We lived in a bungalow on the first floor with a large balcony. We arrived at 6 in the morning, checked in at 12. We were ready for this - we made coffee, changed into beach clothes and started to relax)) The first room was given without a balcony, but we refused, and changed it without any problems. To our complaints about the cleanliness of the bed, they simply brought a new one in the package and remade it in front of us. The same with towels - they just brought new ones). Water was brought to the room.
Food - normal, typical for Egypt. For breakfast, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, sausages, sausage, cheese, croutons, beans, yogurt, milk porridge, muesli, fruit. Those who are not enough are just wondering what you have in the morning? Lunch from 12 in a restaurant on the beach - 2 types of soup, meat, fish, spaghetti, grilled vegetables, fresh vegetables, sauces for them. Pastries and fruits. BBQ every night for dinner. The pool bar - burgers, french fries, vegetables, pastries. Drinks - cola, fanta, sprite, tea, coffee, alcohol, as elsewhere in Egypt - if you want a good pay, or buy duty free. Freshly squeezed juices for 2 bucks. The beach is large, good entry into the water, there is a spit, and there is a depth to swim. Yes - there are no fish and corals, but behind this in Sharm, and here just swim and enjoy the warm clear water.
Conclusion - I advise the hotel! )) And all the nuances can be solved - the main thing is the right approach)).
1. Everything is old - furniture, repairs, tiles, smells, some things are the same age as the pyramids.
2. The staff is so arrogant that even for Egypt it's too much. I didn’t give him money, it will be an hour for you to carry coffee.
3. They freeze money around the clock, despite the "all inclusive": Wi-Fi does not work, you need to buy a SIM card from them. There is no iron, they iron for money. Alcohol is diluted with water, and for the money they offer a good one.
4. Food like in the dining room at a funeral - pasta, goulash, unripe fruit, rubber sausage. Right there in paid seafood restaurants and everything is fine.
5. I travel often, lived in dozens of hotels in different countries. The first time I turned to the guide to change the hotel. Guess what conditions), 30% surcharge, and there are no places in similar hotels throughout Egypt)…
The third time in this country, I think I won’t go again, I’m so shocked by the hotel, the staff and the attitude towards visitors, just like meat. The absence of Russians for 6 years lowered the level of tourism in this country to the very bottom. Professionals (animators, cooks, guides) left, Bedouins work in hotels, guides are citizens of neighboring countries.
The Red Sea is certainly beautiful, but I'm apparently not Jacques Cousteau)...
Rest in *****, it would be better to spend it on another place, it’s just a pity for the money, the atmosphere itself and so on, complete boredom, nothing is impossible, everyone is evil and so on, Lord, this is the most terrible place in my life.
Hotel occupancy was 10-15% for this period of time. The pool was not heated, the sea was at an acceptable temperature, there is one caveat - low tides.
There was little food, monotonous due to the small number of people. They weren't hungry.
According to the weather: a strong wind was one day. Temperature during the day 22-25, at night - 15-18. You need to take a warm sweater, trousers and closed shoes with you.
I liked the rest because we went to the sea and the sun.
All the years I justified the Egyptians saying that there was a war, a crisis, a beggar and all things, but wait ...we also have a war in our country, then I justify them with a fig.
I went to this hotel as in All Inclusive, then why the hell do they give a menu, in which, in fact, there are only 2 options from which to choose? I didn't pay for it. If I wanted to go to a pioneer camp, I would go to it. Salad is generally a separate conversation. The fourth part of the tomato is finely chopped, the third part of the cucumber and a small slice of cabbage. All this without salt and without any sour cream, oils and mayonnaises. What is his mother? The chicken is constantly dry, like it's been reheated for days. There was nothing for sweet lovers to do there until my penultimate day before departure, when, after the end of Kabay-Bayram, the Egyptians drove into the hotel in the amount of about 120 people and gave at least a little sweet to those who wanted it. One salvation in terms of food was a cafe on the beach, where in the evening and only by appointment they gave something even remotely similar to rubbery meat.
It is especially worth mentioning the so-called Fruit Salad (4-5 grape, 4th part of an apple and 3rd part of a slice of grass-green melon) for fruit lovers like me, I can’t even dare to call it a salad. Pizza in the hotel is a wooden dough crust, a pinch of grated cheese and a spoonful of ketchup. All this is smeared in code and served under the guise of Margarita. Well, the most interesting thing is the burgers ...With dirty, sweaty hands, the waiters put these cutlets into buns. After seeing it once, I didn't eat that shit again. One joy though was this ice cream in a small plastic cup. It was possible to take 2-3 and eat it, and then they began to give it only on July 31st. At the end of the holiday, the so-called main restaurant was opened from the 3rd, where you could choose your own food. You come there, and there everything is the same that was on the menu before, but everything is served like this, they say, you choose what you eat.
