The best beach for mom, or the first time in Egypt.
The task was simple - to get to know myself and to acquaint my mother with the delights of Egyptian Charm. The vacation on the Red Sea, which has set the teeth on edge for many, has not yet been explored by us. But there was one problem: I did not want the “poor old woman” to swallow her tears on the shore and not be able to enter the sea. Corals are sharp, rocks are high, sore feet get stuck in pebbles.
I was looking for a flat place with a sandy gentle entrance to the water. Hotels with stairs, descents, large passages through the territory were categorically not suitable. Honestly - I rummaged through the whole Rusnet, the topic has not really been mastered. I threw a question on the Turpravda forum - they helped a little, but the necessary hotels were suggested by the forum users after the vouchers were issued.
How I persuaded my mother is another story. She clearly associated Egypt with scorpions, snakes, the desert and terrorists. The subtlest techniques of homegrown neurolinguistics and marketing made a hole in the mind for two months.
Scrolling through Wikimapia, comparing with Google maps and searching for real descriptions of hotels and unpaid reviews on different sites took about three weeks. Travel agents will laugh - I invented the wheel and found Naama Bay! For a person who has never been to Egypt, it's like an apple on Newton's head.
Speaking of paid reviews, by the way. It's disgusting. Copywriters are insolent and do not even change the text. I look through completely different hotels, and some Galina and Tatyana enthusiastically and very convincingly describe the same thing. The stories are typical, the truth is zero, the tourists are deceived.
I chose the former Hilton, recently bought out by the Germans and renamed Fairose Resort. 4 stars, no all-inclusive, FB + food, no sea view, planes are landing overhead... In general, I tried for my motherJ
The bus, proudly named "Odessa airport transfer", had a mini-accident halfway from Kherson to Nikolaev. We froze for two hours waiting, involuntarily becoming parishioners of the nearest church. Joint Up worked flawlessly - the charter was postponed because of us, and everyone flew off normally, just a luxurious Egyptian night met us. The first day of rest flew by. In every sense.
I guessed 100% with the hotel. It was the most luxurious beach! Seven hundred meters of palm trees and three-meter umbrellas. Fine gentle sand, an excellent entrance to the sea, gentle clean sea without stones, colorful fish scurrying underfoot (we even saw a stingray). A step away from the shore, small fragments of reefs are just right for beginners.
I really liked that people on the beach from two hotels (Fairose and Dreams) somehow spread over the territory, and there was no crowding and crowding. A small pontoon served as a pier for boats, we ventured on a boat trip on a catamaran with a transparent bottom. The hotel has a dive center, the guys went windsurfing, almost everyone snorkeled in masks.
Due to the beach and great weather, the pools were left unused. The locals splashed during the day (the water zones are open until 17.00), and they behaved not in an oriental quiet way, we had enough of the sea.
The hotel is a respectable age, with overgrown flowering trees, vine-plaited bungalows and huge palm trees. The main disadvantage is that they did not poison mosquitoes. I had to arm myself with fumigators. We didn't bother with the noisy air conditioner or the slightly frayed door frames. Everything was compensated by the fantastic beauty of the landscapes outside the window.
We arrived quite late, but managed to choose a room and have dinner. The administrator was a little stunned when, after viewing the bungalows on the first line (I had previously emailed them a request with special conditions for an elderly lady), I agreed to the sixth line and the second floor. Well, I did not like these aquariums! The front of the bungalow with a patio has solid glazing and sliding doors. In the evenings, with the curtains open, the personal life of the guests is presented in all its glory. We are on the second floor with a loggia of 10 sq. m. it was very private.
Special respect to the staff. The guys are trying. Everyone, from gardeners to security guards and bartenders, greeted us with respect, especially my mother. Washing the central alleys with shampoo was surrounded by a bunch of warning posts. They asked for slippers - they brought them in a second and the administrator additionally clarified by phone whether our request had been fulfilled. Rumboy created miracles from towels and flowers. After we put the flowers in the water, every day a fresh bouquet was waiting for us on the table. Nice!
There are no wristbands or guest cards in Fairows. Natural mockery of the employees: for the first two days, they constantly found out what room we were from, and wrote them down in some kind of barn books. From the third day, both the uncle handing out towels on the beach and the waiters in the restaurant joyfully greeted “Oh, six-one-nine! Hello! ". But foreign tourists and local unringed, the tan lies evenly.
I was on a diet for two months. A week of rest crossed out all efforts. Well, very tasty! We love spicy oriental cuisine, and here we took our souls to the fullest. Local vacationers watched in amazement as I fearlessly selected their spiciest snacks. The FB + format suited us - three meals a day, a varied buffet, a lot of meat and fish, fruits and luxurious desserts, grill in the evenings, the restaurant is open almost all the time from 6.30 to 22.00. We bought ice cream and beer, I don’t see anything wrong with that.
The hotel is quiet and peaceful, ideal for the elderly. According to reviews, I know that there are couples who come here from year to year - as if to a summer house. The beach is good for kids, but there is no children's animation in the hotel, and there was nothing for the kids to do. The neighboring Dreams with 5 stars entertains the kids a little better, but the guests there have to cross a wide highway to visit the beach.
From the animation in the evenings, tourists were entertained by local dancers. No discos, loud music from bars and drunken screams. Silence. Calm. Relax.
A special highlight of Naama Bay is a magnificent promenade between beaches and hotels. Flowering hedges and the opportunity to find yourself in the tourist center of the old city with its shops and cafes in a few minutes of walking in the evening are a great alternative to closed evening shows in hotels.
On the way back at Sharm El Sheikh airport, a multi-stage strict security system and filling out migration cards ended with a smiling border guard happily slapping a stamp on my mother's passport and hers on mine. Apparently, we are the same for them.
. . . I haven't seen my mother so relaxed and happy with her rest for a long time. Horror stories about the desert dissolved in the clear water of Naama Bay, in the colorful marine life of the Red Sea, in the moonlight of the blackest Egyptian night sky, in the rustle of palm trees and the scent of petunias. It was the best beach for my mom!
