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“IF NOT FOR DISCRIMINATION OF RUSSIAN SPEAKERS…”
was from May 17 to May 24 in "melia sinai" and from May 24 to June 7 in the "Grand Hotel Sharm El Sheikh" --- further "grand" ///
This is how it was planned at home:
Melia for a week for one of the best reefs,
and to the grand for comfort and from the grand for excursions;
IN PRINCIPLE EVERYTHING WAS AS I READ ABOUT THESE HOTELS ON THE INTERNET!!!
Briefly about the features of these two hotels
Melia-
beach - there is always a free sunbed; sea waves do not happen: a short pontoon (not far to go)
Melia is located almost on a plain - it is easy to walk to the beach.
far from entertainment (Naama Bay) there goes a paid bus (you need to sign up for it)
Taxis are expensive due to the distance from the highway.
the territory is small, the disco "micro" on the territory of the beach bar (only a few people fit there) - boring for young people /
The Grand Hotel Sharm El Sheikh is a mountainous area (it is not easy for everyone to go to the beach) on the beach, sun loungers need to be borrowed early at 7 am.
the territory is large, beautiful, green.
shows of local animators are weak, but the invited shows are decent.
Since the beach is carved into the rock, in the afternoon the mountains cover the sun, and fish and corals are less visible ///
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in Melia Sinai, discrimination against Russian-speakers was expressed in the settlement in building 5300 - rooms (not the best) where foreigners did not live;
on the first floor it is impossible to dry clothes, and therefore it is humid in the room; in front of the window of the room, the hatch to the engine room of the pool is open-- the sound is such that I could not sleep the whole first night--
then I went to close the hatch at night - (then you can still sleep) people from neighboring rooms were grateful, but risked that I would receive a bill, like a hundred thousand for a hundred greenery, for damage to the pumps (after all, the staff explained that you can’t close the type for cooling - the equipment will overheat! )
The schmuck in charge of resettlement is called "Mr. Osama" (like Bin Laden). Obviously, he did not have enough power in this life, and he enjoys the little power that he has;
it was impossible to change the number either by offering a banal 20 dollars, or by calling from Kiev through TEZ, or even by offering to pay the full cost of the difference between the categories of rooms. Osama's answer: "why not at the full cost because he wants to. "
this despite the fact that many rooms were empty,
according to people who have been there for the first time, the hotel is half full!
At first I did not believe them and asked, "why are all the places in the tavern occupied? " to which he received an answer that when the season is higher (in October) there will be queues in the dining room /
foreigners are served faster (mostly Italians)
BUT THERE ARE ADVANTAGES: you can always find a sunbed and often near the pontoon
the pontoon is short, convenient; there's never any excitement
the reef is good and maybe a little better near the coral sea imperial, where I reached in 15 minutes on foot
IN MY OPINION, the reef from Melia to Coral Sea imperial is the best in Sharm, BECAUSE I WAS on two dives and three snorkels from Tiran to Farana and "Ras Mohammed" and there it is not better, but often weaker
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BUT THE FISH WERE IN A SMALLER MASS IN MELIA SINAI THAN IN MY SECOND HOTEL - IN "GRAND".
GRAND HOTEL LET'S START WITH DISADVANTAGES:
well, everything is as described on the Internet - they steal money from clothes and from a safe, they take part of 10-20 percent, maybe so that people don’t notice, or they don’t get very upset, they stole $ 100 from my safe, the whole amount was 1500 and, apparently, the staff decided, that one is a lot, and on the beach a woman talked about $ 200; I was not upset - I knew about these cases from the Internet.
I also knew about the lethargy of the waiters - you have to wait 10 minutes for tea and how lucky you are, and then another five minutes of sugar, the process is sometimes accelerated after contacting the older uncle, if he is now; it’s good that in the morning you pour drinks for yourself...
