Замечательный отель! Wonderful hotel!

We rested for a week in November 2008 (the trip was planned and booked independently: Amman - Petra - Dead Sea).
The hotel is wonderful. We booked ourselves, so the deluxe bungalow was originally booked. The room was on the top (third, not second, by the way) floor. From the large balcony, across which a soft sunbed was installed, there is a view of a chic green flowering garden with a stream (colorful fish and ducks swim) and a side view of the sea.
A very interesting layout of the bungalow buildings is multi-tiered. Only when someone said that the buildings were made in the style of Old Jerusalem, I realized what the hotel reminds me of. A truly historic part of Jerusalem. It is very pleasant to walk along the huge green area with fountains and very beautiful illumination (somewhere bright, multi-colored, somewhere muted romantic) both during the day and in the evening. On the Dead Sea, this is a rather important point, since there is nowhere to go from the hotel at all - there is desert around for many kilometers.

Service staff surprised. Of course, no one speaks Russian (in principle, in my opinion, this is normal - well, the whole world is not obliged to learn our language). But everyone says hello in English. The gardener goes to cut the trees, sees that you raised your eyes to him - be sure to say hello. Room attendants come and say hello. All very friendly. At the same time, everyone's English is very good (in general, English is very good in all Jordanian tourist centers).
Nutrition. Well, there are simply no words. And on ordinary days, freshly squeezed juices are always available for breakfast, there are a lot of hot dishes (this is important for me - I am a lark and have a hearty breakfast) and you can’t try everything for dinner in a week. And in their "ethnic" dinners - there's nothing to talk about! Everything is amazingly delicious. One should forget about the classic sweets of ordinary days (from the table with sweets every evening one had to drag oneself by the ears) and eat only their "native" sweets. I have never eaten anything more delicious in my life - and I have traveled a lot.
Number. Well, yes, the Arabic version - there is no luxury, but quite stylish. They pick up perfectly. With the maids (like all men) you can not encounter even once during the rest of the holiday. When they manage to clean up is not clear. But when one afternoon we were in the room and hung out "do not disturb" at the time when they usually cleaned, they managed to get 20 minutes when we took off the sign and went for a walk to the cafe to drink coffee, and at this time quickly and remove everything carefully. We really didn’t count on cleaning that day - like it’s our own fault - they didn’t let us clean all day. It was nice. The attempt to tip was successful only on the 3rd day, when the euro was already simply placed on a pyramid of a couple of boxes of soap and an overturned clean ashtray in the bathroom. Then they were convinced that this was not a lost coin, but this was specially left for them. Up to this point, they had neatly stacked the euros on the tables.
Entertainment in the hotel. Well. I would say almost non-existent. Belly dancing gets boring for 3 days, the singers are different... well, about the same, but somehow there is nothing else. Rest, citizens, sunbathe, swim in the sea (if you learn to swim in the Dead Sea - something specific), sleep. All. This is the Dead Sea and that says it all. I was in Israel and did not expect anything else, so I was generally surprised that there was at least some kind of entertainment.

Entrance to the sea - only in slippers and you still have to be careful - once, being in slippers, I slipped and hit my knee. It was painful and insulting that such a chic hotel was not allowed to clean the entrance to the sea (in Israel they managed to clean it before the "greens" banned it).
SPA. Expensive but worth it. You definitely need to allocate one day for procedures - there are a lot of different ones there. And the sunsets from the unheated SPA pool! Be sure to take your camera there in the evening - you won't regret it.
Pools. The heated one is good for evening swimming, the large one is divided into 2 parts - one part with a sandy bottom (for the first time I see such a miracle that the pool was actually made into the sea) - shallow for children, the second - deep for swimming. Original design. The pool on the beach is small and shallow, but it's great to swim in after sunset - it warms up well during the day.
They didn’t go to restaurants much, because if you have a bite to eat at lunch, you don’t feel like eating in the evening, and there are so many delicious things on that buffet that it’s a pity not to try.
For comparison, out of curiosity, we went at our leisure to Dead Sea 4 * and Marriott. Well, Dead Sea is, of course, a sad sight with plucked palm trees and almost no greenery. Well, what to demand from 4 *? Mariott, of course, is gorgeous. The rooms are there (if we didn’t see a suite, but a regular room) - you’ll rock. But what to do there in the evening - it is not clear. There is no territory at all - you can’t walk or sit by the sea (for comparison, Movenpick has sunbeds in front of the pool in a restaurant by the beach, where you can lie in the evening with a cup of coffee and admire the starry sky). Yes, and there seem to be problems with entering the sea - there is a feeling that people do not swim in the sea there much.
After reading the reviews, we paid all the expenses on the evening before the day of departure, so there were no problems when leaving.