Третий сезон в Египте Third season in Egypt

This time the choice of the hotel was the most thorough and took into account simply not the most realistic number of criteria, everything was complicated by the mandatory presence of a free water park on the territory. And here we are, the four of us, flying to an unexplored hotel. On the plane, it was noticeable that everyone was flying positively. During the approach to Sharm, one of the tourists joyfully exclaimed, “And there is our Dessole! ” Outside the portholes, the large letters of our hotel shone brightly. There was a very cool feeling that it was our hotel that stood out clearly from a height. Everyone who flew to our hotel, as if joined the brotherhood. On arrival there was also a separate bus for the hotel. For some reason, they had to shove their suitcases out the window, and inside the seated Arab accepted them. Beautiful Arabic custom! When one girl said that she would rather bring things through the main entrance, I told her that this would be a gross violation of the old tradition and was considered an insult. With the words "Okay, let's not insult the Egyptians, " she also stuck her suitcase out the window. "Savageryss". . . We all hit the road. And so get acquainted, our best Egyptian hotel

Dessole Royal Rojana

Upon arrival, the 24-hour Royal All Inclusive was waiting for us. The manager at the reception gave us the keys and said that we would have very nice rooms. No money in your passport, no rubbish or extortion, just good rooms for you. Very impressed. The entertainer insisted that in 15 minutes he would show us the way, but in Egypt you need to appreciate every minute and we ourselves went to explore the territory. But first, eat! And check out the bar! Oh, now you can move on. The territory is medium in size, but how we wandered in search of a room, however, our wanderings stopped, probably on the seventh day. Dasha's mother and Mishka, who were left to wait for the entertainer, said that they had also been looking for a number for a long time.

- So the Arab said he would show the number?

- Yes, he did just that, he came up to us after 15 minutes and pointed with his finger “There you are. ”

The rooms were really in a good quiet location, and my mother-in-law got a room for four, we called it presidential, both rooms were overlooking the sea. When you check in, there is an Arab trick - hot water does not work, you call the reception, a plumber comes running, opens a tap in the basement and hopes that you will pay him for it. I checked the water, there is water, hmm... what is wrong. There was a knock on the door, a worker came running and said that he would fix the air conditioner for us, according to him, we allegedly called and said that the kander was not working. Apparently, our Arab friend came running to fix the air conditioner even before it "broke". By the way, an hour before check-out from the room, the air conditioner still “broke down” in anticipation of the next guests check-in. As for all these tricks, these are of course my personal guesses, but nevertheless, the third time in Egypt, of which there were two "problem with hot water" and one time with "air conditioning".

After breakfast, two large beaches with a rich underwater world were waiting for us. There were practically no people in the water, despite the temperature of 43 degrees. The coral was large and not bad, but clearly inferior to the coral of the Suconnect diamon beach hotel (former sunrise). Under water, two stingrays, moray eels, lionfish, surgeons, tridacnids and a bunch of other living creatures were waiting for us. Misha, with a joyful mood, climbed from the pontoon into the water to a depth, he was immediately bitten by a fish.

The child is hysterical, he does not want any more sea. After long reassurances, Misha was impressed how the man dived and decided to jump after him too. And for some reason he didn't like it either. Now Misha would not agree to go to the pontoon for any reason. For the next couple of days, the child did not go further than the children's beach, saying, "Dad, there are fish. "

After a couple of days, I suggested that Misha go to the depths in order to scare away the fish. "Daddy let's go! " Now Mishka calmly swam under the pretext that we are not swimming, but scaring the fish, and first dad climbs into the water and scares them with his beard. I felt like some old Hottabych straight. And then Misha descends from the pontoon to shoot fish with a water pistol with water! Fish are very afraid of water. Water fun in the sea took place until 10:00.

At ten in the morning, snoring from speakers was heard on the entire beach, then the cry of “Animacione, apsteeersssssss!!!! ” then the rooster screamed as if they had been beaten on the drum, two hotel anthems played alternately at full volume, and the animators going down to the beach charged with positive everyone who came across them on the way. For Misha, this meant one thing, the water park is open!

From 10:00 to 12:00 on the territory of the large pool there was a complete trash in the water park. Green slide, Orange, yellow then “Daddy, let’s turn that boy off the mattress into the water”, then green again, then “Daddy, the boy climbed onto the mattress again, let’s swim over! ”, then the ball, then yellow again. Enthusiastic cries were heard from the neighboring pool - it was clear how the animators were teaching how to surf right in the pool. Some victorious goal is being scored in the third pool! While we were skating with Misha, two girls from time to time shot at me with a water pistol and hid. Then I took Mishin's bag out of my bag and a cry of horror was heard in the pool. The firefight reached the point where we flew down a waterslide at high speed and managed to reload our pistols in order to shoot each other during the flight.

