The first question is, why bother to have internet bookings when you apparently have no system to retrieve & process them at the hotel ? Luckily as I was on a crutch & I was allowed to retrieve and print my booking from the hotel pc !!!!
The sign outside the front of the hotel looks like it's been in an earthquake lol...
The food has to be eaten to be believed, the main courses were OK, meat and rice and some veg, starters and sweets were an excersize in modern day doing your best with food rationing....eg gravy browning 'soup'. And a sweet largely based on water and sugar, I knew I was eating local tap water with this one. The buffet eveing meal was LE10, about £1.10 for half an hour, which would be enough for any sane individual.
I had B&B and found the chefs dog food suprise at breakfast the most inedible thing on the menu, the rest was Ok with eggs and omelete. Although I suspected the ingredients for the omelete were left out overnight in the heat.
Yes just about everywhere is in various shades of dirty although my room seemed freshly painted, but I soon remedied that with the bodies of dead mozzies, who look to me to be breeding like crazy in the watered grounds around the hotel.
My shower was cold, which was just as well after looking at the beautiful scantily clad eastern european bodies draped around the pool area all day - no sensibilty about muslim customs here......the pool which as everyone says is the coldest known place in sharm, it's colder than the ice rink lol.
When I was there the place was full of eastern europeans on package holidays, an interesting social experiment. Once these guys start quaffing the all inclusive booze, one of two things is going to happen, depending on your sensibilities and drunkeness as an individual, you will either be their best friend for the evening or you will be injured........
The hotel is well away from uptown sharm both figuratively & geographically, the old town is the nearest place to go, and is a place much more on the edge than the sanitised tourist sharm and much cheaper too. The cheapest food shop is past the expensive mall on the left as you head toward the old city and take the first left, here 5L of water will cost you 5LE. The hotel bazarr is bizarr, and be prepared to wake the shopkeeper up if you want something that he wont have in stock.
The massage guys are a comedy duo, asking 40 euros for 45mins initially, but you can haggle with them considerably, and the massage is actually very good.
There is cats, food left around, and some renovations going on.
The staff respond well to polite english speaking people and are generally friendly as their other guests the Russians merely grunt at them...in pigeon grunting .....
would I stay there again ? Once is definately enough in this lifetime.
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