Great budget 4ka on the first line

Written: 30 march 2019
Travel time: 20 — 27 march 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 9.0
Detailed feedback (lots of text! )).

The hotel was booked by early booking for 3 weeks, paid for two UAH 2.150 from Kiev - many pay cheaper, but at that time it was the lowest price (then it rose, then fell, but in a week or even earlier the hotel was already in the foot).

UIA airline, there - without delay, the return flight was postponed from 9:00 to 13:50, it was a pleasant surprise)).

SETTLEMENT. Landed at 6:30 am, 2.5 hours later were at the hotel (long waited for losses and brought 4 on the account). At the reception they said they would settle in an hour. We immediately went to the sea, had breakfast there with our brakes (we knew in advance that breakfast is not given to anyone). No one demanded additional payments, for a sweet smile they gave out a great room at the very beginning of the 2nd line overlooking the pool with slides. Carriers gave a pack of seeds and chocolate.

He tried to knock out 2 dollars from us and even offered exchange services (there were no small bucks), as a result he managed to squeeze out another bar of chocolate)).
Everything worked in the room - safe, central Conder, plasma TV (found 2 Russian channels). We did not have only a plastic table on the terrace, but it is not particularly needed there, you can put everything on the curb. The furniture is all in one style - a nice light green color, 2 wide beds with hard mattresses (moved later), white bedding and towels, triple curtains, ungodly plastered by tourists in the 20s. The bathroom had a regular shower, toilet, bidet, stationary hair dryer ...Hot water was constantly ...
Near the sink - liquid pink soap, above the bath - a universal white composition for washing with a pleasant coconut aroma, all in stationary hanging tanks and in large quantities (in my opinion, much more convenient than disposable bags and bottles), used only hair conditioner , he was not. Everything in the room is not new, but it was clean and tidy.
I also liked the location - to the beach mines 4-5 slow walk, to the cafeteria - as much as from the first buildings of the first line, to the exit to the shopping rows - mines 5-7.
Mosquitoes bit, but not often. The raptor helped in the room, spray outside.

TERRITORY. Quite big, very beautiful and well-groomed. And we liked our 2nd free line much more - it's quieter, less wandering around the room, more greenery / flowers / shrubs and even a pool with slides looks nicer than the central one.
The water in the pools immediately seems cold, but in warm weather to be in it is quite comfortable, the slides worked with a lunch break (12:00 - 15:00). We saw fragments of the territory of neighboring hotels from 3ek to 5ok - in Queen, in comparison, it is really royal)).

After reading some passions in the reviews with excitement went hunting for local fauna - I really wanted to look at snakes and scorpions, and "beast", perhaps, to start as a pet - let him help catch mosquitoes)). The search was unsuccessful - only 5 "scary" cats were found, which turned out to be just business for inspection - they give only for "van cutlet")). Some of the difficulties of the discovered lizards turned out to be even more embarrassing - they didn't want to catch and start with us for any gingerbread.

Buhlishka.
In fact, there is only one full-fledged bottling - near the central pool, where from 12:00 to 00:00 pour everything that the hotel has to offer in any quantity in one hand. Only beer, white and red wine are served in the cafeteria during lunch and dinner, there are coolers with water and soft drinks, tea, coffee, cocoa with sugar.
There was no beer or wine on the lobby, in the beach bar there were only coolers with water and colored non-alcoholic drinks, pizza was taken out there at 12:00, but we didn't keep track. In the bar on the second line, too, there is no alcohol, there are the same coolers, tea / coffee, boiling water, milk. Sometimes a bartender shows up and offers non-alcoholic cocktails. I liked only the quality of beer, local "Stella" from bottles. Wine of average lousiness, white even more or less. With strong alcohol - sadness. Tried brandy, gin is a rare abomination, you can still drink rum with cola, although all this is also from bottles, but 40 degrees is not even close.
Although the situation with alcohol is about the same in all hotels. Plastic cups were not particularly stressful, poured into their spacious beach glasses and even bottles, water was also collected in them. The main thing is not to be impudent and not to do it demonstratively in front of the bartender, as you can't and can officially make remarks.

NUTRITION.
Standard for Egypt, something quite tasty, something - not very much, when it seems at first abundance you stop as a result on several appropriate dishes, day after day almost the same. But in general they are fed no worse than in many 5s, where the service is more elegant and there is more variety. Dishes have already been listed 10.500 times, I will not describe everything in detail. In our arrival for lunch and dinner there were always at least 2 types of meat in different variations - mostly chicken and beef, less often - liver, fish cakes. For dinner - the same tuna.

