We have just returned from the Sol Cyrene after a 2 week break, it was the first time we had been to Sharm el Sheik and also to this hotel, although we have been to Hurgardha for the last 3 years. We found the room with a sea view (paid extra) to be very pleasant, but our balcony was in the shade all day. We also overlooked the larger pool and this wasn't a problem, as after around 6pm in the evening it went quiet. The food we found was of quite a good standard , with plenty of choice, and we always found something to eat. There was the usual omelets, boiled and fried eggs, pancakes, salads, cheese, meats,fresh fruit, rolls and bread for Breakfast along with mashed potatoes, baked beans and a host of egyptian dishes that i never even tried. For Lunch and Dinner there were soup, salads, pasta cooked while you waited along with a roast meat some days, and then there were various cooked meats which tended to be chicken either roasted or in a sauce, pork, beef, various vegetables, some roasted or boiled, fish, and again other dishes too numerous to be mentioned. Then there were the beautiful cakes and sponges which really looked amazing, some tasted the same and as i am a cake aholic i tried most. There was also fruit. The beach was fairly crowded and although we usually use the beach, we did seem to be kidnapped by the chap who looked after the larger pool Mohammed, but i must admit he looked after us for the first week, and then he went home. The chap on the pool bar who also worked in the bar inside the hotel at night was very friendly and did his job well. The waiters in the restaurant who served us really did look after us and were very friendly and polite and did their utmost to give us their best, even at times when other guests seemed very rude towards them. There were activites such as arobics and water arobics and volley ball, we were asked the first day, to which i refused and then we were largly ignored intil the 13th day when i was asked again, i can't do anything too physical because of health problems, but did feel a little left out as they also chose not to speak to us either. On the whole staff say they like the English and wish more visited the hotel, the hotel was mainly visited by Italians and some Russians, but the hotel is geared more towards the Italians which is a little bit of a shame as i feel they could definately build up the English trade as it is a beautiful hotel. It was generally clean and the chap who cleaned our room left us a grand sculpture made out of towels every day and as it was my Partners birthday while we were away, he dressed the bed up beautiful with various designs along with toilet tissue and flower petals. On the whole we had a good two weks and as Mamood at the pool said to us on our last day, "he has never seen two English people so relaxed for two weeks" but as we said to him "that is what we went to do"