Of the houses and palaces we visited in Cairo this was our favorite. A maze of rooms, what it must have been like to grow up as a child in a place where one could no doubt disappear and not be easily found. The wood work is amazing and the interior courtyards peaceful and relatively cool. Only maybe 20 to 25 of the rooms are open but that is enough to convey how the rice in Cairo lived 300 and more years ago. A Wonderful place for anyone interested in architecture to visit. We spent a bit over an hour taking in the marvelous ceilings, doors while going up and down and all around.

Fascinating insight into life in an Islamic family home. We were wandering and admiring the workmanship when one of the workers started to describe the use of the rooms, he took us all round the upper floor and wow with his description everything came to life. My husband who frankly was bored as he’s grown up with these structures just being there and can’t understand my fascination, woke up and really enjoyed the visit when we had more understanding of what we were seeing. It has been renovated but still feels rather neglected, much more could be made of the place to enhance the visit.