I cannot answer all your questions but if you want to reserve a seat in a train from cairo to alexandria
you can reserve online before even coming at https://www.egypt.gov.eg/english/services/enr/default.asp and I recommend that you start reserving within the next 2 days because during this tiem of summer, train seats become sold out before 2 or 3 days of the train's departure I also recommend that you get a 1st class seat at the Espanol train (El Aspany) or the Turbo train (El Torbiny), because the're the ones who are direct to alexandria without stops and have an air conditioned first class seats,, otherwise, it may be annoying the trip could take from 2-3 hours depending on the train and the departure time, and there are trains to alex almost every 2 or hours but the direct ones are about 3 a day, so check out good if you want to reserve a train from egypt after you arrive, you don't have to go to te train station itself in cairo (Mahattet Masr), you can reserve a ticket from one of the 2 main phone centrals of Almaza or Heliopolis (masr el gedida) Hope that helps... Ahmed Koraiem On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:45 PM, effe iets anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to ask this question here, hoping for a useful answer :) > I would like to ask some information about hotels and trains and > reservations. > > I will arrive the 16th very early in the morning in Cairo, and would > like a cheap hotel near the airport or main train station (assuming > there is a good connection to that station from the airport) to sleep > a few hours *before* I head to Alexandria by train. > * Does anyone know what ho(s)tel would be good for this? (note: I > arrive 2 am at the air port, and just want 5'ish hour of sleep, and > being tired, it should be very good to find :) ) > * Do I have to make reservations, and what will it roughly cost me? > * Do I have to make reservations for the fast train service to > Alexandria from Cairo, is it hard to get on board, how do I get > tickets? > * How far is it from the Alexandria station to the dorms? > * What time can we drop off stuff in the dorms? > > After Wikimania, I would like to travel around a bit, going after two > days or so to Luxor by the night train. First I want to stay one or > two nights in Cairo. > > * Does anyone know a ho(s)tel that is good for this? (not too > expensive, not per se next to the station) > * Again: do we have to make reservations? > * For the night train, do we have to make reservations? > > We would like to stay in Luxor for one or two days, and one or two > days in Aswan. > > *Again, is there a nice ho(s)tel here, price, reservations? > > Thanks a lot, and I owe you a stroopwafel if you can help me out! > > Best regards, > > Lodewijk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
