Лучше в Крым, чем сюда Better in Crimea than here

On April 17.2008, together with my husband, we decided to go to Egypt for a vacation in a taboo, at the Salah el Deen hotel. But at first, we booked in the agency "One2Go", 2 trips 5 * All inclusive in a five-star hotel. Already then the problems began. My husband immediately found a place in the hotel (that is, the booking was confirmed almost immediately), but I didn’t. We waited at the office for confirmation probably until 18-00 from lunch. Then we were assured that everything would be ok. And they sent us home, and the flight was supposed to be in a day. The next day there were no calls from them, and in the evening of the next day my husband and I had an accident. Since no one called us from the company, I realized that the flight or seat reservation was canceled, and we would not fly anywhere, since there were no documents on hand except for a receipt for payment for 2 tickets to a 5-star hotel. In the morning, my husband and I went to the insurance company about our car, and oh horror at 12-00 they call us from the travel agency and say that the flight is at 15-00.
I explain that we will not have time to call on them for tickets and go home for things (since we live 15 km outside the city). And we are told that representatives of their company will be waiting for us at the entrance to the airport with our documents. I don't know how, but we made it. At the airport we were surprised again, unfortunately I could not find a place in a 5-star hotel, only in a 3-star one. The husband was laughed out loud - they say, what happens, the wife will be in one hotel, and I will be in another? My husband immediately abandoned a 5-star hotel and de jure moved to a 3-star hotel with me. The travel agency promised to solve this during our flight. The first thing we did after passing the control, sorry for the frankness, went to Duty Free for a drink. The husband also said, they say, do not think to take more, "I feel our vacation will succeed. " We flew with our UIA airlines. The pilot was apparently late, and without waiting for the two aircraft in front to take off, he went to the start. It was something.
I felt what it means to fly in a jet plane and go up like a candle. After that, all the passengers really sincerely applauded the pilot, we all applauded even more sincerely when we landed. It can be seen that the pilot accelerated too much during landing, and in Taba the runway is not very long, and we skidded. Of course, we didn’t run out of the plane, falling on the runway and kissing the ground shouting: “Earth! Finally land! ” We arrived at the hotel normally, or rather, we don’t remember how, because the whole bus was slightly sober thanks to the driving of our pilot. To my personal surprise, my husband and I were the first to be taken to some part of the world, next to a military base. The hotel was... I wouldn't even say it was a hotel. When I was a little girl in Anapa, my parents and I lived in better conditions. It all started the next day. We were awakened at 5-00 by some squeak, it turned out that a lizard lives in the room.

Until seven in the morning, my husband caught this creature, because it rustled, and I was afraid that it would bite when you didn’t expect it at all. In the end, he caught her and threw her out. We realized that we would not be able to fall asleep and decided to take a walk, and at the same time find a dining room. The food was ok, scarce but ok. They did not die of hunger. The table is the same every day - boiled beans, grilled wings (chicken), rice soup, salads (cut tomatoes, obviously rotting), but the most delicious is sweet dishes - these are really masterpieces. Free from drinks, something like Jupi yellow and red, water 5 c. u. e. 1 liter. Thank God in sealed bottles, not from the tap. After breakfast, we walked along the shore, realized what kind of wilderness it was. to go on a yacht to the pharaoh's island is too expensive 55 euros for one, for 30 min. As a result, sunbathed, bought, by the way about the sea. For me it was a fairy tale. Not deep, maximum up to my chest (172 cm), I don’t swim very well, or rather, not at all.
And for my husband there was something to do, a mask + fins and along the reef. About two hundred meters from the shore, where my chest is, a coral reef begins, it’s also chest-deep and it’s almost impossible to swim across it, there are sea urchins, octopuses, and so on. In general, vacationers tried, some swam across, but returned with skinned knees. The water is purest. But the first day overshadowed our room, it turned out that as soon as you turn on the shower to rinse, water starts to beat like a fountain ... because of the toilet bowl. I found out about this when, having washed up, I stepped on the floor, slipped and flopped. Fortunately, the water was clean : ) It turns out that when you flush the toilet, the water also flows because of it. All 7 days the hotel tried to fix it, but to no avail. We did not go on excursions, it was very expensive. But one was not abandoned. It was advised to us by our guide Mohammed (a young boy of about 23 years old).
The tour is called "Blue Hole": driving through the desert in jeeps, riding camels, buying coral beads, hookahs in a local shopping center (6 shops on two floors), and most importantly diving in the "Blue Hole". Do not look at the dirty beach in this place, the most beautiful is under the water. This is the cleanest and richest reef in the entire Red Sea. So many fish, corals, octopuses, sea urchins.... This is probably the only thing worth going for. Believe me, it's worth seeing, you will never forget this place. and many thanks to Our Muhammad. My husband swims well, he put on a fins mask, told me to wait on the shore, and he will return for me in 15 minutes, and we will swim together (the fact is that I am terribly afraid of water, and I have never dived with a mask and fins, and we had only one pair of them, a husband), so the waters Mohammed, seeing all this, ran away and came running with another mask, flippers and a children's life jacket.
I talked to my husband and said that he would show me the coral reef. So, thanks to Mohammed, I saw something that I can’t forget to this day (by the way, we swam for about an hour, he didn’t take a penny from us for a vest, mask and fins). In general, rested so-so. For the money you could have had a better holiday. The flight back was calmer, but we waited an hour for departure, some part fell off on the runway and they were looking for it to screw it on. Upon arrival back in Kyiv, I went to receive compensation for the refusal of a 5-star hotel and the transfer of my husband to me in a 3-star one. Naturally, I told about all our misadventures, to which the managers laughed and said that this simply could not be, and reimbursed me as much as 200 hryvnias, asking them to bring our pictures to them so that they could also look. Believe me, I didn’t know that a weekly accommodation with food in a five-star hotel costs only 200 hryvnia more than accommodation in a three-star hotel.

Good wishes to everyone - do not use the services of "One2Go", there is an unpleasant aftertaste on the soul after the rest, money wasted. And if you are in Egypt, be sure to visit the excursion to the "Blue Hole", this is exactly why it is worth going there.