Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
9.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
9.0
Food:
9.0
Amenities:
7.0
Egypt is heat, sands, the sea of extraordinary beauty and salinity and smiling obsessive Egyptians who are constantly trying to make money on something.
Hurghada is a small poor hotel town, with a constant construction site, in which there are three Egyptian women for every one hundred male attendants, and those older than 60, under 10 or married.
Tia Heights Makadi Bay is supposedly a five-star completely Russian hotel 30 km from the city with a huge territory, delicious food and a lot of children.
In fact, we really liked the rest, we had a wonderful time, a lot of impressions. But due to my own perfectionism and idealism, as well as out of simple philanthropy, I list everything that you have to meet, and what you should be prepared for.
Traveled with a boyfriend from 28th April to 8th May 2009 via Coral Travel (Odeon Tours). If you want to go to this hotel, take only this operator.
We flew with S7 Globus.
I liked the flight attendants very much, on the way “there” the children yelled, sobbed, laughed and ran around the cabin, and then they were given funny backpacks with pencils and coloring books for this.
WEATHER
At the beginning of May we had +30 air, +25 water. Half of the rest was partly cloudy. This means that a strong wind becomes cold, and after 17 you simply freeze on the beach (the sun sets at 19.15, and swimming is prohibited anywhere). If the clouds hold out for more than 2 days, the sea does not warm up, and it is already quite cold to swim to a great depth (5 meters).
I recommend to come after May 10th and in September, and not earlier.
HOTEL
It is far from the city, so the only shops are those in hotels. The choice is limited, the prices are Moscow, and then if at a discount.
Hotel Tia Heights is really big, almost all staff speaks Russian. All animation is translated into Russian and often into English. Rarely - in Italian, French and German.
If you know our language, 70% of Egyptians will understand you, and also English - 95%. In the hotel itself in our time, the audience was something like this: 80% - Russians and Ukrainians, 10% - Czechs and Poles, 10% - French and Egyptians. They say that in the summer, in the heat of +45, a lot of Italians come.
All service personnel are men (except for the sometimes appearing girls at the restaurant and three Russian animators) and all Egyptians.
The main building is more expensive, but we were not ready to walk a kilometer (in the worst case) to the restaurant and the beach. Duna - two-story houses (look in the reviews, kind people wrote to us which ones are closer to the sea), Laguna - buildings on the outskirts, we didn’t look there at all. A train with a terrible driver passes through the territory every 30 minutes. We were at the beginning of May. At this time, the bar that is closer to the dune did not work, and the beach is worse there - the pier (kind of byak), and swimming is prohibited.
On the way to the hotel give out booklets about Egypt.
Before ordering excursions, be sure to read everything, do not focus only on what they say at the general meeting. At the end of the book there is an Egyptian-Russian phrasebook. It is strange that there is no phrase "I am with my husband, I love him. " This phrase would help out the girls who are pestered the whole holiday, and they do not like it. In general, the Egyptians are delighted when you say a few words in Arabic in a conversation, they give you better portions, better towels, and agree to lower prices. I recommend buying audio courses and spending some time learning the basics of the language. (be careful! Egyptians don't understand Arabs! They have their own dialect! ) It will pay off, you will be more respected. They are offended that they speak five languages, and 90% of Russian tourists did not even deign to learn English.
During check-in, almost all tourists require a sea view. If you really want it, give us $10 and remember the name of the receptionist who took the money from you (all have badges).
In case you don't like the room or the view from it, immediately go and change. We asked for a sea view and did not give money, we were assured that “yes, a large bed, yes, a sea view”, as a result, we were placed in a huge room, but with a view of the wall. At the request to relocate, he answered that there are no free sea views yet, so if you please wait until tomorrow until 13 o'clock. We arrived early and were placed in the "worst of so-so" - this is a sea view, but only if you stand on the edge of the balcony. Most of these sea views are in the hotel. It was 3014, and the previous one was 3077. From the third floor, everything is clearly visible, not noisy, periodically breaking elevators did not bother. We lived on the "non-restaurant-disco side", so it was quiet and good.
The best rooms are those with balconies perpendicular to the beach. There are only 60 of these. There are many rooms with a view of the back side of the hotel - lagoon buildings and dune houses.
When you check in, they will put 2-liter bottles of fanta, cola, sprite and plain water in your refrigerator.
