Sweet Home Downtown Cairo

Old and dirty Honestly,“you get what you pay for” is the best to describe this property. After it took 40+ minutes for me and my local driver to finally find the apartment,I was so disappointed in the condition of everything. It’s in a very dirty and loud neighborhood where mostly men occupied.the apartment is so old and the entrance is very dirty, Not to mention the family lives in the first floor who informed me I was in the wrong place, while letting two of their kids attack me with such curiosity immediately, is not the welcome I was hoping for. It took the owner come and meet me about 20 mins even though we’ve talked on the phone.. I guess he was not convinced that I was the actual guest. we took a very old, a bit scary elevator up to the 8th floor, and entered the apartment. It’s a two bedroom apartment with a tiny kitchen and relatively large sized bathroom. The bedrooms have AC units which worked fine. There are no curtains anywhere and you hear the street noises from everywhere. The sheets however were unexpectedly clean.I took a shower with a very little water coming from the showerhead. I was so tired and it was too late to try to find another hotel, so I crashed. The view from the balcony is lovely though. I left very early the following morning. It reminded me of the youth hostels where i used to stay in my early 20s that any place will do when you’re broke. It was overall really disappointing.The pictures are not exactly indicating the actual condition of the place in the ad