Novotel Egypt

Journee de pause au lagon de Dahab ou nous profitons de la piscine et de la plage du Novotel. Le lagon est encadre par les montagnes du Sinai et offre un tres beau plan deau pour la planche a voile. Retour a lhotel pour une sieste entre 19H00 et 21H00 ...

... used to tell me in high school, "Ed, surely, you can't be that shallow."  They were wrong.  Off we went to the Novotel. OK, on to the northern half of our cruise.  Our boat, the M/S Tulip, was pretty nice.  Actually, all of the ships ...

... . To get to the gardens: - Take no valuables and head to the eastern end of Naama Bay (passing the Hilton, Novotel and Marriot resorts as you approach the end). - Still on the shoreline, walk through the last resort's beach and ...

... so far. After breakfast at Cilantro, which serves expensive, but excellent coffee, we put ourselves up in the comfortable Novotel, located close to the Opera House in the Gezira neighborhood. In the afternoon, we took the metro to Islamic Cairo, the ...

... was still dark a large number of locals could be seen at the streets, sipping Arabic tea or having shisha. We were transferred to Novotel El Borg, a lovely hotel in downtown Cairo, just next to the Nile. Our room was not yet ready but thankfully the hotel ...

... cheap, the hot water got fixed, we have internet access and the area has better shops and restaurants than the five-star Novotel, no bed-bugs and a ‘surprise’ breakfast each morning. Surprise – because we don’t quite know ...

... , 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... age of 90, which is incredible considering that the life expectancy for Egyptians is about 70, and is considered to be one of Egypt's greatest and most powerful pharaoh’s. He outlived many of his own children and wives and we saw his mummy at the ...

... I would return to in Egypt in the future. We also had the luxury of taking the business class flight (again, we saw numerous Egypt Airline's own crew members sitting with us). Compared to the regular ticket, it's about $15 usd extra. At close to ...

... through so much drinking water and with all the empty water bottles our room is looking like the Pacific garbage patch. Anyway we are both enjoying being somewhere as interesting as Egypt and we look forward to seeing the Pyramids very soon! Daniel + Ly ...

We headed off to Alexandria with a new tour guide. He started the day by telling us that there were issues in ancient Egypt, and the people welcomed the Romans as a solution and as better rulers.  We were going to see that influence today.  He ...

... bodyguards, alongside the road. It must have been very uncomfortable for them to be it suits in the heat of summer in Egypt. When, we finally reached Alexandria , we were taken through the Alexandria Library, or the Bibliotheca Library. It was built to ...