Grand Blue Saint Maria Aqua Park
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22 reviews
April 1, 2022
I vacationed in Egypt for the first time in December 2021. I chose this hotel. Very cheerful staff and very good security. Amazing cuisine, although fish is not every day. There is a lot of space and entertainment on the beach, an animation team. Interesting people, there were few children, mostly adults from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine were on vacation. Very clean, no smells at all, cleaning every day, but you need to be reminded and leave a key. There is no ATM, you need to take cash and a local SIM card, since Wi-Fi is slow and only near the reception.
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September 15, 2022
I "rested" at this hotel in August 2021. In general, I rarely leave comments on such an occasion, but this is a completely exceptional case. I can say with all responsibility that this place is the worst place in the world that I have ever been. Absolutely everything about him is terrible.
1. The most relatively pleasant thing about this trip was the number of rooms and the relatively regular (once every 3 days) supply of drinking water to the rooms, but there were also nuances here: as noted here in the comments, the rooms are already outdated, with a variable shower and air conditioning, and if the windows overlook the beach, then the music will be clearly heard at night even on the highest floor.
2. Food. An item that deserves special attention, because the product range is absolutely terrible by 80 percent. The appetite was also killed by the constant stench and fumes in the "restaurant", coupled with a completely unattractive interior. Yes, you can try to buy food "on the spot", but be prepared that they will try to sell you a watermelon for 750 rubles (in terms of our money), or some smart taxi driver will hit you if you ask to take you to the market, but more on that later.
3. The sea. Okay, since such a jamb came out with the hotel itself, then I will get what I came to Egypt for - across the sea. But since my last trip to this country in 2010, everything has changed radically. When booking the tour, we were promised a sea within 500-600 meters (2nd coastline), which in principle corresponds to reality if you look at the map. But the truth turned out to be that many abandoned hotels appeared on the first coastline, where some semi-bandit guards were located, extorting money from you for passage to the reservoir (about 700 rubles per pass). That is, they are not even some employees of municipal services, but just cunning dealers. My friend and I could not stand such arrogance and independently, bypassing the "roadblocks", reached the sea (which was fenced with a 5-meter brick wall in height, extending for several kilometers - no kidding, there was a huge fence right on the beach so that you did not have "free" access to the sea). It was impossible to swim in that piece of the sea where this fence did not turn out, because there was a garbage dump right in the SEA ITSELF (with a characteristic smell), and it was impossible to enter such a sea due to the huge number of sea urchins there. as a result, we unhooked our bracelets and fraudulently made our way several times to a nearby beach of some type of "elite" hotel, but this beach was so shallow and generally small that I wondered: and after all, someone to swim in such a beach gave a six-figure sum for 7 days of stay...as for our beach from the hotel, then, as already noted here, this beach is located 6-7 km from the hotel, an old regular bus goes to it, and exclusively in the heat (arrival at the beach at 10 am with departure to the hotel at 13; the next arrival at the beach at 15 and departure at 17 hours - i.e. hours when you are 100% burned out). in addition to camels and abandoned houses on such a beach, it turned out that the beach is so shallow that you can walk several kilometers by sea, and there will be no depth of more than 60 centimeters anywhere.
4. I'll say a few words about the mentality in general: this is probably the only country where absolutely everyone is trying to warm up a vacationer at once: hotel employees, animators, taxi drivers, sellers, pharmacists (there was such a thing), and just passers-by. I didn't think I would be able to discover such qualities in myself, but after a couple of days of rest, I learned to send all these clingers completely without a twinge of conscience, without even paying any attention to them.
In general, even if you are a fan of some kind of extreme recreation, I strongly recommend that you do not visit this place. This can be fraught with consequences of all kinds (at least, I personally returned from such a vacation ill and in a bad mood).
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July 4, 2022
It was my first vacation experience abroad. And I was deeply shocked by what I saw. The hotel is dirty and very shabby. The rooms are old, there has NEVER been a cleaning in a week. The towels are stained, the smell is disgusting. The bed linen stinks of something, stains are everywhere!!!The staff speaks Russian with great difficulty and practically does not respond to requests for a change of linen and towels. There is no hot water in the room, because the boiler hanging over the dirty, stripped bathroom is constantly turned off. Food is generally a separate song. For me, only fried eggs, cucumbers and falafel were edible there. That's probably all. To say that this is a pathetic parody of "All inclusive" is to say nothing. The beach is sooooo far away. The bus goes there according to the schedule, but the driver adjusts the schedule himself and if he does not want to go now, then wait another hour, nothing will happen to you. The beach is a real dump and a garbage can, as well as the toilet on this underage.
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