Pharaohs

Egypt , Cairo
CAIRO, 12 Lotfi Hassouna Street Dokki, Cairo
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10/10

Exceptional

16 Dec 2025

Vivian

Excellent staff, clean rooms and good food. I recommend it as a hotel that is in the heart of Cairo downtown.

Business_and_leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

19 Jul 2025

Eman

I checked in late but the staff was very helpful and accommodating. I got the room that I booked with the amazing unobstructed view of the river. I had some laundry and it was done at a very cheap price. The room was neat and clean, the terrace is large and private, bed is very comfortable and the bathroom is large and newly renovated. The staff is really caring, attentive and went above and beyond to make my stay enjoyable.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

31 Dec 2024

Regina

Egypt Adventure tour with Intrepid

This was my final night in Egypt, I was travelling with an organised Intrepid tour to Cairo, Aswan and Luxor and was finishing my stay here and leaving for the airport during the early hours of the 31st December. The staff were super helpful when I asked them anything. It was also nice to get a welcome orange juice, water, Pepsi and orange.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

30 Dec 2024

Mark

staff were very helpful and friendly,i stayed here before and after a trip ,they were very accommodating.allowed me to check in early after a long trip.
a good mart is 5 minutes away for snacks.
the river is close.
room was always made up ,never had to ask.
food is very nice on the ground floor restaurant and the breakfast restaurant has a great view.
i asked for a room with a view and they delivered.
good hot shower.
handy to a atm

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

06 Nov 2024

Dylan

Staff is excellent.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

16 Apr 2024

Taylor

The service is amazing. One of the best places i stayed while in egypt.

Self

6/10

Pleasant

25 Oct 2023

Maria

Nice view of the Nile. Convenient location. Good breakfast. Shower pressure was unreliable.

Leisure Family

4/10

Poor

10 Oct 2023

Matthew

Budget hotel is an understatement. The shower drains in numerous rooms wouldn’t drain and had little water pressure. The rooms are dated with stained mattresses, pillows, and sheets.

10/10

Exceptional

09 Oct 2023

MARINA

The place of lication is good and the sraff was very nice, friendly and helpful. But hotel really needs renovation. The hot water didn't work at tge beginning, the floor was very dirty, the most uncompfortable beds.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

12 Sep 2023

Lauren

Great stay!

Excellent stay, especially considering the price.

Pros: 24 hour front desk, 24 hour restaurant, very friendly/helpful staff, clean, A/C worked well.

Cons: beds and pillow were very hard and uncomfortable, lots of noise from the hallway.

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

23 May 2023

Cyrus

Nice view of Nile river. Friendly staff,

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

17 Feb 2023

Wendy

This hotel is in a good location. Good restaurant menu. The breakfast was just ok. Need more selection like fruits, yogurt and warm food. The room has a good view and cleaned. The hot water was not working so couldn’t shower at all. Heater was not working properly. The room was cold all the time. They need to fit the issues. Staffs are friendly and helpful.

Leisure Friends

6/10

Pleasant

10 Dec 2022

Terrence

Plumbing was awful. Shower didn't drain and lack of hot water

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

24 Nov 2022

David

Central location, surrounding area safe, great breakfast, quiet, staff helpful

Leisure Self

4/10

Poor

23 Sep 2022

Wayne

Best … avoided.

The staff in the attached cafe are wonderful and the only reason we rated above zero. We paid reception for a cab to Pyramids entrance but were dumped in a backstreet somewhere nearby and left to be hassled by hordes of local carriage drivers - later found we’d paid double the usual fare too! Tried squeezing extra out of us for a taxi to the train station on our last day too. Picture of hotel in advert is NOT the actual hotel either. Worrying lift, exposed wiring, broken shower screens not fixed despite reporting them (us and at least one other guest). Shoddy.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Jul 2022

Cecilia Vanegas

All the staff was very friendly and helpful. Very good options for meals and very good the location of the hotel.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

14 Jul 2022

Laura

Great stay

Very comfortable room great price and the restaurant has the most delicious food. I would definitely recommend and stay again

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

05 Feb 2022

Gordon

Hot water and a/c good

No toilet paper

Leisure Self

2/10

Poor

27 Oct 2021

Ahmed

Location was as descriped, but check in and check out took too long time than expected, and the room they check me in 1st was unclean with broken air condition, then I asked them to change it for me, and they did.

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

16 Oct 2021

Nikolaus

Nice place for price

Leisure Self

2/10

Poor

23 Jul 2021

Verified traveler

Horrible hotel!

They wouldn’t even understand English when I arrived, I had to used Google translate… The people were so rude, it was unbelievable. The property was dirty and very old, I was pretty scared to even sleep there, and the restaurant manager was the worst.

Do NOT stay here, I’d rather had slept in the streets than in this place I am very sorry to say. The service was the worse.

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jun 2021

Verified traveler

The staff was incredible, so helpful and very fun to talk to! The rooms were nice and comfortable. The balcony had an beyond beautiful view!

