Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
8.0
Service:
9.0
Cleanliness:
9.0
Food:
8.0
Amenities:
6.0
We flew from Kyiv to Hurghada. Everything is standard there: visa, passport control, meeting with the tour operator. We drove from Hurghada. From the airport to the hotel is a 3 hour drive, with a 15 minute stop in El Quseira.
SETTLEMENT
We arrived a small group of 10 people at 18.00, settled immediately. We were given envelopes with the name and number of the room on them. The envelopes contained the room key, towel cards, and food and entertainment information. Booked a room with a sea view. No additional money was given at the reception.
ROOM
Room number 4108 with a sea view is standard: 2 beds, bedside table, table, wardrobe, TV, mini fridge, toilet, bidet, shower, hairdryer, balcony, air conditioning. The air conditioner, when turned on (for the first couple of minutes), smelled unpleasant (probably, it had not been cleaned for a long time). Cleaned daily, no complaints. Everything in the room worked.
NUTRITION
Standard. It's hard to stay hungry. For breakfast: eggs in all sorts of variations, sausages, sausage, cheese, 4 types of yogurt in “basins”, fresh vegetables, boiled and fried, fruits (melons, oranges, sliced grapefruits, dates, I wanted guava, but alas, it’s not the season. Upset pastries - the impression was that it was yesterday. With desserts in this hotel, sad. Lunch and dinner: 2 types of meat in variations (chicken and beef), fish, potatoes, rice, spaghetti with all the bells and whistles (Italian hotel), puree soup usually, one once there was even borscht)), sliced vegetables and in salads, the same fruits as for breakfast, plus bananas, watermelon, and peaches and apples were also given once in 2 weeks). Barbecue is prepared on the terrace 3 times a week. Seafood was given once a week. Of the drinks, bottled beer pleased, the rest is all bad - local production. There were no packaged juices. Ice cream at the pool bar from 13.30 to 15.30.
ENTERTAINMENT AND ANIMATION
The animation is aimed mainly at Italians (the humor is very peculiar). We were not interested there. Children's animation was also present in the evenings.
From entertainment: aqua aerobics, water polo, beach football, volleyball, boccia, table tennis (free of charge).
Every evening, after animation, a disco. You need to go with your music and company to dance on it))
BEACH
The beach is spacious, there are no problems with sunbeds. Entrance to the sea only in special shoes. There are 2 lagoons in the sea, in which there is enough living creatures (3 species of moray eels, octopus, stingray, hedgehogs, many fish). The pier is wooden, comfortable. The sea is not calm. For 2 weeks, there was only 3 days of complete calm (white flag). The pier was also opened before or after lunch, with minor waves (red flag) and the pier was completely swirling due to waves for 6 days (black flag). It did not bother me, as it was possible to swim in the lagoons. The depth in the lagoons is a maximum of 140 cm, at low tide up to the knee.
TERRITORY
The hotel area is quite compact, green, well-groomed: 5 buildings, 2 pools (small, not very impressive, one of them has a bar, the other has a children's area), an amphitheater, a beach bar, a reception, a main restaurant and a bar. The most convenient building is located number 4 (proximity to the sea and the restaurant), the rooms there are all with sea views. The building with rooms "Family room" is the furthest from the sea and the restaurant (numbering from 2001... ). But don't let that scare you, because (I repeat) the territory of the hotel is very compact. There is a gym (very modest: 2 treadmills, an orbitrek, and 2 other machines), and a spa, which I DO NOT recommend. We went there to "Hammam", but it's hard to call it that. The whole procedure took a maximum of an hour: a sauna for 10-15 minutes, then we were “washed” and smeared with oil. After a normal Hammam at SEA LIFE RESORT 4 * in Sharm, and even more so after Turkey, it looked just ridiculous. And the price for this, either pleasure or disgrace, did not please at all (41 euros according to the price list, after a long bargaining they agreed on $ 30 per person, and still it was not worth it).
There are shops on site. Their prices are sky-high (compared to Hurghada and Sharm). There are also shops outside the hotel, but they are just as expensive.
Vacationers are mostly foreigners of advanced age, 20 Slavs and 3 Arab families.
The staff is sane, not arrogant, not annoying, helpful, friendly (if they are not rude themselves).
WI-FI at the reception is free.
Summing up, I can say that the hotel is good, for unpretentious tourists, without pathos and frills, for a relaxing holiday, deserving 4 *. The sea compensates for all the shortcomings of this hotel. I wish you all a pleasant holiday! Young people who want to have fun will be bored here.
