Good hotel

Written: 3 june 2021
Travel time: 14 — 23 may 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Decent hotel, but for covid times - it's generally super.
I read other reviews and I was surprised by the message about the theft of beach towels on the beach (sorry for the tautology! ). I didn’t come across and didn’t even hear talk about it, but I was around the same time. My towels lay from early morning until leaving in the evening, sometimes for half a day without supervision, and not even a thought crept in. But apparently anything can happen.
By the way, I wanted to say exactly about beach towels as a minus - it’s inconvenient without an exchange, I ran and caught a cleaner in the evening, asked me to bring it in the morning. After the second time, she scored and became like everyone else - to dry on the railing of the balcony. And the second minus - on the balconies there are no devices for drying towels and everything else, all the chairs were hung with wet swimsuits. Who was in Dana Beach through the hotel - feel the difference.

We lived in building 19, it was problematic to relax during the day because of the daily animation in the pool. As for me, the quietest building at any time of the day is 21.
Now the pluses are a large territory of three hotels available for guests of Mamlouk Palace, and a water park, and restaurants by appointment.
Wi-Fi - I have not seen anything like this anywhere, it catches everywhere, fast, stable. It was necessary to constantly be in touch at work - yes, no failures.
Normal food, without any frills, but there was always meat and fish, there were seafood five times - it’s a pity that everything was mixed up (shrimp, crabs, squid), I had to come up three times to pick up a dozen shrimp, crabs occupied the entire plate. Breakfast is also traditional - sausages, omelettes, cereals, vegetables. Baklava and desserts, croissants, ice cream, pancakes and waffles - everything is as usual. The main question about fruits - if there are oranges, dates and cut melon on the counter - then consider there is nothing to eat. A couple of times there were delicious apples and a few times and only for dinner - watermelons, and the taste was so-so. There are no freshly squeezed juices. Food is distributed by cooks, which is not very convenient - and for a long time, and sometimes there were misunderstandings with the portion size.
The rooms were Egyptian clean, towels were changed regularly, and bed linen - not once in 10 days, but I did not ask. Air conditioners hum like everywhere else.
We went to Luxor on May 20 - and ended up in hell. The heat was merciless, +40, some people could not stand it and left the race, sitting in an air-conditioned bus.
Very, very, very pissed off local merchants in Luxor. They shout, run around, poke in the face with figurines, handkerchiefs, souvenirs, "one dollar" rang deafeningly. Someone might have bought something, but they would have simply been torn to pieces. So everyone passed by covering their faces with their hands. It's a pity that no one tells merchants that Europeans do not buy like that. In a shop of marble and stone products - another thing, you walk, look, choose, bargain, everything is very civilized.

Good specialists work at the reception at the hotel, I turned to Yulia, she helped quickly and to the point.
We arrived very early, at five in the morning we were at the hotel, for an additional fee of 30 euros or 37 dollars we settled in half an hour. not to wait 9 o'clock. I do not know if there were those who refused to pay or not, and how long they waited in this case.
Didn't get to dinner in the Spanish restaurant, the Indian one is generally closed. Asian - for an amateur, the most delicious in my opinion - Mexican and Italian. Burgers - if you don't like burgers more than anything, don't waste your time. Egyptian is a very fatty and peppery food. But the main restaurant is good, so after all the a la carte we went there to eat watermelon or drink tea.
There is a water park in the neighboring hotel, available for three hotels, there is a small, but a dozen slides, children will enjoy and work up their appetite and sleep. In the evening, something like performances by animators was sometimes arranged on the stage, or simply children jumped on the stage to the music. Sometimes there was entertainment on the beach - foam cannon, belly dancing, something for the kids. All sorts of offers on the beach - massage, tattoos, excursions, etc. - were unobtrusive, they accepted the refusal calmly and did not come up anymore.
The beach is large, there are enough sunbeds, the entry into the sea is sandy, there is a pier to a small reef.
Our guide at the hotel was Reda, I met him earlier in Mercury, you see, he was promoted. The guide is normal, he didn’t bother much, he said everything that was needed, and so far.
Senzo Mall within walking distance, went to a supermarket and a pharmacy with fixed prices.
Since May 20, the Germans began to appear in the hotel en masse, before that they had a complete ban on departures, I hope, as usual, with their arrival the service will catch up. The main contingent is Ukrainians and Poles.

Many children, even very tiny ones - keep this in mind. It is dangerous when two-year-olds in a restaurant are allowed to run on their own by negligent parents, you have to constantly look to see if anyone is under your feet when you walk with full plates or hot drinks.
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