STAFF IS DIFFERENT - THERE IS AND PLEASANT, BUT sometimes a familiar attitude and snapping: you ask for a beer and in response, with a moronic smile, people repeat four times in a moronic voice "beer", climbs to shake hands JEALOUSY? STAFF FOR EXAMPLE, you sit down with a girl you have known for a long time, the staff changes in the face of orders, it ignores orders, as a result, she orders me...
IN THE UPPER KARCHEVNA THERE WAS A CASE:
THE TABLE, ALWAYS CALCULATED FOR FOUR PERSONS, WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SIT BY THE DAUGHTER MOM-- THEY SAY "NOW THIS TABLE IS CALCULATED FOR THREE" AND HERE IS MY MOM WITH A WATERMELON AND A CHAIR, AND THE WAITER HOLDS IT AND DOES NOT GIVE IT UP, - COME TO ME...
PARTICULARLY FUNNY "MOWGLI" - on the beach courting our girls, they offer "when it gets dark - come to the hayloft" or rather you will be lucky in your home - they say he is "not allowed" on the territory of the hotel; "massage at the hotel costs $ 80 and I will massage you for free "; carry different nonsense, well, for example, we all have black belts in karate here . . there are girls who are supportive of them, even allowing themselves to be touched in front of everyone on the beach /
in general, the staff is less disciplined than in my first hotel, Melia Sinai, although perhaps I am very picky because I have not been to Egypt for seven years and have lost the habit of Egyptian Service and wild molestation of our Arab girls.
AT THE HOTEL THEY BEHAVE MORE RESPONSIBLE, but in the "old market" and the backyards of the Nayama climb to touch our girls - I even had to lightly beat on the hands /
in Grande:
IN THE ROOM OFTEN YOU DO NOT ASK FOR SOAP, WATER FOR RINSE OF TEETH, WELL, NOTHING - YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE IT IN BARS,
NEXT TIME I WILL CARRY THE SUITCASE TO THE ROOM-- FOR THE LOCK WAS BROKEN AND THERE WERE DIGGING. .
WELL, I CONSIDER ALL THIS THINGS AND COSTS OF THE EGYPTIAN SERVICE . .
OTHERWISE, PLEASANTLY LIKE EVERYTHING, the room (as always IN THE BEGINNING) is offered from above (to go far) and with a view of the construction site,
but they changed it to room 601 in the 30th building with a full view of the whole sea! and the second floor, after Natalya GRAND HOTEL GUIDE from TEZ ran into the reception in a raised tone, to whom I previously explained that a good room was important to me because I was unlucky in the previous hotel and TEZTUR could not influence "Mr. Osamu" in any way" Melia", and probably to rehabilitate TEZ - she called somewhere, gave the phone to the receptionist - and the number was immediately found, and in gratitude I bought almost all the exs from her, including Israel and Jordan Avia /
She forbade me to pay anything extra at the reception /
In general, it is convenient that in the GRAND representatives of TK are almost always at the reception - for example, I bought one ex at the second hour of the night;
And in "MELIA" the TZ guide sometimes appeared only at 10 o'clock in the morning ///
IN MELIA WATER FROM THE TANK IS NOT GOOD TO PAY 12 for a bottle, but in the GRAND you want to take it.
IN GENERAL I LIKE EVERYTHING FOR ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES I KNEW IN ADVANCE FROM THE INET
IN "GRAND" THE SHOW OF LOCAL ANIMATORS IS WEAKER THAN IN "MELIA" BUT THERE WERE ALSO INVITED SHOW AND I LIKE HOW ALEXANDRA SINGS ON THE SECOND FLOOR . .
AND I AGAIN THAT THE FISH IN THE GRAND IS ONE OF THE BEST IN CHARM HERE I MEAN NOT ONLY THE GRAND BUT THE REEF BEHIND THE NEIGHBOR "DREAMS BEACH" AND FURTHER LEFT I SWIMMED FOR A KILOMETER. . .
