The flight is on a surprisingly nice airplance - basically the worst air service in the world is US Domestic (although that one experience with Iberia was pretty disappointing). They even let you use your cell phone on board the plane.
Having been "in-country" now for a couple of weeks the Cairo airport isn't as overwhelming this time and we're able to get a taxi to the Sheraton for 70 LE. The car is nice, but Jen describes it as Mr. Toad's wild ride.
The Sheraton, though, turns out to be a disappointment. We start off on a smoking floor and when we try to change are given attitude. Then, when trying to get internet, I'm told that it's 90 LE per day, but they have to send a guy up to set it up - and the guy won't give it to me for less than 200 LE. Overnight exactly 0 TV shows manage to download, and only 23% of our pictures manage to upload - so it's both slow and expensive.
Then, when I arrange the taxi to the airport I believe that it will cost 119 LE (which is admittedly stupid on my part, but hey, I'm sleep addled). Instead, it's 190 LE - and the guy seems put out that he's not getting a tip for charging me almost 3x what it cost to get from the airport to the hotel yesterday.
I'm so frustrated and angry that I let the taxi driver have it. SavedBySherpa is a family blog, so we won't print what was said here - but let's just say I won't be going back to Egypt any time soon.
At least we're done. We're moving on to London and Amsterdam, and then home.
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