Holidays are not for the picky.

Written: 12 july 2010
Travel time: 12 — 19 june 2010
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: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
For a trip to Magawish.

I warn you right away that everything I wrote is a purely subjective opinion of one character, so think with your head.
Rested in Magawish from 9 to 19 June with friends.
In general, everything is fine, the rest was a success, but there are some things that I simply have to convey to you.

TOUR OPERATOR

They flew from the Anex-tour (and last year too). Last year, Anks really didn’t like it, it’s one scam, but this year it’s just one joy. It all depends on the guide. Last year we had a guide Nabil (Dybil-Arab) and this time a Russian girl Katya. We ordered two excursions: quad bikes for three hours and diving. Never take a full day safari. This is one horror. ALL tour operators are chasing tourists, it doesn't matter, all day long, but it's no use, it's very tiring. This time we went for three hours - super. And Pegasik (the guide of Pegasus is a small freak, therefore, "Pegasik", wanted to breed us) offered quad bikes for $ 45, and our guide Anex-tour and "Yalla" on the beach for 30.

ROOM
It makes no sense to pay money for a room (bribes for a good room), they still settle Russians and "Euro" people in different areas of the hotel, despite the fact that the Soviet people won back the Suez Canal and the Sinai Desert for Egypt. It's just that Russians don't pay euros. We were in Serenity (Makadi Bay) and saw how black-assed Germans serve for tips (they threw about 10 euros, which is about 10 UAH compared to our salaries. . So they lick their _ops.
Rooms in Magawish are a separate issue. It is necessary to discount the fact that this is the first hotel in Hurghada, built in 1979. Accordingly, the furniture is very old, but it fully meets modern requirements for comfort (normal beds and mattresses, a grandmother's closet, an old air conditioner and a TV), but there is no hair dryer, kettle, safe in the room (it is at the reception 1 dollar per day size), plumbing is good . The rooms are cleaned daily, as is the change of towels. The towels are not dirty, they are just washed and old.
By the way, if you want to change towels or bed linen, throw them on the floor, the cleaner will change them (this is written in the announcement at the reception). TV shows two Russian-language channels. Not all rooms have green spaces around. In the end - after all, we didn’t come to sit in the room.

BEACH
Special attention about sunbeds and umbrellas special attention: they came at 7 in the morning and everything was already taken. Everyone is sleeping, but there are no seats. It turned out that dirty "Yalla" throw towels on sunbeds in the center of the beach and then sell them for dollars. The places occupied by tourists are very different from those occupied by black-assed beach employees. Therefore, we calculated these places, threw off towels to other places and calmly occupied sunbeds. For 10 days, we never left without sunbeds. And if "Yalla" came to the analysis, they offered them to go to the administrator. Immediately "No problems. "

There are no foot washers and showers throughout the beach (1200 meters) with the exception of the meta near the Dolphin bar.
Yachts pour slop directly into the sea, so I don’t advise swimming there after 16.00.
Dirty "yalla", who walks with a camel on the beach, asked for 10 pounds for a photo, i. e. 2 dollars (not pounds but pounds, the official currency is pound), oh, greedy these Arabs, worse than crests (not Ukrainians, namely crests ).
Catamarans for ours for 10 dollars, for Europeans all prices are in euros.
Diving in Magawish costs an expensive 60 euros. Therefore, take the guide for $ 55 (hello guide Katerina), but be sure to take it. I have never seen such beauty in my life. It's just beyond words, not to write and not to draw. This is something, no money is a pity.
But with all the hostility towards black-assed black-assed people, the beach in Magawish is the best in Hurghada and in all of Egypt. There is also a smooth entrance to the sea and corals, there is a pier for those who like to jump.
One Pole saw a moray eel on the reef, I personally saw a stingray, my wife saw a squid. At night, very cool crabs and rapanas run along the beach (just lovely).

NUTRITION
In the dining room, the food is normal, as in other hotels, we rested a year ago in the 5th, the same thing, but very small glasses for tea and coffee.
The beer is delicious, but the glasses at the Dolphin bar (on the beach) are small, so they pour two glasses of rhinestones, but sometimes, the beer that flows down dirty black-assed hands into a drain bowl is sometimes poured into glasses and given to tourists, which is very outrageous, but then we got used to their system and simply did not take pre-bottled beer. It's useless to argue.
Very languid music in the central cafe (until 24.00), the hookah costs 2 dollars there. Therefore, if you like to drink in your company, then take cognac from home (up to 5 liters in hand luggage (luggage) in the manufacturer's container) or whiskey from duty free and straight to the POOL or to the beach.

SWIMMING POOL

In general, there is nothing special. They clean it around 23.00 with bleach, which is natural for our organisms. But in any case, do not try to find New Pool (new pool), it simply does not exist.

TERRITORY
Territory large is not the word, rather huge, but not well maintained near the main pool is not cleaned. Attention is paid only to watering and planting some kind of bushes.
Do not buy souvenirs in shops, come to the airport there and buy. At the airport, prices are not high, fixed, but you can bargain if the seller is the owner.

ANIMATION
The animation is just bad. Every morning begins with the song "good morning" and "u-la-la" and at 12.00 cries of boccia, boccia, boccia. For 10 days I wanted to puke, although the animators performed good concerts in the evening.

CONCLUSION:
1. Do not drive on the tour operator, they are all the same.
2. But in general, the impression is positive. If you go to Egypt for the first time, then only in Magawish: NOT EXPENSIVE and not far from Hurghada (please note, not in Hurghada itself).
And at the same time take a bunch of excursions. Do not go to Cairo, very long and tiring. Friends suggested that we go to Luxor and we did not regret it. I also advise you to visit the Sinai desert. And the secret of the pyramids can be found in the New Chronology of Fomenok and Nosovsky. You will be SHOCKED.

Have a good rest.

Respectfully,
Alexander. Kyiv.

R. S. I will gladly answer all questions and ask: do not behave boorishly with the Slavs, we are still brothers.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original