Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
7.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
8.0
Food:
9.0
Amenities:
7.0
The first time we went to Egypt, so for a long time, or rather 3 months, we asked the price and read reviews about different hotels and the country as a whole. After reading a lot of reviews and asking around with friends who have already been in Egypt, plus also learning from the tour operator (not everything can be trusted, of course, since the tour operator is interested in selling and can offer you bad options). As a result, we chose 5 hotels with the majority of good reviews, and then 2 of them - Sunrise and Radison, both 5 *. They even chose Radison and already wanted to go there, but the tour operator told us that there were no standard rooms on Radison anymore, and only a $200 more expensive room remained, which did not suit us. There were seats on Sunrise, so we went to Sunrise.
From the very beginning, they decided to spoil our vacation - the flight was postponed from 13.00 to 21.00 without a clear explanation of the reasons, then another 2 hours of waiting at the airport, also without any explanation, so we took off at 13.00 at 23.00. A big "thank you" to Utair and Khors. At the airport we were told that the flight was a charter one and they could take off whenever they wanted. Maybe for someone this is not "-", but if you have a vacation not for a month, but only for two weeks and once a year, then you begin to appreciate every day. A few more words about Utair's aircraft - small, stuffy in the cabin, it stinks of some kind of fuel or oil, old, there is little legroom, the seats are not comfortable - in short, even 3.5 hours of flight are hard, neither sleep normally nor sit. Moreover, a lot of people flew who started their vacation already at the airport, thumping alcohol from duty free from plastic cups, continued this business on the plane. Isn't all the joy of a vacation going to swell and be forgotten? Well, the main thing flew normally and well.
The second minus is already at the airport upon arrival, we were immediately bred by the "representatives" of the Anex tour. Immediately they began to shout: "who is from Aneks here, let's go and buy visas! ". Naturally, everyone rushed there, there was a line in two rows - well, we, out of ignorance, too. There, the representative of Anexa Mohammed simply “sold” us a visa for $17 per person, which costs $15 and it seems that you can’t buy it at all if you don’t travel outside the Sinai Peninsula. Having bought, according to Muhammad, an official visa, we went to passport control where we were given an arrival stamp. Then a girl was waiting for us, again from Anex, who checked vouchers and sent people on buses to the hotel. An Egyptian was standing near the bus, who offered everyone to load their things, for which he asked for $ 1. We loaded ourselves. Already on the road it turned out that almost all of our bus goes to Sunrise.
Since we arrived at 2 am, they settled us immediately, put on bracelets. They offered a room with a sea view for $ 20 per night, they refused. We had to look for the room ourselves at night, but we found it according to the signs, the things were brought immediately to the room after 10 minutes. The room has an energy-saving system - on cards, that is, without a card, neither air conditioning nor light works. The room is clean, not very large with a balcony, a view of the courtyard with palm trees and partly of the sea. In the room: large bed, TV, built-in safe in the closet, air conditioning, shower, toilet, washbasin, sofa, small refrigerator with water + Pepsi, Sprite, Fanta 1 bottle free of charge. Of the minuses - a noisy air conditioner, who is sensitive may not fall asleep, but we turned it off at night and slept normally. Near the washbasin, towels, soap, shampoo, shower gel - all for free.
They cleaned the room every day well, every other day we left $ 1 each, so we also put flowers on the bed : ). Water was given every day to the room, two days later they brought a kettle with tea and coffee - also free of charge and without asking, nice. The attitude of the service staff is good, we went to say hello to everyone and smiled - the same to us in return. "Whatever you want people to do to you, do the same to them. " (c).
The hotel is mostly inhabited by Italians, Russians, Ukrainians - but there were also Germans, British, Poles, Belarusians. The Italians mostly have yellow bracelets, the Russians and Ukrainians have green ones, the British and Germans have blue ones. It seems that everyone behaved normally, politely - it was evident that the Italians hardly drink alcohol. There were drunk people, of course, but they were not conspicuous.
As for nutrition: there was no crisis, there was just a lot - meat, fish, fresh vegetables, fruits, salads, cold cuts, pastas, yogurts, various cereals, even steamed vegetables for lovers of a healthy diet. Breakfast from 7.00 to 10.00, lunch from 13.00 to 15.00, dinner from 19.00 to 22.00.
The hotel has 3 pools - one near the sea, a common one near the sea, we rarely went there because it's noisy there and they always go around pulling you to participate in various competitions, one not far from the reception - only for adults, we constantly rested there, quiet and peaceful, and another pool near the entrance to the hotel, near the tennis courts - we did not go to it. There were not always free sunbeds on the common pool, many occupied the sunbeds with towels in the morning and left for half a day, but there were always free places on an adult. Towels were issued once a day, clean normal, some a little shabby.
The sea is excellent, very beautiful - there is a coral reef near the shore, entry into the sea from a pontoon, although when the tide is high, you can also flounder near the shore. The coral itself is very beautiful, many beautiful fish with a mask can swim for hours. Almost always there were a lot of people on the pontoon who do not swim, but just sit, but you can always get through. Everywhere it is written and said a lot that it is impossible to feed the fish, but ours are fed. There are a lot of sunbeds near the sea, enough for everyone, even if you come after 10.00 there is always a place, you don’t need to take it in advance.
