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Vacation-Taxi-Pulkovo 1-Duty free- Viskar - Boeing 76.300- Take-off - Turbulence - Shakes - Viskar overflows - Prayer to the Lord - Landing - transfer to Taba.
In the reviews I read that they met in a passenger car, tk. before Taba there were two. We were not lucky, they gave us a minibus, nine people got to Taba, including one to Dahab. While it was being delivered, we lost 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes at the gas station, shop, tea, water. In general, we reached Sofitel in three hours. Road through the desert along the mountains. Sadly, the benefit of the air conditioner worked.
The guide took us to the reception, asked if we still needed him, smiling slyly, probably wanted to say if we needed to agree on a better number of bucks for 50. We answered him that we didn’t need him. Thinking to yourself from a dead donkey to your ears, not 50 bucks. The guide left, and the guy at the counter, taking our passports for about 10 minutes, looked at the monitor, frowning more and more, then gathered a couple more receptionists around him and began to explain something to them. We have already begun to think that we are not on the lists of those who arrived. After nine hours of the road, bad thoughts began to creep into my head. Then apparently the elder came up and told us that it was one o'clock in the afternoon and our room would be ready by 15 o'clock. He put on bracelets and said, wait. We went to wait at the Aladdin restaurant, waited for red wine and dinner for an hour and a half. Then they returned to storm the reception. There was no need for an assault, we were given an email. key and sent to room 1139. Of course, on the first floor and, of course, almost to the very last. In general, in the 1st building, if you stand with your back to the sea in the far right wing. Third number from the edge. But we didn't care, we were so tired of the flight and moving. We decided if anything, in the evening we will try to change, but it was not necessary to change. Since the shortcomings of the room (relatively far from the restaurant) were more than offset by the merits. Our wing turned out to be the closest to the sea, from the terrace there was access to a green lawn, and behind it (20 meters) the beach began. Often went to the beach directly from their terrace, and not through the door. There was a hammock next to the room and what is important, no one roamed and stared into the room, as was the case, for example, with the rooms that overlooked the pool. And again, almost 50 meters later Khayatovsky beach began. Therefore, it was the closest thing among the Sofitelites to go to the Khayatovsky pantone.
Now in order.
Number. Nice, big, with a claim to originality (so the telly was in a wooden chest) a large chest of drawers, large bedside tables, a huge bed (four of us could sleep on it, not just two) probably because the French hotel approached this detail according to - French (la mour)
Nutrition. I agree with previous reviews, the food is not bad, but a bit monotonous. Bored. It saves only that every day is declared the day of national cuisine. Egyptian, Italian, etc. On Sunday, the most “delicious” day is French. They gave red fish, blue cheese, chicken skewers on skewers, there were as many as 12 types of fruit. With, that every day no more than six. And those, so to speak, are not always edible. Guys, what kind of bread is there, you will lick your fingers.
Restaurants. On system all inclusive two, the third paid. Two bars Lotos by the pool and Sultan at the reception. I liked the fact that the waiters serve very well, just sat down at the table, the waiter rushes with a bottle of water, pours it into a glass, asks what drinks to bring. Bring one, two, at least ten. They bring it quickly, in between times they manage to see when you drink your beer or wine, they immediately ask for more bir? I say no thanks, he can still bring. To be honest, my wife and I were pleasantly surprised by such work of waiters, in no hotel before that, neither in Egypt, nor in Turkey, nor in Tunisia, there was such a thing. The Aladdin restaurant is very large, there are always free tables, no matter what time you come.
Beach. Large, sandy, plastic sunbeds, two screens from the wind, they can be blocked not only from the wind, but also from the neighbors on the beach. There are no cabanas, showers are closer to the pools than to the beach, although the beach starts from the pool, hammocks. You need to take the first line at 6 in the morning. By nine there are no free sunbeds at all. It feels like there are fewer sunbeds than vacationers. Although it was a couple of days, there were probably big departures, when the sunbeds on the third line were empty until lunch. We somehow decided to sleep a little longer after a trip to Jerusalem, so half past ten there were no sunbeds either on the beach or by the pool. I had to take off my bracelets and go to Khayatovsky beach, since it is 40 meters from Sfitelevsky. On Hayatov's beach at any time, half of the sunbeds are not occupied, it is not clear whether the hotel's occupancy is small, or whether all the Hayatovites lie by the pool.
Sea, entrance to the water. The sea is clean, with the entrance is not very. Without slippers, you can go from the pontoon or slightly to the right of it if you are facing the sea, as well as in the center of the beach, where the entrance is fenced with buoys. Knee-deep almost 100 meters, ebb tide. In the morning, a breeze usually blew from the sea, which stopped by lunchtime, there was no wind for a couple of days in the morning. And the last three days have been very bad, the wind from morning to evening, and very strong, there was a strong wave in the sea, few dared to swim. Coral slippers solve the problem, they can be bought at the hotel store for 10 bucks.
Coral. It goes from the Sofitel pontoon to the Khayat one with a gradual decrease in depth, from 1.5 to 5 meters. Further, again to the small Khayatovsky depth of 1.5 meters, the same when approaching the Club Med hotel under construction. On the beach Club Meda sand, the entrance is excellent. Five six meters from the shore is chest-deep. Further, at the cliff where divers' bots constantly sail from the shore 10 meters deep is already 15-18 meters. On the advice of experienced people, I went to the Khayatov reef and from the Khayatov pontoon I swam to the Sofitel beach. And also on the Club Medovskaya to the rock. There, above the divers who are 15 meters below you, you hang in thousands of bubbles, like in a jacuzzi. On Sofitelevsky beach, where the entrance is fenced with buoys, there is a gap in the coral, there is a depth at the exit of 3 meters, there are a lot of fish.
There are not as many fish as in Sharm, but more than in Hurghada. Barracudas, moray eels, scars, groupers, spinarogues, parrots, surgeons, rhinoceroses, and all sorts of butterfly fish. I searched for turtles, but unfortunately I did not find them.
Territory. Compact: buildings, swimming pool, beach. Everything is close, from the room to the beach at hand, this is a very big plus. For those who lived on the ground floor, everything is super, everything is in one line restaurants, pool bar, pool, beach, no stairs. Around the green lawns, palm trees, flowers. A big plus is that Sofitel is not like, for example, Radisson, which stands like a poplar on ivy, but is located, as it were, in a tourist town. Hyatt, Sofitel, Mariot, Intercontinental and the World Sea dive center are located on the sea. On the second line, as it were, in the depths of the territory, there is the El-Vikayla hotel, golf courses, a Golf club. A shuttle bus runs between them, which runs every 15 minutes. There is a 2.5 km promenade between the four hotels, you can run in the morning to exercise, and take a walk in the evening. Every day we walked, went to the Intercontinental, then to Mariot.
Shopping. With shopping tube. There is a shop at the hotel, there are a dozen shops in the El Vikayla hotel. We didn’t find anything worthwhile there, we took a taxi to the reception and went to Nuweiba, which is about 50 km. There are 50 shops with various Egyptian junk and several decent shops with a fixed price list, they bought decent jeans, shirts, T-shirts there. Prices in Nuweiba are two to three times lower than in El Vikail and hotel shops. So an Egyptian T-shirt in El Vikail and a hotel shop is $10, in Nuweiba $4. Coral slippers in El Vikail and hotel shop $10, in Nuweiba $3. We traded for 2.
Excursion. We went to Jerusalem with the Tez Tour for 160 dollars. from a person. Already on the bus found out that some agreed for 145 dollars. The trip was not successful, the bus was late for us, arrived instead of 23.15 at 23.40. It took almost 4 hours to cross the border. Guide Lena, arbitrarily changed the order of visits and brought in the morning to the Dead Sea for an hour and a half, of course, to a lured store, where prices are exorbitant. Do not buy anything there, on the way back to duty free when crossing the border, buy the same thing but three times cheaper. In Jerusalem, traffic jams, queues everywhere, Lena even managed to organize a queue for half an hour at lunch. Bring four groups together. The whole bus was angry at her. And at least she brought us to a pilgrim's shop where the prices for icons are not only high, they are prohibitive. Prices in the region of 9-12 thousand in terms of rubles. You can buy the same ones from us for 2-3 thousand. We returned to the hotel instead of 21 hours, half past midnight. Of the 26 hours of the excursion itself, the excursion turned out to be a couple of hours, the rest was bus riding, traffic jams, queues, dragging around lured shops. I did not think that for 160 bucks you can buy yourself such torment.
Diving. You can sign up for dives at the waterword dive center or its branch (on the hotel's beach). The dive center is no good, but the prices bite. If in Hurghada you can take two dives with lunch on the boat and equipment rental for 40-50 bucks. Then going on a boat with two dives will cost 65 euros + they charge 30 euros for equipment rental. It's 133 bucks. Not weak, yes, 133 bucks against 40. There are Russian instructors there, they say that such prices are due to the lack of competition, although you can bargain for a small discount.
Contingent. It seemed to me that Western Europeans are mostly French, 50 percent, Eastern Europeans are mostly Poles, 30 percent, 15 percent of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, and the remaining 5% are Arabs and Asians (either Chinese or Japanese). There are relatively few Ukrainians, but they are very recognizable. If at dinner a man in shorts or a tracksuit sits at a table, picking his teeth with his finger and wiping his mouth with his hand and says: “Sho”, then it’s not difficult to guess where he comes from.
