Our 3rd Reef Oasis Vacation

Written: 6 april 2019
Travel time: 9 — 19 october 2018
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 8.0
This is our third vacation in Oasis Reef and I didn't plan to write a review.
But it turned out that there is something to talk about.
I was surprised that there are people who didn’t find a toilet on the beach - I heard from vacation neighbors that they found it on the third, fourth day ...Although it seems to be very noticeably located - going down the stairs to the beach, on the left, right behind the booth with the provision of towels.
Many do not know about the presence of two showers on the beach - one near the toilet, the second near the divers, but this does not mean that only they can use it, as vacationers sometimes mistakenly think.
We found out about the presence of a dressing room here on the forum, after our first visit to the Oasis Reef ...The dressing room is a house and is located closer to the Sentido sunbeds.

It turns out that if you go down to the beach and go to the left - a booth with the issuance of towels, a toilet, a shower, a changing room. All in one line can be said.
Continuing this topic, I want to tell you about the opening of our third trip (I just want to put a smiley face with mice fainting). We were always upset by the lack of a toilet in the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ the Citadel restaurant itself. What was our surprise to find it on the morning of departure!! ! Moreover, it is very normal. Spacious, bright, clean, no characteristic odors...
At the dead end where they make pizza, there is a door and a sign.
It became interesting to me where the ladies were coming from, I thought that the restaurant was through, that is, there was another entrance, but I found THIS.

We arrived on October 9 at about 5 pm. From the airport to the hotel there was a full bus, without stopping at other hotels, all in one hotel. Already on the bus, I was looking forward to a long wait. It is clear that so many people cannot be settled quickly.
Surprisingly, the guys worked quickly and after 10 minutes we went to the room.
Settled 3211. Room on the second floor, standard, two beds are tightly pushed together, a huge modern TV.
At the beginning I was upset that it was not the first floor, but then I fell in love with the balcony for the comfortable drying of things and the fact that it is absolutely isolated from the neighbors. From the sides you can not see anything, only straight ahead.
The room had a kettle, sugar, coffee, tea bags - we did not use it. We discovered delicious cappuccino in bars and went to drink it there several times during the day.
Perhaps we didn't notice on our previous visits - the pools also have croissants and bottled beer.

The Italians lived on the ground floor. Until late in the evening they sat by the pool playing cards and drinking, but it was not noisy at all. Coincidentally, on the night when all the Italians left (they seem to have standard tours, because of this, the Citadel restaurant on Fridays works only for them, such as the final dinner). That night, probably only the arrivals, the Russian speakers who discovered the pool, staged a drunken noisy swim. Minutes 40 with cries rushed about in the pool and around.
So it's all relative who's noisy...

We get up early. We are the first to arrive at the beach. For this bonus, in the form of a heron hunting for fish. And in general, my favorite time starts from the arrival at the beach and until 9 am.
Having taken a place, we immediately go to the pontoon to watch the sunrise. We sit on the edge, dangle our feet into the water and wait for the magic.
The sun rises and illuminates the sea. At this moment, the flute fish enters the warpath (we decided so). Only in the first minutes, when the sun touches the water with its rays, you can see this spectacle - a small fish jumps out of the water in schools. There is a feeling of flying fish, and at the same time in many places. We tried not to miss it in the morning.
They said that water is +28 and for the first time I understood the expression "water is like fresh milk". At six in the morning we gladly plunged into the water and received another reward for getting up early.
The fact that there are a lot of all sorts of fish is by itself, but I like to swim more while watching the stingrays. Although the water was +28, I managed to freeze while watching these giants without moving. A big fish is circling next to the slope - it's all so interesting...
Later, there are a lot of people in the water, fewer fish, and in general, sometimes you even think that the joke about the shark and our tourists is not a joke at all.
We really like Balistod and on this trip he spoiled us - we saw him every day. We know what can happen. We don’t swim close, but we love to look at his predatory muzzle with teeth)
Once we swam next to him, admired and then we notice a bunch of men around in fins and with a bag. How did they manage to enter the water with the package, the guard is watching? The bag is large, there is food in it - they began to lure fish into this bag and catch it like that. They took it out of the bag, filmed themselves with fish in their hands ...

