Customer Travel Tips for Cairo
Customer Travel Tips for Cairo
Read a selection of great customer tips provided by HostelBookers customers like you
27 Nov 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Don't trust anyone approaching you who speaking English. If they said the bus station is this way, then you should go the reverse direction.
Liked: The pyramid and the local residents who are not working for tourism.
Disliked: Too much scam but they keep using the same strategy for too long.
26 Nov 2017
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: Dont be afraid when crossing streets! Follow a local!
Liked: Everyone in Cairo was very kind and hospitable
Disliked: The perpetual haze of shisha and cigarette smoke.
07 Jun 2017
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: if you want to enjoy do it in the winter
Liked: all things
Disliked: the atmosphere is hot
07 Jun 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Stay in Freedom hostel the staff can organise all of your trips and give great recommendations as to what you can do ask for Eslam or Sara
Liked: Freedom hostel perfect staff and arranged everything in advance
Disliked: Nothing
30 May 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Work / volunteering
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: culture & value for money
Liked: the people was friendly & very rich with the culture
Disliked: crowded during the day
12 May 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Visiting friends or family
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: go with an open mind
Liked: everything
Disliked: nothing
16 Apr 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
41+
Customer Travel Tip: enjoy the culture
Liked: City never sleeps
Disliked: noise
11 Apr 2017
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Go to Giza !
Liked: Exotic
Disliked: Aggressive shop owner
31 Jan 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Enjoy the city and understand that there are the Egyptian way that we ned to all adjust to
Liked: History
Disliked: No
30 Sep 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: don't go!!!
Liked: Nothing
Disliked: Everyone hustles you, seeing the horses and camels that were severely in bad shape. They were malnourished, had huge infected saddle sores and whip marks on them. Obviously they were starving and the whole place smelled like infection near the pyramids because of all the rotting flesh from the wounded animals. Flies were constantly biting and attacking me the whole way and my guide used his whip on my camel repeatedly, Horses were being races around the complex and were extremely exhausted,
01 Jul 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
City break
Visiting friends or family
Age Range:
41+
Customer Travel Tip: Stay in Downtown Cairo, try Felfela to eat foul and falafal, visit Khan Khalili and its amazing atmospheric mosque at night (ladies are required to cover their hair) enjoy the stunning views over the city from the Citadel and everywhere is very busy on Friday to the point that you can feel quite overwhelmed so bear this in mind altho no problem if you are staying at Dahab Hostel to retreat to the peace that it offers high above the streets of Cairo and admire the view of enchanting Cairo Tower
Liked: Busy buzzy atmosphere, I live in Sharm El Sheikh so a pleasant change to sometimes stay in 'Egypt proper,'
Disliked: No.
27 May 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: You should defenitly try to conect with the local people. The arabic culture is so interesting and it´s defenitly a nice expierience talking to the people, trying egyptian food and being part of their culture.
Liked: I really liked the hustle and bustle of the city, it´s a bit chaotic but it has so much charm.
Disliked: Well, it is unfortunately a bit dirty and because I am a woman who travells alone, I got molested a cupple of times.
26 May 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Work / volunteering
Age Range:
41+
Customer Travel Tip: Be patient and respectful.
Liked: Everything! I could happily live there! :)
Disliked: Some men's attitudes towards women. Bad government leading to people struggling.
04 May 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Al-jalili
Liked: Museum, bazar and Piramids
Disliked: No
31 Aug 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: 3 days is good enought to stay in cairo
Liked: Veru culture coty
Disliked: Disoeganized, public trnsport, dirty
15 Aug 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Don't get ripped off!
Liked: Sightseeing.
Disliked: Dirty. Busy
23 Jul 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: -
Liked: -
Disliked: -
04 Jul 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: You need no more than two days here.
Liked: Friendly people.
Disliked: Crowded, hot, dusty, dirty. Good infrastructure but overwhelmed.
05 Jun 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Work / volunteering
Customer Travel Tip: Be ready. Do your research.
Liked: Its a great city, the people are very hospitiable.
Disliked: Its loud and busy but that is beyond anyone's control
22 May 2015
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Vist piramides with a camel.
Liked: Piramides
Disliked: Traffic, polution