Blessed Egypt… A country that beckons travelers with its sights and unusually hospitable beaches. Gentle sea, stunning resorts - and Hurghada, and Taba, and Sharm el-Sheikh. Hotels whose photos evoke admiration and a desire to drop everything right away, get on a plane and go on vacation to this wonderful land … By the way, many of our compatriots who prefer to spend their holidays in foreign resorts most often prefer Egypt. Moreover, many of them claim that today for them to go here is almost the same as going to rest in the country. Of course, for such a "out-of-town" trip, you need to have on hand the appropriate amount, which is calculated in more than one thousand dollars. e. But let's not look into other people's wallets. For those who practice frequent trips to Egyptian resorts, there is nothing unknown in this country. But for those who have never been to Egypt, before going on the road, you still need toarm yourself with at least basic knowledge about what hotels are here, whether living in them will be comfortable and affordable financially, whether the vacation will be irretrievably spoiled due to the fact that a hasty decision was made.
Sharm El Sheikh Hotels
Photos of hotels, which are full of advertising booklets, are unlikely to give comprehensive information about a particular hotel. Therefore, we will try to help you a little to make a choice. Of course, within the framework of one review it is impossible to describe all the resorts of Egypt, its hotels and attractions. Therefore, we will focus on one of them, which bears a beautiful name that evokes memories of the tales of the East - Sharm el-Sheikh. Hotels, tours to which many agencies offer today, are here for every taste. However, if you are flying to this magical country for the first time, it is still worth choosing a good hotel to make your vacation really memorable. One of these is considered to be Hotels Royal Albatros Moderna. Egypt in general, and Sharm el-Sheikh in particular, in principle, is built up along and across with five-star hotels. However, it is sometimes not so easy to choose one so that the notorious combination of price and quality is actually on top. Royal Albatros Moderna (his photos presented in the article fully confirm this) is just one of these. And in order not to be unfounded, we will present you a brief overview of this comfortable hotel. Believe me, the Royal Albatros Moderna 5hotel, charm, comfort andthe excellent service of which is emphasized by almost all the tourists who have visited it, is a really worthy choice.
Royal Albatros Moderna
This modern hotel first opened its doors to guests in 2004. Seven years later, a partial renovation was carried out here, in connection with which the hotel and all its rooms look just great today. It is separated from the airport by seventeen kilometers, the hotel itself is located on the first coastline (read - directly by the sea, which is only two hundred meters from the threshold of the hotel). 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 - from here can be reached by car in less than thirty minutes (it is only 20 km away).
This elegant five-star hotel belongs to the well-known Pickalbatros hotel chain, which in itself is a reliable guarantee that Royal Albatros Moderna has comfortable conditions for living and recreation and the highest quality of service. On the well-groomed vast hotel territory, there are multiple infrastructure facilities, including a complex consisting of two- and three-story buildings, and the main building of the hotel (3 floors).
Apartments
Royal Albatros Moderna 5 offers its guests 680 rooms of various sizes.
Superior View Room
Standard Apartment (Double ortriple), equipped with access to a balcony/terrace overlooking the garden/sea. 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 square meters. The same terrace or balcony, two bedrooms, large living room, bathroom. Five adults or a couple with three children can stay at the same time.
Junior Suites
Elegant apartment with 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. The area of the room is fifty-five and a half square meters.
Presidential Suite
Presidential luxury apartment with an area of one hundred and thirty squares. The room has two bedrooms, a spacious living room, two bathrooms, one of which has a Jacuzzi, a private terrace with elegant furniture. The apartment can accommodate up to six guests at a time.
Royal Suite
The area of the room is eighty squares. Two bedrooms (each of which is equipped with a bathroom), a small living room, a terrace. The room is designed for simultaneous accommodation of five people.
More hotel Royal Albatros Moderna offers its guests ten non-smoking rooms, in addition, there are apartments for people with disabilities.
