Gorgeous reef and food, but terrible rooms and hotel renovations

Written: 11 may 2021
Travel time: 3 — 10 may 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 2.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 2.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 5.0
If you take a tour for 7 days for 11-18 thousand UAH, you want to see a gorgeous reef near the hotel, eat delicious food and relax, but at the same time you are ready not to get enough sleep because of bad mattresses, non-working air conditioning and repairs at night, then feel free to take this hotel. If the tour costs more on your dates, I do not recommend it.
PROS:
• LOCATION is its biggest advantage. Firstly, a lively beautiful reef is a 3-minute walk from the hotel beach: stingrays, lionfish, butterfly fish and many other inhabitants of the Red Sea. The hotel beach is a dead reef, but fish also swim there, there are colored clams. Secondly, the hotel is located a 15-minute walk from the old city with a mosque and a market.

• FOOD is good. There are always several types of meat (veal, chicken, quail, stewed, boiled, with sauces on the grill), several types of seafood (fish, squid, grilled king prawns 2 times in 7 days), vegetables (grilled, stewed, under sauce), breakfasts, salads and sweets - very weak, cocktails - none.
• CONCEPT - a relaxing holiday. Most of the animation takes place on the beach: exercises, zumba, yoga, beach volleyball. So at the pool in the morning and afternoon - everything is at your disposal, as in a private villa in Tuscany. Mini-disco in the evening, very weak competitions, disco (no one dances). Everything ends at 11 and peace and quiet sets in (there are also disadvantages on this matter, read below "Numbers and repairs"). Animators are pleasant, unobtrusive.
• STAFF is mostly pleasant and genuinely willing to help. We were quickly settled, they gave us a choice of rooms at no extra charge (read "Rooms and Repairs").
MINUSES:
• ROOMS and REPAIR - the biggest disadvantage of the hotel. As far as we know, it has been closed for about 5 years and is currently undergoing renovations. In the middle of the night, a grinder was cutting boards. The rooms are bad (were in 5 different ones). Air conditioners everywhere are old and broken, condensate drips, they rumble terribly, the modes do not change. Mattresses and pillows sagging. The furniture is old. Repairs were made in the family rooms, as we understood, the rest are 69 years old.
• CLEANLINESS - Cleaning is a problem. The hotel was closed for 5 years and no one bothered with cleaning before opening. Everything is dirty, glass, paintings, curtains, linen are stained, drains are clogged in the rooms, disinfectants are everywhere, but not one of them is filled with a product.
• GUIDE AND EXCURSIONS from Anex Tour. Were in Cairo, safari on ATVs and on the boat trip "Mermaid" for $ 100 per person.
Cairo is more or less sane, but keep in mind that the museum has half moved to a new location and some of the exhibits are gone, it will take 2 hours to go shopping.

Safari - the guide promises 1.5 hours on ATVs, 30 minutes in total and another 30 minutes of just standing at the "Bedouins", where they will not offer you tea or tell you anything. They don’t take them to the desert, 1 km there on a terrible road - 1 km back. Everything. "The Little Mermaid" - they promise to take them to the Ras Mohammed reserve, but in the end it turns out that the entire territory (including our hotel) is all Ras Mohammed, as a designation of the region. You are driven a couple of kilometers there, a couple back around the hotel. It is clear that the guide from Aneks will describe it all to you in a wrong way and will be very friendly until you ask the question: why is everything not as he told. )
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