Had two bedroom apartment. Basic accommodation but cleaned everyday with new linen and towels. Cards for beach towels given. Beach Volleyball and Water Polo most days. French Bouls, stretching and water aerobics in the mornings. Table tennis by the pool but the bats could do with replacement. All these are free to use and participate in. This resort is mainly used by Russians and Germans. The all inclusive option of approx £25per person per day is not an option we took with 2 adults and 3 teenagers. It was so cheap to eat out. We paid between £25-£40 for an evening meal with drinks. There is a Metro supermarket a couple of minutes walking left out of the resort. This is open 24/7 and has all your needs at competitive prices, 2 litre bottle of pop 0.65p. The taxi from the airport should be 30LE with an additional 10LE for the airport ticket. You have to negotiate this before getting in your taxi. We were charged 100LE as we didn't know this information but we paid 30LE on the return journey once we knew what the going rate was. The tours run from inside the hotel (Sherif) are about 25% more expensive than the local tour operator shops along the main road. The Marina is a nice place to eat in the evenings and has many restaurants to chose from. If you want a typical Egyptian meal, Summerland was good value, no alcohol is available at Egyptian supermarkets or restaurants tho. Sakara, the local beer is fine and if you like red wine, I would recommend Omar Kayyam. I would recommend the trip to El Gouna, we saw dolphins whilst snorkeling which was a bonus. I wouldn't bother to see the show 1001 nights - it was a bit of a let down and not worth the money. Travellers cheques are not accepted in any of the banks and the only place to get them exchanged is a Thomas Cook shop near the Marina but wouldn't bother taking them as they charge you 2% . There are many cash machines around and one right outside the hotel. The Greek Restaurant opposite the hotel called Acropolis serves very tasty food and shisha. If you are going to buy shisha make sure you dismantle and pack the main tube in the hold luggage and not hand luggage. We got stopped but luckily had a laid back security guy who could be persuaded with a few chocolate sweets to let us go through. As there has been a huge reduction in tourists with the government issues, there was 1,000 people at Le Pacha last year at the same time and there was a maximum of 100 whilst we were there. The traders are desperate for business so they do hastle you to look in their shops. There are some shops that have prices on and these are much less stressful than the ones that dont as they like to haggle and always start at a very inflated price. The temperatures during the day were usually around 30-40degrees, the pool 20 degrees and the sea 24 degrees. The sea was lovely to snorkel in very clear and lots of fish to see. If you go on a snorkeling trip, take your own snorkeling equipment as they charge you to hire theres. The jeep safari was great fun, the camel ride included in this trip was very short which suited me as I had done this before and the shorter the better, the bedoins will ask you for money at the end of the very short trip once they have taken your photo with your camera. They will snatch the money, so be careful. On the subject of money, please check your change carefully. There are two 50 notes one 50LE and the other is 50 piastres. At today's rate 50LE is roughly £5 and the 50 piastres is about 5p. The animation team, Tom (Greek), Chris (German), Margarita (russian?) were all friendly and welcoming. The gym was 5Euros per visit and had 1 treadmill, 1 crosstrainer and various cable weights and free weights. No water available and no televisions or music so very boring unless you take your own entertainment.
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