Best holiday, best hotel

Written: 14 april 2009
Travel time: 2 — 10 april 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel; For families with children; 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: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
I am writing the second review, since the first one was short and perhaps many mistook it for an advertisement or an "order". So, about the hotel and not only from the first mouth (we arrived 5 days ago).
1) We arrived at the Sharmal Sheikh airport, boarded the Pegasus buses and went straight to Taba, the path is long, but not particularly tiring, because the landscape is beautiful and colorful. We arrived at the hotel at 14.00, the porter greeted us with a smile, and the guide immediately offered to drop everything and go to dinner in a restaurant, but my husband and I decided it was better to wait with dinner, because most of all we wanted to take a shower))). The number was given immediately, without any money and bidding (a simple standard was paid). We went to see the room (1008), we liked it right away, everything is clean and beautiful, large bathroom, hair dryer and air conditioning, by the way, WORKED perfectly, quietly and efficiently. From the terrace of the room there was direct access to the beach, which I especially liked, although through a fire exit 3 steps away. View of the sea and the mountains and the garden, admire your health.
2) The territory of the hotel: large and beautiful, 2 tennis courts, 2 swimming pools - one near the beach, there is music and animation, the second one is at the top in the villa area, I liked sunbathing more there, as it is quiet and there are almost no people, you can relax. There is a lot of greenery on the territory of the hotel and everything is very well-groomed, everything blooms and smells.

3) The sea and the beach: the sea is beautiful, a huge reef is in close proximity, you don’t even need to know how to swim + there is a cleared sandy strip, you can just lie down without any slippers and relax. Sun loungers and umbrellas would be enough if Russo tourists did not occupy them from 5 in the morning, and then did not even come to the beach. The funny thing is that most of them occupied sunbeds at the same time by the pool and on the beach, and then they also left for an excursion for the whole day, laughter and nothing more. The sand on the beach is clean and soft, there is no bar on the beach itself, but there is a pool bar, which is 10 meters from the beach, so just 2in1.
Very comfortable beds and mattresses - soft and large.
4) Meals: during our stay in Sonesta, unfortunately, only one of the 2 restaurants worked - Palmyra, Oasis should open on April 15, they say it is more beautiful there than in Palmyra. The food is quite varied, but I won’t say that it’s just 100%, no, 80 percent, I personally didn’t have enough cucumbers with tomatoes. The queue to the restaurant was long, and this is true, due precisely to the fact that the Oasis was not yet open, and a lot of people had settled in since 06.04. We solved this problem in our own way, while Rousseau tourists shouting "Woman, I was standing here !!! " fought for a piece of beef, we calmly ate soup and enjoyed alcohol and great company, after 20 minutes the queue disappeared and we calmly went to eat )))).
Alcoholic drinks are excellent in my opinion, of course, not like UALL in Turkey, for example, but the quality is high, Stella beer is bottled not from kegs, but from bottles, cola, sprite and fanta are also bottled.
If the wine is white and red, whiskey, brandy, rum, vodka and something else local. I personally drank Rum with Cola (by the way, I liked their rum more than pure English, bought in Dutik)
5) Animation is generally super. During the course - gymnastics, aqua aerobics, belly dance, volleyball twice a day, our boys played regularly and were delighted, but we, the girls, preferred tennis. In the evening, the show program: Miss and Mister Sonesta, comedy show, the best couple of the hotel, etc. , the animation is designed for young people, because everything is playful, with a large number of competitions. The disco after the show was awesome, everyone had a blast!!!!!!

6) Vacationers: Russians, Bullaruses, Ukrainians were not noticed by me, probably they just didn’t speak the language. ))) A lot of English, Poles, Czechs. And everyone is so positive, everyone is smiling, well, of course there were "BUKI", we did not pay attention to them. The main thing is that we found real friends there, so we left with tears .........
And the last thing: during the days spent in this hotel, we found more friends than in the last couple of years of our lives, and this is worth a lot !!!!!!!!

SONESTA super, we will definitely come again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
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