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__When I returned home, I immediately started writing a review about our current vacation in this hotel, as there is little honest and reliable information about it and the surrounding area. I have no idea how people can write amazing reviews and give excellent ratings to this hotel? Either the administration asks them about it in exchange for certain services, or the reviews are frankly custom-made, or people simply haven’t seen anything better. In general, judge for yourself. I decided that I simply have to write everything honestly and frankly, so that future tourists draw conclusions for themselves and choose priorities in accordance with their desires and capabilities. I will not dissuade anyone from relaxing in this hotel or vice versa to lure, read and decide for yourself. I’ll just tell you how it all happened without exaggeration and express our observations first-hand, and you draw your own conclusions.
Please do not throw stones at me, all the written generalized opinion of our entire family, and if something is not clear or you do not agree or have questions - write, I am ready to answer. I wrote a lot, please don’t hit me, it didn’t work out differently, sorry, but I think that all the information will be to your advantage, well, whoever doesn’t read it I won’t be offended.
__So, let's begin. We rested in DESSOLE SEA BEACH 4 * from August 10 to 22.2014, almost 2 weeks without one day.
__This year we got the most expensive and, to put it mildly, far from the best vacation. Let's start with the fact that by force of circumstances we had to go not where we wanted, but where it happened. I will say right away that we went, as always, with a positive and good mood that we can still have a rest this year, but as we were in Sharm El Sheikh in this hotel, the positive dissipated and the good mood disappeared every day, and by the end of the holiday we began to count the days before returning home.
Of course, there were pluses in our vacation, but there are much more minuses. Having been twice in Turkey in two hotels 3 * and 5 *, in Egypt that year in Hurghada 4 * and now in Sharm, also 4 *, we can say with full confidence and responsibility that this was the worst hotel we visited (by the way, when I arrived home, I came across one of the old printed hotel catalogs for 2010 and found ours, it was then called Tropicana Sea Beach, I noticed that it has 5 stars instead of 4, so the hotel has been falling in the rating over the years and you need something with it do it urgently). Sea beach, to be honest, it’s a trio, and it seems that he has 4 stars only for the fact that he stands on the seashore on the first line and then there is no sea (as one of our compatriots put it - “a puddle and water here like a sparrow on yay*a). Nearby hotels at least have pontoons and places for swimming ... Well, okay, let's do it in order.
__ We flew to Egypt as usual with the children from the Pegasus tour operator with the Icarus airline. The flight there and back without problems, only on the way back at the airport of Sharm El Sheikh, for some reason, without explanation, the flight was delayed for an hour.
__Arrived at the hotel at their time around 13-00 of the day, our suitcases were taken away, questionnaires were issued, they were asked to fill in and return, which we did. Then they offered to go to have lunch while our room was ready. While we ate, we sat and decided to slip some bucks at the reception or not so that they would give a good number and decided not to give it, come what may, especially since people wrote that this did not change, the rooms are all old and problematic. The only thing, I think, I will give “Alenka” later, so that in the future, if there are any problems, they will treat us more loyally.
In general, we return to the reception, they gave us a key card to the room and 4 cards for towels (we are 4 people: 2 adults and 2 children) and wished us a pleasant stay, I, in turn, put Alenka chocolate on the table and said SHUKRAN (thank you for Arabic). A nearby porter immediately picked up our suitcases and asked to follow him. He regularly took us to the room and brought in all the suitcases for which he received a dollar. So we ended up in our room 3101 on the first floor in the 3rd building with its own pool. Looking around, we concluded that we were very lucky with the resettlement.
The room is large, comfortable, there were no foreign smells in it, everything worked, everything lit up and turned on, the shower and toilet were clean, the water was hot and cold without any problems at any time, the air conditioner worked perfectly, the refrigerator was small with a bottle of water (we then each cleaner a day, if necessary, brought two more bottles of water for free), there was a free safe in the closet (it never let us down, it closed and opened without problems), a large mirror in the bathroom and hallway, the terrace overlooked our indoor pool, it was very convenient, t Since we were on the ground floor, we could go out to swim right through it. In general, at first glance, everything is perfect.
Only then, during the process of living, some negative little things began to come to light: the refrigerator barely cooled (by the way, the air conditioner froze harder), the air conditioner worked a bit noisily, but we got used to it, the socket under the TV literally fell out and the plug from the TV barely held on, some the lights weren’t on, the lock on the door to exit the terrace didn’t close, though then it somehow repaired itself and began to close, the TV for the entire time of our stay (it’s 13 days) worked probably for 3-4 days, and then it was barely visible and one the only Russian channel is Russia 24, it seems that the rest of the time there was only noise instead of channels, it seems that they forgot to connect the antenna. The furniture is old and the drawers in the table and bedside table opened with great effort, the door to the room opened with a terrible creak (and all that was required was to lubricate the hinges).
Room cleaning usually took place around 11-12 o'clock, the cleaner came and asked if everything was fine in the room and what needs to be cleaned. If they only said to change towels and bedding, he changed it without problems, if they said just sweep the terrace and clean the bathroom, he cleaned it if they said to clean everything completely (I left him a dollar in this case) - he cleaned everything clean and tidy, the cleaner was good (to word, it was the second one, right after our arrival there was another one but after a couple of days they changed it), and on the penultimate day of departure we asked him to get an iron, gave him Alenka and a dollar, he brought it to us for free (well, almost free, and so 5 dollars for rental at the reception), in general, well done, I can’t say anything bad about him, I also noted him in the questionnaire when I checked out, well, by the way, at his request, they apparently get some bonuses from this.
__Hotel staff. Well, here is a separate song!
At the reception, no matter how many calls, how many do not come up, little will change or change, but not soon! When we checked in, we had two single beds and one small non-folding sofa in the room, it’s not clear how all four of us had to fit in all this and the reception did not warn us about this, although they saw that there were four of us, they wanted to go swear, but then they decided to just ask add. bed.
We went to the reception, explained the problem, they told us 10 minutes and everything will be ok, we go to the room, we wait, 10 minutes pass - no one, I call the reception by phone (you need to dial 0 on the phone) to the reception, again I explain to one of them what is needed, they say “ten minutes - everything will be”, we wait again, ten minutes, half an hour, they pass - no one, I call again, again I explain what I need, I again - “ten minutes” (in the course of the standard phrase, they also answered me later on phone when he dealt with a non-working TV, only there they promised 15 and 20 minutes, and the TV did not show for days), we wait, half an hour passes, an hour, but in the end, inspired by a feeling of irritation already at the beginning of the rest because of the prospect of sleeping two by two on lorries I go out towards the reception with the intention of quarreling and already on the way I meet some kind of Arab from the staff, he says hello and asks if everything suits you at the hotel, I told him everything about the beds, he didn’t need to go to the reception, wrote down the number our room, said p wait 5 minutes ... and left, well, I think again the same song, but in a new way, but no, after 5 minutes our cleaner comes running and asks what we need to change here, I again explain to him about the beds, he is ok, now he will
. Well, not now, of course, but after half an hour somewhere we had a normal extra folding bed, we put our son to sleep on it, our daughter on the sofa and ourselves on one and a half - it was already convenient. This is how “no way” the local reception solves problems at the hotel, keep in mind! The main thing does not fail, as they say. Basically, everyone always tried to be friendly, but the unequivocal grins and wry jokes from some of the bartenders near the reception and near the main pool began to disgust them over time. The main contingent of tourists are Poles, Russians and Arabs. The following should also be noted here: the hotel seems to be social, like many hotels of this type in Egypt, where wealthy Arabs bring "their family to rest. " We made this conclusion, which is why there are a lot of them in the hotel and most of them appear on Thursday-Friday and disappear on Monday.
