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We were a family of 3 adults and one child 2 years old. We flew with Turtes. I can’t say anything bad about the operator, everything was fine, we were especially pleased with our guide Mina - a wonderful guy.
Details about the hotel. I want to say right off the bat that we really enjoyed our stay. After all, it’s always good to have a rest, you especially understand this upon arrival home, when work and problems await here. Our stay had both pros and cons.
I want to warn you:
- if you are waiting for marble, chic and brilliance - you are not here;
- if you are a gourmet and want to taste lobster, shrimp or gourmet food in general, you will not find it here;
- if you are a fan of snorkeling or generally a big fan of swimming - then let's be honest - here you won't be able to do it too much;
- if you are young, love noise, parties and discos - you will die of boredom here.
You are here if you are not particularly demanding, not spoiled by chic, and want a relaxing beach holiday.
TERRITORY AND POOLS: Much has been written about this. The territory overshadows all the shortcomings of the hotel. You can only go here because of her. We were simply in awe of the abundance of flowering shrubs, compositions of cacti, palm trees and other exotic trees. To the one who did all this and to everyone who is following this - great respect. We did not find a single unkempt place. Everything is clean and beautiful, very green. Someone wrote that the territory is small - and you are like everywhere, near the villas, around the amphitheater, etc. There is plenty of space. On the territory of 4 swimming pools, + children's paddling pool, + river. We swam mainly in one, the largest, the one next to the main building. The river was constantly some kind of dirty, there was garbage at the bottom, and there was a large crowd in the active pool and it was very noisy. There are ALWAYS free places near the pools. The beds are very comfortable.
HOTEL AND ROOMS: We had 2 rooms: one in a bungalow, next to the main pool and one in the main building on the 2nd floor overlooking the pool and partially the sea. Having made several attempts, naturally for money, to get 2 rooms next to each other (we were with my husband + a separate room for my grandmother) and, having received refusals, we decided not to worry and relax as we are. The front desk said there were no vacancies. I don’t know if this is true, but the next day after our arrival there was a big race of Arabs (they ended Ramadan) and Germans. Our rooms were spacious and clean, exactly the same as in the bungalow, in the main building, but already quite shabby. Everything seems to work, but everything is kind of old. As far as we understand, new rooms are in newer bungalows, which are located near 2 small pools behind the amphitheater. The main building has its advantages: next to the dining room, next to the bar. Cons: Quite noisy. Doors slamming from drafts were especially annoying. In the bungalow where our grandmother lived, it was certainly quieter and closer to the pool. They cleaned every day both there and there. Towels are always fresh and clean. I do not know how often the bed was changed, but we never had to make it - the cleaner did it. She was always clean. The disadvantages of the hotel, I would include the lobby. It is quite old and in need of a refurbishment. All the furniture is somehow filthy, shabby. The bars in the lobby are just one name, some dirty. In general, the main entrance to the hotel should make an impression, but here everything is somehow simple and shabby. A call to the management of Kalimera - make repairs at least in the lobby! Tipping was left 4 times for 1 dollar.
STAFF: There are real goats at the reception!! ! Unfriendly, always busy and rude workers. I repeatedly wanted to send them far away. Getting some information from them or just contacting them is always a problem. They reminded me of our employees of budgetary organizations and civil services - always busy and rude. Again, a call to management - the reception staff is the face of the hotel, they should be friendly with guests. The bartenders are quite strange, sometimes they understand you, sometimes they don’t understand any language. And my husband and I can speak both English and German. Also quite unfriendly. They seem to want to drink, but they can't. Cleaners and waiters in the restaurant - there are no complaints. They were always friendly and polite. I was especially struck by the very warm attitude towards children.
FOOD: The choice of dishes is very large. We never went hungry and put on a couple of kilos. There are no gourmet dishes here, but you can always find something delicious. Several times there were themed dinners: Italian, German, Egyptian, grilled.
They also provide meat and fish. Not bad soups. There is always something to make a salad from. I was especially delighted with pastries - rolls and bread. I also liked the cheese, something like feta. The cakes and pastries are quite the same. There are NO fruits.
Well, except perhaps green bananas and the same green dates.
Breakfasts are monotonous: eggs in different forms, sausages, scrambled eggs - designed for the Germans. But again, don't go hungry. Very tasty yoghurts. Coffee is a separate story. In some review I read a laudatory ode in his honor. It's just a wash! Not even Nescafe, but some kind of chicory. Very, very much missed the normal coffee. Ice cream - someone wrote in one of the reviews "European-class ice cream". How is it? Like "Euro-fence" and "European-quality repair" ?? ? Have you ever eaten ice cream in Europe ?? ? Local ice cream has nothing to do with it. it's flavored plastic. Although children like it, especially German ones. Separately, about food for children: there is a diet table. There are 3-4 identical dishes every day - boiled meat, rice and boiled vegetables. I don’t know whose children eat this. Although among the usual dishes you can always find something to feed your child. But keep in mind, children are a peculiar people and their tastes change, especially in a new place. Ours, for example, ate there only yogurts, bananas and sweet puffs. And we couldn’t squeeze anything else into it .
DRINKS: It's just awful. There is nothing to drink. Yes, there are all sorts of Jupis and cola sprites. But from this the stomach begins to hurt on the 3rd day. Especially nothing to drink for a child. I advise parents to take a drink for the child, for example, our packaged juices. The local packaged juices are just a concentrate of sugar and water. Drinking is not possible. My son was given only water and hibiscus. From alcohol is not bad wine, beer and gin and tonic. Cocktails, so colorfully presented here in the photographs, are simply slop. What a creepy-sweet chemistry. Can you like this? Therefore, if you like to relax and prefer to drink normal alcoholic drinks, and not slop, just to get drunk, then buy them in duty free on departure. For example, 3 liters of martini saved us a lot))
BEACH AND SEA: The beach is clean, there are always free sunbeds. It is very convenient that sunbeds grouped by 2-3 under umbrellas, you feel more or less secluded, and not like everything is like herrings under one canopy. And again, the pressing question, is there a sea in Kalimera ?? ? When people wrote that they were annoyed, that they needed to walk along the pier to the depths, this frankly outraged me. How can you be so lazy? ? But, being in Kalimera, I understood these people. There really is no sea, at least in the way we see it, for example, in Turkey or in the same Crimea.
The shoal is quite large, plus the tides come and go. Be sure to immediately buy slippers, we, unfortunately, did not do this upon arrival, but then we did not want to spend money. It is long and inconvenient to go by sea to the depth, we walked along the pier for 3 minutes exactly. But the depth is also a small strip next to the ships. We did not see any oil stains, the water was clean, but sometimes there was a stink of exhaust. It was not particularly possible to splash there, the water is very salty, constant wind, splashes in the eyes, it is impossible to swim. I can’t say anything about the fish and the reef - we are not fans of snorkeling, and where we swam there was none of this.
ENTERTAINMENT AND EXCURSIONS: Since we were with a small child, you yourself understand that you will not have much fun. But I would say that people looking for entertainment and youth will be very bored here. One visit to the amphitheater was enough for us with a completely stupid performance and a bunch of Germans smoking like steam locomotives. We managed to take only one excursion - this is the Sinbad submarine. What can I say? For 55 dollars. per person, it sucks. We expected more after reading the reviews and looking at the brochures. In reality, this is a dive under water in a cramped submarine for 20 minutes, which floats along a half-dead reef, where a diver feeds sardines))). We saw several colored fish and one big one and that's it. Complete disappointment. I expected something similar to Cousteau's films))) I do not advise you to take it.
CONTINGENT OF HOLIDAYERS: Basically, these are Germans - people are quite well-mannered and not noisy. They prefer to huddle together. They did not annoy us, especially since we often deal with them in our work. The only thing we didn't like was that absolutely all of them smoke all the time. In the evenings, you could hang an ax in the lobby. Moreover, their small children were sitting right there among this gray smoke.
The rest are Arabs. While Ramadan was, the hotel was quiet, calm and clean, but as soon as it ended, the invasion of the Arab yoke began. They reminded us of gypsies - just as noisy and unpleasant, bringing only destruction and unrest. They were especially annoyed by their children, who, as it seemed to me, do not sleep at all, but only do what they yell and make noise.
