Zahabia - golden, translated from Arabic

Written: 12 june 2021
Travel time: 26 may — 8 june 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
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Finally, the evil covidlo has ceased to interfere with travel! Hooray!! ! Back to freedom, to the pampas! )))
For its three stars, and budget tourists, the hotel is relatively good, you can come back here again.
Hotel pros:
- friendly and helpful staff
- 2 beaches, for every taste: the near one with a shallow sea and sand, the far one is a coral reef, along the edge of the reef there are especially many types of fish, sea anemones, and even squids! Some saw stone fish, stingrays, and moray eels, but I didn’t have to. But, in the vicinity of the stairs, everything, of course, is trampled down, alas, and you have to sail away to see more interesting things.
- good and varied (for a 3 *) hotel food, even grilled meat and fish in the evenings. Cakes (for dinner), baklava, sweets, oranges. Fish, chicken, turkey, liver, salads, cheese, etc. , all delicious
- Wi-Fi free at the reception and in the Cave cafe nearby

- good cleaning of the room and regular change of towels and bed linen. Shower gel and soap are provided, in sufficient quantities, bed linen is clean, not worn out. Take a towel for the beach, as well as change, not a problem, near the pool.
- proximity to shops, on the right side of the hotel.
- cozy atmosphere and well-groomed territory.
Cons of the hotel
- always dirty floor in the restaurant. Listen, hotel managers! If you can't hire an adequate cleaner, grab some rags and mop the floors yourself! Well, you can’t allow tourists to enter a restaurant in the morning and see yesterday’s leftovers on the floor, and crumbs under the tables, as well as old, suspicious, sticky stains on the floor! It's just disgusting! All my comments and requests to finally wash the floors did not give any tangible results! they were so dirty and unwashed, all 13 days of my stay!
- an impudent, lazy boy, a tut-tuk driver who, instead of working, prefers to rest in the shade and drink coffee! Moreover, the cost of its services is illegally included in the information sheet of the hotel! And it's all inclusive! I had to intervene in the situation and talk to the managers. After that, the boy stopped demanding money, but still did not want to work, but hid, and rested in the company of his own kind, he had to call the reception from the gate, they called him, and only after that he appeared, extremely dissatisfied... And on foot to distant beach at least km! In the heat, it's not very pleasant to trudge on foot! Maybe it makes sense to fire a lazy boy? He is incorrigible, and, judging by the reviews, he has been working there for many years.
- old and often broken, heavy, sunbeds that are 50 years old, and broken umbrellas on a distant beach, lack of mattresses (also very old)
- at a construction site, in front of my windows, a pack of dogs howled at night, and very loud)))))) and during the day - the noise from the factory nearby

In my opinion, the hotel was spoiled, just the same, by unpretentious and undemanding tourists, who, instead of complaining about the shortcomings of the managers, are silent and give dollars, it is not clear why, to negligent hotel employees, which to a large extent creates the problems I describe ! A lot can be fixed if you talk about it, at least try. But with the floors, I didn’t succeed, no matter how I tried....they were only slightly wiped, with a semi-dry rag, apparently)))) what to do? I don’t know, I didn’t have to wash them myself? )))) and I more or less brought up the boy from the tuk tuk))))
Translated automatically from Russian. View original