They come in with big noisy families, very noisy, especially at the water park and in the dining room. In the water park they occupy the Wave, they climb into it with the whole large family, that's what they climb into without changing clothes, women in hijabs, men in T-shirts, shorts, children also clamor at her like jackdaws, and in the dining room their little children often how they will raise an op and cry, so you don’t know where to go. Their child yells, well, let him yell, calm down by itself. So they are not as quiet as many wrote. And they have clear priorities over other vacationers. How many times have I noticed such a picture, for example, there is a queue in the dining room for pizza, they cut it and give it two slices per plate, an Arab comes from the side, something gyr-gyr in his own way with the cook, they put him one plate with a pizza hill and a second such he leaves satisfied to feed his family. Everything, the finished pizza is over, we must again stand waiting for the next portion to be baked.
Or another case, in the dining room, the wife comes up to the bartender, asks to get a glass of glass of water - she doesn’t have it, she didn’t have time to leave, a young Arab woman comes up, also gyr-gyr in her own way, he takes out a glass for her, pours something and gives it smiling. The wife is shocked and indignant at him with a claim, he immediately finds a glass for her and holds it out, muttering something in his own language (probably a curse). Or even with ice cream (it is served every day from 16-00 to 17-00 in the bar on the terrace near the central pool) - the three of us stand in line as a family: there are several Arab women in front, then my wife, daughter and me.
The line of Arab women comes up to them with smiles, they give out full hands of ice cream as much as they could carry, and the wife’s turn comes, they give her one ice cream, she gives it to our daughter and says another one, bartender - go away, you already took it and hands me ice cream, I take it, give it to my wife and moving closer to him, I insistently say - another one, he glaring evilly with his eyes gave me another ice cream again, mumbling something naturally without a smile. So the presence of Arab vacationers in this hotel is clearly not conducive to its image. Or you need to remove the Arabs from the hotel or change the attitude of the staff towards them.
__Internet Wi-Fi. It seems to be almost non-existent too, the connection is disgusting, but it is free, access is given at the reception, login: DESSOLE password: HS9. When we were going to go to the Dolphinarium ourselves, I wanted to read on the net where it is located, what days it works, what time the performance is, how much it costs.
In the room, the network sees on a netbook and a tablet, it even seems to connect, but it doesn’t open anything, then I tried to go to the reception from the tablet, it seemed that something happened, but the pages opened with great difficulty, and I tried several times in the morning and at lunch and in the evening - the difference almost none. Although I am a programmer by profession and work, everything is in order with my head and we go on vacation to rest and not sit all day on the Internet, as some do, so the disgusting wi-fi did not spoil the mood, but one more stone in abandoned the reputation of the hotel. Well, in general, I found what I needed on the net, with difficulty, really, but thank God at least somehow.
__Nutrition. What can I say, the food, let's say it seems to be not bad, but tasteless and very monotonous. As someone in the previous review accurately put it, it is diverse and monotonous. The first 3-4 days I ate normally, but then I started to get bored with everything.
The food was all unsalted, some kind of insipid, the sausage, if it was, tasted like chewed paper, and the sausage that could still be eaten was cut by the assistant cook and given several pieces in one hand, so you won’t take too much. In general, from the second week of their stay, they even became sick of their food. Everything seems to be edible, but no more. We went to an Italian A la carte restaurant, we thought maybe there would be some kind of tastier variety, but no, it’s the same nonsense there, and you also have to wait until your order is served for half an hour, in general, there’s nothing to do in A la carte.
Moreover, exactly after visiting this restaurant, our mother became ill, got poisoned, suffered from pains in her stomach and did not leave the potty for 4 days, drank all our stocks of medicines, it seems to have passed, but ... now it's my turn, I got poisoned, again the same story , abdominal pain and severe diarrhea, I couldn’t leave the toilet for a long time, there were no medicines anymore and I had to go to the local pharmacy to buy their medicines, he came and told me what had happened to me (by the way, a girl from our hotel came in with me, it turned out the same problem), they sold me and her for $7 Antinal a pack of 12 capsules, started drinking, it seemed to feel better but not quite, drank everything and went for another portion, this time I was given other STREPTOQUIN tablets 10 tablets for $5, after them It became noticeably better, and I flew home with them. We have never had such serious problems with digestion while traveling, but here it’s just some kind of attack.
We prayed to God that the children would not be taken yet, but they were more fortunate, the children did not suffer from the uncleanliness and negligence of the local cooks and kitchen workers. As I understand it, some kind of rubbish was either in alcohol (the children didn’t drink alcohol, of course) or something was cooked or washed in ordinary running water from the tap, which they pour unfiltered and the guides warn not to drink it and even brush your teeth with bottled water, or more likely some kind of E. coli is walking in the hotel, but then how our children managed to avoid it is an interesting question. There were enough sweets for dinners and lunches, a large number of different cakes, but not such a huge selection as in Turkey.
There was potatoes, but sour and tasteless in different forms, there was meat, stewed beef, chicken in several forms, there was the same fish, but no matter how they cooked it, it always stank of mud, pasta, a couple of times grilled liver and some weak tasting meatballs. Vegetables and greens and several variations of salads from them. Fruits: watermelons sometimes got sweet but mostly like grass, melons are the same, apples, grapes, figs (green, unripe), no citrus fruits (that year we rested in Hurghada at the JUNGLE AQUA PARK 4 * hotel - so I tried it there and I ate plenty of oranges, I realized how tasty and sweet they should be). There were soups, my wife liked them, and when I was already tired of solid, monotonous food, I began to eat them. Soups too - hot boiled water diluted with powder concentrates with pieces of vegetables. You pour it into a plate and there is only water with carrots - well, we were already happy with this.
From drinks, cola, sprite, fanta, diluted juices like Jupi and Nestle tea, water from a cooler, from alcohol, white and red wine is sour and tasteless, it could only be drunk with ice. And there were frequent problems with ice, for some reason it never happened. Beer is poured from bottles, but after a couple of drunk glasses, belching and heartburn begin, and the desire to drink it further disappears. We noticed that in the restaurant near the reception, beer is poured from a tap, i. e. from a keg. We tried to take beer from them, it didn’t cause heartburn, so keep in mind, but they only give two glasses per hand, you see this concept (it would be better if they had a concept of not poisoning tourists with food and draft swill). By the way, they saw in their local supermarket the same Stella beer with the same label that they poured us in the hotel, but it was in different bottles, and there was only one label, perhaps for tourists in hotels it is poured separately and the quality is appropriate.
In general, I can clearly say one thing about nutrition - you definitely won’t stay hungry, but you won’t be able to eat delicious food either!
__Restaurants. The hotel has 5 restaurants: 2 regular, 3 a la carte. The variety of food is not different, but the cleanliness, yes. I won’t say anything about A la carte, they were only in Italian, in principle, purely, but it alone was enough for us to discourage the desire to go to other a la carte. But the everyday restaurants where they had breakfast, lunch and dinner Sea horse and Panorama are not cleaned. Panorama that on the second floor is as if clean in appearance and the furniture is newer there, the music always plays, but still the hands stick to the tables and the dishes come across dirty and the choice of the menu, as it seemed to us, is a little more modest than in the restaurant on the first floor. And the Sea horse is something, first of all, for some reason, all the Arabs were in it, the noise, the din, the furniture is old, the tables are all sticky, stained and staggering, the chairs are damaged in places, the dishes often get poorly washed.
Several times they got into such a joke: there is a salt shaker on the table, we want to add salt to the food, we shake it, the salt does not pour, but inside you can hear that something is strumming, such as large pebbles of salt, we open the salt shaker, and in it ... instead of salt, rice! This is the first time I see it! Whose cruel joke this is is not clear, and three times they fell on such salt shakers. This was not observed in the restaurant on the second floor. We saw how the Arabs cleaned from the tables: they take it with a dry rag, brush off all the crumbs on the floor and that's it, and then another Arab walks with a whisk and a scoop and collects it from the floor. We have never seen the tables washed with water and what can we say about the floors. And if the child spilled cola or sprite? That's where sticky tables and chairs used to stick to the floor like slates.
