Let me start by saying that the hotel is old. He needs repairs. The rooms, although large, bright and spacious, are rather tired. Bed linen in rolls, 2 towels per person, terrible wifi.
The main disappointment of this hotel is the food. We understood that this is Egypt and we shouldn’t expect special frills, but it’s not that frills, here you can’t even call some dishes normal food.
Monotonous, not tasty and primitive. The main direction is chicken, like in 3 star hotels. They gave fish but it was either dry, overcooked or bony. Beef, I generally doubt that grilled beef sausages are obviously mixed with something. Paper with beef flavor. The same is true with nuggets on the beach. There is no chicken there, a gray mass in breading (((
I remember earlier in the hotels of Egypt you could taste lamb and shrimp, and fresh pastries from the oven... now only memories remain of this.
They drank alcohol beer - there are no questions to it, diluted wine is poured from plastic half-pots of a dubious spill.
I would divide the population of the hotel as follows: 60% are local Arabs, Egyptians.
5% Russians, Ukrainians.
35% Europeans and Americans.
So they say that wild Russians run around with plates and eat without measure))) no! It was the Arabs who ran with plates of rolls, sweets and all food over the edge. Horror and ignorance. . .
You stand in line for a barbecue so they climb with the whole family without a queue, until you wait for your turn, the entire barbecue is over and so on everywhere. Not pleasant and the mood deteriorated.
About excursions... any trip ends with a pumping out of a tip. They take you specially earlier than the scheduled time and circle for tea and a toilet for money. I didn't like any excursion except Mount Moses. But be careful. Guides leave 2 hours earlier. It is very cold there in the mountains and it starts: a toilet - $1, tea - $2, a warm blanket - $3. Everything is captured.
The only plus and a ray of sunshine in this hotel is the waiter in the restaurant. His name is Said. The man is not tall, very kind and pleasant person. Doesn't work for tips, brings drinks for free, expects nothing in return. This is not a pity to give and I want to thank.
I do not recommend this hotel and Egypt in general to anyone.
A hotel with no service at all.
There is no order, a lot of tourists, a mess everywhere - on the beach, in the dining room, in bars, at the reception.
The reef is poor, there is a strong side current, there is a lot of pandemonium on the pontoon. If you want a beautiful reef - not here.
In the dining room pandemonium - dirty tables and poor service, not enough seats. There is always something missing in the bar, it is in their order of things.
Of the striking examples - they did not even put an extra bed in the room for a 10-year-old child. We had a free seat in our other room, (the company arrived), as if the issue was resolved, but the attitude was very unpleasant.
A separate minus Anex Tour, especially the hotel guide Inessa. Complete ignorance of our questions, the desire to only suck in their excursions. In life, boorish, does not say hello. With such agents in the hotel - better without them at all. One negative from her. I highly recommend the company to get rid of this ballast.
I have been traveling with Anex for many years, but if there is no reaction from the company to this review, I will change the operator.
In short - you do not need this hotel, for any money.
The territory is authentic, not huge, less than in many hotels. Most of it is occupied by a pool and artificial waterfalls. Little greenery.
There is only one canteen restaurant. The second restaurant under the order 1 dinner for 7 days. The food is delicious, not too varied, but if you don’t pour everything into plates, then you can diversify your menu yourself)). Minus the lack of serving, paper and plastic glasses, broken dishes everywhere. The waiters do not serve, only clear the tables and sometimes wipe them. Snacks on the beach monotonous fries, sausages, vegetables, wait a long time. Bar on the beach with a standard set of drinks, often queues. They wrote that they don’t give more than 2 glasses in their hands, everyone gives smile and say hello)
Rooms: according to tradition, everyone from the Russian Federation is settled in an old dilapidated fund, after a persistent, but cultural request, they are moved closer to the sea and in a renovated room. The rooms are clean and comfortable, shabby, but not much.
Beach: clean, divided into 3 hotels - Parotel water park and one more. A very beautiful reef, music on the beach, volleyball, sun loungers, if you didn’t have time to take it, ask the lifeguards to find you, they do it somehow)) every 10 minutes they go around collecting empty glasses and cleaning the trash cans.
Animation: the saddest thing ((. We are not fans of animation, but the movement is completely absent here. In the evenings there is dead silence and darkness.
Four or five incomprehensible sad comrades rarely come across vacationers, sometimes they play pollo and in the evening they entertain children for half an hour, judging by the music with the same dances. They try to arrange entertainment for adults: but since the dull entertainments themselves are similar)). For an hour and a half, a parody of standard entertainment (Arabic dances, karaoke, performances by local mini ensembles. After 22:00 they offer to buy a ticket for a standard program. It looks like an amateur circle of grade 9, Mukho$ransk secondary school.
During the day they can be seen, but not heard, they walk silently and do not know what to do. I especially "liked" the dull DJ, who every day at the console with memorized chants lulls the audience "komon, komon, dance skirt, evribadi, komon... * 100")))
In a nearby hotel, music and a DJ are blaring, so you can hear it all over the coast.
Wifi waves, that is, then no.
In general, a good 4k without dishes and animation, and if the price tag is low and you are ready to sit in silence in the evenings, feel free to take it. If you want service and movement, then this boarding house is not suitable)))
Last year were in the Albatross heaven and earth in comparison.
Beach: there was enough space for everyone, despite the fact that the hotel is normally filled, the sea is cool, the breeze. One day only the red flag hung.
In terms of food: they were very satisfied) in the autumn they were in Sunrise Arabian, then the quality of food in Parrotel is no worse) Water park in 4 * for $ 35 per person.
The food is not bad, but because we took breakfast and dinner, then at lunch we ordered only once for the money. And what they brought was inedible. Which is strange, because There were no complaints about breakfast and dinner.
Yes, the beach is small, but for children 3 and 1.5 years old it is very good. And the adults from the pier were very beautiful and deep - they constantly hung there. And in terms of beauty, it seemed to me, even better than in Rasmukhamed.
And I especially liked that the guests were from different countries, many from the countries of the former USSR - Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Estonia. It was very nice talking to everyone. And it was great! I am very sorry that we did not exchange contacts with the guests from Estonia (Pä rnu). . .