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Bryka Bay Resort 5* Marsha Alem
(late October - early November)
I'll tell you right away Braika is, of course, not 5 * - where is the animation?!?! ? - where is the thanks, big white master, that they didn’t beat?!?! ? The beer is COLD!! ! (sloppy joke)
The hotel is good, the bay is cozy, the living creatures in the sea, so far, have not been scared away. For Egypt 5* (local) deserves.
Now more.
FLIGHT AND AIRPORT (Hurghada)

Departure from Kyiv on Boeing UIA. Departure delayed by 30 minutes, although all passengers are already seated in their seats at 7.10. The plane is new, although the paint no longer smells. Flight commissioned by Pegasus to Hurghada (out of greed). In Masha Alam, the airport is private and expensive, so we fly to Hurghada for 4 hours and saw on the ground to March for another 4 hours. In real life: due to a delay in departure, we were late with arrival. We circled over the desert for 40 minutes, waiting for the landing window. The new Hurghada airport is still small for such a flow of passengers. A huge crowd of those who have arrived, breaking up into several snake-streams in the heat and crampedness, slowly stomps to the representatives of the host parties. In the crowd we are Russians from Moscow and St. Petersburg, Italians, Germans, Poles, etc. Local movers are nimble through the crowd - a visa without a queue!! ! I don’t know how much it costs, but what is remarkable is that ONLY Slavs are being conducted. Visa stamp 15 usd. A friendly Pegasus rep is selling for 17 usd. For those who have just arrived, this extortion does not cause indignation - after trampling for 40 minutes in line, you want to quickly pass this border and go to the sea and have lunch. Nevertheless: in our plane there were 180 people in Russian silts, 600 people, we multiply by 2 yusd - a non-dusty job for 2 Arabs. For the sake of justice, I note that for these 2 usd, the Pegasus man pasted a stamp-visa into the passport, but I myself easily coped with this in the past times. A little entertained while trampling in line was the loud demand of the border guard in Russian. Every 30 seconds he loudly, like a mullah from a minaret, yelled: show me pussy!! ! (read: show your visa) and the reaction of a Russian blonde to this: yes, I have been showing for 10 minutes, but no one is watching! Having filled in an unnecessary emigration card, having received a stamp in the passport, showing a p-visa, picking up luggage, looking into the duty-free, finally, we fall out into the street and stumble upon the first person-pillar with the Pegasus sign: - walk 50 meters straight you will see my colleague he will tell you everything. From the airport gate to the pole man bus, I counted SEVEN! Well, here's the bus. A smoke break in its shade, in a strong, warm wind and off we go. Thank God, everyone gathered in 30 minutes.
TRANSFER
About 15 people traveled from our flight to Marsha. The bus was large, so everyone was accommodated comfortably. It took 5 hours to get to Braika with stops on the way to the 4th hotel in Marche. The road is not stressful, but the Arabs did not open the toilet on the bus - so as not to stink. The water brought from Kyiv ran out (there was no water in the Hurghada arrival dyutik), when it came to the understanding that we would not get to lunch, we were suddenly hungry, the breakfast eaten on the plane had long been forgotten. Well, in general, neither to eat nor... After 4 hours of driving through the desert along the sea, the guide decided to get rich - he stopped the bus at a cafe in El Kuzeira. Toilet is free. 1.5 bottle of water - 2 usd. A cup of coffee - 3 usd. Delicious Bedouin coffee with pepper. Ice cream - 3 usd. etc. The owner has a belly like an aquarium - hello Egypt!
Conclusion: from home to the hotel - more than 12 hours - stressful. In Hurghada (the first arrival in 2008 managed to be forgotten) - more than a foot. Charm and cozier and faster.
HOTEL AND TERRITORY

