controversial hotel

Written: 24 august 2008
Travel time: 25 may — 1 june 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
The hotel is ambiguous. I went to Hurghada, and even to Egypt, for the eighth time, but I never went to three stars, to the second coastline, and even half board. The second line does not bother at all, 500 meters to the beach and everyone walked calmly. Free horse Natasha will take you if you want. There are always free sunbeds on the beach, clean, but most importantly, a stunning sea, for which it is worth going to Egypt. The sea in Zahabia is one of the best, corals near the shore, there is a shallow descent and a descent to the depths. Fish swim underfoot. You can lie on the water in a mask for hours. Relax is complete. A stingray lives near the shore. Grab your underwater camera and go! Reading reviews, you understand that people need different conditions for recreation. I prefer lazy rest and minimal comfortable conditions, so that they don’t get poisoned, so that there is water in the tap and the air conditioner works. Not poisoned. By the way, about heartburn, which they write. Not true, the feeding, although it did not differ in variety, was fresh and enough for everyone. Unlike some of the more star hotels where there was a queue for food. And in Ali Baba, in general, from time to time there was a queue to enter the restaurant. So, there is nothing to complain about the food, no one had diarrhea or anything else during my race (2 weeks). Very decent shows at 20-00, right in the canteen.
There was a case of theft from the room and, they say, not a single one. Our guide from the Tez-tour said that they constantly steal here and in general, guides in Zahabiya are serving their sentences, because of the eternal conflicts between vacationers and staff. So, the cleaner came to the woman's room to fix the socket, and after his visit, part of the money disappeared from the safe and the bag. I didn’t find everything, because the money was in different places. The hotel resisted the call of the police for a long time and the Tez-Turovets followed their lead. But still, at half past eleven at night the policeman came. Tez-turovets evaporated and did not answer the phone, they called the animator Ahmed (a very decent person) to translate. He knows Russian, because was born in Novorossiysk, and his father is Egyptian. They called a cleaner, he denied everything, took him to the neighborhood, the administration assured that he would never be in the hotel and in general, in the hotel business. The woman who was robbed left, and oh, a miracle! I see that janitor again on the hotel grounds. They are all relatives there and wash their hands.
The rooms certainly leave a lot to be desired. I lived in building 3. Small rooms, furniture or is it no longer furniture? A chair made of slats, which is better not to sit on, the table is the same. Usually the window in the hotels of Egypt is opposite the air conditioner and blows the room very well past the bed. And here the air conditioner is an old suitcase, a rattling tractor named after the first five-year plan blows right into the wall and from it into the bed. The side freezes a little in the morning.

With a wonderful (emphasis wherever you want) janitor was not easy. He tried all the time to come from 14-16. I decided, he went to hell, I’ll live without his “cleaning”. What’s more, when I hung out a red sign for him, he nevertheless knocked at half past four and began to poke at it with displeasure. In English, I told him: "Read, do you see what is written? Why are you knocking? " I didn't see him again. She caught me once, forced me to clean, re-make the bed and took asshole's papers. The bathroom is a separate song: a microscopic trough, curtained with a terrible oilcloth, which I did not curtain, firstly, I really didn’t want to touch it, and most importantly, it’s useless, it doesn’t save me from spilling water on the floor. Water pours onto the floor, but drains into a special drain. Another fun in the room is the door leading to the next room. It is, of course, closed, but somehow annoying. I also got stuck in the entrance lock and the key once broke when I closed from the inside. It was another show. For three hours I tried to explain this (I don’t know how to call these stupid people from the reception that I am closed in my room). In Russian, English, and, finally, composed phrases in Arabic (I had a phrase book with me). They told me: "Five minats, madam" and silence. The girl passing under the balcony, thank God, helped, also explained at the reception for a long time, but they opened me. And they ripped off 10 pounds ($ 2) from me for a broken key, everything was in full swing, but there was no longer any desire to make a fuss.
In general, it is up to you to decide, maybe such troubles will not happen to you, but three stars are still three stars. But for: the magnificent sea, close proximity to the Old and New City, did not poison again; Oh, and the price is reasonable.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original