__Beach. Also about nothing. Very small but good for kids. The coast and bottom are sandy.
You have to go to the depths from a kilometer to the remains of a sunken ship, but be very careful, there are a lot of sea urchins, as my son put it - a whole real minefield. If you still decide on such a grandiose journey, then you must definitely wear light rubber coral slippers so as not to inadvertently step on a hedgehog or injure your foot on corals or stones. Slippers can be bought right on the beach in boutiques or in the hotel itself. The sea is very warm, the water is clean, there are few fish, for them it was necessary to go to the right or left abandoned pontoon, better to the left - there are enough of them. Walk to the sea 150-200 meters from the center of the hotel. We mostly sunbathed at sea, there is no depth, it’s impossible to swim enough. And one more feature: there is only one shower on the beach, and you have to go far to it, it is located on the border with another Jaz Mirable Park hotel.
I don’t know if we didn’t search well or it’s really the only one there, it’s very uncomfortable, you get out of the sea from salt water, I would like to rinse, but you have to shove across the entire beach to this soul, then we spat and didn’t go. Even if you want to look at the fish and even feed them, you can go to the abandoned Tiran Sharm 5 * hotel. How to get there? I tell you: You need to go along the path that runs along the coast through all the hotels, it is called Coast Road.
If you stand so that our hotel is behind you, and the sea is in front of you, then turn left and go forward along the path passing by two operating hotels, the first Jaz Mirable Park, the second Royal Albatros Moderna Otel, then two under construction (Bedouins live on the shore of these hotels and as soon as you set foot on their land, their dirty skinned children immediately run to you and start asking for food, when we were going to the lagoon, we usually poked in advance for quiet buns or fruits for them from the dining room, it’s a pity for the kids) and one abandoned hotel Tiran Sharm 5 * it is on its territory that this lagoon is located. There will be an iron mesh fence in front of it, but it can be bypassed from the sea. In previous reviews, they told horror stories about drowned people who were taken out of there, this didn’t happen with us, we were in the lagoon twice, but we didn’t observe this. And there are a great many fish there, and you can feed them with bread right from your hands, they fly in a crowd of all sorts of different ones.
Beauty, for the sake of this it was only possible to go to the lagoon. It is best to go there after lunch, there are fewer people and the sea is calmer.
__SPA. As always, good advice! Immediately upon arrival and be sure, before you start sunbathing and sunbathing, visit the local hammam. Go through a sauna, peeling, massage, get rid of migratory dirt and sweat. We went with the whole family. Three - me, my wife and son for a fee (130 bucks for all), and my daughter was "pohamamili" for free: ) It's cool! First, a steam room, a sauna, then a pool with a jacuzzi, then a foam massage with dousing and cleansing the upper skin with rough mittens, then a clay mask on the face and relaxation with a cup of hot tea, full body massage. Everything is great! Hamam liked it. After the hammam, I was offered a massage course, but I refused, it was a little expensive, 5 sessions for 150 bucks were too dashing, I tried to bargain, they threw off 10-15 bucks and everything, in general, refused.
We wanted to make small braids for our daughter as usual, but we were told the price of 100 bucks (these are only pigtails at the back, if the whole head is even more expensive), we refused, we always did a maximum of 50-60 bucks for the whole head in other hotels.
__Pools. A separate word about the pools in the hotel. In all the pools, the water smells very strongly of chlorine! And several times I saw heaps of chemical granules that did not dissolve at the bottom in the corners of the pools. The water seems to be clean, but the walls of the pools have not been washed for a long time, they have a gray-red sticky coating on the border from the water to the edge of the pool. Pools 2 - one huge for the whole hotel and one small, which was right next to us. In the large pool there is a bar where you can swim up to and enjoy drinks while sitting in the water.
__Aquapark. Located outside the hotel. To get into it, you need to exit the reception to the street and somewhere in 100 meters on the left side there will be an entrance.
Well, it was necessary to come up with such garbage - all the tourists rush into it naked in shorts and swimsuits right through the main entrance to the hotel and past the security and reception. Well, someone hides behind a towel, and the bulk of them go straight ahead, and even wet, if already back to the rooms. Couldn't you have entered from the hotel? In the water park itself, there are 17 slides for adults + 2 more slides on site. It is well organized for children, there are also slides, boats, a river, a ladle-waterfall, although under it, not only a child, an adult will not resist.
Whoever has not seen other similar entertainment will be happy and satisfied, we saw (that year at the JUNGLE AQUA PARK 4 * hotel in which we rested there was one of the best water parks in Hurghada), so the height of the slides and their variety were not impressed, moreover that its territory also requires serious renovation, the rickety columns made of some kind of cardboard in places with holes, painted with some kind of gouache, look gloomy and collective-farm, it was very striking. On some slides, you feel every junction with your booty. They turn on the slides in turn, then the left side of the Wave, then the right, they probably saved. A huge plus of this water park is that there were always few people there and, accordingly, there were no queues on the slides.
Animation. The guys tried and entertained the holidaymakers during the day as best they could - it was evident. But the evening animation was sometimes very primitive, we saw better.
For children, evening animation is the same every day, you can learn it by heart, and even mostly in Polish. Children's club - the son immediately refused, and the daughter at first also refused, but then when she saw a girl in the hotel whose face was painted cool, she wanted the same. We took her away, she looked like for three days just to have different faces drawn on her face, then she stopped, she says it’s boring there and there’s nothing to do.
__Sharm El Sheikh. We went to the city (if you can call it that) several times. Here I must say the following, to get into the city you have to walk 500 meters from the hotel entrance to the checkpoint with a barrier on wheels, very inconvenient. While you are hobbling, all the desire disappears to go somewhere for a walk, and if it’s still hot during the day ... On the street, boutiques of hucksters are everywhere (in other words, I can’t name them), frank bullshit is pushed through for a lot of money.
They say if you buy anything from souvenirs and even shop, then you need to go to the old city, well, we didn’t go there and therefore I can’t say anything about it, we went to nearby boutiques and bought some sweets and a couple of different trinkets for children and that’s it. If you buy sweets, look carefully, feel with your hands, check the expiration date, they push through frank repackaged shit. We also sort of checked, felt, sniffed, looked, and anyway, in the same package at home, we found a conglomerate of sweet molasses stuck together in a heap. There is an official fixed price shop called METRO, it is located about 2 kilometers from the hotel to the left along El-Salam street, but there are only products, but of good quality.
__Yes, and on the topic of shopping, one of our sad stories.
When you leave the hotel on the shopping streets and immediately turn left, go through stalls 5-6 and stumble upon a JEWELRY HOUSE boutique selling jewelry and silver (such as excellent quality silver), I was seduced. That year in Hurghada in Cleopatra I bought an excellent wide silver ring, I think I will buy myself a chain in Sharm this year, also silver with a cartouche (pendant with their hieroglyphs) for a complete set. The Arab all broke into a smile, contemplating another sucker in my face, but I did not notice it. Well, I don't know much about jewelry. In general, I bought a chain with a pendant from him for 80 bucks, the silver shone as much as pleasing to the eye, I think there is a ring and now there is a chain with a pendant in memory of Egypt. But she did not shine for long. I bought it a couple of days before flying home and thought I would put it on already on the plane, otherwise now I’ll lose it in the pool, in the sea.
So people avoid a shop called JEWELRY HOUSE.
__We went with children to Hollywood for 4 bucks for four. You can ride with them on white-and-blue taxis and Toyota minibuses of the same color, with the price as agreed, but you have to keep in mind, they hurt, some offered for $ 30, others for 20, others for 15. We found those minibuses that drove us for a dollar per person, and they say it’s expensive, the Arabs ride them for 3 pounds, and 1 dollar is 7 pounds at their rate, well, because it’s a long way to go to Hollywood (about 30-40 minutes), then 1 dollar for person is perfectly acceptable. In Hollywood, it is interesting, there are dinosaurs moving and making sounds, the largest musical dancing fountain in Egypt, it is turned on at 9 pm and then every half hour.
__Tours. Ooooh, that's another story! In no way am I agitating you to take excursions from hotel guides, but I’ll tell you what: we really wanted to get to Jerusalem with the whole family!