When the forces to accompany Misha were at the limit, Dasha or Mother-in-law took the watch. On average, a child moved out at a time about 60 times. The bartender by the pool put his soul into making cocktails so much that even non-drinkers would gladly order a cocktail from him. After completing his masterpiece, he collected a couple of grams into a tube and let it be tasted, all of a sudden, what else needs to be added. Mishka demanded that they bring him "Atoshka fries" from the grill of the bar, his highness received potatoes right in the pool at the exit from the hill.

To be honest, in the snack bars near the pools, you could fill up so much that lunch would no longer fit. At 12:00 the water park closed for a break, which means it's lunch time! It was not just a lunch, it was a real feast - a wide variety of meat dishes, salads: Greek, fur coat, Russian salad, delicious ice cream, chefs preparing their masterpieces in front of you. Children's animators in the form of various characters invited children to eat in a special children's area. Bartenders poured unlimited beer and wine at speed. Misha quickly figured out the all-inclusive feature and demanded more and more goodies.

Lunch is over - then the legitimate one and a half hours of quiet time, until the sun changes its mode to evening. By this time, the cleaning was already over in the room and cold juices and cola were waiting in the refrigerator. The alarm clock rang, the clock is 15:30 - it's time to go to the sea! Every evening we had a pleasant choice of which of the two beaches to go to. In the evening, lionfish floated into the water and beckoned with their dangerous feathers, and under the pontoon a crocodile fish lazily rested. Every evening we were waiting for the sunset in the mountains. The sun has gone down and the swim is over. Although at this moment the most interesting representatives of predators are clearly swimming out into the water.

After seeing off the last rays of the African sun, we set off for the green land.

This was the green area of ​ ​ the hotel with grass-cut gazebos and large swing benches. 20 minutes of the green zone after sunset is all that is needed for happiness. True, at that time the neighboring hotel was poisoning cockroaches so that for about 5 minutes everything was covered by some kind of chemical cloud. The problem was solved by lying on the grass itself, as if under a cloud. Lying under a cloud - romance! Having changed, everyone went to the main building to the restaurant. Cocktails and folk dances were waiting for us in the building.

Today there was an Egyptian themed dinner, and accordingly the dances were traditional.

A mini-sphinx with tea met everyone at the entrance. Ah, let's feast again! I almost cried with joy, looking at this feast I repeated every time "I am so happy! " And what masterpieces of confectionery cuisine they created...

A column of chocolates made of custard cakes, multi-colored sugar vases filled with honey cucumbers, various sweet patterns decorated the rows of various cakes. I fell in love with this hotel literally from the first cake. After dinner, a real animation show awaited us. Professional dancers did such things on stage that even I, skeptical about dancing, sat with my mouth open. Especially when two guys asynchronously twisted a large rope, and the rest danced constantly, jumping over it. Such an amazing show was not every day, but nevertheless it was twice a week. Although the rest of the days, too, it was not necessary to miss the show. After the show, Hollywood was waiting for us.

This is an area of ​ ​ Egypt that has living dinosaurs and singing fountains. Dinosaurs, of course, were very pleased, but the fountains were so-so. Considering the entrance fee is seven dollars, it is not necessary to go to Hollywood.

Our hotel was so cool that even after the standard seven nights it was not boring. Every day the schedule is the same and it is very pleasing. As my mother-in-law said, paradise should look like this. Even for such active travelers as Dasha and I, this mode is very pleasing, because this is Egypt with a capital letter. But there were no excursions.

On the second evening we went on a hike to Soho Square, taking tourists from Poltava with us. Who were simply sure that I knew the night road along the desert well. I did not upset anyone that I was here for the first time, and in the end I confidently brought everyone. Since there were no excursions to Soho at all, we went for $ 7 (one way) to Nama Bay. The guys were worried that the six of us would not fit into a taxi, but Egypt would not be Egypt if the Arabs bothered with such things.

Every self-respecting Egyptian on Nama Bay either sells either excursions or hookahs. Pleasant-looking, neat man, in Russian, he told us everything in detail about the excursions and gave his price list. Some dumb type "from the gateway" unconvincingly and rudely offered us his excursions, seeing that we have a brochure with prices, he strategically named all prices 5-10$ cheaper. Without hesitation, we stocked up on excursions from this dumb dude. The Arab was so stern that he even took dollars from me, which they weren’t afraid to accept on the street, but even at the bank, after checking, they kindly advised me to fuse them into some Zimbabwe thread.

