Be warned - This hotel as of February 2012 Will rip you off in every way they can get away with.

1. If you ask to go somewhere - The receptionist yells for their taxi shark in the lobby who will say "Hello My frieeend where You going???" and he will hassle you as the worst hasslers in cairo do, if you eventually agree to take one of his

2. Taxis, they have a local cartel of straight up criminal taxi drivers standing just outside of their hotel, and they are by far the worst people i have met on my trip in cairo. They will immediatly yell at you once you exit the hotel door, then they will stalk you with a car for a bit if you try to avoid them.

If you actually walk up to them because you want a taxi trip they will insist completely on ripping you off. They refuse to turn on their taxi meter saying "we hotel taxi, you no understand?" yelling at you and being in general threatening, while they are standing together in a gang. So they will drive you nowhere unless you give in to their bullying.

They are a gang of bullies and its your only means of transportation in this evil hotel.

3. Tour guide Shark in the lobby - If you decide to use one of their tour guides in the lobby, heres what happens. He will charge you 300 LE (egyptian pound) for nothing, you believe its a trip but you will find out hes just ripped you off later. Once you agree he calls upon a driver who mumbles in horrible english, he will drop you off at a dark room with 5 egyptians who will then rip you off again to see the pyramids, they will charge you 440 for a big trip, but the big trip is as short as they can make it to rip of another one. All the while this is happening you will be surrounded, outnumbered by mean spirited and criminal bullies.

So i will sum up the lobby for you.

1. Taxi shark who will deliver you to the taxi cartel just outside the door (and they have put a block on competition, they dare not go close, one taxi driver said "he will go to hospital if he took me to pyramids").

2. Tour shark who will first rip you off, then get one of his lackeys to drive you to that dark room with criminal egyptians who will then rip you off even worse.

3. Receptionist, who will as soon as you ask for help to go anywhere, or see anything, call on either above mentioned Taxi Shark or Tour shark.


I have only one reason for choosing to write this critical piece of information, ive been there and it is even worse than i say. I havent mentioned the horrible state of the rooms everyone else mentions.

Please for your own safety and happiness stay away.