It's free for you. Every day they put a new shower gel, cap, shampoo, body cream, change towels. Sheets may not be changed, but simply re-made. They can come to clean up in the morning at the most inopportune moment, so hang a piece of paper “take it easy” on the door and snap an additional latch like a chain, because otherwise they can just enter the room. The cleaners were not paid anything, only one after he came to us for the tenth time to fix something and brought an electrician. Light bulbs are changed quickly, but with a falling toilet lid, he acted in an original way - he brought adhesive tape and tightly stuck the lid to the barrel : D
How to live there in the summer, I do not know. It was +25 in our evenings, so, having cooled the room, it was possible to fall asleep with an open balcony. And if you open it in the summer, it will be hot. And if you do not open it, then noisy air conditioning will interfere.
Miscellaneous:
- reception phone number - 31, number of Russian-speaking guest relation - 35.
it is our girls who sit and solve all our problems with pleasure. At their table and at the reception every day you can see the weather forecast (it comes true both from Yandex and yahoo). At the beginning of your holiday, ask for a hotel plan and a printout of what is included and what is not included in the all inclusive.
- immediately come with copies of foreign travel or make them and carry them with you if you go outside the hotel. And on long-distance excursions - always the originals of foreigners.
- don't be afraid to lose yellow bracelets. Just come to the reception, sign a piece of paper, and they give you a new bracelet.
- health club is a tennis court (8 euros per person per hour). Few exercise machines, indoor chlorinated pool, mini golf (very fun, go in the evening, it's worth it). There are also three table tennis tables.
- the bank works for a very short time, the machine for changing money may simply not work. Some shops in the hotel accept rubles, but at a bad exchange rate.
In general, I do not advise poking around in Egypt with rubles. They only change dollars for L. E. (when we rested, the rate was about 5.6 pounds per dollar). In all exchangers in Egypt, the exchange rate is the same. If you buy with dollars, you will also lose money.
- It is better not to plan trips or shopping trips on Friday. Although Egypt is 10% Christian, few shops are open during the general "prayer holiday".
- do not try to buy a tunic in a hotel (a translucent hoodie). The pattern on it will fall apart after the first wash, the paint will peel off and it will roll up. And all this happiness for $10. Good tunics can be found in Hurghada, but best of all - at the airport.
The BEACH is sandy, but the layer of sand is small, in some places it is very hard, and unpleasant sharp stones come across. There are indeed enough sun loungers for everyone, but in what way you will have enough of them is another question. When we were at the best place on the beach, there were no umbrellas or sunbeds - they were only installed.
By the summer of 2009, everyone will be. Specially trained people in white uniforms help to look for places and move sunbeds.
So, the best places are closer to the right pantone. This is for those who care little about animation, who do not mind being 300 meters from the toilet and huge chess. There is a bar there. But the main thing is that the best living coral is located just 50 meters from the “right” pantone. Boats also stop there, but smaller and not as smelly as on the left. It can be fun to swim with a mask in warm water, without touching anyone, looking at beautiful fish, raising your head - and a boat is sailing a meter away from you =). But they are good, do not press.
Special slippers, in which they enter the water in Sharm, are not needed - who wants to splash around the shore, there is sand. And for the pantone, if you please, swim deep.
Take sunbeds early in the morning, and preferably late in the evening. But with the second option, no one guarantees the safety of towels or clothes.
Although during the whole vacation many times they left bags for several hours, forgot glasses and cameras - nothing was lost, no one stole. I recommend taking a cheap bright scarf with you to hang it on an umbrella. And you can see your place from afar, and it is clear to others that it is occupied.
Music or unintelligible announcements about the start of the work of animators are constantly heard on the beach. Constantly running around and yelling “Water polo! Water polo! ". Egyptian sellers constantly go and sell excursions, pigtails (the female half of the plane “back” was all in these idiotic pigtails, and not only children! ), tattoos, massages, horseback riding or ...yourself. They also take pictures, and then you can print the pictures at the hotel.
Despite the fact that there are many children, some adults smoke right on the beach without embarrassment. They came to rest from city exhausts, breathe the sea breeze, and poison themselves and poison others with their smelly cigarettes!
You can learn to tie an Arafatka on your head, then you don’t feel the wind or cigarette smoke.
ANIMATION could be better. Unfortunately, I have nothing to compare with, but: sports on the beach lead from the bulldozer, without explaining the execution technique, which can be dangerous for those unfamiliar with fitness. The belly dance is led by a muscular, charismatic Egyptian (like all male animators), which at first causes a smile, shock or misunderstanding. It needs to be seen...but it is impossible to learn anything from him. Water gymnastics in the pool is fun, but very cold. The water is much cooler than the sea. There is also water polo, volleyball, boccia, chess, darts. And a nice looking kids club.
Various performances in the evenings. Of the interesting was only a belly dance. What the animators prepare can be enjoyed, apparently, only after drinking heavily. Disco after 11 is just stupid swotting. They smoke hookah outside.
