Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
7.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
6.0
Food:
7.0
Amenities:
8.0
Hello everyone! I want to thank everyone who rested with us in April 2010 in the Salah El Din hotels, but we didn’t have animation, but it was always fun, interesting and even informative: to chat or listen to seasoned tourists near the pool, listen to stories about excursions, find out the latest gossip about the behavior of the hotel guides, and just chat with each other. THANK YOU for the company!
Now about the hotel: We always went to deluxe hotels, but alas, the crisis plunged and we had to cut costs. wanted to kill two birds with one stone; relax and go on excursions, found a tour and went to the SALAH EL DIN 3 * hotel with fear, but set ourselves up for positive emotions. (We don’t eat and sleep, like in Turkey, but on excursions).
I will say right away that in Egypt for the first time, I have heard about the boorish attitude of the Egyptian Arabs towards women, but I think it is not groundless that they behave this way. although I am not to blame for the behavior of our compatriots. I was convinced of this at the airport in Taba, the question of the border guard sounded in the purest Russian: "PROSTITUTE".
I was offended and left. I go and think decently dressed arms and legs are closed, probably my white hair and blue eyes embarrassed the military man, but fortunately this is the only incident on the male side.
Well, about the hotel, the first thing you experience upon arrival at the hotel is SHOCK, our brother is not used to modesty, but this feeling quickly passes when you soberly begin to look at everything that surrounds you in the hotel. There is greenery, the rooms are large and all the attributes 5 * there is in the room (the TV set - the husband climbed into the antenna and the TV set began to show 1 channel, the locals either don’t want to or don’t know how to do it; air conditioning, a bar-fridge-empty everything for money in the canteen a bottle of water 2 dollars, the toad choked me, I drank tea near the pool in the evening and poured it into a bottle with me).
There is a drawback in the room, the cold floor is not everywhere there are rugs; the bathroom inside is so used that I think they haven’t changed it for eleven years, but I have disposable shampoo in bags and there is soap, there is an individual boiler under the sink for supplying hot water, in the old building from the reception on the left, the rooms are much worse (we were given 259 the sink is broken, the push is broken, the water is barely warm, the floor is cold, then at the reception they changed us to a new building to the right of the reception, free of charge, at 460, the view from the room is super.
now about the canteen, the food is monotonous and meager, they give fruits, but rarely and mostly cut bananas in syrup.
briefly about the menu: fried potatoes in chunks, once they gave mashed potatoes very tasty, boiled rice is always the same, the potatoes were once changed to pasta, we were all incredibly happy. there are no salads as such, there are options for slicing vegetables yourself, maybe this is for the better. I once muddied our homemade salad, took sliced u200bu200bcucumbers with tomatoes, cut them and poured sour cream, the next day I saw the same salad on distribution. that our taste priorities are being studied, pleases.
Sweets and pastries, of course, not in such an assortment as in Turkey, but worthy and tasty. We went on excursions and fed in hotels 5 * food is not much different, if only with fruit.
And most importantly, I forgot the soup, they cook noodles, it's nice to eat liquid, because. rice and potatoes are difficult to digest. The food is always fresh, though the salads were a little touched, but very rarely.
I don’t know I don’t drink alcohol. I was pleased with Jupi, it’s delicious, unlike Turkey, another plus and I think it’s very big all drinks are poured from bottles, they don’t badjazhat. Haven't tried wine.
Entertainment will not be repeated, there is no animation, but there is a disco on certain days, gatherings by the pool in the evening for a cup of tea or something stronger, shopping at the Hilton - at the reception, call a taxi 10 green, on the road 5. You can bunch up because taxis have Toyota minivans on 8 people, it comes out cheaper. Ours at the Hilton scored leather bags and wallets at an average of 40 greens per bag.
