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So, as promised, a review of Stella. While I was wandering around different countries and continents, for 3 years I managed to miss the Red Sea and Egypt. And then there's a friend, let's go to Egypt "I really want to go to the pyramids. " Well, ok, Egypt-Charm, Pyramids... let's go! Since a friend flew to Egypt for the first time, I also wanted to choose a more decent hotel. And the fact that she could not swim reduced the choice to hotels even in Naama, which I always refused when I went before. Well, between the Sultan, Sunrise and Stella, the choice still fell on Stella. Overpowered by small area, good service and food atypical for Egypt. At least according to the reviews. Well, let's see. Advice immediately if you choose this hotel. Settlement in it from 14 hours. And as it turned out later, almost everyone was waiting like that, even those who arrived at 5-6 in the morning. They were either given one room where to leave things, or waited for check-in until 13.00-14.00.
We chose a 12 noon flight. But the day before, we moved it an hour ahead, that is, at 13.00. There were no more transfers there or back. Therefore, upon arrival, they settled us in 10 minutes and gave us a room overlooking a piece of the sea)). I deliberately do not fly with Join, I chose Tez Tour. But apparently the stars somehow formed, that even on the plane our trip had already become strange) But this is a separate story. So the hotel - advantages: beautiful, compact, well-groomed territory. There is a lot of greenery, palm trees are beautiful, but there are few flowers, we have seen more in hotels below the level. But they didn’t go for flowers! ). Service is great! Almost everywhere. It's just the human factor.
Receptionist is incomparable. Of course, there is also rudeness, but this is from the Russian-speaking guesthouse, this is when you want to write a complaint). But at the reception everyone is hospitable, they will prompt, decide, knowledge of languages - English, Arabic, German and Russian. Choose any. Rooms - we lived in a villa. Spacious, everything is there: shampoos, cream, hair conditioner, shower cap, bathrobes and slippers. You need an iron - they will bring it along with the board. They cleaned every day, but none of the towels were twisted for us, and I really wanted to show my friend the art of maids. ) The bar is free - cola, sprite, water, juices, only beer is paid - two kinds - 5 dollars. jar. The biggest disadvantage of all the rooms in the hotel is that the air conditioners are located in such a way that they blow directly into the head. The way out is to leave one card - the air conditioner is on, which we did safely. But as soon as you turn it off, the cold lasts for 20 minutes.
Take fumigators if you want to sleep with the doors open. There are mosquitoes. Food - someone wrote that the horror, there is nothing. Don't believe! Such an abundance is still to be found in Egypt! Breakfast is standard, almost the same choice all days, but the variety is great. I don’t eat salads with mayonnaise for lunch, so I can’t say anything about their taste, but they were. Lunches and dinners are always varied. Every evening a themed dinner of some country, there were Indonesian and German and English and Ukrainian cuisines - they even rolled cabbage rolls, well, as they imagine) There were grilled tuna, and sushi, and stuffed quail and grilled ducks and turkeys, kofta, noodles, dumplings, grilled lamb.
Seafood is mainly squid, three or four types of fish, while shrimp was in micro haute cuisine - in a glass with some vegetable soufflé )) and all sorts of dishes from various types of meat. I am special in meat, I can say that they know how to cook it there! There were vegetables, but the tomatoes were not tasty, and the eggplants... oh, in any form. In different forms. Yummy, there were artichokes, zucchini, pumpkin. You can always mix yourself a salad. Sweets. . . there they are micro, but beautiful and tasty. Those who, like me, do not like cloying, could also enjoy it. And even more so for the sweet tooth! Both Eastern and European. The restaurant always monitors the filling. Whenever you come, by the end of dinner or lunch - there is always everything! From fruits - plums, they were scattered (well, as always, our bags) guava, pomegranate, bananas and small ones, including dates of three varieties - for an amateur, oranges, apples, etc. Juices packaged not diluted. No yuppies!
Wine - red, white, rose, but sour... horror! Cocktails with alcohol and without all this is included in the oline. In the morning, coffee and tea are brought in a kettle. There is one senior manager in the restaurant, it seems like Mahmud or Mohammed, curly-haired like that, when his shift - all the waiters rustle and fly, everything shines and the service is fast. When the second - they are relaxed, so how lucky. But overall friendly and helpful. Although on the first day, while we went for sweets, our plates of food were taken from us. Everything was cleaned instantly) Sometimes you could wait for a cocktail, and they brought it when you had already eaten in principle)) it was the same with wine. In general, the main thing is not to be nervous and then everything will be brought. And the Belgians were sitting next to us, they brought them a cocktail with a larger dose of alcohol, we with a minimum. We even compared them with them)) I think the bartender just splashed. . . they were surprised that the cocktails are the same but look different).
