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Wifi is only available in the public spaces/reception, very slow connection. Possible to buy a simcard from the guides, $15 for 30Gb. Would also advise to buy an esim/sim card before arriving to the hotel.
Room 202: Nice and spacious room with king sized bed. Located down from the main restaurant and has a bit of a view to the sea. The bed is a bit hard. It does get pretty loud in the evening because of the loud music/activities in the main area/bar close to the room. There is a mini fridge, a kettle, small TV, closet and a spacious bathroom. Although it says that if the towels are hanging they will not be changed, the towels were changed anyway as long as they are not on the same spot as they are placed by the roomservice. The window in the bathroom/shower has the shop on the other side of it, everything that's being said inside and outside is heard really well. There is a bit of poor air ventilation in the bathroom which results in some mold spots on shower walls. Water is not drinkable, drinking water bottels are provided in the room. Safebox is not attached to the wall/closet, just a freestanding box in the closet.
Lebanese restaurant on the premises that has to be booked one day in advance, open Saturday/Monday/Wednesday.
Tipping is expected: ok with 100 Egyptian pounds, 200 is nice. Recommended to tip twice during the one week stay.
Hotel is located a bit far from the city/activities. Recommended places to visit by the guide:
Soho square best time to go kl.19-20 (taxi 30 min 500 EGP one way) or hotels taxi service 25$ back and forth.
Old market 15$ back and forth with hotels taxi service.
Would NOT recommend the boat ride to the white island/snorkeling in the park. The hotel has way better and stress-free snorkeling with its private two beaches.
Few improvement wishes: Would be nice if the buffet had a schedule/overview of the food themes. F.ex. Tuesdays are "traditional/oriental" food, Friday is seafood, etc. Also if all the food had labels/names and what are the ingredients. It would be nice with more fresh juice options than just orange (€2 per glass for breakfast).
The music/loud activities in the evening are a bit too loud for the rooms close to that area.
Kaspito [ESC]
I enjoyed my stay very much, the tipping culture and "market" inside the resort I could have been without. The coral reef accessed from the resort is amazing.
scmi7y
I would like to start off with: beautiful beach, wonderful coral reef and interesting sea life.
Now a few "bad - notes"/ constructive feedback.
We were 4 people staying for 2 weeks and 2 who stayed for 3 weeks.
2 of the group got "Towel Animals" every other day. And last 4 never got a single one.
Paid wifi (high-speed $10) - not working at all, they have useless free wifi, which it no problem but they also offer high-speed wifi 30gb data for 10 dollars/euros, I asked if I could test it before paying the clerk laughed and said it works HIGHSPEED Network.
I paid the 10 euros and got access to "higspeed" which was about 0.07mb/s and never above 14mb/s as it was 10 euro I didn't complain but just don't waste money on it you should rather buy a sim-card from your guide. Hotel take over price on simcards but the guides take fair price.
Often missing towels after room cleaning..., we would get them back the next day.
(Otherwise the rooms were pretty good and good cleaning everyday)
Simply too "russianfied" staff spoke better russian than English, all entertainment was in Russian - music at night was in russian or German not much in English.
The russians dominated the hotel being very greedy, emptying the dessert buffet and taking a lot of food and then not eating much just to trow it all out, they toke whole juice cartons and mixed with vodka inside the restaurant, toke whole cakes instead of a piece just very greedy and rude.
Also most russians didn't treat the animals like cats and dogs very nice, they were kicked the cats and scaring away most animals.
Great food selection, food was however a little bland not much taste. When requesting Xtra herbs and spices on fresh made food like pasta and pizza the chef got offended.
- !One night the chef even refused to add pepper to a mushroom pasta because he didn't think it would taste good.
9 outta 10 waiters were very happy and smiling, very attending removing used plates.
The location of the hotel might be one of the best, you have private coral reef, private diving facilities, 3 x private beach, only 5minutes with taxi to town.
(hotel has its own taxi it takes overprice but you can call him whenever you want and he'll be there within 10-15 minutes)
We paid 400egp from hotel to any place and back - payment when back at the hotel. Same price no matter where we wanted to go he even offered a discount but we liked the service and paid 400 each time.
Gez Reynolds
Rooms were very average. But clean.
Food was OK and plenty of it
The only thing that let it down was the drinks. All spirits were undrinkable no named brands. So beer was all that you could have aswell as coke/ sprite /orange
Ігор Харченко
I came across this hotel by accident and was wildly delighted with it. The hotel is located in a very beautiful place near the sea and overlooks the gorgeous caral reef.
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