We had an early arrival, not far from the airport, and were already at the hotel at 9:30. They immediately put on the bracelets and suggested we go for breakfast. Internet connection is provided for the entire duration of your stay with an individual password. Internet throughout the territory, no complaints. The wait for a room was no more than an hour. If rooms are available, you will be accommodated immediately.
The hotel is in good condition, showing recent cosmetic renovations. The area is compact, neat, well-groomed, and there are slopes for people with disabilities. There are also special rooms.
We had a Deluxe room with two single beds and high comfortable mattresses. The room is not new but clean, with cosmetic repairs, new furniture, everything works. The room has a safe, kettle, tea, coffee, slippers, and a set of cosmetics. Replenished daily with 2 bottles of water 0.5l.
The hotel has new Privilege rooms, very beautiful and stylish.
There are 2 swimming pools on the territory, one for adults 16+ and the second with water slides.
The beach is large, sandy with a gentle sunset. I would like to note the ideal cleanliness of the beach, the staff monitors this.
Soft animation. In the morning, exercise on the beach, water aerobics, and yoga in the afternoon. Evening shows are simple - dance shows, live music, Mr. and Miss of the hotel. Once a week there is a foam party on the beach and a children's show.
Food corresponds to the level of a normal Egyptian 4* hotel. If you are looking for seafood, this is not the place for you, buy RIXOS. There is enough food, I would even say a bit too much.
Breakfast 07:00–10:00: omelet, porridge, sausage, cheese, vegetables, fruits, pastries.
From 11.00-17.00 there is a snack bar on the beach: pizza, French fries, pasta, hot dogs, shawarma, grilled vegetables.
Lunch takes place at the beach restaurant 12:30-15:00.2 types of soups, meat, fish, chicken, rice, pasta, French fries, pizza, vegetables, fruits, desserts.
Dinner 18:30-21:3.2 types of soups, meat, fish, chicken, rice, pasta, vegetables, fruits, desserts.
All restaurants and bars have machine coffee.
From 15:00-18:00 in the Lobby bar there are 4 types of ice cream, very tasty, and from 20:30-21:30 there is popcorn.
Bars: Lobby bar open 24 hours a day, beach bar, pool bar, beer bar. The alcohol is local, the beer is quite good.
The staff is very friendly. There are two very hospitable girls working at the Guest Relations reception, Irina and Oksana. Attentive and responsive people will do everything to make your stay comfortable and unforgettable. General manager Mr. is constantly present at the hotel. Hany who controls everything and everyone.
Contingent: mainly the Russian Federation (and this is a problem), Kazakhstan, Ukraine, several local families and a little Europe.
Thanks to all the hotel staff and personally Mr. Hany for an excellent, comfortable and positive stay. See you again in Seti Sharm.
The area is small, but clean, washed every day. The pools are warm and windless. Convenient for winter holidays. But that's all....
Food for three. The dining room is small . . Wine is only in the dining room, from some boxes, diluted to foam with water. Rare bullshit.
The animation team is big, but they only work during the day. In the evening, the children's show is 15 minutes, and the adult show is also 15-20 minutes. Some kind of "dancer or singer" arrives. ALL. at 21-30 the lights and music are turned off. To the questions, , , Why is there melancholy in the top five .....They answer ...And no one came, ...Who are you, the animator, this is your flight ....In short, a disgrace . . Animators scatter about their business in the evening .
They take them to the disco at night. Excuses. Who needs it, young people, they themselves will go. Everything is nearby. And the rest of the vacationers should yawn and be bored ....In short, it sucks.
The cleaner brings 1 bottle of water.
If you leave a tip. There is no water anywhere in the hotel. Only in the bar with glasses.
The rooms are basic but the furniture is old. We got a room with bedbugs. Bad luck. Everything was brightened up by the weather in December. Very comfortable. We were in Sharm 15 times, even before the overlap. And the fives were decent (but not Turkey and not Greece), but not bad. Here. is a real deception.
I will not talk about the sea, the palm beach - they are beautiful without a doubt!
The main plus for us is when it is convenient and comfortable absolutely everywhere! So, this hotel is very comfortable for both children and adults!
