Gastnutzer
22. September 2022
From what should I start? Let’s start from the pick up service, which looks like it’s a common issue for guests. We have been asked if we needed a taxi shuttle to the hotel and they booked it for us. Upon arrival no one was there and we ended up riding a random taxi which took us to the wrong place, he didn’t speak English and he wanted to drop us in the middle of the street with our luggage. When we arrived at the hotel, Sayeed came to us offering their tours and, since we didn’t know if it was safe to go around without a guide, we accepted. That was the begin of a nightmare. The taxi driver seemed to be lovely (at the beginning). We went to the museum and we had a guide with us which was very knowledgeable but honestly not worth it. On our way home the driver offered to take us to a souvenirs shop saying that this place has EGP prices compared to others and he took us there and kind of forced us to buy something. One thing that I have learnt from them is NEVER ASK QUESTIONS. They will take it as an advantage to promote you things pretending that they know the place very well and we’ll get a good price. For anything I was mentioning, even when I saw the carpet schools and I just asked information for simple curiosity, he was like “I’ll take you there if you want to buy some very good quality carpets” 😅 Anyway we also booked with them the ATV and one thing that I can recommend is DON’T GO!!!!! He took us to this very dodge place where skeletal horses, cats, dogs, cows and sheep were eating from the same landfill (If you get too emotional like myself, avoid it). We got on our quad and one of the guy came with me and my partner was behind us on his own. The quad did not have the toe in the wheels, the handlebars was meant to go straight but wheels were directed to the left and my partner hit a guy with his bike. We had to pay his bike although it was not our fault and we couldn’t say anything as we wanted to just get out of there. We went to the desert and we got through this street full of rubbish and little kids playing on the landfills and there was a police officer at the entrance that checked our bags to make sure we didn’t have cameras. We had our go pro which fortunately was hidden as otherwise they would have taken away or they would have asked extra money. When we finally got in the desert, the guy was riding extremely fast and for someone who has never done it before can be scary, also taking into consideration that there are no any forms of safety At some point they took us to this little oasis on top of the dune and they (of course) took our camera saying that they could have taken pictures for us but it was illegal so they were the only ones allowed to do it and then they asked for tips. We initially wanted to give 100Egp each but one of the guys was unhappy and he said that this money would have been enough to pay “the government” for our entrance.. so we gave 200 EGP each and he was still complaining. We took a sit on this
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