Elite Pyramids Boutique Hotel

The hotel is located at a convenient location near the Giza pyramids. It is clean but has a very weak water pressure for shower and the water is not very hot so we had to have very cold shower. The food at the restaurant is great for its value. But serving time for breakfast is very slow. Suggest that you go extra early for breakfast if you are in a rush to go out for sightseeing.

The main selling point of the hotel is the rooftop restaurant with a view across to the Pyramids. It’s great to look across at them while having breakfast, or having a drink at sunset or eating an evening meal when they’re floodlit (intermittently). Our room was spacious and comfortable on the floor just below the rooftop restaurant, although there are 3 separate sections of the hotel in other parts of the building that’s shared with other residents. The wall design with hieroglyphics was cool! The whole building shares a courtyard with a pool in the centre, which looks pretty but I was told it’s not for swimming! However, there is also an indoor pool on the ground floor, which was a pleasant temperature; it’s long and narrow with a shallow ramp in the middle to divide a shallower children’s end from the slightly deeper end. We walked to the Pyramids and over to the Sphinx, then back again. That was a memorable experience, returning down the backstreets where the horses and camels overnight and where their drivers live. We also managed to walk to the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is basically impossible because of the wide busy road with a central barrier: we were helped across the road and barrier by some workmen, but it’s not to be recommended. Our room and beds were comfortable but it was very difficult to get the shower to flow with a steady temperature – it tended to be either boiling hot or cold and oscillated spontaneously between the two. There was evidence of flood damage in the room around the floor, perhaps from heavy rains? There are extensive road works in progress near the hotel and these make it difficult for drivers to find the way to the hotel: all the driving in Cairo was terrifying and some of the manoeuvres that the drivers made to reach the hotel were hair raising!