Ждали большего. We were expecting more.

Rested from 8 to 19 March 2009. Club Rannalhi 4*. The hotel is most likely a solid three with a plus, or a weak four with a big minus. The staff tries their best, but it's not enough. We lived in new bungalows on the water. Amazing! Complete detachment from the world! You and the ocean! Except that sometimes it really smells like a canal if the wind blows towards the bungalow (and the wind towards the bungalow blows twice a day). The room has everything. Big plasma, DVD, tea, coffee, bar. If you leave a tip, then the rumba on the bill of the room writes less than you actually drink. There is no glass bottom. But it's even better. We went into a bungalow with a glass bottom - this is something else! Old furniture, an old small TV set, and you feel the presence of neighbors very strongly. You'll be lucky if there are Germans or Japanese nearby. Quiet peaceful people. No luck if the Chinese. Italians live on land. Nature, weather (if evaluated on a five-point scale) for 10+! Water 31, air 31. You can swim indefinitely. Snorkeling is just amazing. I have never swum so much in a mask and snorkel. There are so many fish... In general, a lot !! ! Turtles were seen every day on the edge of the reef. Then they found two cuttlefish and chased them until they ran away. Stingrays and sharks swim right in the shallow water. Cool! Separately about food. Took breakfast and dinner. Quite enough. The restaurant didn't have much variety. For breakfast, they fed eggs in various forms. For dinner - pasta, fish (maximum 2 types, and sometimes one), chicken, and meat. Twice there were crabs (small ones). Boiled vegetables and potatoes. From fruits apples, watermelons sometimes pineapples! Everything! Well, tomatoes (not very good quality), cucumbers (with a thick crust), lettuce. True, there were a lot of cakes and all sorts of buns. Drinks and water are best taken at the bar for cash. Divide the price by two and give a dollar on top. And the dear natives will remember you and be glad as their own father. So wine in a restaurant costs $ 37 in a bar near the bungalows they took for 15 and went with it to the restaurant. The boy in the restaurant came running with a bucket of ice, put your bottle and asked no questions.
Be careful with the sun. In the water with a protective cream and in T-shirts, they managed to burn their legs on the first day. Cream take at least 30 units. Clothing shorts and t-shirts. Shoes are not needed. Everyone goes barefoot. Better take fins, mask and snorkel.
If you take a room on the shore, the Russians are settled from the side of the technical pier. It's not scary. There the sea is bluer, the sand is cleaner and the reef is closer. But sometimes you can hear how diesels work. There are many Italians. Of the entertainment programs - animation in Italian, there was a disco on the beach twice (very unusual and fun), well, live music in the bar. We didn't see anything else.

And one more thing - do not fly with Atlant-Soyuz planes! That's horrible! IL-86 - old, loose, dirty, smells like a toilet for the whole cabin, there is nowhere to put your legs. You will be lucky if you will sit on three chairs together. In flight, it was shaking so much that it was really scary. Although landing in all four cases (flying through Dubai) was very soft.