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Cairo · Downtown

Downtown's boutique hotels

Belle-époque buildings restored as small hotels — and their roofs open to everyone.

€€€ High end

For a few years now, Downtown buildings have been rehabilitated into ten- to thirty-room hotels: mouldings, cage lifts, terraces. Many open their roof or café to the public, which lets you enter these interiors without staying.

The extra bit

Ask to go up to the roof even as a non-guest: most agree if you order something.

Know before you go

Room rates match international hotels, in a district that stays loud until late.

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