Having gone and talked with the hotel guide from Pegasus, we realized that this excursion does not shine for us, the price is exorbitant for us, because we were short of money. Well, having read earlier in the reviews about a certain company on the street called Gena and Cheburashka that they are the best, they showed up to this Cheburashka in order to take an excursion to Jerusalem and maybe then something else if everything is ok. Misha, like that was his name, met us joyfully, explained everything, told us, showed us on the computer. The price suited us and we agreed, everything seems to be fine, without problems and cheaper than going from the operator, especially since we also went on excursions in Turkey with street agents and everything was fine. In general, it was dealt with, the money was paid, we were assigned a time for 8 pm in a couple of days when they would pick us up. Then the devil pulled his wife to ask: won't you forget us?
He: what do you mean, this doesn’t happen, we have been working for a long time, well, if you don’t trust, then leave your phones, we will call you or send you an SMS when the bus pulls up for you or if there are any changes. OK! On his part of the receipt, I wrote two cell phones of mine and my wife and joyful that an old dream to visit Jerusalem and the Dead Sea will come true, we retire to our hotel to wait for the day of departure. And now it has come, we wanted to ask the reception for breakfast (a beach package) in advance, as is usually done for the next morning, because we leave at 8 pm, so we were told in a sharp rude form that they say breakfast can only be ordered by a hotel guide (and this is in in our case, only from Pegasus), and since you eat dosvidos from the street, and no one cares that we have everything inclusive and two children with us, my wife and I could somehow get by with breakfast. In general, they ran quickly for dinner, threw buns and fruits in reserve in their bosoms and were ready to leave.
My wife kept asking if there was an SMS about our trip with the exact time when they would pick us up? I tell her: naive that you believe so much that they will send you something, I doubt very much (I doubted correctly). As scheduled, at 8-00 pm we were already at the reception, my wife was sitting on the sofa next to their table, I was standing with the kids and bags at the automatic doors to the street. We are waiting, knowing that travel agencies have delays, do not worry yet. 5 minutes pass ... 10 minutes pass ... 15 minutes pass, I start to get nervous, I took out a receipt, there is a phone number of this Cheburashka on the receipt, I think I need to call, something is not right. I’m dialing, 15 calls have passed, I already wanted to hang up the phone, suddenly they take it, boo-boo in my own way, I say: why aren’t they picking us up from the hotel ? ? ? He: Alla-alya, and who are you? I say: Sea Beach room 3101 was supposed to go to Jerusalem… there was a pause… then he says: the bus has already left…… You should have seen my face… I just go nuts…! ! ! I do not know what to say! How did you leave?? ?
Why didn’t they pick us up, why didn’t they call us, why were the phones left for you? Did the bus leave before the scheduled time? - On the other side there is silence again, something on its bul-bul, then to me: 5 minutes will be cars, wait, and they hang up. I call my wife, I tell her all this and we are already standing quietly with her, freaking out and heating up on the porch of the hotel. We look at the porch, a car drives up and stands silently in the dark, well, I think it means not behind us. It’s worth it, let it be, but after a few minutes I get a cell phone call, in the receiver: why don’t you go out, the car is waiting, you are not there. I say: what kind of car should it be? Color, number, brand? There was silence, then they hung up. I tell my wife to come and ask who is sitting in that car what they want, she ran away, she says it behind us like to Jerusalem, so then why are they sitting silent?
In general, we get into this car with the whole family and fly somewhere into the night quickly, quickly, the Arab carrying us spoke on the phone once, turned the car somewhere in the other direction, then again spoke on the phone, again turned somewhere in the dark, then a couple of minutes later, in what seemed to me a very sharp, dissatisfied voice, he again shouted something in his own language on the phone, stops abruptly (I’m already starting to think that we wouldn’t be taken anywhere like that ...), turns the car around and says: tomorrow, Jerusalem tomorrow, today net. I'm already starting to shake with anger, I: in the sense of tomorrow, he: 5 minutes, talk. We’re going somewhere again at night, then I see he brings us to the kiosk to this Cheburashka and shows us with a gesture, they say, go talk.
In general, I think you understand what my family and I were in the mood for talking now, I’m angry like a dog, I fly into this soyuzpechat’s barry kiosk and say why they threw us and didn’t take us from the hotel on an excursion? In addition to Cheburashka (by the way, there was another Arab, probably Gena, sort of like a brother, according to him), there were also some tourists who immediately fled. He told me: why are you screaming, you were not at the reception! I'm saying it didn't happen? ? ? At 8-00 the whole family was there, they waited for 15 minutes, then they began to call you. He gets me the letterhead of our hotel (!! ! ) on which it is written in English that he was at the reception, but we were not there and the time is 8-15. Lies and scammers are the most real, despite the fact that with the help of our hotel reception (the form is theirs, they are all tied there along the way) !! !
Then my wife and children come in, I show her everything and tell her, she is also at him, I say why they didn’t call, why they wrote to you, he: why are you screaming, now your brother will come and talk to him and runs out of his kiosk into the street where then calling on the phone. We sit, nervously heating up, waiting, we decided among ourselves - let them return all the money and they went through the forest-field ... That Cheburashka comes that sold us the excursion and again the same story - you were not there for you and the form was again in our nose, but at the same time, he says that the bus "left" at 7-45, it leaves earlier (you guys would at least agree among themselves to lie the same way), so what did you do then interestingly at the reception at 8-15 and put a type mark for cover own ass? In general, we weren’t there and that’s it, we ourselves are to blame.
Well, I say: I see we won’t achieve the truth, let’s return the money in full and we forget about each other, he agreed with a grimace, returned the money, we gave him our part of the receipt and, angry like dogs, went back home cursing the Arabs and ourselves for contacting such cartoons. That's how we went to Jerusalem. In general, with great care, contact street agencies in Egypt, the scammers are still the same, and Gena and Cheburashka fully justify their name!
__After that, we now went on two more excursions from Pegasus, and with absolutely no problems, we were picked up on time, perfectly delivered there and returned back. Were on Bathyscaphe and motosafari. The whole family swam on the bathyscaphe, watched fish and corals, very beautiful and interesting.
And I was on a motorcycle safari with my son, I think this is entertainment for men, riding an ATV for several kilometers through the dusty desert meeting the sunset, several stops for rest, one between the mountains listening to their echo, the other with the Bedouins, they will offer water and camel riding so bring your money, it's not free. In general, everything is cool, the son for the first time drove an ATV himself, gained emotions and positive for a long time. For a motorcycle safari, you need to purchase an arafatka (such a scarf) for everyone in advance to cover your face from wind and dust, you can buy it at any store for $ 2.
Then we ourselves as a whole family went by minibus to the dolphinarium. It is located at a distance of 2 kilometers from the hotel, go right on the minibus to the ring, then turn left along the ring to El-Shaikh Zayed St and right along it on the right side there will be a dolphinarium, if you wish, you can walk, but it will be difficult in the heat .
It works on weekdays, the performance starts at 15-00. They say the trainers are our Russian guys. The show is very interesting, varied, well done. One thing I didn’t like, at 15-00 the show had already begun, and the Arabs kept dragging on and on for another 15 minutes, distracting everyone. It cost $25 for an adult, $10 for a teenager, children under 7 are generally free.
__ In general, summing up, I would like to say that this year's vacation in Egypt was far from being at the highest level, and I want to note not because of our prejudiced mood or attitude, no, we held on as best we could and did not harm. We were not looking for problems, for some reason they themselves found us.
Of course, the hotel left a special negative imprint, I think this is the most important thing, we must be very responsible in choosing a place of rest, so that later there will be no disappointment, unfortunately this year our choice fell on the wrong token, we were already flying somewhere faster in order to have time to relax with the children before September 1 and decide everything in the last days, it’s impossible, the experience has been gained. Well, anyway, the sea, the sun, no one canceled the tan, mother nature did its job and the Arabs could not interfere here, we rested again, swam and sunbathed (and the tan turned out to be the best in all the years), and that is why we are at sea and flew.
