Rest is good

Written: 9 january 2011
Travel time: 27 november — 9 december 2010
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 6.0
As I arrived after the rest, I didn’t write right away, I decided to write after I read all sorts of nasty things about the hotel. I won’t dispute them, but I’ll say one thing, our people are starting to overeat, I’ll give examples along the way!
1. Dogoga to Taba was difficult (we traveled with friends from Kharkov, 7 hours to Kyiv, by bus, then a flight to Sharm, and 3 hours from Sharm to Taba, for Ukrainians I will say the cost of the trip from Kharkov is $ 200 more than from Kyiv , this also applies to all regions, since they rested with us from both Poltava and Khmelnitsk, the same garbage). They settled quickly, (I don’t know, maybe because they arrived at 15-30, who arrives early, maybe they have problems with this, but I don’t know I won’t say, although I never saw the people standing at the reception. The rooms were given to us and friends ( free) on the ground floor, they have a sea view, I have a view of the mountains and a Chinese restaurant, although I don’t understand people fighting for a sea view, because I only went into the room: to wash, shave, sleep, friends too, and yes view of the mountains or the desert for me is not worse than the sea.
2. Cleaning in the room is excellent, before the trip I read in the reviews that they clean it well even without a tip, it is so (although I left it once), the cleaner didn’t sculpt figures from towels (he probably doesn’t know how), but he cleaned and changed the bed every day. I looked like in some review a person cursed the condition of the furniture in some hotel (not Movenpick, another one), even put pictures, there he found a cracked plank under the mattress (it’s called a lamella, there are a couple of dozen of them on the bed), the most interesting thing is that having stayed in there for 13 days I somehow didn’t want to lift mattresses. Although some of the true out of boredom want to rearrange the room to do????

3. Meals and side dishes in the princepe are the same (although, the question is how can you cook fried potatoes or pasta in different ways), in the evening for dinner, meat, poultry (chicken or duck) and fish are cooked differently every day, according to the theme of the dinner (Mexico , italy, etc. ) so seven days a week, and then repeat. And yes, in the mornings, as always, scrambled eggs (but this is the case everywhere in Egypt), usually there is a queue of 4-8 people, but since, of course, our people let themselves know: “a woman of 50-60 years old cannot explain herself to the cook, and orders herself with sausage, not like this, then with cheese, not like that, then her greens are not the same, well, I stood behind her, one of the 3 types of eggs came up to me, and I quickly went to eat how many eggs she then ordered for herself, I don’t know, but There was quite a queue. "
4. Animation plus or minus as elsewhere, in principle, normal, as well as dinner seven days a week, different performances, some can be watched twice.
5. The service is normal. Once I observed a very "tired" person (apparently also ours), the staff led him under white hands, so he probably brought him to the room
6. The territory is large green, there is where to ride a camel (unlike the neighboring Hilton).
Now, for the most patient, I’ll tell you about the shortcomings and how to deal with them:
- If you want to go to Cairo, try to book an excursion in the first days, even though it’s the closest from Taba, but people go there mainly for the sake of Jerusalem and Petra, so they won’t organize it because of you alone.
- I didn’t go to Petra, although I wanted to, they dissuaded me, people from Pskov went and said that it wasn’t worth it. But I recommend going to Jerusalem, but it’s better to go with a street excursion, firstly it’s cheaper by 2-2.5 times, for those who are afraid of Egyptian drivers (I’m afraid of them myself), you walk 300-500m to customs. and there you sit on an Israeli bus, and Israeli drivers drive more calmly. And secondly, many official tour operators do not go to Bethlehem, but there is the Church of the Nativity of the Lord, the oldest temple in the world. Yes, and not one tour operator will tell you, if you are going to the Dead Sea, be sure to take soap !!!
-There are often not enough glasses in the beach bar, when they run out they start pouring into disposable cups (imagine pouring beer into a 200g glass half foam), smile more at the bartender, or take a glass in the main beach bar and come with it. You can, of course, sit on a sunbed at the main beach bar, and this problem will not be, but the reef is there only near the Hilton, respectively, and the living creatures. And if you want to swim near the reef, not to be far from it, then it is advisable to take places before 8-00.

-Make purchases in the Hilton (by the way, there is Dyutik there, for two days after arrival) the passage to the territory of the Hilton is free, at the checkpoint you will only be examined for the presence of a bomb, and if there is none, then compared to the Movenpick shops you will save on it.
-Yes, and alcohol, in the main restaurant it is porky, but in all bars it is excellent (the first time this is in Egypt), no worse than in the dutik, and drink juices in the pharaoh bar near the reception
Okay, that's all for now. If you want to visit Taboo again, I'll come to Movenpick!!! !
Translated automatically from Russian. View original