P. S. I would like to say hello and thank Nadia, Vova, Slava and Yulia from Poltava, Igor and Tanya from Ivano-Frankivsk, Pasha from Mogilev for the company. It was a pleasure to meet you and spend time. I hope this joint holiday was not the last!
SETTLEMENT
We arrived a small group of 10 people at 18.00, settled immediately. We were given envelopes with the name and number of the room on them. The envelopes contained the room key, towel cards, and food and entertainment information. Booked a room with a sea view. No additional money was given at the reception.
ROOM
Room number 4108 with a sea view is standard: 2 beds, bedside table, table, wardrobe, TV, mini fridge, toilet, bidet, shower, hairdryer, balcony, air conditioning. The air conditioner, when turned on (for the first couple of minutes), smelled unpleasant (probably, it had not been cleaned for a long time). Cleaned daily, no complaints. Everything in the room worked.
NUTRITION
Standard. It's hard to stay hungry. For breakfast: eggs in all sorts of variations, sausages, sausage, cheese, 4 types of yogurt in “basins”, fresh vegetables, boiled and fried, fruits (melons, oranges, sliced grapefruits, dates, I wanted guava, but alas, it’s not the season. Upset pastries - the impression was that it was yesterday. With desserts in this hotel, sad. Lunch and dinner: 2 types of meat in variations (chicken and beef), fish, potatoes, rice, spaghetti with all the bells and whistles (Italian hotel), puree soup usually, one once there was even borscht)), sliced vegetables and in salads, the same fruits as for breakfast, plus bananas, watermelon, and peaches and apples were also given once in 2 weeks). Barbecue is prepared on the terrace 3 times a week. Seafood was given once a week. Of the drinks, bottled beer pleased, the rest is all bad - local production. There were no packaged juices. Ice cream at the pool bar from 13.30 to 15.30.
ENTERTAINMENT AND ANIMATION
The animation is aimed mainly at Italians (the humor is very peculiar). We were not interested there. Children's animation was also present in the evenings.
From entertainment: aqua aerobics, water polo, beach football, volleyball, boccia, table tennis (free of charge).
Every evening, after animation, a disco. You need to go with your music and company to dance on it))
BEACH
The beach is spacious, there are no problems with sunbeds. Entrance to the sea only in special shoes. There are 2 lagoons in the sea, in which there is enough living creatures (3 species of moray eels, octopus, stingray, hedgehogs, many fish). The pier is wooden, comfortable. The sea is not calm. For 2 weeks, there was only 3 days of complete calm (white flag). The pier was also opened before or after lunch, with minor waves (red flag) and the pier was completely swirling due to waves for 6 days (black flag). It did not bother me, as it was possible to swim in the lagoons. The depth in the lagoons is a maximum of 140 cm, at low tide up to the knee.
TERRITORY
The hotel area is quite compact, green, well-groomed: 5 buildings, 2 pools (small, not very impressive, one of them has a bar, the other has a children's area), an amphitheater, a beach bar, a reception, a main restaurant and a bar. The most convenient building is located number 4 (proximity to the sea and the restaurant), the rooms there are all with sea views. The building with rooms "Family room" is the furthest from the sea and the restaurant (numbering from 2001... ). But don't let that scare you, because (I repeat) the territory of the hotel is very compact. There is a gym (very modest: 2 treadmills, an orbitrek, and 2 other machines), and a spa, which I DO NOT recommend. We went there to "Hammam", but it's hard to call it that. The whole procedure took a maximum of an hour: a sauna for 10-15 minutes, then we were “washed” and smeared with oil. After a normal Hammam at SEA LIFE RESORT 4 * in Sharm, and even more so after Turkey, it looked just ridiculous. And the price for this, either pleasure or disgrace, did not please at all (41 euros according to the price list, after a long bargaining they agreed on $ 30 per person, and still it was not worth it).
There are shops on site. Their prices are sky-high (compared to Hurghada and Sharm). There are also shops outside the hotel, but they are just as expensive.
Vacationers are mostly foreigners of advanced age, 20 Slavs and 3 Arab families.
The staff is sane, not arrogant, not annoying, helpful, friendly (if they are not rude themselves).
WI-FI at the reception is free.
Summing up, I can say that the hotel is good, for unpretentious tourists, without pathos and frills, for a relaxing holiday, deserving 4 *. The sea compensates for all the shortcomings of this hotel. I wish you all a pleasant holiday! Young people who want to have fun will be bored here.
P. S. I would like to say hello and thank Nadia, Vova, Slava and Yulia from Poltava, Igor and Tanya from Ivano-Frankivsk, Pasha from Mogilev for the company. It was a pleasure to meet you and spend time. I hope this joint holiday was not the last!
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