Six of the best historic hotels in Egypt
Fancy splashing out on a luxury hotel for your Egyptian holiday? I’ve been to a few in my time, and let me say that this fabulous country is interwoven with blockbuster stories, best tapped into with a stay in one of its great historic hotels.
Who’s your historical hero? Ramses II? Agatha Christie? Alexander the Great or maybe Winston Churchill?
I’ve rounded up six of the best historic hotels in Egypt, from up in the north in Alexandria to the deep south, in the heart of Nubia, in Aswan. I’ve headed out into the Sahara to the impossibly exotic oasis town of Siwa, where a mudbrick marvel awaits, and onto the shores of the Nile in Luxor with these six stays.
Click here to read the story, which I wrote for the Traveller section of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers.