Caught in the intestinal flu epidemic!

Written: 25 december 2008
Travel time: 30 april — 10 may 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 7.0
I will not express my "Wow" or "Fe" here. I will write the facts, what happened and why, and you draw your own conclusions. Rested in March 2008. I'll start with the airport: tiny, I think 400 squares. (Photo 1.2). I'm not lying! But this did not prevent us from quickly obtaining visas and registering. Everyone at the airport knows Russian and operates with the words "Cool", "Pretty Woman" and "Pizd*ets". They took the bus to the hotel for about an hour in the desert (Photo 3). It didn't take much time to settle either! BUT!! ! Our De Luxe room, ordered back in Kyiv, did not differ in ANYTHING from ordinary rooms, except that it was on the first floor with a separate exit to the swimming pool. acquaintance with our guide OMAR. God forbid you to be under his supervision. Immediately alerted that he did not give his contact numbers to anyone, did not want to help one woman in an important matter (she had 2 paid excursions for one day) and constantly where BUT he finally discredited himself when the guests at the hotel began to find the ACUTE FLU!! ! : someone has a temperature of 38, someone has 40, it was freezing and very, very strong vomiting. MASSIVE! Of my group of 18, only six did not get sick. From other groups, people also got sick with this rubbish or have already been ill. This, as it became known, was later announced on the BBC channel. Americans, Ukrainians, Latvians. . . everyone was affected. The worst thing is that the hotel is constantly inhabited by people! ! The hotel administration simply froze from this (sorry for the slang), and our guide Omar did NOTHING, he just constantly ran away somewhere and he had every chance of being beaten that evening. A woman from our group said that she called the doctor for her husband in the morning. FOR THE WHOLE DAY THE VRECH DIDN'T COME! They also did not pick up the phone at the Ukrainian embassy. We turned to another guide (Russian girl Olga, who reported that two of her people were put on a drip a couple of days ago). She advised me to go to the nearby Hilton for a doctor. An Arab came, dispelled the panic (and at that time people were really panicking at the reception, because no one knew what would happen next), told everyone to go to their rooms, and he would personally come to each room to the patients who would sign up. We waited until morning for the doctor. Didn't come, dog. I called my sister in Ukraine, she contacted the embassy and some of them managed to use the insurance. Those who were very ill were advised to drink a lot of vodka (by the way, their vodka is somewhere around 30-degree). It was something: we came to a restaurant and began to drink vodka beautifully, eating only an orange. The Arabs lined up and looked at us.
Three days of so-called rest fell out - lay in the room, watched "Gangster Petersburg" on ORT, and were afraid to eat in the restaurant. By the way, after another scandal with the administration, at the entrance to the restaurant, they put the Arabs, who somehow disinfected everyone's hands. Like this.
After all the experiences we were not interested in, neither diving, nor the sea, nor animation (there really was very little of it). In general, everyone calmly went to the beach and was glad that they were not forced to lie in the room with nausea and diarrhea.

Regarding the hotel itself: the hotel is excellent, a very large area (Photo 4.5, 6), a lot of greenery (Photo 7). The nearby Hilton just faded from the outside. There was also a freshwater lake with ducks. I'll post a photo. ) Cleaned up well. Luckily no one was stolen. I don’t remember exactly how many pools there were, but more than two, for sure.
THE SEA IS CLEAR, WITHOUT A PIERCE (Photo 8), Israel, Jordan are visible from the shore (shots were heard from there five times). By the way, in the morning, and we woke up early, men with machine guns walked around the hotel. Hot spot motherfucker! The underwater world is good. They dived to 10 meters (Photo 9).
The food is not very diverse, but a large restaurant. It never took long to find a free table. Service in the restaurant is also top five. They didn't complain.
Sun loungers and towels in excellent condition. It was not necessary to take a sun lounger on the beach early. Also on the territory of the hotel there are many mini cafes where you can take alcohol, drink tea, etc. By the way, there is also a bar in the pool.
Well, I've told you a little. Good luck to you))
Translated automatically from Russian. View original