Intercontinental Cairo

Luke Kincaid and I, Mark Turnbaugh, are beginning and adventure of a life time in Cairo, Egypt. We will arrive there September 4th, 2007 and will stay for 16 days until September 19th. Though we will start in Cairo we will cover the majority of Egypt ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... ; Tanqueray yes.  Walkers no thank you.  So I hung out just long enough to send an email to the InterContinental Bethlehem confirming my reservation, and sped out of there back across Heathrow (to an entirely different terminal that I had to ...

... one I had not seen when here 24 years ago. Coptic Cairo is like a tiny island retreat from the hustle and bustle of Cairo. Tranquil, peaceful, and again, very few tourists. Shops and restaurants are closed. Not enough visitors. But no one hassles you, and ...

Jan 1-2, 2009 in Cairo ...

 Please don't ever attempt to cross the streets of Cairo unless you are an adrenaline junkie.  After enjoying the beautiful sunset, we thought of crossing the street and walking along the Nile promenade . It looked  simple enough but ...

... ask what a 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 ...

... a walk to the island in the middle of the nile river where all the expensive hotels like the four seasons and intercontinental are...very amazing beautiful buildings. Lots of embassies and private mansions with huge ornate fences and armed guards at 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 ...

... 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 ...

... be very smooth. 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 ...

... so exciting 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 ...

... the chance to see it all. On the way back we decided to treat ourselves and eat at a highly rated Thai restaurant in the Intercontinental Hotel just near ours.  The food was just what we needed after all the Greek food we had been having and the ...

... 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 sites are small, but TT is ready to move on. I guess they all start to look the same to an 8-year old.  Driving in Cairo, I could take it or leave it. It's enough to make anyone car sick. It's partly the fumes, partly the weaving in and out of ...

... have a small Christmas day celebration. We have our port-a-tree. TT got to open a couple gifts (we travelled very light this year). Had a nice little dinner at our hotel. And Mommy and Daddy shared some Baileys, bought at the Cairo airport.     ...

... in a tiny hole in the wall downtown it had flavours, smells The cos twas 20LE. The Intercontinental Semirimis has some of the most wonderful restaurants in Cairo but not in the Nightclub Cabaret though the service is great. The more tourists around the ...