Hotel - only good words

Written: 4 january 2009
Travel time: 11 — 18 december 2008
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: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 8.0
I want to say right away in Egypt for the 1st time (there is nothing to compare with, Crimea does not count), so forgive me for, perhaps, excessive emotionality! We went on a last-minute ticket (3 days for the training camp, but the price is fantastic $ 1210 for three 2 adults + children, everything is included) in general, the crisis played into the hands in this case, the prices collapsed by 50%, and if the money was saved in advance in USD then the song!
So all organizational issues are settled - rest is ahead. We flew from Donetsk with Pegasus, I was a little surprised that all operators have their own counter at the Airport, and Pegasus used TEZ Tour, well, yes, this is a question for the company's image and nothing more, The representative appeared on time, the queue dissipated quickly, they also quickly passed control, but then it turned out that the flight was delayed for 2 hours (with charters it’s all the time all this time for almost 3 hours people wandered between chairs and duty free in a poorly heated room and warmed only by the thought of the upcoming vacation. but in general it’s probably the owners of duty agree with carriers about delay because at this moment our fellow citizens immeasurably consume alcohol in the above institution (the soul asks).
The flight passed without incident and we are in Egypt, having downloaded in advance all the necessary forms from the Internet and having prepared, we go through control in 5-10 minutes (immediately prepare money for visas 15 USD per person, preferably without change; a child, if entered in the passport of one from parents - free of charge, by the way, the camera was not registered, although this is often written on the Internet).

Then the Pegasus staff met, indicated the bus number and off we went!
I want to note the work of PEGASA right away - not a single remark, everything is organized in the highest degree clearly and culturally, thank you very much, otherwise you read and think you can overpay 200 bucks with a mezzanine tour, only to have no problems !!
Our hotel is the 1st in terms of unloading (it was somewhat embarrassing that from the whole flight we were the only ones going to SULTAN), so after another 10 minutes we were at the hotel, the accompanying guide from Pegasus - IRINA waited until we were given the keys to the room, asked if everything suits us and only after that the Pegasus bus moved to the following hotels.
The hotel is immediately the first plus, despite the fact that we arrived 15 minutes after the end of dinner, we were offered to have dinner, and they did not push us at all.
Instead of a standard room with an extra bed for a child (which they counted on), we got a suite (suite), that is, a separate room for me and my wife (double bed, separate for a child) and absolutely free of charge, of course, the view is not of the sea, but all still luxury and not in the view from the window. Everything worked in the room, 3 Russian channels, 2 conishens, a bar, an exhaust fan in the toilet, an electric safe. True mosquitoes - so stock up on fumigators and go!
cleaning in the room - no complaints, nothing was lost, every day 1.5 liters of water, even when they hung a sign not to clean it - the water was near the door, shampoos, gels were also updated every day, and even funny if you want a new towel, throw the old one on the floor in the bathroom!
Bakshish (tip) - for cleaning the room left 2 times 1
Dol by the way did not notice the difference with a tip and without.
Nutrition - maybe it’s not enough for someone, but damn everything that they collected they didn’t eat a variety of oromous, both salads and meat and fish, and something new appeared every day.

If you study the schedule in different bars, then you can constantly (all day) eat while traveling from bar to bar (if there is a goal in this)
ALL Inclusive - everything is really real in any bar for free, and they pour it into human glasses, and you can take 4-5 pieces in your hands (no problem), they also make alk cocktails, without alk - no question. By the way, on the last day, after after they took off the bracelets, without any problems in the bar they poured everything at will !!!!
The population of the hotel is 80% Russian-speaking (Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Russians), then 20% are Italians, Germans, Englishmen, Swedes, and even at the beginning there were quite a lot of Arabs!
Animation - to be honest, at 4 and no more, it seems like it is, but I would like to be more active !!!
Beach- Pluses two calls on the plates + pantone, by the way, calls on the plates still need to be looked for !! ! We didn’t buy special shoes - in principle they managed, the corals are not so hot, but for the first time they are still amazing !!! ! in season I suspect with places on the beach I strained because it’s a no brainer that there are more rooms in the hotel than sunbeds on the beach, but we didn’t experience any inconvenience !!!
Cleanliness and cleaning - both on the beach and in the hotel are awesome - they are constantly paddling, doing something sand rowing, planting trees, watering, washing everything that can be washed (the toilet is cleaned every 15-30 minutes).
Pools 2 warm (water +29) and 2 cold + 19 (although it seems somewhere around 17-18 no more), there are flies near the pools, they don’t let you sunbathe a pancake !!!
in the evening it's boring, there are few young people, mostly people with families and for ,,,, , there is nowhere to go beyond the territory around one hotel and the desert!!!!

Useful advice - stock up on souvenirs and all sorts of knick-knacks (can opener handles, everything you have enough imagination for, you can compensate for this with conventional units, making small presents you will get the most favorable attitude towards yourself, even in a restaurant waiters will fuss around you with wine, etc. ). e) gave the bartender on the beach a baseball cap, so he then resorted to a sunbed and asked what I wanted !!!
the staff is friendly, like to communicate, everyone understands quite well in Russian
Twice a day there is a bus to NAAMA Bay, our nearest point. Sign up in advance because there may not be places, but a taxi costs 5 pounds. To bargain with the Arabs, you need to have enough patience, sticky is not the right word, but you can find out how much the goods cost after 10 minutes of communication, and the price from the original can drop by 2-3 times.
useful advice - First go to the so-called supermarket - a small store where prices for goods are indicated in pounds, so you can at least approximately navigate the real price of the goods. And also change dollars for pounds (it’s more interesting to bargain in them - the price is more realistic and again the exchange rate in the bank is 5.4 - 1 dollars, and in the market they consider 5 to one, but keep in mind that unspent pounds can be exchanged back for dollars only upon presentation of a check on the exchange of dollars for pounds !!! ! If you don't ask, they will never give you a check!!!!
summary - have a rest with pleasure, the hotel is super, although there are more luxurious ones, the location is also not the ceiling, but who goes for what !!??? ! PRICE-
QUALITY is perhaps the best option, and even if you intend to do it in December, then by 18, the cold winds from the sea begin and the sea is rough !! !
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