Since this is an Egyptian property owned by a Qatari real estate company while an Egypt-backed blockade of Qatar is still ongoing, I feel this hotel’s opening date will continue to slip into oblivion. Although a team has been hired to run the hotel and the building is fitted out, friends of mine in Cairo tell me that the operational license is continuously being ‘pushed back’ by the authorities with no end in sight.

Sigh.

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