Up to ten on the third floor "live music" - a good singing Egyptian under the backing track. You can dance in peace. Whoever wants new experiences, I recommend going to neighboring hotels, there are almost only foreigners there, therefore it is more civilized and pleasant.
FOOD is great. Of course, the buffet. I know examples when they took HB, and then switched to All Inclusive, paying extra from the room about 15 euros per day. But in principle, lunch can be superfluous, especially if you are not at the hotel half the time. If you wanted to eat, you went to your own or foreign hotel restaurants. In general, you can take it with you at breakfast or dinner =) and it also makes sense to take HB if you don’t drink.
The third floor is quieter, but much colder, and there is less choice. Every day there is a standard set of dishes, rolls and sweets, and there are dishes that are offered daily: French, Italian, Oriental, international cuisine.
When there is a queue to the restaurant on the first floor, feel free to go to the third floor - what if you like it there more?
On the first floor there are two rows of tables with large iron pans in which the second is hot. People queue up to get a little bit of everything or a lot of everything ...and you take a plate, a soup spoon and take your food from the back - you don’t bother anyone and save your time.
Correctly advised in the reviews - at first, eat only what you know. I recommend asking if spicy or not. Even if you are only there for 7 days and you have many excursions, you should not try to try everything new! Earn problems with the stomach, and all the food will get bored. So every day, take one thing: one side dish, meat or fish or liver, etc. , one salad (so as not to stand in line for cutting salad in front of you, just choose tomatoes and peppers and eat like that. Pitted peppers).
The entire menu is constantly repeated in one way or another, so if you want to try "special dishes", then first go around the entire restaurant and see where they serve what. Against the wall opposite the veranda, in the morning they make an omelet or scrambled eggs of your choice, and then pasta. There are also separate meals for kids.
Comrades! Please do not choose melon from fruit salads! Well, that's embarrassing! And by the way, you don’t need to squint at a date - they are also very useful. If you take it with you, put it in the refrigerator, it will go bad.
For breakfast, in addition to nasty tea from iron heaters (I only drank it with milk), they give tea bags. Mint tea is in terrible short supply, but it turned out to be just mint tea. Much tastier than green or hibiscus (for an amateur). By the way, hibiscus lowers blood pressure when cold, and increases it when hot. It makes no sense to take bags from breakfast, since no one will give you boiling water at lunch and dinner.
You can ask waiters or cleaners-servers to bring you drinks or salads. I guess it would be nice to pay them for it.
Juices throughout the hotel are the same, it is impossible to drink. Zuko tasted better when I was a kid. Probably, these juices are even more harmful than fanta, cola, sprite and others like them. Try once and you'll be fine. in the restaurant there are unlimited bottles of pure non-carbonated chilled water, so drink them. And also tomato juice from cans is nothing. I don't know about alcohol.
Birds sing and fly sweetly on the veranda, but many people smoke and there is a strong wind.
When the weather is good, many people come to the restaurant with beach bags, so that they can immediately go swimming. So it is convenient to wear a swimsuit, a thin tunic or dress on top.
Between breakfast, lunch and dinner on the beach they give french fries, rolls and inedible sausages. From 2 to 4 - bad ice cream, it is not clear what it is made of.
(and we were alone on one, as we took the buggy). There is tea and water, then camel riding for 5 minutes along the oval, then see how cakes are made, they will tell you how water is obtained, they will show you a well, a shop with souvenirs and herbs. All this in five languages at the same time, and all this is one guide. Then climb up the mountain and watch the sun go down behind other mountains. If there are no clouds, then the sky will be the usual yellow. And if it is cloudy, then it can lead, and you will see a stunningly beautiful sunset.
Do not buy arafatki on excursions - they are synthetic and expensive there. We bargained for pure cotton for $ 5 for arafatka in the neighboring Sunrise (to the left along the beach). Take only black and white plaid and only cotton - they are of better quality, less hot, and they breathe better. If you are uncomfortable in araftka, then something is wrong. It should not press or interfere with looking or breathing. When driving, small stones will fly into sunglasses.
So it’s better that they are big and old, which you don’t mind damaging. I advise you to wear sneakers and thin pants. And T-shirts with sleeves or without - for an amateur. But burn at once. Riding behind the column is the most fun - the dust still blows to the side, and you can lag behind a little, and then go very quickly to catch up.
The way back - in the night, the hands will hurt, and very cold. So take jackets/sweatshirts. Despite the fact that we were traveling together on the same quad, I was very cold.
