Viva Blue Resort and Diving Sharm El Naga (Adults Only)

Hotel is too far in nowhere in desert. It can be unsafe if you travel and you get a problem underway. Hotel must provide a free shuttle to airport and city centre because drivers know its unaccessable location and ask far too much. Sometimes 2-3× the room rate. Staffs are friendly and helpful. Food is OK Rooms and swimming pools OK. Unfortunately, I would not go back to this hotel ever again till the transportation issue is sorted.

SEA. SNORKELING. Swimming is allowed in the morning from 8 am. They won't let you in earlier, don't try. But in the evening you can swim until 7 pm. I did 3 swims a day for 1.5 hours I was lucky. The first 4 days there was a complete calm at sea. Day 5 small waves. Days 6 and 7 black flag. Sometimes they allowed swimming with a black flag. On the first days I swam to the island in the north. In the calm it is easy to swim against the current. It takes one hour to swim to the island and 40 minutes (very slowly) back to the hotel. In the calm it is 30 minutes to swim south to the neighboring hotel with the current, 40 minutes back against the current. There are a lot of fish. One day I swam in a cloud of different fish along the entire reef, thousands of fish. I saw: Eagle ray – 2 times, Turtle – 1 time, Moray eel – 5 times (you can swim with it for a long time), Barracuda (huge, more than a meter, thick) – 3 times, Blue-ringed stingray – 2 times, Electric ray (big as a eagle ray) – 1 time. Much has been written about the hotel itself. The room is normal, the food is good, the staff is friendly. Very little greenery on the territory. The hotel is not 4 stars at all, but I didn’t care, since I was going for the sea. It’s a 40-50 minute drive to the airport. Late arrival – dinner in the room. Upon departure, you need to vacate the room at 12:00. If later, then an extra charge of 20 dollars. But in this case, the bracelet is not cut off and you can use the restaurant and bar. Upon departure, I sat in the lobby from 12 to 16, the sofas/chairs are comfortable, you can even sleep while waiting for the transfer. The vacationers are mostly Russian, which was surprising because I read reviews that there were no Russians. The first 4 days there were a lot of people, even the sun loungers were all occupied. Then many left, but still the majority were Russians.

The hotel is wonderful and has the advantage of being quiet, the food is good and varied every day, and the staff is nice, cooperative, friendly and always smiling. Also, the animation team is cooperative and active, especially the acrobatic show. We would like to say thank you to everyone who was there.

Recently visited here for 10 days. Lovely place and friendly staff who was very welcoming. Very relaxing and a quiet place to visit if that is what you’re looking for in a holiday. I’d say it’s more for the older generation however, still a very pleasant stay I had. I’d like to call out Bakar the Chief animation from Sea Stare Entertainment team. He was brilliant and made my stay and joyful experience. Well done to the whole entertainment team as you all really made my holiday special and the best it could have been. Great atmosphere and good people to be around.

I’ve just returned from a week at Viva Blue, so wanted to give a full review of the hotel and give info on all the bits I hadn’t discovered in my research prior to booking. We experienced a very stressful arrival, there is a £25 per person visa entry fee, which we didn’t know about, which they want in cash. Which we didn’t have. Eventually we got them to agree to let us pay via card. Then in order to get your visa there is an enormous amount of shouting and being cajoled into various queues and lines, to make matters worse we didn’t have a pen to fill the visa in. No one in the airport and no staff would lend us theirs, fellow passengers were as stressed as us, so they all refused as well - it took us an hour to find someone who was willing to help us. Then the ridiculousness of trying to find the private taxi transfer we had booked. Suffice to say it was not the relaxed start we had been hoping for! The hotel is very 3* Egyptian, expect broken and uneven floor tiles, shower doors that don’t close properly and the worst grouting you have ever seen. But it’s very clean and the staff are attentive. The hotel prepared a gala dinner for Xmas eve which was amazing, think Egyptian cruise ship and you’ll have the right idea… flowers carved from fruit, everyone got Xmas stockings, it really was above and beyond. We were in Room 110 fab location and having a little naya was great, air con didn’t work though, even on the coolest setting it was warm. Mini bar in the room is extra charge as is an iron. For us the food was very 6/10, the other locations were not open for food so it was all main restaurant which is very canteen style. All inclusive drinks were as expected, local and large free pours, wine is only available at meal times which was a little strange. Included cocktails were limited to 4 types, the rest are chargeable. Coffee cups are tiny so bring a travel cup from home. Snacks in between meals consist of a plate of left over breakfast pastries. Crisps, pretzels etc are all chargeable. The jacuzzi was lukewarm warm, the pool was lovely and big but very cold, bring googles and do lengths and you would warm up enough to make it bearable. The sea was cold, people were in snorkelling but only for a few minutes before the goose bumps became unbearable, however the attached dive school were fab and they hire wet suits for €7 a day which resolves the problem. This is a windy side of the island so expect the sea to be very choppy but the amazing reef will make up for it. Fab sea life within 100m of your bedroom door. Please note you cannot swim from the shore line due to the reef, you must enter via a ladder and jetty into 10m+ deep sea…. But the underwater view is worth it! Not sure where the mention of a Soma Bay bus came from but it isn’t in operation. You need to get taxis to anywhere, and I mean anywhere. The area surrounding the hotel is like the surface of the moon, so going for a walk is impossible. We had massages at the hotel the

Our stay in Viva Blue was excellent! We are very happy and dreaming of coming back🥳 The hotel is located in the desert about one hour trip from Hurghada, on the first sea line and in a wonderful place for diving and snorkling - Sharm el Naga. The hotel’s team is high level! Everyone is friendly, ready to help and will do their best to make your stay comfortable. Rooms are very good, stylish and comfortable with wonderful view on the sea or desert from the balcony. But be cautious: don’t go to the restaurant! (if you don’t want to get several additional kilograms 😂 The food is sooo delicious that it’s impossible to stop eating! Sending kind greetings to all the chefs of the restaurant😘 And also sending very warm greetings to Malak from reception (Nerijus also sending greetings to you😀 and to the animation team💪 We would definitely come back, Viva Blue❤️ Ksenia and Nerijus. 18.11.2024