The hotel is well integrated into the surrounding landscape. From the side of the desert, on a hill, there is a one-story, rather typical, building - a reception. On the other hand, from the sea, this is a two-story, beautiful building cut into the rock: the top floor is a lobby, shops, internet (5 euros per hour), a bar with a terrace. Two Russian-speaking girls work at the reception: Yulia (with oriental eyes) - special thanks to her for the good work and Lena (with an iron character and iron teeth) - she does the work, but there is a dislike for tourists. There, in the lobby, EVERY evening from 18 to 20 you could meet the guide Pegasus Olga - benevolently fulfilling her duties in selling very expensive entertainment and excursions for Russian-speaking tourists. In my opinion, the high cost of the tour is explained by the remoteness of the hotel and Marsa Alam from the rest of the resort charms of Hurghada and the greed of Pegasus. But I can’t explain the price of a dive - 120 USD for two dives from a pleasure boat + lunch. I was only interested in an excursion to Aswan, but having tuned in to a vegetable and beach vacation and “enjoyed” a long road to the hotel, I didn’t want to spend two days on an excursion, and in one day you won’t really see anything, but you’ll only serve your whole ass on the bus.
So, I will continue about the hotel. The ground floor of the reception building is occupied by the main restaurant, a disco with a bar and services. A fitness center is embedded in the same building as a special complex: on the first floor there is an indoor pool and massage saunas, on the second floor there is a gym where you can pedal an exercise bike, enjoying the view from the window to the bay (or sip a barbell, enjoying... ) - we don’t get carried away, therefore, about I can't say anything about the filling of this place.
The hotel consists of one to three storey buildings inscribed in the hills around the bay. Buildings "beach front" - Royal-In - a one-story long building with 50 rooms, the largest rooms in the hotel, but on the settlements behind the bridge over the bay and the amphitheater for the evening show. Its own beach, not crowded, no entry into the sea, its very lazy bar: by lunchtime, even disposable cups run out there - we already called sir - (I saw how an Arab, having collected 10 cups in the district in the trash, sprinkled water on them, apparently deciding that he washed them and put them back into circulation, however, you can also guess how they wash reusable glasses). In short, if it doesn’t bother you to walk to the entrance to the sea and the restaurant as much as 200 meters, then this is one of the best places in the bay. Till. Quietly unhurried construction is going on behind the Royal building. 4 buildings have been built, one of them is undergoing internal work. When all this is completed and launched (+ about 300 rooms), the hotel will suffocate, and the bay will simply die. Bay-In and Laguna-In also belong to the "beach front" - two floors - 20 rooms. When these numbers end in the "beach" category, some numbers go to Divers-In and Sport-In. At the back stands the Garden In, side by side to the sea, overlooking the green lawn. Oasis-In is the closest to the restaurant and the pool (it's noisy and the kitchen smells, but everything is nearby). Maunen In - on a hill from it a good view of the bay and the sea, but far away. Outcome. In each building you can find its pros and cons, and for our fellow citizens, the Arabs are trying to ensure that there are more minuses than pluses when settling. With a normal attitude and with the help of the girls at the reception, you can always solve your problems WITHOUT PAYMENT!! ! Though not instantly, but this is Egypt.
Territory. The overall impression of the territory is green, many flowers, cozy, clean - a good job by the landscape designer. The bay is about 300 x 400 meters in size, along the coast from cape to cape along the beach - a little over a kilometer: it's nice to go for a run in the morning or shake dinner in the evening. In the dark, good lighting. For fashionistas, it is very difficult to walk in stilettos: all the paths are made of stone (where it is more even, and where it is completely askew).