I SAIL FOR A MINUTE NEAR THE DARK AND NEAR THE GRAND HOTEL I SAIL OVER A FISH, UNKNOWN BY ME, IN TWO MY GROWTH - IT LOOKS LIKE THAT IT WAS ROKHLYA OR A SHARK-GUITAR... there was also a small SKAT
---------------------ABOUT EXCURSIONS: -------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -------
--Perhaps the only profitable thing is to buy an ex to the Aquapark, it is from TK, the fact is that if you come from the street, you pay the same $ 30, but you buy food for your own and TK includes it...
I "pierced" with food due to the slow agreement of the girls with whom I walked, the fact is that you need to take exes from TK from yesterday to today, and the girls are ripe "today" in the morning.
--EX to Israel lasts 27 hours and sometimes more (if you are detained at the border, it can be plus an hour or two) get some sleep beforehand; and if you don’t want extra expenses, take more free water from the hotel (I took 4 liters) . .
dry rations of the Grand Hotel are less than they gave people before the tour in other hotels (I was fed by people from other hotels)
--Jordan-Air cost $355-interesting, but perhaps for people like me (who have already visited all the other exes) Who is not hardy, hire a horse on the way back (bargain for $5).
Of course, first of all, you need to VISIT THE PYRAMIDS. diving, THEN LUXOR AND FURTHER EVERYTHING ELSE...
--- Mountain of Moses - many people are cold and regret that they didn’t dress even warmer - advice - in order not to sweat when climbing, bring some of your clothes undressed...
--- Trips or "floats" on a boat to the Ras Mohammed Nature Reserve - and further Snorkeling there:
This reserve is a very flexible concept and everyone takes it to different places and there is a suspicion that they don’t take it - I was there twice on a boat and a bus - the fish near the Grand Hotel are better and the Reef near Melia Sinai is better - that’s why I consider EXs in Rasmukhammed as simple walk. . .
--- Diving near Tirana and Rasmuhammed is again no better than in my hotels. . .
--- Abu Galum (blue hole-lagoon) --- for an amateur, well, some fish and a reef differ from hotel ones . .
bathing for 40 minutes, and the whole ex-whole day (even I am a hardy tired).
was from May 17 to May 24 in "melia sinai" and from May 24 to June 7 in the "Grand Hotel Sharm El Sheikh" --- further "grand" ///
This is how it was planned at home:
Melia for a week for one of the best reefs,
and to the grand for comfort and from the grand for excursions;
IN PRINCIPLE EVERYTHING WAS AS I READ ABOUT THESE HOTELS ON THE INTERNET!!!
Briefly about the features of these two hotels
Melia-
beach - there is always a free sunbed; sea waves do not happen: a short pontoon (not far to go)
Melia is located almost on a plain - it is easy to walk to the beach.
far from entertainment (Naama Bay) there goes a paid bus (you need to sign up for it)
Taxis are expensive due to the distance from the highway.
the territory is small, the disco "micro" on the territory of the beach bar (only a few people fit there) - boring for young people /
The Grand Hotel Sharm El Sheikh is a mountainous area (it is not easy for everyone to go to the beach) on the beach, sun loungers need to be borrowed early at 7 am.
the territory is large, beautiful, green.
shows of local animators are weak, but the invited shows are decent.
Since the beach is carved into the rock, in the afternoon the mountains cover the sun, and fish and corals are less visible ///
-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ----------
in Melia Sinai, discrimination against Russian-speakers was expressed in the settlement in building 5300 - rooms (not the best) where foreigners did not live;
on the first floor it is impossible to dry clothes, and therefore it is humid in the room; in front of the window of the room, the hatch to the engine room of the pool is open-- the sound is such that I could not sleep the whole first night--
then I went to close the hatch at night - (then you can still sleep) people from neighboring rooms were grateful, but risked that I would receive a bill, like a hundred thousand for a hundred greenery, for damage to the pumps (after all, the staff explained that you can’t close the type for cooling - the equipment will overheat! )
The schmuck in charge of resettlement is called "Mr. Osama" (like Bin Laden). Obviously, he did not have enough power in this life, and he enjoys the little power that he has;
it was impossible to change the number either by offering a banal 20 dollars, or by calling from Kiev through TEZ, or even by offering to pay the full cost of the difference between the categories of rooms. Osama's answer: "why not at the full cost because he wants to. "
this despite the fact that many rooms were empty,
according to people who have been there for the first time, the hotel is half full!
