Отель неплохой. Но вай-фай бесплатный только на ресепшн The hotel is good. But wi-fi is free only at the reception

"Golden Beach" without gold.
We rested in Hurghada for the second time. The first time was in 2013, in a five-star hotel on the first line.
Hotel Golden Beach - four-star, first line. How far from Hurghada airport - I can not say, we flew through Cairo. It’s a five-hour drive from Cairo by bus, but taking into account incomprehensible stops (the drivers went out to chat, then smoke, then they brought them to a cafe... ) you can go more than eight hours (that’s how long we drove THERE), and six hours (that’s how long we went BACK).

Settled quickly after a bribe of 20 dollars. The hotel is large, many buildings on two floors. The territory is also large, a lot of greenery. Several pools. I was especially pleased with the Relax pool located under our windows: you can’t relax with children there, you can’t listen to music and shout loudly. In a word, a normal place to relax. And this saved us: the hotel turned out to have a huge number of guests from the local population, and with each - offspring from three children or more. And all these comrades - well, very noisy. How we swear - they talk like that. Loud and screeching. It just pissed me off, to be honest. This circumstance in my eyes greatly lowered the level of the hotel.
The room was clean, safe, balcony, TV with three Russian channels. Cleaning - every day. A half-liter bottle of water per person in the refrigerator - also every day, plus a water cooler on the floor. But we didn’t risk drinking water from the cooler, we collected it only for brushing our teeth. This, I think, saved us, on this trip there were no indigestion. Well, you get the idea.
In terms of food, everything was pretty decent, it is clear that the chefs are trying. The meat was chicken, beef, turkey, they gave crabs once. Vegetables - always. Surprisingly tasty fish is cooked, which could not be said about the previous trip to Egypt. Soups-puree variety, very tasty. Even carrot and broccoli. Every day they cook something on the grill. Of the fruits, grapes and peaches were the most delicious, watermelon turned out to be strange: red, but not sweet. The melon is delicious too.
From alcohol in the restaurant, local beer and wine (red and white) from tetra-pak. Stronger drinks - only in the open air, at the Relax pool and at the beach bar. Pandemic, you know.
There are three a la carte restaurants. We visited Italian. They ate pizza, lasagna, drank wine from a glass bottle. It was delicious. But we didn’t go the second time, although we had an ultra all-inclusive and could visit these restaurants at least every day. This is the "ultra" in this hotel. There is no imported alcohol there. At least it's free.
There is a pizza restaurant on site. Takeaway - only for money. If you treat yourself to the restaurant itself - it's free, but the most primitive. If you want meat or seafood - pay.

From our room to the sea - three hundred meters across the territory. The beach is sandy, but does not justify the name of the hotel: one of the guests, playing football, cut his leg with something. Although we saw that the staff leveled the sand with a special rake. And there is no glassware in the bar. But, nevertheless, such a case was. So the beach itself is on the "four". Entry into the sea is sooo long... It's easier along the pier 200 meters and from the stairs - into the water. But there are always boats nearby, sometimes wound up, and then the smell of the solarium will accompany the swimming process (. The swimming area is fenced with buoys. But at low tide, even there is a bit shallow. But the sea is beautiful, clean, gentle, warm! If you crumble bread from the pier, they will sail fish, both small flocks of fish, and specimens more impressive, colorful, bright. You can look at it endlessly!
What pleasantly surprised me this time was the absence of sea urchins in the swimming area. I don’t know, maybe they are “out of season” at this time of the year, but on my first trip to Egypt, I was surprised by their number, you walk along the pier - and at the bottom THEY are whole families. Horror and nightmare of a tourist.
Due to the covid pandemic, entertainment is at a minimum. Hookahs are prohibited. In the evenings, karaoke was sometimes turned on on the beach, companies gather, mostly Russian-speaking citizens, drink, laugh, sing. For lovers of leisure.
There is a small theater, where in the evenings they gave performances from the category of Egyptian folklore. We never went, there was no desire to sit indoors in the heat.
Unpleasantly struck by the uncleanliness, even dirt, in the bar on the beach in the morning. The bar is open from 10 am to midnight, but vacationers go to the sea and the beach from early morning. You have to step over dried puddles of spilled drinks on the spat-stained floor. It's disgusting.
Our hotel guide from Coral was a friend named Mahmoud Suleiman. He made an unpleasant impression on us: he was rude, in his eyes there was only one desire - to sell an excursion. If you do not express interest in his campaigning, he instantly loses his disposition towards you. You can not do it this way.
When leaving the hotel, we had to sit in the lobby from 12:00 to 17:00. We had lunch. But on the road (and we were going to Cairo airport) we were not offered to take anything. They themselves brought out a couple of sandwiches and got water. It turns out that we ourselves had to say in advance that we needed dry food. This is also written in the rules of the hotel in a brochure that is in every room. But we missed this moment. So we need.

There are several souvenir shops in the hotel building. You can buy chips, soda, scotch tape, perfumes. Almost on the territory there is a pharmacy with everything you need. The only ATM seemed to work, but we didn't manage to use it: it "chewed" our card for a long time, then, finally, gave it away, but did not allow any operation to be carried out. However, this is not a problem: you can always buy dollars and euros from a smart guard at the entrance. The course is acceptable. As well as changing them to local pounds.
Summing up, I can say the following: the Golden Beach Hotel is trying its best for its 4 stars. Don't expect anything perfect and you won't be disappointed. You will always be full and be sure to get a tan, because the sun regularly shines every day and the sea does not run so far)) For 135 thousand for 12 nights with a flight from Novosibirsk, we had a great rest)) Thanks to Egypt, the hotel, the sea!