Then there will be a buffet dinner, a show with skirts (it turns around its axis for more than 5 minutes without stopping! It's a must see! ) and with cobras. It was great, we really enjoyed it.
HURGHADA. If you order 3 excursions in Coral, this city tour is not $35 for you, but $15 with the Star fish fish restaurant.
You will visit a magnificent hotel in a small museum with copies of the most famous exhibits of the Pharaoh's Museum in Cairo, then you will be taken to an oil factory, where miraculous oils for all diseases will be long and persistently sold for $ 20 per 50 ml. But you can’t buy them at the airport, and you can smear yourself with them right at the factory from head to toe. And also buy toothbrushes suok (sticks from trees), drink tea.
Then they will bring you to a gift shop where you can't bargain (! ) T-shirts are really cheap. The rest is doubtful. I know for sure that for each group brought to the guides, the store unfastens money. I insist that it is better to buy all souvenirs at the airport (it will be 2 hours in duty free), where there are 20 different shops and everything is cheaper. And on excursions, just choose and ask the price.
Tour guides, like Russian people, love to tell all sorts of nasty things about their country. Like, “We have a democracy, of course!
Here is a young president, 83 years old, he has ruled for only 29 years, there is no corruption, the policemen are all honest, yes! »
CAIRO. Feel free to take pillows from the hotel, as well as scarves and socks - the air conditioning is brutal. We slept well at night, only every 2 hours it was announced in a thunderous voice “and now stop for the toilet! ". They were wearing shirts and scarves at the pyramids - a strong wind was blowing (about +25 air, not hot). The police, along with others who want to make money, show how best to take pictures, offer camels, say no money, and then brazenly extort money. Remember that getting on a camel is free, and getting off it is 10 bucks or more. It is interesting in the small pyramid of the mother of the pharaoh, it is not long to go down, but you don’t need to go down to the big one - it’s more expensive for yourself, and nothing interesting. The perfume factory is also unique, and the prices are the same as in an oil factory.
Take pills for motion sickness, because half a day on a rocking boat, also with diving, is not for everyone. It is better to have your own mask, snorkel and fins, if you have them, and better quality, and the water is not flooded.
Under water, even in a suit, it became very cold for the 15th minute. But the beauty is amazing, it's worth it. An operator fusses nearby ($35 per DVD).
OTHER
The Egyptians believe that molesting Russian girls/women is normal. They honestly admit that they adore Russian single tourists for their accessibility. The only hitch is that they are imposed on everyone indiscriminately, and not just on those who came to "increase self-esteem. " Demonstration of rejection is perceived as an attempt to appear inaccessible. Salespeople are provocative even when your husband is next to you.
Try not to take the Egyptians seriously, and even at the end of the rest, do not lose your temper when they again brazenly shout “Oh, what a girl! »
In general, Russian tourists are loved for a similar mentality. We are as kind as the Egyptians, we understand jokes, and we are just as cunning. But the Germans only leave money everywhere, but they go around with lean faces. Allegedly.
You can buy a lot of Arabic music at the airport, as well as belly dance music. Shop next to the square with tables where people smoke. Blue sign, young salesman Mohammed.
And finally - THE LIST OF MUST HAVE
- fins, snorkel, mask. It makes no sense to go and not see the corals. And if you watch the same reef every day, it will make you sick, so you want to swim to the next one. All this is sold in the hotel and in the neighboring ones, but bad.
- Medicines for throat and nose. It's hot outside, but it's cold in all rooms and transport. There is a pharmacy in the hotel, they even bought an excellent cough remedy there, but nothing helps better than native pharyngosept and bioparox =)
- medicines for the stomach.
Even if you eat only what you know, and very moderately, it is unlikely that you will be able to avoid frustration. And if you are going, like the last kamikaze, in the summer, then take funds from the temperature (sunstroke).
- toothbrush and paste, comb. Don't forget them. What is sold in hotels is just awful.
- ropes and clothespins. It is inconvenient to dry on balcony chairs, and even more so in the bathroom.
- folding knife with scissors. Something constantly had to be cut : D
- rackets and balls for table tennis. What they give out at the hotel is only for an hour, very shabby. There are networks.
- Light-colored T-shirts with sleeves to protect burnt or burning shoulders.
- a light-colored panama hat, or rather a hat with large brim with an elastic band, so that the shadow is both on the face and on the shoulders.
- sports sandals, like those that are sold in ECCO - it is very convenient to climb mountains and pyramids on excursions (how did those who were in flip flops not break their legs? )
- pills for motion sickness. No comments.
- pumice.
Cook it at home, because after a long walk on hot sand and paths, the heels will become coarse =)
Happy holidays!
