Mohammed recommended Peanuts restaurant and bar for lunch, or to go down to the sea and eat there. We were hangry and Maddy tells us and needed to eat soon. We dropped our bags off and quickly headed for the restaurant. We didn’t know Mohammed had called about us. When I arrived Maddy and Jed were at a smaller table. When I arrived the guy moved us to a bigger table in case the others arrived, which they did.
Maddy, Jed and I had placed our orders before everyone else arrived. Didn’t matter. I think they put all the meals into the kitchen together, except for Matt who arrived a bit later than everyone else. Things on the menu included Burger with free more burgers. We asked what this was and he explained you got a burger and then some free burgers patties after if you finished. I ordered this with 3 other people. Graham ordered fish, Jed ordered a steak, Niko ordered a veggie and rice bowl and a others ordered a beef and rice bowl.
Before meals began to come out a worker at the hotel came in and he stopped at our table to tell us that the hotel was having a small party for a different set of guests but we were welcome to attend. There would be little desserts and a drink. We thought why not attend.
Meals began to come out after awhile but they weren’t sure where things went so they called them out and dropped them off. But they didn’t call them out well. Some people ordered with fries, some with salads, some with rice. I think my meal went to someone (Matt) because we had to ask about it when it didn’t come out but Matt had ordered after our orders were put in.
Nikki cut into her burgers (meat patties with no bun, sauce, veggies, or anything) and they were still raw. I cut into mine and they were also raw. We went them back to the kitchen but they were re-cooked and then sent out to us. We were very unhappy with it. The fish was also not cooked properly. Niko’s meal came out with meat in it. When he sent it back they picked the meat out and sent it to him again but had missed some of the meat. Niko sent it back again to be made from scratch.
When we finished we let everyone happy pay for their meals and then tried to talk to the server about our meals. In the end the guy compensated Niko for his meal and gave it for free. I paid for my drinks but not my raw beef.
When it was Nikki’s turn she asked for a discount for hers and the guy became really irate about people wanting discounts for their meals. We tried to explain that serving raw meat was not something acceptable and neither was serving meat to a vegetarian. I went to get Mohammed to help with translating. It became a really big deal with the server insulting Maddy and the hotel manager getting involved. In the end we were all given a fruit platter as an apology from the hotel.

After this we had free time until 6 when we would meet to have dinner at the hotel. Nikki, Tous, and I decided we were going to go swimming down on the sister hotel on the beach. We walked down the road to the other hotel and showed our bracelets to gain access. We walked through what was a very nice beach hotel. The hotel was the Empire Beach Hotel and had it’s own slice of private beach. From what I understand all the beach in Herghada is private and you have to go past all the hotels, beach condos and the marina to get to public beach.
We got to the beach and exchanged our towel cards for towels and went to walk the small slice of beach and find a god place to rest our stuff. As we are walking along to dip our toes in the water Nikki notices something in the surf, then notices a lot more something’s. There are little purple jellyfish filling the water and even the sand close to the water. I put the GoPro in and took a few pictures of the jellyfish, then I used the handle to try and put some of the jellyfish back in the water, but there were so many. We decided to cancel our swim.

At 6 we met in the lobby of the hotel and saw plates of fancy desserts like mini tarts, chocolate covered strawberries, cakes, and other little bits. They also had a number of drinks some orange juice, most vodka based. It took maybe 10 minutes for the crowd to swarm and everything to be gone.

We went into the restaurant and had a Egyptian buffet. There were stuffed eggplants and zucchini, rice, veggies, lamb, beef, chicken, salad bar, dessert bar, and so much other food. It was the best meal of the trip because it was extensive and included. We all sat around and had dinner before going back to our rooms to get ready for our night out.
We met back in the lobby at 8pm and got a van taxi to take us to down town Herghada. There we wandered past shops and sights. When we got to the entrance of the marina we went in. While we were at the marina there would be random power outages, sometimes a few places, sometime the whole place, sometimes flickers and sometimes nothing.