Still without a Charter. It is cheaper and faster to get to the resorts of Egypt
MOSCOW, January 23 — RIA Novosti, Svetlana Baeva. “At ten o’clock in the morning departure from Moscow, and only around midnight — hotel check-in to Sharm El-Sheikh”, — told the Russians on tours in Egypt through the Israeli airport of Ovda. Now tour operators offer to get from Antalya on regular flights of Turkish airline. Still relevant flights with stopovers.
How the Russians get to the resorts of the red sea and is restored if the number of tourists — in the material RIA Novosti.
The interest is there
“Interest in holidays in Egypt, but to talk about real recovery of the tourist traffic will be possible only after it will allow direct flights to the resorts of Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, Marsa Alam”, — says General Director of “Pegas Touristik” Anna Podgornaya.
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Launched in December Charter flights to Ovda airport, where tourists could go to the resorts of Israel and Egypt, ended. Commenting on the results, the expert said that the demand for Egyptian resorts and Eilat, the Israeli was about the same.
Now the Russians have another opportunity to get to the red sea resorts: take a Charter flight to Antalya, and from there on scheduled flight of Turkish airlines to Sharm El-Sheikh.
The cost of these programs — from 45 thousand roubles for two (week-long tour to the hotel “three stars” on the system “all inclusive”).
Running with papers and a passport
It’s probably easier than ATS. “Passport control in Israel is longer than in Moscow, the expectation of filling the bus another hour and a half, — says a tourist on the website reviews. — To the border of Israel and Egypt about an hour’s drive. Border crossing is an endless running with papers, opened my passport and things “in the teeth”. Then again, two hours were filled with buses. Transfer to Sharm El-Sheikh more than four hours. In the end, in my hotel I got in 23 hours.”
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Another tourist said that on landing at the Ovda before check-in hotel has passed with all the formalities and expectations — ten hours. To this we must add a five-hour flight from Russia.
To fly from Moscow to Antalya is approximately three and a half hours, from St. Petersburg a little longer. From Antalya to Sharm El-Sheikh — a little more than six hours, docking at the airport — two.