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We rested at the hotel Arabia Azur ****. For two, they paid a little more than 2 thousand. raccoons killed in 2 weeks when departing from Kyiv.
Hotel. The hotel is not new but very neat, clean and tidy. The territory is spacious, everything is green and beautiful, flowers everywhere. The main contingent of tourists were Germans, there were also Italians, Russians, very few Ukrainians, Poles came in large numbers before our departure. The hotel consists of the main building, where the reception is located, the main restaurants, a billiard room, a lobby of course, a photo lab, a theater, a disco bar, a piano bar, a special hall for meetings and meetings of tourists with representatives of travel agencies, a doctor's office, a library, a bank, an Internet club. Two residential buildings are stretched along two artificial lagoons, almost all rooms have a partial sea view. There is also a Bel Air hotel on the territory, but they don’t sell tickets to our brother, a Slav, there. Large pool with sea water, near the children's club a small pool.
Number. Upon arrival, we asked the TEZ TOUR guide who met us at the airport to help us arrange a good room. As a result, for 20 c. u. got a room in building A on the second floor overlooking the lagoon and a piece of the sea. Before leaving, read in the reviews that you have to ask for the first floor. What is better, except that you can enter the room through the terrace, we did not understand. On the first floor, there is simply no view anywhere (especially in the rooms facing the pool), and apart from that, everyone walks practically through your room. But that's just our opinion. . .
The room is very spacious with a full-length window, a chic huge balcony. Everything in the room is as usual: two single beds, bedside tables, a large chest of drawers, a huge closet, two carved armchairs, a round table, a mini-bar, a telephone, a safe, a TV (one Russian channel, a channel with cartoons), central air conditioning (quite noisy). Bathroom: bath with shower, washbasin with half-wall mirror, toilet, hair dryer. Everything worked flawlessly. Of the detergent, only soap. In the mini-bar on the day of arrival, small Cola and Fanta and a liter of plain water, then only a liter per day of plain water is added.
Beach. That's where a huge selection of beaches for every taste is in Arabia! Two lagoons with the clearest water, a sandy beach to the right of the Marina beach, and the Marina beach itself - a long ledge into the sea with its own infrastructure (restaurant, bar, toilets) and a good coral reef. Until 11 o'clock you can even choose a place - no straining with sunbeds, later there are usually no places on the Marina, and in the lagoons you can always find a place for every taste. Card towels (cards with room numbers) are issued in the lagoons and at the entrance to Marina Beach. Of the shortcomings on the beach, perhaps the lack of fences from the wind, and it practically does not subside there, and the density of the sun loungers. There was no theft. In my opinion, without slippers you can only swim in the lagoons, we saw a lot of hedgehogs in the Marina, and the stones come across very sharp. Slippers at Ali Baba Bazaar (near neighboring Arabella) cost 20-30 pounds, depending on the size. The mask is also a necessary attribute, because the coral in Arabia is really very good, and the sea of u200bu200bfish. We bought a mask with a tube near the hotel for 100 pounds, and were cheaper. You can rent it right next to the Marina Bar for 15 pounds for half a day.
Nutrition. This will probably be the longest and most detailed section, as Special attention is paid to the “fatting” of tourists in Arabia. You can eat from 5 am to 24.00 almost without a break. Breakfast in the main restaurants is standard: sausages, tomatoes with cheese, potatoes or rice, eggs, pancakes and omelettes (fried outside), fruit salad, honey, several types of yogurt, oatmeal and rice flakes, a couple of types of sausage, cheese, a sea of delicious pastries , vegetables, hot chocolate, diluted juices, coffee and tea in thermoses on every table. From 10 to 5 in the Marina restaurant, in the pool bar and in the lobby, ice cream - come and collect as much as you want.
