Jw Marriott Cairo

Hotel Flight $1,184.40 Hotel room $400 a night Total stay in hotel $2800 Its 10:15 right now and I have just checked into my hotel room at the Cairo Marriot Hotel that was built around a 19th century palace on an island in the Nile River in downtown Cairo. I arrived in Cairo at 9:20 and since then i fell in love with the place. Everything here is so old and beautiful, just like my hotel room. Its gorgeous. Well I'm tired now so I'm about to knock out. It was along trip here.

I have arrived in Cairo, and today I toured the Egyptian Museum - it was amazing. They have so many ancient objects they are stacking in glass cases (we are talking full-length wooden mummy caskets, mind you!) almost to the ceiling. The wonderful shuttle from my hotel dropped some of us off at the museum, and it was a mob scene getting in (I think Egyptians like dramatic encounters, in general) - but I dashed up to the top floor and the King Tutankhamun exhibit (several rooms, and hallways to...

He Said: Again another uneventful, but delayed, series of flights two days ago took us from Rhodes to Cairo. Thanks to the generosity of Katie's parents using their frequent guest points we are staying in a suite at the posh J.W. Marriott resort. It is fully tricked out with a wave pool, an ancient monuments-themed water park, and all the other trappings you'd expect in a first-class resort! A great respite from the hard beds and trickling showers of the budget guesthouses we've often been re...

Egypt in the summer? Actually the temperature isn't that bad...a nice 95 degrees with abundant sun! I spent two weeks in Egypt in August 2005 for work and I made sure to venture out to see the sites. Click on the individual photos to read more about each location.

FRA-CAI LH582 09:15-13:15 Insight Vacation Best of Egypt Tour Weather cold in Frankfurt 7 ° C. Got up at 5 am. Again woke up at 4 am somehow could not sleep thru the night again. Took taxi to airport (€32.00). Check in, not too busy, got lots of time so we have traditional German breakfast at an airport Cafe. Raw & cooked ham,salami, liver sausage, crescent, baguette , rye bread, butter, jam and honey. €11.50 each. Did not realize we have to go thru custom again to exit the coun...

Weather Hazy 29 C After buffet breakfast at the hotel, we met with the tour group and rep from Insight Tour at the lobby at 8:30 am. We were then gathered at some outdoor seating by the pool. Yusuf introduced himself and wanted us to complete a departure information sheet and optional tours that we want to sign up for. We already signed up for the Abu Simbel tour and prepaid it. We put down we would need transfer to the Nile Hilton after the tour instead of the airport. Some people in the gro...

Weather : Sunny 35 C Today is going to be a loooooong day. We have a full day of touring, check out and fly back to Cairo tonight. We packed our bags after breakfast and carried them to the lobby to be stored away. First stop the Valley of the Kings on the other side of Luxor across the Nile. There are over 60 tombs, not all open to the public. After you get dropped off at the gate, you need to take a small tram up to the tombs. We got tickets that allow for 3 tombs. It is a very hot day. Goi...

Colour me sleuthy, but no, we didn't visit any canyons, or cannon, or canons, depending on where YOU were looking. And no, it is too damn cold for snorkeling, etc. We are actually experiencing the coldest weather Egypt has had in a whole 40 years or so! Go winter. If you had looked at our traveling map, you would have noticed a map pin leading to our little side trip to the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan(insert Indiana Jones theme music here). That's right, we added yet another country to o...