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FLY! Hooray! Here it is, vacation! Winter, sea, sun - means us to Egypt. The budget is average, but I also want a good one, I shoveled the Internet, we stopped at Faraana Reef Club 4 *, we don’t take a snack all, reviews are not advised. Host Anex tour. We are afraid, but they have this hotel cheaper by 350-400 bucks than others. Departure - terminal F. They began to register. My luggage was removed from the tape and without explanation asked to wait (it is not known what). Friends ridiculed this topic, they said that I received an orientation from the series "They are wanted by the police. " According to the overheard words of the employees, it turned out that I was already registered at another counter without me. We were waiting for the cancellation of the erroneous registration. We were the last to get on the flight, but we got seats in the 5th row, and not by the toilet, as we were offered at first : ). We flew on time, which made us very happy)). Utair company, Boeing 747 aircraft, good crew. Takeoff and landing is excellent, the ears are not blocked. Boltanka was several times.
Hooray!! ! And here is EGYPT!! ! I'm going for the cards. Employees of Anex take a card, twist it, write 3 letters (it turned out to be UKR) and at that time they are trying to sell a visa for 17 bucks (and people are being led). We said “Our husband has already bought everything” and went to the control (four of us flew - three young ladies and the husband of one of us). They wrote shinai onli on the card. I, as the instigator of not paying for a visa, was put up first. The customs officer smiled, affixed stamps, and only then asked where the visa was. I answered only about Sinai, and received a passport. Friends repeated everything. We got our luggage and went to the bus. It's brand new, clean, music. Tezes and turtesses had worse beads. The guide campaigned to go to Cairo - "Whoever has not been to the pyramids has not seen Egypt. " But we decided to relax at home at the hotel, without the possibility of extreme sports.
HOTEL. The guide took us to the chairs and offered rooms according to our wishes for 20 bucks per room. We agreed, maybe in vain, but the rooms were well located. Nearby, on the 1st floor, with access to the main pool and bar, and reception with a restaurant. Wonderful. First we were sent to dinner, and then they took us to our rooms. We quickly unpacked, looked around and noticed that the hair dryer was not working. Friends came to visit, looked at the hair dryer - for sure, it doesn’t work. We called the reception, TWO masters came to repair one frail hair dryer)). A second later they said that the hair dryer was working. We asked what happened. And it was, as in a joke: "But first you need to plug the cord into the outlet. " Bai-by van dollar : ) . The room was cleaned normally, left for tea, chocolate, we always had everything. Mini-bar is paid. 0.5 of water Nestlé.6 lbs, Metro 1.35 lbs. A couple of times they took water, bought it in the city and delivered it.
The hotel area is very green and beautiful. To the beach passed through the entire hotel. On the territory there is a kids club with a children's bass near the reception. There is also the main big bass with an artificial wave and 2 hydro massagers. African bar nearby. From the water is also available. The second pool is smaller, also with a bar, next to the jacuzzi BUT. BASS WITHOUT BREAKING! Although the agency said that everyone was warming up, only the last one, near the Spa, was warmed up. And a jacuzzi. The basses are excellent, they would be in the summer!
PLAYAYAYAZHZHZHZH AND SEA! Steps lead to the beach. I read somewhere that there were 105 of them. They didn't count, but it was easy to walk, it was difficult to climb up only after a hearty lunch : ). On the descent there are: a shower, a toilet, a shisha bar (min. order 5 dollars per person), layouts with magazines, sand crafts, a grill restaurant, a pizza bar (alcohol - only beer). The beach is wide, there are not many sun loungers. On what they lie in the "rush hour" in the season, I do not know. It is closed by a rock from the wind, but this does not mean that it does not exist at all. On the edge of the pontoon, it feels good.
The sea of all shades, from light blue near the coast to dark blue, where yachts with divers stand every day. The entrance to the sea from the shore is very comfortable. They were without shoes. People who - how. Not far from the shore, a square pontoon is fixed, where you can sunbathe or watch the fish. The pontoon of the hotel is wooden. There are two gangways on it - a wooden one (a little slippery on the last steps) with iron handrails (the right one was torn off during our vacation) and an iron one, like on a yacht. The reef is beautiful and vibrant. There are a lot of fish, especially on warm days. If you face the sea, then on the right, behind the rock, there is a wild beach and a reef, along it a paid submarine runs. It's deep right there. To the left of the pontoon is a curly-shaped reef, with crevices, very beautiful. We swam from our pontoon to the Oasis Reef pontoon (plastic). You can't access it from our hotel (along the shore). But we used it when leaving the sea, walked along the beach and climbed through the gap in the barrier. It was useless to drive us, because. we left their territory, and did not try to get in.
