"Oriental Tales"

Written: 27 june 2010
Travel time: 12 — 25 april 2010
Friends! If you live with the feeling that your life is simply nowhere worse, let me advise you on an interesting trip to the Shoni Bay Resort 4 hotel. I also ask you to use the services of the Pegas Tour staff. Thanks to these wonderful people, you will plunge into the world of indifference, cynicism and unprofessionalism. Let's start, perhaps! From Hurghada airport you will have an exciting trip to the hotel, it is about 4.5 hours, although the nice little operator girl stubbornly argued to me that the hotel was 15 minutes away. Upon arrival, you will be placed in an uncleaned room. The administrator will answer all your requests, demands and pleas to clean the room with a white-toothed smile, and repeated comments with sincere surprise that there has not been a cleaning yet. The first advice - try to bring sand into the room as little as possible - it will stay with you until the very departure. Tip number 2 - DO NOT LEAVE MONEY IN THE ROOM!! ! Not in a safe, not sewn up in shorts, not under the TV!! ! The same applies to Photo and video equipment. Try to take the humblest mob with you. a phone so modest that the last Bedouin would not covet it.
If the ladies who come to the hotel want to lose weight and protect their children from overeating sweets, they will succeed perfectly. The hotel's chef has a penchant for Spartan cuisine. Everything is simple, modest and on schedule. The separate seafood restaurant declared in the advertisement is completely absent. That is, no, there is a building - there is no restaurant. But on the roof of the spawning restaurant you can take good pictures. Dining room. separate paragraph.
Water, Water. Despite the class of the hotel "all inclusive", you will need either ingenuity or outright rudeness to get to the water cooler. I propose a scheme: 2-3 people distract a very cunning bartender, one person draws water. Otherwise, this barmeshka will block the cooler, and smiling will say: "dollar".

Tip number three. Take as many plain paper napkins as you can with you on your trip. There are no napkins in the dining room, but they will be given out by waiters on the principle: one napkin to one person for one meal. But you will need napkins: wipe the table, cutlery, brush off flies, wipe a cup or glass. Unwashed and chipped dishes, bare and dirty tables, a deafening number of flies. It would also be nice to bring tea or coffee bags with you. What is offered in the restaurant can only be drunk with obvious suicidal intent. You have to show all your courage and Christian patience. But after you've had your fill, you'll be rewarded with an amazing spectacle: exemplary service from the owners or hotel managers. White tablecloth, crystal and clean glasses, clean forks and whole plates. Touches.
Bar. Not much different from the dining room. Those who want to get drunk to vomiting with free moonshine will succeed.
Fans of Yoga and acupuncture will have great fun on the beach. How much health is hidden in old, wooden, dried-up chairs, with nails sticking out in all directions. The beach itself will remind you of the Black Sea coast, i. e. no one cares about trash.
Of all the souvenirs for friends and relatives, you can only bring your impressions, there are no souvenir shops on the territory of the hotel. For gifts, you will have to stomp to a nearby hotel or buy them during the tour.
Finally, do not expect help and attention from the hotel guide (in my case, his name was Kemran), his only goal is to sell as many excursions as possible, everything else is up to him.
So. Having visited this place of rest, you will understand that life, work, family, home is the most precious and beloved. That the troubles at work are just an anecdotal trifle that you should not pay attention to. And the only thing I want to advise for the last time is NEVER visit the Shoni Bay Resort 4.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original