Not all guides are good!
We rested with the family from 20.01 to 26.01 in Egypt. Hotel Albatros Aqua Blu. The hotel is great! Room, food and service are top notch. For families with children, what you need! We flew with Tui. The guide at the hotel offered a free trip to the city, to iconic places. We were accompanied by a guide Olga - a fair-haired, densely built lady, more like a woman from the market than a person representing the country and the city in which she lives. The view is depressing.
Now about the trip itself: the mosque is beautiful, $1 for a woman's dress (as it turned out later, an optional condition if you dress correctly); an oil shop, etc. nonsense - they sold a lot and persistently (the son ran in with square eyes, "Mom, we need this, otherwise fs)))"). Further pokatuhi around the city. And the icing on the cake - 100.500 items were brought to the store! Anything! BUT - a vivid example of making money on your own - coffee 200 g 65 Egypt. pounds, Senzomol - 12 (! ) Egyptian pounds! And the check was put in a box with the name of our hotel! Percentik then got a guide! Hooray for the guide! This is the first time in all the trips when the guide leads not to where it is cheaper, but to where it is mega expensive! Where he has his percentage, so clearly visible! That's the whole tour.
Next excursion to El Gouna. Price $ 140 - 2 adults, children 11 years old and 1.6 years old. According to the guide, a premium yacht, banana and tablet rides, lunch and 2 snacks, boating on the channels of El Gouna, reef viewing from a submersible, diving in the open sea. In fact, the yacht is a very tired business class (I know what I am writing). Lunch is good - garnish 3 types, shrimp 3 pcs. gave out, fish, stewed squid, vegetables. Snack - chips, biscuit roll, cut into thin pieces, cookies are the most common. The second is melon, orange. Tea, coffee, cola, 7up free.
We didn’t see anything remarkable in El Gouna itself - well, big houses, villas, according to the guide, celebrities. Where is the Egyptian Venice, I did not understand. The guide (I confess I don't remember my name) is of the same shabby appearance as on the first tour. Damn, how come! You are the face of the tour operator, the face of the city you live in! And the view of the merchant from the market! I don't understand!! ! Next, the bathyscaphe is very beautiful! Snorkelling is great! The sea is just amazing! And dolphins! They swam right next to them, they jumped! Now, if not for the last points listed, the money would have been thrown away just like that!
Result: we are satisfied with the rest! TUI + to the guide at the Saidu hotel + and thanks to the guides for the excursions great - - - - -. You can't look like that! Pay attention to the guide of the tour operator in Hurghada. For the excursions themselves:
- free - do not buy anything, in the Old Town and larger markets it is much cheaper;
- there is nothing to do in El Gouna.
Choose excursions simply with swimming, bathyscaphe, dolphin house and diving! Enough with your head! Oh, and yes, do not take discs with photos and videos! 20$ in w. . . w. Disc 1 is a photo of lousy quality, disc 2 is a similar video, and bonus disc 3 is local music, and disc 4 is a survey video along the coast, which have nothing to do with you personally! Have a nice holiday!