Hurghada is a small poor hotel town, with a constant construction site, in which there are three Egyptian women for every one hundred male attendants, and those older than 60, under 10 or married.
Tia Heights Makadi Bay is supposedly a five-star completely Russian hotel 30 km from the city with a huge territory, delicious food and a lot of children.
In fact, we really liked the rest, we had a wonderful time, a lot of impressions. But due to my own perfectionism and idealism, as well as out of simple philanthropy, I list everything that you have to meet, and what you should be prepared for.
Traveled with a boyfriend from 28th April to 8th May 2009 via Coral Travel (Odeon Tours). If you want to go to this hotel, take only this operator.
We flew with S7 Globus.
I liked the flight attendants very much, on the way “there” the children yelled, sobbed, laughed and ran around the cabin, and then they were given funny backpacks with pencils and coloring books for this.
WEATHER
At the beginning of May we had +30 air, +25 water. Half of the rest was partly cloudy. This means that a strong wind becomes cold, and after 17 you simply freeze on the beach (the sun sets at 19.15, and swimming is prohibited anywhere). If the clouds hold out for more than 2 days, the sea does not warm up, and it is already quite cold to swim to a great depth (5 meters).
I recommend to come after May 10th and in September, and not earlier.
HOTEL
It is far from the city, so the only shops are those in hotels. The choice is limited, the prices are Moscow, and then if at a discount.
Hotel Tia Heights is really big, almost all staff speaks Russian. All animation is translated into Russian and often into English. Rarely - in Italian, French and German.
If you know our language, 70% of Egyptians will understand you, and also English - 95%. In the hotel itself in our time, the audience was something like this: 80% - Russians and Ukrainians, 10% - Czechs and Poles, 10% - French and Egyptians. They say that in the summer, in the heat of +45, a lot of Italians come.
All service personnel are men (except for the sometimes appearing girls at the restaurant and three Russian animators) and all Egyptians.
The main building is more expensive, but we were not ready to walk a kilometer (in the worst case) to the restaurant and the beach. Duna - two-story houses (look in the reviews, kind people wrote to us which ones are closer to the sea), Laguna - buildings on the outskirts, we didn’t look there at all. A train with a terrible driver passes through the territory every 30 minutes. We were at the beginning of May. At this time, the bar that is closer to the dune did not work, and the beach is worse there - the pier (kind of byak), and swimming is prohibited.
On the way to the hotel give out booklets about Egypt.
Before ordering excursions, be sure to read everything, do not focus only on what they say at the general meeting. At the end of the book there is an Egyptian-Russian phrasebook. It is strange that there is no phrase "I am with my husband, I love him. " This phrase would help out the girls who are pestered the whole holiday, and they do not like it. In general, the Egyptians are delighted when you say a few words in Arabic in a conversation, they give you better portions, better towels, and agree to lower prices. I recommend buying audio courses and spending some time learning the basics of the language. (be careful! Egyptians don't understand Arabs! They have their own dialect! ) It will pay off, you will be more respected. They are offended that they speak five languages, and 90% of Russian tourists did not even deign to learn English.
During check-in, almost all tourists require a sea view. If you really want it, give us $10 and remember the name of the receptionist who took the money from you (all have badges).
In case you don't like the room or the view from it, immediately go and change. We asked for a sea view and did not give money, we were assured that “yes, a large bed, yes, a sea view”, as a result, we were placed in a huge room, but with a view of the wall. At the request to relocate, he answered that there are no free sea views yet, so if you please wait until tomorrow until 13 o'clock. We arrived early and were placed in the "worst of so-so" - this is a sea view, but only if you stand on the edge of the balcony. Most of these sea views are in the hotel. It was 3014, and the previous one was 3077. From the third floor, everything is clearly visible, not noisy, periodically breaking elevators did not bother. We lived on the "non-restaurant-disco side", so it was quiet and good.
The best rooms are those with balconies perpendicular to the beach. There are only 60 of these. There are many rooms with a view of the back side of the hotel - lagoon buildings and dune houses.
When you check in, they will put 2-liter bottles of fanta, cola, sprite and plain water in your refrigerator.
It's free for you. Every day they put a new shower gel, cap, shampoo, body cream, change towels. Sheets may not be changed, but simply re-made. They can come to clean up in the morning at the most inopportune moment, so hang a piece of paper “take it easy” on the door and snap an additional latch like a chain, because otherwise they can just enter the room. The cleaners were not paid anything, only one after he came to us for the tenth time to fix something and brought an electrician. Light bulbs are changed quickly, but with a falling toilet lid, he acted in an original way - he brought adhesive tape and tightly stuck the lid to the barrel : D
How to live there in the summer, I do not know. It was +25 in our evenings, so, having cooled the room, it was possible to fall asleep with an open balcony. And if you open it in the summer, it will be hot. And if you do not open it, then noisy air conditioning will interfere.
