Scarriott
I was really excited about the hotel my company was putting me in -- the Cairo Marriott Zamalek. It's on an island in the Nile. It's built around a 19th century palace (i.e. two big towers were tacked onto the ends of the palace). The facilities are nice, in spite of the construction going on.
However...
Internet costs $18 for an hour. And if you're sap enough to use the cable they supply in the room (i.e. run it through the telephone) rather than use wi-fi, you get to pay an additional $1/minute!
The small plastic bottles of water in my room are $4 each.
I expect these sorts of shenanigans in the Khan-el-Khalili bazaar. I go to an international hotel to avoid this garbage.
So I went out and bought an entire case of large water bottles for $4. The bellman whined about having to wheel them up to my room (via the elevator) on his little cart, and I regret having tipped the son-of-a-pharoah at all.
Typical Egypt? The Cairo Marriott is managed by Europeans.
posted by Tallinn Jones @ 11:29 PM
1 Comments:
So your "company" was putting you up at a hotel and you complain about expensive ammenities? Every hotel has expensive ammenities. If you were really a world traveler you know that, but i think you are just a cheap proletarian who thinks everything in the world should be judged by its most annoying factor. You highlight your "talents" and exclude your flaws but are quick to condemn an entire hotel because of, in your opinion, sub par internet and expensive water. So by design, nothing you say is even the least bit usefull because you don't give an objective opinion. What was the hotel like? You said "the facilities are nice" and stopped. You even sounded a little racist with the "son-of-Pharoah" bit. I think we can all see that you will never have anything in your life worth anyone's time to see; you'll never be a celebrity, so this blog is you claim to fame before you keel over and die.
If you want to make a difference in the world, try changing yourself first.
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