Originally Posted by
phlashba
DON'T go to the Le Meridien Heliopolis it is truly one of the worst hotels I have ever stayed in with crooked management and incompetent and rude tip-seeking staff. Unfortunately there is no good SPG option in Cairo. I would suggest Marriott or Fairmont.
We stayed at the Meridien in Giza and didn't have a high opinion of the staff there either - I won't call them crooked though. They just seemed incompetent, rude and tip-seeking in the way that most Egyptians are (I'm sorry this is our first time in Egypt and this is a whole new level of harrassment).
We were thinking of taking a chance at the LM Heliopolis even though it sounds dated by all accounts because every other Western chain hotel at the Heliopolis is close to $250 for 3 people. At the LM, we would be using SPG points so would save a pretty penny.