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If you are going to take a taxi from the airport to your hotel or wherever , Do not take the taxis that park inside the airport , they will charge you more because they pay 5LE for each hour of parking , of course they will claim that they parked for 4 hours waiting for you!!!
so simply , take the free bus from the terminal to outside of the airport .
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Its bad, very bad...
Our trip started with an interesting time in the Cairo airport. The best way to describe the luggage retrieval process at the Cairo airport is to imagine 400 kids diving for 100 pieces of candy when a piñata breaks open!! Even though we had the tour agency “meet and assist” person, it was chaos!! Surprise - one of our bags was missing. Someone mistakenly walked off with a bag that looked like his or hers. We thought for sure that it would not be found. We did some shopping for that night, purchased some new clothes, prayed about our lost luggage and it was returned to us two days later…A great lesson of God’s goodness for us. Leave a Comment |
Danger is putting it a little harshly, but I must convey this story in the hopes that nobody else has this happen to them.
My husband and I were standing out front of the Cairo Airport waiting for ground transportation. We had changed carriers and were bringing our luggage to our hotel. My husband's suitcase was stolen from right in front of us. It was mostly jeans and t-shirts. We kept waiting to see people walking around Cairo wearing his clothes. Anyway, the bag was never recovered and we couldn't receive any damages from the airline since they weren't the ones who lost it. He was just SOL!!!
Moral of the story: Don't take your hands off your bags! Leave a Comment |
I was whisked through Cairo airport, both ways, but the impression I had was that it was pretty chaotic. It's a very modern airport, but.......
You and your luggage have to go through a scanner to even get into the check-in area; there was only one, and there was a very, very long queue which we jumped, courtesy of our bossy guide.........trouble is, that slowed down the queue even more, and I imagine it's entirely normal practice.
I found the check-in area very crowded, and the signing confusing. Signs are in English as well as Arabic, but the noise and sheer number of people made it difficult.
I think, if one is flying from Cairo, it would be very sensible indeed to get to the airport well in advance of one's flight time. Leave a Comment |
Cairo Airport is a little confusing. OK, a LOT confusing, no one seems to know where things are or have the right answers, directing you from one place to to another and back again.
Compounding that a policeman, in full uniform, hit us up for money to allow us into one of the airport terminals. It started off with him standing in our path with a request to show passport, after we obliged he asked for money -- still holding our passports -- and said we couldn't get through without paying him basheesh (in this case, a bribe). My traveling companion was going to give him a 10 pound note, he saw 30 in his hand, and grabbed it all (the last of our Egyptian money). We asked for our passports and walked through an entry we'd previously walked in and out of several times trying to find our gate a couple of days previous. |
I was passing from Cairo in order to go to Bangkok, Thailand. My flight was: Athens-Cairo-Bangkok-Cairo-Athens. I was travelling with Egypt Air. We were supposed to stay in a hotel during the night. Apart from the fact that they delayed it for 3 hours, they did not offer transportation for the hotel. Finally, about 3 o' clock at night we took a taxi and went to the hotel. They said this was due to their national holiday.
Next day we flied to Bangkok without problems.
But after my trip was completed, ( I had a closed date, properly booked) and went to the airport to check in, I was told that the flight was overbooked (oops, again because of their national holiday!!!). They did not pay any damages, refused to put us (I was travelling with my ex boyfriend) in the next flight, saying it was also overbooked!!! The only solution was to book, and of course pay from our pocket, another ticket for Athens. (we chose the turkish airlines, which was fine). Concluding: beware of Egypt Air!!! |
It is confusing sometimes to know which terminal to go to. Cairo airport is undergoing reconstruction, and people talk of "mattar el Gadeem" [Old Airport] and "Mattar el Jadeed" [New Airport]. However signs point to Terminal 1, 2 and 3.
We went to meet a friend coming from Beirut on Middle East Airways., and headed for Terminal 1. There we could find no flight registered on the board and could find nobody at the information desk.. Eventually we found a man with a label round his neck who told us to go to the other airport which is where Egypt Air flights are. Sure enough,after driving there to Terminal 3 ,we found the flight shown as landed.
The best thing to do is ask at the parking ticket booth, the men there seem to know exactly which airlines use which terminal. Leave a Comment |
On arrival at the airport, if you are alone or with one person you may be approached by a man with an official looking badge saying he is with some Tourism board or hotel chain but in reality he is a tout for a hotel. He along with taxi drivers are touts for local hotels and they get a commission for getting you to their hotel. If you dont feel comfortable tell the taxi drivers to let you out at Midan Tahir as there are tons of hotels in the area. Leave a Comment |
i just wanted to let you know the strange experience we had at cairo airport on a flight to sharm. firstly, the flight was delayed for ages, but thats nothing strange. then, there was this big black abandonded handbag, just lying in the corner with no one around it so we said to the (many) men with guns about and they were like 'yea yea we know we'll get it later' and left it. obviously i was freaking out a little being from northern ireland. then the plane eventually landed and they needed to get us on quickly so they just handed out random boarding cards to everyone (my name was mr paterson) and hustled us on the plane. no one checked passports, i was blatantly not mr paterson, and there was one too many people for the flight and someone had to sit on an air hostess seat!!
having said that , the views were amazing.
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