At first I did not believe them and asked, "why are all the places in the tavern occupied? " to which he received an answer that when the season is higher (in October) there will be queues in the dining room /
foreigners are served faster (mostly Italians)
BUT THERE ARE ADVANTAGES: you can always find a sunbed and often near the pontoon
the pontoon is short, convenient; there's never any excitement
the reef is good and maybe a little better near the coral sea imperial, where I reached in 15 minutes on foot
IN MY OPINION, the reef from Melia to Coral Sea imperial is the best in Sharm, BECAUSE I WAS on two dives and three snorkels from Tiran to Farana and "Ras Mohammed" and there it is not better, but often weaker
----------------------------------------------------
BUT THE FISH WERE IN A SMALLER MASS IN MELIA SINAI THAN IN MY SECOND HOTEL - IN "GRAND".
GRAND HOTEL LET'S START WITH DISADVANTAGES:
well, everything is as described on the Internet - they steal money from clothes and from a safe, they take part of 10-20 percent, maybe so that people don’t notice, or they don’t get very upset, they stole $ 100 from my safe, the whole amount was 1500 and, apparently, the staff decided, that one is a lot, and on the beach a woman talked about $ 200; I was not upset - I knew about these cases from the Internet.
I also knew about the lethargy of the waiters - you have to wait 10 minutes for tea and how lucky you are, and then another five minutes of sugar, the process is sometimes accelerated after contacting the older uncle, if he is now; it’s good that in the morning you pour drinks for yourself...
STAFF IS DIFFERENT - THERE IS AND PLEASANT, BUT sometimes a familiar attitude and snapping: you ask for a beer and in response, with a moronic smile, people repeat four times in a moronic voice "beer", climbs to shake hands JEALOUSY? STAFF FOR EXAMPLE, you sit down with a girl you have known for a long time, the staff changes in the face of orders, it ignores orders, as a result, she orders me...
IN THE UPPER KARCHEVNA THERE WAS A CASE:
THE TABLE, ALWAYS CALCULATED FOR FOUR PERSONS, WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SIT BY THE DAUGHTER MOM-- THEY SAY "NOW THIS TABLE IS CALCULATED FOR THREE" AND HERE IS MY MOM WITH A WATERMELON AND A CHAIR, AND THE WAITER HOLDS IT AND DOES NOT GIVE IT UP, - COME TO ME...
PARTICULARLY FUNNY "MOWGLI" - on the beach courting our girls, they offer "when it gets dark - come to the hayloft" or rather you will be lucky in your home - they say he is "not allowed" on the territory of the hotel; "massage at the hotel costs $ 80 and I will massage you for free "; carry different nonsense, well, for example, we all have black belts in karate here . . there are girls who are supportive of them, even allowing themselves to be touched in front of everyone on the beach /
in general, the staff is less disciplined than in my first hotel, Melia Sinai, although perhaps I am very picky because I have not been to Egypt for seven years and have lost the habit of Egyptian Service and wild molestation of our Arab girls.
AT THE HOTEL THEY BEHAVE MORE RESPONSIBLE, but in the "old market" and the backyards of the Nayama climb to touch our girls - I even had to lightly beat on the hands /
in Grande:
IN THE ROOM OFTEN YOU DO NOT ASK FOR SOAP, WATER FOR RINSE OF TEETH, WELL, NOTHING - YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE IT IN BARS,
NEXT TIME I WILL CARRY THE SUITCASE TO THE ROOM-- FOR THE LOCK WAS BROKEN AND THERE WERE DIGGING. .
WELL, I CONSIDER ALL THIS THINGS AND COSTS OF THE EGYPTIAN SERVICE . .