My advice: take a plastic cup for drinks at the bar and put ice cream in it, it's much more convenient than a tiny cup that even one ball fits into with difficulty. Lunch: varied and mostly delicious salads, pasta with sauce (pasta), veal or lamb, chicken, potatoes (all the time cooked in different ways), fish (fried, stewed, awesome rolls of different types of fish with seafood) , stewed vegetables, squid, 7-8 types of delicious cakes. In addition, fish, sausages, crabs or steaks are grilled on the street, and the restaurant bakes delicious pizza according to your order with any filling. Drinks are brought by the waiters, but walking 10 meters to the bar yourself is not fatal. Tea, coffee, milk - in unlimited quantities. From 15.00 in the Marina Restaurant, French fries, meat or sausages, vegetables and pastries, and pancakes with chocolate or cream are fried in the pool bar. Dinner takes place in the main restaurant and on the terrace by the pool. The only difference is that the grill is fried on the terrace and live music is played (everyone sings, including Serduchka and Meladze). The Germans begin to take tables on the terrace at 6 o'clock and sit, waiting for the start of dinner. For dinner, the same set as for lunch, only in a different version, and 2 more types of delicious soups and semolina pudding or sweet cream are added to the variety of cakes for dessert. Not enough fruit, there were dates, guava, oranges, grapes, figs, bananas. From 22 to 24.00 there is also a late dinner, but we didn’t go to it, so I can’t say anything. Everything is fresh, tasty, there was no poisoning. True, we have one rule - for the first three days of our stay, we drink activated charcoal, 2 tablets 3 times a day, until the stomach gets used to the new food.
Animation, entertainment, services. The animation is entirely in German. The main hangout takes place between the beach and the pool. We are indifferent to animation, so we were only glad that they were not seen or heard. In general, for those who want fun, it is better to look for another hotel. In Arabia, it is very quiet and calm, and the main contingent of vacationers is over 40 (often much older). The sports center has a hairdresser's (men's haircut 10 euros, facial hair removal and eyebrow shaping with nylon thread 5 euros), gym, sauna, Turkish bath, jacuzzi, massage parlour. We went to the Cleopatra complex: sauna, whole body peeling with coconut flakes and salt, honey face mask, Turkish bath, full body massage with aromatic oils (awesomely nice), jacuzzi. The procedure lasts 2 hours, costs 50 euros, but we got to some kind of holiday at the sports center and paid $ 150 for 2 times for two (we went on the day of arrival and a week later). The effect is amazing - you do not burn at all, the skin is soft, the tan is even. I am a pathological allergic person, but there was no allergy. A chubby Arab named Ibragim, who sits at the checkout at the sports center, speaks some Russian, and one of the massage therapists Said speaks Russian very well, his wife is Ukrainian, there are no other Russian-speaking staff in the hotel. From entertainment there is also free billiards on the second floor of the main building (you can sign up and take balls from the bartender right there), dancing in the Tango bar, performances in the theater, riding a camel on the beach, volleyball, squash, once there was a disco on the beach. Rent of catamarans with slides, banana boat rides. Maybe I forgot something, but I listed the main ones.
Service and staff. There is no difference between the Germans and ours in service - this is the pure truth. On the first day, everyone from the cleaner to the security guard at the entrance knows who came from where, and they try to say at least a couple of words in the appropriate language. The glasses in the bars are all the same - disposable and plastic reusable, where our compatriots, whose reviews I read before leaving, saw the Germans on the beach glass glasses, I don’t know... Juices and water are poured into the glass only at dinner, everyone. In general, the staff is very pleasant, polite and not annoying. They go along the beach with different offers (excursions, massages, etc. ). It is enough to say once that you are not interested, and no one will bother you anymore. Room cleaning is normal - towels changed daily, bed linen less frequently. On the fourth day of our stay, returning from the beach, we found a chic chocolate cake in the refrigerator - a gift from the hotel. The day before departure, there was a form in the room with a request to indicate the time when to send a porter for things, they wrote, the porter was minute to minute. In short, everything is clear, the service is flawless.
