The food is excellent, but only for Kings Lake and Prestige guests. The buffet in the restaurants of the network (for residents of other categories of the hotel) is very meager and monotonous from the word at all. And as always, the human factor is of great importance: We can say that our day was made by a waiter named Alla, who was always very polite, attentive and courteous with restaurant visitors.
The day before departure, the staff at the restaurant where we dined (Blue Lake) changed and it was impossible not to notice. The waiters had to wait and constantly ask to bring something (fork, knife, bread, hotel occupancy is about 30-40%), for some reason the portions also sharply decreased, instead of a whole sea bass fillet they began to bring exactly half, undercooked meat (although at the request it was replaced ).
Therefore, thanks to those people who do their job conscientiously! Several times visited evening shows on the main arena - very bright and colorful performances. There are several heated pools on site. The territory of the hotel is quite large, but after a while you realize that everything is very compact and well-located, and this greatly facilitates all movements around the territory, taf-tuffs go every 5 minutes. There are many different inhabitants in the sea, although the reef can be more colorful.
In general, I can say that our vacation was a success!
We will probably return to this hotel!
And here we are in Domina! Very large area, clean and beautiful! The bus delivers already inside the hotels. At the reception, everything was done quickly and we were taken to the hotel on a club typewriter (they use these for playing golf). On call, this car with a driver comes to you and takes you wherever you want. The room is clean and comfortable, with a balcony, lake view! No cockroaches or insects!
The lake is a fairy tale! Artificial, water comes from the sea through pipes, fish swim in the lake. The children were fed every day. Finding a photo of the lake is not a problem. Sun loungers, umbrellas are good, you don’t need to take a seat, because not many people can relax there. Toys (for sand, balls, cars) were left at the sun loungers, they didn’t take them home for all 13 days, not a single thing was lost. In windy weather, there is no wind on the lake, the buildings are closed, it is very windy on the beach by the sea.
Meals - breakfasts are held in the restaurant of the Prestige Hotel, you call the reception and after 2 minutes a golf car arrives for you, brings and takes you (2 minutes to go), we ourselves returned to the lake along the seashore two days later. The breakfast is excellent, the waiters carry the menu, there are several types of omelettes, scrambled eggs, pancakes. A large selection of yoghurts (without additives and with them), cheeses, sausages, pastries, fresh juices (two types: orange and guava or instead of guava, melon). Everything is at a high level! Now about restaurants A LA CARD! There are many for different tastes, the menu is excellent.
PRICES - on average per person, this is a salad $ 10-15, a second $ 15-20, a dessert $ 8, without drinks! It's lunch and it's dinner! In the dining room, where people who have all-inclusive eat, we were offered $ 50 for a family. Therefore, when checking into King at the reception, they offered to buy a full package - 40 Euros per family, for one day, lunch and dinner at any restaurant on the territory of Domina Coral. Having checked that we would spend about $ 150-170 on food per day for a family of four, we took advantage the next day and bought this package for the whole vacation.
I went to check for lunch in Coral, already free on the card, so I took a chance (this is a canteen where people who have all-inclusive eat) !! ! I understand after this food reviews! Everything tasteless!!! ! You have to be a vegetarian, meat, and this is terrible lamb and dry turkey. You can eat vegetables and side dishes (rice is delicious). Only sweets are normal. Without children, if you go, you can go hungry! Well, in the Restaurants everything is very tasty, fresh, a completely different level! Accordingly, the service is excellent, All the waiters play with the children, they joke!
Bazaar - inside the complex there is a market, you can buy anything you want. The Egyptians do not grab the hand, do not become impudent!
Animations and disco - evening children's disco, 10-15 minutes, singing Italian songs and dancing. Very fun and playful! Then, in the arena, a performance for adults and children (sometimes it’s good, sometimes you don’t want to watch it). Well, after that everyone goes to the central cafe and there the animators organize so-called flash mobs to the music! Very fun and outrageous! Then we sleep with the children, how life is at night Unknown!!!!!!
