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Novotel Sharm El Sheikh Palm 5*, Naama Bay,
30.11. 22 - 11.12. 22
December, the wind season has begun, so we considered the hotel, always in the bay, without wind. In your favorite Hadaba, this is Ras Um El Sid, in which, in fact, there are only 4 hotels and a very inhumane price tag. We looked towards Faarana Reef 4 (on the mountain, reviews are not very good, the reef is a bomb, probably the best in Sharm), but our travel agent (Daiquiri, Andrey, hello! ) matched us with Novotel Palm 5 in Naama Bay for the same price. The second line, across the road from Novotel Beach, with a shared beach and bar. In Naama itself, they walked along the “golden mile”, they had never been in the bay, but, judging by the map and reviews, there is no wind. We took Novotel. And they didn't regret it. Very nice, calm, quiet hotel.

We arrived at the hotel at about 13.30, immediately put on the bracelets and sent for lunch, came from lunch and were taken to the settlement. I think we were very lucky, they settled in room 4138, and not on the mountain. Standard. In terms of size, it's pretty decent.
Everything works, everything is there (safe, mini fridge, kettle, tea, coffee, bathrobes on demand, shampoo, soap, shower gel, a small clothes dryer). Not killed. A shower room with a tropical and a simple watering can (they say someone didn’t have enough hot water, so we didn’t have enough cold : )). Huge bed with a very cool super hard mattress. Veranda with two chairs and a table. Yes! Soundproofing is amazing! Neighbors can not be heard, from the word at all! Even under the front door, the gap is closed with a rubber strip.
Kinds. The views are just lubok. Like an old Windows screensaver. Simply awesome beauty: greenery, flowers, palm trees, a mountain - and against their background are snow-white two-story houses with turrets. He never stopped admiring and admiring, morning, afternoon, evening. Hoopoes are picking something in the lawn (hoopoes, they are such hoopoes ....), little white herons, turtle doves, three or four healthy hawks are running around. In short, the zoo and beauty. Shear, mow, water.
True, when watering (water purified from sedimentation tanks) smells slightly, the water flows downhill and accumulates there in a puddle that must be crossed. In general, a very beautiful and quiet area.
Beach, sea, beach bar. You have to get to the sea. Across the road (translated by a special person with a red stick, nowhere else like this, Dreams and Solymar run across the road, and we are important, we cross with a red stick), through the territory of Novotel Beach, 5-7 minutes, maybe 10. Absolutely relaxed and even very nice.
Palm canopies from the sun, old, but intact, heavy wooden deck chairs covered with soft mattresses. The beach is large, there is a lot of space, there are always enough sunbeds, even if not on the first line from the sea. Our people, out of habit, occupy the first line, run in the morning, put down towels, then they don’t appear until 11 o’clock.

As a result, sometimes misunderstandings occur, although the hotel rules say in Russian letters and words: towels left unattended for more than half an hour are confiscated by beach fights, which, by the way, abound. There are no problems with this: a bunch of cameras are stuck around and where your towel has gone is found out by the cameras and by counting the handed-over towels. (In other hotels, you can run into a fine for a towel. For loss. Bucks at 20. ) The question is, why? Well, why are you taking sunbeds? Well, they are always there. Yes, not quite in the surf, but not a kilometer from the sea either. Is it really difficult to pass these 10-20 meters? As an example: a man comes, lays down on a towel of a young married couple, a scandal begins, a showdown, he screams, I laid down here ... or put it down ... It turns out from the cameras: yeah, I did. At 7.15. I arrived at the beach at 11:25. And at 9.20 the beach fight took the towel, because
there was a stream of people who woke up and had breakfast, and there was no one at this place for a long time (maybe the person forgot the towel? ).
Sea. The sea is great! Sunset in the sea - sand. Corals can not be worn. Children expanse. True, the level rises quickly, then the reef begins. The passage (swim) to the reef, which is always occupied by pensioners standing in the passage up to the chest (throat). The reef goes in three lines from the sea, the most lively one is naturally on the third line, closer to the sea, there are many different fish, squids, I even saw blue rays, big Napoleons - in general, a feature of the new hotel, to see - swim - there is something and where. The best place in the whole bay is the third line, between the fence of Novotel and Solimar. Not Ras Um El Sid and not Ras Mohammed, not the reef wall of Hadaba, but very, very worthy. Moreover, this is a bay and, even with the wind, just a small ripple and a wave.
People, do not step on the corals and do not touch them with your hands: not only will they die from this, but you can also get scratched not sickly, but it heals very difficult and for a long time. People, don't feed the fish! Not only is the fine of 2000 bucks, but when feeding from fish, wild fish appear, and then they are surprised: why did a shark come from somewhere and bite it by the butt? No need. Enough to look at someone, why gather a crowd around you. Do not try to touch beautiful fish with your hands - you will run into a lionfish or other poisonous, but very beautiful fish, you can earn anaphylactic shock, even death (look at examples on the Internet, it's impressive).
Bar on the beach. 10:00 a. m. to sunset. Beer, alcohol, alcoholic mixtures (it’s hard to call it cocktails) such as gin and tonic, rum-cola, tequila, vodka with juice. Juices from packages (rather nectars, but tasty), diluted juices (yupi), water, tea, coffee from a coffee machine, croissants, cakes for a snack, ice cream (after 12).