There are no complaints about the food, there is always enough of everything, it’s delicious, but the meat is laid, if not a lot, but with love and well cooked, if you haven’t eaten enough, you can come up more - it’s even better than a bunch of discarded food after a meal)... surprises when they write that the table is meager . . I really want to see what you eat at home)) for this money, I think it’s very worthy!
From drinks, too, everything is fine, coffee is always, everywhere, I would even say delicious, beer is super!
Separate respect of course animation!
The children were always busy, no, they were not abandoned to other people's aunts and uncles, they were very interested, the girls were just amazing, the children cried when they parted, because real friendships developed, that even upon arrival they continue to communicate, for this many thanks to Ksyusha and Anya! !!
Adult animation is in no way inferior... the most beautiful girls Arina and Valeria, lighters guys, chic music, good sound, and what a holiday was on February 14 - just a bomb!
All in all, this hotel was amazing!
In other words, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
Celebrate the good, radiate positive and you will be happy!!!
We will definitely return to this hotel again!
Thank you very much everyone!! !
The hotel, although it did not work for 6 years, no one invested there capitally, cosmetically greased, tinted and that's it. A perforator, a grinder, near 8.9 buildings are heard during the day - they are trying to finish the tracks.
Then on the BEACH, there were enough sunbeds (the hotel was occupied by 30-50%). Sunbeds, mattresses, umbrellas are old but intact. The sea is suitable for children, but there are practically no corals (I had to stomp on the wild one for 1 km, sometimes on a catamaran to the right behind the rock). The pontoon is for boats and boats. No view of the open sea. The drunk on the beach is varied and beer of different varieties without any "over, wait an hour" + nuts chips after three. Sometimes there is a smell of fuel from yellow big boats. I thought it would be a windless bay, but sometimes it blows, although not as much as on Nabha.
On the last day, the slates were stolen, I asked the reception on the beach, asked to watch the video, but they refused, although there were cameras around. Hotel manager - buy beautiful slates for your cleaners so that they don’t steal from tourists and the guards don’t cover them. It is very disgusting when the hotel is stolen!
FOOD is quite diverse, you definitely won't go hungry. If you thank the waiter $ then drinks and alcohol will be served to you as in normal hotels. The staff eats with the guests. A la carte restaurant is bad, he is also a dining room, grilled salmon, you can order the rest "not very".
The POOL was cool for 5 days, then the heating was turned on, the water became 26-28.
SAUNA is paid, only 1 time for a rest at 9 am for half an hour (such a thing)... HAMAM was never allowed for free. I wanted to take a session of massages but their prices are atomic. 4 times for two with my wife $ 250 (started with 300), I didn’t even want to bargain. Moreover, on the last trip to Egypt, I paid $ 80 for a massage with a hammam 4 times for two.
There is no diving in the hotel, there is a good center in a nearby hotel, I dived from the shore, there is not much beauty (better by boat to the garden reef or so where).
There is ANIMATION, they are trying to work out their program. A volleyball ball, as always in Egypt, is a half-blown torn.
DISCO - there is a beautiful hall and if there was an incendiary DJ, then people would go there, but only if you have your own big company...
INTERNET almost everywhere in the hotel, I did not buy a card. The hotel is awesomely located - the old town is across the road, 1.5 km is the FARSH cafe (a colorful place), the territory itself is convenient (no need to run far and there are no differences in height).
Agents praise the hotel, they say, better than in the top five - it's not true!
Have a nice holiday everyone!! !
We arrived at the hotel at 10, put on the bracelets immediately, settled for $ 20.
Room, cosmetic repairs, plumbing a little tired, although in general everything is clean. Complete set for tea and coffee. Normal TV.
Food, everything was excellent for us, fish and vegetables were both for lunch and dinner, the children's menu was very pleased, for fruits it was different, melons, pomegranates and dates were every meal, there was often persimmon, of small diameter, but delicious, ice cream every afternoon in the main building, alcohol as everywhere in Egypt, five working bars, excellent cocktails, coffee from the machine, so-so, I was glad that around the clock.