The people in the Domino complex are 50% Russian, 50% Italian. There is no tension, everything is in a friendly atmosphere. Drunken festivities, disputes, fights, showdowns were not noticed !! ! Guards are everywhere.
Tuf Tuf is super fun for kids!!! ! Buses without doors and windows run throughout the hotel, 4 different routes! They deliver people from the sea to the hotel, if they are located far away. My children and I rode them every day, before dinner, before lunch. Video taf taf can be found everywhere.
Conclusion ------ in order for the vacation to be wonderful and not to write bad reviews about food and rooms, you must live in the Prestige Hotel or King! And you will be great! But they are expensive compared to Oasis, Sultan, Aquamarine! And people pay less and want to live like in a palace! Everything corresponds to its price and quality.
Golf cars can be rented for $10 an hour or $65 a day. You can buy a ticket to any hotel, and upon arrival pay extra and you will be accommodated in another hotel, a class higher. But you will go to your place to eat, where the hotel originally arrived! There is no big difference between the food in the Coral Dining Room and the dining rooms of the Sultan Hotel, Elizir, I went to check it.
Only one problem got us - it's mosquitoes! We bought a fumigator, a racket for insects and everything is super. But they managed to bite us and the children!
Domina Coral Bay (Aquamarine-King's Lake) 17/06/12-01/07/12
Part 2 - details.
Territory: The largest territory in Sharm. We rented a local electric car for 10 E / hour and barely had time to go around the entire territory. Walk, run in the morning, ride a bike - as much as you like. Green, clean everywhere and paths. People are not visible.
Depending on which hotel you settled in (there are seven of them, sort of) (Aquamarine 42-43-44, King Lake - 45), you will have to get either on foot (5-20 minutes) or by local buses that run on 5 routes constantly to Stolovka and the main beach.
In addition, each hotel has its own swimming pool.
On the territory there are villas (separate house-rooms), which, if desired, can also be rented.
Shopping: On the territory of its own trading town, located in an ideal location - the intersection of all roads - to the canteen, to the beach, to the pool and to the Arena. Local merchants are a bit clingy, but everything is in moderation. Friendly and hospitable if you talk and buy something from them.
They treat them with tea, help burnt tourists for free, and generally like to chat. They sell mostly light clothing (normal fakes: T-shirts, polo shirts, shorts, scarves and beach covers) and swimming accessories. Plus all sorts of oils and teas.
And, of course, souvenirs. Everything is cheap and the quality is right.
If you want something special for your home or a gift, I advise you to go near the canteen on the left to the NARMER store - ivory products. Expensive - but beautiful. There are not many stores like this in the world. The owner is a friendly young man.
Bargain and chat more, everyone understands Russian within 3 classes : -) Look around, and only when you go around most of the shops - do your shopping.
Don't forget to say - Good morning : -) - and Hello : -) you cheer yourself up and others.
Public dining room: Breakfast: Hot drinks.
Side dishes: All kinds of freshly cooked eggs (boiled, fried - soft), potatoes, macaroni (freshly cooked). Several types of meat and fish. Salads (the same in different versions for the whole day). Sweets (indescribably delicious-everything). Fruits-Vegetables: Melons, lemons, tangerines, dates - the whole day.
Lunch: Side dishes: Several varieties of rice, potatoes, Lasagne, Vegetables (boiled-steamed), and PASTA. Several types of meat + freshly cooked fish. Salads are the same but more. Sweets are different, more, tastier. Juices (Pineapple and Orange - similar to real ones). Water. Fruits and vegetables are the same.
Dinner: All the same, but smaller + something interesting from meat or fish, freshly prepared.
Bread and rolls - SUPER. TRY
Beach and pools: The beach is huge (I repeat), there are enough places for everyone.
There are several pantones, but most of them bathe in the central one. There you can dive with a mask, see the fish and buy the kids in the pools and jump, you can go crazy.
Pantones are open from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. Do not forget that you are in the Red Sea and this is the Shark House. After 19-00 it is not advisable to swim and no one will let you (they are watching and fined), and they will do the right thing.
