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In March 2019, we decided to visit the Red Sea once again, this is our 12th visit to Egypt. The tour was taken from the tour operator "Join UP! ", We took 14 nights in June. This is the second visit to the WADI LAHMY AZUR hotel, the first time was in December 2018. Flight to Marsa Alam airport, then by mini bus. The road to the hotel took 2 hours with stops at other hotels.
Hotel
A lot has been written about the hotel, both good and not very good, we liked absolutely everything, otherwise we wouldn’t go a second time. The hotel is definitely for sea lovers with an active position, it is NOT suitable for families with children, for people for whom comfort, food, and animation are very important, since there is no animation in principle. The hotel rooms are old, but everything works, and if something didn’t work for someone, the administration reacted instantly and eliminated everything. There are two bottles of 1.5 liters in the room. water replenishment daily, two were not enough for us and we asked for another one and they began to bring us three bottles daily, there is a tea set.
Meals at the hotel according to the SOFT AI system, all alcohol is paid, the food is normal, the assortment is not large, but everything is always fresh, meat, fish have always been. The hotel is very simple, small, the green area is always looked after. Two pools, good coffee is brewed near the central pool.
Beach
On the beach, the sun loungers are old, but all intact. There are always a lot of free places, as part of the tourists leave for Hamata for kiting or diving. There is a bar with drinks on the beach, after 10:00 you can have a snack with pastries and tea, which we did after long swims or a morning trip to a neighboring bay, since we didn’t get breakfast. There is a shower on the beach. A very comfortable pontoon, in the center of the pontoon there are convenient descents into the lagoons. Convenient compartments for shoes and small things.
Sea
The sea, this is what is magnificent here, both to the right and to the left of the pontoon. We entered the sea with the very sunrise and did 3-4 hour swims.
We were lucky with the weather 11 out of 14 days were calm weather without strong waves. The reef is very lively, but also very different if you compare the December trip with the trip in June. Brackets, whitetip sharks, blacktip sharks, Arabian angel, hawksbill turtles, starfish, milkfish, plataxes, barracudas, Giant trevally, guitar stingray, comb-tailed stingray and the rest of the Red Sea set, very beautiful coral architecture, especially to the right and to the very next bay behind the mangrove grove. Some corals are seen for the first time. 4 swims were made in the bay, 2.5-3 hours in time. The bay behind the mangroves is simply gorgeous, green turtles, various rays, comb-tailed, ringed, guitarists, pink whiptail, African headtail. On the southern reef of the bay there are plataxes, blunt-nosed pompano, trevally, giant trevally.
The main inhabitant of the bay, of course, is the Dugong, of course, meeting him is a great success, we managed to meet him three times in two trips.
The northern reef of the bay is gray and not worth attention. We always walked from the hotel to the bay, on average 45 minutes, we took water with us, we hid it there and it’s easier to go back with some water, it’s easy there in the morning, but it’s very hot back, so if you are not prepared for such a load, it’s better not to repeat , you can also take a taxi, but there is a chance that they won’t let you in, or, as it was with the guys from Moscow, they broke them for 35 euros per person, so we didn’t take risks and calmly came and left. Also, the Banana reef swam twice, the outer wall is alive in places very beautifully, and the inner half-dead, the hotel's house reef is more interesting and more alive.
The only thing we were not lucky with was that the water is very muddy compared to winter due to plankton. We went for a walk in the mangroves, went inside through the water, many interesting species of birds, nests of Osprey sea hawks.
Maybe I missed something, this is my first review)
Personal impressions are very positive, to recommend a thankless task, but we will visit this hotel with great pleasure.
Photos taken with cameras Sony A6000 and Canon PowerShot D30.
Hotel
A lot has been written about the hotel, both good and not very good, we liked absolutely everything, otherwise we wouldn’t go a second time. The hotel is definitely for sea lovers with an active position, it is NOT suitable for families with children, for people for whom comfort, food, and animation are very important, since there is no animation in principle. The hotel rooms are old, but everything works, and if something didn’t work for someone, the administration reacted instantly and eliminated everything. There are two bottles of 1.5 liters in the room. water replenishment daily, two were not enough for us and we asked for another one and they began to bring us three bottles daily, there is a tea set.
Meals at the hotel according to the SOFT AI system, all alcohol is paid, the food is normal, the assortment is not large, but everything is always fresh, meat, fish have always been. The hotel is very simple, small, the green area is always looked after. Two pools, good coffee is brewed near the central pool.
Beach
On the beach, the sun loungers are old, but all intact. There are always a lot of free places, as part of the tourists leave for Hamata for kiting or diving. There is a bar with drinks on the beach, after 10:00 you can have a snack with pastries and tea, which we did after long swims or a morning trip to a neighboring bay, since we didn’t get breakfast. There is a shower on the beach. A very comfortable pontoon, in the center of the pontoon there are convenient descents into the lagoons. Convenient compartments for shoes and small things.
Sea
The sea, this is what is magnificent here, both to the right and to the left of the pontoon. We entered the sea with the very sunrise and did 3-4 hour swims.
We were lucky with the weather 11 out of 14 days were calm weather without strong waves. The reef is very lively, but also very different if you compare the December trip with the trip in June. Brackets, whitetip sharks, blacktip sharks, Arabian angel, hawksbill turtles, starfish, milkfish, plataxes, barracudas, Giant trevally, guitar stingray, comb-tailed stingray and the rest of the Red Sea set, very beautiful coral architecture, especially to the right and to the very next bay behind the mangrove grove. Some corals are seen for the first time. 4 swims were made in the bay, 2.5-3 hours in time. The bay behind the mangroves is simply gorgeous, green turtles, various rays, comb-tailed, ringed, guitarists, pink whiptail, African headtail. On the southern reef of the bay there are plataxes, blunt-nosed pompano, trevally, giant trevally.
The main inhabitant of the bay, of course, is the Dugong, of course, meeting him is a great success, we managed to meet him three times in two trips.
The northern reef of the bay is gray and not worth attention. We always walked from the hotel to the bay, on average 45 minutes, we took water with us, we hid it there and it’s easier to go back with some water, it’s easy there in the morning, but it’s very hot back, so if you are not prepared for such a load, it’s better not to repeat , you can also take a taxi, but there is a chance that they won’t let you in, or, as it was with the guys from Moscow, they broke them for 35 euros per person, so we didn’t take risks and calmly came and left. Also, the Banana reef swam twice, the outer wall is alive in places very beautifully, and the inner half-dead, the hotel's house reef is more interesting and more alive.
The only thing we were not lucky with was that the water is very muddy compared to winter due to plankton. We went for a walk in the mangroves, went inside through the water, many interesting species of birds, nests of Osprey sea hawks.
Maybe I missed something, this is my first review)
Personal impressions are very positive, to recommend a thankless task, but we will visit this hotel with great pleasure.
Photos taken with cameras Sony A6000 and Canon PowerShot D30.
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