Well, just one more week on crutches, before a new set of X-rays, and
if the doctors give me the green light, I should be back on my feet
again, not running nor climbing stairs yet, but at least walking
“alone” and hopefully driving, swimming and taking pictures around the
resort again: Inch’Allah!
And first things first, thanks again to all for your kind words and
support: the last eleven weeks would have been intolerable without
your messages, phone calls, visits and help. A special “thank you” to
Mick & Shirley and the Fantinis team, to Gabriele & Patrizia, to Mike
and Gill, especially during the last 3 weeks, and to the Palm Beach
Piazza staff: you’re tremendous, guys! I won’t forget that you were
there for me.
Let me just dry that one tear at the corner of my eye (LOL!) and move
on with “reporting”.
I’ll just start with the only one bad news I can think of and then
give you all the good news: One of the ERC directors came to Fantinis
recently and mentioned that they would not install the optical cables
for accessing the Internet within Sahl Hasheesh before 4 to 5 years!
So, whoever wants to get access to the Internet in the meantime while
in Sahl Hasheesh would need to get a dongle key (Vodafone or Etisalat)
– or go to one of the free wi-fi Internet cafés in Hurghada with his/
her laptop. There may be a temporary solution that I thought about
but this needs further investigation and checking whether this is
feasible/allowed before I even suggest it. I’ll keep you posted, of
course!
Looking at the bright sight, there is some really good news:
There's a new manager at Palm Beach Piazza (PBP), a cousin of the
Shawkys, named Mohamed Mohsen. His English is excellent and he's
extremely efficient. Any problem, ask for him at the PBP reception
and he'll have your problem(s) fixed in no time.
Did you hear they had a double outside shower installed by the pool at
PBP? So refreshing and convenient! What’s still missing by the
pool? A Ladies room and a Men’s room, to freshen up, change from wet
clothes into dry ones, without having to go back to one’s flat. But
I’m sure it’s planned and soon, it’ll be installed.
They keep working hard at the Piazza: starting at 7:30 am and working
some nights until past 10 pm with huge spotlights and cranes. They’ve
been re-painting the Piazza all sorts of colors: yellow, brown -
testing, I suppose – or maybe just applying under-coats: all those
different colors looked a little bit weird at one point; but now it
seems like it will finally be mainly off-white, with domes and
moldings painted in a sandy color and some domes in a coppery gold.
They’ve also been tiling the areas below the small domes, left and
right of the main central space (where there will be cafés or shops?):
it’ll be smashing! In any case, “Mabrouk” (congratulations) to the
painters: you should see them on those domes and scaffoldings, with no
security harness, walking and working as if they were on the ground.
They frighten(ed) me sometimes, really.
When driving around recently with Mick and Shirley, I noticed they
have been planting so many more palm trees everywhere in the resort
and laying-out the golf spaces. Buildings/hotels are shaping up here
and there too. And they’re building new security quarters at the
entrance of the resort, close to a new round-about and the road that
comes down from the Oberoï, passing along the entrance of the Citadel,
has been planted with more palm trees which will each be lit at night
by spotlights. That’ll be a stunning welcome gateway to Sahl
Hasheesh, “our little piece of Paradise”, as Mike & Gill call it!
There's a new "Metro" supermarket that opened a few weeks ago near
Villages Road. Bigger than the one in El Dahar, and so much closer to
Sahl Hasheesh. What is great is that they do home delivery in Sahl
Hasheesh for 4 LE! You order by phone, minimum order 200 LE, and your
order is delivered, in a refrigerated truck (so your frozen food
remains frozen and your fresh food remains fresh ...) within maximum
two hours from your call. I tried it today for the first time: I
placed my order in English – I had looked in my dictionaries and on
the Internet for the Arabic translation of each item – a good exercise
for me but not necessary as the gentleman who took my order spoke
English; when my shopping was ready to be delivered, I got a
confirmation call from him mentioning my delivery was on its way and
how much the bill was. When it got here, the shopping was brought to
my door by the Metro delivery man under the careful supervision of one
of the PBP security staff members and I paid via credit card (I could
also have paid in cash). I call that “Service”! Another option is to
shop in their supermarket yourselves, just to assess their product
range and make your own selection, and have the whole lot of your
shopping delivered to PBP, instead of having to pile everything up in
the trunk (or do you say “boot” in English english? - sometimes, I get
American and English english confused, sorry!) of a taxi/limo.