Really, a lot of fish. We saw a large stingray and a moray eel behind the pontoon. Near the shore we observed a stone fish and two speckled stingrays - white and blue. They dug into the sand to the right of the red buoy. There is a strange twist there, not for nothing a buoy - I swim straight, I look, and my legs row to the left : ) and pushes me to the corals. After the storm, a lot of jellyfish arrived (and garbage, unfortunately, too).
ANIMATION. The main contingent in the hotel was Italians, then Russians, a few Poles and us Ukrainians, there were four. By the middle of the week, ours pulled up and we outweighed the Poles)). The animation is not very intrusive, no one is calling anywhere, but the people on the beach are cheerfully participating in everything. Yoga, fun competitions, volleyball.
Own disco "Zodiac" in two floors. On the first floor there is a dance floor and a bar with expensive drinks (not included in the all). On the second bar all, billiards - 6 dollars / hour, table football - 2 dollars / hour. Played several times before disco. On the ground floor at eight in the evening there is a children's disco. At 24.00-02.00 adult. At 22.00 in the amphitheater (nearby) animation show. We went on the first evening, caught the height of the show. The audience threw their shoes to the animators, who sniffed them and threw them back. We left, unable to withstand such unrestrained fun. We returned on Wednesday for an Egyptian evening. We remember him. In front of us, three rows down and to the side of us, Italians from one company sat down and began to chat with each other, yelling at the whole amphitheater. The apotheosis of this cheerful communication was the word C_ _A shouted to friends at the top of their lungs in purely Russian! (that is, the opposite of a male), and we realized that not only English is becoming the language of international communication. The show itself consisted of a skirt dance and a belly dance. Pretty professional.
NUTRITION. The description of the hotel offered three types of food. 1. ALL INCLUSIVE - breakfast, lunch, dinner, local alcohol. 2. Ultra ALL INCLUSIVE - plus some imported drinks. SNACK ALL - instead of lunch - snacks on the beach. We took ALL INCLUSIVE - orange bracelets. A lot of Russian people were on the snack - lilac bracelets. They had lunch with them: champagne in the morning on the beach, salted fish, seeds, black bread with lard, well done : ). At some lunchtime, someone from the Snekovites shouted "go quickly, they give you potatoes. " We don’t know what they were fed before, they said that they were butriks, sort of. Dryer, in short. We decided that it was not in vain that we took the all - soup for lunch was very useful. If you rest for two weeks, then snack all is more profitable (from personal experience). Once they rested for 14 days, then in the second week they didn’t go for lunch, they didn’t fit : ). Breakfasts and dinners were held in the main restaurant, in the reception building. A huge amount of food. Breakfast: scrambled eggs to order, two more types of eggs in trays, sliced cheese-sausage-tomatoes, cottage cheese, potatoes, meat, pancakes are fried in front of you, muesli, buns, puff pastry with gravy. Diced fruits, yoghurts.
Dinners. Rice, potatoes, spaghetti, salads (there was always a salad with crab halves), sliced vegetables, sauces, fish, beef in various forms. Always a different dish of the day. The fish is excellent. Fruits - melon, tangerines, oranges, dates, guava, bananas. Sweet themed, once they gave ice cream. Everything is very delicious.
Dinner. The hotel has changed the conditions of all inclusive due to a small number of vacationers. From the main restaurant, lunches for everyone were moved to a grill restaurant on the beach. Super. Sea view, sun, fresh air. Fish, chicken, lamb on the bone - grilled, beef with vegetables, spaghetti, fried potatoes, sauté , lasagne, salad of the day, sliced vegetables, mashed soup, biscuits, fruit. For the first time in 9 trips to Egypt, I ate potatoes that were not raw and tasty! Long live the chef!
ABOUT MISCELLANEOUS. Twice a week you can make an appointment for dinner at the grill restaurant on Sunday and Thursday. You need to sign up the day before at the reception. My friend's husband had a birthday on Thursday. When recording, they reported this, asked to congratulate. We were promised, they offered us a cake for $21, but we refused. Came for dinner, no one nothing. They swollen themselves. We approach the waiter who recorded us and ask about congratulations and hear, in response, “No. It's only in the main restaurant. " You, a bad person, radish, put us on the grill, said that everything would be fine. Really, it was impossible to warn in advance about the main restaurant! We took offense at them.
We went to the city to shops, shishu, 1000 and 1 night, walked in the sector of villas, there are shops and cafes, there is another mosque. There were no problems, no one bothered. There are a lot of shops and cafes along Leila, and the Metro is there. Local sellers asked “our husband” how he already had three wives, but they all had none! We laughed together, and our eagle walked with its wings spread. One day the hotel manager asked whose husband it was. We cheerfully replied that this was our common sultan. "Why Sultan? Is he a Turk?! ” No, we say, ours, he was just lucky : ).