Those travelers who are used to spending their holidays inaccompanied by your favorite pets, you will have to grieve. Unfortunately, pets are not allowed in the Royal Albatros Moderna apartments.
Room equipment
As mentioned above, the Royal Albatros Moderna 5 hotel has recently been renovated, so all the rooms in it have been renovated and equipped with good new furniture. Of course, one cannot say that the apartments of this five-star hotel amaze with truly royal luxury, but the designers still did their best. All rooms are comfortable, elegant and tastefully decorated. The apartments have tiles on the floor, beautiful curtains hanging on the windows, excellent quality bed linen and towels.
Regardless of the category, all apartments are equipped with modern air conditioners, telephones, and a mini-bar, which is replenished daily with drinks, though not free of charge. Each room has a TV that broadcasts not only foreign, but also Russian-language channels. The apartments have a small fridge, coffee/tea making facilities and a safety deposit box. For the use of the latter, you will also have to pay extra separately. Bathrooms include towels, bathrobes and a set of toiletries. Change of linen and cleaning of rooms are carried out daily. In addition, the room service works around the clock, however, for all additional and basic, but provided after hours services, you also need to pay separately. In the lobby bar you can use free Internet access (Wi-Fi), if you wish, you can haveyou also have to pay extra for it in the room.
All inclusive
Royal Hotel (Sharm el-Sheikh) offers its guests service and food in two systems. These are the so-called Ultra All Inclusive (UAL) and Royal Ultra All Inclusive (RUAL). By the way, many tourists, when purchasing tickets to a particular hotel, very often ask themselves what these and similar abbreviations mean. Since the issue of nutrition is one of the most significant on vacation, we will focus on these designations.
According to the All Inclusive system (we call it “all inclusive”), all five-star hotels in a country like 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, "fancy". The standard is understood as food (breakfasts, lunches, afternoon snacks, dinners, as a rule, "buffet"), free drinks (juices, waters, alcoholic drinks, but, as a rule, local production). And all this without restrictions. As well as the opportunity to practice all the sports offered by the hotel, which do not require any additional costs from the administration (for example, gasoline for refueling motor boats, etc.). Further, all the additions to the main All Inclusive such as Mega, Ultimate, the same Royal and Ultra are nothing more than, by and large, a PR campaign of the hotel administration. As a rule, the maximum that you get for these supplements is the presence on the menu of not only local, but importedalcohol. Which, although pleasant, is not always worth it to overpay for it several times when buying a ticket.
What then does Royal Albatros Moderna offer us? Ultra All Inclusive - this is just the same imported alcohol, but not at night, as well as a glass of obligatory freshly squeezed juice for breakfast. Adding the word “royal” to the type of service described above, we will also get the following at the output: an additional free visit to the Chinese a-la carte restaurant (owners of the “ultra” will have to pay for it) and a jacuzzi in the SPA complex. And also the opportunity to use the laundry service once without paying. Not so many privileges, right? However, it's a matter of taste. The food in both cases will be the same. Therefore, further - about food.
Food
From five to seven in the morning in the main restaurant of the hotel - Red Sea Restaurant - a table is set for an early continental breakfast. Here you can order something light from the menu, say, scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs, which will be prepared in front of you, drink the same juice or coffee.
Then, from seven to ten, the main breakfast buffet is served in the same main restaurant. The food is plentiful, varied and very tasty. There are both cold appetizers and hot dishes.
For lovers of sleep, a late (from ten to twelve o'clock) American breakfast is offered at the Italian restaurant Toscani Restaurant. No one will be left hungry, but, as a rule, you can get the same scrambled eggs from hot dishes. For the rest -snacks, rolls, jam, etc.
While the sleepyheads are having breakfast, the early birds are getting ready for lunch, which starts at 12:00 and lasts until 18:00. The Royal Albatros Moderna (Sharm el Sheikh) hotel 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 at the moment.
