Egypt
- New Ferries In Service In Luxor
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) The Nile separates Luxor into East and West, one side with the monuments and small local hotels and the other the airport, railway station, 5* hotels and MacDonald’s. So at some point in your stay you have to cross from...
- Cairo Historical Buildings To Become Luxury Hotels
RIA Novosti Authorities in Cairo plan to restore historical buildings in the Egyptian capital and turn them into luxury hotels, the Al-Ahram newspaper said on Wednesday. Officials and academics believe the move could rescue several historical buildings....
- 50-year Saga To Reclaim Egypt's 'cecil Hotel'
Thanks to Tony Marson for forwarding this article, which offers a nostalgic look at the Cecil Hotel, which has been reclaimed by its former owners. It took exactly half-a-century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious...
- Tourism: Hotels And Cruise Ships
Movenpick http://www.ttnworldwide.com/Articles.asp?Article=6385"As of November this year, Mِvenpick’s Nile fleet, which already encompasses three luxury cruisers, will be augmented by the new Mِvenpick M/S Royal Lily. The move follows an agreement...
- Aswan Travel
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16315034^33975,00.html"Aswan is Egypt's largest southern settlement, an oasis north of the Sudanese border. The town is alive with the memory of French and British colonialism, and the...
Egypt
New Book: Grand Hotels of Egypt
AUC Press
Grand Hotels of Egypt In the Golden Age of Travel
By Andrew Humphreys
Grand Hotels of Egypt In the Golden Age of Travel
By Andrew Humphreys
A colorfully illustrated celebration of Egypt’s classic era of touringFrom the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Riviera, the hotels of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy, headquarters for armies, providers of home comforts for writers, painters, scholars, and archaeologists in the field, and social hubs for an international elite, more of importance happened in Egypt’s hotels than in any other setting. It was through the hotels that visitors from the west—the earliest adventurers, then the travelers and, finally, the tourists—experienced the Orient. This book tells the stories of Egypt’s historic hotels (including the Cecil, Shepheard’s, the Mena House, Gezira Palace, Semiramis, Winter Palace, and Cataract) and some of the people who stayed in them, from Amelia Edwards, Lucie Duff Gordon and Florence Nightingale to Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, and TE Lawrence.
- New Ferries In Service In Luxor
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) The Nile separates Luxor into East and West, one side with the monuments and small local hotels and the other the airport, railway station, 5* hotels and MacDonald’s. So at some point in your stay you have to cross from...
- Cairo Historical Buildings To Become Luxury Hotels
RIA Novosti Authorities in Cairo plan to restore historical buildings in the Egyptian capital and turn them into luxury hotels, the Al-Ahram newspaper said on Wednesday. Officials and academics believe the move could rescue several historical buildings....
- 50-year Saga To Reclaim Egypt's 'cecil Hotel'
Thanks to Tony Marson for forwarding this article, which offers a nostalgic look at the Cecil Hotel, which has been reclaimed by its former owners. It took exactly half-a-century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious...
- Tourism: Hotels And Cruise Ships
Movenpick http://www.ttnworldwide.com/Articles.asp?Article=6385"As of November this year, Mِvenpick’s Nile fleet, which already encompasses three luxury cruisers, will be augmented by the new Mِvenpick M/S Royal Lily. The move follows an agreement...
- Aswan Travel
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16315034^33975,00.html"Aswan is Egypt's largest southern settlement, an oasis north of the Sudanese border. The town is alive with the memory of French and British colonialism, and the...