We chose the hotel based on photos and videos from youtube, the photos of the hotel are bombastic, in fact everything is different, the video is also very well filmed, you can’t see all the jambs !! ! Therefore, on the same day, we were very disappointed.
About food: I'm not picky about food, but I ate in the morning - scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, buns, eggs. EVERYTHING IS COLD, food is not heated. That's all. The rest of what lies there is not tasty !! ! EVEN PASTA, I'm just in shock!
For lunch: fried potatoes, pizza, fried chicken, and fruits, fruits are delicious here!
Dinner: fried potatoes, fried chicken, pizza, desserts, fruit!
That's how I ate in this hotel, the rest is nothing tasty!! ! Sausage, cheese, beef, pasta, beans, Rice, salads - everything is NOT TASTY!!!
Still in the dining room flies, zadolbali!
When you eat, 5-6 flies crawl on you and on food too, the drinks are all diluted, we only drank cola and sprite, the coffee is tasteless, they don’t use a coffee machine here, they only pour boiling water from it, because it is ancient, I thought I have an old coffee machine at home, it turns out not! This is just the past!
The pools were warm, probably because it is August and the air temperature is 42.
Be careful with the guide, he offered us $25 safari tours per person, agreed, half of what he offered was not, got upset, later we found out that this tour is cheaper, even through the sites of tour operators, so be careful here! They are taking over!! ! But we really liked the tour, it was great, but the fact that we were told and what happened in the end was different!
Animation Entertainment: from 10:00 am until 12:30 approximately on the beach, boring, mostly volleyball and bocha.
In the evening there is also, but boring, there are practically no Russian songs here, very rarely, basically everything is English and boring.
About the staff: everyone at the bars is friendly, in a good mood, but they don’t know how to make cocktails, everything here is just whiskey cola, sprite rum, etc.
For example, I tell them the composition of what I will drink from and control the amount of alcohol that they pour into a glass, then it turns out delicious!
If you just say a cocktail - you will have one alcohol that is impossible to drink, no taste.
Guys, I specifically wrote this review so that you do not go here! The hotel is shitty, the rooms are more or less, but everything is much better on the photo and video, it feels like all the video reviews are bought, tin!
We had an option for the same money to go to a hotel where delicious food, good tasty cocktails, good rooms, good pools. Everything here is old and worn out.
2. Beach. You need to walk a little, you can drive up, no problem. Beach towels are even worse than bath towels, they will give clean ones for a fee, but you need to pay extra every time. The beach bartender drains the leftovers and gives them to other people. He takes lemon into a cocktail straight with his fingers, reacts inadequately to comments. Everything is warm, diluted and non-carbonated. For a surcharge, they will pour better, but you need to pay extra every day, otherwise tomorrow they already don’t remember you. Sunbeds are worn out and not enough for everyone. The beach is quite clean, the entrance is from the pontoon, there are fish. You can’t feed the fish, but for $ 1 you can
3. Food. The variety is small, but you won't go hungry. There is no juice or fresh juice for breakfast. No glass of wine for lunch or whiskey for dinner either. There is no alcohol in the canteen at all !! ! Alcohol is only in the lobby, by the pool or on the beach. But then again... the tables are sticky and there are flies everywhere, even crawling on food. Crumbs are swept from the tables by hand.
4. Entertainment. Animation is good, well done guys. In the morning and in the afternoon on the beach they will not let you get bored, in the evening there is also a program, then a disco. But (! ) Without drinks (((if your throat is dry or you want to raise your mood, you need to run 250 meters to the lobby bar.
5. Territory. Pretty pretty and clean. The pools are unheated, so very icy in winter. Lots of flies and crows. I personally saw (sorry I didn’t film) how the cleaner washed the crow shit from the floor and sunbeds with a brush, and washed the brush in the pool. There are ruins and construction around the hotel. The old town is 25 km away, hotel taxi drivers ask for $25, bring down prices to $12-15 or take a walk to the highway and get there by bus for $1 per person.
6. Staff, administration and hotel guide. The staff is just waiting for you to give them a chocolate bar or $, the cleaners in the room do not clean at all, they put some water, make the bed and FSE. Even the toilet is not always put, you have to beg. If you leave them a dollar, they still won’t wash the floor, but with dirty hands they will wind up beautiful figures from towels. Admins at the reception are rare TV @ ri. Don't ask for anything. An additional pillow, or cleaning, or relocation... they relocate for $ 10, you start to swear or ask for no money - they pretend that they do not understand Russian.