Good luck to you Sea Beach, change for the better, they say you have a new owner now, you are now DESSOLE and everything has become better ... what happened before, it's scary to think if it's already better ... We probably won't fly to Egypt anymore, it really spoiled our attitude towards it is our current vacation, and the tours have become far from being as cheap as before so that we can
Please do not throw stones at me, all the written generalized opinion of our entire family, and if something is not clear or you do not agree or have questions - write, I am ready to answer. I wrote a lot, please don’t hit me, it didn’t work out differently, sorry, but I think that all the information will be to your advantage, well, whoever doesn’t read it I won’t be offended.
__So, let's begin. We rested in DESSOLE SEA BEACH 4 * from August 10 to 22.2014, almost 2 weeks without one day.
__This year we got the most expensive and, to put it mildly, far from the best vacation. Let's start with the fact that by force of circumstances we had to go not where we wanted, but where it happened. I will say right away that we went, as always, with a positive and good mood that we can still have a rest this year, but as we were in Sharm El Sheikh in this hotel, the positive dissipated and the good mood disappeared every day, and by the end of the holiday we began to count the days before returning home.
Of course, there were pluses in our vacation, but there are much more minuses. Having been twice in Turkey in two hotels 3 * and 5 *, in Egypt that year in Hurghada 4 * and now in Sharm, also 4 *, we can say with full confidence and responsibility that this was the worst hotel we visited (by the way, when I arrived home, I came across one of the old printed hotel catalogs for 2010 and found ours, it was then called Tropicana Sea Beach, I noticed that it has 5 stars instead of 4, so the hotel has been falling in the rating over the years and you need something with it do it urgently). Sea beach, to be honest, it’s a trio, and it seems that he has 4 stars only for the fact that he stands on the seashore on the first line and then there is no sea (as one of our compatriots put it - “a puddle and water here like a sparrow on yay*a). Nearby hotels at least have pontoons and places for swimming ... Well, okay, let's do it in order.
__ We flew to Egypt as usual with the children from the Pegasus tour operator with the Icarus airline. The flight there and back without problems, only on the way back at the airport of Sharm El Sheikh, for some reason, without explanation, the flight was delayed for an hour.
__Arrived at the hotel at their time around 13-00 of the day, our suitcases were taken away, questionnaires were issued, they were asked to fill in and return, which we did. Then they offered to go to have lunch while our room was ready. While we ate, we sat and decided to slip some bucks at the reception or not so that they would give a good number and decided not to give it, come what may, especially since people wrote that this did not change, the rooms are all old and problematic. The only thing, I think, I will give “Alenka” later, so that in the future, if there are any problems, they will treat us more loyally.
In general, we return to the reception, they gave us a key card to the room and 4 cards for towels (we are 4 people: 2 adults and 2 children) and wished us a pleasant stay, I, in turn, put Alenka chocolate on the table and said SHUKRAN (thank you for Arabic). A nearby porter immediately picked up our suitcases and asked to follow him. He regularly took us to the room and brought in all the suitcases for which he received a dollar. So we ended up in our room 3101 on the first floor in the 3rd building with its own pool. Looking around, we concluded that we were very lucky with the resettlement.
The room is large, comfortable, there were no foreign smells in it, everything worked, everything lit up and turned on, the shower and toilet were clean, the water was hot and cold without any problems at any time, the air conditioner worked perfectly, the refrigerator was small with a bottle of water (we then each cleaner a day, if necessary, brought two more bottles of water for free), there was a free safe in the closet (it never let us down, it closed and opened without problems), a large mirror in the bathroom and hallway, the terrace overlooked our indoor pool, it was very convenient, t Since we were on the ground floor, we could go out to swim right through it. In general, at first glance, everything is perfect.
Only then, during the process of living, some negative little things began to come to light: the refrigerator barely cooled (by the way, the air conditioner froze harder), the air conditioner worked a bit noisily, but we got used to it, the socket under the TV literally fell out and the plug from the TV barely held on, some the lights weren’t on, the lock on the door to exit the terrace didn’t close, though then it somehow repaired itself and began to close, the TV for the entire time of our stay (it’s 13 days) worked probably for 3-4 days, and then it was barely visible and one the only Russian channel is Russia 24, it seems that the rest of the time there was only noise instead of channels, it seems that they forgot to connect the antenna. The furniture is old and the drawers in the table and bedside table opened with great effort, the door to the room opened with a terrible creak (and all that was required was to lubricate the hinges).
Room cleaning usually took place around 11-12 o'clock, the cleaner came and asked if everything was fine in the room and what needs to be cleaned. If they only said to change towels and bedding, he changed it without problems, if they said just sweep the terrace and clean the bathroom, he cleaned it if they said to clean everything completely (I left him a dollar in this case) - he cleaned everything clean and tidy, the cleaner was good (to word, it was the second one, right after our arrival there was another one but after a couple of days they changed it), and on the penultimate day of departure we asked him to get an iron, gave him Alenka and a dollar, he brought it to us for free (well, almost free, and so 5 dollars for rental at the reception), in general, well done, I can’t say anything bad about him, I also noted him in the questionnaire when I checked out, well, by the way, at his request, they apparently get some bonuses from this.
__Hotel staff. Well, here is a separate song!
At the reception, no matter how many calls, how many do not come up, little will change or change, but not soon! When we checked in, we had two single beds and one small non-folding sofa in the room, it’s not clear how all four of us had to fit in all this and the reception did not warn us about this, although they saw that there were four of us, they wanted to go swear, but then they decided to just ask add. bed.
We went to the reception, explained the problem, they told us 10 minutes and everything will be ok, we go to the room, we wait, 10 minutes pass - no one, I call the reception by phone (you need to dial 0 on the phone) to the reception, again I explain to one of them what is needed, they say “ten minutes - everything will be”, we wait again, ten minutes, half an hour, they pass - no one, I call again, again I explain what I need, I again - “ten minutes” (in the course of the standard phrase, they also answered me later on phone when he dealt with a non-working TV, only there they promised 15 and 20 minutes, and the TV did not show for days), we wait, half an hour passes, an hour, but in the end, inspired by a feeling of irritation already at the beginning of the rest because of the prospect of sleeping two by two on lorries I go out towards the reception with the intention of quarreling and already on the way I meet some kind of Arab from the staff, he says hello and asks if everything suits you at the hotel, I told him everything about the beds, he didn’t need to go to the reception, wrote down the number our room, said p wait 5 minutes ... and left, well, I think again the same song, but in a new way, but no, after 5 minutes our cleaner comes running and asks what we need to change here, I again explain to him about the beds, he is ok, now he will
. Well, not now, of course, but after half an hour somewhere we had a normal extra folding bed, we put our son to sleep on it, our daughter on the sofa and ourselves on one and a half - it was already convenient. This is how “no way” the local reception solves problems at the hotel, keep in mind! The main thing does not fail, as they say. Basically, everyone always tried to be friendly, but the unequivocal grins and wry jokes from some of the bartenders near the reception and near the main pool began to disgust them over time. The main contingent of tourists are Poles, Russians and Arabs. The following should also be noted here: the hotel seems to be social, like many hotels of this type in Egypt, where wealthy Arabs bring "their family to rest. " We made this conclusion, which is why there are a lot of them in the hotel and most of them appear on Thursday-Friday and disappear on Monday.
They come in with big noisy families, very noisy, especially at the water park and in the dining room. In the water park they occupy the Wave, they climb into it with the whole large family, that's what they climb into without changing clothes, women in hijabs, men in T-shirts, shorts, children also clamor at her like jackdaws, and in the dining room their little children often how they will raise an op and cry, so you don’t know where to go. Their child yells, well, let him yell, calm down by itself. So they are not as quiet as many wrote. And they have clear priorities over other vacationers. How many times have I noticed such a picture, for example, there is a queue in the dining room for pizza, they cut it and give it two slices per plate, an Arab comes from the side, something gyr-gyr in his own way with the cook, they put him one plate with a pizza hill and a second such he leaves satisfied to feed his family. Everything, the finished pizza is over, we must again stand waiting for the next portion to be baked.
