Feel at home!

Written: 5 january 2009
Travel time: 6 — 20 december 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 8.0
We stayed at the Hilton in December. The weather was sunny, even tanned, but still cool in the shade.
We were greeted warmly at the reception (English-speaking staff) and settled within 10 minutes. They offered any room with a surcharge, but we asked at their discretion without any surcharges. To our surprise, they gave a good number, the side is not sunny, a view of the sea, the Israeli border, Jordan and the SAR.
Cleaned every day, figures from towels were molded for a dollar every other time. The bed was changed once a week (! ).
We really liked the food, much better than in Turkey, there is plenty to choose from, especially the sweets there are great! Good selection of meats for lunch and dinner. For breakfast, scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs with vegetables to choose from, delicious buns, cocoa, milk, juice (not freshly squeezed, but mango and guava are of very good quality), coffee-tea.

In addition to the main restaurant for dinner, you can also go for free to the Marhaba cafe, where they cook excellent beef. Other restaurants for a fee. Additionally, there is a beach bar serving drinks from 11:00 and light snacks from 12:00.
The hotel has 2 swimming pools. One with sea water, the other with fresh water, heated and Jacuzzi. The beach is huge, divided into 2 parts - rocky with a pontoon and sandy. There are a lot of corals near the sandy one, a variety of fish, both near the shore and at depth. Between the Hilton and Movenpeak there are the most corals, we advise you to swim away from the coast, there are huge flocks of flute fish and goldfish, there are lionfish.
I liked the animation in general. In the morning, yoga or aerobics in the water, volleyball, football, belly dance lessons in the afternoon, evening shows and disco are a little lame.
Also near the hotel there are souvenir shops where you can buy coral slippers. If you leave the hotel, heading towards Movenpick (about 500 meters), both on the right and on the left side of the road you can find shops with fruits (especially delicious strawberries! ), sweets and water.
Were on 3 excursions: a boat trip ($55), Cairo - the pyramids ($75), Jerusalem and the Dead Sea ($200, but now $180 due to the tragedy with Russian tourists).
I really liked the boat trip on the yacht, the beautiful underwater world, the instructor literally leads by the hand and shows the marine life. The main thing is not to be lazy and not to be afraid, but to swim with everyone - you will be very pleased!
In Cairo, little time is given to see the pyramids, followed by a perfume factory, a papyrus shop, a jewelry store and a national museum. Lunch takes place on a walk along the Nile on a beautiful boat with a marble floor.

In Israel, there is a painfully long passage through the border, a cold climate (14 degrees), exhausting walks in holy places and a long journey. We were really looking forward to the arrival to the Dead Sea, but got stuck in a traffic jam due to an accident and waited 2 hours. Therefore, the sea was only when the sun went down and it was at 14 degrees (! ). Ate forced themselves to swim there... In general, we liked this tour much less than the others.
In general, the impression of the hotel is very good. Have a great rest!! !
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