On the beach they offer a submarine, a photo, a tattoo, a beauty salon, massages, a fur shop. Ten minutes of massage for free, prices from 250 pounds, as a result, in bulk for 20-30 dollars. On the beach or in the spa. There is a sauna and jacuzzi. Okay, we liked it.
Alcohol, for some reason, is worse than drinking in other hotels. Okay, we got ours. Beer is ok. Juices are not packaged. There is no tonic.
Fruit is out of season. Haven't eaten worse in so many trips. Everything is like cotton. I bought a papaya home in the Metro - threw it away. Pure green, i. e. absolutely white inside and lethargic. Mangoes are small and green, but at home they ripened in a week in the refrigerator. The locals said that they were all on chemistry and antibiotics. Strawberries are “sung” overnight.
Guide Anexa Anita is normal. Said I'm only here for you four. In another hotel I have 200 tourists. I realized that we were not particularly disposed to go somewhere, soared excursions for about 15 minutes in total. In Cairo and Luxor, as a normal guide, advised against going. She said there are security issues. I recommended not to go to the center and the old market after 23.00. There are a lot of posts, all with automatic weapons. When we went to the airport - there was a traffic jam at the entrance to Naama - they check all the cars.
Anex still fell asleep - on the return flight. Estimated departure was at 19:00. Phoned in the evening - everything is in force. By the way, Anita is the only guide who said that the call to the tour leader is free from the reception. Previously, they always called from their own. In the morning we decided to immediately extend one room, anyway check out after dinner, moved things to one room, paid 40 dollars extra, ran to the beach. An hour later, our sultan ran to the room for flippers, where he found a note from the room boy asking him to call the tour leader. Departure was rescheduled for 22.30. We extended the room for dinner. Paid another $20. Total, 60 from the number. The bracelets were not removed from us, our friends did not pay extra, no one kicked us out of dinner : ). You can renew one number in a crowd : ). The transfer arrived at 20.00. They brought us to the airport, kept us in the bus, they say, the check-in desk is unknown. At check-in, we found out that the flight was at 1:00 am. We rolled for another four hours under the air conditioners, freezing in our coats, and with a sense of joy we flew home. When approaching Boryspil, the captain of the liner reported that the temperature at home was -28, and we were even more delighted. At seven in the morning I got home. The day began with a deep sleep from fatigue. It seems that I was on vacation, but I wanted to relax again : ). In general, you can safely go to the hotel again. We had a great rest, which is what we wish everyone : ).
Hotel rating 8: happy birthday misunderstanding and cold pools.
Hooray!! ! And here is EGYPT!! ! I'm going for the cards. Employees of Anex take a card, twist it, write 3 letters (it turned out to be UKR) and at that time they are trying to sell a visa for 17 bucks (and people are being led). We said “Our husband has already bought everything” and went to the control (four of us flew - three young ladies and the husband of one of us). They wrote shinai onli on the card. I, as the instigator of not paying for a visa, was put up first. The customs officer smiled, affixed stamps, and only then asked where the visa was. I answered only about Sinai, and received a passport. Friends repeated everything. We got our luggage and went to the bus. It's brand new, clean, music. Tezes and turtesses had worse beads. The guide campaigned to go to Cairo - "Whoever has not been to the pyramids has not seen Egypt. " But we decided to relax at home at the hotel, without the possibility of extreme sports.
HOTEL. The guide took us to the chairs and offered rooms according to our wishes for 20 bucks per room. We agreed, maybe in vain, but the rooms were well located. Nearby, on the 1st floor, with access to the main pool and bar, and reception with a restaurant. Wonderful. First we were sent to dinner, and then they took us to our rooms. We quickly unpacked, looked around and noticed that the hair dryer was not working. Friends came to visit, looked at the hair dryer - for sure, it doesn’t work. We called the reception, TWO masters came to repair one frail hair dryer)). A second later they said that the hair dryer was working. We asked what happened. And it was, as in a joke: "But first you need to plug the cord into the outlet. " Bai-by van dollar : ) . The room was cleaned normally, left for tea, chocolate, we always had everything. Mini-bar is paid. 0.5 of water Nestlé.6 lbs, Metro 1.35 lbs. A couple of times they took water, bought it in the city and delivered it.
