2 employees behind the counter were talking to each other in Arabic and smiling sarcastically. Having received the keys to the room with information "zero"
Let's go find someone to show us where our number is. IN
The main restaurant has the same picture, you won’t give a tip, they don’t pay attention to you, and your gaze is completely detached. And finally, I can’t mention the beach workers who brazenly occupy all the sunbeds in the middle and then sell them during the day.
It may have been a good hotel before, but now it has completely deteriorated. It's not worth the money!! !
We arrived at the hotel at 5 am. For a purely symbolic surcharge, we settled straight into an excellent room overlooking the sea. The room was cleaned daily, bed linen and towels were changed, cosmetics were replenished.
Food is good as always. The choice of dishes is large, for every taste. For lunch and dinner there were always dishes made from beef, lamb, duck, turkey, and fish. Huge range of baked goods and a good selection of fruits and vegetables. During our stay at the hotel, an unexpected situation occurred - the hotel lost electricity. But breakfast was prepared and served! The restaurant was open and the waiters were doing their job. Respect to the hotel staff for this - the emergency situation did not affect their work. We also attended a gala dinner in honor of the hotel's birthday. It was simply a food festival! Most vacationers spent the first 15 minutes of dinner enjoying this abundance and didn’t even choose their food. Everything was beautiful, varied, tasty.
Thank you very much for such pleasant gastronomic memories.
The hotel area is small, but very clean and green, there are always a lot of flowers and birds.
The hotel beach is one of the largest in Sharm, there are many sun loungers and umbrellas. We got up early to enjoy the sunrise - it was a very beautiful sight. Early in the morning we went into the sea for the first time. We were very lucky with the weather - warm November with a warm wind, the water was around +26-+28 throughout our stay.
I would like to especially mention the animators - the team works great. Various competitions and entertainment are constantly held on the beach, for children too. The evening program is standard for Egyptian hotels.
We were pleased with our vacation and had a lot of fun. For this we thank the staff and management of the hotel, your work has always been at a high level.
A pleasant surprise happened to us - a wave brought a very beautiful and very “adult” shell to our feet.
They say that such a sign brings good luck...
We will recommend Barcelo Tiran for a holiday to our friends.
Will we return to this hotel again? Necessarily!
And now it's not pleasant. We wanted to use the hotel's diving service, but were very disappointed and offended by the attitude towards the customer. For three days in a row, they persuaded the price to be $60, for two, when they agreed, the price immediately increased by $70.
Again and again you have to bargain. Even when calculating, they fool again and do not give the rest. They completely spoiled the mood and discouraged the desire to use the service. In fact, we were left without a subscription of $20, (we wanted it together with our daughter) because this "diving center", and Mustafa personally, do not fulfill their promises, but only fool about the price and spoil your nerves. I hope my review will be useful to someone. Good mood and rest to everyone. I will answer any questions in more detail.
I recommend not paying attention to the little things, renovation is underway, the hotel is being modernized.
I wish the friendly team of Barcelo prosperity, many thanks to everyone: the bartenders on the beach, your cocktails and smiles are the highlight of the hotel, the waiters - thank you!! ! , lighter animators, guest entertainment Nastya - thank you for your attention, she’s smart, she solves issues of any complexity. The hotel's compliments for regular guests are very pleasant. See you Barcelo.
Now let's move on to the cons.
The hotel is dominated by mosquitoes. They somehow self-generate in the room (just kidding). But with the door and window closed, we killed 37 Mosquitoes. And in the morning a fly appeared out of nowhere. She woke us up. Vacationers, take a fumigator on vacation!!!
What is very unpleasant is the lack of sun loungers on the beach under umbrellas. We were on vacation with small children and needed some shade under an umbrella. That is, no matter what time you arrive at the beach, the entire first line of sunbeds under umbrellas and the second are occupied. At the same time, the staff is friendly and offers to lie down in the sun.
So, you come to the beach at 7:30, everything is occupied either with things or with towels. It is clear that since the evening. Yeah, we think, since someone is so smart, we’ll do it too! They occupied it in the evening and put some minor things on the sunbeds. When we arrive, someone has removed our things. Someone is lying in these places.
We found things from the guy who hands out towels. Yeah, we think it’s possible. We arrive at the beach in the morning. There are sunbeds under an umbrella with some things. We call the beach workers. I say: we want to lie down in these places, take your things. Answer: We are not allowed to touch things. That is, for some it is possible to touch things (we suspect that for money), but for others it is impossible.
Thus, absolutely every morning turned into irritation because people took the sunbeds in the evening, and there was simply no opportunity to lie down with a child in the shade on the first or second line!
Hotel owners! Pay attention to this point. Let the beach workers simply not allow anyone to occupy the sunbeds in the evening.
Let it be fair - whoever came first gets the sunbed.
Because the thought arises that for money someone can borrow a sunbed under an umbrella, but otherwise, lie around in the sun.