Paper 50 and 200 gram cups! Beer is poured because of the foam, 130-150 grams, but you can take as many glasses as you can carry. They pour it into their own glasses, no problem: someone brought ordinary plastic half-liter ones, someone came with thermal mugs, my wife and I bought 350 gram ones from hard plastic (they didn’t find it anymore), for some ridiculous price, and we went to the bar with them. Queues, oddly enough, either do not exist, or are small and move quickly, the bartenders are great, move if a larger queue forms, or the boss helps, or other assistants run in. Also, after 12.00 they start frying French fries with either a hamburger or shawarma, some salads. In principle, if you wish, you can not go to the hotel for lunch, but have a snack on the beach. At the bar they sold mangoes (3-4 bucks and strawberries 2 bucks), people take it. Although 40 meters away, on the promenade, near the pizza hut cafe, an Arab sells mango (1.3-1.5 bucks per kg), strawberries (1 cu.
e), guava, tangerines, plums and many other fruits at a very reasonable price (December prices! ).
There is only one bar in the hotel, near the canteen. From 10.00 to 23.00 (like? , I didn’t stay that long). Everything is the same as on the beach. Only everything is fried and ice cream from 16.00 to 17.00. Also paper cups 50 and 200g. They also pour into their glasses without any problems, and there is almost never a queue. Near the bar there is a stage where animation was held in the evening, there are speakers from which the whole day is quiet, unobtrusive, light relaxing music sounds, creating an atmosphere. Sit with a glass of wine, look down, that's all.
Canteen (ibn restaurant). Since the hotel was closed for the duration of the summit on ecology and opened after it, upon our arrival the hotel had just begun to fill up and the canteen was wildly relaxed. For the first two or three days, I generally thought that I had not seen worse food anywhere.
Not that there was little food, it was in bulk, but what was, you can eat with great difficulty: undercooked, overcooked, oversalted, overpeppered, tasteless and not salty, it was almost impossible to guess what you would eat edible today. I never thought you could ruin a fried chicken. (Honestly, in my heart I was even glad that the food was not very good, my wife would be persuaded to be thinner, I had plans to go around the fish and other restaurants of Naama Bay, not all of my plans were destined to come true : ))). But, surprisingly, every day everything got better and better, and by the end of our holiday it was completely corrected. No frills (the canteen is still), but there was something to eat normally, everything that ended was updated quickly. From the very beginning, the chef's beef was on top, and then in general - you will lick your fingers. Grill every evening: either chicken, liver, or cradles, or hamburgers, always grilled vegetables. No one will leave hungry : )

