Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelNile Hotel Aswan
Egypt at its best
We arrived by overnight train to Aswan which has surprisingly not a lot to do in the town itself. We stayed at the Nile Hotel which was decent, but obviously arranged by Go Bus tour group. The next morning we would have a wake up call of 2:30am, I repeat 2:30am for those that didn't quite catch that, to travel to Abu Simbel..home of Ramses' II …
Day 4
Day 4 - We got to Aswan today at about 10.45am. The overnight train was disgusting and it definitely was not business class (as said in the brochure) in any way possible. Ahmed is our tour guide, he said the toilet was 7/10 in Egypt, in Australia the train would be in a museum by now.... We have all upgraded to the Sleeper Carriage for the train …
Amazing AbuSimbel (&can I get a decent bathroom?)
Apparently, assigned seating is a strictly western phenomenon. We shoved our way onto the 10 pm train to Aswan when it arrived at around 11:30. We were the only Westerners and the locals were none too impressed that we wanted the assigned seats as listed on our tickets, but were kind enough not to put up too much of a fuss (that didn …
Aswan Jul 16, 2010
Brunosta stayed here on Jul 16, 2010 during their trip titled: Bruno's 6 month trip around the world or 3 day party in vegas.
Leaving Cairo!
Today was the day that we were going to be starting our trip, the one we original signed up for! We checked in the Santana Hotel...which turned out to be just down the road...so we packed up and took a walk. The next hotel was not as nice as the one we just left BUT at least it was clean and somewhat quiet...I say somewhat because we were on …