Further - the beaches, there are cons. But this is only for those who want to be near the sea and prefer lying by the pool the beach, the sea and swimming in the early morning. Before 7 in the morning they are not allowed into the sea! A rope hangs, a guard sits and watches so that no one goes swimming! I have never seen anything like this in any hotel! Moreover, there are no currents there, the sun is high in the morning. This is incomprehensible. And it hurts even more when we stand so early in the morning about 10 people, and from the neighboring almost abandoned hotel people calmly swim to our pontoon, but we can’t! Next - about the places on the beach! On the first day we come to the beach, and everything is busy there... do you think people? No towels and no one! And this continued for no one until 3 o'clock in the afternoon! At 4 the beach closes!
The sun there at three o'clock is already setting behind the mountains and that's it, voila, it's time to go to the rooms) Rather, they collect all the towels and pillows (yes, they are there). We found out, it means that there is such a practice that you need to leave something like cream, glasses, a scarf, a cap, and then this place is yours, that is, is it occupied ? ! Well, in general, I flooded the next morning at 5.30, as a result, flippers, scarves, caps were tied in the front rows, but there was no one! I found it in the third row... lay until 9. Do you think someone appeared? Two couples came - that's it! In general, it takes a long time to describe, but as it turned out later, places were being sold there, the people of Kiev wrote a complaint against two couples. One evening we waited until everyone left, and leaving with the scourge, we left our scarves there. He approved, but said they could take it. But you told us what to leave? We arrive early in the morning at 6.30 voila, our scarves are gone, and there are these two couples of starpence, in the places where we left our scarves! And it was precisely on them that there was a complaint, as it turned out later.
Well, what can I say, all this spoiled the rest. A friend went to look for shawls at the reception, and then we decided to tell all the hospitality, to which she was rude to us, but promised to sort it out. We said otherwise write a complaint! I don’t know what they did there, but the scourge and lifeguard the next day rustled on the beach like never before. But we must pay tribute to there two scourge fight. And with the first boy, this was not the case! But in those days he worked at the pool. And on the day of departure they offered us 1 hour for free after 12, apparently so that we would not file a complaint! ))) But this outraged many and people raged there. I hope they take action. As for the seats by the pool and on other terraces, there are no problems.
Then there are more cons (although for someone like it) - if you want discos, then this is not in Stella. In the evenings live music, they sing a little, play the guitar, sometimes belly dancing and with skirts. There was a party in a hookah bar on the beach with a fire show - 5 euros entrance. Well, this) At 22.00 the hotel is quiet and smooth and no one. Near the hotel - 10 minutes to walk, a new shopping mall was built there were free performances and very nothing). The hotel has a kids club, children's disco. It takes place in the evening on the 7th floor, not far from the reception, if anything they will tell you where. There is also a bar where after 22.00 you can drink and dance. There are two a la carte restaurants. One Italian, the second Asian - seafood there for a fee and at a much higher price than in the city. There are only three pools, two large and one with a jacuzzi and a great spa center, there is also a gym and a sauna. Sauna is free. Massages - from 70 USD.
The hotel itself was designed by the Italians. In principle, it is thought out. But to wash your feet separately from the sand - there is no such thing, you have to go to the showers. But on the other hand, there are toilets and showers next to all the places where there are trestle beds, they are hidden in the rock. The hotel has a crazy security system - somehow we were returning from the old city, and it took us 5 minutes to go to the villa, but we were forced to return and go to the reception, and he was on the 7th floor, to check what we were carrying in packages, we had to go around the hotel all. Otake. And in the last two days, the wind season has begun! On the beach it blows away, blows away, it’s already uncomfortable to leave the sea, people bathed in clothes. Since the beach is located on a rock, in windy weather there is nothing to go there, as for me. Unless those who like to bask in the pool.
The reef on the left is dead. Nobody! On the right - 10 meters dead. Further normal. Despite the fact that this is Naama - she saw everyone - and even a large octopus, found a moray eel, who needs to rent her house)) Lionfish, stone fish... well, all the standard inhabitants, and even a turtle sailed to the pier - which is on the right. But I found out about it on the day of departure from the lifeguard of the pier. On the day of arrival, I was shocked - such a hotel, level, and the pier is broken - the steps are broken and rusty, there is a pontoon, but there are no stairs... in general, one disorder. But the reef is beautiful.
