Your rating of this hotel:
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Rooms:
7.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
8.0
Food:
8.0
Amenities:
8.0
Having received new passports, on the same day we looked at the search engine - and after a couple of hours we were already sitting at the agency, making out a last-minute ticket to the Club for three nights.
In fact, at first we wanted to take half board in Paradise, but the agency talked us out of this nonsense - and rightly so. You can’t go with half board in the heat, well, unless the budget is very tight. The difference between HB in Paradise and AI in the Club is about $5 per person per day, and natural juices in bars are many times better than our sandors and gardens.
So, in order. To the receiving party, Anex-tour - one with a plus. Earlier, I flew with them to Turkey and was very pleased with their work, but...To begin with, for this season they rented from UTAir-Ukraine a "bobby with an accordion", that is, 737-400, in a livestock layout: 168 seats. The normal load for this aircraft is 144 seats, and an additional 4 rows are inserted by shifting the rest.
With a height of 193, you can’t move your legs, and the dinner procedure is generally a complete torment. Moreover, the flight there was delayed for an hour and a half, and back - forty minutes, and there are no air conditioners in the HRG halls. However, the crew - well done, both pilots and stewards. On the way back there was a landing in SMU: low cloud cover and a wet strip worked perfectly.
Anex brought the next surprise at the airport. Anex's guides brazenly sold $15 visas at $17 and refused to give change at the level of "my don't understand yours. " The hotel guide, Tatyana, is clearly tired of the volume of work, but when she is rested, it is pleasant to communicate with her. : ) The transfer was generally good both times, but they were taken away from the hotel hungry four hours before departure and strictly at the time of the beginning of lunch, so that later they could drive around the city for an hour and collect tourists who had already dined from other hotels. : )
Now about the hotel. The hotel - five with a small minus.
The club is located quite well and has quite decent and comfortable rooms. If I understand correctly, agencies often do not make a difference between just Club (two-story semi-circular buildings) and Topaz Club (three-story boxes with windows on top of each other). They have a common reception, the staff is common, but it is much more pleasant to live in two-story buildings.
The distance to the sea, which many authors of previous reviews complained about, we almost did not notice. Maybe at +50 or with small children it is critical, but at +33 we both walked along the palm alleys with pleasure, rejoiced at 40-centimeter fish swimming into the lagoon and drank guava juice in numerous bars. The Tuf-Taf engine was laid up, instead of it a Bogdan-shaped bus went to the beach, but we did not use it. The cable car was never seen in operation during these days.
There are indeed cracks in the concrete and broken tiles on the territory, but there are no more of them than in a typical domestic park.
The furniture in the rooms is not new, but not dilapidated either. Very comfortable mattresses. Upon arrival, the console mirror in the bathroom was broken off - I mentioned this at the reception when I went to dinner, and they fixed it in the morning. Plumbing is great. They turned on the TV, made sure that it was working, and turned it off: they arrived at the wrong time to sit at the screen. : ) Safe and minibar in the room - no extra charge. Cleaned perfectly, towels twisted in different ways.
The pools are clean in the Club and throughout the G5, there are enough places on the beach for everyone. Although the Slavic brothers, as usual, leave beach towels on the sun loungers of the first row at night, it’s kind of busy, but there were enough free places before breakfast and in the first row. By the way, beach towels are given once for the entire period, they will not agree to change them later.
The territory and the beach are almost perfectly clean, except sometimes the plastic cups in the sea were blown by the wind. Entry into the sea - coarse sand with pebbles near the shore and coral reefs. Slippers are desirable, in the hotel they cost $4-5. The sea during the day was worried by two or three points, on the pier once we were doused to the fullest; and after sunset, when it is officially forbidden to swim - as if on purpose, there was a complete calm. : )
The food is excellent. Visited all G5 "daily" restaurants except Diamond. The largest selection at the buffet in Paradise, the best view from the windows in AlMas, and the coziest thing was in the Club, especially when there was live music. Emerald was frankly not impressed, it was all created according to the principle “what do you have for the same money by the sea”, it’s somehow cramped in it in a restaurant or by the pools. But it's for comfort, but delicious everywhere. Lots of meat, fish, pastries. Fewer salads and side dishes.
Fruits - when as, dates and grapes always, and guava and figs - as it turns out. Very tasty juices, coffee in most places is only instant Nescafe, but in some places there is also custard, milk for coffee in the Club was given both cold and hot. The lemonades are a bit sweet. Decent beer, but mediocre wine. Crabs every day, but inferior in taste to the Black Sea ones. Of the "one-time" restaurants, we only got to barbecue, which was not very impressive. The rest must be recorded strictly at 10 am, at 11 all the places are already booked.
