Blessed Egypt ... A country that attracts travelers with its sights and unusually hospitable beaches. The gentle sea, amazing resorts - and Hurghada, and Taba, and Sharm El Sheikh. Hotels whose photos are admirable and desire to drop everything right now, board a plane and go on vacation to this wonderful land ... By the way, many of our compatriots who prefer to spend their vacations in foreign resorts most often prefer To Egypt. Moreover, many of them claim that for them to go here today is almost the same as going to a country house for a vacation. Of course, for such a "country" trip, you must have in your hands the appropriate amount, which is estimated at more than one thousand. e. But we will not look into other people's wallets. For those who practice frequent trips to Egyptian resorts, there is nothing unknown in this country. But those who have never been to Egypt before going on the road, still need to pre-arm themselves with at least basic knowledge as to what hotels are here, whether they will be comfortable and affordable in financial terms, whether the rest is irrevocably damaged due to the fact that a hasty decision was made.
Sharm El Sheikh: hotels
Photos of hotels, which are full of brochures, are unlikely to provide comprehensive information about a particular hotel. Therefore, we will try to help you a little to make a choice. Of course, in one review it is impossible to describe all the resorts of Egypt, its hotels and attractions. Therefore, let us dwell on one of them, which bears a beautiful, evocative memory of the tales of the East name - Sharm el-Sheikh. Hotels, tours to which many agencies today offer, are here for every taste. However, if you are flying to this magical country for the first time, you should still opt for a good hotel to make your vacation truly memorable. One of these is rightfully considered Hotels Royal Albatros Moderna. Egypt in general, and Sharm el-Sheikh in particular, in principle, is built up with five-star hotels up and down. However, to choose one so that the notorious combination of price and quality is actually at its best, sometimes not so simple. Royal Albatros Moderna (his photos presented in the article completely and completely confirm this) is just one of these. And in order not to be unfounded, we will present you with a brief overview of this comfortable hotel. Believe me, the Royal Albatros Moderna 5 * hotel, the charm, comfort and excellent service of which is emphasized by almost all tourists who visited it, is a truly worthy choice.
Royal Albatross Modern
This modern hotel for the first time opened its doors for guests in two thousand and four. Seven years later, a partial renovation was carried out here, in connection with which the hotel and all its rooms today look simply magnificent. Seventeen kilometers separates it from the airport, the hotel itself is located on the first coastline (read - directly by the sea, which is only two hundred meters from the hotel’s doorstep). Royal Albatros Moderna has - and deservedly - five-star status, it is located in El Nabq - the most fashionable area of the city, and the famous Egyptian diving center - a bay called Naama Bay - can be reached by car in less than thirty minutes ( it is only 20 km away).
This elegant five-star hotel belongs to the famous Pickalbatros hotel chain, which in itself is a reliable guarantee that Royal Albatros Modern has comfortable conditions for living and relaxing and the highest quality of service. Numerous infrastructure facilities are located on the well-groomed vast hotel territory, including the complex consisting of two- and three-story buildings, and the main hotel building (3 floors).
Apartments
Hotel Royal Albatros Moderna 5 offers its guests accommodation in 680 rooms of various sizes.
Superior View Room
Standard apartments (double or triple), equipped with a balcony / terrace with garden / sea view. The total area of the room is forty-five and a half square meters, it has one bedroom and a bathroom. The maximum number of guests is three adults or two children and two parents.
Family rooms
Family apartments with a total area of about one hundred squares. The same terrace or balcony, two bedrooms, large living room, bathroom. Five adults or a couple with three children can live at the same time.
Junior suites
Elegant apartments that also have access to a balcony / terrace and a combined bedroom-living room. There is also a bathroom. This room can accommodate three adults or a family consisting of parents and two children. Room size is fifty five and a half square meters.
Presidential Suite
Presidential luxury apartments with an area of one hundred and thirty squares. The room has two bedrooms, a spacious living room, two bathrooms, one of which with a jacuzzi, a private terrace with elegant furniture. The apartments can accommodate six guests at a time.
Royal suite
Room size is eighty squares. Two bedrooms (each equipped with a bath), a small living room, a terrace. The room is designed for the simultaneous accommodation of five people.
Hotel Royal Albatros Moderna also offers ten non-smoking rooms, and there are also apartments for people with disabilities.
Those travelers who are used to spending their holidays accompanied by their beloved pets will have to disappoint. Unfortunately, pets are not allowed in the apartments of the Royal Albatros Modern Hotel.