Generally. There are more pluses in the hotel than minuses, I recommend for a calm, quiet holiday for people who need the sea, the sun, morning jogging and evening walks without discos and excess noise.
In the reviews I read that they met in a passenger car, tk. before Taba there were two. We were not lucky, they gave us a minibus, nine people got to Taba, including one to Dahab. While it was being delivered, we lost 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes at the gas station, shop, tea, water. In general, we reached Sofitel in three hours. Road through the desert along the mountains. Sadly, the benefit of the air conditioner worked.
The guide took us to the reception, asked if we still needed him, smiling slyly, probably wanted to say if we needed to agree on a better number of bucks for 50. We answered him that we didn’t need him. Thinking to yourself from a dead donkey to your ears, not 50 bucks. The guide left, and the guy at the counter, taking our passports for about 10 minutes, looked at the monitor, frowning more and more, then gathered a couple more receptionists around him and began to explain something to them. We have already begun to think that we are not on the lists of those who arrived. After nine hours of the road, bad thoughts began to creep into my head. Then apparently the elder came up and told us that it was one o'clock in the afternoon and our room would be ready by 15 o'clock. He put on bracelets and said, wait. We went to wait at the Aladdin restaurant, waited for red wine and dinner for an hour and a half. Then they returned to storm the reception. There was no need for an assault, we were given an email. key and sent to room 1139. Of course, on the first floor and, of course, almost to the very last. In general, in the 1st building, if you stand with your back to the sea in the far right wing. Third number from the edge. But we didn't care, we were so tired of the flight and moving. We decided if anything, in the evening we will try to change, but it was not necessary to change. Since the shortcomings of the room (relatively far from the restaurant) were more than offset by the merits. Our wing turned out to be the closest to the sea, from the terrace there was access to a green lawn, and behind it (20 meters) the beach began. Often went to the beach directly from their terrace, and not through the door. There was a hammock next to the room and what is important, no one roamed and stared into the room, as was the case, for example, with the rooms that overlooked the pool. And again, almost 50 meters later Khayatovsky beach began. Therefore, it was the closest thing among the Sofitelites to go to the Khayatovsky pantone.
Now in order.
Number. Nice, big, with a claim to originality (so the telly was in a wooden chest) a large chest of drawers, large bedside tables, a huge bed (four of us could sleep on it, not just two) probably because the French hotel approached this detail according to - French (la mour)
Nutrition. I agree with previous reviews, the food is not bad, but a bit monotonous. Bored. It saves only that every day is declared the day of national cuisine. Egyptian, Italian, etc. On Sunday, the most “delicious” day is French. They gave red fish, blue cheese, chicken skewers on skewers, there were as many as 12 types of fruit. With, that every day no more than six. And those, so to speak, are not always edible. Guys, what kind of bread is there, you will lick your fingers.
Restaurants. On system all inclusive two, the third paid. Two bars Lotos by the pool and Sultan at the reception. I liked the fact that the waiters serve very well, just sat down at the table, the waiter rushes with a bottle of water, pours it into a glass, asks what drinks to bring. Bring one, two, at least ten. They bring it quickly, in between times they manage to see when you drink your beer or wine, they immediately ask for more bir? I say no thanks, he can still bring. To be honest, my wife and I were pleasantly surprised by such work of waiters, in no hotel before that, neither in Egypt, nor in Turkey, nor in Tunisia, there was such a thing. The Aladdin restaurant is very large, there are always free tables, no matter what time you come.
Beach. Large, sandy, plastic sunbeds, two screens from the wind, they can be blocked not only from the wind, but also from the neighbors on the beach. There are no cabanas, showers are closer to the pools than to the beach, although the beach starts from the pool, hammocks. You need to take the first line at 6 in the morning. By nine there are no free sunbeds at all. It feels like there are fewer sunbeds than vacationers. Although it was a couple of days, there were probably big departures, when the sunbeds on the third line were empty until lunch. We somehow decided to sleep a little longer after a trip to Jerusalem, so half past ten there were no sunbeds either on the beach or by the pool. I had to take off my bracelets and go to Khayatovsky beach, since it is 40 meters from Sfitelevsky. On Hayatov's beach at any time, half of the sunbeds are not occupied, it is not clear whether the hotel's occupancy is small, or whether all the Hayatovites lie by the pool.
Sea, entrance to the water. The sea is clean, with the entrance is not very. Without slippers, you can go from the pontoon or slightly to the right of it if you are facing the sea, as well as in the center of the beach, where the entrance is fenced with buoys. Knee-deep almost 100 meters, ebb tide. In the morning, a breeze usually blew from the sea, which stopped by lunchtime, there was no wind for a couple of days in the morning. And the last three days have been very bad, the wind from morning to evening, and very strong, there was a strong wave in the sea, few dared to swim. Coral slippers solve the problem, they can be bought at the hotel store for 10 bucks.