Animation was present somewhere nearby, but we did not have time to get bored enough to pay attention to it. On the first "full" day after lunch, we took a taxi to the city for a couple of neighbors - for $ 10 per car we were taken to the center and three hours later we were taken to the same place. Taxi drivers are still reckless, it may even seem scary at first, but they drive like this all their lives without problems, and they follow the rules only where there is photo fixation.
They hang out at the "pyramid", but you can also order a car at reception (a little more expensive). In the evening we wanted to go to a disco, but we were tired and fell asleep earlier. On the second "full" day, we walked around the territory and outside, swam, sunbathed. Instead of a disco that day there was a cobra show, they did not go there. They didn’t go on organized excursions at all: I had already been almost everywhere the last time, and the woman I loved wanted a relaxing holiday.
There are many shops on the street near the hotel, on the right across the road from Sapphire, the sellers are bolder, but more polite than at the "pyramid", where lonely girls were rudely teased in front of us. To the left of Sapphire is even more cultured, and behind Riviera there is a two-story shop where the entire second floor is occupied by a department with fixed (and at the same time reasonable) prices, and there we came across the most polite sellers for this trip.
I really liked the show of singing fountains, this is at the entrance to Paradise every day at 21:00.
Alas, we didn’t have time to ride on the slides in the water park: the time of the day when you can swim was spent at sea. : ) We had a wonderful rest, only on Friday evening there was a mass arrival from Russia (the people in the club arrived four times), and at night, under the windows, from time to time someone yelled, sang songs. The desire to sleep, however, turned out to be stronger than the desire to get up and sort things out. : )
On the way back, during the transfer, we stopped at other hotels - the Hilton, Al Dau, Grand brands - outwardly, the G5 clearly outperforms them (no, they didn’t stop at the Grand Resort if someone thought about it now).
Let me summarize:
1. You can and should go to the G5 on a last minute trip if animation is not a priority for you. But take only AI food.
2. The club is good if a five-minute walk to the beach is not an obstacle course for you. Otherwise, we take AlMas. We do not take sapphire under any sauce at all, the difference with the club in terms of money is negligible, but in terms of convenience it is huge.
Emerald is also avoided due to crowding, but Paradise and Diamond are excellent options in the middle.
3. I will never go to Egypt again with Anex and I do not recommend it to you. To Turkey, maybe, but only if they change airlines.
In fact, at first we wanted to take half board in Paradise, but the agency talked us out of this nonsense - and rightly so. You can’t go with half board in the heat, well, unless the budget is very tight. The difference between HB in Paradise and AI in the Club is about $5 per person per day, and natural juices in bars are many times better than our sandors and gardens.
So, in order. To the receiving party, Anex-tour - one with a plus. Earlier, I flew with them to Turkey and was very pleased with their work, but...To begin with, for this season they rented from UTAir-Ukraine a "bobby with an accordion", that is, 737-400, in a livestock layout: 168 seats. The normal load for this aircraft is 144 seats, and an additional 4 rows are inserted by shifting the rest.
With a height of 193, you can’t move your legs, and the dinner procedure is generally a complete torment. Moreover, the flight there was delayed for an hour and a half, and back - forty minutes, and there are no air conditioners in the HRG halls. However, the crew - well done, both pilots and stewards. On the way back there was a landing in SMU: low cloud cover and a wet strip worked perfectly.
Anex brought the next surprise at the airport. Anex's guides brazenly sold $15 visas at $17 and refused to give change at the level of "my don't understand yours. " The hotel guide, Tatyana, is clearly tired of the volume of work, but when she is rested, it is pleasant to communicate with her. : ) The transfer was generally good both times, but they were taken away from the hotel hungry four hours before departure and strictly at the time of the beginning of lunch, so that later they could drive around the city for an hour and collect tourists who had already dined from other hotels. : )
Now about the hotel. The hotel - five with a small minus.
The club is located quite well and has quite decent and comfortable rooms. If I understand correctly, agencies often do not make a difference between just Club (two-story semi-circular buildings) and Topaz Club (three-story boxes with windows on top of each other). They have a common reception, the staff is common, but it is much more pleasant to live in two-story buildings.
The distance to the sea, which many authors of previous reviews complained about, we almost did not notice. Maybe at +50 or with small children it is critical, but at +33 we both walked along the palm alleys with pleasure, rejoiced at 40-centimeter fish swimming into the lagoon and drank guava juice in numerous bars. The Tuf-Taf engine was laid up, instead of it a Bogdan-shaped bus went to the beach, but we did not use it. The cable car was never seen in operation during these days.
