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Hotel Or Resort?
The Jamaica thread prompts to to ask something I have been thinking about for a while.
Back in my youth , a holiday was all about the resort or city you were going to. The actual hotel was secondary. Now it all seems to be about which hotel you are going to. When I went on holiday the hotel was just a roof over your head while you explored the city or resort. Now the idea seems to be that you just stay in the Hotel apart from a day trip or two.
Years back I simply arranged a 3 day stop over in Cairo. I just got off the aircraft and took a taxi into the city. I asked the taxi driver to find me a cheap hotel.He said ''$10 OK?'' I thought $10 a night was cheap and agreed. When I came to pay the 3 nights bed and breakfast bill it was $10 for the entire 3 days.They just loved US$ it was hard to get anyone to take Egyptian £s. I did a tour to the Pyramids and Luxor, again they wanted $ not Egyptian £.
After the 3 days I got a flight to Kenya and just got a bus into Nairobi and walked around looking for a cheap hotel. Again I found one at a very good price and the price in $ was a lot less than in Kenyan Shillings.
Back in my youth , a holiday was all about the resort or city you were going to. The actual hotel was secondary. Now it all seems to be about which hotel you are going to. When I went on holiday the hotel was just a roof over your head while you explored the city or resort. Now the idea seems to be that you just stay in the Hotel apart from a day trip or two.
Years back I simply arranged a 3 day stop over in Cairo. I just got off the aircraft and took a taxi into the city. I asked the taxi driver to find me a cheap hotel.He said ''$10 OK?'' I thought $10 a night was cheap and agreed. When I came to pay the 3 nights bed and breakfast bill it was $10 for the entire 3 days.They just loved US$ it was hard to get anyone to take Egyptian £s. I did a tour to the Pyramids and Luxor, again they wanted $ not Egyptian £.
After the 3 days I got a flight to Kenya and just got a bus into Nairobi and walked around looking for a cheap hotel. Again I found one at a very good price and the price in $ was a lot less than in Kenyan Shillings.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The Pyramids are just on the outskirts of Cairo ,not way out in the desert as they make it look on the travel programs. The Pyramids and Luxor (which is just a few miles along the Nile) are a day trip from Cairo. I did the Pyramids and Luxor one day,the Egyptian Museum with the Tutankhamun relics the next day and a tour of Cairo the last day.
the resort is important obviously otherwise one would not be going there ,but in our case as we get older and one of us is disabled the first choice now must be the right hotel,it must be comfortable, have no steps, must have a lift etc.
one problem we had this year was the comfy chairs in the bars and lounge areas ,they were too low down to get up from again ,also the bathroom must have a shower that is easy to get in and out ,the toilet in the room can also be too low sometimes ,all these sort of things are not obvious to anyone who is able bodied
one problem we had this year was the comfy chairs in the bars and lounge areas ,they were too low down to get up from again ,also the bathroom must have a shower that is easy to get in and out ,the toilet in the room can also be too low sometimes ,all these sort of things are not obvious to anyone who is able bodied
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21 Jan 2016 - Road transport is not recommended between Cairo and Luxor as it is a whopping 419 miles as the crow flies!