The hotel guide is just pi@r@s. The fact that he sells excursions at exorbitant prices is understandable, he has such a job, to breed tourists for money and make himself the most important person on your vacation, supposedly only he solves all problems. Toward the end of our stay in this shithole, we were more actively pressed for that $45 for their old, faulty sink. The guide Shadi and from the reception called and threatened that we would have problems during the eviction, they intimidated and harassed us, they did not give us a pass. We met guys whose sink collapsed at night too! That is, our case is not an isolated one, it is on their stream... everything is old, everything is collapsing, and instead of repair, the management is trying to rip off money from vacationers. We got together with these guys to talk with the management, they abruptly "stopped" speaking and understanding Russian. In general, we called the police, no one paid anything, but half a day of time was spent on this trial, and a lot of nerves. I don't recommend this bowl to anyone. Don't ruin your good vacation with this bad place.
2. Settled first about a lousy number and if you want for extra. the fee will be changed, but inside the room (good-bad) there is practically no difference, a balcony will be added and the view from the window will change.
3. Nutrition. As they say, don't wake up hungry, but the cook's meat was almost always either raw or burnt (chicken). Vegetables, salads, pastries - excellent.
4. Cleaning, change of bedding - you need to leave a request at the reception and for water as well, then they will clean it and bring water. The bedding in the hotel is really a terrible gray color and no one irons it. Changed right in front of me and the view is not better.
5. The hotel is far from the center and from the road where minibuses go, walk about 30 minutes to the main road. On our arrival in local minibuses, the fare cost $ 1 for two, although in 2020 it cost a dollar per person. The Soho area is not far, we went there on foot, walk for 40 minutes.
6. The beach is normal, the pontoon is excellent, but there are practically no corals. On the beach there are snacks, and local alcohol. and what spoiled our holiday was the flies. and More about the beach: this is a windy area, since February the winds blow: you freeze and sunbathe at the same time.
7. Animation is normal.
8. Separately, I want to write about the guide from AnexTour - Mukhauri, I don’t really remember the name, at the meeting, but she’s kind of obligatory, she sells excursions at exorbitant prices, and says that he has nothing to do with it. He sold us a sightseeing tour for $ 5, while other operators have it for free. We spent 2 hours on his chatter, which is almost half a day. They asked to organize a trip to the state pharmacy, and he sent us to the usual one, where we were given a condition: if you don’t buy anything, we won’t take you back to the hotel, get on your own. On the beach you can really buy excursions much cheaper.
9. Well, a little about the Internet, as it turned out, you can not buy SIM cards, they are deceived with them, you buy for a few megabytes, and half of it no longer works. At the reception they sell the password to their Internet for a day, though we found out about it too late, the day before departure, but we are elderly people, we managed without it. And although the review turned out to be average, I cannot recommend this hotel to young people, you will die of boredom in the evening, and you hardly want to go to the center every evening.
3 adults and 2 children.
Ticket for $1500.
For this money, for such a composition, and for another 7 nights, everything corresponds.
STAFF: polite, Russian speaking. We became friends with many.
FOOD: monotonous, but you will not stay hungry. Lots of cakes every day. In the evenings, fish or meat is sometimes grilled.
Alcohol - if cola with brandy, or sprite with vodka, then it's okay. In general, for those who have this important indicator, it is better to stock up in duty free.
BEACH: clean, relatively close, although the 2nd line, but on foot you can walk in 7 minutes. We were often driven by a bus driver.
The sea is clean, it is better to enter with aquashoes. Or walk on the pontoon. There are fish and corals, it's beautiful.
There are pools, there are plenty of sunbeds everywhere.
ROOMS AND CLEANING: we had booked 2 and 3 bed rooms. But we were given two 3-seater. Lucky. The rooms are spacious. Very comfortable. There is hot water. Cleaned up every day. We lived on the first floor. As for me, this is the best option.
WEATHER: on the days of our arrival from the whole week there were really 3 warm days, everything else was windy. The sea is not always comfortable, but near the pool there is a place where there is no strong wind, you can sunbathe.
ANIMATION: exercises, zumba, darts are provided to you on the beach. In the evening there was sometimes a disco, we went once, we were not particularly impressed. Children hung out there at every opportunity. The animators themselves are cool guys. They try.
