Anyone been to Egypt??

[arbaholic]

Just one thing if you go to naama bay when walking through the high street dont be fooled by the polite well spoken egyptian people that ask you to come and write a message in there book and such like.

 

They lure you into a back room were in most cases a pushy aggressive egyptian will take over and try and pressure sell you their bottled after shave. You need to be pretty forcefull to get out without buying anything.

 

As I was told before I went " be careful of any large egyptian man as the reason hes large is hes eating very well because hes making alot of money out of tourists."

 

[Mozza]

Just one thing if you go to naama bay when walking through the high street dont be fooled by the polite well spoken egyptian people that ask you to come and write a message in there book and such like.

 

They lure you into a back room were in most cases a pushy aggressive egyptian will take over and try and pressure sell you their bottled after shave. You need to be pretty forcefull to get out without buying anything.

 

As I was told before I went " be careful of any large egyptian man as the reason hes large is hes eating very well because hes making alot of money out of tourists."

 

 

 

Aye mate, ive been told off a few now, that if you are polite but sturn they leave you alone but you have to be more sturn than polite with a few, right up my street that, i dont do "hassled" very well to be honest but hopefully ill be able to relax a bit when im around the hasslers

 

 

 

Cheers for the reply

[Tommy_B]

Hiya mate.

Few tips from when I went. Take a load of one doller bills and use them as tips. They keep hold of them till the exchange rate is better and get a bit more.

Buy a cheap, disposable underwater camera from Uk and take it snorkelling. If you buy from the hotel you end up paying near £20.

When you are departing back to the Uk, take some napkins/tissues in your pocket as the staff in the airport removed all the toilet paper from the ladies and gents and then tried to charge for it.

If you go through the metal detector make sure you put all your change in the hand luggage or else it is seen as "gifts for staff".

 

Those are the only bad things I could think of. I went to Makadi Bay and had an amazing two weeks. Hope you enjoy yourself mate.

 

Tom

[Ben Ballard]

hi i went to egypt it was great went on a all u can eat and drink river cruze visited lots of temples and valley of the kings and on a hot air balloon wear i propossed to my mrs well worth going mate realy interesting place ,if went again would visit the pyrimids and red sea

[John Barleycorn]

A fantastic place. I worked there over 30 years ago when i was in my early 20's. Spent all my spare time exploring Cairo. Dressed in jeans & tee shirt and with dark hair & a heavy suntan I walked unhindered through streets that cant have changed in a thousand years.

Meanwhile the obvious tourists were plagued by begging children & itinerant street sellers.

[Petemate390xp]

Hi yes worked there back in 99 i was in luxor working with there tourist police good and hot!!!!!there stella is strong and comes in big green bottles..