The business center provides Internet, fax, document writing, photocopying and translating services, and temporary secretarial assistance. Also free for guests is a fitness center. Most of its 1,200 rooms are in modern blocks flanking its luxuriant garden. All have computer ports and there is no fee for employing them. It will also find you clerical help and interpreters to use outside the hotel.
All rooms have a data port, and time online is at local telephone rates.
It is elegant and well lighted, with excellent food. Nonmembers pay 20 Egyptian pounds a day. Although taxis have meters, no one uses them to determine fares. The French-built Metro system is efficient and growing. It offers 56 offices, the latest telecommunications lines for voice and data, ISDN lines and LAN networks.