Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor

... start to walk with you and try and get you to talk.  Arghhhh  So back to the comfort of the Sofitel Winter Palace, which i have to say is like a luxury retirement village, because thats how old the other guests were.  Again the temperature ...

... and princesses. Spend the afternoon at leisure. A visit to the Luxor Museum is just one suggestion. Hotel: Old Winter Palace. (BB) DAY 8 - TUE - LUXOR - CAIRO After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight back to Cairo where you are at ...

... de LOUXOR via LE CAIRE Vol MS302 09:30 /10:30 hre     et   Vol MS359 11:30 /12:40 hre. Acceuil a LOUXOR et installation a notre hotel .  Temps libre et/ou repos toute l`après midi Logement au  sofitel winter palace ...

... of the obelisks. Didn't mind paying him a few lira, as he was a friendly, sweet type of 'guide.' Our next stop was Luxor temple. Smaller and more colourful. Mo pointed out the places where the Coptic christians defaced the temple to "coptify" it, and stop ...

... did help at reception and arranged for our train tickets to be bought/ dropped off). Pulling up to the ramp at the Old Winter Palace was a really good first impression, and reception was in the old building even though we were slumming it in the pavillion ...

... nbsp; Later, across the river we saw the  funerary temple to Hatshepsut. We also took a night tour of the much smaller Luxor Temple which is located right in the town of Luxor.  It was especially lovely to wander about it at night. This temple ...

It was a quiet day, fortunately for Ivan and me, as neither of us was feeling all that well. We suspect that it was the chocolate mousse TT ordered but didn't eat, the one that her parents gladly devoured. :( We did manage to take a stroll down the ...

The Valley of the Kings should also be known as the Valley of the Touts. The moment you step out of your vehicle, you are bombarded. You start by being polite, smiling and saying "No, thanks." You add a few flourishes and become firmer in your tone as ...

We made our flight but our luggage did not, despite the 'short connection' tag on our bags. Even though the Egypt Air flight attendants are a bit dour, the personnel at the airport was anything but. We filled out the required forms, and our bags were ...

... ;Beban; sal the Nile on  a felucca, a traditional Egyptian sailboat; dress pretty for dinner at the Tarboush Tent at the Sofitel Old Winter Palace Hotel April 20 - visit Karnak Temple; BBQ lunch on the Nile pontoon at the hotel; fly back to Cairo; ...

Ocotber 12 was our first day.  We arrived in Luxor around 6:45 in the morning.  We checked into our hotel and then went to sleep!  After we woke up, we visited the Temple of Luxor.  It was the last day of Ramadan, and it was neat to ...

... 've been to where a guard with a semi-automatic machine gun followed us around. He tried to stay in the background but the Uzzi-like weapon was just too hard to ignore. A 3-hour drive back to Luxor, and more electronic games, at least for the small ...