Most of the tourists who go on vacation to Egypt, choose a hotel in Naama Bay, planning a fun and pleasant pastime not only at sea, but also in the bars, restaurants, nightclubs, which are famous for this tourist center and the most popular resort in Sharm El Sheikh. Hotel Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino 5 * is ideal for such a diverse and full of unforgettable moments of relaxation. It is built on a large scale in order to surprise with the richness of infrastructure and provide maximum comfort in everything. Rest here is equally comfortable all year round. The guests always have a lot of opportunities to have a wonderful time both on the hotel territory and outside it, the benefit is only to go out of the gate and in fact immediately get into the colorful festive cycle of fun and entertainment.
Location
Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino is located in the famous Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh, in its most beautiful bay and the same city district of Naama Bay, not only in the central part, but closer to the edge, but still there are no interesting places of entertainment and good shops more than 10-15 minutes of calm walking. Next to the hotel, right along the coast, there is a promenade where you can walk, admiring the local beauties, or you can reach popular supermarkets among Russian tourists with fixed prices, for example, Karfur and Pyramids. Opposite the hotel are McDonalds, a bank branch, cafes and bars. The Old Town, attracting with its architecture and a large colorful market, is slightly less than 10 km. You can get there by taxi, paying from $ 3, or on local buses. For tourists, the ticket price is from $ 1, which must be negotiated with the driver when boarding. The airport from the hotel is also quite close, about 7 km, which the transfer overcomes in 10 minutes.
Territory and infrastructure
Pleasantly surprises and impresses with its chic territory Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino 5 *. The photo below shows one of its green corners.
The hotel covers an area of almost 140,000 square meters. Despite such an impressive size, the whole area is well-groomed, there are many green lawns, rockeries and flower beds with exotic cacti, blooming bougainvilleas, various palm trees, oleanders and other evergreen vegetation all year round. Two entrances lead to the territory - the main and the additional. Near the first is a building with a reception, next to a chain of stores where you can buy beach accessories, souvenirs and other Egyptian goods. Immediately after the central building there are three restaurants: Citadel, Italian La Gondola and Indian Tandoori. Further, turning along the central alley to the right, tourists get to two pools - a large adult and a small children's. Following the same alley, you can get into another restaurant, “Casablanca”, which is very popular among vacationers. A couple of tens of meters from it is a diving center, beach restaurant with a bar and everyone's favorite sea. If you deviate from the central alley a little to the left and walk a little along the path paved with tiles, you can get into a small clinic. If you move to the left from the central building of Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino, the alley will lead to numerous buildings, several swimming pools with spacious sun terraces, a kids club, sports grounds. Entering the hotel through the second entrance, you can also get to three of the seven pools, the Byblos bar, the administrative building. To the left of this entrance is a casino. A little further - the restaurant "Le Dom".
Rooms
Hotel Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino 5 * received its first tourists in 1994. Since then, the numbers have been updated several times. The last innovation (partial) was carried out here in 2009, which somewhat affects the state of furniture and appliances. The hotel was built in the design of the Egyptian village and consists of a central building, where there is only a reception service, and 32 two-story cottages, harmoniously arranged throughout the vast territory. Their location depends on the view from the windows, proximity to the sea, swimming pools, restaurants, access to the central street of Naama Bay, the ability to sleep at night and, in some way, the security of your stay. Of course, it is more comfortable to live in buildings closer to the center of the hotel. To get a room in them, according to tourists, it is advisable for reception staff to present a present in the form of a sum of money (from $ 10). The interior, functionality and quality of service do not depend on the location of the buildings.
The design of many rooms at Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino is quite curious. So, in them there is a hallway area from which you can get into the bathroom. The living room has an additional exit to the balcony (on the second floor) or to the veranda (on the first floor). In the same room there is a separate corner for bags and suitcases. Most of the rooms are quite spacious, very comfortable, have internal arched structures unusual for Russians, partitions, decorated with paintings and small colorful rugs on the floor. The total number of rooms in the hotel is 505 units.
