Your rating of this hotel:
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Rooms:
7.0
Service:
7.0
Cleanliness:
7.0
Food:
7.0
Amenities:
10.0
Greetings Marsa Alam tourists!
I will try to help you with advice when choosing a tour to the Braika Bay hotel. Impressions about the hotel and about the rest itself are positive - we got a calm and high-quality rest. Food, territory, staff - at a good level. I recommend the hotel, now maybe in order:
Territory, location of the hotel:
Among all the hotels in Marsa Alam, I considered options for 5 star chains Jazz, Hilton, Corners and Sataya. I chose Braika according to the following criteria - an acceptable price for me, positive feedback from vacationers, a windless bay for winter, a habitable green area, not a great distance from the airport, a large common area with a sister hotel Royal Braika, a quality reef. The hotel has been operating for over 15 years, everything is a bit tired, but making up for the polished newness and concrete (example sataya) it is a huge oasis with palm trees, lawns and flower beds, which for me was more meaningful than new furniture, tiles and trestle beds.
Check in:
We arrived on a direct flight from Kyiv quite comfortably, a night flight. Egypt greeted us with rainy and cool weather (at night about 13-17 degrees) From the airport half an hour time to bus ride, including a couple of hotels in front of us, The first impression of the quality of the main hotel lobby is excellent. Check-in was around 7 am, the keys to the room were received at 12 o'clock. In general, there are 2 options here: either immediately resettlement with an additional payment of about 25E per person, and you can remove all questions, including breakfast. Or after 11 o'clock, when breakfast ends, resettlement begins. Until 2 p. m. , as per the rules, no one was tortured here, for which many thanks to the administration!
Hotel buildings:
the most elite with a sea view 11-12. in second place is 10 (it stands perpendicular to the first two. in third place is 6-7-8 buildings (they are located on the second line, 300 meters from the sea. The most uncomfortable is building 5 and 1-2-3-4 (5 is located on the mountain, in the far corner of the hotel, 1-2 near the entrance area and the noise of the kitchen). We were initially given the 5th building, the surcharge in the 20th moved us to the 6th building, to a room with a great view of the garden and the sea. Rooms are indicated by 4-digit numbers, the first this is the building number, the second digit is the floor. For example, we had the number 6210, which means building 6, floor 3 (first floor 0).
Sister Hotel Royal Braika
After a ten-day acquaintance with the traditions and rules of the hotel, I want to note that hotels have a single space in terms of territory, beaches, pantone, pools, bay, and animation. The difference is in the color of the sleeve tag (for vacationers Braika it is blue, for vacationers Royal it is golden) and the color of the towels (Brayka is white-blue, Royal is white-yellow). Plus their restaurants and bars, but in the evening I think no one will check you both in the restaurant and at the bar, and it is mirror for the rest of the two hotels. There is a slight superiority in prestige for Braiki Bay, but in my opinion it is conditional. I recommend, with a sufficient difference in the price of these hotels, to choose Royal Braika. This hotel has its own beautiful infrastructure, beautiful buildings, swimming pools, quality food and even water slides.
Weather and rest in January:
We were in the Marsa Alam zone of Egypt for the first time in January, although we have been visiting Sharm and Hurghada for about 15 years, and in winter. In my opinion, December in Egypt is the end of the summer season (water and air are at a comfortable 22-26), and this time January turned out to be so capricious - quite cool and windy. Of the ten days of our vacation, the sky was overcast for a couple of days, a noticeable wind blew for three days, the air temperature fell from 24 to 18 in the afternoon.
In general - the weather was on the verge. Therefore, I recommend taking a tour in winter closer to the departure dates in order to understand the weather conditions. Nevertheless, the daytime sun closes all questions, and every day I was on the beach and sunbathed. Having already returned home, I monitored the weather - it went to warming, apparently there was a cyclone for the whole of Egypt. The main plus of the winter Braika is in a calm bay (the whole rest we had a yellow flag on the pontoon). Braika's pools went through a major overhaul during our vacation, and in Royal there was cold water everywhere.
The contingent of vacationers - Ukrainians, Russians, Germans, Poles. There were enough people for socialization, and at the same time very comfortable in terms of, for example, the number in the restaurant.
Food quality is average. Vegetables, fruits, meat and fish were daily in sufficient assortment.
