If you plan to go on vacation to Egypt and consider Hurghada hotels as a place to stay, Festival Riviera Resorts 4 * can be an excellent option for a budget and comfortable holiday on the very shore of the Red Sea.
Location
This four-star hotel is located fifteen kilometers from the center of the resort city of Hurghada. The nearest airport is twenty kilometers away, while El Gouna is ten kilometers away.
Egypt, Hurghada, Festival Riviera Resort 4 *: general description, photo
The hotel complex "Festival Riviera Resort" began to work in 2008. It consists of two large five-story buildings, one of which is located on the first coastline, and the other on the second. The territories are interconnected by an underground passage. In total, the hotel has 434 comfortable rooms of standard, club and family categories. There are also apartments specially equipped for people with disabilities.
Festival Riviera Resort (Egypt) has several swimming pools (including for children), sun terraces, bars, a restaurant, a health club, a mini club, sports grounds, a diving center, a windsurfing school, a beauty salon, and a gym hall and much more. The hotel complex has at its disposal a large sandy beach with comfortable sun loungers and a bar.
Festival Riviera Resort: reviews of Russian tourists
As you know, the choice of hotel plays a very important role in any vacation. After all, no one wants to live in uncomfortable conditions with poor service, having paid a considerable amount for this. Therefore, modern travelers, when planning a trip abroad, try to collect as much information as possible about hotels. So, they study the official description, recommendations of travel agents, and also get acquainted with the comments of real people who have already visited this or that hotel recently. Thanks to this, you can learn not only about the advantages, but also about the disadvantages of the hotel of interest. This will allow you to get a closer to reality idea of what will await you during your vacation. To save your time, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the generalized comments of tourists from Russia who have recently visited the Festival Riviera Hotel (Hurghada, Egypt). Looking ahead a bit, we note that the vast majority of our compatriots in their choice were not disappointed. According to them, this hotel is fully consistent with its category and is worth the money spent on accommodation. But we learn about everything in detail.
Housing stock
As for the rooms offered to the guests, then in general they were all satisfied. However, as some tourists note, in most cases by default you will not get apartments with sea views. If you want such an option, you must inform the reception administrator at the check-in desk in advance. As a rule, you will be given a room with a sea view for a fee in a very small amount - about ten dollars. In general, our compatriots found the apartments in Festival Riviera Resorts 4 * spacious, stylishly decorated, bright and pleasant. The furniture here is quite new, the technology is modern. Everything works without interruption. If something fails, then after a call to the reception the problem will be fixed as soon as possible.
Check-in, cleaning
As tourists note in their reviews, they have no particular complaints about the work of the maids at the hotel. So, cleaning is done regularly and fairly high quality. From time to time, maids make funny figures from towels and sheets. Kids especially like this.
As for the settlement, according to our compatriots, in most cases, newly arrived tourists have to wait for the checkout time. The fact is that Festival Riviera Resorts 4 * is a fairly popular hotel, so sometimes it is almost 100% full. So, new arrivals sometimes have to wait until the previous tenants have left and their maids have properly prepared their rooms. But if you arrive at the hotel early in the morning and there will be free apartments of the category you have booked, the administrator will do everything possible to make you check in as early as possible. If you still have to wait for the checkout time, then doing this is not necessary at the reception. You can change clothes from the road and go to a restaurant, bar, take a swim in the pool or go straight to the sea.
Territory
In their comments, many travelers note their enthusiasm for the territory of Festival Riviera Hotel. According to them, she is very well-groomed, here you can constantly see working gardeners and other employees involved in caring for the landscape. The hotel area is green, there are lots of flowers, picturesque palm trees, shrubs, pretty bridges, etc. Here you can take a pleasant walk and find a lot of beautiful places for a great photo shoot as a keepsake. By the way, some guests in their reviews mention the hotel’s photographers and do not recommend contacting them unless absolutely necessary. The fact is that the photographer takes a lot of pictures and at the same time does not allow customers to select two or three. You will have to buy an entire album, which will cost in the amount of one hundred dollars. Such a price, many tourists consider overpriced.
Tourists call the peculiarity of the territory of this hotel the fact that it is located immediately on the first and second coastlines. Between themselves, these parts are connected by an underground passage. Therefore, guests living in buildings on the second coastline will not have to cross the busy roadway on the way to the sea.
Nutrition
This issue did not cause much disagreement, as is the case with many hotels in Egypt and other countries. According to our compatriots, the food in the Festival Riviera Resort, the reviews we are reviewing, is organized at a very decent level. Guests note a large selection of different dishes from meat, poultry, fish. Also, visitors to the restaurant can taste various snacks, salads, fresh fruits and vegetables, pastries, desserts and ice cream. For breakfast, tourists are offered cheese and sausage slices, cereals, cereals, differently prepared eggs and much more. There is no shortage of drinks. There are several bars on site.
Sea
Many tourists really liked the beach belonging to Festival Riviera Resorts 4 * (Hurghada). According to them, it is quite large and sandy. It is regularly cleaned, so you will not find garbage in the form of plastic cups and cigarette butts here. There is a bar on the beach where you can either order a drink or have a burger, sandwich or pizza snack if you are hungry during the day. Entry into the water is gentle, there are practically no stones at the bottom, so many tourists could do without special rubber shoes without any problems. At low tide, in order to get to the depths, you have to overcome a decent distance in shallow water. However, there is no such problem during high tide.
The beach of the Festival Riviera Resorts 4 * hotel is equipped with a large number of comfortable sun loungers and parasols. There is enough space for everyone here, so there is no need to get up early in the morning and run ashore to take a seat. At any time of the day, coming to the beach, you can find free sunbeds.
Entertainment at the hotel
The hotel complex has several swimming pools with sun terraces and bars. In the daytime, a team of animators works near them. They offer a very diverse entertainment program, including water aerobics, step aerobics, zumba, darts, water polo, dancing, yoga, fun contests, beach volleyball, tennis and much more. So here you will not get bored. In the evenings, entertaining shows and discos are held for hotel guests.
Since the Festival Riviera Resort Hurghada 4 * hotel is always happy for families with children of different ages, for young guests there are all conditions for a comfortable stay and fun entertainment. So, during the day, kids can visit the mini club. Here, the animators will offer them educational activities and entertainment in accordance with age. After dinner, a mini-disco is held, where young tourists can dance to children's songs.