cairo airport lounge?
Jun 28, 2010, 2:23 am
#16
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I second that! was there a month ago, and VERY positively surprised. this is a massive improvement over the so-called lounge they had before. I mentioned it to the very friendly lounge supervisor who walked around and greeted every guest. She said the old lounge was so bad and it made her ill to have to work there and have to face the embarrassment...
Jun 28, 2010, 4:38 am
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Jun 28, 2010, 11:55 pm
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How early can I check in at cairo? My bags only got checked to cairo. MS wouldn't check it to fra
How early can I check in at cairo? My bags only got checked to cairo. MS wouldn't check it to fra
Jun 29, 2010, 1:36 am
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Probably you need to go landside (you have to buy the visa on arrival), collect your bags, go to the checkin and then back airside.
Jun 29, 2010, 2:11 am
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I already had a visa stamp, so no need for a visa (but i have a spare just in case at all times). Sitting in a grill waiting as the checkin doesnt open till 3hrs before checkin. I asked at the LH ticket desk, and not even for F (which is where BA is better. As a gold or F you can check in anytime during the day. So I would usually swing in after I checkout of my airport hotel, check in and head into town for a few hrs)
Ill eat my share of caviar on the plane, though
Jun 29, 2010, 3:05 am
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Jun 29, 2010, 3:22 am
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Thats what I thought, but the checkin agent would not give me a valid reason why, just that he could not
Jun 29, 2010, 4:26 am
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Sep 2, 2010, 10:19 am
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Almeisan Lounge in T3
This lounge is used by Lufthansa, Swiss and other Star Alliance Carriers. Here are some pictures that I took 2 wweks ago:
http://www.so-war-mein-flug.de/index...2008b3dd43eb8c
http://www.so-war-mein-flug.de/index...2008b3dd43eb8c
Dec 19, 2010, 5:05 pm
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Cairo Airport Transit - 5 hour layover
I'm flying in on MS and out on LH and have a 5 hour layover. Been reading here that the *A lounges are not that great. Wondering if there is enough to entertain myself before my flight. It will be in the early hours of the morning. Midnight until 5am. Thanks
Dec 19, 2010, 8:54 pm
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Nothing really to do at the airport. I'm not even 100% sure if the lounges will be open at that time
Dec 19, 2010, 10:55 pm
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I would say that at least 1 lounge should be open as MS have their first flights already at 0340 (and the latest leaven shortly after midnight.).
ET have a 0230 departure and since they are *A (IIRC), some lounge should be open...
and don't worry, I don t think the lounges are that bad. I'd say a normal quality lounge with standard amenities minus alcohol.
If you really want to drink, maybe you can sneak-drink some dutyfree stuff, but I think CAI does a final security at gate, so you could not bring open (unfinished
) bottles with you...
ET have a 0230 departure and since they are *A (IIRC), some lounge should be open...
and don't worry, I don t think the lounges are that bad. I'd say a normal quality lounge with standard amenities minus alcohol.
If you really want to drink, maybe you can sneak-drink some dutyfree stuff, but I think CAI does a final security at gate, so you could not bring open (unfinished
) bottles with you...
Dec 20, 2010, 2:26 am
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Dec 21, 2010, 10:30 am
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I would say that at least 1 lounge should be open as MS have their first flights already at 0340 (and the latest leaven shortly after midnight.).
ET have a 0230 departure and since they are *A (IIRC), some lounge should be open...
and don't worry, I don t think the lounges are that bad. I'd say a normal quality lounge with standard amenities minus alcohol.
If you really want to drink, maybe you can sneak-drink some dutyfree stuff, but I think CAI does a final security at gate, so you could not bring open (unfinished) bottles with you...
ET have a 0230 departure and since they are *A (IIRC), some lounge should be open...
and don't worry, I don t think the lounges are that bad. I'd say a normal quality lounge with standard amenities minus alcohol.
If you really want to drink, maybe you can sneak-drink some dutyfree stuff, but I think CAI does a final security at gate, so you could not bring open (unfinished
) bottles with you...