• A brightly coloured bouncy castle standing on the grass.

    Child Park

    The neighbourhood garden cut to children's size: grass, benches, and a play area charged by the hour.

    CairoNasr City

    BudgetFamily-friendly
  • The garden's terraces stepping down to the Nile, with their palms and hedges, seen from the bridge.

    Andalus Garden

    Two feddans of terraces at the water's edge: a garden to sit in, not to run in.

    CairoZamalek

    BudgetFamily-friendly
  • A wooden bench in the shade, at the edge of a lawn and a brick path.

    Al Horreya Garden

    Grass, shade and room to spread out in the middle of Zamalek, two minutes from the metro.

    CairoZamalek

    BudgetFamily-friendly
  • The centre's façade and its blue glass dome, the planetarium's, above a flower bed.

    Child Museum

    Four hands-on floors and a planetarium dome — but the door closes in the early afternoon.

    CairoHeliopolis

    BudgetFamily-friendly
  • A pair of white figure skates, blades resting on scored ice.

    ICE Planet — Family Land

    A real ice rink on the Maadi corniche, inside a leisure complex that has aged around it.

    CairoMaadi, Nile Corniche

    BudgetFamily-friendly
  • BOUNCE Egypt

    Two floors of trampolines inside a mall: it bounces, and it echoes.

    CairoNew Cairo / Tagamoa

    €€ Mid-rangeFamily-friendly
  • Kempinski Nile Hotel — the Rooftop Pool

    A ten-metre pool on the roof, above the corniche: a day pass at EGP 1,940, gym and jacuzzi included.

    CairoGarden City

    €€€ High endPaid entry
  • A pool lit blue at night, edged with empty loungers and straw parasols.

    Odin The Pool House

    A pool perched on the Mokattam heights, open to all by reservation — and a club by night.

    CairoMokattam

    €€ Mid-rangeBooking advised
  • The edge of a pool in full sun, a metal ladder, empty loungers behind a railing.

    Top Sports — Tulip El Nargis Hotel

    A pool day at 250 pounds in New Cairo, where hotel pools are priced in thousands.

    CairoNew Cairo, Fifth Settlement, 90th Street

    €€ Mid-rangeFamily-friendly
  • Jewel Sport City & Aqua Park

    Four pools and seventeen water games in north-east Cairo: a children's day out, not a place to swim lengths.

    CairoZahraa Madinat Nasr

    €€ Mid-rangeFamily-friendly
  • Palms and clouds mirrored in the blue water of a pool, white loungers along the edge.

    Sofitel Cairo Nile El Gezirah — pool day use

    EGP 3,000 for the day — pool, sauna, hammam and gym included — and the hotel publishes the price itself, which is rare.

    CairoZamalek, Gezira Island

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly