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The lodge and the base are great as usual. Expectations fulfilled. Great dive sites, wonderful support, super service. Rooms clean, very well equipped. Beds comfortable, location is perfect for the base.
Unfortunately, the service in the restaurant has deteriorated. While some of the staff are very attentive to the guests, there are also some who tend to stand around, are busy on their cell phones and are more conspicuous by their absence than by their service. Waiting 15 minutes for coffee at breakfast is unfortunately not unusual (despite fewer guests at the time). The prices are (deliberately?) incorrectly advertised in the menus, with up to 50% more being charged after consumption. Example: Beer is listed at €3 on the menu, but is charged at €5. The reception staff do not realize that the guest is being taken for a ride. Despite several reminders, the menu was not adjusted before we left, meaning that other guests were being ripped off. After 20 minutes of discussion with three people, we were refunded the difference, but then the waiter told us that he would have to pay for it personally. Apparently it is necessary to resort to such methods in Shams.
We will be back because the base and the boat crew are excellent and second to none. But the management's business conduct is subterranean.
(Automatically translated from German)