Tours. As I wrote above, this is not the first time in Egypt, so we were on all possible excursions. Our guide, of course, was very upset. We decided to go only to the Aquapark (we have been there more than once and we know that it is cool there) and to the coral reefs. The TEZ TOUR guide at our hotel named Safa advised us not to take coral reefs, but to take a new excursion “Oriental Boat Trip”, such as there will be corals, a paradise island, and fishing, and an oriental show. We fell for it. Guys, this was a tin, I'll tell you. At 8 in the morning a bus came for us, we sat down and went to hotels until 10, collecting the rest. Then we were unloaded near the entrance of the Waves Hotel and we stomped onto the pier, having stood in a huge queue, took masks and flippers and loaded onto the yacht. We were accompanied by a TEZ TOUR guide, who never said his name, although we asked repeatedly. Despite the fact that the group was Russian, the nameless guide knew four basic words: come on, please, here and there. It's all! He also did not know other languages, except for Arabic, so it was impossible to get something from him. Our first stop was Giftun Island. From the yacht, all 40 people were loaded at the risk of their lives into a motorboat, designed for 20 people at the most, while the guide pinned himself - he forced him to take all his things with him (clothing, masks, fins, bags). Half of the group in the boat were standing up, when the boat hit the sand abruptly without warning, they fell together. Unloaded by jumping from the nose (one and a half meters high). We were left on the island for an hour - in the open sun at noon. There is frankly nothing to do there. Hide under an umbrella - 30 pounds. The people who recently arrived were burned instantly, it was a pity to look at them. We swam, walked, sat, and then there was loading back onto the motorboat - the same one and a half meters, only up. I will not describe - it was darkness. They returned to the yacht, the people were already angry, many soaked their clothes, which there was no need to take to the island. Then there was a coral reef (where we found that we got a pipe with a hole), then lunch (I will not say anything), then fishing for a fishing line (to no avail), then a belly dance (the girls tried, but it didn’t work out very well) and, finally, a pier , bus and native hotel. As a result, for 60 dollars we got a spoiled mood and a lost day of a precious vacation. You'll think I'm being picky, but we've been on a similar half price tour before with no guides and I know how interesting and fun it can be.
Children. We saw that there is a kids club, a swimming pool, swings, slides. I can't say anything more.
The overall impression of the hotel is excellent. Didn't want to leave.
Feel free to choose Arabia for a relaxing holiday, you won't regret it for sure!
Thanks everyone and good luck! Lena, Ukraine
Hotel. The hotel is not new but very neat, clean and tidy. The territory is spacious, everything is green and beautiful, flowers everywhere. The main contingent of tourists were Germans, there were also Italians, Russians, very few Ukrainians, Poles came in large numbers before our departure. The hotel consists of the main building, where the reception is located, the main restaurants, a billiard room, a lobby of course, a photo lab, a theater, a disco bar, a piano bar, a special hall for meetings and meetings of tourists with representatives of travel agencies, a doctor's office, a library, a bank, an Internet club. Two residential buildings are stretched along two artificial lagoons, almost all rooms have a partial sea view. There is also a Bel Air hotel on the territory, but they don’t sell tickets to our brother, a Slav, there. Large pool with sea water, near the children's club a small pool.
Number. Upon arrival, we asked the TEZ TOUR guide who met us at the airport to help us arrange a good room. As a result, for 20 c. u. got a room in building A on the second floor overlooking the lagoon and a piece of the sea. Before leaving, read in the reviews that you have to ask for the first floor. What is better, except that you can enter the room through the terrace, we did not understand. On the first floor, there is simply no view anywhere (especially in the rooms facing the pool), and apart from that, everyone walks practically through your room. But that's just our opinion. . .
The room is very spacious with a full-length window, a chic huge balcony. Everything in the room is as usual: two single beds, bedside tables, a large chest of drawers, a huge closet, two carved armchairs, a round table, a mini-bar, a telephone, a safe, a TV (one Russian channel, a channel with cartoons), central air conditioning (quite noisy). Bathroom: bath with shower, washbasin with half-wall mirror, toilet, hair dryer. Everything worked flawlessly. Of the detergent, only soap. In the mini-bar on the day of arrival, small Cola and Fanta and a liter of plain water, then only a liter per day of plain water is added.
