An unforgettable week at the Hilton

Written: 4 february 2015
Travel time: 1 — 7 june 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Went to this hotel with family and friends in June. In the Hilton were only a week, and then another 2 weeks in another hotel. Since we were not in the Hilton for long, we did not go on any excursions this time. The hotel is wonderful, although it has its small cons. Namely:
As for me, there are few waiters in the restaurant, plus they are not quick enough. Because of this, there were often queues in the evenings to enter the restaurant. Moreover, there were always enough free tables, but they were not cleaned for a long time after previous visitors.
The second small minus is that there is no entry into the water directly from the hotel's beach. And since we had small children with us and constantly running with them from the hotel beach to the city beach, where there is entry into the sea, it was inconvenient, we always stopped at the city beach. And the sun loungers on it are far from the first freshness and leave much to be desired.

The third minus is that planes from Kyiv do not fly to Marsa Alam airport. A transfer from Hurghada to Marsa Alam is approximately 3 hours. Although this minus turns into a plus, when most of the Russian-speaking citizens from the CIS, who associate rest with unlimited drinking and corresponding behavior, settle in hotels in Hurghada.
Now about the pros: The hotel is new, respectively, and the number of rooms is also new. The interior is simple, but at the same time quite interesting. Also, if you are not traveling alone, you can ask for connecting rooms and visit each other through the inner door.
The food, I can’t say that it’s exquisite, but for Egypt, it’s quite good. Separately, we were pleased with the presence of natural juices in the restaurant and bars, and not "yupi", as in many hotels in Egypt.
The staff at the hotel is well-trained and does not go over the line in communication.
And of course, the main plus of this hotel, which can more than compensate for all the shortcomings of the hotel, is its sea. During the week that we were here, we managed to see hundreds of species of marine life in the Red Sea. Quite big ones too. Moray eels, octopuses, guitar players, I saw a barracuda a couple of times. In the bay itself and next to it, a large number of green turtles and hawksbill turtles live. We were even lucky to see a dugong in the bay once. The bay is very interesting, but there is also something to see outside of it. I swam far enough to the right behind the abandoned hotel, which is after Solymar. I made my own short video about the underwater inhabitants of Abu Dabab Bay. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=373NSlxG7yE
I plan to go back to the Hilton this year. I hope that during this time the hotel administration will take into account the wishes and comments of its guests and take measures to eliminate the above, although minor, but still the disadvantages of the hotel and it will become even better.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original