Balistod swam closer to the bait and the tourists dived up to him and teased with flippers so that he would chase after them. Then I did not understand - it happened by chance or they noticed a stingray at the bottom, in general, they dived and raked the stingray.
The people are resting - what can I say. After that, she concluded that the Italians, although they speak loudly, did not observe such outrages behind them.
Balistod is our main favorite.
When we arrived this time and saw him in the first swim - he seemed to me quite large.
Then, I decided that it was from fear that his eyes were large and he was not so huge ...
On the day of departure we were in for a surprise.
As usual, they swam looking for him, they were already desperate to find him, and now he appeared.
Of course, we are happy to accompany him, remember this predatory muzzle before leaving. And then - there is a second! And he really is much bigger. For a while they circled together and then we lost sight of them.
Our delight cannot be described - besides, we were convinced that on the first day we saw a lot.
Considering the fact that we actually do not know how to swim, we also managed to see a lot. We saw stingrays, swam with moray eels - what else do you need for a happy holiday?
https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=_zaIP6h0hgs&t=55s

We also liked to come to the beach after dinner. On the side of Sentido (for some reason it is there) crabs walk. We turned on the flashlight and entered the world of crabs. Everything is teeming with huge and small ones running into the sea or towards the trestle beds. After this spectacle, I didn’t eat them - it’s a pity, although they were often cooked for dinner and lunch.

As for nutrition.
Everyone has different needs, but we always found food for ourselves.
From drinks they drank coffee, cappuccino - in a bar over the sea or at the reception.
Also, more than once they fell when hibiscus was poured into containers. Natural, though it’s too sweet for me (I diluted it with water), but not chemistry - natural, chilled tea.
For breakfast, cold milk, pastries, cheeses, ham.
Lunch was often missed - too lazy to change clothes and lose a small daylight hours. There is always something to eat on the beach.

We dined often in Giaconda - after all, there is a slightly different choice of dishes, more fish. There is always tuna and tuna pizza. It was often cooked a little dry, but still tasty and guaranteed fresh.
Depending on the mood, after the main dinner, they could go to the Citadel - drink tea with sweets.
We like the restaurant by the sea more for its design and service. Tea is convenient there, you can make your own, without expectations.
It is noticeable that the staff was waiting for Italian tourists in the evenings, specially prepared tables for them. This did not offend us - after all, they pay other money for a ticket and indulge in tips in a completely different amount ...I want to note that they always did not ignore us, smiled, got to know each other. Found out immediately upon arrival.

This trip was an embarrassing moment.
During the day they moved with sunbeds in the shade, dozed, changed places. We noticed that an elderly Italian also pulled a trestle bed to us under the fungus. We slept, swam...we didn't immediately notice that the neighbor left and took away our towel.
We went to the reception to the Russian-speaking girls. They said that the girl, in turn, called someone who was watching the cameras. As a result, we were given a new card for the towel.
Although there is a period of time on the beach when it is better not to leave your sunbeds unattended. From about 9.30 to 11 - sleepyheads come to the beach, turn to the beach workers in search of a sunbed and they drag them away from absent people.
If we were in the month of May, we could swim quietly for an hour and not worry about a sunbed and things (there were few vacationers, there were plenty of places), then in October we even crawled on the sand. Although they added a lot of sunbeds.
Changes are taking place in hotels - most of the pontoon was changed with us, mattresses were replaced, sunbeds were added.
The Citadel restaurant has new tablecloths. In the rooms, TVs are changed to modern ones.

One of our evening entertainment is not related to the hotel - we went to the market to feed the local cats.
During the day at the beach bar, I took cutlets and in the evening we handed them out to ponytails.

No cats were found on the market during this trip.
While we were standing and squeaking in hope, a camel came up and the owner began to joke, here is a cat ...We say that we have cutlets, there are no apples for the camel, a plate with cutlets in hand. We see a camel actively sniffing and pulling its muzzle. We did not want to give the camel such food, but its owner began to ask for it.
The cutlets disappeared in a split second.
We returned to the hotel upset - it was a pity for the animal. After all, he should not eat such things at all, but what can you do with hunger ...
If you are determined to take maximum positive emotions from your vacation, then you will have to close your eyes to the fact that the animation is Italian (on our first vacation there was a chic international animation team). This did not bother me, and when I had a desire, I went to exercise with the Italians and no one drove me away. After 3 pm there was dancing on the beach. Didn't participate, but enjoyed watching. Everyone was invited. To wag the booty, knowledge of the language is not needed at all, the melody itself will tell you what to do.
https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=8TUjn1rYtD0
The Reef Oasis is very beautiful and we are fascinated by cacti, palm trees, but we have already got used to all this beauty ...The minus of a trip to the same hotel is the lack of euphoria from the new beauty seen.
I want new, fresh emotions.
I don't know if we will come back to the same hotel, but we recommend it to our friends.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original