Categories:
1. "Standard" with an area of up to 40 squares. Equipment: necessary furniture (beds, bedside tables, arabic style table, wardrobe, chairs), small refrigerator, air conditioning, free safe, telephone, TV. In the hygiene room, a bathroom with a shower, a washbasin, a toilet bowl, a hairdryer, individual hygiene products, replenished as necessary.
2. “Family” with an area of 55 squares. The rooms are two-room, and the second room is much smaller than the first, in which the sleeping and living areas are equipped. Equipment: in the first room there is a large bed, upholstered furniture, TV, safe in the closet, small refrigerator, air conditioning; in the second - a bunk bed, a wardrobe, hangers, a window-window. The hygiene room is the same as in the "standards".
3. "Exclusive" with an area of 50 squares. This room is one-room, but with a spacious living room area, furnished with beautiful upholstered furniture and decorated with objects of Arabic life (vases, a table, figurines).
4. "Palm Suite" with an area of 42 squares. One room with a living area.
5. Garden Suite with an area of up to 90 squares. These rooms are two-room, located on the first floors of the buildings, have a spacious terrace. Between the rooms (bedroom and living room) there is a door.
An electric kettle and an iron with ironing board are available in each room upon request.
Nutrition
The food at Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino 5 * is quite well organized. Reviews of tourists on this subject are somewhat divergent. Some people think that the menu does not have much meat and fruit, and someone is absolutely happy with everything, people thank the chefs who prepare delicious treats and the waiters who, with their excellent work, create a pleasant atmosphere for breakfast, lunch and dinner. According to the all-inclusive concept, which is offered by almost all travel agencies selling tours to this hotel, tourists can eat and receive drinks for free from 10 am to 12 pm. The main buffet meals are served at Le Dom and Citadel restaurants. Tourists, if desired, can choose any. More crowded in the "Citadel", which is associated with a more convenient location. In every Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino restaurant, the food is delicious and fresh, with many desserts, pastries, meat and fish dishes. The only gripe is that there are few fruits, but you can always buy them very cheaply in a supermarket or in a market. In addition to the two central ones, there are three a la carte restaurants - Indian, Italian and Lebanese. Each of them can be visited once a week for free. For a bite to eat, try the poolside bar and the beach. And in the Blue Wave bars, near the pool of the same name, and Cactus, free ice cream is served every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The hotel has 5 bars - in the lobby, on the beach and near some pools. Here you can take beer, wine, tea, coffee, water, powder drinks, cola, phantom, juices. Bottled drinks and cans - for the money.
Leisure at the hotel
Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino has many facilities for entertaining its guests. The photo below shows one of six adult pools, each with its own name: Caesar, Byblos, Bellagio, Oasis, Cactus, Blue Wave. They are all different in area, depth and shape of the water mirror. Near four there are bars. Three pools are heated in winter. Around Cactus, Blue Wave and Oasis there are spacious sunbathing areas - with sun loungers, umbrellas and a beach towel delivery point.
For sports enthusiasts, Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino offers wonderful tennis courts, grass soccer field, volleyball and basketball courts, a place for playing darts, volleyball, a billiard room. All this is free (except for lighting tennis courts). There is no fitness room at this hotel, but guests can use the gym with exercise machines at Sonesta Club free of charge, which is a leisurely 10-minute walk away. Also at that hotel you can use the water slides (free of charge) and the steam room (for a fixed fee).
Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino has a massage parlor, jacuzzi and sauna.
In the lobby of the hotel, guests can relax in the Internet club.
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For guests to have fun on their vacation, talented animators entertain them every day. Almost every review about their work has kind and even enthusiastic words. For tourists, exercises, many comic quizzes, competitions, sports team games, water aerobics on the beach and near the pool, exciting evening shows, national dances are held. Separate performances are held in the Citadel restaurant.
For children
For the youngest tourists, a service at Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino is well organized. Reviews of parents who had a rest here with their kids note the presence of a good children's pool, plus there is a separate area in two adult pools, in which the water is heated in winter. Equipped playgrounds with swings, slides, stairs and other attractions, it is possible to leave the child with a nanny. On request, a cot is provided in the hotel rooms, and restaurants have highchairs. There is no special menu for kids, but there is always a choice for the child from the dishes served in the restaurant.
