I had ice in my Pepsi and spent the rest of the holiday on the toilet...even the Hilton was a crap hole. The beaches are beautiful though. The diving and so on is great. Some of the people there are lovely. Don't be tempted by the offer of smoking anything in the tourist shops. I suppose I should have known better but there we go! When I went I got bored of Sharm and flew to Cairo. Not sure I'd advise that at the moment though. Oh and the taxi drivers try and rip you off at every opportunity. I doubt I'll ever go back to Egypt..I got sick of them letching over my girlfriend and treating me like a piece of ****. Not a glowing review and the slums and how poor people were when I went into Cairo was awful to see
Anyway, to answer the actual question my friend went a couple of weeks ago and had a great time with no problems at all!