Anyway, quite an improvement, until supermarkets open in Sahl
Hasheesh!
Last but not least, as some of the El Andalous (EA) owners, I also
received yesterday an email from Markus Schlüpen of Resort Alliance,
mentioning the anticipated completion dates for EA. Even though I
have not been able to go and check the completion status myself due to
my broken leg – so frustrating as I temporarily live only a few
minutes away from El Andalous, I can confirm that Ahmed Shawky,
Chairman of M.A.S. for Touristic Development, whom I meet regularly,
told me they’re on schedule and expect the flats to be finished by
October/November and the garden and pools soon after. Guess all EA
owners who can make it should plan to be here around Christmas/New
Year to be happily surprised and celebrate …
Well, I guess that's it for the moment. To be continued …, of course!
Take care, All, and see you again or meet you soon.
Achoufak baadiin – Ci vediamo - Bis bald - A bientôt !
Once again many thanks for the detailed information that you have
supplied, I'm sure it is very much appreciated by everyone on this
forum.
Hope your new Xrays are fine and hope to see you on our visit shortly.
Regards
Penny
On 27 Aug, 16:07, "Nicole@EA" <nicole.flah...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Well, just one more week on crutches, before a new set of X-rays, and
> if the doctors give me the green light, I should be back on my feet
> again, not running nor climbing stairs yet, but at least walking
> “alone” and hopefully driving, swimming and taking pictures around the
> resort again: Inch’Allah!
> And first things first, thanks again to all for your kind words and
> support: the last eleven weeks would have been intolerable without
> your messages, phone calls, visits and help. A special “thank you” to
> Mick & Shirley and the Fantinis team, to Gabriele & Patrizia, to Mike
> and Gill, especially during the last 3 weeks, and to the Palm Beach
> Piazza staff: you’re tremendous, guys! I won’t forget that you were
> there for me.
> Let me just dry that one tear at the corner of my eye (LOL!) and move
> on with “reporting”.
> I’ll just start with the only one bad news I can think of and then
> give you all the good news: One of the ERC directors came to Fantinis
> recently and mentioned that they would not install the optical cables
> for accessing the Internet within Sahl Hasheesh before 4 to 5 years!
> So, whoever wants to get access to the Internet in the meantime while
> in Sahl Hasheesh would need to get a dongle key (Vodafone or Etisalat)
> – or go to one of the free wi-fi Internet cafés in Hurghada with his/
> her laptop. There may be a temporary solution that I thought about
> but this needs further investigation and checking whether this is
> feasible/allowed before I even suggest it. I’ll keep you posted, of
> course!
> Looking at the bright sight, there is some really good news:
> There's a new manager at Palm Beach Piazza (PBP), a cousin of the
> Shawkys, named Mohamed Mohsen. His English is excellent and he's
> extremely efficient. Any problem, ask for him at the PBP reception
> and he'll have your problem(s) fixed in no time.
> Did you hear they had a double outside shower installed by the pool at
> PBP? So refreshing and convenient! What’s still missing by the
> pool? A Ladies room and a Men’s room, to freshen up, change from wet
> clothes into dry ones, without having to go back to one’s flat. But
> I’m sure it’s planned and soon, it’ll be installed.
> They keep working hard at the Piazza: starting at 7:30 am and working
> some nights until past 10 pm with huge spotlights and cranes. They’ve
> been re-painting the Piazza all sorts of colors: yellow, brown -
> testing, I suppose – or maybe just applying under-coats: all those
> different colors looked a little bit weird at one point; but now it
> seems like it will finally be mainly off-white, with domes and
> moldings painted in a sandy color and some domes in a coppery gold.
