Another side of Egypt…
After last year’s history tour of Egypt, our holiday there last weekish was a lot more sedate. As we’d pretty much had our fill of pyramids, and tombs we decided that sitting on our butts on a nice warm beach sounded pretty appealing.
We just about didn’t make it though! When we turned up at the airport we were told that they’d overbooked the flight, and we’d be pretty lucky to get on. Would we like £450 each instead and maybe be able to catch a flight tomorrow. As we were on a pretty tight schedule to meet up with our friends in Cairo before heading out to the beach we weren’t happy! Luckily we managed to get the last 2 seats and get there as planned in the end. Phew!
A night in Cairo to catch up with and pick up the guys there, and then an extremely early flight from there to Sharm el Sheik. What does one say about a beach holiday?! It’s pretty much sun, sleep, beach, food, drink, snorkelling (where we saw some pretty colourful fish) and then more sun.
We did it eat some pretty good places though, Indian at Tandoori, pizza/seafood at Pomodoro, Japanese at Little Budha (the waitress was scary). Oh yeah and then the not so good fish restaurant at the hotel, we were the 2nd group in the restaurant and watched everyone else being served before us, it took an hour to get our food, only to be told that it had not been a long time waiting. I think we all knew what a long time was. Apparently there was a problem in the kitchen that we could not be told about – bad luck there goes your tip buddy!
I’d have to say other than that the resort we stayed in could not be faulted, so if you’re thinking of going, look up the Hilton Fayrouz, it’s made up of a lot of bungalows and has it’s on private beach.
The staff are very helpful and the cleaners make a different pattern or scupture out of your bed linen each day. We had a lot of great laughs and I nearly forgot we did actually do something other than just lazing…… We all went quad biking in the desert for about 3 hours, which was great fun, and the head scarfs are a great idea to keep not only the sun but the sand out of your face.
Then back to Cairo for the last 3 days, to do a bit of shopping – you can pick up some great bargains there on nic-nac type things. The rest of the time was just spent lazing round the pool. Next year maybe we’ll head to Dahab and perhaps learn how to dive!