Windsor Hotel Cairo

26/8/2008 An early wake up in the Windsor Hotel. We're staying in the room where Michael Palin stayed during the recordings of Around the world in 80 days. The hotel is nothing special and our "deluxe room" is nothing more then an averige room in ...

... vehicle was also set up for sunset and beers. Tonight i will take a last nights sleep in the elegantly run down Windsor hotel, a relic of British colonialism that was once an officers club and has an aged telephone switchboard that was pretty high tech ...

... because we learned that the looters were breaking into stores, private homes and even hotels. These looters had already injured hotel employees and ransacked several hotels, so when our hotel owner learned  about this he decided to chain the ...

... everyone and happy to be together and yet it was difficult for me to be there. I didn't really want to be social. I missed the Windsor and the staff. I only wanted to be with the Windsor group.  This is so unlike me. We had a quick meeting at ...

... to be borrowed but I wore trainers so the effect was somewhat spolied.  I can still remember how to tie the ol' windsor after three years.  The ballet was OK but I reckon I could make it into the Cairo Opera Orchestra.  ...

Wednesday night five ELFs arrived at the Windsor Hotel ready to explore Cairo and see the Pyramids.  We were sent to Egypt for a mid-year meeting with the Embassy personel and for the Nile TESOL Conference. Linda arrived from Eskisehir, Susan ...

... of the jewelry. We returned to Cairo to lunch at the Nile Hilton (excellent risotto), have a beer at colonial institution, the Windsor Hotel, dine at Café Riche again (molokhiyya, a mallow and rabbit stew and chicken livers) and finish off the ...

... 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 ...

We checked out of the Windsor hotel at 9am. We travelled by bus to El Alamein - 106km west of Alexandria and the scene of the battles that took place between July and November 1942 during WWII. Dad informed me that my Great Great Uncle Hugh had been in ...

... are certainly right up there with the most spectacular thing I have ever seen in this world.   Later we go back to Hotel Windsor, we have splashed out for the last night and stayed someplace nice, it actually has a bath (forgotten what that looks ...

... hotels. It is quite fortunate that we went to the Egyptian Museum yesterday (Today it has been closed). When we got back to the Windsor we tried to relax and enjoy our snacks and waited for prayer to be over.  We knew that the protest was planned ...

... after seeing King Tuts mummy in Luxor I couldn't see any reason to see more dried out corpses covered in bandages.   Back at the Windsor we had an afternoon snack and a beer, waiting for our car to the airport.   Tonight at 10pm we fly with ...

... built and unfinished in construction (to avoid paying tax!) We arrived around 12pm at our hotel in Alexandria - the Windsor Hotel. It was BEAUTIFUL, built in a 1900's style, complete with wooden (slightly scary and temperamental) elevator. Steph and I had ...

... area of Cairo. So we did what we said we definitely would not do, we drove the truck into downtown Cairo. We were aiming for the mid-range Windsor hotel but with all the millions of people on the street, the crazy drivers and the traffic jams there was ...

... . Now most of these places are upscale/luxury hotels that are too expensive for the standard backpacker. We found one (the Windsor Hotel) offered CAI transfer with relatively cheap room rates. After buying a visa ($15 US for Americans) at the Thomas ...

... With two days before the end of my journey I started the last leg by heading up to Cairo. When reaching Cairo I checked into the hotel (Windsor Hotel) where my friend Brett was staying, which coincidentally is the same hotel where I stayed 5 years earlier ...

... walk around and look at places to stay for the next several nights without feeling too hasseled. That first night we stayed at the Windsor Hotel (3-star)and for the remainder of our stay in Cairo we went with the Pension Roma. We liked the Roma among ...

... all that exist of it today is its base). We also stayed in a very, very swanky hotel in Alexandria, the Hotel Windsor Palace. I had an awesome room! I was in the corner, on the top floor, with a KING SIZE bed and a balcony that overlooked the ...

... was! We stayed at probably the nicest hotel I've been in so far- (the term 'nicest' is used loosely here) called the Windsor Palace Hotel. It looked out directly onto the Sea and I was extremely excited to get a room with a sea view. Yeah... that didn't ...

... sleep we woke up to be greeted by the wonderful Nile surrounded by palm trees, quite a contrast to Cairo.  After checking into our very posh hotel we took a Felucca boat ride down the Nile stopping off to visit Elephantine Island, Kitchener's Island ...