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Seven thousand tonnes of snow at minus two degrees, inside a mall west of Cairo.
Sheikh Zayed & 6th October6th of October City
The indoor games hall at Mall of Egypt: arcade, rides and bowling, for when it is forty degrees outside.
A children's city inside a mall: they hold down a job, they get paid — and the parents wait.
CairoNew Cairo
Heliopolis's old racecourse turned neighbourhood park: grass, water, and crowds until midnight.
CairoHeliopolis
The countries of the world in miniature, a small zoo and fairground rides: you pay to get in, then you pay by zone.
CairoNasr City
The neighbourhood garden cut to children's size: grass, benches, and a play area charged by the hour.
Sixty-five feddans around a lake in western Cairo — and it is not Zed Park.
Sheikh Zayed & 6th OctoberSheikh Zayed
Forty-five pools and eighty slides — but it is a hotel's park, and the day ticket takes some finding.
HurghadaSafaga Road (Village Road), south of Hurghada
Dolphins, sea lions and a walrus, an hour of show — and captive animals, whether or not that sits well with you.
HurghadaMakadi Bay, some thirty kilometres south of Hurghada
An inflatable course floating on the lagoon, and a cable tow for beginners — from age six and 110 cm.
HurghadaEl Gouna, Sabina area
Two feddans of terraces at the water's edge: a garden to sit in, not to run in.
CairoZamalek
Grass, shade and room to spread out in the middle of Zamalek, two minutes from the metro.
Four hands-on floors and a planetarium dome — but the door closes in the early afternoon.
A real ice rink on the Maadi corniche, inside a leisure complex that has aged around it.
CairoMaadi, Nile Corniche
Two floors of trampolines inside a mall: it bounces, and it echoes.
CairoNew Cairo / Tagamoa
A soft play the size of a warehouse — and one of the rare ones truly built for toddlers.
A workshop farm near Saqqara, where a child makes things instead of watching them.
GizaSaqqara Road
The one hotel in Alexandria that publishes, in black and white, the price of a day at the pool with no room booked.
AlexandriaSan Stefano, on the Corniche
A day in the pool on the Montazah Corniche, no room booked, for the price of a lunch.
AlexandriaMontazah, on the Corniche, opposite the park gate
The pool people take for public and which is not: it is reserved for syndicate engineers and their families.
AlexandriaAlexandria — the syndicate does not publish the club's address
A real pool facing the lagoon, with a separate basin for small children — but you get in by taking a room.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaCleopatra Beach, on the El Gharam lagoon
Three pools facing the Mediterranean — behind the gate of a closed compound.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaMarassi, Km 129 Matrouh Road, El Alamein
The only one on this coast to advertise indoor pools: you can still swim when the coast has shut.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaNew Alamein, Km 107 North Coastal Road
A ten-metre pool on the roof, above the corniche: a day pass at EGP 1,940, gym and jacuzzi included.
CairoGarden City