Or another case, in the dining room, the wife comes up to the bartender, asks to get a glass of glass of water - she doesn’t have it, she didn’t have time to leave, a young Arab woman comes up, also gyr-gyr in her own way, he takes out a glass for her, pours something and gives it smiling. The wife is shocked and indignant at him with a claim, he immediately finds a glass for her and holds it out, muttering something in his own language (probably a curse). Or even with ice cream (it is served every day from 16-00 to 17-00 in the bar on the terrace near the central pool) - the three of us stand in line as a family: there are several Arab women in front, then my wife, daughter and me.
The line of Arab women comes up to them with smiles, they give out full hands of ice cream as much as they could carry, and the wife’s turn comes, they give her one ice cream, she gives it to our daughter and says another one, bartender - go away, you already took it and hands me ice cream, I take it, give it to my wife and moving closer to him, I insistently say - another one, he glaring evilly with his eyes gave me another ice cream again, mumbling something naturally without a smile. So the presence of Arab vacationers in this hotel is clearly not conducive to its image. Or you need to remove the Arabs from the hotel or change the attitude of the staff towards them.
__Internet Wi-Fi. It seems to be almost non-existent too, the connection is disgusting, but it is free, access is given at the reception, login: DESSOLE password: HS9. When we were going to go to the Dolphinarium ourselves, I wanted to read on the net where it is located, what days it works, what time the performance is, how much it costs.
In the room, the network sees on a netbook and a tablet, it even seems to connect, but it doesn’t open anything, then I tried to go to the reception from the tablet, it seemed that something happened, but the pages opened with great difficulty, and I tried several times in the morning and at lunch and in the evening - the difference almost none. Although I am a programmer by profession and work, everything is in order with my head and we go on vacation to rest and not sit all day on the Internet, as some do, so the disgusting wi-fi did not spoil the mood, but one more stone in abandoned the reputation of the hotel. Well, in general, I found what I needed on the net, with difficulty, really, but thank God at least somehow.
__Nutrition. What can I say, the food, let's say it seems to be not bad, but tasteless and very monotonous. As someone in the previous review accurately put it, it is diverse and monotonous. The first 3-4 days I ate normally, but then I started to get bored with everything.
The food was all unsalted, some kind of insipid, the sausage, if it was, tasted like chewed paper, and the sausage that could still be eaten was cut by the assistant cook and given several pieces in one hand, so you won’t take too much. In general, from the second week of their stay, they even became sick of their food. Everything seems to be edible, but no more. We went to an Italian A la carte restaurant, we thought maybe there would be some kind of tastier variety, but no, it’s the same nonsense there, and you also have to wait until your order is served for half an hour, in general, there’s nothing to do in A la carte.
Moreover, exactly after visiting this restaurant, our mother became ill, got poisoned, suffered from pains in her stomach and did not leave the potty for 4 days, drank all our stocks of medicines, it seems to have passed, but ... now it's my turn, I got poisoned, again the same story , abdominal pain and severe diarrhea, I couldn’t leave the toilet for a long time, there were no medicines anymore and I had to go to the local pharmacy to buy their medicines, he came and told me what had happened to me (by the way, a girl from our hotel came in with me, it turned out the same problem), they sold me and her for $7 Antinal a pack of 12 capsules, started drinking, it seemed to feel better but not quite, drank everything and went for another portion, this time I was given other STREPTOQUIN tablets 10 tablets for $5, after them It became noticeably better, and I flew home with them. We have never had such serious problems with digestion while traveling, but here it’s just some kind of attack.
We prayed to God that the children would not be taken yet, but they were more fortunate, the children did not suffer from the uncleanliness and negligence of the local cooks and kitchen workers. As I understand it, some kind of rubbish was either in alcohol (the children didn’t drink alcohol, of course) or something was cooked or washed in ordinary running water from the tap, which they pour unfiltered and the guides warn not to drink it and even brush your teeth with bottled water, or more likely some kind of E. coli is walking in the hotel, but then how our children managed to avoid it is an interesting question. There were enough sweets for dinners and lunches, a large number of different cakes, but not such a huge selection as in Turkey.
There was potatoes, but sour and tasteless in different forms, there was meat, stewed beef, chicken in several forms, there was the same fish, but no matter how they cooked it, it always stank of mud, pasta, a couple of times grilled liver and some weak tasting meatballs. Vegetables and greens and several variations of salads from them. Fruits: watermelons sometimes got sweet but mostly like grass, melons are the same, apples, grapes, figs (green, unripe), no citrus fruits (that year we rested in Hurghada at the JUNGLE AQUA PARK 4 * hotel - so I tried it there and I ate plenty of oranges, I realized how tasty and sweet they should be). There were soups, my wife liked them, and when I was already tired of solid, monotonous food, I began to eat them. Soups too - hot boiled water diluted with powder concentrates with pieces of vegetables. You pour it into a plate and there is only water with carrots - well, we were already happy with this.
From drinks, cola, sprite, fanta, diluted juices like Jupi and Nestle tea, water from a cooler, from alcohol, white and red wine is sour and tasteless, it could only be drunk with ice. And there were frequent problems with ice, for some reason it never happened. Beer is poured from bottles, but after a couple of drunk glasses, belching and heartburn begin, and the desire to drink it further disappears. We noticed that in the restaurant near the reception, beer is poured from a tap, i. e. from a keg. We tried to take beer from them, it didn’t cause heartburn, so keep in mind, but they only give two glasses per hand, you see this concept (it would be better if they had a concept of not poisoning tourists with food and draft swill). By the way, they saw in their local supermarket the same Stella beer with the same label that they poured us in the hotel, but it was in different bottles, and there was only one label, perhaps for tourists in hotels it is poured separately and the quality is appropriate.
In general, I can clearly say one thing about nutrition - you definitely won’t stay hungry, but you won’t be able to eat delicious food either!
__Restaurants. The hotel has 5 restaurants: 2 regular, 3 a la carte. The variety of food is not different, but the cleanliness, yes. I won’t say anything about A la carte, they were only in Italian, in principle, purely, but it alone was enough for us to discourage the desire to go to other a la carte. But the everyday restaurants where they had breakfast, lunch and dinner Sea horse and Panorama are not cleaned. Panorama that on the second floor is as if clean in appearance and the furniture is newer there, the music always plays, but still the hands stick to the tables and the dishes come across dirty and the choice of the menu, as it seemed to us, is a little more modest than in the restaurant on the first floor. And the Sea horse is something, first of all, for some reason, all the Arabs were in it, the noise, the din, the furniture is old, the tables are all sticky, stained and staggering, the chairs are damaged in places, the dishes often get poorly washed.
Several times they got into such a joke: there is a salt shaker on the table, we want to add salt to the food, we shake it, the salt does not pour, but inside you can hear that something is strumming, such as large pebbles of salt, we open the salt shaker, and in it ... instead of salt, rice! This is the first time I see it! Whose cruel joke this is is not clear, and three times they fell on such salt shakers. This was not observed in the restaurant on the second floor. We saw how the Arabs cleaned from the tables: they take it with a dry rag, brush off all the crumbs on the floor and that's it, and then another Arab walks with a whisk and a scoop and collects it from the floor. We have never seen the tables washed with water and what can we say about the floors. And if the child spilled cola or sprite? That's where sticky tables and chairs used to stick to the floor like slates.
__Beach. Also about nothing. Very small but good for kids. The coast and bottom are sandy.
You have to go to the depths from a kilometer to the remains of a sunken ship, but be very careful, there are a lot of sea urchins, as my son put it - a whole real minefield. If you still decide on such a grandiose journey, then you must definitely wear light rubber coral slippers so as not to inadvertently step on a hedgehog or injure your foot on corals or stones. Slippers can be bought right on the beach in boutiques or in the hotel itself. The sea is very warm, the water is clean, there are few fish, for them it was necessary to go to the right or left abandoned pontoon, better to the left - there are enough of them. Walk to the sea 150-200 meters from the center of the hotel. We mostly sunbathed at sea, there is no depth, it’s impossible to swim enough. And one more feature: there is only one shower on the beach, and you have to go far to it, it is located on the border with another Jaz Mirable Park hotel.
