Further, when you arrive, the guide checks you in and only when you have been given a card, he leaves. Yes, they can give you a room with a sea view at the reception, but you don’t have to believe it, because they don’t have those yet, they just built it. The hotel is clean, cleaning was every day, they brought water, left $ 1 for tea, no one asked for nothing and everyone was very friendly, so that no one would say, maybe someone was just rude to them, and then wanted to kiss their feet.
The food is good, although sometimes monotonous in the morning. Restaurants on site are normal, it is worth visiting them in the evening. Sign up for the grill right away, as a queue will form there later. The sea is normal, at first knee-deep, but whoever came to the sea, then just right, for everything else - pools. Sunbeds up to 11 are free in half of the beach, half is immediately occupied by the pools, so do not believe that everything is occupied. They bring a drink, and if you give a couple of dollars, it will be worn every 10-15 minutes. The water is salty, warm and clear. The pools are really occupied early in the morning, although it is not allowed, well, then whoever managed that and dad. After dinner, you can safely find a sunbed by the pool.
The water park is great, lots of slides. The territory is large and green, they try to clean and water everything, but they do not always have time. There are shows and animations, but we never got to one, as it once was. It's not very hot there, even though the thermometer shows +36-38, maybe because of the dryness it's not so honored. After eviction, the bracelets were not cut off, which I did not find anywhere in the reviews, which is very good. On an evening flight, you can go for lunch, drink juices and coffee, no one makes any claims about this. By the way, this is not the case in every hotel. Let me remind you, the Wi-Fi is excellent there, I caught it everywhere.
The hotel has local shops on the lobby floor. There are pretty good prices if you bargain. One seller remembered us and twice gave us discounts himself. On the street nearby there is a MISH shop, where you can also normally buy souvenirs, but everything is about trade. I don’t even know what to call the minuses, I went for the first time, I liked everything very much, special thanks to the guide on the sightseeing tour - Ahmed, an excellent man. It's up to you, but the hotel may be a bit pricey, but not bad, and all the negative reviews about it dissipated in the first days of living in it.
The left half of the beach is not cleaned - in algae. The pontoon is long, 15 minutes to go to the end. Descent into the water only there. Before that - at best knee-deep. It is very windy near the sea, so we only went out a couple of times to look. The pools are also cool until noon.
Sunbeds near the sea at 8 am are all occupied (right half). And not with towels, but with all sorts of garbage - I even saw 2 sun loungers connected with a women's scarf or something like that. There are 8 more places near the pools. 2 sun loungers are covered with one towel (((After breakfast, in general, almost everything is busy everywhere. But there are no people (((
They ate well, they were not hungry. They cleaned the room normally.
All the time waiting for a tip, asking "It was good? ", And watching expectantly. In the bar near the children's pool, the short bartender pours alcohol with great reluctance. He also works in a Mongolian restaurant in the evening. He did not want to seat us, although there were free tables. Then he offered to take dishes, without warning that it was raw meat and fish and that they needed to be collected and taken to the center of the site so that it would be fried there! (((((((((((((((
The territory itself is well-groomed and clean, the staff is constantly busy with landscaping. The pools are clean, the water is comfortable, cool slides, both for children and adults. There are rooms with access to the pool, we lived on the 2nd floor, we were a little jealous)), they didn’t change, in general the room was already arranged and the view was beautiful. Inside everything worked properly, cleaning in our absence, no complaints. There is a safe in the room and a tea and coffee set, which was hardly used, as there are several bars, restaurants, and it is much more pleasant to have coffee outside the room. In addition to restaurants with a buffet, there is also a la carte, and in the sister hotel you can also visit them, including bars, there is no separation. We liked the cuisine, there is a choice and everything is quite tasty. Dishes are not salted and without excess seasonings. For those who are not spicy enough, there are dressing sauces. There were definitely three meat dishes for one meal, our dad, picky in food, definitely did not go hungry. There were enough fruits and desserts, in general, we are satisfied. From alcoholic drinks we tried wine, you can drink it, although I don’t really like dry drinks, there are more than enough drinks. As for leisure, there are animators, but we are of little interest in principle, a mini disco is held, it seems there is a kids club, but we never got there. We went on excursions on our own, from locals, ordered via camitourcom via instagram, talked with a Russian-speaking manager, they also have a website. We are satisfied with the organization and prices, we were on a bathyscaphe and on a yacht to Utopia Island, both we and the child really liked it. To summarize, the opinion is that if the shallow sea does not bother you and it does not bother you to stomp along the pier to the depth, then you can safely choose this hotel or its brother Palace, everything else is fine. Thanks to the staff for the hospitality, we had a great rest, hope to see you soon!
Arrived at 9.00 immediately put on bracelets and sent for breakfast, settled in 20 minutes (when checking in at 14)
The room is excellent. The beds are comfortable. Socket and switches in the nightstand by the bed
There is a kettle (tea and sugar were taken in the dining room) On a cold evening it is nice to drink tea on the balcony
WiFi - throughout the hotel free of charge and of good quality. Sometimes I even caught on the beach. They give a login and password that is valid for 7 days for 4 devices. You can take another expiration field.
