Cataract Piramids hotel at minus five :)
Pros: Cairo is a must see! Very colorful. If in Sharm aunts in hijabs and uncles in dresses are rather exotic, then in Cairo this is the norm. You need to wander around the local quarters, you need to see Cairo at night - not the central streets, but get into the thick of it : )) You need to stand in Cairo traffic jams and listen to how drivers communicate with each other using horns (no more. Traffic lights and traffic rules are not here work: )))
Cons: dirt, dirt, impassable dirt everywhere. The Cataract Pyramids Hotel is not in Cairo, but in Giza - on the other side of the Nile. Closer to the pyramids, but that doesn't make it any easier. May bi for Giza is five stars, but by our standards - minus five! A sort of oasis in the center of Mr. There is a canal near the hotel - like it flows, because it cannot flow - it is littered with garbage.
The hotel is smoky to the core. As you go to the reception - you just get numb from the smoke. We ourselves are smokers, but even our burnt smokers had watery eyes : (.
We settled in a bungalow on the first floor. Damp, mosquitoes, the push doesn't work. Thank God I didn't get to sit on it. They called a specially trained person. He grits - I'll do it in a moment. We say, do not do it, we want to live already. They quarreled, they changed.
Settled on the second floor. Dry, however, with mosquitoes, but they gave a fumigator. I went to wash - cold water flows from a hot and cold tap. We call a person. We say where is the water. He says it's hot. We offer to touch. Repairs.
5 pounds - after repair, makes him perfectly happy. After - all the people from the service staff walk and smile at us. (Of course, for money).
They laid swans and hearts out of towels for us, but at the same time there was old dust on the dressing table. The food in the restaurant is small and tasteless, although we did not take "ALL" - we ordered it ourselves.
Thank God that in the hotel we only had breakfast and slept.
But after a completely European Charm, a vacation in Cairo became a survival for us: ) Happy holidays, gentlemen.