I don’t know if we didn’t search well or it’s really the only one there, it’s very uncomfortable, you get out of the sea from salt water, I would like to rinse, but you have to shove across the entire beach to this soul, then we spat and didn’t go. Even if you want to look at the fish and even feed them, you can go to the abandoned Tiran Sharm 5 * hotel. How to get there? I tell you: You need to go along the path that runs along the coast through all the hotels, it is called Coast Road.
If you stand so that our hotel is behind you, and the sea is in front of you, then turn left and go forward along the path passing by two operating hotels, the first Jaz Mirable Park, the second Royal Albatros Moderna Otel, then two under construction (Bedouins live on the shore of these hotels and as soon as you set foot on their land, their dirty skinned children immediately run to you and start asking for food, when we were going to the lagoon, we usually poked in advance for quiet buns or fruits for them from the dining room, it’s a pity for the kids) and one abandoned hotel Tiran Sharm 5 * it is on its territory that this lagoon is located. There will be an iron mesh fence in front of it, but it can be bypassed from the sea. In previous reviews, they told horror stories about drowned people who were taken out of there, this didn’t happen with us, we were in the lagoon twice, but we didn’t observe this. And there are a great many fish there, and you can feed them with bread right from your hands, they fly in a crowd of all sorts of different ones.
Beauty, for the sake of this it was only possible to go to the lagoon. It is best to go there after lunch, there are fewer people and the sea is calmer.
__SPA. As always, good advice! Immediately upon arrival and be sure, before you start sunbathing and sunbathing, visit the local hammam. Go through a sauna, peeling, massage, get rid of migratory dirt and sweat. We went with the whole family. Three - me, my wife and son for a fee (130 bucks for all), and my daughter was "pohamamili" for free: ) It's cool! First, a steam room, a sauna, then a pool with a jacuzzi, then a foam massage with dousing and cleansing the upper skin with rough mittens, then a clay mask on the face and relaxation with a cup of hot tea, full body massage. Everything is great! Hamam liked it. After the hammam, I was offered a massage course, but I refused, it was a little expensive, 5 sessions for 150 bucks were too dashing, I tried to bargain, they threw off 10-15 bucks and everything, in general, refused.
We wanted to make small braids for our daughter as usual, but we were told the price of 100 bucks (these are only pigtails at the back, if the whole head is even more expensive), we refused, we always did a maximum of 50-60 bucks for the whole head in other hotels.
__Pools. A separate word about the pools in the hotel. In all the pools, the water smells very strongly of chlorine! And several times I saw heaps of chemical granules that did not dissolve at the bottom in the corners of the pools. The water seems to be clean, but the walls of the pools have not been washed for a long time, they have a gray-red sticky coating on the border from the water to the edge of the pool. Pools 2 - one huge for the whole hotel and one small, which was right next to us. In the large pool there is a bar where you can swim up to and enjoy drinks while sitting in the water.
__Aquapark. Located outside the hotel. To get into it, you need to exit the reception to the street and somewhere in 100 meters on the left side there will be an entrance.
Well, it was necessary to come up with such garbage - all the tourists rush into it naked in shorts and swimsuits right through the main entrance to the hotel and past the security and reception. Well, someone hides behind a towel, and the bulk of them go straight ahead, and even wet, if already back to the rooms. Couldn't you have entered from the hotel? In the water park itself, there are 17 slides for adults + 2 more slides on site. It is well organized for children, there are also slides, boats, a river, a ladle-waterfall, although under it, not only a child, an adult will not resist.
Whoever has not seen other similar entertainment will be happy and satisfied, we saw (that year at the JUNGLE AQUA PARK 4 * hotel in which we rested there was one of the best water parks in Hurghada), so the height of the slides and their variety were not impressed, moreover that its territory also requires serious renovation, the rickety columns made of some kind of cardboard in places with holes, painted with some kind of gouache, look gloomy and collective-farm, it was very striking. On some slides, you feel every junction with your booty. They turn on the slides in turn, then the left side of the Wave, then the right, they probably saved. A huge plus of this water park is that there were always few people there and, accordingly, there were no queues on the slides.
Animation. The guys tried and entertained the holidaymakers during the day as best they could - it was evident. But the evening animation was sometimes very primitive, we saw better.
For children, evening animation is the same every day, you can learn it by heart, and even mostly in Polish. Children's club - the son immediately refused, and the daughter at first also refused, but then when she saw a girl in the hotel whose face was painted cool, she wanted the same. We took her away, she looked like for three days just to have different faces drawn on her face, then she stopped, she says it’s boring there and there’s nothing to do.
__Sharm El Sheikh. We went to the city (if you can call it that) several times. Here I must say the following, to get into the city you have to walk 500 meters from the hotel entrance to the checkpoint with a barrier on wheels, very inconvenient. While you are hobbling, all the desire disappears to go somewhere for a walk, and if it’s still hot during the day ... On the street, boutiques of hucksters are everywhere (in other words, I can’t name them), frank bullshit is pushed through for a lot of money.
They say if you buy anything from souvenirs and even shop, then you need to go to the old city, well, we didn’t go there and therefore I can’t say anything about it, we went to nearby boutiques and bought some sweets and a couple of different trinkets for children and that’s it. If you buy sweets, look carefully, feel with your hands, check the expiration date, they push through frank repackaged shit. We also sort of checked, felt, sniffed, looked, and anyway, in the same package at home, we found a conglomerate of sweet molasses stuck together in a heap. There is an official fixed price shop called METRO, it is located about 2 kilometers from the hotel to the left along El-Salam street, but there are only products, but of good quality.
__Yes, and on the topic of shopping, one of our sad stories.
When you leave the hotel on the shopping streets and immediately turn left, go through stalls 5-6 and stumble upon a JEWELRY HOUSE boutique selling jewelry and silver (such as excellent quality silver), I was seduced. That year in Hurghada in Cleopatra I bought an excellent wide silver ring, I think I will buy myself a chain in Sharm this year, also silver with a cartouche (pendant with their hieroglyphs) for a complete set. The Arab all broke into a smile, contemplating another sucker in my face, but I did not notice it. Well, I don't know much about jewelry. In general, I bought a chain with a pendant from him for 80 bucks, the silver shone as much as pleasing to the eye, I think there is a ring and now there is a chain with a pendant in memory of Egypt. But she did not shine for long. I bought it a couple of days before flying home and thought I would put it on already on the plane, otherwise now I’ll lose it in the pool, in the sea.
So people avoid a shop called JEWELRY HOUSE.
__We went with children to Hollywood for 4 bucks for four. You can ride with them on white-and-blue taxis and Toyota minibuses of the same color, with the price as agreed, but you have to keep in mind, they hurt, some offered for $ 30, others for 20, others for 15. We found those minibuses that drove us for a dollar per person, and they say it’s expensive, the Arabs ride them for 3 pounds, and 1 dollar is 7 pounds at their rate, well, because it’s a long way to go to Hollywood (about 30-40 minutes), then 1 dollar for person is perfectly acceptable. In Hollywood, it is interesting, there are dinosaurs moving and making sounds, the largest musical dancing fountain in Egypt, it is turned on at 9 pm and then every half hour.
__Tours. Ooooh, that's another story! In no way am I agitating you to take excursions from hotel guides, but I’ll tell you what: we really wanted to get to Jerusalem with the whole family!
