Egypt is famous not only for the pyramids, but also for the fabulously beautiful sea, wonderful coast, and wonderful hotels. Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * is on the list of the best. Perhaps this is because the owner of the Sphinx, dear Mr. Tamer, literally lives in his hotel. He very zealously monitors the order, as well as the performance of official duties by staff. According to tourists, Mr. Tamer is omnipresent. He can be seen in restaurants, on-site, and on the beach, and everywhere he is interested in vacationers, is everything all right. His second brainchild is the neighboring King Tut 4 * hotel, located a couple of tens of meters from the Sphinx Aqua Park Resort. Both guests have the opportunity to use the common infrastructure for free - it turns out as if you were relaxing in two hotels at once. They even have a common entrance through King Tut. We offer you to take a virtual walk along the Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 *, look into the rooms, visit the restaurant, see which beach is here, get acquainted with the reviews of tourists.
Location
The city and at the same time the best Egyptian resort of Hurghada is located in the western waters of the Red Sea, 500 kilometers southeast of Cairo. Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * hotel is located in the most convenient place, from where it is close to the new part of the city and to the popular old Dahar district, which has preserved Arabic flavor. There are plenty of shops, shops, a large market and tourist police. The city center is about 2 km from the hotel, which can be walked or overcome by minibus. The highway and one of the main streets of Hurghada Al-Bahr runs very close. The international airport, where planes arrive from Russia, is located from Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 * about 10 km. The neighboring sister hotel King Tut is within 100 meters. This is where tourists get to, coming from the airport or returning from the city, that is, first you need to go through King Tut, and thus get into the Sphinx Aqua Park Resort. They bring guests on special open cars.
Infrastructure
Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * (Hurghada) received its first guests in 2009, and the last update was held here in 2011. Its territory is compact, but unusually pleasant for walking, decorated with statues and architectural forms that mimic Egyptian antiquities, which can be seen in Giza or in museums. This design feature is very popular for photo shoots. Also on the territory there are unusually a lot of bright and lushly flowering shrubs, waving buildings, palm trees, giving coolness, green lawns, pleasing to the eye. At night, it all shines with colorful lights. Three pools, shops with various Egyptian products, restaurants, bars, a playground and a small zoo were found on the compact territory of the hotel.
Reception at Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 * is open 24 hours a day. The staff perfectly understands and speaks Russian. It is located in a separate two-story building, in a spacious cozy lobby. Nearby is a lobby bar, Egyptian-style soft sofas and armchairs are installed, there are also modern plastic armchairs and tables, Wi-Fi catches well, a shop and a pharmacy are functioning. At the reception you can hand over things to the left-luggage office, and valuables to the safe, call a doctor, order a taxi and transfer to the airport, rent a car (parking at the King Tut Hotel), buy sightseeing tours, and exchange currency.
Accommodation
The number of rooms Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 * includes 220 rooms, which are located in several buildings with heights of 2 and 6 floors. The view from the windows can be on the sea, pool, territory. The design of all rooms is simple, but thought up so that the color of Egypt was felt. Furniture, paintings, flowers, rugs near the beds, mirror frames seem to be trifles, but all together it creates a surprisingly pleasant atmosphere. Categories:
- Standard up to 35 squares. Equipment - a necessary set of furniture, including a summer table and chairs on the balcony, a flat-screen TV (about 10 channels in Russian), air conditioning, a compact refrigerator where cleaners put water in plastic bottles every day, a safe, an electric kettle, and a telephone. In the hygiene room - a washbasin with a small countertop, shower or bath with shower, toilet, hairdryer. Personal hygiene products include soap, body wash gel, shampoo.
- Comfort up to 40 squares. One room, view from the sea. The equipment is the same as in the standards, plus a seating area, and the bathroom has slippers.
- Family run up to 55 squares. The room is two-room, consists of two bedrooms with a door between them and one hygiene room. Designed to accommodate up to 4 people.
