The rooms leave much to be desired. Take toilet paper with you too (it is not available in any public toilet). Soaps, shampoos, etc. too.
Another minus cups on the beach 180 ml. You're better off buying plastic ones.
There are a lot of mosquitoes at night and they are not poisoned.
The food is delicious and enough.
The area is very beautiful, you can take a lot of pictures.
The best thing is the beach. We fell in love with him. Caught in a storm and could jump on the waves)))
There are fish. We even saw Napoleon.
Water should be given daily at 1.5 liters, I had to catch up with the maid guy and ask for water. Excellent sandy beach. Water +25, in the shade +23, in the sun +34. There are two reefs on the beach, but you can’t stand on them, so special shoes are not needed. The mask can be bought from $15 and below, bargaining is appropriate. There are a lot of fish. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are available from 10 am. There is alcohol in a cafe near the main restaurant, but one bartender poured vodka heavily diluted with water. The next day, the guy was already working as a dirty dishes collector in a restaurant. There is a heated swimming pool on the territory of the Gardens Beach hotel.
Everything would have been 10 points if not for the food. My husband and I did not gain weight and did not lose weight. Of the fruits, you could only eat chopped oranges or tangerines. Dates gave firm, ripening waited for several days. Salty cottage cheese. Whoever agrees to eat rice or pasta (pasta) daily with sausages for breakfast or stewed strips of chicken and beef for lunch and dinner, eat baked mackerel or putas filet - he will be satisfied. From vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, Chinese cabbage, pickled daikon, carrots and hot peppers. If you can get it. The line grabs vegetables, and the next plate will be brought in 15 minutes. There is nothing to water the vegetables with, only vinegar.
Everything is dietary: no fried, fatty. Soup is called: from pasta. Pasta with tomato is poured with boiling water and that's it. Sometimes zucchini cubes are added to the soup. Potatoes are a big problem. Beer or in a cafe, or you ask the waiter to bring it for lunch or dinner, you won’t pour it yourself. Lunch or dinner - tea or coffee in a nearby cafe. Very tasty bread and buns. Crispy crust, always fresh. Amber type cheese, not hard. When pizza is sprinkled with such cheese in an a la Italian restaurant, it does not stretch, it is not tasty. You should not waste time on a la carte, you will still come to a regular restaurant to eat.
Who wanted to swim in the sea, relax near the beautiful pool and drink beer - the hotel is what you need!
Now everything has changed, completely, my opinion is that if you want a paid excursion to hell, then you should take a closer look at this place.
Almost the entire staff has changed, there are no more than a couple of familiar faces.
The rooms are also unchanged, the condition is normal, you can live, but they definitely need repairs, and for a long time. All rooms have some nuances, then the refrigerator does not work, then there is no hot water, it happens only hot, there are no irons, no kettles. Cleaning is practically absent, the floor is not washed, the bed is not changed. Water should be given, but in fact they have to demand, they pretend that they don’t understand, they want money. If suddenly you were settled on the first floor, then hell you sleep, because they start yelling like crazy from 6.30, do not care about you all. The entrance doors are old dry, there is no noise from them.
All this does not concern you, if suddenly you come from Britain, then you will be accommodated in a good room and you will eat at another restaurant.
About the restaurant (s) - and not close, it's just some kind of tin, they don't know how to cook and don't want to. The food that will be available will not please you at all, it's just the bottom. If you haven't seen pasta salad with rice, then you haven't seen anything. There is not much greenery there, but only at the beginning, if suddenly you decide to come for lunch / dinner later, so as not to stand in lines for meat, then it’s okay, just go to eat in the city, because people have been taught that you need to come to at the beginning, in order to grab something, the main thing is to find a plate and a place, which is also always missing at the beginning. And even if you are a very lucky person, and you managed to find a place + a plate + something edible, then it’s too early to relax, you can be kicked off the table at any time if suddenly it was booked by a non-Slavic company (Germans, Britons, etc. . d. , you are not in the status of a person there at all).
Forget about the children's menu right away, there is nothing normal, occasionally they put pasta (the same as on the common table = with spicy sauce) and soy sausages, not only children refuse to eat them, but also dogs on the beach. I have never seen such nasty and vile taste and smell food in my life, at the station they cook the level of God compared to them. For all comments, suggestions, complaints, they will simply send you to hell, no matter what you do, wherever you write, the result will be exactly ZERO. All the staff, from the reception to the manager, don't give a shit about you. They will laugh in your face and in your back, turn away and pretend that you do not exist, it is a little more difficult to ignore almost all requests to get a roll of toilet paper, by the way, it is also not always available.
Of course, there are exceptions, there are good people there, for example, a gardener, a security guard at the entrance, one waiter is a normal guy, but all good things dissolve in the madness of the rest. Every day of your "rest" you will face rudeness and hatred from the staff. There is no ambiguity in these words, if you are from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine - get ready.
The hotel is 130% full, there are not enough sunbeds, people lie on the beach on towels, on the sand where they have to, dogs live there, look under your feet and for the children, so that nothing happens. There is also a dude with a whistle, everything is impossible, he whistles right away, don’t go there, don’t look there, don’t swim there. I am quite an adequate person, I am for safety, but there is too much. The sunbeds are all old and dead, the towels are 80 percent old too. Towels are stolen on the beach, they stole from us, to our appeal to the reception with a complaint they told us in plain text - either pay $ 10 or go and take it from someone.
The entrance to the sea is good, sandy, occasionally there are stones underfoot, but overall it's good. There is depth, and children can play. There are corals and fish.
Local location is good, 10 min. by minibus to the old city (5 pounds per person, children are not needed), and nearby Naama walking street, in short, in this regard, everything is fine, I think.
Bottom line - money wasted.
Cons - everything is old, the sewerage is terrible. We were on the second floor, the toilet (sorry) had to be flushed for 10 minutes. At night, it often stank of excrement throughout the territory (maybe the lawns were watered from the sewer or cleaned).
The worst thing about this hotel, as it turned out in Ghazala Beach, is the kitchen in the main restaurant. There is no choice, there is little food (half ended in the middle of dinner and was not renewed), the taste is terrible, the view is like they cook for pigs. If you come an hour before the end of dinner - you can not count on fish and meat - maximum lettuce leaves with terrible sausage and cheese.
Service - no, everyone runs only after the Germans (who leave tips for them), otherwise you can not wait for drinks in the dining room, you will have to go to the bar and carry it yourself. It's easy, of course, but annoying.
The staff pesters: you go, everyone will ask where you are from and what is your name, even without hello. Everyone climbs with their own: Oooooo beautiful. It's annoying to hear every day. On the beach, one waiter told me that I have a cool ass and he gets excited when he sees it, and whether I like it or not, he will continue to look at her. Every second offers to take a walk, well, or kiss him...
If not for some people who were very pleasant and nice, the mood would have been spoiled.
Animation - not very good. A big team, but they are always some kind of tortured. Just to work out the program and that's it. No drive, no excitement, do not particularly lure people like in other hotels.
Bar on the beach - paid, but you can use - across the road. They didn't give us ice cream at Ghazala Beach, they told us to go to your hotel.