Room features
As mentioned above, recently the Royal Albatros Moderna 5 Hotel was renovated, so all the rooms it has been renovated and equipped with good new furniture. Of course, one cannot say that the apartments of this five-star hotel impress with truly royal luxury, but the designers did their best. All rooms are comfortable, elegant, tastefully decorated. There is tile on the floor in the apartment, beautiful curtains, bed linens and towels of excellent quality hang on the windows.
Regardless of the category, all apartments are equipped with modern air conditioning, a telephone, there is also a minibar in them, which is replenished daily with drinks, however, not for free. Each room has a TV that broadcasts not only foreign, but also Russian-language channels. The apartments have a small refrigerator, coffee or tea making facilities, and a safe. For using the latter, you also have to pay extra separately. Bathrooms offer towels, bathrobes, and complimentary toiletries. Linen changes and housekeeping are provided daily. In addition, the room service works around the clock, however, for all the additional and basic, but provided during inopportune time services, you also need to pay separately. In the lobby bar you can use free Internet access (Wi-Fi), if you want to have it in your room, you also need to pay extra.
All inclusive
The Royal Hotel (Sharm El Sheikh) offers its guests service and meals in two systems. These are the so-called Ultra All Inclusive (UAL) and Royal Ultra All Inclusive (RUAL). By the way, many tourists, acquiring permits to this or that hotel, very often wonder what these abbreviations and these similar mean. Since the issue of nutrition is one of the most important on vacation, we will focus on these notations.
According to the All Inclusive system (we call it “all inclusive”), all five-star hotels of a country such as Egypt work. Royal Albatros Moderna 5 * is no exception. In principle, this is the best option for a tourist who does not want to burden himself with worries about daily food. All Inclusive is standard and, so to speak, “sophisticated”. The standard refers to food (breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, usually a buffet), free booze (juices, water, alcoholic drinks, but usually locally made). And all this without restrictions. As well as the opportunity to engage in all sports offered by the hotel that do not require any additional costs from the administration (say, gasoline for refueling motor boats, etc.). Further, all the additives to the main All Inclusive type, such as Mega, Ultimate, the same Royal and Ultra - this is nothing but, by and large, a public relations campaign of the hotel administration. As a rule, the maximum that you get for these additives is the presence on the menu of not only local, but imported alcohol. Which, although nice, but not always worth it to overpay for it several times when buying a ticket.
What then offers us Royal Albatros Moderna? Ultra All Inclusive - this is just imported alcohol, but not at night, as well as a glass of compulsory freshly squeezed juice for breakfast. Having assigned the word “royal” to the type of service described above, at the output we will also receive the following: additional free access to the Chinese a-la carte restaurant (owners of “ultra” will have to pay for it) and a jacuzzi in the SPA complex. And also the opportunity to use laundry services once without payment. There aren't many privileges, are they? However, a matter of taste. Nutrition in both cases will be the same. Therefore further - about food.
Nutrition
From five to seven in the morning, the hotel's main restaurant, Red Sea Restaurant, serves a table for an early continental breakfast. Here you can order something light from the menu, say, scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs, which will be cooked before your eyes, drink the same juice or coffee.
Then, from seven to ten, in the same main restaurant the main breakfast is offered - buffet. The food is plentiful, diverse and very tasty. There are both cold snacks and hot dishes.
Sleep lovers are offered a late (from ten to twelve o'clock) American breakfast in the Italian restaurant Toscani Restaurant. Nobody will remain hungry, but, as a rule, you can get the same fried eggs from hot dishes. The rest - snacks, rolls, jam, etc.
While the sony has breakfast, the early birds are already preparing for dinner, which starts at 12:00 and lasts until 18:00. The hotel Royal Albatros Moderna (Sharm el Sheikh) has developed a very interesting and convenient system, for which special thanks to him. Because you can have lunch anywhere, regardless of where the guest is currently located.
If you are in your room at this time, you can go down to the main restaurant and have lunch there (from half past twelve to three). Red Sea Restaurant serves a buffet and prepares pasta right in front of visitors. Poolside vacationers lounging under parasols can dine onsite (from twelve thirty to fifteen thirty), right in the bar located here. They will be offered a barbecue.
At the same time, you can dine at the beach bar. Lunch is light, but in the heat of the day more is not necessary. By the way, in any of the places described above from ten in the morning until the end of dinner, that is, until six in the evening, you can enjoy ice cream. No limits.
As for dinner, it is also presented in several versions. From half past six to half past nine guests will find a buffet set in the main restaurant. At the same time, you can dine in the Italian restaurant, which serves dishes corresponding to the name of the cuisine. If you want to pay extra five euros per person, then separately serve the grill. For the same amount, you can additionally purchase all kinds of desserts. After ten in the evening and until midnight, a late dinner is offered at Toscani Restaurant - for those who are late for the main one. And after all, after a midnight walk, they can dine at Patio, which is an extension to the main restaurant. True, in both cases you will have to be content with cold snacks.
