Week in Sharm, lightly browned, not cheap in the town, but went AI so 
not bothered, stayed at the hotel. Didn't go near Pachaa as even the 
Camel Bar was about 110 egyptian (about £12-13 for a couple of drinks).

Those who got fed up of the AI buffet and visited Maccy's claimed you 
could get two large meals for about £6 GBP and they were the proper 
triple burgers with footlong fries and a bargain bucket sized soft 
drink, and you didn't need to eat for the rest of the day. And get this, 
BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a 
certain ammount. 

Nothing special car wise to report, mostly saw Hyundai and and 
occasionally "Chevrolet" taxis, and a couple of Mitsu private cars, all 
the trucks vans and busses were Toyota or Mitsu. Sadly no mental 
drifters or oddly modified vehicles like you see in those videos that 
come over from the Emirates.

Manager of the hotel had some kind of big maybe 70's maybe 80's boxy 
yank (hard to tell with an arabic plate, and sun flattened paint but not 
a hint of rust) that made a nice noise but that was it.
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On 23 Oct, 14:18, Elder  wrote:

> Those who got fed up of the AI buffet and visited Maccy's claimed you
> could get two large meals for about £6 GBP and they were the proper
> triple burgers with footlong fries and a bargain bucket sized soft
> drink, and you didn't need to eat for the rest of the day. And get this,
> BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a
> certain ammount.

LOL a good class of tourist writes back from foreign climes about how
good the American international chain fast food junk outlets are :)

I remember asking a bloke who'd just come back from Tasmania what it
was like. The response "It was alright, had a McDonalds and a KFC"

"Elder"  wrote in message 
news:MPG.254bbd938713c961989a53@news.individual.net...

> And get this,
> BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a
> certain ammount.

Question is, why would you want to?

In article , 
clive@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk says...
> "Elder"  wrote in message 
> news:MPG.254bbd938713c961989a53@news.individual.net...
> 
> > And get this,
> > BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a
> > certain ammount.
> 
> Question is, why would you want to? 
> 
> 
> 
Because while I'm not a fussy eater and have a cast iron constitution, 
some people had trouble finding something liked that was hot enough to 
eat on the all inclusive buffet. 

Plus, the standards of the fast food joints over there was far superior 
to the shite we get here. Even if the product itself was the same 
generic crap, the "food" was actually reasonably presented, instead of 
being slammed together by a bored teenager, and the meals were actually 
bigger as well as looking better, and cheaper than here.
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In article <0a1d087c-7310-4000-bf4c-
e5945b34506d@m11g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, 
spammeifyoulikebutiwontreadit@gmail.com says...
> LOL a good class of tourist writes back from foreign climes about how
> good the American international chain fast food junk outlets are :)
> 
> I remember asking a bloke who'd just come back from Tasmania what it
> was like. The response "It was alright, had a McDonalds and a KFC"
> 
I ate in the hotel buffet restaurant each night, but I'm not a fussy 
eater. My one concern was while it was tasty, but had some unorthadox 
combinations, it wasn't hot enough. The trays were on heated tiles, 
under heated lights and were bubbling away, and the plates were warmed, 
but as soon as you served yourself, it was only just warm.

I was fine until the last day when I got the rampant squits, and felt 
sweaty and clammy the night before. So probably something I ate. It even 
put me off the paint stripper "local" Fineland and Vat Landia Egyptian 
Vodka.

I think if I had gone for two weeks, I would have hit the take-aways 
too. They were 10-15 minutes walk. A taxi seemed to very between the 
"Don't pay more the 25 egyptian" as quoted on the travel website to at 
least 60 egyptian after haggling for a one way journey. Centre of Naama 
Bay was about 1 hours walk at least (I walked for 45 minutes in the 
right direction to get to a Vodafone shop for a local PAYG sim and was 
nowhere near the town).

So 120 egyptian for a return taxi, roughly 300 egyptian for a half 
decent restaurant, add in about 200 egyptian for some beers and if you 
ended up in the hubble bubble bar afterwards. Not a cheap night out for 
what I was told was a cheap country.