Four days before our departure, they suddenly changed the steps in the stairs, painted the pier... but they forbade swimming and limited it to buoys exactly to the right of the stairs - and there is the most beauty! Although until those days they swam. The reason is that there is a military unit nearby - there are no hotels. And now they call the reception and complain, the rescuer flies. Although it is still 200 meters to swim to that military unit. In general, there is nowhere to roam especially 150 meters from the pontoon to the pier. And that's it! In general, the hotel itself is good! If I choose it again, then when I'm much older and definitely from April to October. Otherwise it will blow into the sea)
We chose a 12 noon flight. But the day before, we moved it an hour ahead, that is, at 13.00. There were no more transfers there or back. Therefore, upon arrival, they settled us in 10 minutes and gave us a room overlooking a piece of the sea)). I deliberately do not fly with Join, I chose Tez Tour. But apparently the stars somehow formed, that even on the plane our trip had already become strange) But this is a separate story. So the hotel - advantages: beautiful, compact, well-groomed territory. There is a lot of greenery, palm trees are beautiful, but there are few flowers, we have seen more in hotels below the level. But they didn’t go for flowers! ). Service is great! Almost everywhere. It's just the human factor.
Receptionist is incomparable. Of course, there is also rudeness, but this is from the Russian-speaking guesthouse, this is when you want to write a complaint). But at the reception everyone is hospitable, they will prompt, decide, knowledge of languages - English, Arabic, German and Russian. Choose any. Rooms - we lived in a villa. Spacious, everything is there: shampoos, cream, hair conditioner, shower cap, bathrobes and slippers. You need an iron - they will bring it along with the board. They cleaned every day, but none of the towels were twisted for us, and I really wanted to show my friend the art of maids. ) The bar is free - cola, sprite, water, juices, only beer is paid - two kinds - 5 dollars. jar. The biggest disadvantage of all the rooms in the hotel is that the air conditioners are located in such a way that they blow directly into the head. The way out is to leave one card - the air conditioner is on, which we did safely. But as soon as you turn it off, the cold lasts for 20 minutes.
Take fumigators if you want to sleep with the doors open. There are mosquitoes. Food - someone wrote that the horror, there is nothing. Don't believe! Such an abundance is still to be found in Egypt! Breakfast is standard, almost the same choice all days, but the variety is great. I don’t eat salads with mayonnaise for lunch, so I can’t say anything about their taste, but they were. Lunches and dinners are always varied. Every evening a themed dinner of some country, there were Indonesian and German and English and Ukrainian cuisines - they even rolled cabbage rolls, well, as they imagine) There were grilled tuna, and sushi, and stuffed quail and grilled ducks and turkeys, kofta, noodles, dumplings, grilled lamb.
Seafood is mainly squid, three or four types of fish, while shrimp was in micro haute cuisine - in a glass with some vegetable soufflé )) and all sorts of dishes from various types of meat. I am special in meat, I can say that they know how to cook it there! There were vegetables, but the tomatoes were not tasty, and the eggplants... oh, in any form. In different forms. Yummy, there were artichokes, zucchini, pumpkin. You can always mix yourself a salad. Sweets. . . there they are micro, but beautiful and tasty. Those who, like me, do not like cloying, could also enjoy it. And even more so for the sweet tooth! Both Eastern and European. The restaurant always monitors the filling. Whenever you come, by the end of dinner or lunch - there is always everything! From fruits - plums, they were scattered (well, as always, our bags) guava, pomegranate, bananas and small ones, including dates of three varieties - for an amateur, oranges, apples, etc. Juices packaged not diluted. No yuppies!
Wine - red, white, rose, but sour... horror! Cocktails with alcohol and without all this is included in the oline. In the morning, coffee and tea are brought in a kettle. There is one senior manager in the restaurant, it seems like Mahmud or Mohammed, curly-haired like that, when his shift - all the waiters rustle and fly, everything shines and the service is fast. When the second - they are relaxed, so how lucky. But overall friendly and helpful. Although on the first day, while we went for sweets, our plates of food were taken from us. Everything was cleaned instantly) Sometimes you could wait for a cocktail, and they brought it when you had already eaten in principle)) it was the same with wine. In general, the main thing is not to be nervous and then everything will be brought. And the Belgians were sitting next to us, they brought them a cocktail with a larger dose of alcohol, we with a minimum. We even compared them with them)) I think the bartender just splashed. . . they were surprised that the cocktails are the same but look different).
