Tropicana Garden Palms Hotel, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt > Reviews > Tropicana Amarante Garden Palms Hotel, Sharm Egypt

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Value for Money	Good
Quality of Rooms	Good
Standard of Service	Excellent
Cleanliness	Good
Quality of Facilities	Good

Advantages:	Great food, clean and friendly .
Disadvantages:	No beach, lost sister Hotel Grand Oasis, the 5 . 30am sunbed securing

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Just returned from this hotel, very nice clean friendly hotel with a fantastic restaurant, but my only gripe is that the hotel is no longer part of the 'Tropicana' group and as such the deal is off as far as using the 'Tropicana Grand Oasis' facilities and beach! It's now owned by 'Amarante'

This makes a huge crimp in your stay firstly as a beach user or snorkeller as Garden Palms has no beach and the bus service run by the hotel now takes you to a local public beach about 20 mins away, as you can imagine the beach is crammed full, so it is difficult to get shade when you need it and it's not particularly clean, second problem that arises from the 'no beach' situation is that if you want to sit around the pool a bed needs to be secured with your towel by 6am, this is made a problem by not enough beds for everyone and no-where else to go, plus beware of others guests that tip the pool attendants a backhander as they then put the towels out for them around 4.30am when they add the padded cushions to the loungers.