My family joined in with several other families we know and went to a resort in Ain Suhkna, on the Red Sea, for the weekend. I wasn’t expecting much frankly – I’ve stayed in some real dives in some very nice places in Egypt – but I have to say that this place was a very pleasant surprise. The rooms were a nice size and more importantly, clean! But who wanted to stay in the room when there was a beach, multiple large swimming pools, a playground, and seven tennis courts on the grounds? The only time we spent in our rooms we were sleeping!
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A view from the beach
A view of the resort from a jetty built into the water
A line of ships waiting to pass through the Suez Canal
The first two days we were there, it clouded up in the afternoons and got cooler. It even attempted to rain a couple of times.
Luckily for us, this is about as much rain as I’ve ever seen in Egypt at one time!
Who needed sand toys when there were sea creatures to play with? These jelly fish look pretty serious to me, but in fact were pretty harmless. The children were picking them up and tossing them like frisbees!
We did encourage the kids to let this lovely starfish go back into the water.
All in all, it was a wonderful weekend. I would have been happy to stay a few more days! Since it’s only an hour and half away, I’m already scheming on when we can go back again…
It looks like a lovely place to spend a couple of days. Nice looking starfish, too.
by Shelley Munro April 13th, 2009 at 4:33 amShelley
If you ever visit the Red Sea, I encourage you to stay at the Intercontinental Hotel. I enjoyed it a lot the last time I was at Hirdaga, but it was in 95. I never went to Sharm El Sheikh. I heard it was pardise on earth. Thank yoy Jenyfer for the beautiful pictures.
by Mona Risk April 13th, 2009 at 8:17 amMona,
by Jenyfer April 13th, 2009 at 10:18 amSharm el Sheikh is also lovely, but a bit far to go for a long weekend – we were able to get to this hotel in under 2 hours, where we would have had to drive at least 7 hours or fly to Sharm. Frankly, I didn’t like Sharm THAT much more to go to the extra effort / expense!
As usual, your pics make me want to find a beach… Beautiful!
by anny cook April 15th, 2009 at 10:39 am