Animation norms. The main one was the Italian Paolo, and about 4 assistants.
In total, they were satisfied with the rest in Braika Bay!
I will try to help you with advice when choosing a tour to the Braika Bay hotel. Impressions about the hotel and about the rest itself are positive - we got a calm and high-quality rest. Food, territory, staff - at a good level. I recommend the hotel, now maybe in order:
Territory, location of the hotel:
Among all the hotels in Marsa Alam, I considered options for 5 star chains Jazz, Hilton, Corners and Sataya. I chose Braika according to the following criteria - an acceptable price for me, positive feedback from vacationers, a windless bay for winter, a habitable green area, not a great distance from the airport, a large common area with a sister hotel Royal Braika, a quality reef. The hotel has been operating for over 15 years, everything is a bit tired, but making up for the polished newness and concrete (example sataya) it is a huge oasis with palm trees, lawns and flower beds, which for me was more meaningful than new furniture, tiles and trestle beds.
Check in:
We arrived on a direct flight from Kyiv quite comfortably, a night flight. Egypt greeted us with rainy and cool weather (at night about 13-17 degrees) From the airport half an hour time to bus ride, including a couple of hotels in front of us, The first impression of the quality of the main hotel lobby is excellent. Check-in was around 7 am, the keys to the room were received at 12 o'clock. In general, there are 2 options here: either immediately resettlement with an additional payment of about 25E per person, and you can remove all questions, including breakfast. Or after 11 o'clock, when breakfast ends, resettlement begins. Until 2 p. m. , as per the rules, no one was tortured here, for which many thanks to the administration!
Hotel buildings:
the most elite with a sea view 11-12. in second place is 10 (it stands perpendicular to the first two. in third place is 6-7-8 buildings (they are located on the second line, 300 meters from the sea. The most uncomfortable is building 5 and 1-2-3-4 (5 is located on the mountain, in the far corner of the hotel, 1-2 near the entrance area and the noise of the kitchen). We were initially given the 5th building, the surcharge in the 20th moved us to the 6th building, to a room with a great view of the garden and the sea. Rooms are indicated by 4-digit numbers, the first this is the building number, the second digit is the floor. For example, we had the number 6210, which means building 6, floor 3 (first floor 0).
Sister Hotel Royal Braika
After a ten-day acquaintance with the traditions and rules of the hotel, I want to note that hotels have a single space in terms of territory, beaches, pantone, pools, bay, and animation. The difference is in the color of the sleeve tag (for vacationers Braika it is blue, for vacationers Royal it is golden) and the color of the towels (Brayka is white-blue, Royal is white-yellow). Plus their restaurants and bars, but in the evening I think no one will check you both in the restaurant and at the bar, and it is mirror for the rest of the two hotels. There is a slight superiority in prestige for Braiki Bay, but in my opinion it is conditional. I recommend, with a sufficient difference in the price of these hotels, to choose Royal Braika. This hotel has its own beautiful infrastructure, beautiful buildings, swimming pools, quality food and even water slides.
Weather and rest in January:
We were in the Marsa Alam zone of Egypt for the first time in January, although we have been visiting Sharm and Hurghada for about 15 years, and in winter. In my opinion, December in Egypt is the end of the summer season (water and air are at a comfortable 22-26), and this time January turned out to be so capricious - quite cool and windy. Of the ten days of our vacation, the sky was overcast for a couple of days, a noticeable wind blew for three days, the air temperature fell from 24 to 18 in the afternoon.
In general - the weather was on the verge. Therefore, I recommend taking a tour in winter closer to the departure dates in order to understand the weather conditions. Nevertheless, the daytime sun closes all questions, and every day I was on the beach and sunbathed. Having already returned home, I monitored the weather - it went to warming, apparently there was a cyclone for the whole of Egypt. The main plus of the winter Braika is in a calm bay (the whole rest we had a yellow flag on the pontoon). Braika's pools went through a major overhaul during our vacation, and in Royal there was cold water everywhere.
The contingent of vacationers - Ukrainians, Russians, Germans, Poles. There were enough people for socialization, and at the same time very comfortable in terms of, for example, the number in the restaurant.
Food quality is average. Vegetables, fruits, meat and fish were daily in sufficient assortment.
Animation norms. The main one was the Italian Paolo, and about 4 assistants.
In total, they were satisfied with the rest in Braika Bay!
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