As for the guides, to say horror, to say nothing, they were the first to encounter such a warm welcome, they heard enough about their antics from tourists, in short they were shocked and tried to bypass them. We were met by a girl Natalia, because. our Pegasus guide zulfiya was very busy, the girl adequately set all the priorities quickly and clearly, helped change the number for free, told how to behave with the locals, in short, everything is fine. But Zulfiya is a princess or a princess, but I don’t know which kingdom, advice to her if you read my review, be simpler and people will reach out to you, do not forget that tourists are bread, and you are Zulfiya the face of the company, beauty and neatness in uniform can not always win over people, you need responsiveness or humanity, no one asks to be a clown and smile, just to be simpler. But oh well, we still used the services of Pegasus once and will not do it again, We took an excursion to the monastery of St. Catherine, the bus waited 40 minutes, this is when you consider that we had to pick up at 5.30. morning, we got up much earlier and from the Hilton to us 5 minutes drive. For two hours we gathered people from hotels and drove for an hour to the monastery, the air conditioning was not turned on in the bus until I cursed the guide with foul language. The bus broke down on the way. it was old, around the desert degrees below 35C in the shade, our men climbed to repair the bus, it turned out that the driver didn’t fill the engine with oil at all, there wasn’t even a gram, the engine knocked. About 30 min. we were waiting for another bus, the guide said that one of us is a sinner and is looking at me (I thought I remembered the air conditioner), I was not at a loss and asked him if he himself prayed today. He shut up. The tour guide's name is ALI, he said in Russian, as in a bad movie: "I kill him, she comes", in short, sometimes you had to guess what he meant. he has chaos with grammar, and knowledge is typically in a shortened version, you start to deepen, the answer is “I don’t know. ” In the monastery, my husband and I lingered near the burning bush and joined another group of tourists; , told, it was so interesting about the monastery that we listened and stayed on the excursion with him. But our guide did not miss, as he knew, he gave us just enough time so that we could not climb in local souvenir shops, then, as it turned out, we were brought to shopping, as the husband says, in a trained shop, with prices up to 5 times more expensive than in shops on the streets. We completely quarreled with Ali and went for a walk around Dahab on our own, but until that time allotted for visiting the "trained shop-shopping center", Ali on the trail he said that we would take a taxi to the hotel from Dahab if we didn’t return on time, but we didn’t come back and bought a lot of clothes for our daughter. On the bus, our tourists became envious and were already looking at Ali “VOLKOM”.
We went to Israel and Cairo with local operators and are 100% SATISFIED !! ! all questions are resolved quickly, guides with excellent knowledge and excellent spoken language, you listen (my husband said that upon arrival he would study everything he saw on the sites, but in Israel we will go for two days if we manage to visit Egypt again).
Conclusion: We paid only 36.000 rubles for two for 10 days, even though the hotel is an economy class, but the staff is decent, they don’t bother, they don’t demand money, any problem is solved at the reception quickly, the food is normal and edible, the BEACH is 10 meters from the room, the view and surroundings are SUPER, PEGAS sucks. We saved money on hotels on excursions, visited Israel, Cairo, the Monastery of St. Catherine, didn’t have time to ride on a yacht, but I think it will work out next time.
do not believe the reviews that everything is completely bad, but not the Hilton, but maybe for the better, but what a company, there were good memories of those people and tourists who surrounded us in this hotel.
Now about the hotel: We always went to deluxe hotels, but alas, the crisis plunged and we had to cut costs. wanted to kill two birds with one stone; relax and go on excursions, found a tour and went to the SALAH EL DIN 3 * hotel with fear, but set ourselves up for positive emotions. (We don’t eat and sleep, like in Turkey, but on excursions).
I will say right away that in Egypt for the first time, I have heard about the boorish attitude of the Egyptian Arabs towards women, but I think it is not groundless that they behave this way. although I am not to blame for the behavior of our compatriots. I was convinced of this at the airport in Taba, the question of the border guard sounded in the purest Russian: "PROSTITUTE".
I was offended and left. I go and think decently dressed arms and legs are closed, probably my white hair and blue eyes embarrassed the military man, but fortunately this is the only incident on the male side.
Well, about the hotel, the first thing you experience upon arrival at the hotel is SHOCK, our brother is not used to modesty, but this feeling quickly passes when you soberly begin to look at everything that surrounds you in the hotel. There is greenery, the rooms are large and all the attributes 5 * there is in the room (the TV set - the husband climbed into the antenna and the TV set began to show 1 channel, the locals either don’t want to or don’t know how to do it; air conditioning, a bar-fridge-empty everything for money in the canteen a bottle of water 2 dollars, the toad choked me, I drank tea near the pool in the evening and poured it into a bottle with me).
There is a drawback in the room, the cold floor is not everywhere there are rugs; the bathroom inside is so used that I think they haven’t changed it for eleven years, but I have disposable shampoo in bags and there is soap, there is an individual boiler under the sink for supplying hot water, in the old building from the reception on the left, the rooms are much worse (we were given 259 the sink is broken, the push is broken, the water is barely warm, the floor is cold, then at the reception they changed us to a new building to the right of the reception, free of charge, at 460, the view from the room is super.
now about the canteen, the food is monotonous and meager, they give fruits, but rarely and mostly cut bananas in syrup.
briefly about the menu: fried potatoes in chunks, once they gave mashed potatoes very tasty, boiled rice is always the same, the potatoes were once changed to pasta, we were all incredibly happy. there are no salads as such, there are options for slicing vegetables yourself, maybe this is for the better. I once muddied our homemade salad, took sliced u200bu200bcucumbers with tomatoes, cut them and poured sour cream, the next day I saw the same salad on distribution. that our taste priorities are being studied, pleases.
