In all other respects, you are a welcome and important guest of the hotel, this is manifested in everything, they greet you, they smile at you, they are ready to help in everything, only if you are not ill at night, you did not have the necessary medicines, and you are not ready to call an expensive doctor, which the hotel provides, then count on yourself and city pharmacies.
We are newlyweds and indicated this in the application and spoke at the reception from the very beginning, but we were not surprised by anything other than a piece of cake in 500 g after dinner in the room. There was hope for fruit in the room or rose petals, well, at least swans from towels, but nothing.
There was also a question about the figures made of towels, no matter how funny it was, but they didn’t make them in the villa’s room with a tip, but in the main building they played something every day. But everything is in our hands and we made a good example of a swan, plus they wrote on a piece of paper to do something like that, and in the last two days they made swans and a crocodile for us.
The food at the hotel is excellent, here you have fish, and meat, and various side dishes, and a vegetarian menu, sweets, fruits and drinks for different tastes and colors.
The hotel has a very beautiful green area, which is looked after every day.
The sea and the beach is the best and most beautiful place of the hotel.
The hotel also has a pier with an island where you can walk and enjoy the sea at any time of the day.
When we arrived to check in, they immediately brought cold drinks, settled instantly! Without any hint of an additional charge, a room with a sea view, there is Wi-Fi, both in the room and on the beach and near the pool. We moved to it from Golden 5 paradise, because it was impossible to stay in it, a terrible hotel (the price for hotels is approximately the same), so Continental is just a PARADISE compared to Golden 5 Paradise!
Impressions from the rest are indescribable. You feel like a person, absolutely all the staff are polite, no one is nervous.
And most of all I was pleased with the contingent - Germans, Italians, Serbs.
On the territory of 3 restaurants, in addition to the main one: Italian, grill, seafood. You can go to Italian 2 times for free.
The sea with a beach, but deep, there is no reef on the shore, you just need to sail on a boat. There are fish, though not as diverse as in the reef.
Bring electronic mosquito repellant.
The beach, the cleanliness of the beach, the area is like a 5 star hotel, palm trees - everything is beautiful.
The reef is there under the bridge with dead corals, you will not see fish there.
Animation is super. There is a girl Anya from Belarus - she was created for children, she is super, she will "save" you from children. She actually saved this hotel from complete despondency. And yes, the animation is great. Retirement and kids have fun.
Service - reminiscent of a jukebox - gave a dollar - they will pay attention to you, but not for long. Saves but not much. In general, if you approach someone and ask for something, then you need to give him $ 1 - this annoyed me. My wife did not want to communicate with them because of this. In short, there is no service, 1 dollar bills will be "kindly" offered to you by the waiter in the dining room. We are not used to this - you have to go everywhere with money. There is NOTHING FOR FREE. It seems that they did us a favor, that we came to them and paid them money.
Alcohol must be taken with you. It's disgusting there.
Nutrition. The food is normal, but the same type is not critical. Children, as always and everywhere - on pasta. At lunch and in the evening they give a beaker of wine - 50 grams. We like to sit as a family for dinner and drink 200 grams of wine. You can't even ask with dollars.
Upon arrival, your children will not be fed if you arrive ahead of time, as in principle, and populate. We were offered to pay $ 5 per person so that we could go to the dining room, so I didn’t want to give them. When asked to provide a restaurant not in their complex, we were told that there was none. And there is nothing there. In the west. My wife made a scandal at the reception, the Egyptian guide from the santoor resolved this issue, we fed the children (as a token of gratitude, we ordered a tour from him, and they are triple the price from him). Thanks to him. They didn't even give us lunch when we left. Nevertheless, the father (80 years old) had lunch, he did not care about anything. Nobody told him anything, we didn’t take the children to feed - we didn’t want a scandal.
With what I compare - hotels SHARM EL SHEIKH. Was there in 4 and 5 stars. (EXPIRANSE, SULTAN GARDEN - they are nearby. ) There were some nuances, but not of such a scale and were not connected with accommodation, food, comfort. There, in general, mothers are first driven into the dining room to feed the children, then some decorations.
Children are delighted, Parents also resented the service, but in general, a comfortable entrance to the water blocked the negative.
I won't go there a second time. It all seemed to me like begging - so they took the money, which I have to go everywhere with money. Generally disgusting.
Anyone who is accustomed to the service here is prohibited.