Cairo & Giza Guide: Overview, Hotels & Travel Writing

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Our Cairo & Giza travel guide brings together a collection of featured boutique and luxury hotels in Cairo & Giza along with a selection of the best travel writing, to help you decide where to go, what to do and how to get there.

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The Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza

"A well-heeled Four Seasons luxury hotel, with Nile views; the choice of celebs and politicians."

Price from: 440.00 USD

Sheraton Cairo Hotel Towers and Casino

"Great for business travellers, this Sheraton lies close to Cairo's train station and airport and has a wealth of amenities on-site."

Price from: 188.48 USD

Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayyam Casino

"Grand and palatial, this luxury hotel in Cairo's Zamalek district is housed on its own island on the Nile."

Price from: 205.12 USD

Articles About Cairo & Giza

Those Other Pyramids of Egypt | Graham Simmons | Egypt | Cairo & Giza | Cairo

"Baksheesh!" demands the guide at the Tomb of the Doctors, after leading me up a spiral staircase from the catacombs far below the ground. On the way back up we climb no fewer than 119 steps, seemingly twice the number as on the way down.

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When in Cairo... belly dance | Anthony Sattin | Egypt | Cairo & Giza | Cairo

Madame Fifi, self-crowned Queen of the Nile, caught in a single spotlight, feted by a fanfare from her 30-member band. She is tall and solid, a rounded Egyptian beauty in diaphanous red robe and sequined bikini

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Mena House Oberoi | John Borthwick | Egypt | Cairo & Giza | Giza

"Fancy putting the Pyramids in front of your nice hotel!" a millionaire is reputed once to have complained to the manager of the Mena House Oberoi, Giza

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Haggling By The Pound | Kayt Sukel | Egypt | Cairo & Giza | Cairo

My husband tapped his foot impatiently as my son started to squirm in his stroller. It was time to move on – the morning was getting late, and Cairo's famous open-air bazaar, the Khan-al-Khalili, was becoming crowded

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Up the Nile on the Golden One - Dahibiya | Barnaby Rogerson | Egypt | Cairo & Giza | Cairo

Cairo cannot disappoint, most especially when you arrive during the last two nights of Ramadan

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