RESTAURANT AND BARS
In terms of workload and noise, the restaurant resembles a canteen in Soviet times somewhere in the south. The bulk of the people rest on ALL-inclusive, so that at breakfast and at dinner the crowd is the same. However, there were enough tables for everyone. In the evening, the tables on the street are not so noisy, you can smoke and feed the cats (there were about 10 cats of all ages and obviously relatives grazed at the restaurant) in advance and for a long time, but in the second wave of dinner guests, if you're lucky, you can safely eat on the street. Although it was already worse with the cats - after an hour of dinner, food no longer climbed into them. The food, as for Egypt, is quite good both in variety and quality. Perhaps because October - November is the peak season, it should obviously be worse in the off-season. Beef, fish, chicken, turkey - every day in different forms. Well, of course, what is not eaten for dinner goes into cutlets and salads for breakfast. But it's everywhere, take a closer look. Salads with mayonnaise - for gambling: they will carry it - they will not carry it (in every sense). Sweet as usual on top (although I would have preferred less cinnamon). Fruit - always the best - for those who have time (for example, persimmon was taken out at dinner on a dish three times for dinner - not enough for 900 people). Pomegranates and dates are ripe!! ! We were pleasantly surprised by pickles (barreled) cucumbers (maybe a compliment from the chef to the builders of the Aswan hydroelectric power station). You pour drinks for yourself, except for breakfast: there is a “parrot” with two teapots - shai or kofi, ser - up to ten approaches for breakfast - a necessary tribute to five stars. Convenient and democratic: hosh half a glass of sprite, and hosh half a glass of vodka and you don’t need to wait an hour for the waiter. In the restaurant at the entrance there is a chest with an inscription in 5 languages: for tips. Two gatekeepers closely monitor its filling: senk yu ser. I personally have never seen anyone put something there. A smart move - no need to chase the waiter you tipped last time. The same chests were found in bars. In my opinion, the best place for gatherings in the evening is the pool bar. Not as noisy as on the terrace and the guy sings live under the computer. You can dance. Yes, drinks, as always: whiskey, vodka, brandy - horror, gin and rum - for everyone, ouzo (anise) - as usual. The beer - Stela - is decent, but the Sahara in Sharm is better. Wine of 3 colors from paper 5-liter bags - full g....We are talking, of course, about locally produced drinks. White wine Pharaoh from a bottle - chilled even nothing, but it's for the money. Cola, fanta sprite from the machine, the Germans drink Crystal soda. Yupi and hibiscus for breakfast. In the afternoon at the bar on the beach, Guava juice from a bag, Orange from a bottle - UPI from breakfast, tonic from a tin. Decent cappuccino from the machine.
SEA AND BEACH

Sea +26. Visibility by 12.00 in the water near the shore drops to a meter. Further along the reef - 3-4 meters. In the morning (breakfast from 6.30) Germans and Italians trained by our compatriots run to the beach to take better sunbeds. Who is in the first line, who is at the bar, who is at the pool.
In the hotel memo there is a clause on the prohibition of booking sunbeds with things, but in my opinion this is a horror story for ours. You go out to the beach in the morning, and on 5 deck chairs, put together, someone's underpants lie - it's busy. However, if you come to the beach by 10.00, then there is still a place under an umbrella, but somewhere in the outskirts. The best visibility in the water in different ways, but when the sun is already high, and the turbidity has not yet caught up. The length of the coral from a depth of 1.5 meters to the cape (depth up to 10 meters) is about 300 meters. On headlands, coral is licked off by constant waves. In the bay, the wave is not felt at all. From the top point of the bay 100 meters - knee-deep (well, the water is very warm, but opaque). Livestock. Despite the HUGE number of uncles and aunts-Chernomors, 20-30 pieces per hour leaving (prushing) from the sea with cylinders behind their backs. Not all of the indigenous population of the bay has been trampled down yet. I managed to meet a turtle, an octopus, a small (up to a meter) Napoleon. Balls, lionfish, stingrays are found in abundance, although, as a rule, a tourist with a camera hangs nearby. A line of squid hangs in the middle of the bay - very shy, even the photo did not turn out.
In Abu Dabab, according to the locals, there are even more people in the sea; and the dugong could not stand it - he fled, he is not there, but you will definitely get a flipper on the mask.
ANIMATION

The animators did their best. During the day, topals on the beach and in the pool are for fat women. Volleyball and bocha for flaunting peasants. Evening show in Italian. Of all these pleasures, I would only leave the evening singer at the pool bar. BUT a few days before our departure, the entire animation team quit (there was one girl left to work with the kids). And here it is possible, finally, to enjoy the silence, the sound of the waves and the rustle of palm trees in the evening. But it was not there. Russo-tourists decided to celebrate the November holidays. It's good that somewhere far away. After listening to a non-musical roar about “terrible Baikal and an omul barrel” five times, I regretted the animators for the first time, battened down the balcony door and went to bed.
WAY HOME
Early departure from the hotel - Braika is the last in a row from Hurghada, well, the first to land. Still managed to have breakfast. Gathering of tourists on the way in 4 hotels. The talkative guide is a Coptic (Egyptian Christian). Check-in at a sweets supermarket, 10 km from the airport. Inevitable trampling in the queues of the Hurghada airport (3 customs posts, 5 border posts, 12 landing gates). Flight delayed by 40 minutes. Well, everything is up. Goodbye Hurghada, goodbye Egypt.
Have a nice holiday everyone.