Cairo Restaurants

... and extend the limits of the tourists' imagination and budgets. Meanwhile, facilities such as spas, showrooms, fine dining restaurants, and elegant suites have extended into the lower hotel classifications and have, thereby, become part of the hospitality ...

... .  In the hotel, there are a number of great shops selling any manner of Egyptian goods (that are also pretty pricy); a number of restaurants including one which stays open 24 hours a day; a bank, a travel agency, a beauty salon and, in short, all of ...

... his hot chocolate, and was very attentive to our needs. It is amazing what a $5.00 tip will do. Waiters, even in upscale restaurants in Egypt, don't make much and it is their tips that carry them through. (I know this because it is the same in ...

... (which honestly could be a theme park attraction in itself) and decided to lay low and explore the compound which had tons of restaurants, bars, pools, and a casino (for non-Egyptians only). Day 27) Before we began our trip, we had booked a tour guide ...

... hang from the windows and nothing is ever refrigerated. Needless to say, I only eat meat from reputable restaurants. Some other things I have learned about Cairo: 1. It is safer to walk in the middle of the street instead of on sidewalks. 2. ...

... the banks for a while. Watched a family fishing from a boat- mental note not to have local fish! There are a number of floating restaurants anchored nearby which seem to be a popular choice for dining. By this time we were ready for bed! We decided to do ...

... Napolean came to see the opening of the Suez canal, it is utterly beautiful. To go along with this, it has many historic restaurants and bars. We ended up in the Billiard Bar, which is a small bar, perhaps seating thirty people around a central baby ...

... up in the central part palace.  It was quite impressive to say the least!  The hotel had a diverse variety of restaurants inside as well as outside and a number of boutiques and other shops plus a casino. Keys to our rooms were given and ...

... city by myself.  This really put a damper on things as I really love to walk around cities and find local restaurants.   One thing to watch out for is the various scams that operate at all tourist destinations.  At the various touristy ...

... many other things like Egyptian jewelry, bowls, sarcophogas (sp?), tools, dolls, toys, etc. The tables in the restaurants have large Shasheesh pipes for smoking fruit flavored cigarette tobacco. It is interesting to see very conservative women ...

... washing off all of the airplane funk and being clean again. Next up was some dinner - we ate at one of the hotel's 5 restaurants, and were literally the only people there. The restaurant was Asian-Fusion, so we dined on rice and noodles with chicken, ...

... of hotel looking for snack only to return to the hotel.  Egyptians don’t dine out much and so there are not a lot of restaurants. Ebrahim and his wife and 18-month old daughter came down to the hotel for a coffee and last visit with us and Ivor ...

... two housing towers to the property. The original Palace remains the main hub of activity for the lobby, restaurants, meeting rooms and shops. M/S ANNUKET: From Cario we flew to Luxor to meet Grand Circle's cruise ship, The River MS/Anuket. It was ...

... dinner, and another much more forgettable meal of burnt lamb a small hole in the wall restaurant. The square below our room had 7 restaurants along the market side of El Hussein Square. The exhaust fans from their ovens blew smoke out and up the wall and ...

... , or if you wish, stay for the evening Sound and Light Show at the Sphinx.  Tonight you dine at any of the restaurants in your hotel. Live Report Left Jordan at 8:45 a.m., with luggage having gone out at 7:00.... our latest departure to ...

... there were maybe 6 other restaurants on the boat. All were sparsely occupied.   While dinner itself wasn't too expensive, Egyptian restaurants have both a 10% tax and a 12% service charge. I guess 15 to 20% is what one should expect to pay ...

... thousand speeding vehicles competing with one another for road space, honking away, all in an enormous traffic circle.   The restaurants were across the circle. Goring around the perimeter of the circle was an even worse option as the cars pouring ...

... company we used for our trip - Travco. They own the entire operations: the cars, the hotels (but not the Hyatt of course), the restaurants, the boats. They might even have shares of the Pyramids, but I can't say for certain. So of course we were eating at ...

... life until the early morning hours during the Holy Month).  There’s a mix of bookstores, shoe stores, tourist shops, restaurants (most closed during the fasting hours), and drugstores.  I pass a small perfume shop as a return to the hotel ...

... in a resort with luxury such as; airconditioning, two swimming pools - one with a swim up bar thing, snorkling, diving, horseriding, more restaurants than you could poke a stick at, ... clean sheets, beds, showers - all on the shore of the red sea. The ...

... . But guys, that's not the way to go about this!! A. the Egyptians caught up and have raised curtains around those restaurants! B. I treasure my souvenirs, mostly the ones I don't have to bargain for, and that Lights and Sound show ticket made me really ...