The only thing worth coming to this hotel for is the Bird Cage Thai Restaurant. This is one of the best restaurants I have been to in Cairo.
The rooms are quite dingy. The bed spread smelled musty like body odor and the carpets were filthy.
The gym and pool are nothing to speak about. I paid 250 LE for an hour massage from a woman whose nails were too long and didn't seem to have any formal masage training.
The parking staff needs to be trained in customer service. Make sure you park your car yourself or you may find your car with extra dents from being pushed around by hand (into other vehicles or walls) in the over crowded lot.
The locker room at the gym looked like a smaller version of my high school locker room built in 1974.
Visited 9/2005. Room spacious and well appointed, with balcony. Hotel elegant, with international flair. Has several restaurants with various cuisines. Lobby has shopping arcade. If you do not smoke, request a non-smoking floor. Very convenient location right on the Nile, and near Egyptian Museum, American University in Cairo, and US Embassy. Would definiely recommend this Hotel.
This hotel is an excellent, centrally located hotel. The service is efficient, breakfast delicious, and the rooms are very comfortable and clean. The hotel is located about 3 blocks from the Egyptian Museum and the main square, Midan Tahrir and is right off the Nile. The morning breakfast was always ample and delicious with a nice combination of Egyptian and Western favorites (my daughter and I got addicted to the fuul (fava beans)). The Italian restaurant in the hotel was also good with excellent pizzas and pastas and a fair price and fantastic view and ambience. The room was very comfortable with an excellent view from the balcony of the river (even though it was considered a city view room) as well as Midan Tahrir with its orchestrated chaos.