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Review of Sheraton Sharm Main Building
Rested at the hotel 18.05-27.05. 2013. Tour operator - Coral travel, host - Odeon touts.
The Sheraton Sharm Main Building is part of the Sheraton Sharm hotels, villas and SPA. The second part of the hotel is the Sheraton Resort Hotel (located on a hill) consisting of 4 sub-hotels: one-story Baracuda (numbers 1001-1125) and two-story: Manta (3001-3143), Dolfin (2001-2152) and Romantic Hills (4001-4154). ). Each of the sub-hotels has its own swimming pool. Farthest from the sea (and even above all) are numbers 1080-1125 Baracuda and Romantic Hills. You can go to the sea from the common center of Manta and Dolfin by stairs (about 300 steps) or to the reception of the Main Building (7.5 minutes about 650 m) and then down by the elevator. There is an open free bus from Romantic Hills to the reception of the Main Building. A detailed map of the hotel will be given to you at the reception. It can also be downloaded from the Internet.
The Main Building Hotel is a 7-storey building with sea views from all rooms (on the 1-2 floor, the sea closes the vegetation). All windows face east. The rooms are located on floors 1-6, on floors 7 - reception, restaurant, meeting rooms.
We lived in the north wing (Tiran wing) in room 601. In this wing, the best sea view from rooms 604-620, slightly worse than 603-601 and the worst of 600 (part of the view is blocked by the hotel's elevator shaft). The south wing of the building (Noam's wing) has a more complex layout, and there, too, not all rooms have the same good sea view. Rooms 600 and 626 are the closest to the elevator. Parallel to the elevator is a marble fire escape (100 steps from the 6th to the 1st floor) through which you can quickly go down to the beach without waiting for the elevator.
Number. The room of the room has an area of about 28 square meters. m and is divided by a railing into two zones. We had one big enough bed in our room. There are 3 Russian channels on TV. There is wi-fi in the room and an electronically controlled safe (next to it there is an inscription in English: “The hotel is not responsible for things left in the safe. Keep valuables in the deposit safe at the reception”).
The mini-bar only works when a card is inserted into the holder at the door of the room.
Air conditioning with individual mechanical control from the panel on the wall.
For 9 days at the hotel, the electricity was partially cut off 3 times for 15-30 minutes - the lighting in the corridor was preserved, the safe worked, the elevator worked, but there was no light in the room, and the air conditioner did not work.
Of the shortcomings, one can note the presence of a rigidly fixed shower in the bathroom, of the advantages - the presence of a bidet and floor scales.
A free 0.75 liter bottle of non-carbonated water is provided daily. per person.
Bus. From the Main Building there is a free 20-seater bus to Noama Bay to the duty free shop. Registration is at the taxi ordering point opposite the reception of the Main Building. flights: 12-30…14-30 and 19-30…21-30. . Recording from 7-00, at this time we easily recorded twice at 19-30. Drive about 15 min. It is very hot and humid in Noama Bay in the evening - take water with you (a bottle of soda 1.5 liters costs 20 pounds in Noama Bay, 0.5 liters of beer - 12 pounds, 1 liter of juice - 8 ...12 pounds, 0.25 liters of gin 40% - 15 pounds) .
Money exchange.
According to the hotel guide, in Egypt, money can only be withdrawn from the card in Egyptian pounds. The course is floating 6.9-7.1 pounds / dollars. Not far from the hotel reception near the souvenir shops there is a money exchange machine. He takes a commission - about 5 ft. for an exchange of 10 dollars. There is no commission in the exchangers of Noama Bay.
Beach. Very long - almost a kilometer. Approximately half of it is equipped for swimming. There is a short pontoon (about 30 m) and buoys that limit the swimming area, especially in width. Umbrellas on the beach are located at a distance of 10 m from each other in 5 rows. Under each umbrella there are 4-5 wooden deck chairs with mattresses (this is good, because plastic deck chairs emit poisonous gases under the influence of the sun).
The disadvantage is that after 17-30 there is no sun on the beach.
