My friend and me were visiting another friend of mine who is working in sharm so we were looking for a good value for money hotel as we did not want to spend too much time there. However we were glad we were able to use our friends hotel facilities for the week as we were not too happy with the Oriental.
Apart from the dirty pool area (tissues, beer, dirty fake grass carpet), old sun beds and Russian radio playing all day there was no consistency in the hotel. Some members of stuff such as the kitchen staff, restaurant manager and cleaner were extremely friendly, the reception is a mess. We asked for a late check out which they offer but I called them about three times the day before and needed to ask on the same day at 8am in the morning again without any clear answer.
They were also unable to provide a second room key ( which is pretty basic). On the day we checked out ( they finally allowed us to have a late check out) we were on our way to the taxi when they asked us to wait so they could check the room, which took about 15 minutes. We explained our taxi was waiting and they did not inform us beforehand so we would have made other arrangements.
We were not happy with the reception service at all, bearing that in mind the hotel was ok as we only slept there.
We cannot commend on the breakfast either as we only ate twice our of seven days there.