Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 * (Egypt / Hurghada): photo and tourist reviews

Not only the pyramids, but also the fabulously beautiful sea, the wonderful coast, the remarkable hotels are famous for Egypt. Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * is on the best list. Perhaps this is because the owner of the Sphinx, dear Mr. Tamer, literally lives in his hotel. He very zealously follows the order, as well as the performance of his duties by the staff. According to tourists, Mr. Tamer is omnipresent. It can be seen in restaurants, and on the territory of the hotel, and on the beach, and everywhere he is interested in having a rest, whether everything is all right. The second of his brainchild is the neighboring hotel King Tut 4 *, located a couple of dozen meters from the "Sphinx Aqua Park Resort". For the guests both are given the opportunity to use the common infrastructure free of charge - it turns out, as if you rest immediately in two hotels. Even the entrance to them is common - through King Tut. We offer a virtual walk through the Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 *, look in the rooms, visit the restaurant, see what kind of beach, 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 water area of the Red Sea, 500 kilometers southeast of Cairo. Hotel Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * is located in the most convenient place, from where close to the new part of the city, and to the popular old district of Dahar, which preserved the Arabic flavor. There are a lot of shops, shops, a large market and a tourist police. To the city center from the hotel about 2 km, which can be traversed on foot or crossed by a minibus. The road and one of the main streets of Hurghada, El-Bahr passes very close. The international airport, where planes arrive from Russia, is located 10 km from Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 *. The nearby sister hotel King Tut is not more than 100 meters away. It is here that tourists come, 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) took its first guests in 2009, and the last update was held here in 2011. Its territory is compact, but unusually pleasant for walks, decorated with statues and architectural forms imitating Egyptian antiquities, which can be seen in Giza or in museums. This design feature is very popular for photo shoots. Also on the territory are unusually many bright and lushly flowering bushes, sweeping buildings, palm trees giving coolness, green lawns pleasing to the eyes. At night all this shines with colored lights. On the compact territory of the hotel, there are three swimming pools, shops with various Egyptian products, restaurants, bars, a children's playground and a small zoo.

Reception at Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 * is open 24 hours a day. The staff understands and speaks Russian perfectly. It is located in a separate two-story building, in a spacious cozy hall. Nearby there is a lobby bar, soft sofas and armchairs in the Egyptian style, there are also modern plastic armchairs and tables, it catches Wi-Fi well, there is a shop and a pharmacy. At the reception, you can take things to the storage room, and valuables in the safe, call the doctor, book a taxi and transfer to the airport, rent a car (parking in the hotel King Tut), buy sightseeing tours, exchange currency.

Accommodation

The Sphinx Beach Resort Aqua Park 5 * includes 220 rooms, which are located in several buildings with a height of 2 and 6 floors. The view from the windows can be on the sea, pool, territory. The design of all the rooms is simple, but thought up so that the color of Egypt would be felt. Furniture, paintings, flowers, rugs near the beds, the framing of mirrors seems to be small things, but all together this creates an amazingly pleasant atmosphere. Categories:

- Standard area of up to 35 squares. Equipment is a necessary set of furniture, including summer table and chairs on the balcony, flat TV (about 10 channels in Russian), air conditioning, compact refrigerator, where cleaners put water in plastic bottles every day, safe, electric kettle, telephone. In the hygiene room - a washbasin with a small table top, shower or bath with shower, toilet, hair dryer. Individual hygiene products include soap, body wash gel, shampoo.

- Comfort area of up to 40 squares. One-room, view from the windows to the sea. The equipment is the same as in the standards, plus a seating area, and the bathroom has slippers.

- Family area up to 55 squares. The room is two-room, consists of two bedrooms with a door between them and one hygiene room. Suitable for up to 4 people.

- Suite of up to 60 squares. The room is two-room, includes a bedroom, a living room with a folding sofa (extra bed), a hygiene room. Designed for the main accommodation of 4 guests, but there is the possibility to install 2 extra beds.

To get a nice room with a nice view from the windows in the Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * (reviews of many vacationers here confirm this), the reception will have to pay 60 dollars. However, there are also reviews in which tourists note that they got a good number for nothing.

Rooms are cleaned mostly regularly, and changing sheets, pillowcases and towels - strictly on schedule, regardless of whether the tourists threw towels on the floor or not.

Food

In regard to 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, in which restaurant of the two hotels to eat. The concept of "all-inclusive" food is valid from 7 am to 2 am.

On the territory of the hotels there are restaurants "Cleopatra", "Sphinx", "Memphis", where every day breakfast is offered (until 10-00 am) as "self-service". In the restaurant "Luxor" (with a barbecue) are dinners. At the poolside bar, tourists who like to sleep can get a late breakfast (until 12-00 a day), and a snack is organized in the lobby bar (from 4 to 6 pm). There is also a late dinner (up to 2 nights). In addition to this, the Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * (Hurghada) has a restaurant and a beach bar where you can have a snack between late breakfast and lunch (up to 5pm) and the Sun Set bar in the area working up to 12 hours Night.

In the menu of breakfasts, lunches and dinners 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, a lot of delicious desserts, ice cream for a mid-morning snack.

From drinks in the hotel you can take coffee of several varieties (there is a special machine), tea, juices from packets, freshly squeezed juice ($ 2), cola, sprite, beer, wine and local vodka.

