We will never go here again.
Nutrition is poor: in the morning - vegetables, scrambled eggs, boiled egg on request, stale rolls, tea, coffee. In the evening - two soups, stewed potatoes, pasta in tomato sauce, beans in tomato, stewed vegetables, rice, two soups, pita bread. Fruit - thinly sliced oranges. At the beginning of dinner, the queue disperses in half an hour. The hotel was full, filled for 90%. Animation active in the evening, sometimes very loud. In general, the architecture of the hotel is reminiscent of an Egyptian village. The only thing that annoys is crafts made from empty bottles, burst balloons and tinsel on every corner.
The pool is clean but cold in March. Pool chairs are good. Beach towels are issued without cards, by appointment. From the hotel carry on two beaches. A blue minibus, hired by the hotel, arrives. They are taken free of charge to the beaches of Hala (in a sandy bay) and Fanara (next to Jaz Fanara). The beaches are small, there are many hotels on Fanara, but there is no discomfort. They take you every other day to each beach, the bus is at 9 am and at 9.30, back at 13. Entrance to the beaches is free.
Italians, British, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians have a rest in the hotel. There were even families with children. We did not meet dissatisfied people. The hotel is small but sometimes comes at a good price. We were, in principle, satisfied with everything. We rested for $ 350 for two on half board, 11 nights with a flight from Minsk. We won't go to this hotel for the price.
The atmosphere in the hotel is calm. Check in immediately upon arrival. Extension of departure for three hours 100 pounds (about $ 7). Weather in early March +26...+28 °C, water +22 °C. The evening is cool and windy. The rest is comfortable for both sunbathing and excursions.
In order: 1. The rooms are cold, the air conditioners do not work for heating, at night + 16. In a particular room 258, it was terribly cold, like in a refrigerator, or rather in a well. Above the head in the berth is an unplastered dome. In the bathroom there is the same dome, only with holes through which more than one flock of mosquitoes and other stinging insects fly in at night. Even the strong Egyptian RIDE of Johnson & Johnson does not take them. Number. apparently previously was a connect-children's room for Bedouin architecture. One of the beds was broken, but it was quickly repaired with a hammer and nails and tied to the wall and the next bed so that it would not disperse.
2. I was Travanulyed with Salad on the first day. Then we began to carefully examine all the food: we got sour tomatoes, fermented beans in the filling, stale buns that obviously passed 5-4 star hotels and were brought here - do not throw it away. Desserts are generally ugly inedible starch masses. Saved me from severe poisoning and hospitalization ANTINAL, Egyptian pills. I recommend it to tourists, but after them you need to recover with the help of other LINOX-type tablets, because Antinal burns all bacteria, both good and bad, and then disinfection. In the cooler, water from the tap, passed through a three-section filter. You can't drink it.
3. The hotel does not provide a beach for all vacationers: the hotel has 90 rooms, and on the dedicated line of Fanara beach there are 12 broken sun loungers, despite the declared parameters on the websites of Operators and Bookers. There is no toilet on the beach and there is complete UNSANITATION. If, God forbid, the itch is to run 7 floors up and ask for a toilet at the reception of the JAZ Fanara hotel, if they let you in and take pity. Beach workers are trying to sell places on dedicated lines (places) of other hotels. Here it must be said that tourists from 6 (six !!! ) hotels are brought to the beach. The main "breeder" of the beach is a masseur, a typical criminal with protruding ears. It looks like he's on the run. 30-31 hit EL FANAR beach. This is the best beach in Sharm, worth 7 USD per visit. Tourists who love the Red Sea from our hotel were ready to forgive all the Sins of this garbage dump for this beach, but it turns out that it was a lure to get good reviews on the NETWORK. Two days later we were kicked out of the territory. The hotel did not pay the contract for the next month with this beach.
