Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
8.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
9.0
Food:
9.0
Amenities:
9.0
We returned from the hotel a week ago. All in all, a great budget hotel! There are small nuances, but they are not critical especially considering the low cost of the hotel.
Small, green and well-groomed area of the hotel. The number of rooms is quite acceptable. Here is the best evening animation of all the hotels in which we have been before. WIFI is free only at the reception, so I advise everyone who needs internet to purchase a Vodafone sim card at the airport. A prepaid 5 GB package costs $5.
The entry into the sea is excellent, gentle and completely without stones and dead corals, so you don’t need to take coral slippers with you. The ebbs and flows are almost imperceptible. The beach is great for kids. There are no corals in the hotel, but for them you have to go not to Hurghada, but to Sharm, or even better, to Marsa Alam. The nearest coral reef is to the right, approximately 800 meters from the hotel and beyond. Therefore, if you have a great desire to swim there, take fins, a mask and a snorkel with you. This is certainly not Marsa Alam, but better than nothing. Here I even once saw a big Green turtle, which is generally rare for Hurghada.
The food at the hotel is not bad, somewhat monotonous, but you definitely won’t stay hungry. There was always a great selection of sweets. From fruits - melons, apples, periodically watermelons and oranges.
The ratio of Arabs and foreigners in the hotel was approximately 50 to 50. There were nuances in the behavior of some Arabs, they can come in wet swimsuits for dinner in a restaurant, it is not clear why the hotel management allows this. They can husk seeds on the beach and spit them under their feet. They can take your towel on the beach without asking. These moments were intermittent, but took place nonetheless. Therefore, if you do not want to meet with ill-mannered representatives of the Arab nation at all, it is better to go to a hotel in Ramadan. Then they are almost non-existent in the hotel. Or try to be philosophical about it.
If you want to go to the center of Hurghada for shopping, or just take a walk - it is better to take a taxi on the street, near the hotel, it is much cheaper. The normal cost of a taxi to the center is 25-30 pounds, to the airport - 50 pounds. By comparison, a hotel taxi to the airport costs $25, almost 10 times more. We met a local taxi driver who came to pick us up when we needed to go somewhere. He was never late and arrived on time. With him, we left for the airport, as the tour operator had to pick us up from the hotel by bus more than 4 hours before departure. And by taxi, the ride to the airport is only 15-20 minutes.
From the sights of the surroundings of Hurghada, we liked the trip on a yacht to Paradise Island, as well as a jeep trip to the desert to the Bedouins, after which we rode buggies and ATVs. We also visited the El Mina fish restaurant, which is located near the mosque and the fish market. We ordered lobsters, fish soup, grilled and battered shrimp, battered squid, sea bass fish. Especially liked the fish soup, grilled shrimp and squid in batter. Locals go mainly to the Al Halaka restaurant, which is located near El Mina. We went there first, but the cleanliness in this establishment leaves much to be desired, and the prices for us in it, as tourists, were turned down a lot, so we went to El Mina. The restaurant is quite democratic in price and pleasant in atmosphere.
I hope my review will help someone make the right decision!
Small, green and well-groomed area of the hotel. The number of rooms is quite acceptable. Here is the best evening animation of all the hotels in which we have been before. WIFI is free only at the reception, so I advise everyone who needs internet to purchase a Vodafone sim card at the airport. A prepaid 5 GB package costs $5.
The entry into the sea is excellent, gentle and completely without stones and dead corals, so you don’t need to take coral slippers with you. The ebbs and flows are almost imperceptible. The beach is great for kids. There are no corals in the hotel, but for them you have to go not to Hurghada, but to Sharm, or even better, to Marsa Alam. The nearest coral reef is to the right, approximately 800 meters from the hotel and beyond. Therefore, if you have a great desire to swim there, take fins, a mask and a snorkel with you. This is certainly not Marsa Alam, but better than nothing. Here I even once saw a big Green turtle, which is generally rare for Hurghada.
The food at the hotel is not bad, somewhat monotonous, but you definitely won’t stay hungry. There was always a great selection of sweets. From fruits - melons, apples, periodically watermelons and oranges.
The ratio of Arabs and foreigners in the hotel was approximately 50 to 50. There were nuances in the behavior of some Arabs, they can come in wet swimsuits for dinner in a restaurant, it is not clear why the hotel management allows this. They can husk seeds on the beach and spit them under their feet. They can take your towel on the beach without asking. These moments were intermittent, but took place nonetheless. Therefore, if you do not want to meet with ill-mannered representatives of the Arab nation at all, it is better to go to a hotel in Ramadan. Then they are almost non-existent in the hotel. Or try to be philosophical about it.
If you want to go to the center of Hurghada for shopping, or just take a walk - it is better to take a taxi on the street, near the hotel, it is much cheaper. The normal cost of a taxi to the center is 25-30 pounds, to the airport - 50 pounds. By comparison, a hotel taxi to the airport costs $25, almost 10 times more. We met a local taxi driver who came to pick us up when we needed to go somewhere. He was never late and arrived on time. With him, we left for the airport, as the tour operator had to pick us up from the hotel by bus more than 4 hours before departure. And by taxi, the ride to the airport is only 15-20 minutes.
From the sights of the surroundings of Hurghada, we liked the trip on a yacht to Paradise Island, as well as a jeep trip to the desert to the Bedouins, after which we rode buggies and ATVs. We also visited the El Mina fish restaurant, which is located near the mosque and the fish market. We ordered lobsters, fish soup, grilled and battered shrimp, battered squid, sea bass fish. Especially liked the fish soup, grilled shrimp and squid in batter. Locals go mainly to the Al Halaka restaurant, which is located near El Mina. We went there first, but the cleanliness in this establishment leaves much to be desired, and the prices for us in it, as tourists, were turned down a lot, so we went to El Mina. The restaurant is quite democratic in price and pleasant in atmosphere.
I hope my review will help someone make the right decision!
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