Excursions: Do not rush to buy right away. Find out the price in different places, and everywhere it will be different, and everywhere you will be told that this is the most profitable excursion)))
WHAT I WOULD RECOMMEND:
1. take a taxi, especially if you are 3-5 people and go to the Old City. It's worth it, there you can enjoy the color, eat shrimp. There they cost $ 8-10 per kg (and at the hotel they will offer you $ 14). In general, there is a variety of seafood. Many will recommend the famous seaside restaurant Fares. Yes, he is handsome, the most popular! But at 1.5-2 more expensive than opposite restaurants)))
There is a pharmacy with fixed low prices in the Old Town. Who knows the quality of Egyptian medicines will understand what I mean. Just don't see the "state drugstore" signs. Ask the locals where the cheapest pharmacy will be shown to you. We stocked up well at the pharmacy, which was 50-100 meters from the fish restaurant.
There, in the Old Town, you can find excursions, they are cheaper than anywhere we have seen. Bought on a quad there.
In the old town, you can stock up a bit, but don't rush. Since Sharm has a chic George Clooney huge store, which has absolutely everything.
2. George Clooney. Google it, there is a lot of information about this store. We bought EVERYTHING there! Transfer there and back is always free. Cosmetics, teas, clothes, sweets. EVERYTHING IS VERY CHEAP. Who needs suitcases, don't buy houses. There are cool suitcases. We bought a huge luxury suitcase for $35, and a small one for $22.
3. Visit the Ros Mohammed Nature Reserve by boat. There are gorgeous corals and lots of fish. This is a sea of pleasure. We swam there. Be sure to take masks.
IN SUMMARY: the hotel is good, it's worth it, I recommend it. The only thing I would like to wish for is the heated pools. When windy, he would save.
Flies around. Toothpicks are only in the bar, apparently so that the beer does not get stuck))). Everything is cooked to the max! Coffee can be drunk for free only in the morning, and then for $ 1 and only in one bar. Coffee powder is also not tasty. Tea is only black and only for breakfast, but in the bar you can drink it for free during the day and even have green tea. The beer in the bars ended an hour after the opening of the bar, but if you give the bartender money, they will pour it. (The beer is delicious) Only one good bartender was there, but he rarely came. The air conditioning in the room worked well, it was not at the reception, nor in the lobby. Terrible heat. We were evicted at 12.00, taken away at 18.20, you can only wash on the beach and save yourself from the heat only in the sea))). We went on an excursion and asked for lunch boxes (I will attach a photo), a shame, a small green peach with a piece of dirt (sorry I didn’t take it off) and rotten vegetables, and three pieces of bread with something similar to cheese))). The reef near the hotel is dead , but there are fish (they feed the locals).
Regarding excursions: the biggest swindlers are hotel guides. We were deceived several times. The first time I promised on a sightseeing tour an unusual view of the city at dinner in a cafe, as a result, the windows were covered with paper and even if there weren’t, there were cafes inside the buildings (although the dinner was delicious). The second time with an excursion to the Ras Mohamed reserve, we were brought to a half-dead reef with almost no fish, we swam for about 15 minutes and left. And it was the same at the next stop. Then they landed on a white island, which we did not order (it was on another excursion). We asked the guide who accompanied us, what kind of fraud was this? We were told that large boats should not drift near beautiful reefs (although other teams, as it turned out later, sailed with their guests on beautiful reefs. Our boat was called ADHAM. We asked if they had a photographer, to which we received the answer that he was sleeping. At all There were photographers on the yachts besides ours. Apparently we were not lucky, but the guide told everything so beautifully, said what beautiful corals we would see and fish, showed pictures!!!
Then he offered us an excursion to Cairo, to the pyramids for $120 per person, saying that we would get there in five and a half hours. Lies!! ! All the buses there from Sharm travel in the same column, accompanied by the police, and the road takes ALL the same time (9 hours), as everyone is waiting for each other. As a result, we booked a tour via the Internet for $45 and had a great trip!! ! On the beach near this hotel (if someone still goes there) a young man named Ahmed walks and offers various excursions for little money, of excellent quality. Tested by us and many tourists. To Tiran for 10 bucks - a gorgeous reef and a sea of u200bu200bbeautiful fish! We also have one local named "Misha". He can bring any product for a penny! It has the cheapest prices, it is not traded.
