Situated in the Heliopolis district of Cairo, the Baron Hotel overlooks the 19th century ... more
Baron Empain Palace and is 12 kilometres from the city centre. Its 126 guestrooms are air conditioned and have balconies; all feature satellite television, direct ...
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Situated in the Heliopolis district of Cairo, the Baron Hotel overlooks the 19th century ... more
Baron Empain Palace and is 12 kilometres from the city centre. Its 126 guestrooms are air conditioned and have balconies; all feature satellite television, direct ...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: good location, clean and comfortable Disadvantages: none
The Dutch Golden Tulip hotel chain has two hotels in Egypt. One in Cairo and the other is a resort hotel on the Red Sea. On a recent visit to Cairo, I stayed at the Cairo hotel. It is a four star hotel and rooms start at about EUR65 a night.
The hotel is located in Zamalek, an island on the Nile in a fairly quiet area (by Egyptian standards) with lots of shaded avenues and 19th century buildings, including many homes of foreign dignitaries. Zamalek is a great location to be in as there are several western chain fast food restaurants nearby (Pizza Hut, McDonalds, etc.) and a supermarket just around the corner. The hotel also has its own bakery with very good pastries and breads. It is an area that is popular with a lot of foreigners, particularly Europeans. There is also an internet café just across the street.
While there is no ...
Advantages: See everything in one day. Disadvantages: Do not go in August as the weather is too humid.
I went to Egypt for one day by flying from Paphos to Cairo in August 2007. It took one hour to get there. I booked the trip with a travel agent in Paphos and it cost £200 cyprus per person travelling with Louis Travel.
The air trip was a good flight and it included food (breakfast).
The day was packed with lots of things to do. We arrived at Cairo and was quickly transported to a coach, which took us to our first destination - Citadel of Saladin.
The coach drove through Heliopolis, an elite residential suburb of Cairo our professional guide pointed out places of interest and introduced us to the long history and rich culture of Egypt 'en route' to our first highlights, being a mosque called Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali. We spent some time here inside the mosque walking around it.
Our next stop was the Pyramids ...
Advantages: Obvious - The Pyramids, The Sphinx and the Cairo museum! Disadvantages: Very busy and very polluted but don't let that put you off
need of a holiday I began to think about fulfilling my dream and visiting the Pyramids. However, being a single woman, travelling to Egypt without a companion did not seem sensible and as most of my friends have young children finding a travel companion seemed unlikely so I began to dismiss the idea. Then a friend lent me "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho, a modern fable about following your dreams (I intend writing about the book in an article soon) and it inspired me to find a way. Then a work colleague, also a single woman who loves to travel to out of the way places, introduced me to a travel company called Explore (see my article Lone Traveller - you can see the world) and on 20 November 1999 I was on the plane to Cairo.
Arriving in Cairo at midnight and being driven straight to the hotel, my first real sight of the city was early ...
indychick_uk 23.02.2001
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