OTHERWISE, PLEASANTLY LIKE EVERYTHING, the room (as always IN THE BEGINNING) is offered from above (to go far) and with a view of the construction site,
but they changed it to room 601 in the 30th building with a full view of the whole sea! and the second floor, after Natalya GRAND HOTEL GUIDE from TEZ ran into the reception in a raised tone, to whom I previously explained that a good room was important to me because I was unlucky in the previous hotel and TEZTUR could not influence "Mr. Osamu" in any way" Melia", and probably to rehabilitate TEZ - she called somewhere, gave the phone to the receptionist - and the number was immediately found, and in gratitude I bought almost all the exs from her, including Israel and Jordan Avia /
She forbade me to pay anything extra at the reception /
In general, it is convenient that in the GRAND representatives of TK are almost always at the reception - for example, I bought one ex at the second hour of the night;
And in "MELIA" the TZ guide sometimes appeared only at 10 o'clock in the morning ///
IN MELIA WATER FROM THE TANK IS NOT GOOD TO PAY 12 for a bottle, but in the GRAND you want to take it.
IN GENERAL I LIKE EVERYTHING FOR ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES I KNEW IN ADVANCE FROM THE INET
IN "GRAND" THE SHOW OF LOCAL ANIMATORS IS WEAKER THAN IN "MELIA" BUT THERE WERE ALSO INVITED SHOW AND I LIKE HOW ALEXANDRA SINGS ON THE SECOND FLOOR . .
AND I AGAIN THAT THE FISH IN THE GRAND IS ONE OF THE BEST IN CHARM HERE I MEAN NOT ONLY THE GRAND BUT THE REEF BEHIND THE NEIGHBOR "DREAMS BEACH" AND FURTHER LEFT I SWIMMED FOR A KILOMETER. . .
I SAIL FOR A MINUTE NEAR THE DARK AND NEAR THE GRAND HOTEL I SAIL OVER A FISH, UNKNOWN BY ME, IN TWO MY GROWTH - IT LOOKS LIKE THAT IT WAS ROKHLYA OR A SHARK-GUITAR... there was also a small SKAT
---------------------ABOUT EXCURSIONS: -------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -------
--Perhaps the only profitable thing is to buy an ex to the Aquapark, it is from TK, the fact is that if you come from the street, you pay the same $ 30, but you buy food for your own and TK includes it...
I "pierced" with food due to the slow agreement of the girls with whom I walked, the fact is that you need to take exes from TK from yesterday to today, and the girls are ripe "today" in the morning.
--EX to Israel lasts 27 hours and sometimes more (if you are detained at the border, it can be plus an hour or two) get some sleep beforehand; and if you don’t want extra expenses, take more free water from the hotel (I took 4 liters) . .
dry rations of the Grand Hotel are less than they gave people before the tour in other hotels (I was fed by people from other hotels)
--Jordan-Air cost $355-interesting, but perhaps for people like me (who have already visited all the other exes) Who is not hardy, hire a horse on the way back (bargain for $5).
Of course, first of all, you need to VISIT THE PYRAMIDS. diving, THEN LUXOR AND FURTHER EVERYTHING ELSE...
--- Mountain of Moses - many people are cold and regret that they didn’t dress even warmer - advice - in order not to sweat when climbing, bring some of your clothes undressed...
--- Trips or "floats" on a boat to the Ras Mohammed Nature Reserve - and further Snorkeling there:
This reserve is a very flexible concept and everyone takes it to different places and there is a suspicion that they don’t take it - I was there twice on a boat and a bus - the fish near the Grand Hotel are better and the Reef near Melia Sinai is better - that’s why I consider EXs in Rasmukhammed as simple walk. . .
--- Diving near Tirana and Rasmuhammed is again no better than in my hotels. . .
--- Abu Galum (blue hole-lagoon) --- for an amateur, well, some fish and a reef differ from hotel ones . .
bathing for 40 minutes, and the whole ex-whole day (even I am a hardy tired).
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