After our bad memories of our first night at the Safir hotel, the staff surprised us with a nice telegram of "hills and sea" after our crusade. Then the staff brought us to our rooms without delay. After our long journey by bus from Luxor to the Red Sea this is very relaxing. But I do not expect such an extra treatment and I do not think it is fair towards our travel companions.

The restaurant is really bad and it surely has not served its four stars. The buffet is mingy and unvaried. Fresh fruits are rare - in the mornings as well as in the evenings - or even not available. In one week there was only twice fish - and it was so badly prepared, that we set it aside. For a country, where everything grows, for a fishing village next to the sea: just an evidence of incapacity.

An evidence of incapacity is also the service. Because we did not account all inclusive (it really is not worthwhile) we had to receipt the drinks. Because we did not take a pen for dinner, the waiter had a go on us first of all. A recurring problem, though he had already noted the order.
I also considered it inappropriate that our waiter (wearing a marine suit) made hackneyed jokes, not being serious and so being awkward. The false mask fell down when one of the group made an obviously not seriously meant comment and the waiter all of a sudden started to be angry. By the way: the same with the chef when we judge the restaurant only with "good" on the allotted questionnaire (there they had pens again). Annettte will describe the Safir a lot more detailed on the next page. To get straight to the point: It was not at all a pleasure for her.

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