Coral. It goes from the Sofitel pontoon to the Khayat one with a gradual decrease in depth, from 1.5 to 5 meters. Further, again to the small Khayatovsky depth of 1.5 meters, the same when approaching the Club Med hotel under construction. On the beach Club Meda sand, the entrance is excellent. Five six meters from the shore is chest-deep. Further, at the cliff where divers' bots constantly sail from the shore 10 meters deep is already 15-18 meters. On the advice of experienced people, I went to the Khayatov reef and from the Khayatov pontoon I swam to the Sofitel beach. And also on the Club Medovskaya to the rock. There, above the divers who are 15 meters below you, you hang in thousands of bubbles, like in a jacuzzi. On Sofitelevsky beach, where the entrance is fenced with buoys, there is a gap in the coral, there is a depth at the exit of 3 meters, there are a lot of fish.
There are not as many fish as in Sharm, but more than in Hurghada. Barracudas, moray eels, scars, groupers, spinarogues, parrots, surgeons, rhinoceroses, and all sorts of butterfly fish. I searched for turtles, but unfortunately I did not find them.
Territory. Compact: buildings, swimming pool, beach. Everything is close, from the room to the beach at hand, this is a very big plus. For those who lived on the ground floor, everything is super, everything is in one line restaurants, pool bar, pool, beach, no stairs. Around the green lawns, palm trees, flowers. A big plus is that Sofitel is not like, for example, Radisson, which stands like a poplar on ivy, but is located, as it were, in a tourist town. Hyatt, Sofitel, Mariot, Intercontinental and the World Sea dive center are located on the sea. On the second line, as it were, in the depths of the territory, there is the El-Vikayla hotel, golf courses, a Golf club. A shuttle bus runs between them, which runs every 15 minutes. There is a 2.5 km promenade between the four hotels, you can run in the morning to exercise, and take a walk in the evening. Every day we walked, went to the Intercontinental, then to Mariot.
Shopping. With shopping tube. There is a shop at the hotel, there are a dozen shops in the El Vikayla hotel. We didn’t find anything worthwhile there, we took a taxi to the reception and went to Nuweiba, which is about 50 km. There are 50 shops with various Egyptian junk and several decent shops with a fixed price list, they bought decent jeans, shirts, T-shirts there. Prices in Nuweiba are two to three times lower than in El Vikail and hotel shops. So an Egyptian T-shirt in El Vikail and a hotel shop is $10, in Nuweiba $4. Coral slippers in El Vikail and hotel shop $10, in Nuweiba $3. We traded for 2.
Excursion. We went to Jerusalem with the Tez Tour for 160 dollars. from a person. Already on the bus found out that some agreed for 145 dollars. The trip was not successful, the bus was late for us, arrived instead of 23.15 at 23.40. It took almost 4 hours to cross the border. Guide Lena, arbitrarily changed the order of visits and brought in the morning to the Dead Sea for an hour and a half, of course, to a lured store, where prices are exorbitant. Do not buy anything there, on the way back to duty free when crossing the border, buy the same thing but three times cheaper. In Jerusalem, traffic jams, queues everywhere, Lena even managed to organize a queue for half an hour at lunch. Bring four groups together. The whole bus was angry at her. And at least she brought us to a pilgrim's shop where the prices for icons are not only high, they are prohibitive. Prices in the region of 9-12 thousand in terms of rubles. You can buy the same ones from us for 2-3 thousand. We returned to the hotel instead of 21 hours, half past midnight. Of the 26 hours of the excursion itself, the excursion turned out to be a couple of hours, the rest was bus riding, traffic jams, queues, dragging around lured shops. I did not think that for 160 bucks you can buy yourself such torment.
Diving. You can sign up for dives at the waterword dive center or its branch (on the hotel's beach). The dive center is no good, but the prices bite. If in Hurghada you can take two dives with lunch on the boat and equipment rental for 40-50 bucks. Then going on a boat with two dives will cost 65 euros + they charge 30 euros for equipment rental. It's 133 bucks. Not weak, yes, 133 bucks against 40. There are Russian instructors there, they say that such prices are due to the lack of competition, although you can bargain for a small discount.
Contingent. It seemed to me that Western Europeans are mostly French, 50 percent, Eastern Europeans are mostly Poles, 30 percent, 15 percent of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, and the remaining 5% are Arabs and Asians (either Chinese or Japanese). There are relatively few Ukrainians, but they are very recognizable. If at dinner a man in shorts or a tracksuit sits at a table, picking his teeth with his finger and wiping his mouth with his hand and says: “Sho”, then it’s not difficult to guess where he comes from.
Generally. There are more pluses in the hotel than minuses, I recommend for a calm, quiet holiday for people who need the sea, the sun, morning jogging and evening walks without discos and excess noise.
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