Staff. Mo-lod-tsy. Just good guys. Reception - applied 4 times: check-in, check-out, ordered bathrobes, restored the dead keys to the front door. Everybody. Quickly, intelligently, without ignoring, show-offs and baksheesh demands.
Bartenders. The bartenders are fast. And why should they not be fast, they don’t make cocktails, only beer and alcohol mixtures, as I understand it, this is the policy of the hotel. And the choice of alcohol, by and large, is small. If the bartender at the bar suddenly leaves, then any (any! ) nearest waiter, seeing a guest approaching the bar (or the wine rack in the dining room), runs to serve him. The waiters (they are dish cleaners, wine carriers, etc. ) are generally interchangeable and mutually supportive at their best. If suddenly someone is sewn up somewhere, any free or senior people rush there to help. Here we, of course, sometimes tossed baksheesh to them. Now a dollar, then a chocolate bar. Because well done.
Talk to them, say thank you, ask how you are doing (this is where the break in the template is, when you don’t have it, but you have it), that’s it, friend at once. Many very pleasant, smiling and kind young Egyptians. There are, of course, unpleasant, as without them. But very little.
Here the dishes are washed badly. Sometimes even very bad. But then again, there is always dishes: plates, forks, cups. Maybe that's why they don't wash very well because they try to be quicker? Somehow after dinner we were sitting with my wife and a glass of wine kala bar in the relax zone, some big boss from Novotel arrived and did a meeting there, at the next table: I gathered, you see, all sorts of managers, staffs, boss, etc. . , in short guide. And flogged them not childishly. (I, of course, do not boom boom in Arabic, but the general atmosphere, intonations and facial expressions are very familiar). Someone small even fired. Maybe after that everything was fine in the canteen?
Cleaners. Are removed. They walk back and forth along the washed with a smart look.

They are sweeping something, they are pretending to be a worker. The room was sort of cleaned, the bed was made, towels were folded, even changed, like, water was put on. Cleaned before lunch when we were on the beach. Somehow he (the cleaner) tried to come after three days, do the cleaning, yeah. So I, too, although not in Arabic, like their big boss, can swear. He was sent, and I didn’t see him again after dinner at the room, although it’s clear that he came, yeah, sort of cleaned up. People left a dollar, so he twisted some beautiful garbage out of towels, littered the bed with flower petals, stsuko. We did not leave a dollar. Chocolate only, bitter, Spartak. Zhaaadnye.
Animation. No, she is. Children's disco, miss hotel, competition of couples, karaoke. Everything is calm, unobtrusive, but sometimes very hilarious. The main active animation on the beach and in Novotel Beach, there is a drive, there is movement.
In the morning, there is a warm-up on the beach, water aerobics in the Beach pool, there is also foamy fun, darts, volleyball, young active animators, etc. , etc. In the evening, there are dances in Beach, live music, animator competitions and all kinds of other active crap. If you want to be active, go to Novotel Beach, it's fun there. But there is one thing: in the beach bar, Palmovtsy is not poured .... Pichalka….
Take a walk. Here to take a walk in Naama without any problems at all. Especially after the environmental summit. You can slap two roads to the Golden Mile: - along the bottom, along the embankment along the hotels with a huge number of all kinds of restaurants (most belong to a la carte hotels, but which are even easier to get into for money). The decor, for the most part, is stylized, very, very good;
- on the top, along the hotels. If in the direction of the Golden Mile, except for the casino, no shops, no restaurants, nothing. But the road was made - a sight to see! Lighting, pergolas, lots of benches.
Everything looks very bombastic. If you go to the left from Novotel Palm, you will reach shops with a fix. prices: Bassemi (it sounds like it) and a freshly opened Mango market. There you can buy a lot of necessary household and not only trifles. I will not write about other shops, shops and the Golden Mile.
I will write about pharmacies: the medicines in Egypt are excellent, the prices are sooooo adequate. PRICES for medicines are written in the PRINTING way on the boxes. If other prices break you, they try to fuck you! What to buy - read on the Internet, what can not be exported / imported into your country - too.

Summing up: we really liked Naama Bay, the bay is simply magnificent! Novotel too. Will we come here if the opportunity presents itself? Yes, yes, and yes again! Again, there are many other interesting hotels in Naama Bay that you should try to visit, although they don’t look for good from good, and Novotel Palm for us is already a proven worthy option.