About the animation: there are 4 guys, they try very hard, but what can they do if, for example, a column is broken, and there is no one to repair it, etc. Animation only on the beach and in the evening children's disco in a hut on the way to the beach. There is no Internet. We bought a SIM card for $10 at the airport. They said 18 gigabytes. Of course they deceived, but there is no way to check. The hotel is on the outskirts, there is nowhere to go around the mountain of sand, only to go for 15-20 dollars. Ukrainians fly to this hotel for 200 bucks, Kazakhs for 300, we for 733, and our neighbors for 1000, although we are from the same city. Fine? I do not recommend the hotel!! !
I recommend. I will definitely go again.
About the hotel. Darkness. Full. We were first settled in a room with a broken sink and overlooking the pieces of iron "water park". After a long communication and demonstration of a voucher with Sea View, we moved with a view of the sea and the construction site!! ! This is a separate issue with rumbling and demolition of buildings very close by. The lock in the bathroom immediately broke in the room. Beach. The shuttle bass does not go, and you will cut a kilometer in the heat with beautiful views of the construction site. Chaise lounges torn to pieces. There is no reef, but fish swim under the pontoon and you will see at least something.
Food. It's mega tasteless and monotonous. You can only eat eggplant, grilled chicken and iceberg lettuce. And so every day. Fruits were already a couple of times - oranges, melon, dates. The drinks. There is no wine at all. Beer is given for each bar for 24 bottles and ends in 2 hours. Beer is warm!! ! There is no ice, so you don’t want to drink warm rum-cola either. Whiskey is stupidly disgusting and even cola can't fix it. There is no bar food. You can only eat in the main restaurant.
What you can fix yourself: do not agree to the dead numbers - demand a replacement. It is better to bring drinks with you. You can buy cold beer for 2 bucks outside the hotel (5 minutes to the left from the main entrance). You can eat in the old town (take your soul away), or buy grilled fish on the beach from a local fisherman. Fruits strawberry, guava, mango, melon are sold on the beach. And more excursions. Whether to buy from Anex or on the beach, everyone decides for himself, because. still dumb to go far is not clear with whom. But we bought on the beach, except for the timing and the small bus, it was normal. Bargain to the last, the price can be brought down three times.
The boy was scrubbing the room, that the floor was just shining, this is unusual for me, and when I saw how he washes a bucket in the corridor with a washcloth, so that the bucket in which he washes the rag was clean, I realized that the boy Seven, it seems, is called, just obsessed with cleanliness , I had to write a review at the reception, and when he found out about it, he wore bouquets of flowers to me for the rest of the days. But he cleaned really our way, good.
The food is good, but the chef changed (the one who cooked, and the fact that the chief didn’t cook anything was sitting on YouTube near the restaurant all the time), it’s very tasty, it’s not clear what, the cakes were some very beautiful, and we also liked pita chips with garlic, bad instant coffee, but we always take our own, only black tea. They didn’t die of hunger, if you don’t work out, then to be honest, the food is normal, as everywhere in Egypt.
The beach is good, there were enough sunbeds, but the wind on the beach, since it was March, was here two years ago - there were still fish and a poacher on a red boat, a man then caught coral fish on a hook (complaints did not help), now he did not hesitate to catch on a net , showed everyone octopuses and sharks, but he didn’t catch them here, but there were almost no fish, one surgeon for the entire beach and a few transparent uninteresting fish and one clown fish, which turned black with grief, there was also a skate. They killed the shortest of all the fish, because of this I was not interested in swimming here, and we went on foot to Melton, it’s free there - now it’s being renovated, and the reef is unrealistic, a lot of people went there and from Albatros Palace. Or you can take a taxi for a dollar.
If you like to walk, you can also go to Soho, walk for 40 minutes, a small place, good, for a relaxing holiday, but there are no fish, and the staff is not spoiled.
Next bar - beer at the bar near the pool 3 bottles per day for all vacationers, ends in 15 minutes. after opening. When asked if there will be more - they answer "you drink a lot" or the standard excuse of this hotel "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND", and this applies to almost all drinks. Beach towels are faded and tattered. The sunbeds are broken near the pool, every second on the sea is whole. Separately, I would like to note the bartender on the beach - a friendly, cheerful, positive young man, who feels that he did not work from this hotel. Animators brighten up leisure as they can, they try very hard.
And finally: when leaving the room at the reception, they wanted to carry 20 dollars due to the fact that they brought the keys to the room not at 12-00 but at 12-30. Guys, the feeling is that the positive reviews about this hotel are written by the staff themselves, do not think that there is personal dislike here, but I do not recommend going to this hotel, I do not want anyone else to be so disappointed.