Clinic: There is a decent clinic on the territory. We weren't there. But our friends were satisfied. Those who broke their fingers got x-rays, bandaged regularly, etc. The kids got there, the same story - competent doctors, ointments, injections, pills - everything is at home for insurance or for money.
Animation Entertainment: At the pools during the day - for the Ladies, water fitness in different versions, for the Men - water basketball and swimming.
In the evening: at the Arena for All, a show - a weekly program, look. For children: Disco in the Aruba Club from 21:00 to 21:30. Plus daily programs (pizza making, etc. ). If you want children to be engaged all day - ask the girls, they can do everything.
At night, you can dance in the StarGate disco club - we haven’t been, but people praised both the music and the atmosphere.
Boys-Girls: A completely diverse and age-old audience. Quite a lot of girls who came to hang and come off. Enough youth companies. Girls will be able to notice the Italians who come here to show themselves. I think you can roam as you can and can
Conclusion: You can come for 10 days, almost everyone here will find everything they want. Well, now the main thing - Wish and good luck to everyone.
For breakfast, 1 type of sausages (not a sausage, but a delicious pate), 2 types of cheese, 1 type of sausage (suspiciously with pieces of sausages inside), some pastries and terrible fruits, the same for dinner. The chef is a big elderly Italian who walked around and pretended to be smart, but it’s not clear why, because everything really wasn’t tasty, but the Italians greeted him and thanked him. On the fourth day, there was probably a check-in of Italians and there was not much variety in the "dining room". The owner is an old Italian to whom everything is ---. , having come to control the "dining room" in the evening, after seeing how the chicken kebab was burning, he went on as if it were necessary. Do not see the Russians (I don’t know what to call them, those who invite you to excursions, restaurants, a disco, etc. ) with a Mexican restaurant.
They invited us with a big discount, but you need to buy a ticket very quickly, otherwise there are few tickets + there will be a lottery and we agreed, we came, even the owner was sitting with friends at the next table, they brought the menu and it was 3 types of cold, 3 types hot and 3-kind of dessert. When these dishes were brought to us, we were shocked, one of the hot ones was five thin medallions of hard-rubber stewed beef on a pile of onions. The cook is probably an Egyptian-Mexican who saw the word Mexico on the roof of his restaurant. The restaurant is open 2 times a week and you can get into it only with tickets paid in advance. After a couple of days of their "food" of friends, they sprinkled me "carried" not childishly, but then I would not refuse diapers. Animation was somewhere, children's in the evening for sure, went with the children. In the evening, evening life begins on the square in the center of the hotel (from other hotels you can get to the center on foot, on free buses "TAF-TAF" go in different ways from 5 to 15 minutes.
or rent an electric car for 45-50 euros per day) all shops, restaurants were opened (there are about 5 paid ones in the center, and again it’s a scam. bills the day before departure. And that's not all, the bill shows the amount of the order + 12% service charge + about 7-8% tax + some other%, more profitable immediately in cash) Live music, an Italian sings and very cool, later a disco. There is even a real estate agency selling elite rooms and cottages for private ownership. The Internet was even free in the room, WI-FI appeared on the 3rd day and after 2 more days disappeared forever throughout the hotel.
All in all it was a 50/50 vacation.
Mini bar. We had to call this pleasure to replenish constantly, the same applies to shower gels, soaps, etc.
Because of the delicious food, I had to call a doctor who, after looking at the oral cavity, checking the pressure and temperature, asked for 60 EURO for the visit !!!! ! and only cash, insurance did not bother him.
Well, what can we say, all the actions sooo influenced the Egyptians, from a normal welcoming people, they turned into something incomprehensible. The employees themselves ran into conflicts. Of the tourists, only Russians remained in the majority, it’s already disgusting that a tour to Egypt resembled an ordinary trip to a rygalovka bar.
BUT! I forgot to write about the pontoon, there, too, it is fenced with buoys, on a large "sports strip", in order to at least slightly plunge into the water, you almost had to push.
In general, you have a desire to enjoy such a rest, a tablecloth path. We closed the gates to Egypt for ourselves, if not forever, then at least for 15 years