The equipped beach is divided by coves into three parts. In the north, it borders on the beach of the Domina Hotel. In the direction south of the pontoon, the first cove is the most convenient for swimming, because.
has a sandy bottom and a convenient entry into the sea. Depending on the tide, the water level in it is 50-150 cm. But it is easy for a coral table about 30 m long to walk or swim to deep water. Earlier in this bay there was a second pontoon of the hotel, as evidenced by the pieces of rope lying at the bottom and metal pins driven into the coral table for attaching the pontoon.
Similarly, you can swim in the second and third coves, if you count from the pontoon to the south. Further, the equipped part of the beach (that is, with umbrellas and sunbeds) ends, but there are several more coves with a convenient entrance to the sea.
The coral is very beautiful (it was even filmed at depth on a professional video). However, large fish were not seen: they were no more than 50 cm long, and most up to 10-15 cm. A wide variety of fish - almost every time I bathed, I found a new species of fish. Of the large fish, stingrays swam and once in the third bay, I encountered a 1.5 m moray eel.
I was surprised by the presence of living creatures on the sandy beach: these are beach sparrows, and turtle doves, and even flying insects digging holes for themselves in the sand near the sun loungers.
Near the hotel there is a route along which boats are taken on a boat trip to the island of Tiran. In the morning, a lot of boats (sometimes up to 10 at the same time) sail to Tirana, in the evening - back to Noama Bay.
Territory. Huge, and not fully mastered. So between the Baracuda hotel and the SPA center there is a complex of built, but under-equipped and abandoned one-story buildings. Likewise, there are several abandoned villas along the south end of the hotel's beach.
Above the diving center (south wing of the Main Building) there is a children's center with appropriate design and 4 shallow pools.
It seems that this luxury hotel now, as well as the entire tourist industry in Egypt after the "Arab winter", is going through hard times.
Vacationers.
According to the hotel guide from Odeon tour Abdul, aka Abdel Kader Abdel Fatah (he actually happens every day at the reception 18-30. . 19-00), Coral travel previously rented about 200 rooms at the hotel, now it is about 130. In connection with this in the hotel, about 70% of the guests are Russian-speaking, about 20% are Italians, several Arab families (their women in clothes bathe in the pool) and a number of English speakers. The hotel was about 25% occupied (the Romantic Hills hotel was generally empty) in connection with this, there was always a lot of space on the beach and it was possible to swim from the pontoon without crowding.
Weather. Water was 24.5-28°C, air 31-34°C. The disadvantage is that the hotel is located on a cape and therefore strong winds often blow there. Because of this, waves rise, as a result of which out of 9 days swimming from the pontoon was prohibited for 3 days. Then it was possible to swim only in the bays, but up to the edge of the coral table, since it is dangerous to swim across it during waves (especially at low tide).
Nutrition. We had breakfast and dinner meals.
Drinks at dinner are served by the waiters, and quite quickly.
Visa. If you are not going to go to the African part of Egypt, then you do not need to buy a mind for $15. To visit Israel and Jordan, a stamp in the passport "Only Sinay" is enough.
Tours. We went May 22-24 (Wednesday-Thursday-Friday) on a "one-day" bus tour Dead Sea - Jerusalem - Bethlehem with Odeon tour (Egyptian company) + Royal Vocations (Israeli company) at a price of $ 155 / person. Street travel agencies offer the same tour for $110/person. We went with the Odeon tour, because the hotel guide convinced that they had everything included in this price: drinks at dinner, and insurance in Israel, etc.
In the Odeon tour brochure, the time of the tour is indicated: 20-00 ...00-00 (duration 28 hours), we actually left the hotel at 20-45, and returned at 2-25 a day later - the tour took almost 30 hours.
It seems to be nothing terrible, but due to the fault of the Odeon tour, we were late for a late dinner at the hotel (it ends at 2-00) and went to bed hungry (Odeon tour refused to compensate us for this dinner), and pass the border from 1-30 to 3.30 nights was very uncomfortable.
After passing the Israeli border at night, we are another 40 minutes. waiting to board the Royal Vocations bus. And then this company did something stupid: tourists from bus No. 2 Odeon tour were seated in buses No. 2.3 and 4 Royal Vocations. Because of this, on the way back to Sharm El Sheikh, we waited for more than an hour for tourists from the Royal Vocations bus number 4 to pass the border.
