А счастлива ли деревня? Is the village happy?

The hotel is 100% full (70-80% Russians, 10-15% Ukrainians, up to 10% Germans, Poles and Belarusians) and there is little left of the village of a happy life and relaxation. The hotel and the beach need a major overhaul! If you want to check into a quiet room closer to the sea, prepare $30, if you bargain well, they will settle for $20. We were settled on the second floor of building 19 opposite the reception, in the first half of the hotel. The room has seen cosmetic repairs since 2001, the replacement of plumbing and TV with a small flat one (windows and doors are wooden, with large slots, there are bars on the windows, but they are full of holes, sealed with adhesive tape). Soap and shower gel in dispensers. Water 1.5 l is given in the restaurant during breakfast and dinner or at the pool bar. But in the second half of the hotel there is old plumbing, kinescope small TVs and stains on the walls, and the sewerage stinks in the bathroom and the water does not drain when you wash yourself. Soap and gel in these rooms in sachets.
The territory of the hotel is nice and green, in the photos it turns out even better than in reality. But you need to pay for the greenery, as it is watered with some kind of chemistry or feces, and you need to walk around the territory on the exhale, as there is a pungent smell.
During our vacation, about 70% of the covers were changed to umbrellas, the old covers were thrown into piles, so they lay before our departure, the sticks were carried by the wind along the beach and crippled the legs of the vacationers. The sun loungers are old wooden (since the opening of the hotel), broken. You need to take this happiness at 6 in the morning, otherwise a towel on the sand will be a place under the sun. Many vacationers who did not have enough sun loungers went into the shade under wild palm trees, where they sunbathed lying on the ground. There are also new towels, new short ones and old, holey rags. New for $1 or chocolate, rags for everyone else. It's all run by the "Towel Kings" who have enough race for more than one kingdom. The beach in the kingdom is not cleaned, the sand is not raked.

The sea. . . Without buoys, with simply fantastic views, there are coral walls up to 50% alive and reefs, small fish, most of all near the pontoon (the coral does not look like on the YouTube video, it is muddy and discolored). For swimmers, a paradise, they swam to the rocks, to the cape (it was not possible to go on land, coral and grass up to 30-40 cm are everywhere), the further you swim, the less interesting the coral, the fish in flocks and a lot of garbage in the water. We swam for palm trees to the cape, the same situation, but once there we saw two dolphins 2 meters from us. Along the coast, where wild palm trees grow, there is a lot of garbage, which is removed only by vacationers who are disgusted to walk among this mud. From the pontoon to the right and left up to 300 m the most interesting coral. Caravans of camels and horses go along the sea, which brings an unforgettable zest to the rest. Unfortunately, with the wind (and he is a frequent visitor), all the garbage from Dahab is carried by sea. Each time during the swims, they collected bags, glasses, cellophane, rags, Trash. . . The locals are killing the Red Sea. . .
I won’t repeat about the food and the restaurant, the food is a solid 4, I just want to note that with such a load on the hotel, the staff coped perfectly, dirty dishes were instantly taken away, tables were cleaned, the plates were always steamed and hot, and they were always available. Food replenished quickly. Unfortunately, up to 20% of crockery was broken. . . The waiters offered and delivered wine and beer. And this is in a 3+ hotel, a paradox.
The staff is generally good, the bartenders were not always in the mood, but the work was done quickly. Room cleaning was carried out with washing floors, making beds, washing sinks and toilets and changing towels. For 11 nights, only the sheets were changed from the bed...
3 times, starting from 17:00, free buses run to Dahab. If you are missing something in the hotel with fruits or sweets, or if you want to eat seafood, then please go to Dahab. Buses by appointment, at 7 am at the reception again in line.
Animation during the day is active, but not intrusive, every evening some kind of entertainment program: belly dance, skirt dance (tanura), fakir show and fire show, violin.
The hotel is full of paradoxes. In some ways, even 5 is better, and in some ways it is not up to 3. At a low price, if you adapt to the realities of the hotel, close your eyes to many things and abstract, then you can relax once.