Movenpick Resort Cairo

... would head out at once to see more tourist sites.  But instead, our tour guide announced we would return to our lovely Movenpick Resort for a quick nap and shower – yea!  With two days of sweating in the desert without a shower, with sand ...

... Trip Advisor reviews I was expecting.  Come to find out, the name of the Hotel had changed from the Zoser to the Movenpick.  This hotel was such a surprise, and so wonderful after such a long journey.  The rooms were nestled in the back, ...

During our flight from Athens to Cairo on Olympic Airlines, Kurt leans across the isle and whispers, “We’re the only ones wearing shorts.”   It’s true.  In our effort to be on time to the airport, we have given no ...

Internet access on the cruise and in our resort in Cairo is outrageously expensive.  Currently at an internet cafe (really someone's basement in Giza) but don't have much time.  Will post details and pictures later -- but the Egyptian portion of ...

... Suez Canal in a tunnel, which is the divide between the continents of Asia and Africa.  After another hour, we were in Cairo, which is a sprawling metropolis of 30 million people!  When we got to our hotel, we found that just outside our door ...

... of themselves." After we came back to the bus, we had one more stop and that was the famous outside market in Cairo. Arab shopkeepers are quite aggressive, and we walked through the narrow alleys lined with shops, pursued by merchants hoping to sell us ...

... we departed Luxor and headed toward the Red Sea coast and the town of El Quseir.  The hotel we are staying in is the Movenpick Resort, and boy is it the resort!  I know I have mentioned at least once in previous posts that students really shouldn't have ...

... in the area for our lunch and Movenpick was one of them).   But…we didn’t miss out at all, the Movenpick resort hotels had supplied food for every one of us – inside was an apple, banana, bottle of water, chicken/cheese roll, ...

... watch her squirm some more.  No taxation without representation!  The one eye sore on this tour was the Movenpick Resort.  The architect who designed the monstrosity of the hotel tower should be punished for polluting this beautiful ...

... , I just wanted to sit in the shower and mope. I had just arrived at a pre-manufactured slice of Western heaven, El Gouna's Movenpick resort. It's on the Red Sea, but that's about as original as it gets. Between the rhumba music in the Piazza, and ...

... a "Felucca Ride and Fellah Tent Dinner" tour we'd booked. Way overpriced, but it was easy to arrange. Got a taxi ride to the Movenpick resort on its own little island (Crocodile Island) in the middle of the Nile, where they loaded us onto boats (they ...

... been in your life...and it will be worth it! Starting at the unheard of hour of 7am, on our second day in Cairo, we breakfasted in the Movenpick, and went straight for the pyramids.  It was an odd mix over breakfast of commenting on the selection: ...

... .  All the while I had been reading both Sylvia Plath and Sweeney Todd.  The latter I read on the ride between Cairo and the monastery, primarily because I would like to finish it (thought it has gotten significantly better in the most recent ...

... I'm really tired and have classes tomorrow... but anyhow, I spent this past weekend at the Red Sea! We stayed at a Movenpick (a Swiss conglomerate) resort, a place that might have been the most lavish place I've ever stayed. And all this was part of our ...

... ;ve met.  When the revolution occurred in January, he and his colleagues had a quite a time getting tourists safely back to Cairo and out of the country, as was mandated by the government. After we leave the town limits, the road is straight, the ...

... to it, but it was completely rebuilt.  We got lunch at a waterfront restaurant - part of the Movenpick Hotel, and really nice.  It was a complete resort setting, and it was fun to have a flatbread pizza and a beer. We bought tickets to the ...

... to go scuba diving in Egypt i decided I would check out the other side of the red sea and dive there. I was taken to a gorgeous resort, movenpick, to dive. It is located on the kiwi reef and as I said, the resort was fabulous. As I hadn't dove in so long ...