Sama Hotel Oraby

clean tidy and all staff were very well mannered

good experience, good location, order breakfast early otherwise some entities comes cold.

If you want to live the Egyptian experience, this is the place. in the center of the down town. The hotel is located in the most visited places in Cairo. At the hotel entrance is the busiest coffee and restaurant places, packed with people until late night. Very nice cooperative staff you will encounter is this city. Breakfast is delivered to your room daily not before 8:30 am (no breakfast room available), you are treated royalty with real Egyptian modern food. Many thanks for the fabulous staff and receptionists, Special thanks to Miss Sama (not related to the hotel ownership). Our room had two balconies over looking the crowded space in front of the hotel. Pedestrian street called Al Alfie street is at the hotel foot print. Thank you guys for a wonderful 21 days.

1. Room was reasonably clean 2. Sama and the hotel manager were good and helpful. But the caretaker doesn’t understand English. No one explained that we needed to explicitly request for room cleaning. So, on first day when we returned from outdoor activities, we found our room wasn’t cleaned. But interestingly someone came and took away all the towels. We had to go to 6th floor ( that’s where the reception is) to get a couple of towels. An uncomfortable experience. 3. The elevator doesn’t work without fob that comes with the room key. So, you need to climb all the way up to 6th floor with all your bags when you arrive for the first time and climb down with all your items from 6th floor as you won’t have the fob in either time. Not a good experience. 4. Breakfast is served in the room. But it is unpredictable and different each day. It seems foods are brought from some local restaurants. Coffee comes cold as there is no lead on the cups. Also breakfast items are not good. One good thing though is that they box it for you if you need to step out early. 5. The picture I saw during booking vs what we got are different. Our window was on a dingy and dilapidated side. Will upload pic as a proof. Pretty bad experience.

At check in we were given a 4 single beds rooms (as free upgrade). Then an hour later we were told that this room was just for 1 night. For the other 2 nights we would have needed to move to another room with 2 single bed. Funny thing is that we had book a room with 2 queen size bed. The room was acceptable but super small and definately not what we had booked.