Hotel Oasis Cairo

une partie seule, une partie avec dan. Transport: train, bus Budget: hotel =3/7 e, plongée= 30e les 3 J'ai adoré : les pyramides de Kheops, Louxor, Abu Simbel, le désert blanc et l'oasis de sihoua

... Guns are not a sight I am familiar with, but there are plenty here. I'm just glad that some of them are surrounding our hotel. 4 - Cairo is special, and I'm glad I came, and I'm equally glad I'm leaving. 5 - Don't get me wrong....just a complete ...

... the culture of the place. The entire point of Egypt is to see the sights, and as it happened the Oasis hotel ran a free shuttle bus to the centre of Cairo at certain points during the day so we decided it was a good idea to take it to do a little ...

... they were. Even at such a distance and through the smog of the city, they were still breathtaking. We finally arrived to the Oasis Hotel, where we would be staying the next two nights. The hotel was decorated with a Christmas tree, poinsettias and even a ...

... , the owner of the company in Egypt met us personally and assisted us through customs and to our hotel, the Oasis Pyramid Hotel in Giza, just outside Cairo where the Pyramids are. The traffic in Cairo is like nothing we have ever seen. The last mile to ...

... at how small green areas could sprout from otherwise sand-covered surroundings. The first night we were at the oasis, we stayed at Desert House Hotel. The guys there were extremely welcoming and it seemed as if we had the place completely to ourselves ...

... travel, not being remotely familiar with a culture other than one's own can be uncomfortable and even frightening. Once at the Oasis Hotel, we were even more nervous to discover metal detectors and armed guards. At about 6a.m., I finally made it to my ...

Cairo - Aswan, 7 - 9 November   We arrive in the evening and are transferred to our hotel, 'The Oasis', which is a top resort hotel. The next day is a free day that we spend lazing by the huge pool and generally doing not too much at all. Garmisch ...

... , but getting there involved an intricate combination of street crossings at (I think) Midan Al-Tahrir - the Times Square of Cairo - something but completely freaky and slightly exhilarating after the fact, but we made it, alhumdu-allah! The shopping mall ...

... for it, I think the guy just gave it to him.  What an interesting culture.  We finally got back to Cairo and back to the Oasis hotel which has become our home base now.  I have discovered that the hotel has acquired a couple of small kegs ...

... ; After lunch we headed back to the Sharm airport to catch our flight back to Cairo.  Eventually we made it back to Cairo and back to the Oasis Hotel for a beer and some sleep.  From Amman to Aqaba to Taba to Sharm El-Sheik to Cairo in one day. ...

... checked us in. Shortly after getting to our rooms we had our trip meeting. We changed clothes and made it just in time. The Oasis hotel was actully a luxury resort...NICE! This was nice after our 24 hours of travel but first we had to have the trip ...

... to Cairo. Today was a nice and easy day where we actually got time to relax. After the flight we checked back into the Oasis hotel and our friend at the front desk remembered us from the week before! After dropping our stuff off we headed to the Bazaar ...

... office building with very old lifts, shared with all the occupiers and/tenants of the building. Once we stepped inside the hotel premises itself, however, our apprehension quickly disappeared. Our room with a double bed was clean and neat. The bathroom ...

... afterward during the call to pray which is normally ignored except on Fridays, their holy day!  Then it was back to the Oasis hotel for a relaxing afternoon in the pool.  We had a big farewell buffet and played a few last drinking games as some ...

... up in front of the AUC dorm described in the pamphlets as "an oasis in the midst of the chaos of Cairo." The dorm looks like a five star hotel. As a Pitt student I was in shock. Everything impressed me, the marble floors, the free high-speed ...

... has large buildings for the President, rich people and armed forces with large open gardens and huge buildings all different. Old Cairo is cluttered with no grass and colour on the buildings. Apartments with a sea of satalite dishes on top ...

... ways, she has been a wonderful guide and taken such great care of us.  She really showed us the beauty and character of Cairo and also Alexandria.  She is on facebook and we got her contact information, I told her that Tam will be her farmville ...

... , it was probably the best part of my day. So the rest of the day was spent trying to walk somewheres useful from our hotel in residential Dokki area. After an hour and45 minutes of walking in 33 degree heat, me and Bun got impatient and got a taxi to ...

... exhibit when it was in Chicago, and thought it was amazing. It doesn’t even compare to the quantity and splendor of Cairo's. Gilded thrones, beds, chariots, statues of kings, statues of servants, statues of gods, etc and even more amazing, King ...