SHOPS AND SOUVENIRS: there are several shops with souvenirs and the so-called "shopping center", consisting of 4 kiosks) on the territory. On the advice of friends, we did not buy anything here - according to them, everything was cheaper at the airport. All this is bullshit! Prices at the airport are the same, some souvenirs are even more expensive. Only at the airport we ran with our tongues out, but here you can choose everything calmly.
A VERY BIG NEGATIVE: our 2 year old son still managed to catch an intestinal infection on the 3rd day of his stay at the hotel. I don't know where it happened. I guess after a snack at the beach bar. We do not blame the hotel for this, rather it was my husband and I who lost our vigilance and did not wash his hands. In short, it was horror - the child has a pace. 40, vomiting and diarrhea. My parents will understand. It was just hell! We were terribly scared. The child almost burned out, the temperature did not go astray. My advice to you, if God forbid this happens to you here, immediately call the 24-hour number to your insurance company. The number is on your policy. Let them send a car and take you to the hospital. DO NOT SELF-TREAT, our medicines do not work there at all, we tried to treat ourselves. Apparently the local bacterial environment is very different from ours. The local doctor in the hotel is generally a stupid goat who does not know how to deal with children and does not know medicine at all. His medication only made the baby worse. It's good that we still thought of contacting the insurance company. A car was immediately sent for us from the NIL hospital. Despite our worst expectations, the hospital turned out to be just great, everything is clean, wonderful staff, everyone speaks English. There is a girl - a Russian-speaking representative. The pediatrician immediately examined my son, brought down the temperature, gave us an antibiotic injection, and provided us with medicines. Everything is free, with insurance. My son felt better the next day. We were treated for another 4 days already at the hotel, the husband himself injected his son with prescribed antibiotics. Only at 5 my son felt normal, before that he was very weak.
CONCLUSION: despite what happened, in the remaining time we still managed to relax, swim, enjoy the wonderful park of Kalimera, and eat well. But still, we are unlikely to come here again, there was a very bad aftertaste, and next time we will choose a more luxurious hotel and certainly it will not be Egypt. This country has disappointed me.
Details about the hotel. I want to say right off the bat that we really enjoyed our stay. After all, it’s always good to have a rest, you especially understand this upon arrival home, when work and problems await here. Our stay had both pros and cons.
I want to warn you:
- if you are waiting for marble, chic and brilliance - you are not here;
- if you are a gourmet and want to taste lobster, shrimp or gourmet food in general, you will not find it here;
- if you are a fan of snorkeling or generally a big fan of swimming - then let's be honest - here you won't be able to do it too much;
- if you are young, love noise, parties and discos - you will die of boredom here.
You are here if you are not particularly demanding, not spoiled by chic, and want a relaxing beach holiday.
TERRITORY AND POOLS: Much has been written about this. The territory overshadows all the shortcomings of the hotel. You can only go here because of her. We were simply in awe of the abundance of flowering shrubs, compositions of cacti, palm trees and other exotic trees. To the one who did all this and to everyone who is following this - great respect. We did not find a single unkempt place. Everything is clean and beautiful, very green. Someone wrote that the territory is small - and you are like everywhere, near the villas, around the amphitheater, etc. There is plenty of space. On the territory of 4 swimming pools, + children's paddling pool, + river. We swam mainly in one, the largest, the one next to the main building. The river was constantly some kind of dirty, there was garbage at the bottom, and there was a large crowd in the active pool and it was very noisy. There are ALWAYS free places near the pools. The beds are very comfortable.
