Utopia Beach Club

The beach and sea spot is the best, the reef keeps the water calm and clear at all time, the underwater life is unique, it's literally like swimming in a fish tank, perfect for snorkeling and diving. The service in the resort is very good, the staff is polite and efficient, we loved the company of Ahmed Kamel during our meals, he made sure nothing was missing on our table and did it always with a warm smile, but of course he wasn't the only one, from the room cleaner to the guy in charge to call the taxi to the airport, everyone was just lovely. On the beach there is a bit of pressure from the sales guy but it's never over the line, actually we were always enjoying a good chat with Said who eventually was calling by just for a daily greeting. I personally loved the spa experience, we had a Romeo and Juliette couple treatment which was an unusual experience with coconut scrub, foam cleansing, sauna and steaming room, followed by a 45 mins of excellent massage, really recommended. We loved the diving course, professional and complete, and the guided trip to the close al quseir, anything else is too far and requires 4/5 hours of bus journey each way, not for us!

The architecture of the village is very beautiful, unfortunately most of the spaces (main pool, slides and few terrace bars) were closed, probably due to the low season, we went at the beginning of February, which, let me warn you, is also particularly cold, in this time of the year the sun is mostly out and warm but there is an annoying cold wind that won't let the experience really be enjoyable expecially to those that are particularly sensitive to the low temperatures, it's a bit hard to get in the water as well. When we arrived they were renovating the main restaurant and told us to use only the "Italian" restaurant, which we thought it was just one of the options available but when the renovation was over and they opened back the main restaurant we were forbidden to walk in the "italian" restaurant, from what I saw it was serving the same food but it was much closer to the beach and all the other opened amenities, as we spent about 10 days of our 2 weeks holidays in that restaurant I thought it was over the line to be asked to leave, it was very quiet the all time of our staying and I can't really understand what was the need to make us feel unwelcome all of a sudden. The resort is connected to an Italian tour operator, which sort of owns the best corners of the resort, from the apartments, to the auditorium, to the beach activities and best tanning spots which are organised all around the beautiful bay, the internationals are sent to another area of the beach were the sea doesn't look as good. At this time of the year There is no much entertainment around the resort except for the italian tour operator staff, but they would entertain exclusively the veraclub guests, i mean you can join them, if you know the language, but they don't make much effort to have you interacting or be part of it if you are not one of them. Not a big deal anyways, the '80s style of entertainment offered was mostly annoying anyways .