Then at one in the morning the driver and accompanying Odeon tour Amad 20 min. refueled the bus at the gas station. They didn't care that the bus was full of tired tourists who would go hungry because of them.
At the Dead Sea, soap is needed to wash off the healing mud and water after bathing. It must be taken with you (a piece is sold locally for $15). Odeon tour guides don't know this.
And do not forget to wash not only in an open shower on the seashore - the salt remaining under the swimming trunks is very stinging.
As for the Jerusalem and Bethlehem guide Glory (about 60 years old), he worked very well, in detail and interestingly telling about everything that interested us, and constantly helped tourists.
By the way, in Jerusalem we were taken to a souvenir shop. Everything is in it: icons, candles, wooden crosses, magnets are 5-8 times more expensive than in shops near temples.
Another point: women should not enter temples with their heads covered. Both men and women should wear clothes that cover their shoulders and knees. And it's all. That is, you cannot go on this tour in shorts and a blouse with a wide neckline and bare shoulders. Those who wish can take a headscarf for free near the checkpoint at the Wailing Wall. The Odeon tour hotel guide does not know about this, and advised us to buy a headscarf before the trip.
In a word, this excursion was somehow more or less normal until about 15-50, until the end of the excursion program in Bethlehem. Then Royal Vocations frankly began to play for time: 20 minutes. waiting for the bus in a parking lot in Bethlehem; half an hour after the sanitary stop, again stopped for 20 minutes. at gas stations; An hour later we stopped for 30 minutes. at the kibbutz convenience store. When I asked why this was happening, the accompanying Olya said that we had been assigned a certain time to cross the border. As a result, we got to a shift change at the border, and then out of 4 windows, only 2 were left to work, and the border crossing was very delayed.
As a result, the trip to Jerusalem exhausted us so much that we simply did not go on other excursions. Yes, and we swore to go somewhere else with the Odeon tour.
Animation. The hotel has a team of 4 Russian speakers and 2 Italians. Arranged: volleyball, yoga, aqua aerobics, exercises, water polo and every evening a one-hour animation show.
The hotel also has a night disco. We weren't bored.
Results. We liked the hotel and we would gladly return there again.
Alexander and Larisa
Rested at the hotel 18.05-27.05. 2013. Tour operator - Coral travel, host - Odeon touts.
The Sheraton Sharm Main Building is part of the Sheraton Sharm hotels, villas and SPA. The second part of the hotel is the Sheraton Resort Hotel (located on a hill) consisting of 4 sub-hotels: one-story Baracuda (numbers 1001-1125) and two-story: Manta (3001-3143), Dolfin (2001-2152) and Romantic Hills (4001-4154). ). Each of the sub-hotels has its own swimming pool. Farthest from the sea (and even above all) are numbers 1080-1125 Baracuda and Romantic Hills. You can go to the sea from the common center of Manta and Dolfin by stairs (about 300 steps) or to the reception of the Main Building (7.5 minutes about 650 m) and then down by the elevator. There is an open free bus from Romantic Hills to the reception of the Main Building. A detailed map of the hotel will be given to you at the reception. It can also be downloaded from the Internet.
The Main Building Hotel is a 7-storey building with sea views from all rooms (on the 1-2 floor, the sea closes the vegetation). All windows face east. The rooms are located on floors 1-6, on floors 7 - reception, restaurant, meeting rooms.
We lived in the north wing (Tiran wing) in room 601. In this wing, the best sea view from rooms 604-620, slightly worse than 603-601 and the worst of 600 (part of the view is blocked by the hotel's elevator shaft). The south wing of the building (Noam's wing) has a more complex layout, and there, too, not all rooms have the same good sea view. Rooms 600 and 626 are the closest to the elevator. Parallel to the elevator is a marble fire escape (100 steps from the 6th to the 1st floor) through which you can quickly go down to the beach without waiting for the elevator.
Number. The room of the room has an area of about 28 square meters. m and is divided by a railing into two zones. We had one big enough bed in our room. There are 3 Russian channels on TV. There is wi-fi in the room and an electronically controlled safe (next to it there is an inscription in English: “The hotel is not responsible for things left in the safe. Keep valuables in the deposit safe at the reception”).
The mini-bar only works when a card is inserted into the holder at the door of the room.