Further - the beaches, there are cons. But this is only for those who want to be near the sea and prefer lying by the pool the beach, the sea and swimming in the early morning. Before 7 in the morning they are not allowed into the sea! A rope hangs, a guard sits and watches so that no one goes swimming! I have never seen anything like this in any hotel! Moreover, there are no currents there, the sun is high in the morning. This is incomprehensible. And it hurts even more when we stand so early in the morning about 10 people, and from the neighboring almost abandoned hotel people calmly swim to our pontoon, but we can’t! Next - about the places on the beach! On the first day we come to the beach, and everything is busy there... do you think people? No towels and no one! And this continued for no one until 3 o'clock in the afternoon! At 4 the beach closes!
The sun there at three o'clock is already setting behind the mountains and that's it, voila, it's time to go to the rooms) Rather, they collect all the towels and pillows (yes, they are there). We found out, it means that there is such a practice that you need to leave something like cream, glasses, a scarf, a cap, and then this place is yours, that is, is it occupied ? ! Well, in general, I flooded the next morning at 5.30, as a result, flippers, scarves, caps were tied in the front rows, but there was no one! I found it in the third row... lay until 9. Do you think someone appeared? Two couples came - that's it! In general, it takes a long time to describe, but as it turned out later, places were being sold there, the people of Kiev wrote a complaint against two couples. One evening we waited until everyone left, and leaving with the scourge, we left our scarves there. He approved, but said they could take it. But you told us what to leave? We arrive early in the morning at 6.30 voila, our scarves are gone, and there are these two couples of starpence, in the places where we left our scarves! And it was precisely on them that there was a complaint, as it turned out later.
Well, what can I say, all this spoiled the rest. A friend went to look for shawls at the reception, and then we decided to tell all the hospitality, to which she was rude to us, but promised to sort it out. We said otherwise write a complaint! I don’t know what they did there, but the scourge and lifeguard the next day rustled on the beach like never before. But we must pay tribute to there two scourge fight. And with the first boy, this was not the case! But in those days he worked at the pool. And on the day of departure they offered us 1 hour for free after 12, apparently so that we would not file a complaint! ))) But this outraged many and people raged there. I hope they take action. As for the seats by the pool and on other terraces, there are no problems.
Then there are more cons (although for someone like it) - if you want discos, then this is not in Stella. In the evenings live music, they sing a little, play the guitar, sometimes belly dancing and with skirts. There was a party in a hookah bar on the beach with a fire show - 5 euros entrance. Well, this) At 22.00 the hotel is quiet and smooth and no one. Near the hotel - 10 minutes to walk, a new shopping mall was built there were free performances and very nothing). The hotel has a kids club, children's disco. It takes place in the evening on the 7th floor, not far from the reception, if anything they will tell you where. There is also a bar where after 22.00 you can drink and dance. There are two a la carte restaurants. One Italian, the second Asian - seafood there for a fee and at a much higher price than in the city. There are only three pools, two large and one with a jacuzzi and a great spa center, there is also a gym and a sauna. Sauna is free. Massages - from 70 USD.
The hotel itself was designed by the Italians. In principle, it is thought out. But to wash your feet separately from the sand - there is no such thing, you have to go to the showers. But on the other hand, there are toilets and showers next to all the places where there are trestle beds, they are hidden in the rock. The hotel has a crazy security system - somehow we were returning from the old city, and it took us 5 minutes to go to the villa, but we were forced to return and go to the reception, and he was on the 7th floor, to check what we were carrying in packages, we had to go around the hotel all. Otake. And in the last two days, the wind season has begun! On the beach it blows away, blows away, it’s already uncomfortable to leave the sea, people bathed in clothes. Since the beach is located on a rock, in windy weather there is nothing to go there, as for me. Unless those who like to bask in the pool.
The reef on the left is dead. Nobody! On the right - 10 meters dead. Further normal. Despite the fact that this is Naama - she saw everyone - and even a large octopus, found a moray eel, who needs to rent her house)) Lionfish, stone fish... well, all the standard inhabitants, and even a turtle sailed to the pier - which is on the right. But I found out about it on the day of departure from the lifeguard of the pier. On the day of arrival, I was shocked - such a hotel, level, and the pier is broken - the steps are broken and rusty, there is a pontoon, but there are no stairs... in general, one disorder. But the reef is beautiful.
Four days before our departure, they suddenly changed the steps in the stairs, painted the pier... but they forbade swimming and limited it to buoys exactly to the right of the stairs - and there is the most beauty! Although until those days they swam. The reason is that there is a military unit nearby - there are no hotels. And now they call the reception and complain, the rescuer flies. Although it is still 200 meters to swim to that military unit. In general, there is nowhere to roam especially 150 meters from the pontoon to the pier. And that's it! In general, the hotel itself is good! If I choose it again, then when I'm much older and definitely from April to October. Otherwise it will blow into the sea)
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