> They’ve also been tiling the areas below the small domes, left and
> right of the main central space (where there will be cafés or shops?):
> it’ll be smashing! In any case, “Mabrouk” (congratulations) to the
> painters: you should see them on those domes and scaffoldings, with no
> security harness, walking and working as if they were on the ground.
> They frighten(ed) me sometimes, really.
> When driving around recently with Mick and Shirley, I noticed they
> have been planting so many more palm trees everywhere in the resort
> and laying-out the golf spaces. Buildings/hotels are shaping up here
> and there too. And they’re building new security quarters at the
> entrance of the resort, close to a new round-about and the road that
> comes down from the Oberoï, passing along the entrance of the Citadel,
> has been planted with more palm trees which will each be lit at night
> by spotlights. That’ll be a stunning welcome gateway to Sahl
> Hasheesh, “our little piece of Paradise”, as Mike & Gill call it!
> There's a new "Metro" supermarket that opened a few weeks ago near
> Villages Road. Bigger than the one in El Dahar, and so much closer to
> Sahl Hasheesh. What is great is that they do home delivery in Sahl
> Hasheesh for 4 LE! You order by phone, minimum order 200 LE, and your
> order is delivered, in a refrigerated truck (so your frozen food
> remains frozen and your fresh food remains fresh ...) within maximum
> two hours from your call. I tried it today for the first time: I
> placed my order in English – I had looked in my dictionaries and on
> the Internet for the Arabic translation of each item – a good exercise
> for me but not necessary as the gentleman who took my order spoke
> English; when my shopping was ready to be delivered, I got a
> confirmation call from him mentioning my delivery was on its way and
> how much the bill was. When it got here, the shopping was brought to
> my door by the Metro delivery man under the careful supervision of one
> of the PBP security staff members and I paid via credit card (I could
> also have paid in cash). I call that “Service”! Another option is to
> shop in their supermarket yourselves, just to assess their product
> range and make your own selection, and have the whole lot of your
> shopping delivered to PBP, instead of having to pile everything up in
> the trunk (or do you say “boot” in English english? - sometimes, I get
> American and English english confused, sorry!) of a taxi/limo.
> Anyway, quite an improvement, until supermarkets open in Sahl
> Hasheesh!
> Last but not least, as some of the El Andalous (EA) owners, I also
> received yesterday an email from Markus Schlüpen of Resort Alliance,
> mentioning the anticipated completion dates for EA. Even though I
> have not been able to go and check the completion status myself due to
> my broken leg – so frustrating as I temporarily live only a few
> minutes away from El Andalous, I can confirm that Ahmed Shawky,
> Chairman of M.A.S. for Touristic Development, whom I meet regularly,
> told me they’re on schedule and expect the flats to be finished by
> October/November and the garden and pools soon after. Guess all EA
> owners who can make it should plan to be here around Christmas/New
> Year to be happily surprised and celebrate …
> Well, I guess that's it for the moment. To be continued …, of course!
> Take care, All, and see you again or meet you soon.
> Achoufak baadiin – Ci vediamo - Bis bald - A bientôt !
Found the information you provided to be excellent as we are
completely new to all of this.
We are coming over to Sahl Hasheesh at the end of September to view
some properties and don't know what to expect when we arrive. Are
there any bars/restaurants/shops open etc?
We are staying in Hurghada. How much are taxi's from Hurghada to Sahl
Hasheesh?
Would be very grateful for advice please.
On 27 Aug, 16:07, "Nicole@EA" <nicole.flah...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Well, just one more week on crutches, before a new set of X-rays, and
> if the doctors give me the green light, I should be back on my feet
> again, not running nor climbing stairs yet, but at least walking
> “alone” and hopefully driving, swimming and taking pictures around the
> resort again: Inch’Allah!
> And first things first, thanks again to all for your kind words and
> support: the last eleven weeks would have been intolerable without
> your messages, phone calls, visits and help. A special “thank you” to
> Mick & Shirley and the Fantinis team, to Gabriele & Patrizia, to Mike
> and Gill, especially during the last 3 weeks, and to the Palm Beach
> Piazza staff: you’re tremendous, guys! I won’t forget that you were
> there for me.
