Xperience St. George Homestay, Al Arish

I came here for a week.. 9/02/2008 - 17/02/2008. I thoroughly enjoyed my holiday here. The hotel staff were very friendly. The hotel has thought of everything. I dont know how some of these people on here can doubt it and everything. There are people saying dont go to that resort but I cannot understand why..I cant see how it is not up to their standards. Ive enjoyed my holiday there so much that we are going to reutrn there again, as soon as possible. It was very hard to leave the resort for me and my family members, because it was like we were all family.. I LOVED IT!!

My two week trip to St George's 23/12/07 to 06/01/07. I will start with the only negative part of my holiday!!!!!! I didn't like The inconsiderate Brits that spoilt our holiday by coming in at all hours,between 1am and 3.30am.running up and down the corridoors,banging doors,shouting,singing,laughing,chating outside our rooms.Too much drink!! Now the Positive part of our holiday!! I loved the Hotel - very friendly,food great,no tummy problems,make sure you keep your hygiene to high standard,use handgel,wipes especially when handling money. Room - no problems,big,clean,nice hot showers,cleaners all male cleaned the room wonderfully (can he come home with me) Pools great always clean,checked throughout the day.Need to get a sunbed between 7.30am and 8.45am at the latest to guarantee your prefered bed. Temp daytime between 68 & 80 Degrees can be a chilly wind sometimes.Nightime Temp 57 - 62 Degrees.You will need a jumper etc to cover your arms,especially if you go outside of the hotel.Sun comes up early and goes down around 4.30-4.45. The sun has gone from the pool by 4.00pm. Private Beach - great,clean,lovely Resaurant,lots of cats if you like them!! My husband doesn't like the Beach,but shock,horror if loved it - we return to the Beach of a couple more occasions on this two week holiday. Mosquito are a pain! go and see George in his shop just outside the main Entrance - he will solve all your skin,tummy problems and he put some ointment on our bites free of charge.Thanks George - we miss you!! What a fab guy - lovely to chat to (no pressure on you to buy). The main Restaurant was clean - not like a school canteen (as i read on another persons review)lots of variety of food - my two kids of 11 & 14yrs loved the food.You have to remember you are in Egypt not in Skegness!They tried to cater for everybodies needs and succeed! I have found my first trip to Egypt a wonderful experience,all the staff are so friendly and helpful!! Well done to the management and staff they should be proud of themselves!!

On first impression it looked good. REception book in very good, and it looked clean. In all fairness reception staff were very good. On getting to room we were happy we had a balcony, but not impressed that we were at front of hotel looking over entrance, and had a very busy main road right in front of us, with lots of land that had obviously had buildings knocked down. Not to be a pain we did not asked to be moved! You could not sleep because the noise from the front of the hotel, and the busy road, throughout the night did not let up, and there was no double glazing!!!! Also you could not keep the air conditioning on because it was so noisy, so you also woke up because you were so hot. Had a great day on a boat trip booked through the guys at the hotel, and would definately reccomend it. The food was terrible, and there was a constant fight over who would get to the toilet first! If the workmen were in the loos repairing whatever, you had no choice but to go to your room. Hopefully it wasn't too far away!!!! The bar staff in the lobby bar were not at all friendly, and at times were obviously talking about their non-egyptian speaking customers. While we were there, they brought out a new rule. "Drinks are served glass by glass". This meant one person could go to the bar, and get 2 drinks. Fine if there is only 2 of you, but if there was 3 or more in your group, party or funnily enough family, you had to get 2 drinks, and then queue again, and trust me there was a long queue because of the ruling. The pool attendants, and bar staff were totally different, they were very friendly, and funny. Been ther, done it, got the t-shirt, never again!!!

i went last year and was so pleased with the holiday that i am takin my girlfriend back this year its everything i could want from a holiday

We liked this hotel, it was clean and pleasant but everything was a fair walk away or a taxi ride. Sharm was a great place and we made a great find there, a coffee shop called "The Station" on the other side of the road from our hotel & further down. This place was great offering wide variety of food and speciality coffee in a really comfortable atmoshpere. It is owned by a really cool Egyptian & is fronted by a really nice English woman so language is no problem at all....this place is well worth a visit.