Imeprial Shams Abu Soma

Written: 21 april 2009
Travel time: 13 — 19 april 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
Arrived two days ago. The overall impression of the rest is 100% satisfied, as it turned out to be the rest.
We flew from Sheremetyevo S. Nordwind Airlines, Boeing 757 aircraft. Everything was long and tedious in the ball, especially the check-in for the flight worked 4 counters and it took about 40 minutes. They took off and sat down not particularly shaking, they landed softly and flew well. It was unrealistic to get lost at Hurghada Airport; everywhere there were Pegasus guides who suggested where to go. The visa costs $15.
Since the hotel is 45-50 km. from Hurghada they were afraid that we would go for two hours. But everything turned out perfectly well instead of a big bus that delivers to several hotels at once, we had a small bus like "Minibus" in which the air conditioner worked perfectly. We arrived in 45 minutes, brought two tourists to SHAMS, which is located across the fence from our destination, i. e. from Imperial SHAMS.

At first they gave us a room, but we didn't like the view because it was right on the roof, that is, from the balcony you could immediately go to the roof and it was in the very corner. For $35 baksheesh, we found a room that suited us.
The first two days the weather was fine, but on the second day a terrible wind began to blow at night, which, unfortunately, did not end until the end of the holiday. But on the beach, thanks to the wind protection, when lying on a sunbed, it's normal. Although, of course, it’s disgusting to go into the sea with such a wind, especially considering that in order to swim you have to go a generation-belt of 50-70 meters. It's okay to go in, you can plop into the water and that's it, but it's creepy to come out. Personally, I saw there three corals, various fish, in short, you can dive cool.
Thanks to the wind, there is expanse for kite and wind surfers. Watching them is also a pleasure : ) They fly beautifully.
The hotel has 3 swimming pools, one is warm two are not.
Now about the room in the room TV (ORT, RTR-Planet), safe, minibar (6 cans of soda upon arrival and two bottles of mineral water every day). The bathroom has a hair dryer, some gel shampoos and other crap. Yes, even a toilet with a built-in bidet : )
Wet cleaning every day, towels changed every day. Bed linen was changed 2 times (I'm not pritenzii that not every day, because I'm at home, I don't change linen every day).
The air conditioner in the room works fine, but we did not use it at night, we just left the balcony ajar.
There were mosquitoes at night turned on the raid (crap in the socket) after that they did not bite.
Now about to eat.
I am 100% satisfied with the food. Cream soups are always different for a week, soups just do not repeat. Further side dishes are any potatoes (such and such), rice, different milkweeds, vegetable stews, and some other kind of porridge like couscous. Meat fish chicken whatever you want. Thematic dinners, if I may say so, were that I remember barbecue, sea food, Italian, I don’t remember anything else. In the morning there were omelettes to order, pancakes, various cereals, salads, fruits.

Healthy pastries are simply divine. I am a fan of fresh bread, but there it is delicious, all the buns, bread rolls, donuts are awesome. Sweet different pies puddings cakes. On the beach from 12 to 18 ice cream in unlimited quantities.
So who writes about the monotony of food in this hotel, I can't even imagine their gastronomic delights at home.
What else can surprise you and what kind of food I just can’t imagine.
In addition to the main restaurant, there are also Italian and Oriental restaurants, which must be booked in advance.
In Italian pizza spaghetti lasagna and something else nice and quiet. In the east was not (all restaurants and bars are free).
There is also one restaurant where you can eat between breakfast-lunch-dinner and after dinner.
Bars are nothing special to write about. Stella Egyptian beer I liked it and used it. Rum is nothing else. I didn't try the rest, I just didn't want to. Cocktails, although they have well-known names, do not look like the originals. I was especially pleased with one bartender (Mukhamed during the day at the beach bar in the evening in the lobby), so he makes all the cocktails as he likes and always adds grenadine everywhere : ) but it turns out delicious.
Animation FIG knows nothing to compare with. They put on a show in the evening. Happy charging volleyball darts.
By the way, there is billiards, two pool tables are killed to death, one Russian is not what oh no balls.
The attitude of the staff is excellent, everything is done with a smile quickly and without bickering. But here, probably, everything is from the fact that both you are to them and they are to you. Regarding the fact that someone wrote that they were not neat and dirty, I have not seen such cleaners on the beach all in white, the porters are the same clean about the reception, I generally keep quiet clean so they shine. The only bartenders in the evening are slightly spattered, and even then some who especially like to use a shaker. : )

Our check out was at 16:00 so we extended the room and it costs $50. Picked up our big bus, so we stopped by 5-6 more hotels, collecting tourists. As a result, it took 1.5 hours to get to the airport. We flew into the balloon at night, docked to the trunk and reached the terminal by heat.
All.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original