Beach. That's where a huge selection of beaches for every taste is in Arabia! Two lagoons with the clearest water, a sandy beach to the right of the Marina beach, and the Marina beach itself - a long ledge into the sea with its own infrastructure (restaurant, bar, toilets) and a good coral reef. Until 11 o'clock you can even choose a place - no straining with sunbeds, later there are usually no places on the Marina, and in the lagoons you can always find a place for every taste. Card towels (cards with room numbers) are issued in the lagoons and at the entrance to Marina Beach. Of the shortcomings on the beach, perhaps the lack of fences from the wind, and it practically does not subside there, and the density of the sun loungers. There was no theft. In my opinion, without slippers you can only swim in the lagoons, we saw a lot of hedgehogs in the Marina, and the stones come across very sharp. Slippers at Ali Baba Bazaar (near neighboring Arabella) cost 20-30 pounds, depending on the size. The mask is also a necessary attribute, because the coral in Arabia is really very good, and the sea of u200bu200bfish. We bought a mask with a tube near the hotel for 100 pounds, and were cheaper. You can rent it right next to the Marina Bar for 15 pounds for half a day.
Nutrition. This will probably be the longest and most detailed section, as Special attention is paid to the “fatting” of tourists in Arabia. You can eat from 5 am to 24.00 almost without a break. Breakfast in the main restaurants is standard: sausages, tomatoes with cheese, potatoes or rice, eggs, pancakes and omelettes (fried outside), fruit salad, honey, several types of yogurt, oatmeal and rice flakes, a couple of types of sausage, cheese, a sea of delicious pastries , vegetables, hot chocolate, diluted juices, coffee and tea in thermoses on every table. From 10 to 5 in the Marina restaurant, in the pool bar and in the lobby, ice cream - come and collect as much as you want.
My advice: take a plastic cup for drinks at the bar and put ice cream in it, it's much more convenient than a tiny cup that even one ball fits into with difficulty. Lunch: varied and mostly delicious salads, pasta with sauce (pasta), veal or lamb, chicken, potatoes (all the time cooked in different ways), fish (fried, stewed, awesome rolls of different types of fish with seafood) , stewed vegetables, squid, 7-8 types of delicious cakes. In addition, fish, sausages, crabs or steaks are grilled on the street, and the restaurant bakes delicious pizza according to your order with any filling. Drinks are brought by the waiters, but walking 10 meters to the bar yourself is not fatal. Tea, coffee, milk - in unlimited quantities. From 15.00 in the Marina Restaurant, French fries, meat or sausages, vegetables and pastries, and pancakes with chocolate or cream are fried in the pool bar. Dinner takes place in the main restaurant and on the terrace by the pool. The only difference is that the grill is fried on the terrace and live music is played (everyone sings, including Serduchka and Meladze). The Germans begin to take tables on the terrace at 6 o'clock and sit, waiting for the start of dinner. For dinner, the same set as for lunch, only in a different version, and 2 more types of delicious soups and semolina pudding or sweet cream are added to the variety of cakes for dessert. Not enough fruit, there were dates, guava, oranges, grapes, figs, bananas. From 22 to 24.00 there is also a late dinner, but we didn’t go to it, so I can’t say anything. Everything is fresh, tasty, there was no poisoning. True, we have one rule - for the first three days of our stay, we drink activated charcoal, 2 tablets 3 times a day, until the stomach gets used to the new food.
Animation, entertainment, services. The animation is entirely in German. The main hangout takes place between the beach and the pool. We are indifferent to animation, so we were only glad that they were not seen or heard. In general, for those who want fun, it is better to look for another hotel. In Arabia, it is very quiet and calm, and the main contingent of vacationers is over 40 (often much older). The sports center has a hairdresser's (men's haircut 10 euros, facial hair removal and eyebrow shaping with nylon thread 5 euros), gym, sauna, Turkish bath, jacuzzi, massage parlour. We went to the Cleopatra complex: sauna, whole body peeling with coconut flakes and salt, honey face mask, Turkish bath, full body massage with aromatic oils (awesomely nice), jacuzzi. The procedure lasts 2 hours, costs 50 euros, but we got to some kind of holiday at the sports center and paid $ 150 for 2 times for two (we went on the day of arrival and a week later). The effect is amazing - you do not burn at all, the skin is soft, the tan is even. I am a pathological allergic person, but there was no allergy. A chubby Arab named Ibragim, who sits at the checkout at the sports center, speaks some Russian, and one of the massage therapists Said speaks Russian very well, his wife is Ukrainian, there are no other Russian-speaking staff in the hotel. From entertainment there is also free billiards on the second floor of the main building (you can sign up and take balls from the bartender right there), dancing in the Tango bar, performances in the theater, riding a camel on the beach, volleyball, squash, once there was a disco on the beach. Rent of catamarans with slides, banana boat rides. Maybe I forgot something, but I listed the main ones.
