Intercontinental Pyramids Park Reviews

Cairo is a must for anyone visiting Egypt. It bustles with life and vitality and is a fascinating city.
The hotel was clean, bright and spacious. An excellent quiet retreat after spending busy days sightseeing in Cairo or at the Pyramids.
It is easy to overeat at Breakfast as there is a very extensive variety of delicious food - cold meat, cheese, hot food, fruits, cereals and every type of bread and croissant imaginable.(unforunately we didn't stay enough days to try everything)
We also enjoyed good evening meals at the Italian restaurant in the hotel and at the dining room 'Hot Buffet'- both were very enjoyable.

Our room was fairly basic but clean.
There is a huge swimming room. The water was clean but cold - excellent if you like a long swim to burn off the calories! There were always lots of towels available.
I can not speak highly enough of Hayes and Jarvis. Their staff were most helpful and we felt treated as VIPs.

MY boyfriend and I went to the Intercontinental fully expecting a fantastic break in Egypt - How wrong we were.

We checked in at the Hotel and had to complain about the first room.It was shabby,small and had a lingering smell,with no internet access and the upgrade to a suite that had been promised on booking was not fulfilled.The nights manager was extremely apologetic and found us a suite,but unfortunately there was still no internet access and the new room was just an extension of the former with an extra floor.

The swimming pool had not been cleaned for a while and the bottom was held together with tape.The constant stream of flies made sunbathing impossible for too long.

The next morning we took a trip to the pyramids in what proved to be an exhausting day- first being followed around by touts trying to sell their wares(amazingly although I could really have done with a drink not 1 person thought of selling cold cans),have photos with you(which you then have to pay for)and finally being taken to a papyrus shop,then a perfume shop.Do NOT go to the Perfume shop.Unlike the papyrus shop you will be the only customer there.Once you have agreed to a drink you are then taken inside where it is extremely hard to get out without being coerced into buying at least a hundred pounds worth of perfume.I joke you not.After one and a half hours and an argument with the owner I left £100 lighter(haggled down from £200)She had an answer for everything including that if I didn't have enough money they would escort me back to the hotel/bank etc (!)

All in all we just wanted to get out of Cairo as soon as possible.Not an experience I wish to repeat.