Air conditioning with individual mechanical control from the panel on the wall.
For 9 days at the hotel, the electricity was partially cut off 3 times for 15-30 minutes - the lighting in the corridor was preserved, the safe worked, the elevator worked, but there was no light in the room, and the air conditioner did not work.
Of the shortcomings, one can note the presence of a rigidly fixed shower in the bathroom, of the advantages - the presence of a bidet and floor scales.
A free 0.75 liter bottle of non-carbonated water is provided daily. per person.
Bus. From the Main Building there is a free 20-seater bus to Noama Bay to the duty free shop. Registration is at the taxi ordering point opposite the reception of the Main Building. flights: 12-30…14-30 and 19-30…21-30. . Recording from 7-00, at this time we easily recorded twice at 19-30. Drive about 15 min. It is very hot and humid in Noama Bay in the evening - take water with you (a bottle of soda 1.5 liters costs 20 pounds in Noama Bay, 0.5 liters of beer - 12 pounds, 1 liter of juice - 8 ...12 pounds, 0.25 liters of gin 40% - 15 pounds) .
Money exchange.
According to the hotel guide, in Egypt, money can only be withdrawn from the card in Egyptian pounds. The course is floating 6.9-7.1 pounds / dollars. Not far from the hotel reception near the souvenir shops there is a money exchange machine. He takes a commission - about 5 ft. for an exchange of 10 dollars. There is no commission in the exchangers of Noama Bay.
Beach. Very long - almost a kilometer. Approximately half of it is equipped for swimming. There is a short pontoon (about 30 m) and buoys that limit the swimming area, especially in width. Umbrellas on the beach are located at a distance of 10 m from each other in 5 rows. Under each umbrella there are 4-5 wooden deck chairs with mattresses (this is good, because plastic deck chairs emit poisonous gases under the influence of the sun).
The disadvantage is that after 17-30 there is no sun on the beach.
The equipped beach is divided by coves into three parts. In the north, it borders on the beach of the Domina Hotel. In the direction south of the pontoon, the first cove is the most convenient for swimming, because.
has a sandy bottom and a convenient entry into the sea. Depending on the tide, the water level in it is 50-150 cm. But it is easy for a coral table about 30 m long to walk or swim to deep water. Earlier in this bay there was a second pontoon of the hotel, as evidenced by the pieces of rope lying at the bottom and metal pins driven into the coral table for attaching the pontoon.
Similarly, you can swim in the second and third coves, if you count from the pontoon to the south. Further, the equipped part of the beach (that is, with umbrellas and sunbeds) ends, but there are several more coves with a convenient entrance to the sea.
The coral is very beautiful (it was even filmed at depth on a professional video). However, large fish were not seen: they were no more than 50 cm long, and most up to 10-15 cm. A wide variety of fish - almost every time I bathed, I found a new species of fish. Of the large fish, stingrays swam and once in the third bay, I encountered a 1.5 m moray eel.
I was surprised by the presence of living creatures on the sandy beach: these are beach sparrows, and turtle doves, and even flying insects digging holes for themselves in the sand near the sun loungers.
Near the hotel there is a route along which boats are taken on a boat trip to the island of Tiran. In the morning, a lot of boats (sometimes up to 10 at the same time) sail to Tirana, in the evening - back to Noama Bay.
Territory. Huge, and not fully mastered. So between the Baracuda hotel and the SPA center there is a complex of built, but under-equipped and abandoned one-story buildings. Likewise, there are several abandoned villas along the south end of the hotel's beach.
Above the diving center (south wing of the Main Building) there is a children's center with appropriate design and 4 shallow pools.
It seems that this luxury hotel now, as well as the entire tourist industry in Egypt after the "Arab winter", is going through hard times.
Vacationers.
According to the hotel guide from Odeon tour Abdul, aka Abdel Kader Abdel Fatah (he actually happens every day at the reception 18-30. . 19-00), Coral travel previously rented about 200 rooms at the hotel, now it is about 130. In connection with this in the hotel, about 70% of the guests are Russian-speaking, about 20% are Italians, several Arab families (their women in clothes bathe in the pool) and a number of English speakers. The hotel was about 25% occupied (the Romantic Hills hotel was generally empty) in connection with this, there was always a lot of space on the beach and it was possible to swim from the pontoon without crowding.