4. Everywhere in the hotel CORRUPTION - DEMAND “bakshish” or additional payment. For providing the right-good room, for the beach, for the water....etc. , although the type of holiday is All inclusive. Someone SALEKH is in charge of all this, all kickbacks from the “milking” of vacationers go up to him 5. Ukraine, more precisely, citizens of Ukraine go here for $ 112-150 per person, including flights, transfers and insurance (this can be burning and “roulette "and just for nothing (as they say - Shara... ), so they endure that they are treated like cattle... we Russians paid only for the hotel twice as much as the Kharkiv residents for the entire trip
6. Everywhere in Sharm el-Sheikh there is a terribly not hospitable atmosphere (after Istanbul, generally SHOCK! ). Sellers and service see only a cash cow in the guest. They evaluate you by appearance before setting a price for a service or product. In reality, I saw price tags only in Ragab-Song, Metro, Mango and Karifura (all these are markets, relatively large), but even in them the goods are 15-35 percent more expensive than in Hurghada. I don't see an explanation. Delivery of goods from the Cairo zone is the same - approximately 600 km. The Egyptians working in Sharm believe that all of them: arrogance, rudeness, treating tourists like cattle, will whiten the RED SEA, with corals and fish. Not anymore. SUFFERED! Now a weekly tour to the AMAR SINA hotel from Russia with the TEZ-TOUR operator costs 72.000 rubles, which is more than one thousand euros. For that kind of money, you can spend two weeks basking in the Turkish Five deluxe with a hot pool, somewhere in Alanya, and not freeze in this Prison. Come to your senses, who suddenly chose this hotel from Russia or Belarus. From Ukraine, at a price of $ 120, I recommend taking a small heater with you in your Baggage.
7. When departing from Sharm el-Sheikh on February 13.2020, on flight PC-629, they pulled out a household boiler (1 liter) in a case from my hand luggage (my mother’s gift, dear as a memory, and always helps out, even in five-star hotels). I’m with him flew many times through Hurghada and Antalya and Istanbul (even through very strict cordons of native Mineralnye Vody). And, I always had it in my photo bag. Air security AP Sh-Sheikh and the employees of the sending company TAS smiled for a long time so that I would not be able to put it in my luggage. As a result, they sent him to the urn (in the trash). I think that it is useful for me to write complaints to the Ros-aviation, Rostourism, the Ministry of Tourism of Egypt and other inspection bodies. So that from now on, Sharm El Sheikh Airport does not do this with passengers and tourists. I think the employees of the Air Security Cordon have exceeded their authority, and they are already rowing everything from tourists, under the slogan of air traffic safety. It is clear that they really want to curry favor with the Russian commissions. But seeing in front of him an electrical device that could not even crush flies on board the aircraft, the Air Security officer claimed that it was an EXPLOSER (think about it! ). I want to warn tourists that henceforth, according to the AP Sharm el-Sheikh, they hid their boiler in the Luggage in advance. The qualifications of the security staff of this airport leaves much to be desired.
The hypocrisy of the Network and Propaganda is that Egypt has learned to be without the Russians. DECEPTION!!!
Look at the schedule of AP Sh-Sheikh and compare it with any month of 2015. before the disaster. 80% of the schedule consisted of Russian flights. Now the resorts of Sinai can hardly hold on with a very degraded service in general. Maybe the UK will add some flow to them and improve something. But not a fact. They just drive through and do not invest in the service of ANYTHING! Hurghada is much better. A civilized resort town, where about 16.000 Russians from all Soviet territories still live.
If you open Egypt, then only Hurghada. Or maybe it's better not to open it at all. More We will and will be. One of the main goals of recreation is Health and Life Safety. There is none of that here. I’ll tell you about the rest of the negative little things, and there are 15 more of them, in a separate blog upon arrival in the Russian Federation. WANT TO STAY ALIVE AND HEALTHY - do not fly Here. I am writing this to you, a travel agent with 26 years of experience.
I would like to note that all the staff are very nice! Especially my favorite animator Ali - my best habibi (never met such a cool and positive person before), he always entertained us, if you want to have fun - you should go to him! He is in my heart forever! You made this holiday unforgettable! ))) He devoted time to absolutely every vacationer!
Bar: our favorite place in the hotel, we were always very welcome there, smiling, joking! Little Amed and Mahmud, you are cool smiles!
At the reception, all questions were resolved instantly! We needed a screwdriver and they quickly brought it to us)) The room was normal, but it was very cold and they brought us blankets!
Food: monotonous, not enough sweet! I mostly ate a salad of cucumbers, tomatoes and cabbage!
Beach: carry on 2 beaches, coral - a lot of fish, but few sun loungers! Sandy - no fish, a lot of sun loungers, they said that there is a pontoon nearby, we did not go to it!
If you eat soon, take warm clothes, it's cool in the evening! Mosquitoes were poisoned, the pool was cleaned repeatedly! Cleaning - they rarely asked, but after cleaning we (3 girls) felt like sluts (we even folded our pajamas and socks - a shame)))
Everyone wrote about Valera that he was terribly pestering, he approached us 1 time and we didn’t see him again!
In general, the holiday was just amazing! I recommend this budget hotel to everyone, but if you have big requests, then you are not here!
Thanks a lot to the animator Ali, the bartenders - you are just a tower! Only for you can return to this hotel!