Miscellaneous:
- reception phone number - 31, number of Russian-speaking guest relation - 35.
it is our girls who sit and solve all our problems with pleasure. At their table and at the reception every day you can see the weather forecast (it comes true both from Yandex and yahoo). At the beginning of your holiday, ask for a hotel plan and a printout of what is included and what is not included in the all inclusive.
- immediately come with copies of foreign travel or make them and carry them with you if you go outside the hotel. And on long-distance excursions - always the originals of foreigners.
- don't be afraid to lose yellow bracelets. Just come to the reception, sign a piece of paper, and they give you a new bracelet.
- health club is a tennis court (8 euros per person per hour). Few exercise machines, indoor chlorinated pool, mini golf (very fun, go in the evening, it's worth it). There are also three table tennis tables.
- the bank works for a very short time, the machine for changing money may simply not work. Some shops in the hotel accept rubles, but at a bad exchange rate.
In general, I do not advise poking around in Egypt with rubles. They only change dollars for L. E. (when we rested, the rate was about 5.6 pounds per dollar). In all exchangers in Egypt, the exchange rate is the same. If you buy with dollars, you will also lose money.
- It is better not to plan trips or shopping trips on Friday. Although Egypt is 10% Christian, few shops are open during the general "prayer holiday".
- do not try to buy a tunic in a hotel (a translucent hoodie). The pattern on it will fall apart after the first wash, the paint will peel off and it will roll up. And all this happiness for $10. Good tunics can be found in Hurghada, but best of all - at the airport.
The BEACH is sandy, but the layer of sand is small, in some places it is very hard, and unpleasant sharp stones come across. There are indeed enough sun loungers for everyone, but in what way you will have enough of them is another question. When we were at the best place on the beach, there were no umbrellas or sunbeds - they were only installed.
By the summer of 2009, everyone will be. Specially trained people in white uniforms help to look for places and move sunbeds.
So, the best places are closer to the right pantone. This is for those who care little about animation, who do not mind being 300 meters from the toilet and huge chess. There is a bar there. But the main thing is that the best living coral is located just 50 meters from the “right” pantone. Boats also stop there, but smaller and not as smelly as on the left. It can be fun to swim with a mask in warm water, without touching anyone, looking at beautiful fish, raising your head - and a boat is sailing a meter away from you =). But they are good, do not press.
Special slippers, in which they enter the water in Sharm, are not needed - who wants to splash around the shore, there is sand. And for the pantone, if you please, swim deep.
Take sunbeds early in the morning, and preferably late in the evening. But with the second option, no one guarantees the safety of towels or clothes.
Although during the whole vacation many times they left bags for several hours, forgot glasses and cameras - nothing was lost, no one stole. I recommend taking a cheap bright scarf with you to hang it on an umbrella. And you can see your place from afar, and it is clear to others that it is occupied.
Music or unintelligible announcements about the start of the work of animators are constantly heard on the beach. Constantly running around and yelling “Water polo! Water polo! ". Egyptian sellers constantly go and sell excursions, pigtails (the female half of the plane “back” was all in these idiotic pigtails, and not only children! ), tattoos, massages, horseback riding or ...yourself. They also take pictures, and then you can print the pictures at the hotel.
Despite the fact that there are many children, some adults smoke right on the beach without embarrassment. They came to rest from city exhausts, breathe the sea breeze, and poison themselves and poison others with their smelly cigarettes!
You can learn to tie an Arafatka on your head, then you don’t feel the wind or cigarette smoke.
ANIMATION could be better. Unfortunately, I have nothing to compare with, but: sports on the beach lead from the bulldozer, without explaining the execution technique, which can be dangerous for those unfamiliar with fitness. The belly dance is led by a muscular, charismatic Egyptian (like all male animators), which at first causes a smile, shock or misunderstanding. It needs to be seen...but it is impossible to learn anything from him. Water gymnastics in the pool is fun, but very cold. The water is much cooler than the sea. There is also water polo, volleyball, boccia, chess, darts. And a nice looking kids club.
Various performances in the evenings. Of the interesting was only a belly dance. What the animators prepare can be enjoyed, apparently, only after drinking heavily. Disco after 11 is just stupid swotting. They smoke hookah outside.
Up to ten on the third floor "live music" - a good singing Egyptian under the backing track. You can dance in peace. Whoever wants new experiences, I recommend going to neighboring hotels, there are almost only foreigners there, therefore it is more civilized and pleasant.