- A suite with an area of ​​up to 60 squares. Two-room number, includes a bedroom, a living room with a sofa bed (extra bed), a hygiene room. It is designed for the main accommodation of 4 vacationers, but it is possible to establish 2 extra beds.
To get a good room with a pleasant view from the windows in Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * (reviews of many vacationers here confirm this), you will have to pay $ 60 at the reception. True, there are reviews in which tourists note that they got a good room for nothing.
The rooms are generally cleaned regularly, and sheets, pillowcases and towels are changed on schedule, regardless of whether or not the tourists threw towels on the floor.
Nutrition
Regarding the diversity, abundance and quality of food, tourists leave a variety of reviews. Hotel Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 *, which has a common infrastructure with King Tut, allows its guests to choose their own restaurant in which of these two hotels to eat. The all-inclusive food concept is valid from 7-00 a.m. to 2-00 a.m.
On the territory of the hotel there are restaurants "Cleopatra", "Sphinx", "Memphis", where breakfast is offered every day (until 10-00 in the morning) on ​​the type of "self-service". Luxor Restaurant (with barbecue) hosts dinners. In the pool bar, tourists who like to sleep can get a late breakfast (until 12-00 p.m.), and an afternoon snack is organized in the lobby bar (from 4 to 6 pm). Here is a late dinner (up to 2 nights). In addition to all this, the Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * hotel (Hurghada) has a restaurant and a beach bar where you can have a meal between brunch and lunch (open until 5 pm), and the Sun Set bar on site, open until 12 noon nights.
The menu of breakfasts, lunches and dinners has a rich assortment of dishes from meat, vegetables, fish, all kinds of salads, egg dishes, sausages, cheeses, sausages, several types of side dishes, fresh and cooked vegetables, fruits, lots of delicious desserts, ice cream for a mid-morning snack.
From the drinks at the hotel you can take several types of coffee (there is a special vending machine), tea, juices from packages, freshly squeezed juices (price $ 2), cola, sprite, beer, wine and local vodka.
Leisure at the hotel
Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * offers many interesting entertainments to tourists. The photo shows one of two adult pools, where water aerobics and water sports are organized during the day. Since the name of the hotel includes the words “Aqua Park”, in one of the pools there are water slides for adults and children. Umbrellas, sunbeds, mattresses in the sunbathing area are always available, beach towels are issued and changed every day.
For those who love sports, the hotel has tennis courts, sports fields, and the central building has billiard and tennis tables and a fitness room.
Lovers of relaxation can use the services of a massage room (for money), a jacuzzi and a sauna. There is also a hairdresser in the lobby.
Day and evening tourists are entertained by a team of animators, so you do not have to be bored here. The program of the day includes exercises, aerobics on the grass and water aerobics, fun games, learning to dance, and the evening program includes a variety of shows, competitions, performances.
Lovers of outdoor activities every evening waiting for a disco, the entrance to which is free, but drinks - for the money.
Hotel for children
Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * is perfect for families with children. Small guests are offered a children's pool with small water slides and a playground for games with attractions, a kids club where many interesting events are held, restaurants have a special menu, and cots are available in rooms (on request). Day and evening, a cheerful and kind teacher takes care of the kids, she brings toys to the beach (buckets, spatulas and other equipment for playing in the sand). Parents, if necessary, can order babysitting services (payment hourly).
In the evening, comic contests and a mini-disco are organized for children at the hotel.
Sea
The Red Sea and wonderful beaches - this is why many go to Egypt. Curiously, some travel agencies position this hotel as Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 4 stars, while others as 5 stars, which significantly affects the price of tickets. Hence the guests dissatisfied with the service. But a beach holiday is not satisfactory for anyone. This is because there are two different beaches at once, as they say, for every taste. The one assigned to the Sphinx Aqua Park Resort is equipped with stone-paved steps (no railing) leading directly into the water. The depth here begins right away, which swimmers really like. In addition to the steps, there is also a small pier. You can go snorkelling and diving in this part of the sea, or windsurf in the wind. The necessary equipment is provided at the diving center of the hotel. There you can take scuba diving lessons. Of particular interest to tourists are living corals and their fabulously beautiful inhabitants, which can be seen from the pier.