Of the "delicacies" several times gave lamb and small fish like crucian carp (delicious). Once we were surprised by borsch with zucchini, another - mashed potatoes. I liked the soup only white, if you squeeze more lime into it. Baking a lot of different, very tasty yellow jelly-like sweet mass. I also liked eggplants in all variations, yellow rice, yogurt, normal pasta, dark bread.
Potatoes are not very sweet, liquid cheese for breakfast a little salt. I would like more fruit, especially for breakfast. There were green melons, oranges, several times dates, once physalis. The crabs, olives and guavas described in the reviews were not observed at our arrival. In general, we were satisfied with everything, because we did not go for it. Only at home the usual brine, sauerkraut and even store-bought dumplings seemed to order the most delicious ol inclusive)). So fans of gastro-alcohol tours are clearly not here.
There was only a "restaurant" on the first line and another floor below - for the Italians and our VIPs, there were richer and much fewer people.

PERSONNEL. Helpful and friendly, as obsessive as the Arabs. No one ever rude to us, everyone smiled, asked how we were doing and whether everything was fine. Some remembered our names and even what we drink of course.
Bartenders and cleaners in the dining room responded to all requests quickly and without extortion. . In the room asked to pick up 2 times. For the first time for a dollar and chocolate, the waiter wound us a smart swan in flowers with a fleshy and seductive fifth point)). For the second time for the same taxi I changed the linen thrown on the floor, everything was well licked, but the menagerie was not on the beds, eh. . In the first days, rescuers led the pontoon's hand and extended their hand when leaving the sea. It can be seen that most of the staff love their work and provide unselfish assistance.
They closed the door with the key inside - the problem was solved within 5 minutes - they sent a "bear cub" with a bunch of keys, who didn't even take a bar of chocolate for his work. 2 different masseurs did a good good massage for 5 minutes without actively imposing further services, then just came to talk.
As we left, many of us said goodbye, shook hands and wished them a happy journey.


CONTINGENT. Most Ukrainians, about a quarter of Italians, a few Russians, Belarusians, very few Kazakhs and Arabs, are transit Americans. As expected from this format of recreation, a good half of the countrymen - ordinary cattle and often very ashamed of them. second grade - here, they say, the canteen is separate for the Italians, that's it.
There was nothing like that, everyone was treated equally, everyone who paid for increased comfort ate in that cafeteria (our people also wore them a blue bracelet in addition to the yellow one). Sometimes there were green bracelets, the staff said that for Americans and Arabs.
The queue of "undernourished" stood like a mausoleum almost half an hour before the opening. Once they came 15 minutes after the start of the meal, there was no free table. But after 40 minutes and until the end - full of places and in terms of "delicacies" - no losses - the dish ends, take out another, sometimes even with the replacement of one type of meat to another and so on until closing. The only "gingerbread", if you come to the beginning - white tablecloths and napkins, which after the first visitors a little shit, and then they are removed and put brown wicker pads under the devices. But the saddest spectacle was after the feast. . Mountains of uneaten and completely untouched food on plates. .
About 2 kg of liver left on the table were once observed, which the cleaner dumped in the dump. And it was necessary to stand over the distribution until the whole mountain is piled up. . Damn, why? It wasn't enough - come again. In addition or add. pieces were not denied to anyone.
Or the cats were fed leftovers, after all - they are very thin in the trade ranks, literally pounced on the pieces of meat and fish that we brought. Many complain that they are given out in portions, but imagine what it would be like to leave it in the public domain, when the carnage was even for potatoes, and fresh cucumbers and tomatoes swept away the whole trough of the first 2 people, not to mention dates. . Leftovers from each table could feed at least one pig a day. But Muslims do not keep pigs and the question: "Where is all this going? ", The staff replied that to the dump! (. ) Sorry for the pathos, but in the same Africa somewhere children are starving, and here such consumption in its purest form.

It was still funny and disgusting to watch a young lady from the Great Rats rehearse as a victim with wide eyes at the cleaner in the cafeteria, who simply did not have time to physically change the devices on the table in half a minute.
Or communicate with the bartender in the style: "Hey, you! Fall squeezed! ». But even during such episodes, I did not hear rudeness in response. Gentlemen, where did you come from and what do you have with arithmetic? Subtract from your 300-400 bucks the interest of the agency, operator, flight, transfer, insurance, room maintenance, territory and the interest of the hotel owner, calculate how much food and booze (including undernourished and undernourished) per person per day and how much remains on ZP service personnel to build it? Will it be enough for lobsters, shrimps and other saltines? Apparently, in the Crimea or Odessa they would go to lunch at the boarding house "first, second and compote" and would be silent in a rag for almost the same money and with a different level of service.
I am generally silent about Europe. And here "blacks" to drive hunting, because there is nothing more to assert itself? Complaints about the "killed" numbers are also obvious.
So who kills them and how can you "accidentally" manage to make holes in cigarettes in the curtains? Again, back to arithmetic. Are you sure that your paid bucks will be enough to change your furniture and curtains every month?