The hotel area is very green and beautiful. To the beach passed through the entire hotel. On the territory there is a kids club with a children's bass near the reception. There is also the main big bass with an artificial wave and 2 hydro massagers. African bar nearby. From the water is also available. The second pool is smaller, also with a bar, next to the jacuzzi BUT. BASS WITHOUT BREAKING! Although the agency said that everyone was warming up, only the last one, near the Spa, was warmed up. And a jacuzzi. The basses are excellent, they would be in the summer!
PLAYAYAYAZHZHZHZH AND SEA! Steps lead to the beach. I read somewhere that there were 105 of them. They didn't count, but it was easy to walk, it was difficult to climb up only after a hearty lunch : ). On the descent there are: a shower, a toilet, a shisha bar (min. order 5 dollars per person), layouts with magazines, sand crafts, a grill restaurant, a pizza bar (alcohol - only beer). The beach is wide, there are not many sun loungers. On what they lie in the "rush hour" in the season, I do not know. It is closed by a rock from the wind, but this does not mean that it does not exist at all. On the edge of the pontoon, it feels good.
The sea of all shades, from light blue near the coast to dark blue, where yachts with divers stand every day. The entrance to the sea from the shore is very comfortable. They were without shoes. People who - how. Not far from the shore, a square pontoon is fixed, where you can sunbathe or watch the fish. The pontoon of the hotel is wooden. There are two gangways on it - a wooden one (a little slippery on the last steps) with iron handrails (the right one was torn off during our vacation) and an iron one, like on a yacht. The reef is beautiful and vibrant. There are a lot of fish, especially on warm days. If you face the sea, then on the right, behind the rock, there is a wild beach and a reef, along it a paid submarine runs. It's deep right there. To the left of the pontoon is a curly-shaped reef, with crevices, very beautiful. We swam from our pontoon to the Oasis Reef pontoon (plastic). You can't access it from our hotel (along the shore). But we used it when leaving the sea, walked along the beach and climbed through the gap in the barrier. It was useless to drive us, because. we left their territory, and did not try to get in.
Really, a lot of fish. We saw a large stingray and a moray eel behind the pontoon. Near the shore we observed a stone fish and two speckled stingrays - white and blue. They dug into the sand to the right of the red buoy. There is a strange twist there, not for nothing a buoy - I swim straight, I look, and my legs row to the left : ) and pushes me to the corals. After the storm, a lot of jellyfish arrived (and garbage, unfortunately, too).
ANIMATION. The main contingent in the hotel was Italians, then Russians, a few Poles and us Ukrainians, there were four. By the middle of the week, ours pulled up and we outweighed the Poles)). The animation is not very intrusive, no one is calling anywhere, but the people on the beach are cheerfully participating in everything. Yoga, fun competitions, volleyball.
Own disco "Zodiac" in two floors. On the first floor there is a dance floor and a bar with expensive drinks (not included in the all). On the second bar all, billiards - 6 dollars / hour, table football - 2 dollars / hour. Played several times before disco. On the ground floor at eight in the evening there is a children's disco. At 24.00-02.00 adult. At 22.00 in the amphitheater (nearby) animation show. We went on the first evening, caught the height of the show. The audience threw their shoes to the animators, who sniffed them and threw them back. We left, unable to withstand such unrestrained fun. We returned on Wednesday for an Egyptian evening. We remember him. In front of us, three rows down and to the side of us, Italians from one company sat down and began to chat with each other, yelling at the whole amphitheater. The apotheosis of this cheerful communication was the word C_ _A shouted to friends at the top of their lungs in purely Russian! (that is, the opposite of a male), and we realized that not only English is becoming the language of international communication. The show itself consisted of a skirt dance and a belly dance. Pretty professional.
NUTRITION. The description of the hotel offered three types of food. 1. ALL INCLUSIVE - breakfast, lunch, dinner, local alcohol. 2. Ultra ALL INCLUSIVE - plus some imported drinks. SNACK ALL - instead of lunch - snacks on the beach. We took ALL INCLUSIVE - orange bracelets. A lot of Russian people were on the snack - lilac bracelets. They had lunch with them: champagne in the morning on the beach, salted fish, seeds, black bread with lard, well done : ). At some lunchtime, someone from the Snekovites shouted "go quickly, they give you potatoes. " We don’t know what they were fed before, they said that they were butriks, sort of. Dryer, in short. We decided that it was not in vain that we took the all - soup for lunch was very useful. If you rest for two weeks, then snack all is more profitable (from personal experience). Once they rested for 14 days, then in the second week they didn’t go for lunch, they didn’t fit : ). Breakfasts and dinners were held in the main restaurant, in the reception building. A huge amount of food. Breakfast: scrambled eggs to order, two more types of eggs in trays, sliced cheese-sausage-tomatoes, cottage cheese, potatoes, meat, pancakes are fried in front of you, muesli, buns, puff pastry with gravy. Diced fruits, yoghurts.