FOOD is great. Of course, the buffet. I know examples when they took HB, and then switched to All Inclusive, paying extra from the room about 15 euros per day. But in principle, lunch can be superfluous, especially if you are not at the hotel half the time. If you wanted to eat, you went to your own or foreign hotel restaurants. In general, you can take it with you at breakfast or dinner =) and it also makes sense to take HB if you don’t drink.
The third floor is quieter, but much colder, and there is less choice. Every day there is a standard set of dishes, rolls and sweets, and there are dishes that are offered daily: French, Italian, Oriental, international cuisine.
When there is a queue to the restaurant on the first floor, feel free to go to the third floor - what if you like it there more?
On the first floor there are two rows of tables with large iron pans in which the second is hot. People queue up to get a little bit of everything or a lot of everything ...and you take a plate, a soup spoon and take your food from the back - you don’t bother anyone and save your time.
Correctly advised in the reviews - at first, eat only what you know. I recommend asking if spicy or not. Even if you are only there for 7 days and you have many excursions, you should not try to try everything new! Earn problems with the stomach, and all the food will get bored. So every day, take one thing: one side dish, meat or fish or liver, etc. , one salad (so as not to stand in line for cutting salad in front of you, just choose tomatoes and peppers and eat like that. Pitted peppers).
The entire menu is constantly repeated in one way or another, so if you want to try "special dishes", then first go around the entire restaurant and see where they serve what. Against the wall opposite the veranda, in the morning they make an omelet or scrambled eggs of your choice, and then pasta. There are also separate meals for kids.
Comrades! Please do not choose melon from fruit salads! Well, that's embarrassing! And by the way, you don’t need to squint at a date - they are also very useful. If you take it with you, put it in the refrigerator, it will go bad.
For breakfast, in addition to nasty tea from iron heaters (I only drank it with milk), they give tea bags. Mint tea is in terrible short supply, but it turned out to be just mint tea. Much tastier than green or hibiscus (for an amateur). By the way, hibiscus lowers blood pressure when cold, and increases it when hot. It makes no sense to take bags from breakfast, since no one will give you boiling water at lunch and dinner.
You can ask waiters or cleaners-servers to bring you drinks or salads. I guess it would be nice to pay them for it.
Juices throughout the hotel are the same, it is impossible to drink. Zuko tasted better when I was a kid. Probably, these juices are even more harmful than fanta, cola, sprite and others like them. Try once and you'll be fine. in the restaurant there are unlimited bottles of pure non-carbonated chilled water, so drink them. And also tomato juice from cans is nothing. I don't know about alcohol.
Birds sing and fly sweetly on the veranda, but many people smoke and there is a strong wind.
When the weather is good, many people come to the restaurant with beach bags, so that they can immediately go swimming. So it is convenient to wear a swimsuit, a thin tunic or dress on top.
Between breakfast, lunch and dinner on the beach they give french fries, rolls and inedible sausages. From 2 to 4 - bad ice cream, it is not clear what it is made of.
(and we were alone on one, as we took the buggy). There is tea and water, then camel riding for 5 minutes along the oval, then see how cakes are made, they will tell you how water is obtained, they will show you a well, a shop with souvenirs and herbs. All this in five languages at the same time, and all this is one guide. Then climb up the mountain and watch the sun go down behind other mountains. If there are no clouds, then the sky will be the usual yellow. And if it is cloudy, then it can lead, and you will see a stunningly beautiful sunset.
Do not buy arafatki on excursions - they are synthetic and expensive there. We bargained for pure cotton for $ 5 for arafatka in the neighboring Sunrise (to the left along the beach). Take only black and white plaid and only cotton - they are of better quality, less hot, and they breathe better. If you are uncomfortable in araftka, then something is wrong. It should not press or interfere with looking or breathing. When driving, small stones will fly into sunglasses.
So it’s better that they are big and old, which you don’t mind damaging. I advise you to wear sneakers and thin pants. And T-shirts with sleeves or without - for an amateur. But burn at once. Riding behind the column is the most fun - the dust still blows to the side, and you can lag behind a little, and then go very quickly to catch up.
The way back - in the night, the hands will hurt, and very cold. So take jackets/sweatshirts. Despite the fact that we were traveling together on the same quad, I was very cold.
Then there will be a buffet dinner, a show with skirts (it turns around its axis for more than 5 minutes without stopping! It's a must see! ) and with cobras. It was great, we really enjoyed it.
HURGHADA. If you order 3 excursions in Coral, this city tour is not $35 for you, but $15 with the Star fish fish restaurant.