Leisure at the hotel

Many interesting entertainments are offered to tourists by Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 *. The photo shows one of two adult swimming pools, where aqua aerobics and water sports games are organized in the afternoon. 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, sun beds, mattresses in the tanning area are always available, beach towels are issued and changed every day.

For those who love sports, the hotel has tennis courts, sports grounds, and in the central building there are billiard and tennis tables, and a fitness room.

Fans 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 gymnastics, aerobics on the grass and aqua aerobics, fun games, learning the dances, and in the evening program - a variety of shows, competitions, performances.

Fans of outdoor activities every evening waiting for a disco, the entrance to which is free, but drinks - for money.

Hotel for children

Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 * is perfect for holidaymakers with children. Small children are offered a children's pool with small water slides and a playground with attractions, a children's club where many interesting events are held, special menus in the restaurants, and in cots (on request). Day and night with the kids engaged in a cheerful and kind teacher, she also takes out toys on the beach (pails, spatulas and other equipment for playing in the sand). Parents, if necessary, can order a babysitting service (payment by the hour).

In the evening in the hotel for children, joke contests and a mini disco are arranged.

Sea

Red Sea and wonderful beaches - this is what many people go to Egypt for. It is curious, but some travel agencies are positioning this hotel, as the Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort is 4 stars, and others are like 5 stars, which significantly affects the price of the vouchers. Hence, guests who are dissatisfied with the service. But beach rest does not cause any complaints. This is because there are two different beaches here, as they say, for every taste. The one that is secured for the "Sphinx Aqua Park Resoret" is equipped with cobbled steps (no rails) leading directly into the water. The depth here begins at once, which is very popular with those who can swim. In addition to the steps, there is also a small pier. In this part of the sea you can snorkel and dive, and in the wind - windsurfing. The necessary equipment is issued in the hotel's diving center. There you can take diving lessons. Of particular interest to tourists are living corals and their fabulously beautiful inhabitants, which can be seen from the pier.

The beach, fixed for King Tut, is sandy, with a gentle drop in the sea and a shallow depth off the coast. There are sunbeds and umbrellas, which are always available in free availability. Sand workers clean the hotel every day early in the morning, but because of the dishonesty of individual tourists for lunch already, it finds cigarette butts and other small debris.

On the beach you can ride a camel, and in the sea - on a catamaran, a banana, a parachute. Many excursions are also offered here.

Leisure outside the hotel walls

There are many options for how interesting and useful to spend time, guests of Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 5 *. Hurghada is a city where you can organize an excellent shopping. The hotel is located next to one of the main streets of El Bahr, where there are many shops and shops with all kinds of goods. Everywhere, as in the market, you need to bargain. Literally in a 7-10 minute ride on the shuttle bus there is an old district of El Dahar, where tens of shops with cosmetics, carpets, dishes, clothes, souvenirs, furniture, shoes, etc., are pressed tightly against each other. Anything else. The prices for everything are quite low. In addition, in El Dahar there is the Elshazi Mosque - one of the main sights of the city, and the Coptic Church.

Another "mecca" for shoppers is Sheraton Street. It is also convenient for the hotel guests to go by bus. The journey takes no more than 5-7 minutes.

And fans of night adventures Hurghada offers about a dozen nightclubs. Among them, "Paprika-pati" (the name itself says it's very cool, there are laser and foam shows, many comfortable places to choose), "Little Buddha", where there is not only a disco, but also a sushi bar, " Calypso "- the most popular club of the city and the whole coast," Havana Club "with music of different styles," Ministry of sound ", located on the beach.

Among the excursions offered by numerous travel agents, yacht trips, trips to Luxor and Jerusalem, sailing on a submarine, visits to the Sindbad water park, walks on desert quads and visiting Bedouins, trips to Cairo with visits to several museums, the central Arab market and The pyramids.

Additional Information

As noted above, with the starryness of this hotel there is some confusion. In Egypt, it is declared as Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 4 stars, although many Russian travel agencies offer it as a five-star. Proceeding from this "dancing" rating, as those who travel to the "five", expect to receive the maximum service. Nevertheless, the hotel is good enough, and its 4.1 points from 5 possible earns honestly. Friendly staff work here, everywhere they try to keep clean, and the territory is not only carefully cleaned, but also treated daily (early in the morning and very late in the evening) from mosquitoes.

Children under 2 years stay free of charge in the hotel, and for children from 2 to 12 years old, the payment is charged at 50% of the room rate per day.

To create a mood, customers at Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort have compliments:

- newlyweds (with a corresponding mark in the voucher);

- Anniversaries;

- birthday people;

- regular customers.

Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort: reviewed in 2015

And for the past years, and for the past, 2015-th, reviews of tourists who have rested at this hotel are approximately the same, which speaks for stability. That is why many people choose in Hurghada just "Sphinx Aqua Park Resort". Notable advantages:

- location in Hurghada itself (it is 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 opportunity to choose between restaurants of two hotels (some tourists see it as a minus);

- Friendly, diligent staff.

There are also disadvantages in Sphinx Aqua Park Beach Resort 4 *. Reviews, especially those who paid for a five-star hotel, indicate the largest number of cons:

- a small area combined with another hotel;

- in pools water without heating;

- old beach towels;

- surcharge for a good number;

- poor sound insulation;

- in the restaurant, the waiters, by cleaning the remains of food next to those who still eat, spoil the appetite;

- old plumbing and furniture in the rooms.

Conclusion: the hotel is suitable for rest unassuming tourists of all categories - youth, couples, parents with children.