Впервые в Египте... First time in Egypt...

I will write in detail, because we flew to Egypt for the first time, and many points were incomprehensible to me.
I tried to figure it out during this trip, understand the features, feel the energy, and try to convey it in the review. Maybe he will help someone.
We flew to Egypt for the first time.
It could only be compared with Turkey, in which we rested several times. We read, saw enough about the peculiarities of holidays in Egypt, were ready for the worst. I understood this - that this is a desert, that any "five" is worse than the "troika" in other countries, that unsanitary conditions, peculiar food, and so on.
I chose from several hotels in a windless bay (after all, this is December). I stopped at the Hilton Sharks Bay Resort 4, the price was too attractive (for 6 nights they paid 19600 UAH for two). At this time, when there was a full house in Egypt, the prices just went through the roof! The reviews were very different, but they took a chance...

And frankly, I was struck by the hotel and Egypt itself. On the good side. . .
It turns out that Hilton Sharks Bay Resort 4 consists of two hotels (I didn’t find this information anywhere). I read that there is a second line... But it is "already across the road", though not very active. Like, for example, the Concord hotel chain or the Savoy and Sierra.
The photo that we see on the site was taken from the second line and the most impressive view is with a large pool and the Sinai mountains. You can use the infrastructure of both hotels, except for the main restaurant.
From the second line you can clearly hear the takeoffs of planes, since the airport is located nearby.
Fortunately for us (me and a friend who was vacationing in the Hilton advised) we were settled in a hotel on the first line, you can even see the sea from the balcony (they took the standard), literally go down to the beach past a couple of buildings. And the buildings in the Hilton in Egypt are not the same as in the Hilton in Kyiv...
These are two-story houses with only a few rooms and each has its own personal exit to the street.
As for the Internet. It is not only in the lobby, but also in the rooms, and on the beach, on the street near the hotel, and even on the road, to which there is a ten minute walk from the hotel (local minibuses stop there). Internet speed is good.
We brought a lot of chocolate, I read that the Egyptians love it and everywhere they almost extort chocolate or a dollar. So, in our case and in our hotel this is not so. No one asked for anything, they were rather reluctant to take it (neither chocolate nor the dollar had any effect on our cleaner: cleaning was done, water was put on, towels were changed regularly. But the swans did not spin... ).

Where they were happy with our chocolate, it was on a sightseeing trip - "Five in One in Dahab". We treated the local kids there, they jumped for happiness. I can also say that neither the tour guide nor the driver asked for the money to be put in a box on the bus (this is how they do it in Turkey: “Thank the driver for driving you and being responsible for your safety”), here I didn’t notice this at all.
At the same time, the Egyptians are very friendly, cheerful, joking with our usual jokes and asking: "How are you, are you all right? "
By the way, the hotel guide from Anex Tour was pleasant and cheerful, gave information for about an hour, left his phone, handed out leaves to sign. We didn’t sign (from the reviews I knew that I didn’t need to sign them, there’s a catch on insurance, be careful yourself).
The beach offered regular excursions, diving, but very unobtrusively.
The animation by the pool is working hard all day: we saw a lot of activities, but we didn’t manage to participate, our entire vacation was already planned, we wanted to embrace the immensity more.
The staff in Russian is weakly speaking, but on the fingers and with the help of English words you can understand each other. Cooks do not spare food, impose a lot of everything, no need to ask.
From the very early morning, the pools are cleaned at the hotel, the sun loungers are washed, the territory is cleaned, the bushes are cut, the windows are washed! The "lazy Egyptian" rustles...
Although I am writing a review about the hotel, I think that it makes sense to include information about the convenience of moving to different places from the hotel and locations nearby.
The location is good: nearby, literally two hotels down the illuminated street with shopping arcade Soho Square, that is, you can always take a walk. We also went to the Old City (Bazaar), Naama Bay and shopping in Nabq Bay. Oh, and a full day tour.
All promenades can be reached by taxi from the hotel ($15 Old Town), by taxi from the street (cheaper, they say) or by the local blue minibus. We chose a minibus, thanks to the video of some bloggers - I wanted to taste the local flavor and get a new experience.