There was not enough small money for a tip - they changed it at the reception.
The food is excellent. The choice is large. Delicious and varied. The pies were especially impressive.
We went to a Japanese restaurant (you need to sign up a week in advance) a good show. I didn’t like the grill restaurant from the outside, it looks interesting, but when you fry yourself on the grill, it’s somehow not comfortable.
I liked the China House restaurant, the fish is just super!
The bars have good service - they pour over the edge and how many glasses you take away (which is relevant given the lack of a bar on the beach)
In vending machines, drinks are everywhere of different quality. In some, it is indistinguishable from natural juice; in others, it is very diluted with water. The cappuccino is excellent.
SEA - many write that there is no sea... maybe they were looking in the wrong place?
The sea near the coast is shallow. During low tide, even the bottom dries up, but at high tide, the water rises and near the shore the depth is up to 70 centimeters. Which is great for bathing small children. But I didn’t see a single child... everyone is sitting in the water park swallowing bleach. And then they ask why children grow frail. The pier is long, but if you are too lazy to take a walk after breakfast and it is better to accumulate fat, you can drive by car, it is constantly on duty and carries even 1 person. There are many places on the pier with sun loungers where you can sunbathe and there is a descent into the water where you can swim, and since it is not deep there, this is an ideal place for those who cannot swim. At the end of the pier there is a descent for swimming near the reef. The reef is of course half dead and it's a pity. However, you can always find something interesting. And for lovers of sea beauties, a secret - when they almost came to the end of the pier on the right side against a light background of the sea, a dark spot about 10 meters from the pier - that's where all the beauty is. The reef is much more beautiful than the bright colors of the corals that are not on the left side of the pier and schools of fish are just teeming. It’s shallow here, so you don’t need to swim, lie down like an asterisk and admire. So close the fish never swam literally a few centimeters from the mask.
Despite the January, the sea was very warm and the wind in winter... it's as lucky. (last year there was not a single windy day, but this year 8 out of 10)
The water park is wonderful. Huge heated pool with artificial waves. Another warm pool with 4 slides. The rest are unheated. Cool lazy river. I thought you get into the boat and slowly sail. But you get real rafting! Too bad the water is very cold. For small children, 2 pools with heated slides. Water 25-28 degrees. Vlya adults have their own huge heated pool and a bar on the water. Cool... swam... swam up, drank a cocktail and swam on... I liked that in the pool the steps are not only metal like in standard pools, but there are also concrete and smooth entry like into the sea, which is very convenient for young children and the elderly.
The cleanliness is perfect. Paving slabs are washed in the morning and in the evening with detergent.
Huge lobby. This is the center of evening life. Music is playing who wants to dance or just sit on comfortable sofas watching the strollers. Many bring board games with them and play all evening.
Every evening animation - some performances. but the room is very small and stuffy for more than 5 minutes could not stand it. Despite the fact that the sea has a beautiful amphitheater.
If you want to go shopping at the exit of the hotel, a "distributor" is on duty. They will call you a taxi, take you and pick you up at the specified time (payment after returning to the hotel), we went shopping at the mall for $ 5. We bought strawberries for 1d. kg and medicines, the quality of which is highly praised, besides, some are 5 times cheaper.
Among the shortcomings, I note that there is no bar on the beach, it was under reconstruction, and perhaps that is why there was 1 toilet for the entire beach and the water park where a constant queue lined up. The pool bar closes at 5 o'clock. At 4, everything was already cleaned and washed.
In general, the rest is very satisfied. I recommend everything especially with children.
- there is no sea!
- disgustingly unpleasant men work in the main bar near the reception, they even make a cocktail not according to the description, poured rum, crushed it with juice and gives it to you. making the remark "where is the grinadine? " looked at me and poured half a glass of this grinadin, saying "on you, I wanted to"
- incredible audibility, both from the street and from behind the door
- a huge drawback is the lack of bottled water, they give 2 bottles of 0.6 per day for three people and there is nowhere else to get it, you had to leave empty bottles and collect in the cooler
pros
- a large well-groomed territory, but because of the solid pools there is little greenery, the child has nowhere to run
-excellent view from the room, we got the 3rd building, pools on both sides of the building
-excellent smoothies are worn by guys around the territory, they bought 3 dollars 2 times a day, I especially liked the strawberry-mango
This is where the pluses end. It remains only to add my own opinion about food. The food is normal, we were not hungry, only a very small selection of meat / fish, every day the same thing, fruits are always citrus fruits, dates and melons for dinner. Never got strawberries. At lunch on the street fries and hot dogs!
The overall impression is 3 out of 5. Perhaps someone will have the opinion that I demand a lot, but in fact we are an ordinary average family. We have been in hotels much cleaner and cozier. The hotel didn’t impress my husband at all, I’m fine, but I expected more referring to reviews from different sites. We won't be back again.