hotel features

Written: 5 november 2009
Travel time: 22 october — 4 november 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
I will not describe the meeting, stay, sea, desalinated tap water, shops, departure, etc. Egypt is Egypt, and if you can’t see a garbage dump or a construction site from your window, then go up the hill in the water park and you will definitely see them nearby.
I will describe the features of the hotel where I spent 13 days.
Our family of 4 got two rooms (5246 and 5248). The room has a room of about 25 square meters, two beds are either pushed together or apart and a sofa (also with linens), a pair of bedside tables, a dressing table, a coffee table, a mini fridge and a TV. The bathroom consisted of a toilet, a washbasin with a hairdryer and a shower with a drain in the floor. Since the water was heated from a solar-powered storage tank located on the roof, we had to constantly fight with hot water (sometimes it flowed cold, sometimes boiling water, then there was simply no pressure) In room 5246, the TV remote control did not work (they fixed it right away), the safe was broken (they didn’t: the locking edging was bent inward) and the refrigerator was not connected (they didn’t: there was no electric cord for the refrigerator made in Mexico in 1982). All balconies overlooking the pool (sliding door to a third of the room). Climbing to the second floor by stairs (there are no elevators or lifts in the hotel, except for the aqua park). Cleaning is of high quality with a daily change of linen (although they always left one dollar per room) they were only cleaned at different times of the day.

The territory is large, there are solid houses around the perimeter, pools in the middle. Five restaurants that do not shine with a special variety, although the food is of high quality, the staff maintains cleanliness and keeps order inside the restaurant. There is a themed menu on different days of the week. There are no a la carte restaurants. Lots of sweets and fruits. Drinks are all locally produced, bottled Luxor beer, juices from dry concentrate, cola, fanta, sprite from bottles or from a machine. In the Asia Plant restaurant, the food is more oriental, hence very spicy.
Aqua park is open from 10:00 to 17:00. A variety of slides (separate children's area), the staff is attentive and strict, they keep order on the slides. There is another children's aqua park behind the kids club and spa. Cleanliness around the pools is constantly maintained, the bottom is cleaned after 20-00. Towels can be collected and returned throughout the day all the time, however, if you want to return them before lunch, you will be asked why so early. You can go to the sea by minibus. During rush hour, the bus is crowded, although it runs quite often. Cause irritation Russian tourists climbing into the bus with inflated circles and mattresses. Dana Beach hotel beach; beds under fungi and with fences. Enough for everyone, there are always empty ones. However, he himself observed how the staff rotates where only a towel is spread out and there are no more things, the same thing happens if there is no towel, but just some things are lying. The truth is always the staff first tries to find the owners. The beach and water are constantly cleaned, with the appearance of garbage from the open sea, the amount
cleaners is increasing. The entrance to the sea is mostly sandy, there is an underwater spit, you can go further along it, although most of the corals have long been dead. You can feed the fish with bread.
On the territory of the children's club is open from morning to evening, the animators are two girls (they don't speak Russian well, but everything happens kindly and with joy). In the evening from 20-30 to 21-30 children's disco, although the program is the same. After thematic performances for adults. Evening trips to a disco outside the territory of a Havana Club.
Spa salon is paid, the prices are average, you can bargain. The staff mostly speaks Russian. Massage and other procedures are done with high quality and with great diligence. Massage for women is done by women, and for men by men.

In addition, there is a football field, minigolf, beach chess, billiards and water polo. During the day entertainment program for adults at the main pool.
There is a small mall with NORMAL!! ! prices and a jewelry store that honestly tells you what is not gold (although it looks exactly the same). You can bargain.
Almost everywhere there are bars (between restaurants, in the aqua park, on the beach) where you can have a drink and a snack (pizza, hamburgers, french fries, fruit and ice cream). At the reception in the bar is the only place where there is ground coffee (very tasty latte). On the ground floor of the reception there is a paid bar with a disco until 02-00 at night. Everything else closes at 24:00.
The hotel has recently opened, so some of the work is still underway, but they are carried out either at night or as imperceptibly as possible for vacationers.
There are a lot of staff, they look neat and as friendly as possible. A large number of security guards (you can safely be on the street at any time of the day.
General impression of the hotel: solid 4+.
P. S. Don't forget about the magic one dollar (can be replaced by 5 pounds), you will be pleased to see how the already friendly staff will be ready for you for anything.
Do not bring euros to Egypt - you will lose a lot on the recalculation of rates. True, there is an ATM at the reception with a currency exchange function (it does not take rubles - I tried it), the bank representative at the hotel also does not accept rubles.
A supermarket SENSO MOLL has opened nearby, prices are acceptable, you can go buy what your eye will fall on.
I will answer specific questions.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original