Children usually eat with their parents, however, Royal Albatros Moderna from five to half past five serves a special buffet for a children's dinner (in the main restaurant).
You can also order food in the room, and around the clock. But this service will require a separate payment.
Beach
Royal Albatros Moderna has a private beach. It is sandy, equipped with a pontoon, changing cabins, shower. Umbrellas and sunbeds are issued free of charge, as well as towels (the latter, however, after the presentation of a special card). The entrance to the sea is gentle, safe. The depth near the shore is shallow.
Infrastructure, services
The hotel has its own parking and car rental. For business people who want to combine work and leisure, there is a conference room, perfectly equipped with modern technology (for 260 people). Royal Albatros Moderna has three adult pools, one of which is heated. It has its own beauty salon, baths, laundry, and its own Internet cafe, an ATM, many different shops, six restaurants, twelve bars and a lobby bar. There is also a tour desk at Royal Albatros Moderna. The tours offered here are very interesting and varied. Having purchased them, vacationers can use the services of a special bus and an experienced guide and explore many different attractions. For example, visit the monastery of St. Catherine and Mount Moses (an adult ticket will cost $ 35, a children's ticket at 20), a trip to the city of Nuweiba or the Color Canyon (adults for 50, and children for $ 30). One-day excursions to Jerusalem are also offered, during which you can not only see all the sights, but also swim in the Dead Sea. Its cost is one hundred dollars for adults and 50 for children.
For children
The Royal Albatros Moderna is a great place to enjoy a family holiday. All conditions are created for children here. There is a special children's pool with safe water slides, allocated for kids and a special place in two adult pools. On the territory of Royal Albatros Moderna there is a children's mini-club, animators are constantly engaged with the guys, and in the evening a special disco is held. In restaurants, a high chair is provided for babies; a separate cot is installed in the room (on request). If you wish, you can always use the services of a professional babysitter (for an additional fee).
Entertainment, sports
This is not to say that at the Hotel Royal Albatross Modern, life is in full swing day and night. Nevertheless, the hotel, as mentioned above, is most suitable for families, there are plenty of children here. However, adults in any case will not feel left out, as the set of entertainment offered here is almost the same as in any other similar five-star hotel. Billiards, tennis, darts, a small golf course, aerobics classes, bike rental, etc. - for outdoor enthusiasts. Water activities are also available - banana, water skiing, scuba diving. In the evenings, you can enjoy live music in the hotel restaurants. Various entertainment and show programs are held daily, as well as a karaoke bar and a disco. In general, no one will be bored.
Cost of rest
As for the cost of living, then in Royal Albatros Moderna 5 prices can even be called affordable (especially for a hotel of this level), given that today Sharm El Sheikh is considered one of the most expensive resorts in Egypt. Naturally, the cost depends on the category of apartments. But if we talk about average numbers, then the day spent at the Royal Albatros Modern Hotel will cost about 3800 rubles. A ticket from Moscow costs from 1700 rubles (the price depends on the class of the cabin and the date of departure), for a charter you can pay a thousand rubles less. Of course, someone may say that it’s a little expensive, but still, given that you pay for the “all inclusive” described above, thereby removing a lot of problems from the agenda and gaining the ability to do nothing but just enjoy your vacation, it’s not such a big amount. But enough impressions until next summer.
Reviews
As for hotel reviews, they are mostly positive. There are also negative ones, but they are, let's say, some kind of frivolous. Some complain that restaurants serve too many meat dishes. But for someone, this aspect is just not a minus, but a plus. Moreover, as many who have visited the hotel note, the menu is more than varied: there are vegetables, fruits, seafood, and delicious pastries. Russian tourists are also pleased with the helpful and attentive staff, and especially the fact that many employees understand the Russian language, so that there are no communication problems. The service offered by the hotel is also considered by many to be excellent, and Royal Albatros Modern's parents are especially delighted by their parents, who believe that this magnificent Egyptian hotel is a great place for children to relax. As for entertainment, yes, some of them really are not enough. However, the complex, which was discussed in today's review, does not position itself as the second Ibiza. Rather, on the contrary, all the administration’s efforts are aimed at attracting couples with children to the hotel. By the way, for those who do not have enough fun on the territory of Albatross, you can offer a great way out - to have fun outside its walls, in the city. By the way, the hotel administration always listens to the wishes of its customers, and therefore a bus runs from the hotel to the city (even at night), which will take you to any nightclub or disco, and then bring it back. Especially impatient or spoilers can call a taxi.