My friends and I were quite apprehensive upon our arrival at the hotel after reading some of the negative reviews, but we should not have worried at all. While although the hotel appears to be quite dated, the staff do their utmost to keep it as clean as possible. The floors might appear to be dirty but we noted they were mopped almost every two days (we happen to have been there at a period where the hotel holds a different wedding every day which could be the
reason why).
We found the staff to be very polite and courteous and dealt promptly with any little problems we reported. One issue being the safe, which did not accept our pass word but upon notifying the girl at reception, a maintenance guy was sent to our room whereupon he fitted in a new safe for our usage.
We stayed half board for 6 days and the food was quite good. Breakfast and dinner was buffet style and they have a fair selection to choose from.
We had wanted to swim at the pool but noted there was something around the edge of the water which looked like sand (sighted from our fifth floor balcony) however, on the second day we saw the pool being throughly cleaned and a little while later, we joined some of the other people there and had a good swim. It's true about the problem trying to cross the roads to get to where all the shops are including mcdonalds (a big mac meal worked out to be £1.60!) but it's like crossing many busy roads in london without pedestrian crossings, where you need to assess when it is safe to cross. The food in egypt is delicious! Try the chicken schwarma from a place called Al Shabrawy (hope I've spelt it right) which a taxi driver recommended to us and which we became hooked on!
Egyptian people are the nicest and friendliest people one could encounter but when you're buying anything they will charge you a lot compared to the locals so be
prepared to barter which I
was quite useless at :-).
Try out one of the ships called The Pharoahs at nile city where for £27 each person you get to have dinner, watch a belly dancer as well as view other types of entertainment while cruising the Nile. It sets off at 10:30 in the evening and you need to plan out your day well as Cairo traffic is a nightmare! But around our third day we had an idea how everything works there and managed to get things done.
Overall, myself and my two friends
enjoyed our holiday and found our hotel to be very pleasant. I wouldn't mind going back to the hotel again, but after seeing the pyramids which was our main purpose, there really isn't much to do in Giza, Cairo so maybe is suitable for just a few days stay.
enjoyed our time in cairo (one day spent in alexandria)were quite content with this hotel.
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