Novotel Cairo Airport

... had our luggage checked all the way to Aswan. Our boarding pass from Cairo to Aswan, however, would have to be issued at Cairo Airport. Problem solved, so we thought, until we arrived in Cairo. Egypt Air was unable to issue our boarding passes as our ...

... Khalili before setting off. You will also get a lot of good stuff in the ports. One important tip- the duty free at Cairo airport (called Egyptian Treasures) is a better place to buy original papyrus. You get the guarantee plus price is less than 1/4th ...

... 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 Los Angeles ...

... , it needs a quick little blog to mark it as another country we have visited. Granted we haven't seen anything more than the airport and an airport hotel, but given we needed to pay for a tourist visa to get into the country in my book that counts! So ...

... how long. The 18 of us on the bus all had our own destinations. The first batch was dropped off at Novotel, the hotel across from the airport famous for their high water pressure showers, rumor has it that our teachers like to take multiple showers during ...

... more leg room on the flight from Cairo. Arrived on time in Hong Kong, BUT, they could learn a thing or 2 from Singapore Airport. We have got so used to getting though immigration with virtually now waiting there. Here they had the sheep lines, 10 lanes ...

... , maybe we puzzled them, as we weren’t Caucasians and by holding Australian passports, we roused their suspicions. Our hotel Novotel Cairo El Borg in the Zamalek area, was interesting. We passed though , high security entrance, before we could check ...

... years and know these things !) What a crazy, crazy city. We're loving it! Day 1: Arrived mid afternoon and checked into the Novotel, right on the bank of the river Nile – First impressions were a nice, well equipped hotel. We were tired and as many ...

... ) back to Athens airport.  We were then told that our flight had been changed so we would have around 6 hours wait at the airport.  Needless to say by the time we arrived in our hotel in Cairo we were pretty tired and it wasn’t long before ...

... flight was at 12:20pm.  The Nubian House owner said that we can see the flight landing from the NH and then leave for the airport.  That would still leave us enough time to get to the aiport, check in and fly away.  We didn't want to take ...

... day: guitar lessons and updated blog.  Met up with the guys from Boston to see if I can stay with them at their hotel Novotel.  Success, i'm in.  But, the taxi ride there was interesting.  We didn't actually make it all the way there.  We were pulled ...

... us to go with them. We didn't we found a calm quite driver across the road who took us straight to our hotel by the airport. We decided to book a hotel by the airport just incase but there was no trouble at all while we were here. That night we decided ...

... ’s pillar where the locals mistakenly thought that Pompeii’s ashes were. We were then taken to a seafood restaurant for lunch which was good. Then we drove back to our hotel in Cairo for a deserved rest. We were leaving for Rome early next ...

... home. It also meant we would arrive at 2pm rather than 2am, so there was more chance someone would pick us up from the airport. The best laid plans…. We were upgraded from a deluxe room to a superior room (nothing as grand as the suite in Cairo ...

... of confiscated items, I decided that it was, indeed, "OK." (2) I had some stuff stolen!  This also involved airport security, this time in Cairo.  Egypt's finest decided to search my checked-in luggage, sort of like TSA (but not so polite as to ...