last year we rested in another hotel and the glasses there were not disposable. How they are washed one can only guess. Drinks (of the same type) are poured into two glasses in one hand. You can take 2 glasses of beer, 2 glasses of mango juice, 2 glasses of cocktail, etc. All alcoholic drinks, as for my taste, turned out to be little different from each other. Last year I drank only whiskey, and now only rum. He didn't seem so nasty to me. Juices in bars order packaged, they are natural and much tastier. I really liked the beer, the local Stella. There are paid bars with "real" drinks. Who cares, ask hookahs.
I didn’t have enough fish or crackers for beer, and then I found 100-120 meters to the right of the entrance to the beach, along the promenade on the right side of such a mini market. So it's full of everything. I bought cheese chips, big pack, 8 pounds. And the ratio of the dollar to the pound was 1:17.5. 2 times cheaper than in Chernihiv. Tastes great. I bought it with pepper and threw it away - very spicy.

Restaurant.
We tried everything for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast from seven to ten in the morning. We settled on fresh vegetables with feta. Feta is a song. Yogurt, grapefruit, tea and croissants. I read about croissants in the reviews, but when I tried it……. For lunch and dinner there were always two types of fish, chicken and meat. Lots of vegetables, different pasta, potatoes, rice, all kinds of pizza, seafood. Lots of cakes and baked goods. On different days, huge dates, melons, pomegranates, oranges, tangerines, guava were given for dinner. The sausage type and the cheese type are absolutely tasteless.

Several times, during dinner, local amateur performances performed. At the village club level. But some artists pushed. There was one uncle in skirts, so he spun around his axis and twisted these very skirts for about ten minutes. And of course girls with belly dancing, it's something ....
Beach.
To safely enter the sea, you need to purchase corals. Near the beach in shops for five dollars. We bargained two pairs for seven dollars. This is perhaps the most necessary purchase. We chose a place on a hill on the left. There are few people and the entrance to the sea immediately. The sunbeds are old and rusty, but we didn't care. Naama bay, what is good is the almost absence of wind and waves. This is important for snorkelling. And there is something to see there. A huge number of various and very beautiful fish. A little to the left of our beach there are a lot of live corals, we saw a moray eel.
And Napoleon fish lives on our beach, of impressive size, it is not afraid of people, unlike our women. Stingrays live under the pontoon. It is better to look at all this beauty in the morning, just the water is clearer. Swimming and sunbathing are not allowed on neighboring beaches. You can pass by. On the beach they offer massage, parachute, bun, glider, banana. We flew by parachute. I liked it very much. For two they bargained for fifteen dollars. Filming is prohibited. There was one cupcake there, like a photographer, so for ten dollars he shoots the ascent and descent on video and three photos. We bargained for five. The video is absolutely obscene, neither sharpness nor color. Just a white spot. Photo after processing more or less.
The shops.
There are several shops in front of the beach. Around the corner at Mohammed's, some items are slightly cheaper, such as cosmetics, phone cases (for underwater photography), etc. BARGAIN wherever there are no fixed prices.

This is the east, it's customary here. We are not greedy, we are smart. They offer a hundred, immediately say fifty and bargain, but only with a smile. When leaving the hotel, turn left to the Marriott Hotel, there is a pharmacy with fixed prices at the entrance. The wife collected all sorts of things for $50 USD. For example, three toothpastes per dollar. Cosmetics are much cheaper there than in Ukraine. In the evening we walked along the promenade (to the right of the entrance to the beach) on Naama Bay Street. Lots of shops and small shops. There are places to spend money. We found there in the basement grocery store "Korfur", here are the prices ....The same chips 4 - 6 pounds, feta 1kg. 29 pounds, Oriental sweets are much cheaper than on the street. Fruits, vegetables home ..... go, you will not regret it. We only brought home 5 kg of feta.
Tours, excursions.
On the second day, representatives of our travel agency Aneks tour told us that they were heaven on earth, but this uncle was enough for half an hour.
Then he could not stand it and began to yell, stomp his feet and threaten. It turns out that all of us who arrived the day before had to buy all the excursions to Petra and Israel, etc. And we just wanted to sunbathe. Maybe we would buy excursions. But with such an attitude towards us, sorry. At the exit from the hotel 200-300 meters to the right there is an agency "At Roma" or something like that. Friendly, he told us that it’s not worth going to Petra now, the weather is bad. There is no bad political situation in Israel, they stand at the border for eight hours and then do not have time to go anywhere. Roma's is really much cheaper. He offered us a seven-in-one tour. $50USD for two. Jeep ride, colorful canyon, Bedouin tea, camel ride, golden reef (scuba diving), blue hole, oil factory. When we arrived at the canyon, we were attacked by Bedouin children and began to beg very aggressively.

If we knew about them, we would have taken both sweets and dollars. There, one girl even gave away elastic bands from her hair, and the guys from Kazakhstan gave water and sweets. In the canyon it is better to wear sneakers on your feet. I broke my corals on the rocks. Obese overweight people do not recommend buying this tour. All the same, it is small, but extreme. The canyon is amazingly beautiful. At the end of the canyon, the Bedouins were treated to delicious tea, but for this I would take disposable cups from the hotel. Hygiene is simply non-existent. With camels, everything went at the highest level. I liked it very much. A little smell, but it's exotic. Videos are best shot with a selfie stick. Then we were brought to the diving base, it turned out that we had to rent equipment and suits at our own expense, this was not included in the cost of the tour. We did not count on additional expenses. In short, a mask with a snorkel was enough for us to swim in the golden reef.
And those who still rented equipment swam in single file on a string and were very cold, because they did not move. Very beautiful corals, although there were fewer fish than on our beach. They fed us well and took us to the oil factory. But I, as a man, was not interested there.
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