Mediocre hotel for the price of 5*

Written: 16 december 2021
Travel time: 24 november — 1 december 2021
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 6.0
Worthy mediocre hotel. Suitable for people who have not rested anywhere else.
We arrived late in the evening. The meeting company is the Egyptian Sun Rise. The company's employees are funny jokers. They swear very well in Russian. They know the most sophisticated curses. It was nice to stand in a female company and listen to how they call each other and tourists swear words, where the word "bitch" is the most gentle of all. In our homeland, they would have been beaten for this, but here the country is Muslim and such communication of staff is probably even welcomed. Very amused.
Check-in at the hotel is quite fast, just an hour after arrival and filling out questionnaires and scanning documents. At the same time, things are left on the street and a vigilant hotel worker watches through the window so that nothing happens to him. We were also lucky that nothing was lost.

We flew in with two families and asked us to settle nearby. Friendly staff did just that - they settled us in one building - one family on the right side of the building on the first floor, the second - on the third floor of the left side of the building. It was very interesting then to look for each other in the body. Kind of a free quest. It made us very happy. Although the rooms nearby were free and we could live in neighboring rooms, the hotel management decided that we should take a break from each other.
In the things left at check-in at the entrance, I still had summer things, but they didn’t let me pick up my suitcase at check-in. It’s not a royal business, carry a suitcase to the room. Moreover, the room is on the third floor without an elevator. And just an hour after checking into the room, the suitcases were brought to us. It was very helpful and made us very happy.
Hotel room. The room made us very happy. The windows of the room overlooked the entrance to the building. And although it was already 11:30 p. m. , pleasant loud music was clearly audible in the room from the street, as people had a cultural rest right next to our building. Even with the balcony doors closed, it was fashionable to enjoy the songs of our favorite band Laskovy May. It is better not to open the balcony door in the evening, as the staff is intensively watering the lawns and mosquitoes breed in the flowing water, which will make you a pleasant company all night.
Safe. The key to the safe, which was sent to us in the lobby, stubbornly did not want to enter the lock well, and therefore we spent the first day pleasantly in the room, since there was nowhere to leave money and documents. But after a second appeal in the lobby, a cheerful engineer came to us, who turned the secret of the safe lock on the other side and the key began to fit the lock. True, at the same time, he fell out of the castle all the time, but these were already trifles, to which one can easily get used to after a week of living.

Mini bar. We seem to be unlucky. We had a liter bottle of water for two at the bar, 330 ml of cola and 200 ml of sprite. In principle, this was enough to keep the lips from drying out. You can’t drink tap water, so we immediately poured water into the kettle to make tea. For this, the hotel has an interesting game called "Find an outlet". We found a socket. It is located behind a pedestal on which there is a modern 22 '' TV. Gently pushing the pedestal so that the TV does not blow up, you can easily make yourself tea. But then we decided, in order not to constantly move the cabinet on the floor, to make tea in the toilet, since they also found an outlet there. We didn’t sit down on the only chair in the room, because someone jumped on it before us, and the seat dropped heavily when sitting down, ripping off our priests, who were not used to such jokes.
Air conditioning, thank God, worked. But, when trying to set it up, I also created funny situations when the control buttons just fell out when I tried to press them.
Cards for entering the room. Pleasantly surprised. At first, I was surprised by the first card, to which the electric switch stopped responding right during operation. And then the second card amused me, which stopped opening the door of our room. At the same time, we left the second non-working card in the room. Therefore, in order to somehow get into the room, we went to the lobby, where, after establishing our identities, we were given another card. Thanks to the hotel manager for the daily quests for staying at the hotel. I think tourists from Germany, Romania and other European countries would not have been able to complete these quests and we would have been winners.
Bathroom. Special thanks to the hotel staff for the bathroom. Although no shampoos, gels, soaps were brought to us during our stay, there was a plastic cap for taking a shower. She helped me a lot. When I cut my leg on the beach, I put it on my leg so as not to soak the bandages. It was very convenient to use the sink. Since the water in the sink had been running for several minutes, the water pressure in the faucet was adjusted so that the water ran in a thin stream and did not flood the lower floors. In principle, you could wash your hands and brush your teeth in the shower, for which many thanks to the general manager of the hotel. There is no toilet brush in the toilet, but the toilet bowl could be easily cleaned by hand.

A la carte restaurants also pleasantly surprised us with their service. Sea restaurant Dolphin pleased with free soup with chopped pieces of crab. People with cermet teeth would love to chew through the chitinous casing. You can also order shrimp for $5 per 100 grams and a dry bottle for $27. Entrance to an oriental a la carte restaurant costs $18 per person. But the menu of this restaurant can also be sampled for free in the free PALM restaurant, so we decided that we would rather try hummus in the company of the rest of the hotel residents and not stand out with our thoughtless expenses. By the way, Palm works almost around the clock, however, I don’t know where someone saw seafood there, but there is fish every day.
But, most of all, our guide from the host Ali impressed. The second guide was called Mukhtar, and all the time I wanted to shake his paw. But Ali is something! At the very first meeting with those who arrived, he kicked out several people from the meeting who dared to say that the tours he offered were 30% more expensive than in other places. And that you can buy them right in front of the hotel much cheaper. They did not want to respect the guide and let him earn some money. on the side. We also decided to sort out the prices first, since the order to come to him no later than an hour later with money, documents and a voucher seemed suspicious to us. However, it turned out that way. The order to arrange everything as quickly as possible was so that tourists did not have time to find out the real price of trips. When we didn’t buy anything from him, he started yelling at us, demanded antique certificates, passports, vouchers from us, although just the day before, the hotel took photocopies from them and there was no need to take them.
Then he again demanded to fill out questionnaires, and when he found out that we did not have pens, he said that this was not his problem and tourists should always have a certificate, passport, voucher and a pen in their pocket with them. They took the pens in the lobby, but as soon as he saw that we were carrying the completed documents to him, he immediately got up and left the hotel. He probably wanted to play catch-up with us. We sat down to wait for him, and after 20 minutes the second guide Mukhtar came. We asked him why the guide treats us as if we have captured the Sinai Peninsula and are not giving it back. Mukhtar, more calm, explained to us Europeans that Ali is a very proud person and he loves to be respected. I think at work a person should work and bring profit to the company, and not send customers out. Such a person has no place at work with people.
Otherwise, the hotel is clean, the staff is polite, although with an Egyptian mentality. It’s just that they still don’t realize that they are at work, and I’m not a friend, but a client. And the familiarity of the staff is unpleasant to us.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original