> Let me just dry that one tear at the corner of my eye (LOL!) and move
> on with “reporting”.
> I’ll just start with the only one bad news I can think of and then
> give you all the good news: One of the ERC directors came to Fantinis
> recently and mentioned that they would not install the optical cables
> for accessing the Internet within Sahl Hasheesh before 4 to 5 years!
> So, whoever wants to get access to the Internet in the meantime while
> in Sahl Hasheesh would need to get a dongle key (Vodafone or Etisalat)
> – or go to one of the free wi-fi Internet cafés in Hurghada with his/
> her laptop. There may be a temporary solution that I thought about
> but this needs further investigation and checking whether this is
> feasible/allowed before I even suggest it. I’ll keep you posted, of
> course!
> Looking at the bright sight, there is some really good news:
> There's a new manager at Palm Beach Piazza (PBP), a cousin of the
> Shawkys, named Mohamed Mohsen. His English is excellent and he's
> extremely efficient. Any problem, ask for him at the PBP reception
> and he'll have your problem(s) fixed in no time.
> Did you hear they had a double outside shower installed by the pool at
> PBP? So refreshing and convenient! What’s still missing by the
> pool? A Ladies room and a Men’s room, to freshen up, change from wet
> clothes into dry ones, without having to go back to one’s flat. But
> I’m sure it’s planned and soon, it’ll be installed.
> They keep working hard at the Piazza: starting at 7:30 am and working
> some nights until past 10 pm with huge spotlights and cranes. They’ve
> been re-painting the Piazza all sorts of colors: yellow, brown -
> testing, I suppose – or maybe just applying under-coats: all those
> different colors looked a little bit weird at one point; but now it
> seems like it will finally be mainly off-white, with domes and
> moldings painted in a sandy color and some domes in a coppery gold.
> They’ve also been tiling the areas below the small domes, left and
> right of the main central space (where there will be cafés or shops?):
> it’ll be smashing! In any case, “Mabrouk” (congratulations) to the
> painters: you should see them on those domes and scaffoldings, with no
> security harness, walking and working as if they were on the ground.
> They frighten(ed) me sometimes, really.
> When driving around recently with Mick and Shirley, I noticed they
> have been planting so many more palm trees everywhere in the resort
> and laying-out the golf spaces. Buildings/hotels are shaping up here
> and there too. And they’re building new security quarters at the
> entrance of the resort, close to a new round-about and the road that
> comes down from the Oberoï, passing along the entrance of the Citadel,
> has been planted with more palm trees which will each be lit at night
> by spotlights. That’ll be a stunning welcome gateway to Sahl
> Hasheesh, “our little piece of Paradise”, as Mike & Gill call it!
> There's a new "Metro" supermarket that opened a few weeks ago near
> Villages Road. Bigger than the one in El Dahar, and so much closer to
> Sahl Hasheesh. What is great is that they do home delivery in Sahl
> Hasheesh for 4 LE! You order by phone, minimum order 200 LE, and your
> order is delivered, in a refrigerated truck (so your frozen food
> remains frozen and your fresh food remains fresh ...) within maximum
> two hours from your call. I tried it today for the first time: I
> placed my order in English – I had looked in my dictionaries and on
> the Internet for the Arabic translation of each item – a good exercise
> for me but not necessary as the gentleman who took my order spoke
> English; when my shopping was ready to be delivered, I got a
> confirmation call from him mentioning my delivery was on its way and
> how much the bill was. When it got here, the shopping was brought to
> my door by the Metro delivery man under the careful supervision of one
> of the PBP security staff members and I paid via credit card (I could
> also have paid in cash). I call that “Service”! Another option is to
> shop in their supermarket yourselves, just to assess their product
> range and make your own selection, and have the whole lot of your
> shopping delivered to PBP, instead of having to pile everything up in
> the trunk (or do you say “boot” in English english? - sometimes, I get
> American and English english confused, sorry!) of a taxi/limo.
