Nice place, tired rooms

Written: 24 january 2022
Travel time: 3 — 11 december 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Before 14:00 they will not settle, except for the money, we did not offer.
In the hotel lobby in the morning there are various puffs and drinks, such as juice, you can eat and drink them without a bracelet. The bracelet is put on at 10:00, as you put it on, go to use the territory, but so far without a number, you can have lunch, take drinks in bars.
ROOM needs renovation, especially chairs and bathroom. It was not dirty, it needed at least cosmetic repairs. The bed is very comfortable, the room was immediately given with a partial view of the sea and the neighboring building. They didn’t change the number, because they are sure that they will give about the same number for a surcharge, so why overpay. The cleaning was good, the towels were clean, the cleaner was polite, brought water, made sure that there was tea / coffee.

We saw the "bungalow" rooms, they are for some extra charge. It may be better inside, but they are located right in the middle of the territory and everyone can look in there, some kind of birdhouse, I would not want to live there.
FOOD
Large selection for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Another thing is that you can eat from it. No, you certainly won’t stay hungry, the fact is that, like everywhere else in Egypt, they add their own spices, which are unusual for us, and, of course, their national food is so-so. We took everything familiar, without experiments. Breakfast is so-so, lunch is better, for dinner there is even more variety of dishes. But a lot of different exotic fruits, this is a huge plus. Snack by the pool once a day (cakes, puffs, fruits), a pool bar, where french fries, pizza, burgers also worked, but there were a lot of people, there was a long queue, everyone was running to eat fries urgently, as if they had not just had lunch.
BARS
All the bars in the area were open. You do not need to take coffee in the dining room, but you can already drink in bars with coffee machines. Local alcohol, diluted, but tasty gin, you can drink beer. Pour into small glasses, buy 0.5 glasses in the store and they will pour you into them. They can pour reluctantly, but you need to insist.
BEACH
There is an entrance from the shore (very shallow) and from the pontoon, where the depth is about shoulder-deep. But there are low tides, the water can leave the shore completely, and it will be waist-deep from the pontoon. There is no reef, but you can find a place where you can swim. In January there was no strong wind, it was nice to swim and sunbathe, except for 2 days.
TERRITORY
It is written that one territory with HAWAII RIVIERA is true, but thanks to the labyrinths of green spaces, it is still a little divided, although you can walk everywhere. Many pools, only 1 was heated. The water park worked, there are many slides for every taste, but the water in the water park pool is not heated.

Near the hotel is not a desert, but there are shops, hotels, pharmacies, in general, if you need to buy something, you will find everything, not on the outskirts of the hotel. Taxi drivers are always waiting at the entrance, shouting at you and ready to take you anywhere.
Wifi in the lobby is bad. We bought a SIM card at the airport, everywhere I caught the mobile Internet perfectly.
The hotel building is like a small labyrinth, long, with passages. The elevators are also in need of repair.
For Egypt, an unusually green large area, it's nice to relax.
There are no significant downsides. The staff, like everywhere else, sometimes clingy, sometimes very polite.
If you are traveling in the cold season to bask in the sun, you will love it! If there was an option to go to another nearby country by the sea, then we would not go to this hotel, and to Egypt itself, in principle. It's all about the price, depending on what price to go for, I think that for 2 adults the price is $ 800 for 7 days - the normal price. Would have paid more - there would have been more questions to the hotel. Would you go again in the winter for the same money? I would go, everything was fine. You should not expect service from any hotel in Egypt like in Cyprus, Turkey or European countries.
Therefore, I do not understand the terrible reviews of other guests, maybe you paid the price 2-3 times higher, then I understand your dissatisfaction. But for such a cost as I paid, here it is completely price = quality, at least it was like that for us.
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