Having gone and talked with the hotel guide from Pegasus, we realized that this excursion does not shine for us, the price is exorbitant for us, because we were short of money. Well, having read earlier in the reviews about a certain company on the street called Gena and Cheburashka that they are the best, they showed up to this Cheburashka in order to take an excursion to Jerusalem and maybe then something else if everything is ok. Misha, like that was his name, met us joyfully, explained everything, told us, showed us on the computer. The price suited us and we agreed, everything seems to be fine, without problems and cheaper than going from the operator, especially since we also went on excursions in Turkey with street agents and everything was fine. In general, it was dealt with, the money was paid, we were assigned a time for 8 pm in a couple of days when they would pick us up. Then the devil pulled his wife to ask: won't you forget us?
He: what do you mean, this doesn’t happen, we have been working for a long time, well, if you don’t trust, then leave your phones, we will call you or send you an SMS when the bus pulls up for you or if there are any changes. OK! On his part of the receipt, I wrote two cell phones of mine and my wife and joyful that an old dream to visit Jerusalem and the Dead Sea will come true, we retire to our hotel to wait for the day of departure. And now it has come, we wanted to ask the reception for breakfast (a beach package) in advance, as is usually done for the next morning, because we leave at 8 pm, so we were told in a sharp rude form that they say breakfast can only be ordered by a hotel guide (and this is in in our case, only from Pegasus), and since you eat dosvidos from the street, and no one cares that we have everything inclusive and two children with us, my wife and I could somehow get by with breakfast. In general, they ran quickly for dinner, threw buns and fruits in reserve in their bosoms and were ready to leave.
My wife kept asking if there was an SMS about our trip with the exact time when they would pick us up? I tell her: naive that you believe so much that they will send you something, I doubt very much (I doubted correctly). As scheduled, at 8-00 pm we were already at the reception, my wife was sitting on the sofa next to their table, I was standing with the kids and bags at the automatic doors to the street. We are waiting, knowing that travel agencies have delays, do not worry yet. 5 minutes pass ... 10 minutes pass ... 15 minutes pass, I start to get nervous, I took out a receipt, there is a phone number of this Cheburashka on the receipt, I think I need to call, something is not right. I’m dialing, 15 calls have passed, I already wanted to hang up the phone, suddenly they take it, boo-boo in my own way, I say: why aren’t they picking us up from the hotel ? ? ? He: Alla-alya, and who are you? I say: Sea Beach room 3101 was supposed to go to Jerusalem… there was a pause… then he says: the bus has already left…… You should have seen my face… I just go nuts…! ! ! I do not know what to say! How did you leave?? ?
Why didn’t they pick us up, why didn’t they call us, why were the phones left for you? Did the bus leave before the scheduled time? - On the other side there is silence again, something on its bul-bul, then to me: 5 minutes will be cars, wait, and they hang up. I call my wife, I tell her all this and we are already standing quietly with her, freaking out and heating up on the porch of the hotel. We look at the porch, a car drives up and stands silently in the dark, well, I think it means not behind us. It’s worth it, let it be, but after a few minutes I get a cell phone call, in the receiver: why don’t you go out, the car is waiting, you are not there. I say: what kind of car should it be? Color, number, brand? There was silence, then they hung up. I tell my wife to come and ask who is sitting in that car what they want, she ran away, she says it behind us like to Jerusalem, so then why are they sitting silent?
In general, we get into this car with the whole family and fly somewhere into the night quickly, quickly, the Arab carrying us spoke on the phone once, turned the car somewhere in the other direction, then again spoke on the phone, again turned somewhere in the dark, then a couple of minutes later, in what seemed to me a very sharp, dissatisfied voice, he again shouted something in his own language on the phone, stops abruptly (I’m already starting to think that we wouldn’t be taken anywhere like that ...), turns the car around and says: tomorrow, Jerusalem tomorrow, today net. I'm already starting to shake with anger, I: in the sense of tomorrow, he: 5 minutes, talk. We’re going somewhere again at night, then I see he brings us to the kiosk to this Cheburashka and shows us with a gesture, they say, go talk.
In general, I think you understand what my family and I were in the mood for talking now, I’m angry like a dog, I fly into this soyuzpechat’s barry kiosk and say why they threw us and didn’t take us from the hotel on an excursion? In addition to Cheburashka (by the way, there was another Arab, probably Gena, sort of like a brother, according to him), there were also some tourists who immediately fled. He told me: why are you screaming, you were not at the reception! I'm saying it didn't happen? ? ? At 8-00 the whole family was there, they waited for 15 minutes, then they began to call you. He gets me the letterhead of our hotel (!! ! ) on which it is written in English that he was at the reception, but we were not there and the time is 8-15. Lies and scammers are the most real, despite the fact that with the help of our hotel reception (the form is theirs, they are all tied there along the way) !! !
Then my wife and children come in, I show her everything and tell her, she is also at him, I say why they didn’t call, why they wrote to you, he: why are you screaming, now your brother will come and talk to him and runs out of his kiosk into the street where then calling on the phone. We sit, nervously heating up, waiting, we decided among ourselves - let them return all the money and they went through the forest-field ... That Cheburashka comes that sold us the excursion and again the same story - you were not there for you and the form was again in our nose, but at the same time, he says that the bus "left" at 7-45, it leaves earlier (you guys would at least agree among themselves to lie the same way), so what did you do then interestingly at the reception at 8-15 and put a type mark for cover own ass? In general, we weren’t there and that’s it, we ourselves are to blame.
Well, I say: I see we won’t achieve the truth, let’s return the money in full and we forget about each other, he agreed with a grimace, returned the money, we gave him our part of the receipt and, angry like dogs, went back home cursing the Arabs and ourselves for contacting such cartoons. That's how we went to Jerusalem. In general, with great care, contact street agencies in Egypt, the scammers are still the same, and Gena and Cheburashka fully justify their name!
__After that, we now went on two more excursions from Pegasus, and with absolutely no problems, we were picked up on time, perfectly delivered there and returned back. Were on Bathyscaphe and motosafari. The whole family swam on the bathyscaphe, watched fish and corals, very beautiful and interesting.
And I was on a motorcycle safari with my son, I think this is entertainment for men, riding an ATV for several kilometers through the dusty desert meeting the sunset, several stops for rest, one between the mountains listening to their echo, the other with the Bedouins, they will offer water and camel riding so bring your money, it's not free. In general, everything is cool, the son for the first time drove an ATV himself, gained emotions and positive for a long time. For a motorcycle safari, you need to purchase an arafatka (such a scarf) for everyone in advance to cover your face from wind and dust, you can buy it at any store for $ 2.
Then we ourselves as a whole family went by minibus to the dolphinarium. It is located at a distance of 2 kilometers from the hotel, go right on the minibus to the ring, then turn left along the ring to El-Shaikh Zayed St and right along it on the right side there will be a dolphinarium, if you wish, you can walk, but it will be difficult in the heat .
It works on weekdays, the performance starts at 15-00. They say the trainers are our Russian guys. The show is very interesting, varied, well done. One thing I didn’t like, at 15-00 the show had already begun, and the Arabs kept dragging on and on for another 15 minutes, distracting everyone. It cost $25 for an adult, $10 for a teenager, children under 7 are generally free.
__ In general, summing up, I would like to say that this year's vacation in Egypt was far from being at the highest level, and I want to note not because of our prejudiced mood or attitude, no, we held on as best we could and did not harm. We were not looking for problems, for some reason they themselves found us.
Of course, the hotel left a special negative imprint, I think this is the most important thing, we must be very responsible in choosing a place of rest, so that later there will be no disappointment, unfortunately this year our choice fell on the wrong token, we were already flying somewhere faster in order to have time to relax with the children before September 1 and decide everything in the last days, it’s impossible, the experience has been gained. Well, anyway, the sea, the sun, no one canceled the tan, mother nature did its job and the Arabs could not interfere here, we rested again, swam and sunbathed (and the tan turned out to be the best in all the years), and that is why we are at sea and flew.
Good luck to you Sea Beach, change for the better, they say you have a new owner now, you are now DESSOLE and everything has become better ... what happened before, it's scary to think if it's already better ... We probably won't fly to Egypt anymore, it really spoiled our attitude towards it is our current vacation, and the tours have become far from being as cheap as before so that we can
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