Ordinary hotel, but very weak, even for the Egyptian four.

Written: 8 january 2019
Travel time: 24 — 31 december 2018
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 2.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 5.0
When choosing a hotel, I bought into a high rating and good reviews, not everything is as rosy as tourists write.
I rested on the second line for the first time, because, for the end of December, the prices are "horse" for my favorite hotels (from 1000 bucks for two. ), So we flew to this hotel from Aneks for 700 USD.
Beach:

I thought the second line was not all bad and still expected that the beach infrastructure would include what is supposed to be for ALL, but how wrong I was. Let's skip the moment that they take them to the beach twice - after breakfast and after dinner (I heard in other hotels minibuses go every hour or half an hour, depending on the number of people). The beach is very small, on the first day there were not enough sunbeds, we went to the next empty, just undressed - the guard ran in and kicked out, sat on towels on the sand. So I had to get up early and go to breakfast and go to the beach to take sunbeds. From the ALL system, on the beach only cola, fanta, sprite - everything else you can buy in a restaurant - ice cream, beer, pizza. As for an all-inclusive trip, this is a huge minus, since people go on such vouchers to relax, thinking that all expenses are taken into account. And for winter holidays, when the daylight hours are very short, this is also critical , because they always went to the beach for the whole day, which had a beach restaurant with a grill menu in expensive hotels, or pizzerias or mini cafes in cheap hotels, where they dined and then swam and sunbathed. Plus, all hotels had a full bar on the beach. How to say I’m not a drunk, but I’m on vacation and don’t mind pulling a glass of beer after water procedures. And so it turns out not a bar, not lunch, you have to go to the hotel to have lunch, and after lunch you didn’t feel like going back to the beach. The only plus of the beach is the windless Naamo Bay and beautiful reefs with a large number of inhabitants.
Hotel :
The territory is large, well-groomed, on the first day even with a map we got a little lost in search of our house, but the next day I was already oriented normally, and by the middle of the rest I already knew the shortest roads to the canteen, reception and the main entrance; the friend bar was next to the house. The hotel consists of houses, some of which are rented - sold to private traders, and some are used as a hotel. The rooms are different, there are studios with a kitchen, and there are simple - ordinary rooms. We got a regular room - a bed, a TV opposite, a closet with a safe inside, a refrigerator and a bathroom in which there is a toilet-washbasin and a shower with a curtain, which was replaced on the third day with a shower cabin (a plastic fence was installed). There are many pools, but all are cold, except for one paddling pool, and it is a moot point how much warmer it is there. And so the area resembles a typical boarding house.
Nutrition :
What immediately catches your eye is the queues in the canteen, immeno canteen, it’s difficult to call a restaurant. The assortment is scarce, even for not expensive fours, you won’t be hungry, but even the usual menu that you developed in Egyptian 4-5 is difficult to pick up.
Breakfast - there is only one kind of yogurt, and that one with lumps and ends quickly. Omelet is always the same - they don’t make a mix with vegetables, they don’t want to make fried eggs. Pancakes - one name. I won’t remember about sausage-cheese, it’s the same everywhere - inedible, even in expensive fives. Morning pastries are stale.

Lunch - you can pick it up, but basically I took pasta in the window where they fry eggs in the morning, vegetables, they gave the liver twice during the vacation - it turned out delicious. Grilled chicken or lyulya was sometimes given for dinner. From fruits there were oranges, tangerines, melons and once pomegranates. Sweets - cakes taste almost the same, only the color of the cream is different. From drinks - tea bags, coffee ala jackdaw (chicory) , spoiled yupi orange and water. Water was given once on the day of arrival, in other hotels they brought it every day, people collected it in the canteen, although this is forbidden, we bought 1.5 - 4 pounds in the supermarket at the entrance to the hotel.
BAR :
I didn’t even meet such a zhlobsky bar in the Turkish troika, this is the bottom of the service. Not only is it the only one for the whole hotel by the main pool - a “friend restaurant”, sometimes its employees during lunch and dinner on the first floor of the canteen pour and people from runs up the stairs in glasses.
I’ll clarify right away - I always take ALL 24, that is, I wanted to sit with friends at the bar at least until the morning and everything is OK, it was a surprise here that the bar is open until 23-00, and then it starts selling Egyptian shmurdyak for money. small disposable cups, I heard about this, but I saw it for the first time, and if the shmurdyak doesn’t care, but beer is only from bottles, into such a cup where half the foam is. The bartenders are also beaten to the head - a kid, of whom there are a whole bunch, and you will also give one a tip, you think now he will pour a normal one into a normal glass, and after five minutes you look, and there already another "schoolboy" is pouring and does not know you, only to In the middle of the vacation, I got to know each other when I fed everyone, but this did not affect the quality of service. The minus of the bar is that it is on the street and when it gets colder, you can’t sit in it much, although most hotels have a main bar in the reception building. Another minus, alcohol is poured in one place, and coffee-tea-non-alcoholic in another. And it was disgusting to watch how tourists humiliated themselves - begged: pour more, get us a company, etc. Toward the end of the holiday, I spat on this pornography - I bought what I want in a supermarket and rested on his veranda near the room. This is of course the way out, but does not fit with the ALL system.
The location of the hotel is good, the hotel bus takes you to the Naamo Bay promenade in the evening, we went once, then on our own - it’s inconvenient to adjust.

The Old Market is also nearby, we walked once, mostly took minibuses, although the locals say that it costs 2 pounds, but on this vacation I saw the minimum bill of 5 pounds, even in supermarkets they rounded up to five. So we went there alone - together 5 pounds, the driver demanded five per person back. Taxi drove once - 30 pounds, they didn’t want to pay less, I saw the tariff scale in the car: 9 pounds landing + 4 pounds kilometer - 9 + 4 * 3 = 21 pounds officially, so for nobody's lucky bucks.
Prices at the old market are lower than at Naamo Bay, but even with last year they really jumped, I'm bargaining until the last, until he says everything is gone, it won't be lower.
We visited Fares as usual, bought home shrimp for 8 bucks. Mango, strawberries, dates.
So happy with the rest, but the hotel is not very, especially when there is something to compare.
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