Hotel Intercontinental Egypt

... and it is going to be an amazing 9 days here. We are staying in a 5 Star Hotel again called Pyramids Park Intercontinental Hotel. We are right across from the pyramids which is so crazy, to be sleeping next to the pyramids! We left Athens around ...

... . At the airport we were met by our escort, driver and body guards who took us to our hotel. The Pyramids Park Intercontinental Hotel was about an hour drive from the airport and only 5 minutes from the Pyramids at Giza. We got to see the pyramids from ...

... too many Yanks?) to see the large, golden sand dunes of Saudi Arabia from the Dahab side of Egypt. The Sinai is an intercontinental crossroads being in between Asia and Africa and has a colourful past as a place of refuge, conflict and ...

... much lower.  One suspects that American families with three children are low on the threat-assessment scale.) Our hotel, the Intercontinental City Stars, was very nice, and our guide got us upgraded to a spectacular suite.  Unfortunately, we ...

... some money at the end but no-one was around to take any! We had dinner at Sabaya which was in the Hotel Intercontinental. It was a contemporary Lebanese restaurant with a trendy minimal interior. Food was good and the wine was still dodgy but much ...

... have gotten into a town outside of Luxor at 3 AM (we'd missed the earlier bus).  We ended up going to the Intercontinental Hurghada which we'd held as a backup (you need to have a backup plan in Egypt, we'd discovered!).  We arrived, and ...

... a quick bite to eat and headed over to our favorite Internet place, where we found a great deal online for the "Pyramid Park" Intercontinental Hotel. It sounded great - in view of the Giza Pyramids, breakfast included, pool, sauna, etc. etc. etc.! All for ...

We spent our first few days in Cairo at the Pyramids Park Intercontinental Hotel. This hotel was beautiful!!!! They definately did not spare any expense. The very first thing I got go see in Egypt were the Great Pyramids of Giza!!! Saturday morning we ...

... to say that I spent an entire 40-hour period within our hotel and the enormous shopping mall it is attached to (the InterContinental CityStars and Stars Centre, respectively).  After five days of looking at really, really old stuff, I needed a taste ...

... House Hotel is. On the third floor of an older building at the back of the magnificent and expensive Semiramis Intercontinental, the Garden City House Hotel can be reached by an equally aged elevator, which was working all of the time we were there ...

... 19-07 Living the life of luxury in Giza.... This morning we awoke in our luxurious, comfy bed at the Pyramid Park Intercontinental. In the U.S., the hotel itself is probably about the equivalent of a nice Holiday Inn, but this bed is to DIE FOR. I really ...

... buggies, and so on.  So yesterday morning I checked out of my room at the Marriott airport and took a cab to the InterContinental in downtown Cairo.  Checked in and went up to my room on the 14th floor.  It’s slightly old and musty ...

... package from Al Mousin Travel in Riyadh (there's a plug for you, Brian!). We decided against doing the fancy hotels (Semiramis Intercontinental, for instance) and the deluxe cruise (Sonata Sun Cruises) in favour of a mid-level hotel and cruise, namely the ...

... the street back to the hotel. We wanted dinner outside the hotel and to buy bottled water and saw some small shops beside the hotel . More crossings of roads, smaller ones this time . We did the right thing by asking the price of bottle water and the ...

... unafraid but instead wanting to soak into every minute of this fascinating country. We got into the much anticipated Semiramis Intercontinental beside the Nile River. Again , more uniformed soldiers around the hotel and all the luggages had to go through ...

... after arriving at the government papyrus factory/store. Couldn't have been a better place to be ill, outside the comfort of our hotel.  Clean washrooms and sensitive staff. She felt better as she sipped on some mint tea, and watched how papyrus is ...

... ). It's one of the few mosques that will let you stay inside while the call to prayer is on. It's hypnotic. Checked out our hotel's Thai restaurant for a late lunch, and then went on the hunt in Tahrir Square for a power converter for TT's Nintendo DS. ...