Objectively about Dessert Rose

Written: 12 april 2012
Travel time: 26 march — 8 april 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 8.0
We went with the whole family: girls 9 and 16 years old and my husband and I 40 and 45 years old. In Egypt, the 7th time, but such anarchy has not been seen. Let's start with arrival - before passport control, representatives of tour operators forcibly fill out visa cards for you for $ 17. (we have TUYU), you can buy it in a bank for 15, of course, not a large amount, but it’s not clear why. Then we quickly got the luggage and went to the bus and after 15 minutes. were at the hotel. Placed quickly, we gave 20 dollars. (the rest did not give) they offered several options, we were settled in 6 building. (I asked) closer to the sea we have 2 rooms (children separately) through a room overlooking the garden and golden five. Checked in at 14.15 went to eat in the main restaurant - lunch until 15.30 - they didn’t feed us there, because all the dishes were already removed on carts. Go to a bar and eat, but they give food there from 15.30-I had to wait and this is a round-the-clock all-in-clusive... Having stood in line,
each of us was given a hamburger consisting of a piece of patty fried on one side and a roll cut in half, and this can be poured over with ketchup and mustard. Doesn't taste very good. They also do pizza but for $5. - did not take. Local drinks are free, but cocktails are more difficult than gin + sprite or whiskey + cola are paid. The territory is huge and green, there are many heated and Olympic pools (it was cold) I am not one of the people who go to the sea to swim in the pool, there is an aqua park - good - the girls liked it. Sea - the hotel rate is placed on the lagoon, artificially excavated. It is difficult to enter the sea. A 2-meter passage is filled with sand on one and the other side of the lagoon or on the corals of many Napoleonic fish, wrasses, butterflies, etc. In the lagoon, the water is colder than in the sea by 2-3 degrees. While we were there, there was a fairly strong wind from the sea and it was cool coming out of the water, but before leaving, the weather changed.
WI-FI was in bars, but with varying success, the older child was on the Internet all the time, they called home via Skype. More about food in the restaurant (dining room) there is no meat variety (beef, chicken and fish such as sole) and not tasty (not bright food - no spices, unsalted) Chicken is grilled (not marinated) chicken roll with rice and baked; meatloaf from the chef, stew and chopped boiled pieces; for 2 weeks there were no crabs, no lamb, no turkey even once. a lot of vegetables - a turn for tomatoes, oranges, dates, grapefruits and fruit salad (apples, green melon, orange, a little strawberries), delicious cakes and pastries. It was not good on the stomach (levomecithin is needed). Attention for diabetics it is necessary to ask for schuga diets - they give. The rooms are not very dead, the cleaning is normal, but the towels were not changed for 5-6 days and the bed linen was the same (we left marks), everything was just folded neatly - leave a tip or not anyway.

The key to the room in the form of a card flew off a day later, I had to go to the reception to reflash, and the road was 500m back and forth in the heat. We took windsurfing lessons for $20. hour - ride 40 min. and they say, all your time is up, I begin to prove that another 20 minutes. -did it, but then they asked for another money 10-15 dollars. illegally. We took an excursion (from a tour operator) to Luxor - I liked everything, with the exception of obsessive merchants who first have everything 1 bucks, and then prices rise to 5-40 bucks, you say I don’t need to - they start swearing in their own way, or they can obscene in full assortment... Our group even called the police - an Arab seller who offended the women of our group was taken to the police... Arabs go to temples and for pointing a finger at a column or taking a picture they ask for bucks, an Arab sat sharpening a stone, the youngest came up to look, he let her knock, I gave 1 bucks and this craftsman was indignant that so little...
At the factory of stone products, the craftsman gives a piece of stone - give me a buck, in fact, I just got it... But the last straw was at the airport at check-in for asking for a seat at the window, they asked us for the same money... Maybe we just got caught like that , but I was in Egypt for the 7th time and did not see this even a year ago after the revolution... On the beach, a motorcycle safari tour was ordered from hotel distributors - I wanted to show the children the desert and mirages. They promised a Russian-speaking guide (in my understanding there should be some kind of story), mirages, camel riding, snake shows, tea and hookah) for free to each Arafat woman, they said that it would be possible to ride freely, not in a column, they promised safety. In fact, the guide speaks (yells) only in Arabic, when they explained how to drive an ATV from Arabic translation into English, and from English our tourist translated into Russian... Arafatka was given only to half of the group,
and half, including us, were not given - they said it was not paid, although everyone paid the same for 30 dollars. The broken-down cars out of 7 cars 3 broke down on the road - the hood flew off, two cars stalled endlessly, you can only drive in a convoy, but at a speed of about 80 km across the small waves of the desert, otherwise you will fall behind (if you try to bypass the "washboard" - the Arab guide shouts like this , which is clear that there is a national mat; on the next bump, the youngest jumped up and hit her head hard on the dashboard - concussion, helmets were not given to everyone - they were not given to children... They gave tea 50g in iron mugs that no one ever washed. there was no show with snakes either. . . They rode a camel a la Bedouins for money. . . They saw the desert, but the promised mirages come after 2 pm, and we were offered a morning tour. . .
At the expense of animation - it is there and not bad - they conduct aqua aerobics, various games, a mini club - there are mini loungers and a mini pool,

a good playground with a ship, but parents drink beer and other drinks there. mini disco at 20.15 and an evening show, take them to a disco in Hurghada. During the day, children under 12 are given ice cream. I can only speak about the quality of the children's disco - the youngest went there several times, she liked it, the aqua aerobics was at first by the warm pool, and in April she was in the lagoon - a lot of people gathered... At the expense of the contingent of vacationers - 90% Russian speakers (Ukraine, Belarus , Russia) Russia is mostly regions, Moscow and St. Petersburg at least. . . Intelligentsia at least. Behavior corresponding to drinking alcohol and its consequences were present - they walked under the windows until one in the morning - from 21.30 called the reception 3 times - they said that the security guard (should sit around the clock at the entrance to the building) would now calm them down, but he was on there was no place... At one o'clock the raging women (it's hard to call them women) went for a walk around the hotel or for more and we fell asleep...
But I want to relax, and not listen to the drunken cries of compatriots at night, it's a shame...
Conclusions: if you don’t find fault, the reception usually works promptly, everyone speaks Russian; cleaning - you need to ask them or take them off yourself and throw bedding and towels on the floor; food - you can live for a week, then you get bored with monotony and quality (sand creaks on your teeth in cauliflower, fruits and vegetables are not washed) corresponds to 3 stars; the territory is good and well-groomed; the sea is like in Sharm - an amateur, for the rest there are more of them - the lagoon always had enough places on the beach, but we went to borrow earlier (before breakfast) under the bridge - there is no wind, the entrance to the lagoon and close to the sea. There will be questions, I will answer. Everyone has different needs - we needed the Internet, good food, the sea and corals.
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