Giza Hotels

The "Plan" was a month long backpack through India, but... When the price is sweet enough - heck I'll take 5-star hotels and a cruise down the Nile instead!

... was the cause of my next sleepless night. The next day was going to be a free day, so I decided to switch Hotels to the Meridian at Giza. What a fabulous choice. I could not fault this hotel, it was impeccable in every way, from beautiful lobby, to ...

... our dinner ship cruised up and down the Nile through Metropolitan Cairo. This part of Cairo is very modern with tall buildings, 5 star hotels and upscale shopping but on the way to the dinner cruise we passed carts being pulled by donkeys and at one point ...

... and what country we were from.  We passed through mental detectors.  I had been noticing all over the various hotels and tourist sights that everywhere had metal detectors and special tourist police.  Apparently, 80% of the economy of the ...

... say come back at 12 when I have cheked out. No one listened though. I went downstairs at 11:45 to check out and to change hotels this time I was charged the price that I was quoted for the taxi. Got to the hotel and as they organised my passport ...

Free breakfast at the hotel was great and actually reminded me a lot of the breakfasts we had in China at the nice hotels where it looked amazing but when it came down to it you really didn't want to eat 90% of it and just picked some eggs and juice out ...

... a really big bathroom, even some English tv to watch gossip girl – delightful.  I'm quite glad we chose a tour with hotels, rather than hostels – because we got airconditioning – we had it so cold that it was freezing. We ...

... and we were so close to our hotel we decided to head back there. We already knew from last night that we needed to move hotels as Explore had changed without letting us know, so we jumped into yet another taxi for the long journey to the Pyramid View ...

... nbsp; So, we did.  We got there and I noticed that our bags were not in a secure storage area like how most hotels store them.  The only thing preventing somebody from walking in off the street and taking them was the bellhop, or maybe the front ...

... beyond our control came out of our experiences in Egypt. This one is worth mentioning for the sake of all future safe users at hotels near pyramids in Egypt. Half of our crew had to get a 4:00am flight onward to Jordan for another show. One of our ...

... descendent is very famous in the Italian island of Sardinia as the launched it as a tourist seaside resort in the '60, building the luxury hotels and tourist villages at Costa Smeralda. I had a lot of fun when I met one nice old woman of about 80 years ...

... , we canceled the cruise in favor of letting Steven stay in one place and rest up for a few days. We reached our end for dive hotels after the last two days in India. So, budget be damned, we will stay in nice places for these last two weeks. Thus, ...

... the market proper. There were metal gates on rollers that blocked all vehicles, except the tourist buses delivering tourists from the hotels and cruise ships for their brief visit to the clamoring market area. The uniformed officers were easy to spot. ...

... Tours... classic Egypt tours are aimed at those who wish to visit Egypt in comfort but without paying the extra for 5-stars Hotels or luxury accommodation. They provide the highest level of service, and accommodation is based on 3 to 4 Star hotels with ...

... to sunset, but as soon as the sun goes down, the stuff themselves and smoke themselves silly. All night! We've been in hotels and at 3:30 the dudes are still sitting around watching Xena: Warrior Princess and eating pies. And then they sleep all thru ...

... in the riot decided we were going to stay in a hotel and shite airways were footing the bill. After being told there were no available hotels in the London because of Live 8 we booked regardless. Le Meridien, 150 sobbs a room and we'll book dinner to them ...

... to Sharm el Sheik, Egypt. Naama bay is very pleasant, it looks like a mix between Switzerland and Las Vegas. Luxury hotels, beautiful gardens, plenty of handicrafts shops, bars, restaurants, McDonald's, neon lights, a beautiful walk along the coast and a ...