Weather. Water was 24.5-28°C, air 31-34°C. The disadvantage is that the hotel is located on a cape and therefore strong winds often blow there. Because of this, waves rise, as a result of which out of 9 days swimming from the pontoon was prohibited for 3 days. Then it was possible to swim only in the bays, but up to the edge of the coral table, since it is dangerous to swim across it during waves (especially at low tide).
Nutrition. We had breakfast and dinner meals.
Drinks at dinner are served by the waiters, and quite quickly.
Visa. If you are not going to go to the African part of Egypt, then you do not need to buy a mind for $15. To visit Israel and Jordan, a stamp in the passport "Only Sinay" is enough.
Tours. We went May 22-24 (Wednesday-Thursday-Friday) on a "one-day" bus tour Dead Sea - Jerusalem - Bethlehem with Odeon tour (Egyptian company) + Royal Vocations (Israeli company) at a price of $ 155 / person. Street travel agencies offer the same tour for $110/person. We went with the Odeon tour, because the hotel guide convinced that they had everything included in this price: drinks at dinner, and insurance in Israel, etc.
In the Odeon tour brochure, the time of the tour is indicated: 20-00 ...00-00 (duration 28 hours), we actually left the hotel at 20-45, and returned at 2-25 a day later - the tour took almost 30 hours.
It seems to be nothing terrible, but due to the fault of the Odeon tour, we were late for a late dinner at the hotel (it ends at 2-00) and went to bed hungry (Odeon tour refused to compensate us for this dinner), and pass the border from 1-30 to 3.30 nights was very uncomfortable.
After passing the Israeli border at night, we are another 40 minutes. waiting to board the Royal Vocations bus. And then this company did something stupid: tourists from bus No. 2 Odeon tour were seated in buses No. 2.3 and 4 Royal Vocations. Because of this, on the way back to Sharm El Sheikh, we waited for more than an hour for tourists from the Royal Vocations bus number 4 to pass the border.
Then at one in the morning the driver and accompanying Odeon tour Amad 20 min. refueled the bus at the gas station. They didn't care that the bus was full of tired tourists who would go hungry because of them.
At the Dead Sea, soap is needed to wash off the healing mud and water after bathing. It must be taken with you (a piece is sold locally for $15). Odeon tour guides don't know this.
And do not forget to wash not only in an open shower on the seashore - the salt remaining under the swimming trunks is very stinging.
As for the Jerusalem and Bethlehem guide Glory (about 60 years old), he worked very well, in detail and interestingly telling about everything that interested us, and constantly helped tourists.
By the way, in Jerusalem we were taken to a souvenir shop. Everything is in it: icons, candles, wooden crosses, magnets are 5-8 times more expensive than in shops near temples.
Another point: women should not enter temples with their heads covered. Both men and women should wear clothes that cover their shoulders and knees. And it's all. That is, you cannot go on this tour in shorts and a blouse with a wide neckline and bare shoulders. Those who wish can take a headscarf for free near the checkpoint at the Wailing Wall. The Odeon tour hotel guide does not know about this, and advised us to buy a headscarf before the trip.
In a word, this excursion was somehow more or less normal until about 15-50, until the end of the excursion program in Bethlehem. Then Royal Vocations frankly began to play for time: 20 minutes. waiting for the bus in a parking lot in Bethlehem; half an hour after the sanitary stop, again stopped for 20 minutes. at gas stations; An hour later we stopped for 30 minutes. at the kibbutz convenience store. When I asked why this was happening, the accompanying Olya said that we had been assigned a certain time to cross the border. As a result, we got to a shift change at the border, and then out of 4 windows, only 2 were left to work, and the border crossing was very delayed.
As a result, the trip to Jerusalem exhausted us so much that we simply did not go on other excursions. Yes, and we swore to go somewhere else with the Odeon tour.
Animation. The hotel has a team of 4 Russian speakers and 2 Italians. Arranged: volleyball, yoga, aqua aerobics, exercises, water polo and every evening a one-hour animation show.
The hotel also has a night disco. We weren't bored.
Results. We liked the hotel and we would gladly return there again.
Alexander and Larisa
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