> Anyway, quite an improvement, until supermarkets open in Sahl
> Hasheesh!
> Last but not least, as some of the El Andalous (EA) owners, I also
> received yesterday an email from Markus Schlüpen of Resort Alliance,
> mentioning the anticipated completion dates for EA. Even though I
> have not been able to go and check the completion status myself due to
> my broken leg – so frustrating as I temporarily live only a few
> minutes away from El Andalous, I can confirm that Ahmed Shawky,
> Chairman of M.A.S. for Touristic Development, whom I meet regularly,
> told me they’re on schedule and expect the flats to be finished by
> October/November and the garden and pools soon after. Guess all EA
> owners who can make it should plan to be here around Christmas/New
> Year to be happily surprised and celebrate …
> Well, I guess that's it for the moment. To be continued …, of course!
> Take care, All, and see you again or meet you soon.
> Achoufak baadiin – Ci vediamo - Bis bald - A bientôt !
Welcome to the Forum and thanks for your kind comments: glad to help
if and when I can.
There is no shop open as yet in Sahl Hasheesh and the only restaurant
open here is "Fantinis": I highly recommend it. Open every day from
noon to ... whenever at night. Right on the beach and the Palm Beach
Piazza swimming pool, with a fantastic view on the Sahl Hasheesh bay.
Great owners and staff. Have a look at their website for more info
and lots of pictures: http://www.fantinis-egypt.com/ and come and join
us all for a drink/meal!
You can hail a cab anywhere in Hurghada: taxis charge from 50 to 75 LE
for a trip from Hurghada to Sahl Hasheesh: you need to haggle! You
can also contact Adam at 0186779477 for a personalized service. If
you plan several trips during your stay in Hurghada, "Anytime Limo"
may be a cheaper solution: check their price offers at http://www.anytime-limo.com/.
> Found the information you provided to be excellent as we are
> completely new to all of this.
> We are coming over to Sahl Hasheesh at the end of September to view
> some properties and don't know what to expect when we arrive. Are
> there any bars/restaurants/shops open etc?
> We are staying in Hurghada. How much are taxi's from Hurghada to Sahl
> Hasheesh?
> Would be very grateful for advice please.
> On 27 Aug, 16:07, "Nicole@EA" <nicole.flah...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> > Hi All:
> > Well, just one more week on crutches, before a new set of X-rays, and
> > if the doctors give me the green light, I should be back on my feet
> > again, not running nor climbing stairs yet, but at least walking
> > alone and hopefully driving, swimming and taking pictures around the
> > resort again: Inch Allah!
> > And first things first, thanks again to all for your kind words and
> > support: the last eleven weeks would have been intolerable without
> > your messages, phone calls, visits and help. A special thank you to
> > Mick & Shirley and the Fantinis team, to Gabriele & Patrizia, to Mike
> > and Gill, especially during the last 3 weeks, and to the Palm Beach
> > Piazza staff: you re tremendous, guys! I won t forget that you were
> > there for me.
> > Let me just dry that one tear at the corner of my eye (LOL!) and move
> > on with reporting .
> > I ll just start with the only one bad news I can think of and then
> > give you all the good news: One of the ERC directors came to Fantinis
> > recently and mentioned that they would not install the optical cables
> > for accessing the Internet within Sahl Hasheesh before 4 to 5 years!
> > So, whoever wants to get access to the Internet in the meantime while
> > in Sahl Hasheesh would need to get a dongle key (Vodafone or Etisalat)
> > or go to one of the free wi-fi Internet caf s in Hurghada with his/
> > her laptop. There may be a temporary solution that I thought about
> > but this needs further investigation and checking whether this is
> > feasible/allowed before I even suggest it. I ll keep you posted, of
> > course!
> > Looking at the bright sight, there is some really good news:
> > There's a new manager at Palm Beach Piazza (PBP), a cousin of the
> > Shawkys, named Mohamed Mohsen. His English is excellent and he's
> > extremely efficient. Any problem, ask for him at the PBP reception
> > and he'll have your problem(s) fixed in no time.