Service and staff. There is no difference between the Germans and ours in service - this is the pure truth. On the first day, everyone from the cleaner to the security guard at the entrance knows who came from where, and they try to say at least a couple of words in the appropriate language. The glasses in the bars are all the same - disposable and plastic reusable, where our compatriots, whose reviews I read before leaving, saw the Germans on the beach glass glasses, I don’t know... Juices and water are poured into the glass only at dinner, everyone. In general, the staff is very pleasant, polite and not annoying. They go along the beach with different offers (excursions, massages, etc. ). It is enough to say once that you are not interested, and no one will bother you anymore. Room cleaning is normal - towels changed daily, bed linen less frequently. On the fourth day of our stay, returning from the beach, we found a chic chocolate cake in the refrigerator - a gift from the hotel. The day before departure, there was a form in the room with a request to indicate the time when to send a porter for things, they wrote, the porter was minute to minute. In short, everything is clear, the service is flawless.
Tours. As I wrote above, this is not the first time in Egypt, so we were on all possible excursions. Our guide, of course, was very upset. We decided to go only to the Aquapark (we have been there more than once and we know that it is cool there) and to the coral reefs. The TEZ TOUR guide at our hotel named Safa advised us not to take coral reefs, but to take a new excursion “Oriental Boat Trip”, such as there will be corals, a paradise island, and fishing, and an oriental show. We fell for it. Guys, this was a tin, I'll tell you. At 8 in the morning a bus came for us, we sat down and went to hotels until 10, collecting the rest. Then we were unloaded near the entrance of the Waves Hotel and we stomped onto the pier, having stood in a huge queue, took masks and flippers and loaded onto the yacht. We were accompanied by a TEZ TOUR guide, who never said his name, although we asked repeatedly. Despite the fact that the group was Russian, the nameless guide knew four basic words: come on, please, here and there. It's all! He also did not know other languages, except for Arabic, so it was impossible to get something from him. Our first stop was Giftun Island. From the yacht, all 40 people were loaded at the risk of their lives into a motorboat, designed for 20 people at the most, while the guide pinned himself - he forced him to take all his things with him (clothing, masks, fins, bags). Half of the group in the boat were standing up, when the boat hit the sand abruptly without warning, they fell together. Unloaded by jumping from the nose (one and a half meters high). We were left on the island for an hour - in the open sun at noon. There is frankly nothing to do there. Hide under an umbrella - 30 pounds. The people who recently arrived were burned instantly, it was a pity to look at them. We swam, walked, sat, and then there was loading back onto the motorboat - the same one and a half meters, only up. I will not describe - it was darkness. They returned to the yacht, the people were already angry, many soaked their clothes, which there was no need to take to the island. Then there was a coral reef (where we found that we got a pipe with a hole), then lunch (I will not say anything), then fishing for a fishing line (to no avail), then a belly dance (the girls tried, but it didn’t work out very well) and, finally, a pier , bus and native hotel. As a result, for 60 dollars we got a spoiled mood and a lost day of a precious vacation. You'll think I'm being picky, but we've been on a similar half price tour before with no guides and I know how interesting and fun it can be.
Children. We saw that there is a kids club, a swimming pool, swings, slides. I can't say anything more.
The overall impression of the hotel is excellent. Didn't want to leave.
Feel free to choose Arabia for a relaxing holiday, you won't regret it for sure!
Thanks everyone and good luck! Lena, Ukraine
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