Regarding the Internet in the hotel - it is stupidly absent.
The router that stands for employees can withstand a maximum of 4-5 phones connected to it, and after that hell begins ...Buy yourself an Etisalat card right away at the airport (fast and inexpensive Internet). You can also use Vodafone, it is fast, but there is little traffic of only 4 GB and the price is $ 16, there is also Orange ...they seem to give 16 GB and the speed seems to be quite good and the price is $ 10, but ...opened a video on youtube and be kind 2nd traffic, social networks like unlimited, but in fact they ate everything in the 2nd volume of traffic. Animation in the hotel is missing. On July 31st, one sleepy animator got out and said his magic phrase to Aqua Jeep. After 20 minutes of demonstrative and joyful cries by the pool, he evaporated.
Beach. In general, it is not bad, though after the tide it caused plastic pipets. I took the bag that I brought and began to collect in it everything that I brought walking waist-deep in water (used pads, diapers, plastic cups from the bar, bottles and all sorts of crap).
I collected 2 good bags and took it to the master's beach to remove all this shit. After my cleaning, two weirdos got out and pretended to be cleaning the beach. Separately, I want to mention that doras from youtube, who said in the video that there is a sunken ship on this beach not far from the boats with masts. This was one of the criteria for choosing this hotel by the way. I thought, if not to watch the fish in Hurghada, then at least the ship ...hell is there ...There is nothing ...I searched the entire water area of u200bu200bthis damn hotel and found nothing except a couple of hedgehogs, the needle of one of which I accidentally drove into my finger.
The fish, if they were in the sea, were only near a small one at the pier on the left on the beach and near the pier after 2 hotels. In general, the mask did not come in handy. I heard that the general manager came to the hotel on August 3rd to find out why dissatisfied tourists leave en masse for a surcharge of $ 60 to another hotel, but unfortunately I did not find him.
In general, after such a holiday, I don’t want to return to Hurghada in general, and perhaps to Sharm too. The Arabs are far from the Turks in terms of service.
I do not recommend the hotel at all, as well as the tour operator Join up, who knew about the situation in this crappy hotel. Guide Join up is still bald...with a bruise on his forehead between his eyes. I shut up the mouths of disgruntled tourists at the meeting and, apparently, looking at the bruise, someone could not stand it. Join up and Shiva Grand Beach go to hell and thank you for ruining our holiday.
Sea. Everything is super here, the hotel has a beautiful beach, sand, there is a spit that goes into the sea, very unusual, the location for the photo is just super. There are some fish. The beach is clean, everything is neat, everything you need is there and there is a toilet and fresh water to wash off the salt and sand.
We bought a SIM card for communication. It is quite possible to visit this hotel, but when everything settles down with these post-quarantine measures.
The red price for him is $500-550 under these conditions, perhaps when everything changes in terms of nutrition, you can pay more, but not now!
We arrived at 7 in the morning, we were immediately separated from the bracelets and offered to pay $ 15 for a room and a quick check-in, but we refused.
With us, 4 more people came to the hotel, in total on the first day there were 10-15 people for the whole hotel, because. it only launched on the 26th.
Breakfasts, lunches and dinners on a set menu - the food is monotonous, you will not be hungry, but there is not much to choose from.
Our room was excellent, at first they gave us a room on the first floor, and not at 12-00, but somewhere after 10-00, we didn’t like it, and changed it to the 2nd floor, it was certainly spacious there.
The sea is perfect - the sand spit goes straight into the sea, you can just walk along it, you can swim side by side, we didn’t go for fish, the sandy entry into the sea was important for us, and we got it, although we also found fish, although not many)
Animation appeared on the 3rd or 4th day, but since it is never important to us, we didn’t even bother with its absence)
Until the 31st, we were almost in the same composition at the hotel - a few people came, but on the 31st the Muslims arrived for their holiday, and of course there was no neatness from them, but again, if they hung out at the pool, we went to the sea, and vice versa)
There is a promenade near the hotel - with shops, cafes, shopping centers, you can take a walk, we also went to the Marina port and Sheraton street)
We bought a bunch of vitamins (you need to check the prices in pharmacies, but we went to Elizabeth the first day, and then we just went to others and bought more that we remembered).
On the way back, of course, we were a little tricked with these vitamins, but it’s good that we had checks. And yes, if you buy vitamins in large quantities, be prepared for the bags to be looked at, we had to pay later for the wrapping, because. all of our bags have been reviewed
By the way, back we had a delay on the flight, which I was unspeakably glad, because. We spent half a day at the beach
On excursions - they took only a safari.
In general, a week of rest has flown by and I'm already thinking how to get together in the next one)
If you have any questions about the hotel, I'll be happy to answer.