I got 800 egyptian for £100 before I left, but it was about 9 to 1GBP in 
resort. But you either paid commission in the hotel exchange machine 
(never been to a hotel that didn't do exchange over the reception desk 
or had a real exchange counter in house before), or again paid for a 
taxi into the centre to find a bank, which was more than the commission.
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"Elder"  wrote in message 
news:MPG.254bc7c1ba6c3307989a58@news.individual.net...
> In article ,
> clive@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk says...
>> "Elder"  wrote in message
>> news:MPG.254bbd938713c961989a53@news.individual.net...
>>
>> > And get this,
>> > BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a
>> > certain ammount.
>>
>> Question is, why would you want to?
>
> Plus, the standards of the fast food joints over there was far superior
> to the shite we get here. Even if the product itself was the same
> generic crap, the "food" was actually reasonably presented, instead of
> being slammed together by a bored teenager, and the meals were actually
> bigger as well as looking better, and cheaper than here.

So, the food is still shit, just cheaper, more of it and looks a little 
nicer?

I think my question still stands :-)

On 23 Oct, 15:02, Elder  wrote:
> In article ,
> cl...@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk says...> "Elder"  wrote in message
> >news:MPG.254bbd938713c961989a53@news.individual.net...
>
> > > And get this,
> > > BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a
> > > certain ammount.
>
> > Question is, why would you want to?
>
> Because while I'm not a fussy eater and have a cast iron constitution,
> some people had trouble finding something liked that was hot enough to
> eat on the all inclusive buffet.
>
> Plus, the standards of the fast food joints over there was far superior
> to the shite we get here.

I once ended up in a McDs in Sao Paulo airport, simply because I had a
3 hour wait and there was nothing else open so late. I was amazed that
a big Mac there actually appeared to really be made of meat!

> Even if the product itself was the same
> generic crap, the "food" was actually reasonably presented, instead of
> being slammed together by a bored teenager, and the meals were actually
> bigger as well as looking better, and cheaper than here.

That's cos we are too British and don't like to complain. We'll just
put up with it, then bitch to our mates later ;-)

Mike P

On 23 Oct, 14:45, "Clive George"  wrote:
> "Elder"  wrote in message
>
> news:MPG.254bbd938713c961989a53@news.individual.net...
>
> > And get this,
> > BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a
> > certain ammount.
>
> Question is, why would you want to?

A very good question. Even the ropiest of fast food joints I ate from
on the road from Porto Alegre to Sao Paulo years ago, which were full
of drugged up Brazilian truckers had food far better, and far cheaper
than McDs. They don't even have KFC over there...

Mike P

In article , 
clive@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk says...
> So, the food is still shit, just cheaper, more of it and looks a little 
> nicer?
> 
That is only the same difference as shopping at M&S/Waitrose and Tescos 
though. Except you don't get cheaper and looks better in the same 
option.

I never tried it, so I can't say if it was the same crap, It looked a 
well presented burger, with a large portion of fries. I said even if it 
was the same generic crap. It may have been much better, the people who 
ate there certainly enjoyed it better than the home ones. I just saw 
that it looked better when they opened their substantially larger burger 
boxes and actually got something that looked like the promotional 
posters even after being bounced arround on the back of the delivery 
moped.
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On 23 Oct, 15:13, Elder  wrote:

> So 120 egyptian for a return taxi, roughly 300 egyptian for a half
> decent restaurant, add in about 200 egyptian for some beers and if you
> ended up in the hubble bubble bar afterwards. Not a cheap night out for
> what I was told was a cheap country.

Ah yeah but Sharm isn't Egypt, it's somewhere to go and get some sun
and sand but nothing more. Bit like Northern Goa in that respect (ie
rip off tourists to the max but you're promised the "culture" is out
there somewhere) but a much shorter flight and you don't have to get a
visa in advance.

In article <d9b6f42e-88f9-4091-a83e-a65c233be574
@o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, spammeifyoulikebutiwontreadit@gmail.com 
says...
> Ah yeah but Sharm isn't Egypt, it's somewhere to go and get some sun
> and sand but nothing more. Bit like Northern Goa in that respect (ie
> rip off tourists to the max but you're promised the "culture" is out
> there somewhere) but a much shorter flight and you don't have to get a
> visa in advance.
> 
I only went for the sun, but the prices were so much more than I 
expected, even by tourist standard though it was pricey.

