From my arrival for a 5 day visit to Cairo, I felt welcome and looked after. The staff speak fluent English, are warm and helpful. I had a junior suite overlooking the Nile, with every facility including room safe and fridge. The restaurants were superb, the chefs second to none. There is a business centre, but you can get half an hour's free internet use in the coffee shop with minimal purchase. There are numerous small shops, a piano bar, casino etc., and an outdoor pool. Tour guides collect you from the very attractive and spacious reception area. I felt that nothing was too much trouble. The only downside is that the hotel is situated on the main road to Giza, which means that it is noisy, with relentless traffic day and night, although this may have been worse than usual because of the Tahrir Square demo. That apart, I would recommend it to anyone.

I'm really late leaving this review - I stayed in March and April 2010, but I figure maybe better late than never.

I wasn't really very impressed with the Pyramisa in Cairo. I took a tour and this was the hotel we were meeting at/staying at for the first night so I stayed two extra nights at the beginning of my trip before the tour was to start. I was put into an awful room. The third night (first actual night of the tour), I was kept up all night by the sounds of furniture being dragged across a tile floor. It was awful - I started the first day of the tour with only 3 hours of sleep. I did complain, but the manager didn't seem to believe me about the noise. I believe it was coming from the fitness centre next to my room. When we returned to the same hotel at the end of the tour, I was given another terrible room - over top of the disco. I was told the disco was closed, but it started up around 1:00 a.m. and kept me awake half the night. Also, the security chain on the door broke completely in half. The awful rooms were both on the 1st floor near the elevators. For the last night, I complained and was given a MUCH nicer room on the 4th floor - actually, it was a suite! I wish I had mentioned it earlier, because my stay there was not very enjoyable.

The hotel security was good, besides my door chain breaking. It was also nice to have currency exchange in the lobby. The restaurant was over priced, but convenient considering I didn't have to leave the hotel to find dinner...going out alone as a blonde female was not the best experience! haha. Oh, and at the beginning of my trip, I was having a friend who lives in Cairo meet me. He was supposed to call me at the hotel so we could meet up, but they kept telling him I wasn't there! Frustrating! They had my reservation under my name "Katie" but they pronounced it Kat-ee-ah. And, my friend knows me as Kate so it was a bit of a debacle.

Stayed at this hotel for 5 nights whilst on a tour of Egypt in April 2009. Right in the centre of town it is a large hotel of about 20 storeys. The rooms are fantastic, they are like flats, hallway, bathroom, lounge area and 2 bedrooms, one for us and one for our 3 children (all young) best layout rooms I've been in. There was no TV's in bedrooms but one in the lounge.

The only complain with the rooms was that the sliding windows had no locks on them, so the kids could go up and open them, a bit worrying when we were on the 14th floor !!!

The staff moved us down to the 7th floor and sent up a maintanance man to screw the windows shut as we were worried !!

The hotel has only one restaruant, next to the reception area. This was a lovely restaraunt, very well laid out with buffet style food.

There is only one swimming pool here and it is one the roof. Very small and hardly worth a swim but did not spoil our visit one bit. The culture to experience here was great.

There is no childrens activities here.

We stuck with the same taxi driver, Zanaty, for all our trips out. A charming old Egytian and he was great. Where ever you go in Cairo be prepared for an experience of driving, everyone bibs their horns everywhere, an eye opener for sure.

We went to cairo zoo twice, only 1 LE (12 pence) entrance fee !!! a great visit. We went the 2nd time as my missus found out as we were leaving the 1st time thay if you pay about £10 GBP we could go into the lion enclosures and have our pic taken with the small baby lion cubs. This was an experience not to be missed. I can not post any pics of this as do not want to put pics of kids on public forum.

We paid about 900 LE (£100) and got a taxi about 5 miles to the pyramids, and went on horseback to the pyramids and the Sphinx. This trip was fantasic and an experience of a life time. Was on horseback for 5 hours so a bit sore but well worth it. The kids loved it.

The main museum in Cairo was another great experience. You have to pay extra to see the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Another great place to visit is the 5,000 year old Citadel at the edge of the city on a hilltop. amaxing views of the whole city can be seen from here. I have attached a views pics here of this.

There is an old part anf a new one. Make sure you are in the new section/tower because the old is OLD. I got my room changed by tipping the assistant manager after I simply could not sleep with the smoke smell permeating my older "non-smoking" room. The result was a much cleaner 10th floor room with a city view. Perfect. Food was good. Breakfasts were outstanding. The service was good. There was live music at night in the informal restaurant. Good choice.