> > Did you hear they had a double outside shower installed by the pool at
> > PBP? So refreshing and convenient! What s still missing by the
> > pool? A Ladies room and a Men s room, to freshen up, change from wet
> > clothes into dry ones, without having to go back to one s flat. But
> > I m sure it s planned and soon, it ll be installed.
> > They keep working hard at the Piazza: starting at 7:30 am and working
> > some nights until past 10 pm with huge spotlights and cranes. They ve
> > been re-painting the Piazza all sorts of colors: yellow, brown -
> > testing, I suppose or maybe just applying under-coats: all those
> > different colors looked a little bit weird at one point; but now it
> > seems like it will finally be mainly off-white, with domes and
> > moldings painted in a sandy color and some domes in a coppery gold.
> > They ve also been tiling the areas below the small domes, left and
> > right of the main central space (where there will be caf s or shops?):
> > it ll be smashing! In any case, Mabrouk (congratulations) to the
> > painters: you should see them on those domes and scaffoldings, with no
> > security harness, walking and working as if they were on the ground.
> > They frighten(ed) me sometimes, really.
> > When driving around recently with Mick and Shirley, I noticed they
> > have been planting so many more palm trees everywhere in the resort
> > and laying-out the golf spaces. Buildings/hotels are shaping up here
> > and there too. And they re building new security quarters at the
> > entrance of the resort, close to a new round-about and the road that
> > comes down from the Obero , passing along the entrance of the Citadel,
> > has been planted with more palm trees which will each be lit at night
> > by spotlights. That ll be a stunning welcome gateway to Sahl
> > Hasheesh, our little piece of Paradise , as Mike & Gill call it!
> > There's a new "Metro" supermarket that opened a few weeks ago near
> > Villages Road. Bigger than the one in El Dahar, and so much closer to
> > Sahl Hasheesh. What is great is that they do home delivery in Sahl
> > Hasheesh for 4 LE! You order by phone, minimum order 200 LE, and your
> > order is delivered, in a refrigerated truck (so your frozen food
> > remains frozen and your fresh food remains fresh ...) within maximum
> > two hours from your call. I tried it today for the first time: I
> > placed my order in English I had looked in my dictionaries and on
> > the Internet for the Arabic translation of each item a good exercise
> > for me but not necessary as the gentleman who took my order spoke
> > English; when my shopping was ready to be delivered, I got a
> > confirmation call from him mentioning my delivery was on its way and
> > how much the bill was. When it got here, the shopping was brought to
> > my door by the Metro delivery man under the careful supervision of one
> > of the PBP security staff members and I paid via credit card (I could
> > also have paid in cash). I call that Service ! Another option is to
> > shop in their supermarket yourselves, just to assess their product
> > range and make your own selection, and have the whole lot of your
> > shopping delivered to PBP, instead of having to pile everything up in
> > the trunk (or do you say boot in English english? - sometimes, I get
> > American and English english confused, sorry!) of a taxi/limo.
> > Anyway, quite an improvement, until supermarkets open in Sahl
> > Hasheesh!
> > Last but not least, as some of the El Andalous (EA) owners, I also
> > received yesterday an email from Markus Schl pen of Resort Alliance,
> > mentioning the anticipated completion dates for EA. Even though I
> > have not been able to go and check the completion status myself due to
> > my broken leg so frustrating as I temporarily live only a few
> > minutes away from El Andalous, I can confirm that Ahmed Shawky,
> > Chairman of M.A.S. for Touristic Development, whom I meet regularly,
> > told me they re on schedule and expect the flats to be finished by
> > October/November and the garden and pools soon after. Guess all EA
> > owners who can make it should plan to be here around Christmas/New
> > Year to be happily surprised and celebrate
> > Well, I guess that's it for the moment. To be continued , of course!
> > Take care, All, and see you again or meet you soon.
> > Achoufak baadiin Ci vediamo - Bis bald - A bient t !
