Money down the drain or you can't step into the same river twice

Written: 16 may 2012
Travel time: 7 — 14 may 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 6.0
We stayed at this hotel last year. I thought we would rest in this. but with the rest there was a puncture.
upon check-in, they gave me a room on the first floor in the farthest part of the hotel overlooking the desert. went to the reception, offered a room with a sea view for an extra charge of 50 greens, they said a bathrobe, slippers and fruit every day. have taken. then I had to go to the reception to remind about the fruit.
since on the first day we had a 2-day trip to Israel planned for the night, we wanted to swim in the sea. but the suitcases were carried for a very long time. besides, first mine, and then the wife (there were our bathing suits). in the end - bathed when the sun was gone.

cleaning - it seemed to be clean after it was in the room, but not completely. the swans were twirled once, and then in expiation of their guilt by the cleaner. first left for a buck. but then they stopped. the cleaner Sami didn't deserve it. in addition, this cleaner, without our permission, connected his phone to his wife's charger and forgot to pick it up. Arriving at the room, we photographed it and when he came on the phone, we ran into him. he asked not to report to the reception. We took pity on him.
On the 3rd day, when we returned from Israel, there was no fruit in the room. On the 4th day, they went to the reception 2 times and on the 5th day they reminded me again. Only after that fruit began to be brought regularly.
When we checked in we found that the safe was closed. They called the hotel staff, they opened it, but at the same time they pulled it out from a makeshift fixture with a wardrobe, as a result, it fell on its own from a shelf to the floor. The safe was difficult to open and close. The skewed door of the safe is to blame for this. It took a lot of force to open or close.
This year, a part of the rooms that were still under construction in the past were opened in Suisse. The people in the hotel has increased, but there are no attendants. As a result, in order not to wait half an hour for a glass of wine or beer, we had to go to the bar ourselves.
We went to Israel for 2 days from Sinai Travel. Paid for 2 500 bucks - 250 per person. In our hotel, the PEGASA guide RID 310 bucks for this, and another 5 for permission to take a picture near the wailing wall! ? And 5 bucks for wanting to submit notes! ? In a word, PEGAS is an extortionist. I advised Sinai Travel to everyone who wanted to go to Israel and gave them the coordinates. It was enough to send SMS and everything was settled.
ADVICE TO ISRAEL. Regardless of the operator, everyone is driven almost along the same route and expensive stores. You can buy cheaply near the temple in Jerusalem yourself or in Bethlehem not far from the temple. But for this you need to be able to separate from the group at the right time and join it before leaving the temple, otherwise you can get lost.

The border was passed relatively quickly, but the entrance to this border took 2.5 hours. So far, a whole bus has been collected from all the hotels. And then we waited 2 hours until everyone was collected. This year we had a friend in Jerusalem and we spent the whole day with her in this wonderful and holy city and saw a lot of things. We just separated from our group (having warned the guide in advance) and only in the evening we arrived by taxi to the hotel in Bethlehem where ours were. On the 2nd day we traveled with our group through the north of Israel and then back for the night we returned to the hotel in Egypt. These 2 days flew by like 5 minutes.
Mosquitoes were flying in the hotel room and I regretted that I forgot the RAPTOR. They drank great blood and gnawed at our nerves.
The food in the morning and afternoon is the same. Except for the soup. But in the evening they gave something new. There were many fruits. Melons and watermelons were especially delicious. Baking - every day the same.
An acquaintance Lyudochka bargained with divers and for 50 greens we had the good fortune to dive 6-7 meters into the sea with scuba gear and enjoy diving for 45 minutes. I liked it so much that I’ll probably sign up for a diving center in my city.
From Friday to Saturday we went to Sinai to climb Mount Moses. It was hard to go up, and even harder to go down, because we went back along the monastic path. I really liked the icon museum, where there are icons of the 6th century, various old bibles (even the Codex Sinaiticus) and church utensils and clothes of bishops)
On Sunday, we were already tired of all this hotel monotony and we were waiting for Monday - the flight home.
We flew from the airport in Taba. Very surprised by the prices there. An alabaster bowl that you can buy in Sinai for 5 bucks sold?! ? for 25. such a scam there.
And when we flew home, we realized what we were missing here - Egyptian warmth
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