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Sharm El Sheikh?

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Whoooosh · 31/01/2007 08:57

Want to get away (3 adults on child aged 2) for a week at the end of March.
Dubai is ridiculously expensive and a long flight but not sure the Canaries are going to we warm enough.

Anyone been to Sharm-seems incredibly cheap which is great but doesn't seem right somehow.

Any views/Reccomendations?

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winterpimms · 31/01/2007 09:36

Went to Sharm last Easter and stayed at Coral Sea Resort. Weather is fantastic at this time of year (have booked Lanzarote this Easter, and as you say, am a bit worried it will not be warm enough). The hotel is right on the beach, which was important for us as wanted to do lots of snorkeling. Some hotels, you need a shuttle bus for beach.

It is a very hotel based type of holiday, other than booked trips and going into Naama Bay.

Something held me back from booking again this year - maybe security but DH would go back tomorrow as the snorkeling is fantastic!

HTH

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Whoooosh · 31/01/2007 10:20

Thanks Pimms-have to say security never bothered me pre dd-does cross my mind now though.
More concerned about upset stomachs really and with dd-hotel based holiday is fine.

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winterpimms · 31/01/2007 10:23

One of the reasons I booked CSR was that I had read so much about it on Holiday Truths. There is a big long thread about this hotel and nobody mentioned any tummy upsets. We were all fine

ProfYaffle · 31/01/2007 10:24

We went to Sharm a few years ago did a scuba course. Agree with what winterpimms said, very hotel based, we needed a shuttle to the beach/dive school. Wouldn't recommend going later in the year, shockingly hot. I found the attitude to women uncomfortable and probably wouldn't go back for that reason and, yes, we both got tummy bugs which scuppered the dive course for us.

Overall we did enjoy it and the diving/snorkelling is amazing.

MrsBadger · 31/01/2007 10:27

we had a week in Sharm as part of our honeymoon and had a fab time - very relaxing, lots of gentle strolling, chartered a boat to take us snorkelling off the beaten track. Agree it's very hotel-based though.

Make sure you get a hotel on the beach side of the road (if you want to beach), and don't pick one that does Entertainment every night if you don't like that kind of thing - there's lots on in other hotels and in town but the kids' club reps dancing to the same cheesey Euro-pop by the pool every night is not my idea of fun.

MrsBadger · 31/01/2007 10:28

oh, and we had no tummy bugs, and had also just come from Cairo so actually found the attitude to women remarkably relaxed and Western.
Don't wear a bikini anywhere apart from the beach though - take tunics and sarongs etc.

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Whoooosh · 31/01/2007 11:31

Won't catch me in a bikini anywhere!

I found the lecherous attitude to women in Tunisia a problem so it sounds a bit similar.

Ooh-don't know what to do!

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meowmix · 31/01/2007 11:40

Oman is another option - just lovely and a bit cheaper than Egypt

MrsBadger · 31/01/2007 11:42

I must confess I've never had a problem with lecherous attitudes to women in any Muslim countries I've visited (getting served in banks etc is another matter ) but I'm not sure why not - the fact I tend to wear more not less when it gets hot might help I suppose. Also having a big DH...

I dimly remember the Rough Guide I read before going to Morocco in my twenties (first such trip) saying if you behave like you're a Respectable Married Lady you'll get treated like one, but I know it's not what everyone wants to do on holiday.

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Whoooosh · 31/01/2007 13:11

Thanks Meow-went to Oman and stayed at the Chedi when pg-was lovely but not een on going back-bit soulless I thought.

MrsB-made me chukle as I behave the same way-long gone are my days of behaving anything other than respectably (sadly)

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winterpimms · 31/01/2007 13:26

Yes, must admit when I booked Egypt it didn't cross my mind that I may be hassled - was more concerned about dd(13).

PrincessPeaHead · 31/01/2007 13:35

I was thinking about this but am concerned about security (my sis was in the next door resort in egypt when that bomb went off last year). Bombing tourists seems to be pretty much an annual event there at the moment. Then the bomb in Eilat yesterday... nope, I'm just not going to risk it.
But that is me.

PrincessPeaHead · 31/01/2007 13:36

ps agree about the chedi. nice but somehow slightly depressing. not going back

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Whoooosh · 31/01/2007 17:13

Oh glad it was't just me PPH-hated only having a shower too at 7mts pregnant.

Coral sea resort does look nice though and everywhere else warm is just so expensive.

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Whoooosh · 02/02/2007 18:31

So do we risk Sharm?

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