Safir Hotel Cairo

... at the airport by a guide from the tour company.  He drove us into Cairo and got us checked in to our great new digs at the Safir Hotel Cairo, a five-star hotel (a big change from what we’ve been used to the last few weeks).  Murray and I ...

... road) – yet we've also found it a bustling, welcoming place! After a very large and lavish buffet breakfast at our hotel (Safir Hotel Cairo) – we are not used to such schwanky digs – we started our first day in Cairo with a visit to St. ...

... were starting to get nervous that they wouldn’t be able to have their glass of wine before dinner, but we soon found our Cairo Hotel had a full drink menu. Our local guide, Mohamed, gave us a warm welcome at the airport and shepherded us through the ...

... and today we see many Mig fighter planes taking off and landing. Flight is in a smaller and more comfortable plane. Cairo airport must have something against international arrivals because the domestic arrival terminal is very slick. Ahmed meets us all ...

... Ranier and a new driver. So out we go to the car – and we twig we are the only ones on this tour! First stop crazy Cairo traffic on the first day back to school for all of Cairo. 40 minutes of listening to the car horn say: I'm passing you on your ...

... ;We were also promised that Ahmed would do his very best for us because we were his first NZ clients. He checked us into the Safir Hotel which turned out to be a great place with lots of keen polite staff with a piano bar where we ate chicken livers and ...

The museum, several floors was very impressive,  It is considered to have the most comprehensive collection of ancient Egyptian arifacts in the world.  The treasure of Tutankhamjn is the highlight of this museum.  There is so much to ...

... the 15.00 flight to Cairo, from there were would transfer to a flight to Beirut. Immediately though, there was a problem. Amsterdam - Cairo flight delayed. Not by too much, just 3 hours, but enough to pretty much guarantee that we would miss our ...