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

16 Oct 2020

Verified traveler

I would definitely recommend the hotel to other friends. The staff was specially friendly and helpful. Extremely good service 👍

Self

10/10

Exceptional

04 Jan 2020

Heather

Fabulous stay here

I was very pleased with the location of the hotel. It was very close to most of the things i needed. I paid extra to have a balcony with a view of the river Nile and was not disappointed as it was beautiful by day and night. There is shopping at walking distance for daily needs. Hotel is basic in the rooms but comfortable. I purchsed a 10$ kettle to make coffee etc as its not provided. I felt very safe walking in yhe area even at night. The staff were very helpful and friendly. I used room service some days which was well priced and good quality. I had a mix of work and personal time here and overall i was very happy with everything.
I will definitely stay here again when i come back in April. Thank you Pharoahs Hotel staff 😊

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

15 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

Excellent location and nice comfortable room and facilities.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

14 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

Excellent location with very good facilities and customer services. You can walk to everywhere in city centre and very close to 2 metro stations. The area is very safe and secure. The room is spacious clean with comfortable bed and nice view of the Nile river and cairo. The bathroom is good and clean with all facilities. The breakfast was very good with good varieties. The staff were nice and helpful. This hotel is far better of many hotels in Europe, London and USA. The hotel staff do their best to offer you a good safe stay.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

11 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

Good location and good facilities with good value of money. It is just few steps from the river Nile, opera house, cairo city centre and Tahrir square. It is walkable and a lot of restaurants, supermarkets and shops are around. The area is very safe and quite. The breakfast is ok but may lacking of freshness and professional presentation. Good omelet, eggs, cheese collection, coffee/tea but the corned beef is very poor and cake is very hard to eat so it is better to avoid them. The room was very nice, clean spacious, comfortable with good Nile river view. The air condition was big plus. The bathroom is very nice, clean and spotless with good facilities and cold/hot water. Generally the staff are good, polite, and helpful but few of them are not professional and need more training to how deal with guests. This hotel is a hidden gem in the centre of cairo But it may just need few improvements to shin up and be one of the best in Cairo. I enjoyed my stay and I used to book it when I am visiting Cairo. I highly recommend it.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

06 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

The Hotel Location was Excellent, it was only few meters from the River Nile, and the Nile Palace Bridge, close to Reasturants, and markets at Al-Duqqi, a nice, quiet place downtown in Cairo.

The Room I have had reserved was overlooking the Nile with a nice, lovely balcony, the Size of the Room was more than excellent, Bathroom was more than excellent, Bed was great, the only down side was the quality of the mattress and the beddings used, otherwise I really rate (The Room) to be more than 3 stars towards the 4 stars.

Breakfast was reasonable but I think with a bit more of cleanness and further attention, it could have been much better.

Staff were reasonably helpful, and it was easy to extend my stay.

Internet was relatively on the downside, but was ok at the lobby.

All in All, with a bit of careful consideration to the Breakfast, the Breakfast area, Bedding used in the Room and the Lift, I think it could get a better rate than a 3-stars...

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

03 Jan 2019

Rose

the room cleanliness was not good enough to my standards i cleaned the small fridge in the room as was moldy and dirty,the noise from the beginning to the end was terrible hammering and drilling for 14 days including Christmas and New Year. Door and lift closing and opening were also noisy. The water in the bathroom came down brown as a result of this jobs. I had to leave the water running for sometime before got better. the batteries for the fan heater and the television were not working properly and i had to call 2 times i was told they would came back to replace it but they never did. cleaner was in place everyday nice lady. Breakfast is more Egyptian than continental in fact i am glad did not pay for it. Round the corner there are some cafeterias. there are taxi facilities but i did not use it. There is a safe in the room the place is not far from center and around there are some food shop facilities. This is a smoking place so you may do not enjoy the smell of it in lifts and breakfast room. Area seemed safe Be aware that everywhere you go in Cairo dodgy people will try to get money from you including police and helpers at the airport and fake tour guides and those trying to sell you papyrus. Dress adequately for dusty and dirty roads, you can exchange your money in the money exchange shops in the street of Doqqui nearby better than banks and England exchange rates Overall it was ok as the bed was comfy, location and place were safe and near the center

8/10

Excellent

16 Nov 2018

Kevin

Pretty good value for the price.

This is a clean, basic hotel. The location is pretty good - it's a little out of the centre, so it's a bit calmer, but you can still walk to Tahrir Square and the Egyptian Museum. We had one room that was kind of dated, snd another that was more modern. The staff are helpful, and the breakfast is okay. Pretty good value for the price.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

28 Oct 2018

Verified traveler

It was hard to locate, the drivers kept getting lost and the service was slow but I liked the rooms, bathroom and cleanliness

10/10

Exceptional

23 May 2012

Verified traveler

Great value

Great location, helpful staff, decent rooms. Great value!

