The clean, cozy, spacious airport of Hurghada is a new airport where Russian flights arrive and depart from. There is air conditioning everywhere at the airport, 3 stages of checks before access to the plane. Of the disadvantages, high prices in dutikas, they also cheat at the checkout, so the price of the product does not always correspond to the price in the receipt. The biggest disadvantage is the lack of coolers. Water is not allowed to be brought into the waiting room, and registration takes 3 hours, and prices in cafes and shops are crazy. A bottle of water is $ 1, a bottle of lemonade is 0.33 l - $ 5. Half of the taps in the waiting room toilets are not working. There is a smoking room and prayer rooms.
There are simply no words to describe the arrival area.
There are terrible queues when buying a visa, as always, extremely "friendly" staff are sitting at the border control, which immediately shows that they are insanely glad to see your arrival.
Baggage collection and exit from the airport is generally a separate flash mob, since in order to leave the airport with your luggage, you need to go through the security check again, and there are 2 ways, either an employee will let you through without inspection on an incomprehensible principle, or you will stand tail so that your unfortunate suitcase is 100 we enlightened you once and made sure that 100 times you are not carrying anything forbidden, except sneakers and shorts.
After a wild queue and another inspection, you finally get out and you are greeted by tents with local mobile operators and already behind them, the long-awaited doors to vacation :-)
It is clean, beautiful, and very expensive to eat, for example, a slice of pizza for $ 8. The work of customs officers causes a smile and surprise.. For example, a customs officer was checking his passport, suddenly stood up, turned his back and began pouring boiling water with a bag of coffee into his mug, then the girl checking my personal purse with one hand fumbled in the bag with the other and put chips in her mouth.. Maybe they don't have a break, of course, but it was funny to watch it