The beach, from the room to the beach was 50 meters, a gentle entry into the sea, for children and the elderly, this is a super hotel. There is no reef, three bushes with corals are all that can be found. There is a reef on the cape, but it takes about 40 minutes to stomp there. To take the sunbeds you have to come before 8, after it is more difficult, we lay down by the pool, there are always free ones. The bay is really warm, there was a storm in the sea, there were only small waves on the beach.
Animation, for children there is a playroom where you can leave your child for free, in the evening a game program for children of different age groups.
In the morning on the beach, they try very hard and super lure, I was delighted.
Separately, I would like to say about the meeting with the guide, I wanted it to take place on the day of arrival and in the evening, for example, at 17-18 everyone was already settled, everyone looked and no one was in a hurry.
Long wait for passengers who were supposed to ride with us on the bus to the hotel. Tired, we waited for them for about an hour, and in the end it turned out that they had taken a taxi. Plus, our flight was delayed, so we got to the hotel around 9 pm - minus the rest day.
Although we had time for dinner at the hotel, we were not impressed with the dishes. It felt like we weren't in the best restaurant. There seemed to be a choice, but not tasty, not fresh.
Number killed us - 4 stars did not pull at all. The furniture was old, the washbasin was leaking, the air conditioner hummed noisily, and the earplugs didn't help much. And the cherry on the cake was no hot water. We found out about this too late to go to the reception once again. I had to wash cold. Before that, with grief in half, we called the master to open the safe for us - there was no hope for the service.
In the morning, TUI representative Ali told us for an hour and a half about the hotel, which could have been given in 20 minutes. The start of the day is not the best. At the end of breakfast, there was nothing tasty left. Then we stood in line at Ali's to pay for the tour, which later on would not impress us at all as much as it was advertised. We got up at 4 in the morning, and drove until 10-11, until we finally arrived for diving. Nothing picturesque - here's "The Lost Land" for you. Tired and sorry.
We didn't get hot water in the room. After three or four calls from the master (and did he come? ), We were finally offered to move to another room. We were at 159m - don't settle for him and those like him.
The new room was much better - we perked up. Hot water was, less noisy air conditioner. Newer furniture, more spacious. True, there are a lot of mosquitoes - take a raptor with you. Only on the 3rd day a surprise awaited us (this is at 4 in the morning, the day of the excursion, we rush to the bus). Couldn't close the door! The lock didn't work. We had no hope for the help of the staff, as well as time. They left it like that... even though there was a safe, and we also waited a long time for it to be opened to us.
Well, God bless him with the hotel - the sea, of course, was clean. And the entry is good. Not exactly warm, but the water means a lot to us. We stayed in the first week of November. There were no strong winds either. On the beach, animators invited to participate in games, carried out exercises.
For lunch we went to a cafe on the beach. We tried to take fried fish - the only worthy dish. Fruits/vegetables - always sluggish or green. Seafood, except for fried fish, no. We were in the a la carte restaurant, once it was possible to dine there. It was nicer there, there was good meat for dinner.
In the evening we watched the entertainment program from the hotel. Sometimes it was interesting.
We left early in the morning (minus day). It's a shame, especially for the amount that was given (about $1400 for two). The transfer was 4 hours before departure. We wanted to take a taxi. It's good they didn't take it. We spent a lot of time in line at the airport. Tired and glad to be back home.
On September 15.2021, my wife and I decided to take a vacation in Sharm El Sheikh. They settled us in this hotel immediately, which is a big plus, because we did not have to wait for the check-in. I would also like to note the good cuisine and the work of the chefs. Just only positive feedback about the beach and its cleaning.
Unfortunately, there will be only a list of cons, and it is very significant. The first minus right away is Ali's guide. After the meeting, he began to force excursions on us, but after our refusal, he took offense at us and began to ignore our requests, which is completely unprofessional and unethical. There was no attention or participation from him. A huge minus of TUI for having such guides who, in addition to being on a salary, prefer to do their personal business on tourists.
