Wonderful and relaxing holiday

Written: 19 may 2009
Travel time: 9 — 16 may 2009
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: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Wonderful and relaxing stay in this hotel
I went to this hotel with the aim of a calm, cozy and pleasant beach holiday. The goal was justified by 90% (as for Egypt, this is a very high percentage of justification). The flight was a direct flight to Taba (as expected, we were greeted with all the charms of a small airport: one attendant for the entire flight, slow service and many tired tourists). It took 30 minutes to get to the hotel. And here we are met by the Hilton, a European-level hotel. The hotel has a main building and villas. Standard room with a view of the Israeli border and a piece of the sea, but without a balcony. If you want to get a room with a balcony and a sea view - 15 c. u. per day and welcome, if you want to stay in a villa - 20 c. u. per day. As for me, living in a villa is much more pleasant. The villa is a complex of three-storey buildings with a beautiful view of the garden, the beach and the sea. On the territory of the main building there is a main restaurant, a casino, a disco, a bar, a bank, a conference hall, etc. Next to this building there are three pools: the main one with sea water, which is changed almost every day, a children's pool and a small pool with a jacuzzi. The beach runs along the entire territory of the hotel. There are a couple of coral reefs nearby, but there are not many of them, but you can see a wide variety of fish (we saw several moray eels and a meter-long octopus). A huge plus of this hotel is the super friendly and trained staff. I have been to Egypt many times, but never met such a good service. The hotel has a lot of foreigners and, of course, Russians who are rude, rude, send everyone and everything, and the staff just smile sweetly at them in response, as they are very afraid of losing their jobs. The food in the main restaurant is very good, in other restaurants - not so much. By the way, attention to girls and women, if you have beautiful evening dresses, then in this hotel you can wear them at least every evening. In the hotel at 20.00 to 22.00 near the bar, next to the reception, a man sings various cute songs, from which the soul freezes and you want to sing along with him. It can be an opera song and foreign hits of the 70s, 80s, 90s. There is also a network of small souvenir shops on the territory of the hotel (note that outside the hotel there is only a desert, a “post office” and a couple of street shops; you can go there for entertainment, but the prices are higher there than on the territory of the hotel), there are also duty free, tennis courts, paid Italian fish restaurant, etc. Animation in the hotel is for everyone: beach and water volleyball, yoga, water gymnastics, belly dancing, Arabic lessons and various evening shows (for a very big fan: Russians sing karaoke, a very thin girl dances belly dance, but there is a local resident who shows a real Arabic dance with skirts and at the same time he is spinning for at least half an hour. The spectacle is very impressive.
I wish you all a pleasant stay at the Hilton! If anyone has any questions, please get in touch. I am happy to share my experience and impressions.
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