Dinners. Rice, potatoes, spaghetti, salads (there was always a salad with crab halves), sliced vegetables, sauces, fish, beef in various forms. Always a different dish of the day. The fish is excellent. Fruits - melon, tangerines, oranges, dates, guava, bananas. Sweet themed, once they gave ice cream. Everything is very delicious.
Dinner. The hotel has changed the conditions of all inclusive due to a small number of vacationers. From the main restaurant, lunches for everyone were moved to a grill restaurant on the beach. Super. Sea view, sun, fresh air. Fish, chicken, lamb on the bone - grilled, beef with vegetables, spaghetti, fried potatoes, sauté , lasagne, salad of the day, sliced vegetables, mashed soup, biscuits, fruit. For the first time in 9 trips to Egypt, I ate potatoes that were not raw and tasty! Long live the chef!
ABOUT MISCELLANEOUS. Twice a week you can make an appointment for dinner at the grill restaurant on Sunday and Thursday. You need to sign up the day before at the reception. My friend's husband had a birthday on Thursday. When recording, they reported this, asked to congratulate. We were promised, they offered us a cake for $21, but we refused. Came for dinner, no one nothing. They swollen themselves. We approach the waiter who recorded us and ask about congratulations and hear, in response, “No. It's only in the main restaurant. " You, a bad person, radish, put us on the grill, said that everything would be fine. Really, it was impossible to warn in advance about the main restaurant! We took offense at them.
We went to the city to shops, shishu, 1000 and 1 night, walked in the sector of villas, there are shops and cafes, there is another mosque. There were no problems, no one bothered. There are a lot of shops and cafes along Leila, and the Metro is there. Local sellers asked “our husband” how he already had three wives, but they all had none! We laughed together, and our eagle walked with its wings spread. One day the hotel manager asked whose husband it was. We cheerfully replied that this was our common sultan. "Why Sultan? Is he a Turk?! ” No, we say, ours, he was just lucky : ).
On the beach they offer a submarine, a photo, a tattoo, a beauty salon, massages, a fur shop. Ten minutes of massage for free, prices from 250 pounds, as a result, in bulk for 20-30 dollars. On the beach or in the spa. There is a sauna and jacuzzi. Okay, we liked it.
Alcohol, for some reason, is worse than drinking in other hotels. Okay, we got ours. Beer is ok. Juices are not packaged. There is no tonic.
Fruit is out of season. Haven't eaten worse in so many trips. Everything is like cotton. I bought a papaya home in the Metro - threw it away. Pure green, i. e. absolutely white inside and lethargic. Mangoes are small and green, but at home they ripened in a week in the refrigerator. The locals said that they were all on chemistry and antibiotics. Strawberries are “sung” overnight.
Guide Anexa Anita is normal. Said I'm only here for you four. In another hotel I have 200 tourists. I realized that we were not particularly disposed to go somewhere, soared excursions for about 15 minutes in total. In Cairo and Luxor, as a normal guide, advised against going. She said there are security issues. I recommended not to go to the center and the old market after 23.00. There are a lot of posts, all with automatic weapons. When we went to the airport - there was a traffic jam at the entrance to Naama - they check all the cars.
Anex still fell asleep - on the return flight. Estimated departure was at 19:00. Phoned in the evening - everything is in force. By the way, Anita is the only guide who said that the call to the tour leader is free from the reception. Previously, they always called from their own. In the morning we decided to immediately extend one room, anyway check out after dinner, moved things to one room, paid 40 dollars extra, ran to the beach. An hour later, our sultan ran to the room for flippers, where he found a note from the room boy asking him to call the tour leader. Departure was rescheduled for 22.30. We extended the room for dinner. Paid another $20. Total, 60 from the number. The bracelets were not removed from us, our friends did not pay extra, no one kicked us out of dinner : ). You can renew one number in a crowd : ). The transfer arrived at 20.00. They brought us to the airport, kept us in the bus, they say, the check-in desk is unknown. At check-in, we found out that the flight was at 1:00 am. We rolled for another four hours under the air conditioners, freezing in our coats, and with a sense of joy we flew home. When approaching Boryspil, the captain of the liner reported that the temperature at home was -28, and we were even more delighted. At seven in the morning I got home. The day began with a deep sleep from fatigue. It seems that I was on vacation, but I wanted to relax again : ). In general, you can safely go to the hotel again. We had a great rest, which is what we wish everyone : ).
Hotel rating 8: happy birthday misunderstanding and cold pools.
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