Animation for kids works every day. They spend fun exercises with children, play games, and play in the kids club.
Beach
For the sake of a unique, abundant with fantastically beautiful exotic inhabitants and warm at any time of the year sea, many tourists choose Sonesta hotels as their destination for relaxation. Beach Resort and Casino is one of the three hotels of this company located on the coast and having its own beach, which vacationers in the Sonesta Club and in the Sonesta Royal Collection have the right to use. This circumstance is due to crowded, problems with sunbeds and free places under a canopy from the sun. Another nuance that it is advisable to consider before going on vacation to this stretch of coast is stones underfoot when entering the sea. To avoid troubles, you need to wear special coral slippers. The rest of the beach Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino 5 * wonderful. It has a sand cover, a gentle entry into the water, a sufficient length with a shallow depth, where it is absolutely safe for kids to frolic. Adults can enter the sea from the pontoon. Corals in the water area of this beach are alive, there are many beautiful fish present at any time of the year. Activities here include diving, snorkeling, banana, tablet, catamaran, water skiing, camel riding, beach animation.
Leisure outside the hotel
The location of Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino 5 * (within walking distance from the center of the famous Naama Bay) gives guests a unique opportunity to enjoy not only the Red Sea, but also a holiday full of festive fun, and also make a successful shopping. On the main boardwalk are Carrefour - an excellent supermarket with low prices - and the Pyramids Mall. Here you can buy gifts for all relatives, a lot of souvenirs and other goods at prices that are 1-4 dollars cheaper than in the market with active bidding. In “Karfur”, plus everything else, there is always a large selection of fruits, vegetables, sweets, and in the “Pyramid” there is a good cafe and a currency exchange office. Among the popular bars and restaurants of the promenade, Hard Rock is one of the first places, and for fans of dancing the night club Little Budha is ideal, in which there are two floors and two dance floors. In addition to these establishments, there are many other cafes, restaurants, and nightclubs in Naama Bay.
Among holidaymakers in Egypt, and in Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino in particular, sightseeing tours to Israel, Jordan, Cairo, Luxor are popular. All these excursions can be bought either at the hotel or at local travel agencies.
Additional Information
Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino rating in different travel agencies is approximately the same, in the range of 4.2-4.4 out of 5 possible. To maintain such good performance, hotel staff are trying to provide decent conditions for relaxation for each guest. Compliments offered here:
- birthday parties (cake, themed room decoration, invitation to one of the a la carte restaurants);
- newlyweds (room decoration, slippers, bathrobes, fruit, cake);
- regular guests (fruit in the room on the day of arrival).
The hotel rooms are available after 14:00, children under 12 years old stay free of charge, and an extra bed will be charged at 100 for an extra bed. e. per day.
Wi-Fi in the hotel is paid, costs 15 y. e. per day.
Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino: 2015 reviews
Many tourists vacationing at this hotel want to return here again, they liked everything so much. Noted advantages:
- a large and unusually beautiful territory (it is pleasant to walk along it);
- proximity to the beach and the sea;
- Excellent location for entertainment in Naama Bay;
- the proximity of the airport (short road to the hotel);
- spacious and functional rooms;
- plentiful food;
- many pools, among which there are also heated;
- wonderful staff.
However, some tourists believe that Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino should still improve the service to 5 stars. The reviews of 2015 note the following disadvantages:
- too large territory (from some buildings far (up to 300 meters) to go to the sea and to restaurants;
- outdated furniture in the rooms;
- access to the beach of vacationers of other hotels through the territory of Sonesta Beach Resort and Casino;
- the location of the playground near the restaurant;
- a small beach provided by vacationers of three hotels;
- lack of free sunbeds after 7 in the morning;
- rocky entry into the water;
- lack of fitness room;
- expensive wifi.
Conclusion: this hotel is suitable for all categories of vacationers.