Great holiday with a disastrous ending in the heart of Naama Bay Sharm El Sheikh
Sudden fatigue and decent discounts on accommodation in Sharm el-Sheikh led, by a strange coincidence, to the choice of the Cataract Resort hotel, since the beach is within walking distance, reviews are conflicting, and two weeks of vacation required an urgent change of scenery. The travel agency found me by itself, since a year ago I flew to Egypt from them. We knew the requirements and preferences, discussed the details, and the morning after the night flight began with the settlement.
The extortion system worked out, quickly ended up in the ill-fated room 709, about which much has already been written before me. The hair dryer on the wall, to which you had to make your way along the wet floor flooded from the shower, scared for your own life, fortunately, a short haircut allowed you not to risk yourself and not turn on the terrible device at all. When the chocolates ran out, the "swans" from towels also stopped. Then towels began to dry out - as a result, only 2 remained - for the face and for the body. The very first delay in cleaning and a complaint about the reception led to the fact that they began to clean thoroughly and carefully.
A separate song is the hotel guide from Coral Travel, Mukhamed, who, out of fear that he would have to work with a group of 35 people, of which half were children, became so psyched that he had to apologize to me and other guests later, led he behaves like a self-confident boor. As a result, having called by phone, asked for a personal meeting and apologized for half an hour. On principle, they didn’t buy excursions from him, fortunately, as practice has shown, when traveling to Israel, they dropped off just those who were traveling from travel agencies, and not those who were traveling from private traders. So another myth of hotel guides crumbled to dust.
A whole saga can be written about excursions to Israel and business on religion - they were "bred" at every step, I have not experienced such fun for a long time. Just a pleasure to watch how professionally the scam was carried out. Help came from the Visa-Gold card, to inflate the price when paying with which even the most lived there do not risk.
At the end of the epic, the housekeeping service decided to trick me into an allegedly broken lock. So I found out that for 2 weeks I lived without a castle from the inside. With the help of the head of the security service, who was nevertheless thrown into a huge scandal, they found out that it was simply impossible to break something that was not available without tools. As soon as I took out my phone and started shooting, the problem disappeared. And the mood too, for which special thanks to Ali Mohammed from the security service. Owners should obviously work with their incompetent staff, then the reviews will be different.
The best chef, with whom recipes were shared, was transferred to the nearby hotel of the Liliana chain, as there were many Italians there. Ours went there for lunch or dinner, after all, the cook is the main thing in nutrition. And the personal opening of the season is the milkshake at bar 222 which is just amazing.
Another startling discovery is that the hotel staff very quickly accommodated passengers from a flight on which the aircraft's landing gear caught fire at the airport. Frightened people with children were immediately settled, helped with food and drinks, tried in every possible way to help cope with stress. And it was hard not to notice for everyone else.
Therefore, the rest will clearly become memorable not only thanks to the surf, but the three final days of "riding the waves", as in childhood, could not but rejoice, but also to the contradictory events that accompanied it.
