Смешанные чувства! Mixed feelings!

Hello! I was with my husband from 07/30/11-08/13/11.
First, about the pros of the hotel:
Location - we love to go somewhere every evening, take a walk, and therefore it mattered to us first of all that the hotel close to the city can be reached by taxi in 5.7 minutes (10 - 15 pounds. ) We went to the main street Sheraton or a nice place in New Marina is clean and good cafes there, traders do not bother.

The sea is everywhere and because of this it is not so hot all the time and the breeze blows. The beach for all tastes I liked the lagoon, it is always warm and safe to swim in it, I did swims twice a day for 100 meters. There are no problems with sunbeds and you don’t have to get up at 6 in the morning. We stayed in room 6107 with a sea view and sunbathed from our side. On the left, you can enter the sea by stairs. Before lunch, you can’t swim deep to the knee, and after lunch, the tide is high and somewhere up to the neck you can swim with a mask. There is an entrance to the open sea at the end of the beach on the left side and there, like in Sharm, the reef is more interesting and there are more fish, but there are no lifeguards, and the reef is not safe. rescuers can't handle it.
Check-in took 10 minutes. We also discussed accommodation in Kyiv and chose a superior room with a sea view and didn’t give any money at the reception. This type of accommodation gave some advantages two free dinners in a la carte, one in a fish one in an Italian restaurant. We ate pizza twice, they have quite decent. Upon check-in, the mini-bar was filled, but only once.
Well, now about the cons.
The restaurant, aka the dining room, is one big minus. The first evening made the strongest impression on us. We came to the beginning of dinner at the entrance of the crowd, well, we think it happens, you never know the people were hungry all day at sea, the appetite woke up. They started, everyone rushed to the tables, we found a table and immediately got into the queue, not for food, for the plates I saw this for the first time. Then this queue smoothly turned into a queue for food and the people began to row everything in a row without choosing. We were 6 times in Egypt, the last time my mother and I were 4 months ago at the Titanic Beach Spa and Aquapark 5 hotel right there in Hurghada, everything is fine with the restaurant. Then it was even more interesting, we came for breakfast and found dirty tables they don’t wipe, but at best, the crumbs look like chairs, and the tables remain sticky and dirty. Later, on the third day, we realized that here, as in the Crimean sanatoriums, every man for himself and began to clean everything from the table and chairs, immediately take cups, plates, forks. Occupy kilometer-long queues for scrambled eggs, etc.
The fact is that when reading the reviews, I thought, well, people paid a small amount, but they claim 5 stars. There were also enough negative reviews about the hotels in which we had been before, but in reality everything was not so bad and even better. But here a lot was confirmed, and catering in the first place.

The food itself is not bad, many things were edible, there was also something tasty, such as grilled fish and beef stew, chicken shawarma, rice. We have never been hungry. Baking for the first time in Egypt did not like. Cakes are dry and monotonous. Pastries are not tasty and dry, in other hotels puffs are always delicious. The choice of bread was also poor, I like any interesting bread in the morning. There is no toaster, it is not fatal, but I also see this for the first time. There was enough fruit, watermelons not every day, but as much as you like, melon all day long. Grapefruits, oranges, apples, pears, grapes. But the trouble with vegetables. In the morning there is no tomato or cucumber at all. A couple of times they put cucumbers, but they scattered them right away. Here, some write that they say they came to the beginning of breakfast and there are no queues, but I came to rest and do not intend to jump up for breakfast at 7 in the morning. I got used to the fact that at the end of breakfast I can easily eat, as it was in all previous hotels and not only in Egypt, but also in other countries where we were.
I can’t say anything about alcohol, we didn’t drink anything except beer on the beach from bottles, and in the canteen from a machine. Drinks in all bars, two in one hand at a time, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic.
With sunbeds, as I wrote, there were no problems, the place is full by the sea, but I suspect that you probably need to get up early and occupy the lagoon. We have never sunbathed there because there are too many people and music, and we love to listen to the sea. As for the purity of the sea and the lagoon, it is not always ideal. On the sea in the afternoon sails any bad, but not always. The lagoon is not as dirty as they say, but it also happens. In the morning at 8 o'clock I swam before breakfast, and the water was clean and not cloudy. After lunch, it is unclear, but this is due to the fact that many people swam.
Beach towels changed 2 times in 14 days. It was too far for us to walk every day. They must be changed either early in the morning or before 18.00. It did not suit us at 7 we do not get up and until 19 at sea. Just dried on the balcony. Exchange point 1 for the entire hotel. Queues.
Cleaned up well. Didn't wake up at lunchtime. Swans twisted, nice.
Animation is not intrusive, there are aerobics, dancing, volleyball. In the evening there is also some entertainment, but we were absent from the hotel in the evenings. Disco for kids.
There is a taxi service at the exit from the hall and I advise you to use it, to the city 10 pounds the same money as on the road, only everything is decorous, noble and in a good car. Some kind of unhealthy trick has appeared, taxi drivers in the city are trying to dilute for money, put a bill of 50 piastres, that is, 50 kopecks, which looks like 50 pounds and ask to exchange them for 10 feet. Be careful and see what kind of change you are given and do not exchange money .

We flew with Coral, the hotel guide - hovering excursions, if you don’t take them, throws documents in your face and talks nonsense about not checking in some database and you won’t be able to go to the city or on an excursion bought elsewhere. Rave!! ! In general, there is no sense from him.
But there are Russian-speaking girls in the lobby, their job is to answer questions from tourists, and they try to help in every possible way. We asked them all the questions we were interested in.
There is a small pool near the dining room, but I do not bathe in bleach. The kids spent all day there.
Tenants walk along the beach and offer boat trips, I think you can safely take the more convenient pier right at the hotel and judging by the commercial that is played in the lobby, everything is normally organized there. Same price as the tour operator. We bought a trip to Paradise Island from friends in the city, but this is our personal choice.
What would I like to say a hotel for the money that it costs, although the difference with more decent hotels was 300-400 dollars. Nearby there is Arabia Azur, they offered us for the same money. My girlfriend was there in May, she had a very good experience - clean, the restaurant is ok, the food was very good.
We had a great rest, but this has nothing to do with the hotel. We won’t eat there again, although it’s a pity the location and the beach are super. It was once a good hotel, one of the Sun Rise, this is reminiscent of the interior and all sorts of remnants of luxury in the form of a waterfall on the right side of the main entrance as you go to the beach.
They also write in the reviews that there were a lot of poisonings, but with us I didn’t see a doctor or an ambulance being called. Our stomach was working properly.
In general, feelings about the hotel are mixed.