This is the honest review!
Have been staying in Halomy every year for the past 3 years. Main factors: its very affordable, good location and nice place for snorkling.
Although I am quite familiar with the manager - he decided to rip me off this time by 30 quid due to change of my plans. Initially I had double room for single use for 4 days. Plans changed- needed a room for 2 person ONLY for 2 night. this costed me 30 pounds on top.Egiptian way of doing business- make a qucik 10 bucks now and lose hundreds in the years to come lol :)
Hotel gets worse and worse from year to year....FOOD is very poor quality and repetitive. AFFORDABLE PRICE You get dozen of hotels in Naama Bay priced at similar price. LOCATION Apart from the view, there is nothing special about it. The view comes at a cost of climbing up and down the hill constantly- either you go to the beach or to the town. The actual beach is very isolated and small,no proper sand ether.Cannot be compared with the main stip in Naama bay at all. And snorkling can be done at any place in Sharm. STAFF Althoug there are some very nice people working there, be prepared to be bothered constantly by salespeople hanging around the pool and beach.ROOMS Very tired ones. Most of the showers have issues, beds not comfy and very small TV's which do not work properly. And also you dont get proper night of sleep because of night clubs banging loud music until 3-4 am. I could even recognize what tracks are being played by DJ's in Pasha night club laying in the bed in my room:)
Last days of my stay i decided to go to another hotel- booked AIDA 2 which is in the very hart of Naama bay. Although hotel looks small and not visually appealing on the pictures, believe me- it is twice better than Halomy for the same price. Frienly staff- you tip not because you have to but because you want to. Spacious room with large plasma TV and many international channels, including all english ones. Drinks and fruits on arrival free of charge. Very nice brakfast. No beach at the hotel but you get free ticket at the reception and can visit popular beach on the main stip daily. Takes about 5 minutes to get there.Hotel has different viber overall- good mixture of tourist in terms of age and nationalities. Not mainly russians and english as you get in Halomy
Lastly, the only reason I stayed at Halomy so many times is because I had no idea that you can get MUCH,MUCH better value somewhere else for the same money at the same location
Enjoy your holiday:)