were in Hurghada from 2 to October 12, 2009. The hotel
Magawish in Colona Watersports.
Magawish The hotel has 2 beaches within its complex (the two are very close, separated by a small marina): kite beach (training bay) and beach "tourism."
kite beach is just across a sand bar.
The 2 beaches the hotel is not particularly beautiful, nor the water is crystal clear ... although they are comfortable. Loungers and parasols have almost from the shore, and there is never waves, just a little choppy.
The sandbar is another thing: there it is turquoise water, white sand and beautiful, and the overall look is "paradise."
beaches in Egypt are mainly private. To access them you have to pay. In fact, to kite you have to pay more, necessarily.
Despite the Magawish stay, you pay 70 euros a week for power kiting. This price will include the rescue of Colona is staff in the areas of helping kite up and down the kite, and Water collected a zodiac people. Zones
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The Colona watersports center is quite far from the beach kite "training bay, about 5-10 minutes walk.
You can exit from either of these two points: from Columbus or the beach.
Colona is just to leave or enter, you can not navigate around. In favor of wind are small rocks .. if you arrive, you will find in the boat and bring you to the center. Worse
in Colona, \u200b\u200bon the beach, the wind almost disappears, keeps super gusty. It is difficult and dangerous and out, and if there is little wind in the center is literally impossible to launch the kite. Nor is there room on the beach.
The "rescue" of Colona works well, are continuously monitoring the water, you will quickly find if you need ... that allows you to navigate almost always far from the shore.
beach kite "trainning bay" is more open and has space. The chairs come down to the water almost, and it is nice to spend the day there and kite alternate seat.
The first 100 feet or so of water, it covers almost anything. In fact, at first it only covers the ankle, which is dangerous.
When the wind is strong (and also very gusty), it is dangerous to leave if you do not control much, because it covers too little. In the week we saw were an Italian boy break a leg to support in a fall.
The atmosphere here is kite, many people with kites ... kite in the area likely to do the "bathers".
water conditions.
usually leave the beach for training (or colon, too), and you navigate between the bar and the beach, away from land. Having a good rescue system, if anything happens you're going to look to the zodiac.
The water is pretty choppy, but there is no wave, in a few places it gets "flat flat."
However, water conditions are good, because there is no edge wave problem ... Too many comets
normally. You have to sail far from the shore to find a gap and there is usually still too many people, but ... always possible to get away a little and get you a place Where to be alone.
Another danger: near the sand bar we went snorkeling several days (from the coast to the bar you can go swimming), is very pretty. And we saw many fish spider, and even a big lion fish! . Conclusion: Take care near the sandbar, best not to tread! .
training on the beach the fund is more mud than sand, and there is no such fish, although there are many small stones that make you small cuts if you're not careful.
Wind.
Wind ... that's the problem.
We were like 9-10 days, and we had a few windy days, like 4 or 5, the others remained at about 8-11 knots maximum.
often remains too weak to sail, or in 8-12 knots, Light.
When he finally enters, it often happens. The strong wind here is very gusty.
I got to sail with a kite of 5, and also that of 7 meters.
The worst is that the wind is too gusty to navigate to taste, and very strong. Something like the release of Tarifa.
there are days that are more or less gusty, but in general if loose is little gusty and as it begins to enter Rachee lot.
To learn is not a bad place, because there are several days of light wind. The light wind is more constant. Furthermore, there is wave and on the beach covers little training. But beware, because it covers too little (it is dangerous, you can do damage, and no wind and you control the kite) and there are pebbles on the ground that you sometimes do small cuts on his feet.
Magawish Hotel
Magawish
The hotel ... I do not know. The hotel itself is not bad at all, although it tends to crappy in some ways.
I think the rooms and the building itself are not bad.
The "all inclusive" (which is the most widely used there) it is very cumbersome. The drinks are "machines" of the emerging water or soft drinks (and fill your small plastic cups) and are located in few places, far from the beach.
Many times there are queues for food or drink ... The food you get tired very quickly and above all it is decent in the main building, which is far from the beach.
In general, the environment is not very good and not a good impression.
not sit at home in the Magawish.
Summary.
has good and bad, I do not think it is worth, there are better sites.
Good: chairs next to the beach kite, kite beach within the hotel complex, good rescue SAND BAR IS VERY NICE.
Bad: too gusty winds, dangerous in strong winds, few actual days of good wind, little space in the water, the environment in general is not very good, you must pay for kiting ...
I hope you find it useful:)
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