Colored Canyon and Blue Hole

Oddly enough, at the agreed time, a minivan arrived for us, and we went to the colored canyon with our new friends from Arkhangelsk and Odessa. The girls were also from the Dessole hotel chain and they proudly flaunted silver and gold bracelets on their hands, which meant that the tourist had a rest in the hotel chain for the first time and had additional privileges, for example, a free extension of the room for late check-out. At one point, our SUV turned into the depths of the humpbacked desert. As if gravity weakened, everyone literally hovered in the air inside the car, and our iron horse rushed farther and farther. We then descended into the canyon.

Based on the photos, I imagined something similar to the Grand Canyon, which I had not seen. In fact, it was something like a piece-canyon. But nevertheless it was cool) True bydlot and got there, a certain Zhora was well noted, scraping his name in various places. After drinking Bedouin tea, we went to the Abu Galum reserve. Soon we changed our iron horses to camels.

True, some tourists slowed down so much that, probably, the ceremony “Put your ass on a camel” lasted about 20 minutes. And it was mostly Arab tourists who slowed down, as if a camel was a rarity for them. After a 40 minute camel ride we arrived at the blue hole. In many booklets, it is presented in this way:

and in fact it looks like this:

And it is located 11900 km to the right of the one in the first photo.

A very spectacular entrance to the blue hole, swimming underwater through the crevice, you seem to be jumping into the infinite depth. And then fish and corals according to the standard, the coral of this reserve is clearly inferior to the Ras Mohamed reserve, nevertheless, I did not climb out of the water for 2 hours. Then we were fed and for everyone there was a paid shower, and a free one for all self-confident ones. That is, the standard Egyptian scam on excursions. But since the guide assured that everything is included in the tour, I belonged to the second group. Moreover, the Arab noticed this, but since he did not see which booth I was in, he had to open each one and check who was washing there personally. When the Arab found me, he tried to learn Russian as quickly as possible in order to explain that it was the shower after the salty sea that was not included in the tour. While the Arab was looking for words, I successfully washed myself. I will not tell you the details of what happened when I went to the toilet for free. On the way back, we were also taken to another factory of the most real perfumes in the world. These spirits turned out to be even real than those that we were told in Cairo, that they were the only real ones. But since there you can drink cold hibiscus on a ball, that's exactly what I did. In the evening we were returned to the hotel.

The next night I had a night quad ride scheduled. In the morning, with the phrase “Look how I can do it, ” I injured my leg on the water slide so badly that I couldn’t even get off it for the first half hour. For the next three hours, I could only lie down. Although there was insurance, but spending precious minutes in Egypt on insurance is a crime. Pain is pain, but the tour is on schedule. Since Dasha and Mother-in-law were frostbitten and Misha was not given to me with them, I had to hobble on the tour myself. The hotel employee was just driving by and offered to give me a lift to the reception when he found out that I needed to go to the hotel barrier, he was very worried about me, and my answer that I was on a tour did not console him at all. However, the guard at the exit from the hotel also looked at me with square eyes. By the way, the security of the hotel is generally credited, they were always ready to help, they asked if everything was in order when we waited a long time for the car.

At the agreed time, some Arab personally took me in his car, at first I thought that they just took me to the organs. Moreover, this driver spoke only Arabic. Then he took two more guys from another Dessoli, it seems that there are solid Dessolis in Sharm. All the way, our driver talked on two phones at the same time, without hanging up and quickly switching between calls. Our theory was that he was thus moonlighting in those. local provider support. As we passed the Welcome to Egypt sign in the opposite direction, the theory about the organs of all three solidified in their thoughts. But in the end we were seated behind the quads. Everyone except me was sold Arafats for $3. So here we go, I noticed that the quad was in high gear and I sensed that the rear racer might not know it. When I turned back, all I had to do was apply the brakes hard. The Arab woman dug into me so much that the whole column turned around. Then we drove along the highway and when it was necessary to go around a standing car, having analyzed the ability to drive the rear Arab, I turned back again. The girl, like a genie, soared through the air, and the ATV, as if controlled by an invisible racer, crossed the track perpendicularly and left for the desert. The flight of the girl was not so much long as spectacular. After lying down for 10 seconds, she got up, sat down behind another quadric and drove on - brutally! The desert at night was simply pleasing to the eye, this is some kind of special feeling. At one point, when the column was traveling at low speed, some Egyptian ran up to me, stuck his finger into the quad bike and it stalled. During the road in our group, an ATV broke down 4 times, and the fourth was with me. Then, according to some tradition, we shouted the name of each of the group in unison. Moreover, the guy from Kazan called such a funny and unpronounceable name that I laughed heartily at the joke, but it turned out to be no joke... he is a Tatar by nationality... While skating, my leg passed.

