A good hotel for a relaxing holiday.

Written: 21 october 2010
Travel time: 19 — 26 november 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 9.0
We stayed there two years ago. Perhaps our experience will be useful to someone. We flew to Marsa Alam, so the transfer was not tiring. If anyone flies to Hurghada, they will have to endure a long journey. Settlement is normal, without baksheesh. Room: furniture and plumbing is cheap, but everything works. Yes, and they didn’t take 5 * after all. There are no insects. Room cleaning and linen change - no complaints. Safe and hair dryer are included.
Meals: dinner is not bad, though, like everywhere else, the waiters "forget" to bring drinks. Baksheesh are waiting. Drinks in the bar at the reception, as in all of Egypt, are diluted, beer on the beach and by the pool is normal. On the beach only plastic glasses. Most of all I DID NOT LIKE the restaurant by the beach. That's horrible! Just checked in and went out for dinner. Dinner only in this restaurant. I thought I would not be able to eat there - it seemed so dirty. Old torn tablecloths and some dirty torn rags instead of walls, dirty plastic dishes. The next day we went to a restaurant in a nearby hotel near the beach. The choice of food there is not better, but much cleaner. Dinner at the main restaurant near the reception. Everything is fine there. They ate mostly meat and fresh vegetables. I wouldn't risk eating salads. In fairness, I note: none of the three of us (two adults and a child of 6 years old) have ever been poisoned. This is not bad judging by other reviews of Egypt.
Territory: excellent. Lots of greenery. You can use the territory of the neighboring hotel on the right. It is even more pleasant to walk along the alleys. The pools are all nice and clean. Slides only in a nearby hotel - the passage is free along the path.

Beach: I liked everything. Went all the way to the left if you face the sea. In other places it seems not to swim. There is no pontoon. We went in without special shoes. But she wouldn't mind. Corals begin close to the shore, but between them you can go along the "paths" to the waist and then immediately swim. Corals - class! The fish are amazing. Snorlink was very good. True, then after swimming the snorlink at a depth, my head was spinning for a long time. It feels like you are floating above the mountains. (I was in Egypt for the first time). The son once hurt his knee on the coral (scratch) and then flatly refused to watch the fish. This was the biggest disappointment for me. We still had to prepare (buy slippers for him). He swam more in the heated pool after lunch and until 17. Then the pool is closed, it starts to get dark and a cold wind suddenly appears. We go to dinner already in the dark, almost. A couple of times they even wore something with long sleeves in the evening. End of November though!
Animation Entertainment: as usual volleyball and bocha on the beach. In the evening, children's room in the main building. Dancing on stage. Parents are spectators. Egyptian animators. We tried. Then, after the nursery, we went to an adult in a nearby hotel for a couple of evenings. Good performances, competitions, magicians. Everything is as usual. Drinks there during the animation were taken for free. Once we went to the bar at the reception of a nearby hotel. There are free drinks too. In short, two hotels operate on the same system and everything is inclusive everywhere.
Diving: the club was to the right of the neighboring hotel. The prices are steep. Now I don’t remember how much one dive with their equipment costs. We do not dive, but there were a lot of people there, especially foreigners. It looks like they came to this diving center on purpose.
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