We came back early from Sharm as it was the proverbial "holiday from hell", firstly when we arrived we found that the apartment was tiny, barely furnished and stuck miles away from the centre of town so we had to take the car if we wanted to go anywhere which is fine normally but since the last bombings cars aren't allowed into the town centre and there's nowhere to park and walk a reasonable distance to get to the bars, shops etc.
The pool was ok but the roof terrace was awful, the owner only has 1/4 of the roof and had tried (cheaply) to section it off but we could still see the other unfinished bits, full of old furniture etc.
We went out for dinner the 1st night then, after getting back to the flat reasonably early as we were tired, 15 yr old daughter announces she is going to a club with her friend, I dropped her off at the friends house. Wife stayed up for her getting home but at 3am she told daughter to stay the night there as it was too late to be out alone.
Next day we couldn't decide what to do as anything we decided was poo pooed by the girls and vice versa. We eventually just lounged about the flat with a bit of sunbathing when it got cool enough.
We then went out to dinner and afterwards oldest daughter announced she was going out again to another Club. I took her and again wife waited up for her, at 2 am she woke me saying that she'd been trying to call oldest daughter and she wasn't answering her phone and wife was sick with worry. I went to the place I'd dropped her but she wasn't there. I eventually got her o the phone and she said that she'd left her handbag in the VIP section of the Club and it had been handed in to the bouncer’s area for safe keeping. I waited up for her and she eventually arrived home at 5am!! By this time wife and I had decided we were leaving the next day, when we talked about it with oldest daughter she couldn't understand why we were worried, saying "but it's a really safe place".
We've decided that Sharm isn't the place for us, it's for young clubbers and oldies with no kids who want to lie on the beach followed by dinner and an early night or serious divers. The girls can go and do their thing and what we don't know won't worry us!
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