HOTEL AND ROOMS: We had 2 rooms: one in a bungalow, next to the main pool and one in the main building on the 2nd floor overlooking the pool and partially the sea. Having made several attempts, naturally for money, to get 2 rooms next to each other (we were with my husband + a separate room for my grandmother) and, having received refusals, we decided not to worry and relax as we are. The front desk said there were no vacancies. I don’t know if this is true, but the next day after our arrival there was a big race of Arabs (they ended Ramadan) and Germans. Our rooms were spacious and clean, exactly the same as in the bungalow, in the main building, but already quite shabby. Everything seems to work, but everything is kind of old. As far as we understand, new rooms are in newer bungalows, which are located near 2 small pools behind the amphitheater. The main building has its advantages: next to the dining room, next to the bar. Cons: Quite noisy. Doors slamming from drafts were especially annoying. In the bungalow where our grandmother lived, it was certainly quieter and closer to the pool. They cleaned every day both there and there. Towels are always fresh and clean. I do not know how often the bed was changed, but we never had to make it - the cleaner did it. She was always clean. The disadvantages of the hotel, I would include the lobby. It is quite old and in need of a refurbishment. All the furniture is somehow filthy, shabby. The bars in the lobby are just one name, some dirty. In general, the main entrance to the hotel should make an impression, but here everything is somehow simple and shabby. A call to the management of Kalimera - make repairs at least in the lobby! Tipping was left 4 times for 1 dollar.
STAFF: There are real goats at the reception!! ! Unfriendly, always busy and rude workers. I repeatedly wanted to send them far away. Getting some information from them or just contacting them is always a problem. They reminded me of our employees of budgetary organizations and civil services - always busy and rude. Again, a call to management - the reception staff is the face of the hotel, they should be friendly with guests. The bartenders are quite strange, sometimes they understand you, sometimes they don’t understand any language. And my husband and I can speak both English and German. Also quite unfriendly. They seem to want to drink, but they can't. Cleaners and waiters in the restaurant - there are no complaints. They were always friendly and polite. I was especially struck by the very warm attitude towards children.
FOOD: The choice of dishes is very large. We never went hungry and put on a couple of kilos. There are no gourmet dishes here, but you can always find something delicious. Several times there were themed dinners: Italian, German, Egyptian, grilled.
They also provide meat and fish. Not bad soups. There is always something to make a salad from. I was especially delighted with pastries - rolls and bread. I also liked the cheese, something like feta. The cakes and pastries are quite the same. There are NO fruits.
Well, except perhaps green bananas and the same green dates.
Breakfasts are monotonous: eggs in different forms, sausages, scrambled eggs - designed for the Germans. But again, don't go hungry. Very tasty yoghurts. Coffee is a separate story. In some review I read a laudatory ode in his honor. It's just a wash! Not even Nescafe, but some kind of chicory. Very, very much missed the normal coffee. Ice cream - someone wrote in one of the reviews "European-class ice cream". How is it? Like "Euro-fence" and "European-quality repair" ?? ? Have you ever eaten ice cream in Europe ?? ? Local ice cream has nothing to do with it. it's flavored plastic. Although children like it, especially German ones. Separately, about food for children: there is a diet table. There are 3-4 identical dishes every day - boiled meat, rice and boiled vegetables. I don’t know whose children eat this. Although among the usual dishes you can always find something to feed your child. But keep in mind, children are a peculiar people and their tastes change, especially in a new place. Ours, for example, ate there only yogurts, bananas and sweet puffs. And we couldn’t squeeze anything else into it .
DRINKS: It's just awful. There is nothing to drink. Yes, there are all sorts of Jupis and cola sprites. But from this the stomach begins to hurt on the 3rd day. Especially nothing to drink for a child. I advise parents to take a drink for the child, for example, our packaged juices. The local packaged juices are just a concentrate of sugar and water. Drinking is not possible. My son was given only water and hibiscus. From alcohol is not bad wine, beer and gin and tonic. Cocktails, so colorfully presented here in the photographs, are simply slop. What a creepy-sweet chemistry. Can you like this? Therefore, if you like to relax and prefer to drink normal alcoholic drinks, and not slop, just to get drunk, then buy them in duty free on departure. For example, 3 liters of martini saved us a lot))
BEACH AND SEA: The beach is clean, there are always free sunbeds. It is very convenient that sunbeds grouped by 2-3 under umbrellas, you feel more or less secluded, and not like everything is like herrings under one canopy. And again, the pressing question, is there a sea in Kalimera ?? ? When people wrote that they were annoyed, that they needed to walk along the pier to the depths, this frankly outraged me. How can you be so lazy? ? But, being in Kalimera, I understood these people. There really is no sea, at least in the way we see it, for example, in Turkey or in the same Crimea.