At the hotel, we met with two Caesars, who were intensely swelling some girls.

For regular guests, those who have silver and gold bracelets, there was a vip cocktail party on the territory of the hotel. It looked well, very impressive and really rich. We did not know this rule at the beginning and passed, our bracelet was not checked. We also liked it very much. At night, my mother-in-law flew to Cairo to visit the pyramids, so Misha and I spent the whole day on the farm.

In principle, the day was the same as all the previous ones and it was gorgeous. In any other place I would not want such monotony, but this is Egypt, it is possible there. In the evening, the Caesars played the Bremen Town Musicians on the guitar. At night, my mother-in-law returned full of impressions, and the next day I went to the Ras-Muhamed reserve to fish.

Ras Mohamed

Dasha and Misha said that they had enough fish in the hotel, so they sent me myself. I was the only Russian speaker on the yacht, the rest were all Arabs. Two guys from Iraq got to know me and told me in order that they were my friends) I didn't argue with Iraq. I really liked the reef, there were three stops for about an hour. The second one was really pleasing to the eye. The ship landed us on the open sea, and sailed on. The guide kept our course, and we sailed somewhere into the distance. Moreover, all the Arabs sailed in a group relatively far from the reef. It's not clear what they were looking at. I swam on the reef itself, and a couple of times there was almost an epic collision. The guide constantly called me to return to the group, but then I realized that it was useless. I gestured that I would swim where I needed to, but only near the reef. In about 40 minutes we reached the ship, and he took us. There was lunch before the third stop, and even though the ship had already stopped, everyone had a leisurely dinner. I asked the guide about the details, he said that this is the most interesting reef.

“When will it be possible to dive? ” I asked.

“You can even now! Jump! The guide saw my indifference to the sea.

Face mask, long jump and I'm already on my way to the reef. There were a lot of tridacnids and other living flowers, which abruptly hid when approached. In general, Ras Mohammed is credited, precisely to the one who is not a bus.

The next day we had a long-awaited excursion to Jordan. Stocking up on food, we got on the bus at 02:00

After 4.5 hours we were returned back to the hotel, saying sorry, the road was flooded, there would be no tour. Get your payment back.

So, in 4.5 hours we saw:

- Desert Dawn

- We spent 2 hours at a gas station near the border.

And most importantly, it's free!

We managed to return to the hotel before breakfast)

So effectively foreign trips have never failed.

I want to say that the Arabs in Egypt have changed for the better over the past two years. Basically, no one clings to you, if you don’t want to bargain, don’t. Of course, we missed this a lot. I really liked this feature, but now it's gone. Now the Egyptians have to overcome their greed and everything will be super. In general, it was so interesting to walk around the places of two years ago. Here Misha was given potatoes for free, but here Misha himself rolled away in a stroller while we were taking pictures. On the ninth day we had a flight to Kyiv after dinner, which perfectly compensated for the arrival in Egypt after dinner)

This was our 26th night in Egypt. During the trip we made friends with wonderful people from Arkhangelsk, Kazan, Odessa and Ufa. Everyone is wonderfully tuned, political issues were raised only in the vein of “Well, how are you guys doing there? ” When one Briton asked me and a Kazan guy about relationships, the guy from Kazan replied “It doesn't matter, it's war beetween our political”. Girls from Arkhangelsk also asked about the topic “Well, how are you guys? And then our politicians with their news have already got everyone. In conclusion, I want to say, no matter how good it is in other countries, and Egypt is always unique.

Travel Information

Date of travel: 25.09. 2015 – 04.10. 2015

Hotel: Dessole Royal Rojana. Highly recommended

Duration: 9 nights (Sharm El Sheikh)

Tour agency in Kyiv: Tasty Travel

Operator: Pegasus (Shit)

Tour type: Full package - insurance, flight, transfers, hotel, 24 hours royal all inclusive

Excursions: Colored Canyon + Blue Hole, ATVs, Ras Mohamed

Purchasing a ticket: 3 weeks in advance