Beach. Quite long and spacious, free sunbeds have always been. The pontoon is not only swaying on the waves, even in the first 2/3 of its plastic blocks sometimes do not join and walk with each other, you need to be careful not to get there toes or feet, no handrails. It was not a problem for us, but I heard that it was very difficult for some elderly people to walk on it and they would have known in advance that they would not have come.
The reef is beautiful, I would say that it is not dead, but 80-90% alive at the top, below - single living corals.
There are many different and beautiful fish - from tiny to huge. In addition to sergeants, butterflies, parrots, clowns, surgeons, I saw 10-15 more needles, the names of which I do not know.

Great surgeons, my favorites, hang out even in shallow water and behave impudently - if you stand and look at them, first observe, then begin to swim to your feet and try to attack all the "surgical department")). There are a lot of hedgehogs, especially to the left of the pontoon, so I do not recommend going without shoes (you can swim along the reef without it). During the influx of water near the shore about to the waist, at low tide - to the knee.
I strongly advise you to buy a full face mask, they are there on every corner, and in the hotel store were even cheaper than in the shopping malls. We bought Reef 2 in front of the hotel for 14, asked for 20, the hotel for the same starting price was 15. Masks from other companies offered everywhere from 10 to 25.
We looked at Target, but the silicone was rougher to the touch, and the valve is worse, less thread. In ours, after diving, you do not even need to blow water, you breathe as usual - nose or mouth, we can say, wide rubber bands do not cling to the hair.
Concerning fogging is a controversial issue. . You swim for a long time and the quality of the review does not seem to change. You emerge - the mask may look foggy and some water inside still happens. But in general, the thing is cool, still in terms of convenience and hygiene - no need to hold the tube in your mouth. They tried to film the underwater world with a phone in a waterproof case - bad sharpness, because there is no stabilization. For good photos you will need a good action camera or a very expensive mirror case.
And most importantly - the first line. She has been taught many times. .
Any minibus to the beach on schedule, even at least 10 times a day - it's your time, nerves, construction, that is, do not need to rest on the hustle and bustle. Almost the same with taxis. As a result, personally, I was on the beach with such schedules was a maximum of every day. And when the beach is next to you, you can go at least "in shorts", at least 2-3 times a day, as and when you want.
And you can see the state of the sea.

People, please do not feed the fish! This is not for nothing that hotels have written about it, although I have seen even rescuers throw bread at them to entertain tourists. Here is a quote: "Information about food among fish is transmitted as follows: small fish begin to chew, and thirty meters from it a large fish comes to life, a hundred meters - a very large, and a kilometer - the largest - a shark. The second - blood All fish hear, not only sharks ...
A small cut, abrasions, and if you go into the water, where someone just fed a small fish with rice or bread - you will be attacked by this small fish. I think that rare accidents with people from sharks were not in the same place - they are attracted to shoals of fish and blood.
In the neighboring hotel from the morning on the schedule called yoga, then dance classes, games. And it's only on the beach. We especially needed animation, but some people obviously didn't like it. Announcements about future activities are often posted in hotels or everyone is more actively informed, I have not seen such a thing here. However, on the beach you can play volleyball, football and some balls, there have always been balls. Table tennis was not seen anywhere, the tennis court was noticed by chance near the first building of the 2nd line (ours), when we went up to the 2nd floor.

POSE HOTEL.
We had dinner for the second time for 11 dollars in the famous Fares. They chose a branded seafood soup and a coral parrot (I thought they were not used for fishing). The fish weighed 650 g (6 USD per kilo), it was fried in oil, it turned out to be quite tasty, much more was expected from the soup after the enthusiastic reviews of visitors - well, that's it. . for 4 dollars. .
the portion is small and you can make it really tastier. Free bottle of water, lime, delicious bread cakes, empty inside and 3 sauces to compliment (delicious only garlic). For service - 14%. loud).
I was already on all the main excursions, so I just wanted to dive. There was not a single living soul in the hotel diving club during the whole week. Ordered from Sergei in the shopping malls in front of the hotel, the island of Tirana for $ 25 with two dives.
I did not take the money in advance, gave 2 new arafatki)). Clearly at the appointed time a minibus came after us, brought us to the pier, told us to wait (40 minutes) and. . sent back, and all.

On other days it was pleasantly warm, sometimes a little windy, sometimes small waves.
Overall, the hotel lived up to expectations in terms of price and quality. Of course, I would like a wooden pontoon with railings, heated pools, 2 working dining rooms, a la carte and shrimp for dinner)). But then there would be a different story with pricing policy, and perhaps stardom.

Who would I recommend the hotel to? Adequate, positive people without physical limitations, who do not shift the responsibility for their rest to external factors.

Would I come back again? Yes, and more than once, if I were a conservative and preferred to go to the same hotels that I liked.
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