Minibuses run along the main road, you need to walk a little to it from the Concord Hotel towards the airport (towards the roar of aircraft) along a well-lit path. We intuitively found it, and you will find it. Everything is simple here - the road, hotels and the desert... For locals it costs 5-6 pounds, they have their own tariff for tourists, I repeat - 1 dollar per person. It is important to ask the price, otherwise they may take two. They stop everywhere, they pick everyone up. It is interesting that in Egyptian minibuses there are no foul-smelling people, as we have in the evening after work. It's all in the flavors!
We also went to the Daria store in Nabq, they sent a taxi for us, they took us there and back for free.
Also from our hotel at 16.45 there is a free minibus to George Clooney and brings back. But even without all these shopping centers, there is enough shopping here on every corner, you will not be left without gifts. And it’s better to ask the price first, everything is almost the same, and it’s better to make purchases closer to the end of the holiday - except for the mask, of course. On the very first day, we bought me a mask for $ 10 on Soho, my husband had his own.
There were practically no mosquitoes, probably they were poisoned, in the evening a characteristic smell was heard, flies three times smaller than ours, there are flies on the beach during the day, but they do not bite, but tickle.

The food is good and varied. Roll out full, I don’t understand the phrase: “You won’t stay hungry. ” What do you people eat at home?? ! Enough and fruits, and vegetables, meat, fish, sweets. For the first time I tried falafel, which is not in every "five" is. Squids, crabs, though not every day... Natural juice, not "yupi", a little diluted, and so it's better than drinking thick. Tea, instant coffee, with milk like cappuccino, not bad at all. I am a coffee lover, and even then I didn’t suffer from the lack of brewed coffee at all... I won’t say much about alcohol, they drank red wine, it’s good for meat, we didn’t try the rest of the assortment. There are many. Usually we came at the end of the meal, everything was enough! Dishes were regularly brought, there were no queues, well, maybe three or five people occasionally for something special. There were enough tables for everyone. Cutlery and napkins were taken by ourselves in the allotted place. The dishes are clean, tea was poured into cups, then into paper cups. Why so, was not interested. The reef deserves a separate review! Super! Super! Yes, it was my first time, I have no experience, but snorkeling was included on a trip to Dahab - on the wild coast of the Red Sea with furious wind and current... Yes, the reef is huge, but not as bright as near our hotel. And my opinion is that the reef near the Hilton hotel is more colorful, more interesting, there are much more fish there. And if you swim a little towards the hotel under construction, then it’s even more picturesque... A strong wind blew for several days, but our pontoon was not closed, you could swim safely. The return flight is at 22:00, which means that we leave the rooms at 12:00 and wait for our transfer until 18:00. I was very worried about food and pastime. Everything turned out to be just perfect! Bracelets, as in some other hotels, no one cut off.
By 12 they handed over cards (from the door and on beach towels), things were taken to the storage room, leaving the most necessary things. We swam more, calmly went for lunch, then lay around the pool and drank coffee in the Barracuda restaurant, admiring the beautiful scenery for a snack (everything is free). Everyone smiles and wishes you a happy journey. Although the staff all look the same to me (black Europeans), but it feels like I visited a loving family...
Of course, there are downsides. And I will write about them. For example, there is nowhere to dry clothes, although there are balconies. In this case, I have a rope in my bag - "you can't drink away experience. " The sun loungers on the beach "want" to be updated, I noticed that they cannot withstand a lot of weight, and "there should be a lot of a good person. " The shower was poorly drained, the water was slowly leaving.
It’s even reluctant to write about such things, but who will believe me that everything is perfect?
And finally, I want to say: it was my subjective opinion, I was more than satisfied with my stay at the Hilton Sharks Bay Resort 4 hotel.
And a little life hack from me.
From the first day of rest, relax and enjoy, so that later it would not be excruciatingly painful for wasted days in paradise!