You will visit a magnificent hotel in a small museum with copies of the most famous exhibits of the Pharaoh's Museum in Cairo, then you will be taken to an oil factory, where miraculous oils for all diseases will be long and persistently sold for $ 20 per 50 ml. But you can’t buy them at the airport, and you can smear yourself with them right at the factory from head to toe. And also buy toothbrushes suok (sticks from trees), drink tea.
Then they will bring you to a gift shop where you can't bargain (! ) T-shirts are really cheap. The rest is doubtful. I know for sure that for each group brought to the guides, the store unfastens money. I insist that it is better to buy all souvenirs at the airport (it will be 2 hours in duty free), where there are 20 different shops and everything is cheaper. And on excursions, just choose and ask the price.
Tour guides, like Russian people, love to tell all sorts of nasty things about their country. Like, “We have a democracy, of course!
Here is a young president, 83 years old, he has ruled for only 29 years, there is no corruption, the policemen are all honest, yes! »
CAIRO. Feel free to take pillows from the hotel, as well as scarves and socks - the air conditioning is brutal. We slept well at night, only every 2 hours it was announced in a thunderous voice “and now stop for the toilet! ". They were wearing shirts and scarves at the pyramids - a strong wind was blowing (about +25 air, not hot). The police, along with others who want to make money, show how best to take pictures, offer camels, say no money, and then brazenly extort money. Remember that getting on a camel is free, and getting off it is 10 bucks or more. It is interesting in the small pyramid of the mother of the pharaoh, it is not long to go down, but you don’t need to go down to the big one - it’s more expensive for yourself, and nothing interesting. The perfume factory is also unique, and the prices are the same as in an oil factory.
Take pills for motion sickness, because half a day on a rocking boat, also with diving, is not for everyone. It is better to have your own mask, snorkel and fins, if you have them, and better quality, and the water is not flooded.
Under water, even in a suit, it became very cold for the 15th minute. But the beauty is amazing, it's worth it. An operator fusses nearby ($35 per DVD).
OTHER
The Egyptians believe that molesting Russian girls/women is normal. They honestly admit that they adore Russian single tourists for their accessibility. The only hitch is that they are imposed on everyone indiscriminately, and not just on those who came to "increase self-esteem. " Demonstration of rejection is perceived as an attempt to appear inaccessible. Salespeople are provocative even when your husband is next to you.
Try not to take the Egyptians seriously, and even at the end of the rest, do not lose your temper when they again brazenly shout “Oh, what a girl! »
In general, Russian tourists are loved for a similar mentality. We are as kind as the Egyptians, we understand jokes, and we are just as cunning. But the Germans only leave money everywhere, but they go around with lean faces. Allegedly.
You can buy a lot of Arabic music at the airport, as well as belly dance music. Shop next to the square with tables where people smoke. Blue sign, young salesman Mohammed.
And finally - THE LIST OF MUST HAVE
- fins, snorkel, mask. It makes no sense to go and not see the corals. And if you watch the same reef every day, it will make you sick, so you want to swim to the next one. All this is sold in the hotel and in the neighboring ones, but bad.
- Medicines for throat and nose. It's hot outside, but it's cold in all rooms and transport. There is a pharmacy in the hotel, they even bought an excellent cough remedy there, but nothing helps better than native pharyngosept and bioparox =)
- medicines for the stomach.
Even if you eat only what you know, and very moderately, it is unlikely that you will be able to avoid frustration. And if you are going, like the last kamikaze, in the summer, then take funds from the temperature (sunstroke).
- toothbrush and paste, comb. Don't forget them. What is sold in hotels is just awful.
- ropes and clothespins. It is inconvenient to dry on balcony chairs, and even more so in the bathroom.
- folding knife with scissors. Something constantly had to be cut : D
- rackets and balls for table tennis. What they give out at the hotel is only for an hour, very shabby. There are networks.
- Light-colored T-shirts with sleeves to protect burnt or burning shoulders.
- a light-colored panama hat, or rather a hat with large brim with an elastic band, so that the shadow is both on the face and on the shoulders.
- sports sandals, like those that are sold in ECCO - it is very convenient to climb mountains and pyramids on excursions (how did those who were in flip flops not break their legs? )
- pills for motion sickness. No comments.
- pumice.
Cook it at home, because after a long walk on hot sand and paths, the heels will become coarse =)
Happy holidays!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
Comments (7)
leave a comment
Show other comments …
OTHER REVIEWS ABOUT THE HOTEL
- Hotel price-quality.
- bypass
- The hotel is average, but the SEA forgives everything!!!
- The hotel is disgusting
- The worst hotel in my life
SEE ALSO