The beach, assigned to King Tut, is sandy, with a gentle approach to the sea and a shallow depth off the coast. There are sun loungers and umbrellas, always available. Hotel workers clean the sand every day early in the morning, but due to dishonesty of some tourists, they already find cigarette butts and other small garbage in it by noon.
On the beach you can ride a camel, and in the sea - on a catamaran, banana, parachute. Many excursions are also offered here.
Leisure outside the hotel
Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * guests have many options of how interesting and useful to spend time. Hurghada is a city where you can organize great shopping. The hotel is located next to one of the main streets of Al-Bahr, where there are many shops and shops with all kinds of goods. Everywhere, as in the market, you need to bargain. Literally 7-10 minutes by shuttle bus is the old district of El Dahar, where, snuggling tightly against one another, there are dozens of shops with cosmetics, carpets, dishes, clothes, souvenirs, furniture, shoes, that is, everything anything else. Prices for everything are quite low. In addition, in El Dahar there is the Elshazi Mosque - one of the main attractions of the city, and the Coptic Church.
Another Mecca for shopping lovers is Sheraton Street. It is also convenient for hotel guests to ride a minibus. The journey takes no more than 5-7 minutes.
And for fans of night adventures, Hurghada offers about a dozen night clubs. Among them are “Paprika Party” (the name itself says that it’s very cool here, laser and foam shows are organized, many convenient places of relaxation to choose from have been created), “Little Buddha”, where there is not only a disco, but also a sushi bar, “ Calypso ”- the most popular club in the city and the entire coast,“ Havana Club ”with music of different styles,“ Ministry of Sound ”, located on the beach.
Among the excursions offered by numerous travel agents are popular trips on a yacht, trips to Luxor and Jerusalem, sailing in a submarine, visits to the Sinbad water park, walks on quads in the desert and to the Bedouins, a trip to Cairo with visits to several museums, the central Arab market and the pyramids.
Additional Information
As noted above, there is some confusion with the stardom of this hotel. In Egypt, it is declared as a Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 4 stars, although many Russian travel agencies offer it as a five-star. Based on this, the rating “dances”, since those who go to the “five” expect to get the maximum service. Nevertheless, the hotel is quite good, and earns its 4.1 points out of 5 possible honestly. Friendly staff work here, everywhere they try to maintain cleanliness, and the territory is not only carefully cleaned, but also daily treated (early in the morning and very late in the evening) from mosquitoes.
Children under 2 years old stay at the hotel for free, and for children from 2 to 12 years old a fee of 50% of the room rate per day is charged.
There are compliments to create a mood for clients at Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort:
- newlyweds (with a corresponding mark in the voucher);
- anniversaries;
- birthday people;
- regular customers.
Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort: 2015 reviews
And over the past years, and over the past, 2015, the reviews of tourists vacationing at this hotel are about the same, which indicates stability. That is why many people choose the Sphinx Aqua Park Resort in Hurghada. Noted advantages:
- Location in Hurghada itself (convenient to get to all the infrastructure of the city);
- the proximity of the beach and the sea (literally a hundred meters);
- the presence of two beaches for all tastes;
- the ability to choose between the restaurants of the two hotels (some tourists see this as a minus);
- Friendly, diligent staff.
There are also shortcomings in the Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 4 *. Reviews, especially those who paid as for a five-star hotel, indicate the largest number of cons:
- a small area combined with another hotel;
- in pools, unheated water;
- old beach towels;
- surcharge for a good room;
- poor sound insulation;
- in the restaurant, waiters, by cleaning the leftover food next to those who still eat, spoil the appetite;
- Old plumbing and furniture in the rooms.
Conclusion: the hotel is suitable for relaxing unassuming tourists of all categories - youth, couples, parents with children.