Cairo: Ramses Hilton (5 Star Hotel)

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Address: 1115 corniche el nile , Cairo , Egypt
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Lonely Planet review

  • Terry Carter
  • Lonely Planet author
This monolithic, modern Hilton is well-positioned just north of the Egyptian Museum, but you'll still be taking taxis everywhere because it's surrounded by flyovers and some of Cairo's most perilous roads.

On our last visit to this quite bland Hilton, the hotel lobby was filled with the unmistakable scent of apple sheesha (tobacco smoked through a water pipe) wafting over from the lobby coffee shop. While this is not unusual in Cairo, We were surprised to find the sheesha-lovers were a group of Saudi women, slipping the sheesha pipe under their veils! And really, this is wild stuff for a hotel where the belly dancer comes on at 23:00, an hour when most dancers are just getting out of bed. Still, all the usual amenities are on offer: the more than 850 rooms are regulation old-school Hilton, amenities are as you'd expect and there are great views from most of the rooms. The swimming pool also offers you views of the Nile. There's a decent bookshop and newsstand as well as some rather tacky souvenir shops.

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