Near the sea and near each pool there is a bar where you can take non-alcoholic (from 10.00) and alcoholic drinks (from 11.00) - Pepsi, juices, cocktails, coffee, tea. Every day in a bar near the sea they gave ice cream somewhere from 14.00 to 16.00. According to the AI system, drinks are poured before 00.00 and after 10.00. On system ultra - around the clock.
Animation. A whole group of animators works for Italians, everything is professional from morning to evening - called Going. For all the rest, 4-5 people are animators, of which two are Russian girls. There is animation for everyone else, but it looks weak against the background of the Italians, during the day the games are darts, volleyball (30 min. ), Water polo, cocktail games, but all this takes place after the Italian animation. In the evening there were different entertainment programs in the amphitheater, but there was no discos. Who wants to go to a disco, then you need to go with a team of animators to the city to a disco, it's $ 20-40. Probably with discos animators have their own% since they go all day and invite to night discos. Once we had the imprudence to say that we would think whether we would go or not, so the animator ran after us all day begging us to go, when we told him that we would not go, he was offended and looked askance at us until the end of the rest.
Separately, I would like to say about the representative of the Anex tour - Mohammed. On the very first day, he gathered us for a general meeting, at which 10 minutes. told us about the hotel, and then spent an hour talking about excursions, which are $15-40 more expensive than other agencies. He told us that only he has official excursions, and if we suddenly take a tour from someone else, then our insurance does not work and they won’t give us food on the road, and if anything, no one will help us. It all looked strange to say the least. We took excursions on the beach at the Pyramid agency, so everything went perfectly, they were picked up and brought back without any problems. If you don’t take tours with Muhammad, then he stops noticing you and may not even talk to you. When we approached him to ask about the flight back, he grunted to us without looking - "information on the stand. " Such an attitude is unpleasant, and I don’t want to contact Anex anymore.
The flight back was also delayed - from 17.00 to 22.00 hours, and the room must be checked out according to the rules of the hotel at 12.00, after which the bracelets are cut off and you have to pay for everything. To extend the number until 15.00 you need to pay $25, until 18.00 - $50, then the bracelets are not cut off and you can use everything. So who has a late flight, it is better to extend the room in advance.
In general, I liked the hotel - clean, green, large well-groomed territory, friendly staff, food is very good. Cons - air conditioning, Anex, round trip flights. It’s still unusual if you go to the city, then the Arabs are very annoying - they really want you to buy something, it was very unusual, since it was the first time. It is better for girls not to go to the city alone, especially in revealing outfits.
In general, there were a lot of all sorts of nuances, so you can’t write everything - if you ask anything. But in general - I really liked it! I recommend the hotel.
From the very beginning, they decided to spoil our vacation - the flight was postponed from 13.00 to 21.00 without a clear explanation of the reasons, then another 2 hours of waiting at the airport, also without any explanation, so we took off at 13.00 at 23.00. A big "thank you" to Utair and Khors. At the airport we were told that the flight was a charter one and they could take off whenever they wanted. Maybe for someone this is not "-", but if you have a vacation not for a month, but only for two weeks and once a year, then you begin to appreciate every day. A few more words about Utair's aircraft - small, stuffy in the cabin, it stinks of some kind of fuel or oil, old, there is little legroom, the seats are not comfortable - in short, even 3.5 hours of flight are hard, neither sleep normally nor sit. Moreover, a lot of people flew who started their vacation already at the airport, thumping alcohol from duty free from plastic cups, continued this business on the plane. Isn't all the joy of a vacation going to swell and be forgotten? Well, the main thing flew normally and well.
The second minus is already at the airport upon arrival, we were immediately bred by the "representatives" of the Anex tour. Immediately they began to shout: "who is from Aneks here, let's go and buy visas! ". Naturally, everyone rushed there, there was a line in two rows - well, we, out of ignorance, too. There, the representative of Anexa Mohammed simply “sold” us a visa for $17 per person, which costs $15 and it seems that you can’t buy it at all if you don’t travel outside the Sinai Peninsula. Having bought, according to Muhammad, an official visa, we went to passport control where we were given an arrival stamp. Then a girl was waiting for us, again from Anex, who checked vouchers and sent people on buses to the hotel. An Egyptian was standing near the bus, who offered everyone to load their things, for which he asked for $ 1. We loaded ourselves. Already on the road it turned out that almost all of our bus goes to Sunrise.
Since we arrived at 2 am, they settled us immediately, put on bracelets. They offered a room with a sea view for $ 20 per night, they refused. We had to look for the room ourselves at night, but we found it according to the signs, the things were brought immediately to the room after 10 minutes. The room has an energy-saving system - on cards, that is, without a card, neither air conditioning nor light works. The room is clean, not very large with a balcony, a view of the courtyard with palm trees and partly of the sea. In the room: large bed, TV, built-in safe in the closet, air conditioning, shower, toilet, washbasin, sofa, small refrigerator with water + Pepsi, Sprite, Fanta 1 bottle free of charge. Of the minuses - a noisy air conditioner, who is sensitive may not fall asleep, but we turned it off at night and slept normally. Near the washbasin, towels, soap, shampoo, shower gel - all for free.