There are indeed cracks in the concrete and broken tiles on the territory, but there are no more of them than in a typical domestic park.
The furniture in the rooms is not new, but not dilapidated either. Very comfortable mattresses. Upon arrival, the console mirror in the bathroom was broken off - I mentioned this at the reception when I went to dinner, and they fixed it in the morning. Plumbing is great. They turned on the TV, made sure that it was working, and turned it off: they arrived at the wrong time to sit at the screen. : ) Safe and minibar in the room - no extra charge. Cleaned perfectly, towels twisted in different ways.
The pools are clean in the Club and throughout the G5, there are enough places on the beach for everyone. Although the Slavic brothers, as usual, leave beach towels on the sun loungers of the first row at night, it’s kind of busy, but there were enough free places before breakfast and in the first row. By the way, beach towels are given once for the entire period, they will not agree to change them later.
The territory and the beach are almost perfectly clean, except sometimes the plastic cups in the sea were blown by the wind. Entry into the sea - coarse sand with pebbles near the shore and coral reefs. Slippers are desirable, in the hotel they cost $4-5. The sea during the day was worried by two or three points, on the pier once we were doused to the fullest; and after sunset, when it is officially forbidden to swim - as if on purpose, there was a complete calm. : )
The food is excellent. Visited all G5 "daily" restaurants except Diamond. The largest selection at the buffet in Paradise, the best view from the windows in AlMas, and the coziest thing was in the Club, especially when there was live music. Emerald was frankly not impressed, it was all created according to the principle “what do you have for the same money by the sea”, it’s somehow cramped in it in a restaurant or by the pools. But it's for comfort, but delicious everywhere. Lots of meat, fish, pastries. Fewer salads and side dishes.
Fruits - when as, dates and grapes always, and guava and figs - as it turns out. Very tasty juices, coffee in most places is only instant Nescafe, but in some places there is also custard, milk for coffee in the Club was given both cold and hot. The lemonades are a bit sweet. Decent beer, but mediocre wine. Crabs every day, but inferior in taste to the Black Sea ones. Of the "one-time" restaurants, we only got to barbecue, which was not very impressive. The rest must be recorded strictly at 10 am, at 11 all the places are already booked.
Animation was present somewhere nearby, but we did not have time to get bored enough to pay attention to it. On the first "full" day after lunch, we took a taxi to the city for a couple of neighbors - for $ 10 per car we were taken to the center and three hours later we were taken to the same place. Taxi drivers are still reckless, it may even seem scary at first, but they drive like this all their lives without problems, and they follow the rules only where there is photo fixation.
They hang out at the "pyramid", but you can also order a car at reception (a little more expensive). In the evening we wanted to go to a disco, but we were tired and fell asleep earlier. On the second "full" day, we walked around the territory and outside, swam, sunbathed. Instead of a disco that day there was a cobra show, they did not go there. They didn’t go on organized excursions at all: I had already been almost everywhere the last time, and the woman I loved wanted a relaxing holiday.
There are many shops on the street near the hotel, on the right across the road from Sapphire, the sellers are bolder, but more polite than at the "pyramid", where lonely girls were rudely teased in front of us. To the left of Sapphire is even more cultured, and behind Riviera there is a two-story shop where the entire second floor is occupied by a department with fixed (and at the same time reasonable) prices, and there we came across the most polite sellers for this trip.
I really liked the show of singing fountains, this is at the entrance to Paradise every day at 21:00.
Alas, we didn’t have time to ride on the slides in the water park: the time of the day when you can swim was spent at sea. : ) We had a wonderful rest, only on Friday evening there was a mass arrival from Russia (the people in the club arrived four times), and at night, under the windows, from time to time someone yelled, sang songs. The desire to sleep, however, turned out to be stronger than the desire to get up and sort things out. : )
On the way back, during the transfer, we stopped at other hotels - the Hilton, Al Dau, Grand brands - outwardly, the G5 clearly outperforms them (no, they didn’t stop at the Grand Resort if someone thought about it now).
Let me summarize:
1. You can and should go to the G5 on a last minute trip if animation is not a priority for you. But take only AI food.
2. The club is good if a five-minute walk to the beach is not an obstacle course for you. Otherwise, we take AlMas. We do not take sapphire under any sauce at all, the difference with the club in terms of money is negligible, but in terms of convenience it is huge.
Emerald is also avoided due to crowding, but Paradise and Diamond are excellent options in the middle.
3. I will never go to Egypt again with Anex and I do not recommend it to you. To Turkey, maybe, but only if they change airlines.
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