New President Hotel Cairo

... hotels, due to his extravagant spending habits and his wife's dislike for housekeeping. They first lived in the President Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where his daughter Phyllis was raised, then the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. Not until the ...

... ; We were not very happy about that, but apparently there were conferences in town.  They suggested going next door to the New President Hotel.  I was ready to go look at the rooms, see if they were clean, secure, and reasonably priced, and then ...

... announced, "The Grand Shaykh of Al Azhar [most important mosque in Egypt] Dr. Mohammad Sayed Tantawi and The President of Cairo University Dr. Hossam Kamel Cordially invite you to an address by the President of the United States." The invitation did not ...

... are quite beloved to Egyptians, but the police force-currently suspended- who were under the pay and command of the former president and highly corrupt). Despite this though, their orders were to submit any uprising and civil unrest and you only had to ...

... actually been home for a week and recovering from my 19 hours in the air and 31 hours overall travel time from my hotel at the Cairo Airport to my hotel bed outside Seattle International airport.  The three flights took us from Cairo, to Paris, to ...

... ;s how things operate in his line of work. Step Pyramids Little did we know that there was a secret watering hole beneath our hotel called the Cairo Cellar, the English style pub serves up a mean burger and draft beer set to a soundtrack of oldies. The ...

... is 24million people just in Cairo alone and we passed through 3 areas - New Cairo, Old Cairo and Giza. New Cairo has large buildings for the President, rich people and armed forces with large open gardens and huge buildings all different. Old Cairo is ...

... .  The Nile river feeds canals, which the farmers use to grow produce.  The canals are filthy and full of rubbish.  A President in the 50's gave each farmer in the Sakkara area, 3 acres of land.  This land is now worth USD500,000 per ...

A New York Times article once described the Aswan to Cairo sleeper train as one of the world's top classic train journeys. After reading the article and being a fan of train transportation, I opted for this option to travel to Cairo from Aswan rather ...

... , but will not allow live TV rights unless he is paid $10 million!  Back on the bus for an hour ride to our Cairo hotel. By now I have completely confirmed that I am not a "tour" person.  I really don't like the bus rides/lectures, and at ...

... and Tutankhamen's various treasures. The Royal Mummy room has been a bone of contention in Egypt for some time, closed by the president in 1981 it has since reopened albeit with the additional cost of 100LE. That is almost double the ticket price for the ...

... markings are a suggestion only, just make your own lane and speed limit, and honk a lot. We made it to our hotel.  :-) The Cairo Marriott is a beautiful place -- in fact, it's a refurbished palace on the Nile. And our balcony overlooked the ...

... of thing.  We left D.C. and the comfort of our State Department facilitators (not to mention the equally comfortable L'Enfant Hotel) and boarded our plane for Frankfurt at two in the afternoon on Saturday, Washington time.  We landed on Sunday ...

... and worth while, however what we went on to do Wednesday was far more interesting, as far as I'm concerned.  We left the hotel at six-fifteen Wednesday morning to fly Egypt Air south to Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes and all the wonders that go ...

... , need to spend more time listening to music.  The Arabic pop is starting to get to me. And we are back in Cairo, which is slightly saddening.  Our weekend by the sea was so magical and peaceful.  I could have stayed at least a ...

... to move our Saturday tour to Thursday to make room for Sinai, and so after class on Thursday we followed Tarek to Medieval Cairo.  We saw the ancient Gate of Victory or Triumph or something to that effect.  We toured the house of Beit ...

... feeling places I've been yet since I got here, and consequently full of more Egyptians than anywhere else I've been in Cairo.  Less English was spoken and less foreigners seemed to abound.  I guess it would only seem logical that tourists ...

... ; This has been the longest week of my life and it's only going to get longer.   Same day, 11:07pm Cairo   Khan el-Khalili.  The biggest tourist attraction in Egypt (save for maybe the pyramids and other ancient ...

Traffic laws in Cairo, in full, are as follows: it is every man, child, bicycle, car, cat, and donkey cart for himself; movement is completely contingent on the idea you will know when you have a moment to run and exactly, down to the second, how long it ...

... governments.  He pledged to work to change the prejudiced culture of America and he showed more respect than perhaps any president before to a religion that Americans in so many ways unfairly mistrust.  He admitted that Iran does ...

... I took can start to do them some justice. The next day my buddy Paul Sirban showed up at the Windsor Hotel. We had planned to meet up in Cairo and had been in touch several times through e-mails. We spent many hours swapping travel tales while having ...