Advantages: See the wonders of the ancient world Disadvantages: Cairo is a very busy and noisy city.
...contact) told us to get our luggage ourselves and bring it back to him. From then on the only time we had to deal with our luggage was to unpack or pack our belongings in our hotel room/cabin. (A tip - make sure your luggage is distinct, my trolley case was a bright baby pink and my mother's was lilac. They got to be markers letting the rest of the group know their luggage was on the way!)
We were staying at the Nile Hilton (see my seperate review) in the centre of Cairo right next door to the famous Egyptian Museum of Antiquities. The hotel room was first class and really clean - I work for a Local Authority in Environmental Services so I was more than a little interested in the accommodation we would be staying at and food we would be eating on our trip. Up early the next morning (no lying in bed on this holiday, all the visits...
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Advantages: fantastic rooms, elegant, views of nile Disadvantages: lots of street noise
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The staff were very friendly and accomodating although nobody really spoke any English which made it very difficult when ordering room service.
All in all a fantastic hotel which I would recommend to anyone however long their stay in Cairo!...
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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 Cairohotel. 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...
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My impressions of this game when I saw it advertised on the internet was that it looked like a completely different type of game that I'm used to seeing for the DS.
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To best describe Hotel Dusk you could say it is an interactive novel in... more
The Wherry Hotel is a fairly small hotel on Oulton Broad near Lowestoft, Suffolk, overlooking Oulton Broad, and part of the Elizabeth Group of Hotels, a fairly small chain with hotels mainly in East Anglia, and also northern England. I have been staying... more