The shoal is quite large, plus the tides come and go. Be sure to immediately buy slippers, we, unfortunately, did not do this upon arrival, but then we did not want to spend money. It is long and inconvenient to go by sea to the depth, we walked along the pier for 3 minutes exactly. But the depth is also a small strip next to the ships. We did not see any oil stains, the water was clean, but sometimes there was a stink of exhaust. It was not particularly possible to splash there, the water is very salty, constant wind, splashes in the eyes, it is impossible to swim. I can’t say anything about the fish and the reef - we are not fans of snorkeling, and where we swam there was none of this.
ENTERTAINMENT AND EXCURSIONS: Since we were with a small child, you yourself understand that you will not have much fun. But I would say that people looking for entertainment and youth will be very bored here. One visit to the amphitheater was enough for us with a completely stupid performance and a bunch of Germans smoking like steam locomotives. We managed to take only one excursion - this is the Sinbad submarine. What can I say? For 55 dollars. per person, it sucks. We expected more after reading the reviews and looking at the brochures. In reality, this is a dive under water in a cramped submarine for 20 minutes, which floats along a half-dead reef, where a diver feeds sardines))). We saw several colored fish and one big one and that's it. Complete disappointment. I expected something similar to Cousteau's films))) I do not advise you to take it.
CONTINGENT OF HOLIDAYERS: Basically, these are Germans - people are quite well-mannered and not noisy. They prefer to huddle together. They did not annoy us, especially since we often deal with them in our work. The only thing we didn't like was that absolutely all of them smoke all the time. In the evenings, you could hang an ax in the lobby. Moreover, their small children were sitting right there among this gray smoke.
The rest are Arabs. While Ramadan was, the hotel was quiet, calm and clean, but as soon as it ended, the invasion of the Arab yoke began. They reminded us of gypsies - just as noisy and unpleasant, bringing only destruction and unrest. They were especially annoyed by their children, who, as it seemed to me, do not sleep at all, but only do what they yell and make noise.
SHOPS AND SOUVENIRS: there are several shops with souvenirs and the so-called "shopping center", consisting of 4 kiosks) on the territory. On the advice of friends, we did not buy anything here - according to them, everything was cheaper at the airport. All this is bullshit! Prices at the airport are the same, some souvenirs are even more expensive. Only at the airport we ran with our tongues out, but here you can choose everything calmly.
A VERY BIG NEGATIVE: our 2 year old son still managed to catch an intestinal infection on the 3rd day of his stay at the hotel. I don't know where it happened. I guess after a snack at the beach bar. We do not blame the hotel for this, rather it was my husband and I who lost our vigilance and did not wash his hands. In short, it was horror - the child has a pace. 40, vomiting and diarrhea. My parents will understand. It was just hell! We were terribly scared. The child almost burned out, the temperature did not go astray. My advice to you, if God forbid this happens to you here, immediately call the 24-hour number to your insurance company. The number is on your policy. Let them send a car and take you to the hospital. DO NOT SELF-TREAT, our medicines do not work there at all, we tried to treat ourselves. Apparently the local bacterial environment is very different from ours. The local doctor in the hotel is generally a stupid goat who does not know how to deal with children and does not know medicine at all. His medication only made the baby worse. It's good that we still thought of contacting the insurance company. A car was immediately sent for us from the NIL hospital. Despite our worst expectations, the hospital turned out to be just great, everything is clean, wonderful staff, everyone speaks English. There is a girl - a Russian-speaking representative. The pediatrician immediately examined my son, brought down the temperature, gave us an antibiotic injection, and provided us with medicines. Everything is free, with insurance. My son felt better the next day. We were treated for another 4 days already at the hotel, the husband himself injected his son with prescribed antibiotics. Only at 5 my son felt normal, before that he was very weak.
CONCLUSION: despite what happened, in the remaining time we still managed to relax, swim, enjoy the wonderful park of Kalimera, and eat well. But still, we are unlikely to come here again, there was a very bad aftertaste, and next time we will choose a more luxurious hotel and certainly it will not be Egypt. This country has disappointed me.
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