They cleaned the room every day well, every other day we left $ 1 each, so we also put flowers on the bed : ). Water was given every day to the room, two days later they brought a kettle with tea and coffee - also free of charge and without asking, nice. The attitude of the service staff is good, we went to say hello to everyone and smiled - the same to us in return. "Whatever you want people to do to you, do the same to them. " (c).
The hotel is mostly inhabited by Italians, Russians, Ukrainians - but there were also Germans, British, Poles, Belarusians. The Italians mostly have yellow bracelets, the Russians and Ukrainians have green ones, the British and Germans have blue ones. It seems that everyone behaved normally, politely - it was evident that the Italians hardly drink alcohol. There were drunk people, of course, but they were not conspicuous.
As for nutrition: there was no crisis, there was just a lot - meat, fish, fresh vegetables, fruits, salads, cold cuts, pastas, yogurts, various cereals, even steamed vegetables for lovers of a healthy diet. Breakfast from 7.00 to 10.00, lunch from 13.00 to 15.00, dinner from 19.00 to 22.00.
The hotel has 3 pools - one near the sea, a common one near the sea, we rarely went there because it's noisy there and they always go around pulling you to participate in various competitions, one not far from the reception - only for adults, we constantly rested there, quiet and peaceful, and another pool near the entrance to the hotel, near the tennis courts - we did not go to it. There were not always free sunbeds on the common pool, many occupied the sunbeds with towels in the morning and left for half a day, but there were always free places on an adult. Towels were issued once a day, clean normal, some a little shabby.
The sea is excellent, very beautiful - there is a coral reef near the shore, entry into the sea from a pontoon, although when the tide is high, you can also flounder near the shore. The coral itself is very beautiful, many beautiful fish with a mask can swim for hours. Almost always there were a lot of people on the pontoon who do not swim, but just sit, but you can always get through. Everywhere it is written and said a lot that it is impossible to feed the fish, but ours are fed. There are a lot of sunbeds near the sea, enough for everyone, even if you come after 10.00 there is always a place, you don’t need to take it in advance.
Near the sea and near each pool there is a bar where you can take non-alcoholic (from 10.00) and alcoholic drinks (from 11.00) - Pepsi, juices, cocktails, coffee, tea. Every day in a bar near the sea they gave ice cream somewhere from 14.00 to 16.00. According to the AI system, drinks are poured before 00.00 and after 10.00. On system ultra - around the clock.
Animation. A whole group of animators works for Italians, everything is professional from morning to evening - called Going. For all the rest, 4-5 people are animators, of which two are Russian girls. There is animation for everyone else, but it looks weak against the background of the Italians, during the day the games are darts, volleyball (30 min. ), Water polo, cocktail games, but all this takes place after the Italian animation. In the evening there were different entertainment programs in the amphitheater, but there was no discos. Who wants to go to a disco, then you need to go with a team of animators to the city to a disco, it's $ 20-40. Probably with discos animators have their own% since they go all day and invite to night discos. Once we had the imprudence to say that we would think whether we would go or not, so the animator ran after us all day begging us to go, when we told him that we would not go, he was offended and looked askance at us until the end of the rest.
Separately, I would like to say about the representative of the Anex tour - Mohammed. On the very first day, he gathered us for a general meeting, at which 10 minutes. told us about the hotel, and then spent an hour talking about excursions, which are $15-40 more expensive than other agencies. He told us that only he has official excursions, and if we suddenly take a tour from someone else, then our insurance does not work and they won’t give us food on the road, and if anything, no one will help us. It all looked strange to say the least. We took excursions on the beach at the Pyramid agency, so everything went perfectly, they were picked up and brought back without any problems. If you don’t take tours with Muhammad, then he stops noticing you and may not even talk to you. When we approached him to ask about the flight back, he grunted to us without looking - "information on the stand. " Such an attitude is unpleasant, and I don’t want to contact Anex anymore.
The flight back was also delayed - from 17.00 to 22.00 hours, and the room must be checked out according to the rules of the hotel at 12.00, after which the bracelets are cut off and you have to pay for everything. To extend the number until 15.00 you need to pay $25, until 18.00 - $50, then the bracelets are not cut off and you can use everything. So who has a late flight, it is better to extend the room in advance.
In general, I liked the hotel - clean, green, large well-groomed territory, friendly staff, food is very good. Cons - air conditioning, Anex, round trip flights. It’s still unusual if you go to the city, then the Arabs are very annoying - they really want you to buy something, it was very unusual, since it was the first time. It is better for girls not to go to the city alone, especially in revealing outfits.
In general, there were a lot of all sorts of nuances, so you can’t write everything - if you ask anything. But in general - I really liked it! I recommend the hotel.
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