Sweets and pastries, of course, not in such an assortment as in Turkey, but worthy and tasty. We went on excursions and fed in hotels 5 * food is not much different, if only with fruit.
And most importantly, I forgot the soup, they cook noodles, it's nice to eat liquid, because. rice and potatoes are difficult to digest. The food is always fresh, though the salads were a little touched, but very rarely.
I don’t know I don’t drink alcohol. I was pleased with Jupi, it’s delicious, unlike Turkey, another plus and I think it’s very big all drinks are poured from bottles, they don’t badjazhat. Haven't tried wine.
Entertainment will not be repeated, there is no animation, but there is a disco on certain days, gatherings by the pool in the evening for a cup of tea or something stronger, shopping at the Hilton - at the reception, call a taxi 10 green, on the road 5. You can bunch up because taxis have Toyota minivans on 8 people, it comes out cheaper. Ours at the Hilton scored leather bags and wallets at an average of 40 greens per bag.
As for the guides, to say horror, to say nothing, they were the first to encounter such a warm welcome, they heard enough about their antics from tourists, in short they were shocked and tried to bypass them. We were met by a girl Natalia, because. our Pegasus guide zulfiya was very busy, the girl adequately set all the priorities quickly and clearly, helped change the number for free, told how to behave with the locals, in short, everything is fine. But Zulfiya is a princess or a princess, but I don’t know which kingdom, advice to her if you read my review, be simpler and people will reach out to you, do not forget that tourists are bread, and you are Zulfiya the face of the company, beauty and neatness in uniform can not always win over people, you need responsiveness or humanity, no one asks to be a clown and smile, just to be simpler. But oh well, we still used the services of Pegasus once and will not do it again, We took an excursion to the monastery of St. Catherine, the bus waited 40 minutes, this is when you consider that we had to pick up at 5.30. morning, we got up much earlier and from the Hilton to us 5 minutes drive. For two hours we gathered people from hotels and drove for an hour to the monastery, the air conditioning was not turned on in the bus until I cursed the guide with foul language. The bus broke down on the way. it was old, around the desert degrees below 35C in the shade, our men climbed to repair the bus, it turned out that the driver didn’t fill the engine with oil at all, there wasn’t even a gram, the engine knocked. About 30 min. we were waiting for another bus, the guide said that one of us is a sinner and is looking at me (I thought I remembered the air conditioner), I was not at a loss and asked him if he himself prayed today. He shut up. The tour guide's name is ALI, he said in Russian, as in a bad movie: "I kill him, she comes", in short, sometimes you had to guess what he meant. he has chaos with grammar, and knowledge is typically in a shortened version, you start to deepen, the answer is “I don’t know. ” In the monastery, my husband and I lingered near the burning bush and joined another group of tourists; , told, it was so interesting about the monastery that we listened and stayed on the excursion with him. But our guide did not miss, as he knew, he gave us just enough time so that we could not climb in local souvenir shops, then, as it turned out, we were brought to shopping, as the husband says, in a trained shop, with prices up to 5 times more expensive than in shops on the streets. We completely quarreled with Ali and went for a walk around Dahab on our own, but until that time allotted for visiting the "trained shop-shopping center", Ali on the trail he said that we would take a taxi to the hotel from Dahab if we didn’t return on time, but we didn’t come back and bought a lot of clothes for our daughter. On the bus, our tourists became envious and were already looking at Ali “VOLKOM”.
We went to Israel and Cairo with local operators and are 100% SATISFIED !! ! all questions are resolved quickly, guides with excellent knowledge and excellent spoken language, you listen (my husband said that upon arrival he would study everything he saw on the sites, but in Israel we will go for two days if we manage to visit Egypt again).
Conclusion: We paid only 36.000 rubles for two for 10 days, even though the hotel is an economy class, but the staff is decent, they don’t bother, they don’t demand money, any problem is solved at the reception quickly, the food is normal and edible, the BEACH is 10 meters from the room, the view and surroundings are SUPER, PEGAS sucks. We saved money on hotels on excursions, visited Israel, Cairo, the Monastery of St. Catherine, didn’t have time to ride on a yacht, but I think it will work out next time.
do not believe the reviews that everything is completely bad, but not the Hilton, but maybe for the better, but what a company, there were good memories of those people and tourists who surrounded us in this hotel.
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