8/10

Excellent

16 Aug 2011

Michele

Pharoah's Hotel in Giza

As far as budget hotels go, this place was great! The rooms were well air conditioned, clean, and the beds were relatively comfortable. The bathrooms were spotless and the hot water abounded in the shower. They offer an included breakfast in the morning that provided many options both traditional Egyptian (salads, dips, cheeses, etc...) and typical breakfast (omelets made to order, bread, toast, cereal, coffee). This was the best breakfast I found of all the hotels I stayed in just fyi while in Egypt. The only thing I can't truly comment on is the location per se. I was there for 4 nights total traveling with a touring company and so we were shuttled all over the place and thus didn't have to venture out on our own much. The hotel is in GIZA not Cairo so just keep that in mind. It's about 80 Egyptian Pounds by taxi from the airport to this location (but you need to haggle to get that price!). It provided everything I needed in terms of a comfortable, clean place to stay but again, my transportation was provided so I can't speak do the convenience angle. This is the only reason my overall rating was a 4 as opposed to a 5. The surrounding neighborhood seemed safe enough albeit a bit dark at night (not a lot of street lights). There were restaurants and ATM's that were close by as well and the hotel offers internet for reasonable rates too.

6/10

Pleasant

10 Aug 2011

Rob

good value for money

good value for money but they should improve the quality of the breakfast buffet.

4/10

Poor

01 Apr 2011

hussain

Many of the hotels are cheaper and better on-site service

Hotel location is good but service is not compatible with the price so as not to provide Internet service and satellite service and breakfast and there is no shampoo or towels

8/10

Excellent

09 Jan 2011

Verified traveler

Recommended.

Nice staff. Simple breakfast. Clean. Delivers at a low price.

10/10

Exceptional

26 Feb 2025

Verified traveler

Highly recommended!

Lovely place and very helpful staff. Everything worked perfectly. Nice and calm area and a great restaurant near the lobby.

10/10

Exceptional

11 May 2022

Hussam

تجربه جميله فندق جيد اداره ممتازه وخاصه قسم الاستقبال ممثل بالانسه مادونا شكرا جزيلا

Partner

8/10

Excellent

19 Jan 2020

Verified traveler

Le personnel est très accueillant et très gentil .
Hotel sympa. Propreté à améliorer

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

02 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

Das Personal ist nett. Das Zimmer war sauber ...außer die beiden Teppiche (Läufer) könnten mal durchgesaugt werden ;-) Das WLAN ist schwach.
Sonst alles super :-)

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

17 Sep 2019

Zahair

مقبول في الحد الادني ففي النهايه هناك غرفه وحمام

يمكن اطلاق اي اسم لهذه المنشأة ولكن علي الاكيد ليس فندقا ولايوجد شئ علي الاطلاق من عاملين اواي شئ يذكرك بانك في فندق بكل المقاييس ولكن المقابل المالي الزهيد ينحسبلهم

8/10

Excellent

16 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

Bon rapporr qualité / prix.
Bien situé.
Personnel aimable et souriant.
Chambre propre.
Le. Wifi fonctionne mais galere un peut. On peut aller sur Whatsapp mais pas sur le net....
L’equipement est sommaire mais fonctionnelle tout comme la literie.

Friends_and_family Family

4/10

Poor

05 Jan 2019

Verified traveler

An sich ein schönes Hotel, leider hapert es im Moment vor allem mit warmen Wasser und ich bin definitiv nicht penibel was Betten und Unterkünfte angeht, aber das Bett und das Kissen waren hart, nicht sehr angenehm.
Bei der Bestellung eines Taxis zum Flughafen würden wir dann leider auch zweimal abkassiert, unverschämt.

4/10

Poor

03 Dec 2018

Leila

Mygg och Mardröm resa

Jag fick ett rum på åttonde våningen och tyvärr hade dom reparation på sjunde avdelningen dom sågade klinkers inom hotellet på samma våning och det lät hemsk i hela tiden från första dag tills jag resta tillbaka till Sverige jag verkligen hade otur och pratade med hotell maneger men han gjorde ingenting...Jag till och med spelade in videos och gick ner till sjunde våningen för att se vad dom gör eftersom det lätt så hemsk...Jag kommer att spela en video och lägga på Youtube och prata om min vistelse på båda hotell jag verkligen mådde så dåligt under hela resan på grund av dåliga hotell och vill inte någon annan speciellt svenska folket ska go genom detta.
MVH
Lubna Alani

8/10

Excellent

25 Oct 2018

Thiago

Localizado próximo ao metrô e restaurantes, hotel bem limpo, decorado e o principal, cama e travesseiro é banheiro excelentes.

10/10

Exceptional

23 May 2018

Taufiq

جيدجدا

10/10

Exceptional

20 May 2013

Mohamed

Muy buena y agradable por el personal del servicio, la administración, la ubicación centrica, le recomiendo

4/10

Poor

27 Oct 2011

Verified traveler

in 2 parole posso dire che non era propio come si puo vedere dalle immagini io mi adatto a tutto ma sono sicura che nessuno dei miei amici ci sarebbe stato ,vedendo le BLATTE che ti caminano nella camera. con questo non agiungo altro.

10/10

Exceptional

29 Jun 2010

REGINA EULALIA

HOTEL PHARAOH DOK CAIRO

OTIMA LOCALIZAÇAO
PESSOAL ATENCIOSO

2/10

Poor

05 Jan 2010

Claudio

Pharaohs Doki Hotel Cairo

Consigliabile solo perchè economico