I had planned to do a couple of evenings in the bars, seems to have shot 
up during the last year. Some of the popular bars were charging close to 
scandinavian prices. In the end, decided to drink the hotel AI, because 
I knew one night out would blow all I taken in egyption if I went for 
it, then I would be looking at either credit carding, or debit carding 
more forex and getting stung either way.

Did get mugged by a shop keeper for 450egyptian for an oil burner and 
two bottle of scented oils as a gift, until I showed them to one of the 
other guests, but she said that last time she haggled for that type of 
stuff if cost her 390 egyptian just for one bottle of oil that size so I 
had done well. He started at 900egyptian based on him tapping random 
numbers into his calculator, and as he had his assistant lock the door 
after I went in, I was pretty screwed what ever happened, and it was 
going to cost me. I've faced pushy sellers in Turkey and Morocco, 
sometimes having to get quite verbally forceful to get through the door 
to get out, but it is first time I've heard a door lock behind me and 
the key get taken out.
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Elder wrote:
> Week in Sharm, lightly browned, not cheap in the town, but went AI so 
> not bothered, stayed at the hotel. Didn't go near Pachaa as even the 
> Camel Bar was about 110 egyptian (about £12-13 for a couple of drinks).
> 
> Those who got fed up of the AI buffet and visited Maccy's claimed you 
> could get two large meals for about £6 GBP and they were the proper 
> triple burgers with footlong fries and a bargain bucket sized soft 
> drink, and you didn't need to eat for the rest of the day. And get this, 
> BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a 
> certain ammount. 
> 
> Nothing special car wise to report, mostly saw Hyundai and and 
> occasionally "Chevrolet" taxis, and a couple of Mitsu private cars, all 
> the trucks vans and busses were Toyota or Mitsu. Sadly no mental 
> drifters or oddly modified vehicles like you see in those videos that 
> come over from the Emirates.
> 
> Manager of the hotel had some kind of big maybe 70's maybe 80's boxy 
> yank (hard to tell with an arabic plate, and sun flattened paint but not 
> a hint of rust) that made a nice noise but that was it.

Result then, other than the cars...

KFC doing delivery? I'd have had a heart attack by now if they did that 
over here lol

In article <hbsqal$ms0$1@news.albasani.net>, no@spam.thanks says...
> KFC doing delivery? I'd have had a heart attack by now if they did that 
> over here lol
> 
KFC were running this advert on Dubai one (english and Arabic versions 
of the same add).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTbX5m4uKRM

Haven't been to a KFC for years. Do we have these yet?
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"Elder"  wrote in message 
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> In article <hbsqal$ms0$1@news.albasani.net>, no@spam.thanks says...
>> KFC doing delivery? I'd have had a heart attack by now if they did that
>> over here lol
>>
> KFC were running this advert on Dubai one (english and Arabic versions
> of the same add).
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTbX5m4uKRM
>
> Haven't been to a KFC for years. Do we have these yet?

Nope. Is that an advert for quality ford suspension?


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fishman wrote:
> On 23 Oct, 14:18, Elder  wrote:
> 
>> Those who got fed up of the AI buffet and visited Maccy's claimed you
>> could get two large meals for about £6 GBP and they were the proper
>> triple burgers with footlong fries and a bargain bucket sized soft
>> drink, and you didn't need to eat for the rest of the day. And get this,
>> BK, Maccy's and KFC and Pizza Hut delivered free if you spent over a
>> certain ammount.
> 
> LOL a good class of tourist writes back from foreign climes about how
> good the American international chain fast food junk outlets are :)
> 
> I remember asking a bloke who'd just come back from Tasmania what it
> was like. The response "It was alright, had a McDonalds and a KFC"

I've eaten McDonalds in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia and Fiji. 
  I'm not sure I ate for the entire time we were in Malaysia and we had 
Wendy's in the USA.

(c:

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