Sharm El Shiek Coral sea or Holiday Village?

[pipsy76]

Hi,
I was hoping for some excellent Mumsnet advice as to whether to travel during february half term to Sharm with DS1 5 and DS2 18 months. This is the best warm destination we can afford and will probably be our only foregin holiday of the decade! I am currenly deliberating between the Coral Sea Resort and the Red Sea Holiday village, nice pools and great snorkelling are what really matters to us.

I am hoping for some advise before I part with any cash, but trip advisor seems to confuse the 2 resorts with each other? Plus each day that passes the price seems to increase

I'm pretty sure they are the same hotel? We are booked to go to Sensatori Sharm next Sept. It looks great!

Just today I was speaking to a friend and we were commenting on our holiday separately to Red Sea Holiday Village.

She went the week before me, left the day I arrived.

She had never done AI before, and although holidays is not well travelled. She loves the place and cannot wait to go back, and what a fantastic place it was. She had one child aged 4.

I do AI majority of the time, and do 3/4 holidays a year, all over the world. I hated it and would never return. I had one child aged 13 and one aged 4.

So it seems to be a real marmite love it or hate it place.

Thanks whocantakeasunrise, erm I like marmite will this help?!

I have booked now so I will have to see myself! I am avidly following all the new reviews on tripadvisor, though references to diarrhoea and drips are worring me!

Marmite lover I'm afraid :)

I'm sure you'll have a great time.

Just to give you heads up my major gripes about it was that anything the kids wanted to do in the complex was £5. I was spending £20 a day at least to enable them to do activities. I purposely do AI so that I'm not having the kids hassling me for money, I like to know whilst I'm lying by the pool that they don't need cash. Not the case with this place, we needed cash continuously.

My other gripe was the hassle that my dd got. Ok she's a pretty slim blonde haired 'woman' but she was 13, I was beating the men off with sticks. And I meaning the staff.

We went on an organised trip and they would overtake 3 a breast on single roads, my ds had a cut on his head from sharp braking avoiding two lorries, when I complained to reps their response was 'that's just the way they drive out here.' I said if you are organising the trips they should be up to UK standards.

But like I say I'm sure you'll have a fantastic time, hope the hotel gets deep cleansed so that diarrohea wiped out.

BTW on the snorkelling we went out on flat bottom boat was fantastic and my dd and dh went diving, and both had a fantastic time.