Very different at Sharm el Sheikh! I was there this month and expected a dusty airfield in the middle of nowhere with a few beach hotels nearby! I was astonished to see the scale of development- this place is like Majorca now, and as busy as it in the summer! Incredible number of enormoous hotels, lines of charter jets of various European charter companies, a very large modern departure terminal which had several thousand European/Russian tourists heading home, and apparently a large new terminal is already building. Suddenly a real tourist hotspot- and one of the few places giving good sunshine in March!
(Food still crap though)