We chose Mena House for our first 2 days. The compound is very well maintained. Renovated rooms still maintained the old style.
Huge room with walk in closet. Breakfast is served at the restaurant with Prymid as backdrop. I cannot think of
any other hotel has such a perfect setting.
We then moved to Le Meridien connected to CAI because we needed to take early flight to Aswan then Abu Simbel.
Le Meridien has a corridor connected to CAI and the security guard there just waved us thru.
Upon returning to Cairo we stayed at St. Regis. Brand new hotel Excellent restaurants, especially the fusion Asian restaurant. Nice view of Nile. I used an upgrade cert to stay in a 2 bedroom apartment - suited us because one of us was sick. Having 2 bedrooms meant better sleep at night. There was a very funny thing happened, when we were asked would we like our leftover of Peking Duck packed up? We said sure. Shortly after we returned to our apartment, the door bell rang. A butler with a HUGE silver tray with the duck and all trimmings on top of it... The tray was so huge that it occupied the whole corner of the kitchen counter...
Then upon check out I noticed an item with about US$2 worth that I did not recognize, so I asked out of curiosity.
I was told it was "room service charge" for the leftover duck delivered to our room. 
First I did not expect a "room service charge", second, for US$2, this room service charge is dirt cheap! 
