We were picked up and taken to the airport in Aswan at 12:30 pm. The Aswan airport is a tiny one but it served its purpose in that it got us back to Cairo.
When we disembarked the plane, we were in the new terminal! There was no scrum of cabbies, in fact we worried that we weren't going to find one. We found a nice man who agreed to take us for a usury rate, by Egyptian standards of 120 EP about 6 USD.
He took us to the wrong hotel first, which is understandable, as it used to be a Hilton, but we finally got to the correct place.
Our room was wonderful it had a balcony and a Nile view....all of this courtesy of Marwa. She really took care of us. She called the room, had fruit sent to us, she called to check if there was anything that she could do for us. Lots of personal service that would make us use this hotel again when in Cairo.
We ate at the Indian restaurant Maharaja. It was a great mean. With beer and food, it was still a bargain!
This was the view from our balcony. The tall dark structure on the left is the Cairo tower, and the blazing lights are for a huge sports complex of football pitches, tennis courts, and several horse rings. (We were able to see this when we went up the Cairo Tower later in the week)
When we disembarked the plane, we were in the new terminal! There was no scrum of cabbies, in fact we worried that we weren't going to find one. We found a nice man who agreed to take us for a usury rate, by Egyptian standards of 120 EP about 6 USD.
He took us to the wrong hotel first, which is understandable, as it used to be a Hilton, but we finally got to the correct place.
Our room was wonderful it had a balcony and a Nile view....all of this courtesy of Marwa. She really took care of us. She called the room, had fruit sent to us, she called to check if there was anything that she could do for us. Lots of personal service that would make us use this hotel again when in Cairo.
We ate at the Indian restaurant Maharaja. It was a great mean. With beer and food, it was still a bargain!
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