Or add umbrellas. There are enough sunbeds all over the beach.
We consider the holiday partially spoiled, despite the many advantages of the hotel.
For example, in another hotel, a separate waiter always approached us and took an order for drinks, here it’s quite possible to stay without them if you don’t catch and ask! In the end, we just took dessert and went to the reception bar above the restaurant and drank coffee there. The restaurant is quite noisy, lots of kids and loud talking subjects! (((( The Internet is everywhere, but it often turns off and you need to re-enter! The rooms and furniture are a little tired. There are not enough sunbeds on the beach, but we had our own pool in front of the room, and our sunbeds with an umbrella on the lawn. A big plus of the hotel are three types the beach on the left is deep on the sand, there were waves in the wind, which, however, did not prevent anyone from swimming there! In the center of the beach there was a reef with fish, on the right the lagoon was very shallow and with corrals. In the afternoon there was a low tide and the bottom could be bare. to ride a kite - in the morning, as a rule, it was a good blow.
There is also a diving center in the hotel (a shed on the left and a windsurf club there. One Arab, his name is Mukhamed, is engaged in windsurfing there. The rest mostly drink coffee, tea and sometimes try to trick you into diving! )))) Mukhamed is a sympathetic, sociable and kind guy. As a rule, at 7 in the morning, if there is wind, he is already on the beach teaching tourists how to windsurf! He always helped me with the kite. There is also a girl translator at the reception, Ekaterina, who is also a very responsive and diligent girl. Always ready to help with any questions! Of the advantages of the hotel, I would add the ability to run and walk along the sea along all the coastline hotels - there is a single walking path - exit the beach to the left, you can ignore all local guards in all hotels. You go 7 kilometers to the hotels, we open the gates if they are closed, we do not touch the half-asleep security guards with our hands! In principle, I even went out on a kite even into the neighboring lagoon between the pontoons.
It was a lot of fun for me to run a guard of an empty beach and bitterly shouted that it was impossible and private property! Although in principle, by law, you can use the sea and the beach everywhere! He was hurt and sad that he could not go into the water! ))) Well, now about the sad - unfortunately Egypt is always like this - everything seems to be good, but in the end they manage to spoil everything! They themselves are bargaining, naming the initially incredibly high price, then they are offended when they are overtraded! We left the hotel at 4 in the morning at the reception bar and asked for coffee, the bartender said that he did not work and the coffee was paid! Then waddle slowly all the same gave out a cup of coffee! They took the same thing with the luggage from the room, but load it on the bus yourself, the bus driver with a clearly dissatisfied face - they forced him to work in the morning! )))) Well, this is Egypt, and so here in everything! The airport is a separate issue!
The hotel is a little shabby, but the norm, food, service is also ok. For $10/day you can get a sea view, for $20 - a taxi to the old town.
Cool nature. For children, a sandy beach in the sea, a warm pool, a small reef, but enough for underwater research, the animation is chatty.
Upon returning, the tour operator said that there are no tours in the hotel without a Russian (or with min kil-tyu). You need to consider whether you are ready for the Bashkortostans and other peoples nearby on the beach
Settlement passed quickly, not without a symbolic surcharge, but the number was chosen by yourself. Everything worked in the room, daily cleaning, sometimes with swans from towels. Cosmetics, water, napkins - updated every day.
The food is top notch as always. Breakfast - standard for Egypt - omelettes, pancakes, croissants, milk porridge, puddings, various cheeses and cottage cheese. Lunch - two types of soup, beef, chicken, fried fish, seafood. For dinner - pasta, baked whole turkey, or beef, or tuna, side dishes - a variety. Large selection of cold appetizers, vegetables and fruits. I will especially note pastries, both European and Arabic - even men were happy to pick them up. The waiters are attentive, serve quickly, at your request they will bring drinks, both alcoholic (local production) and various juices.
The territory is still green, clean and well-groomed, for which it is necessary to note the tireless workers who cut, weed and water all this beauty all the time.
The special value of the hotel is the beach. There are enough sunbeds, protective screens from the wind too. Nice beach bar with the best coffee in the hotel. Beechboy always helped with the screens, moved the sun loungers at our request. By the way, this time I paid attention to the accurate work of the rescuers - people swam even with a red flag, and they were constantly at the water's edge, especially close to mothers with children.
The animation is excellent, on the beach, vacationers were constantly occupied with various activities and competitions. In the evening, the pianist plays and sings in the lobby at the reception.
Wi-FI in the hotel is good, both in the rooms and on the beach, so you don't have to buy a local card.
The contingent in the hotel is very different - the British, Italians, Germans, Poles, Balts, Ukrainians, many Egyptians and Arabs.
In general, the rest was excellent, for which thanks to all the employees - Ole's gestrelation, managers of the SPA salon, waiters. Even despite the repair in two buildings, we did not experience any discomfort, just as we did not hear construction noise.
Will we come again? Everything can be ...here we already feel at home