Further, when we checked into the room, we had problems with the air conditioner. There were no air conditioner controls. For two days we were freezing under the unswitchable air conditioner. I had to go out to the balcony to warm up. At the reception, our requests were accepted only nominally, answering a short indifferent “okay”. As a result, the air conditioner came to do only two days later.
Only later, from the experience of communicating with the cleaners, we discovered that the word "ok" in the local Egyptian dialect of English means "pay. " Every time we asked the cleaners for some services that are part of their job responsibilities, they answered “ok” and made characteristic finger movements, begging for banknotes. The cleaners are very bad. Only wash the floors, towels are not changed at all. You have to ask separately for a replacement of toilet paper, although they can clearly see that it is not there.
After we stopped ignoring the “okay” questions from the cleaners, we discovered that we had apparently been planted with ants in an attempt to “teach us a lesson”. There was no food in our room, so there was simply nowhere for the ants to take it.
Or here's another case with service personnel. Our free safe ran out of batteries. The safe was opened once. Called the reception, asked to replace the battery. As a result, a battery replacement was sent to us only two days later, after which, what do you think happened? The battery changer stood in front of us like an idol and began to repeat the already familiar mantra - “Okay? OK? "
As for bed linen: in a four-star hotel they don’t know what duvet covers are and don’t give them out. Under the blanket, under which one person slept, in two weeks another will sleep. And this is during the coronavirus pandemic, by the way, when sanitation is so important.
A few words about animators. They are absolutely zero and none. They do not entertain guests in any way and are not interested in this. All they do is stand and “stick” into the screens of their smartphones, indifferently defending their shift. They do not have any artistry and igniting sparks that could attract tourists.
In conclusion, I want to say that when going on vacation, I really didn’t want to take a second wallet in order to pay for services that were already included in the price of an already expensive tour. I also want to warn everyone purely for information, so that you take small money with you (one dollar), as local sellers in shops do not like to give change. There is also no currency exchange office.
Well, in general, rest is normal for old ladies, but a 4-star hotel clearly does not pull. From strength 3.
There has been a slight renovation. There are, of course, things that need to be improved. But mostly it got better. The staff is friendly and trying hard. Especially in restaurants. Well done, like bees.
The location is excellent, near the Old Town. Five minutes and you can already go shopping, admire the new mosque.
The territory is compact, cozy, without steep ascents and descents. Everything is within walking distance. The hotel consists of several buildings.
We got into the first one, in which we had already been. It's a bit tired, but we didn't really pay attention to the furniture, most importantly everything worked and was clean. In the evening, problems with the TV somehow started, while we watched the show, all the problems were fixed. Room cleaning is ok. Bottled water was refilled which was nice. Kettle in the room. Tea, sugar, coffee were provided upon arrival. The air conditioner is old and noisy. The refrigerator is not quiet either. I had to turn it off at night. But maybe I'm so sensitive, my husband was sleeping, nothing bothered him.
The food is normal, a little monotonous, but we were definitely not hungry. Lots of pastries. Fruit. Good coffee from the coffee machine. Beer, wine and rum of decent quality. Snacks on the beach. Ice cream is delicious. The queues in the restaurants were at the opening, but if you come half an hour later, then everything is fine.
The animation is good. People are busy with something all day long. Every evening show. Children are also entertained. There are slides in the pool. It used to be a sleepy kingdom, now it has become more fun.
The contingent in the hotel is mostly 50+. Calm and quiet. There are few young people.
Internet throughout the territory, however, on the beach is worse.
The sandy beach is the biggest advantage of this hotel for people who just want to relax and for children. There are many places on the beach, no one interferes with anyone. Umbrellas stand under palm trees, very comfortable.
There are small islands with corals and fish. For those who prioritize the coral reef, this is definitely not the place for you.
We went once to the reef, which is on a wild beach behind the Albatross. Got disappointed. The reef is not what it used to be.
Tui operator. Everything is right on schedule. Upon check-out, we were given a good dry breakfast. Which was nice too.
Output. If you are spoiled by Rixos and lobsters, this hotel is not for you. )) And for those who just want to relax and take a break from the hustle and bustle for adequate money, then this hotel is what you need.