If you are in your room at this time, you can go down to the main restaurant and have lunch there (from half past one to three). The Red Sea Restaurant has a buffet, and pasta is cooked right in front of visitors. Relaxing under umbrellas, vacationers by the pool can dine on the spot (from twelve thirty to fifteen thirty), right in the bar located here. They will be offered a barbecue.
At the same time, you can also have lunch at the beach bar. Lunch is light, but in the heat of the day more is not needed. By the way, in any of the places described above, from ten in the morning until the end of lunch, that is, until six in the evening, you can enjoy ice cream. No limit.
As for dinner, it is also presented in several versions. From half past seven to half past nine, guests are served a buffet served in the main restaurant. At the same time, you can dine in the Italian restaurant, which offers dishes corresponding to the name of the cuisine. If there is a desire to pay extra five euros per person, then the grill is served separately. 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 absolutelyparty-goers can dine after midnight at the Patio, which is an extension to the main restaurant. True, in both cases, you will have to be content with cold appetizers.
Children usually eat with their parents, however, at Royal Albatros Moderna, a special children's dinner buffet (in the main restaurant) is served from five to half past five.
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 its own private beach. It is sandy, equipped with a pontoon, changing cabins, showers. Umbrellas and sun loungers are provided free of charge, as well as towels (the latter, however, after presenting a special card). The entrance to the sea is gentle and safe. The depth near the coast is shallow.
Infrastructure, services
The hotel has its own car park and offers car rental. For business people who want to combine work and leisure, there is a conference hall, well equipped with modern technology (for 260 people). On the territory of Royal Albatros Moderna there are three adult pools, one of them is heated. It has its own beauty salon, saunas, laundry, and its own Internet cafe, 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. By purchasing them, vacationers can use the services of a special bus and an experienced guide andsee many different attractions. For example, visit the monastery of St. Catherine and Mount Moses (adult ticket will cost 35 dollars, children - 20), go to the city of Nuweiba or the Colored Canyon (adults for 50, and children for 30 dollars). 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. It costs one hundred dollars for adults and 50 for children.
Children
Royal Albatros Moderna is great for families. All conditions are created for children here. There is a special children's pool with safe water slides, dedicated 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 children, and in the evening a special disco is held. In restaurants, babies are provided with a high chair, a separate bed 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
It cannot be said that the Royal Albatros Moderna Hotel is full of life day and night. Nevertheless, the hotel, as mentioned above, is most suitable for families, there are a lot of kids here. However, adults in any case will not feel left out, as the range 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. There are also water activities - banana riding, water skiing, scuba diving. In the evenings, you can enjoy live music in the hotel's restaurants. Various entertainment and show programs are held daily, a karaoke bar and a disco are open. In general, no one will be bored.
Cost of vacation
As for the cost of living, the prices in Royal Albatros Moderna 5 can even be called democratic (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 figures, then a day spent at the Royal Albatros Moderna hotel will cost approximately 3,800 rubles. A ticket from Moscow costs from 1,700 rubles (the price depends on the class of the cabin and the date of departure), but 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 acquiring the opportunity to do nothing, but only enjoy your vacation, it's not such a big amount. But the impressions will last until next summer.
Reviews
As for the reviews about the hotel, they are mostly positive, as a rule. There are also negative ones, but they are, let's say, some frivolous ones. Some people complain that in restaurantsToo many meat dishes are served. But after all, for some, this aspect is just the same 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 satisfied with the courteous and attentive staff, and especially with the fact that many employees understand Russian, so there are no problems with communication. The service offered by the hotel is also rated as excellent by many, and the Royal Albatros Moderna is especially pleasing to parents who believe that this magnificent Egyptian hotel is a great place for children's holidays. As for entertainment, yes, some of them really do not have enough. However, the complex, which was discussed in today's review, does not position itself as a second Ibiza. Rather, on the contrary, all the efforts of the administration 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 the Albatross, we 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 constantly (and even at night) from the hotel to the city, which will take you to any nightclub or discotheque, and then bring you back. Particularly impatient or spree can call a taxi.
