Midtown Hostel

Avoid, definitely avoid. Very disappointed. Booked the hotel but room wasn’t in a hostel 2 floors down. Building is in terrible shape. Room was not what we booked. Photos are misleading, they show you’ll get a balcony and a certain layout, you don’t. Room and hotel smelt like an ashtray. No blankets given. Advised them of all the issues, answers given were ridiculous. When asking for a blanket the response was ‘we don’t have blankets, no one asks for blankets but I’ll do you a favour and bring you a duvet cover to use as one.’ Bathroom was shocking. Disgusting. No way of showering either without flooding the bathroom (and no it wasn’t a wet room). No breakfast was offered or available.

Nice and reasonable priced for short stay. Nice place to stay for a short visit. They have 2 categories of rooms (old and new --＞ just book the cheapest category because for the new rooms anyway you will be charged extra as not online yet). Nice breakfast, nice staff. Don't get scared by the building, entrance, other floors of the building (everything is horrible, worn down and dirty). The hostel itself is on the top floor and quite modern and neat. Drawback is smoking in public areas.

Our stay in the Midtown was fine. We were a bit worried since it was our first night in Cairo and considering that the surrounding city streets are dark and busy it was reassuring when we met Mahmoud the owner. Firstly, he reached out via Whatsapp to ensure we’d a taxi or tours, we’d already prebooked these but he was the only hotel owner who was upfront and straight with no hassle on the tours. This is nice because during the trip the guides sometimes went overboard trying to sell tours to you, Mahmoud has respect and patience. The access is via 4 flights of stairs or an elevator which looks broken but works perfectly fine. Mahmoud welcomed us, did the passports and showed us to the room in good time, no waiting around. The room was: fine, clean and quiet. Bathroom had toilet paper and hot water, only thing we’d to ask for was a hair dryer and towels but the other hotels always seem to have these upon request only too. The wifi had extenders but seemed to be weak, a recurrent issue we had in our other hotels. The WE mobile network from the sims we bought in airport was better. Mahmoud checked if we wanted tours which was good. Breakfast in morning was fine, eggs, bread and falafel. Nothing dissimilar from the rest of the hotels. A bit slower than usual from the staff to get the breakfast, but when it came it was good. Finally on check out day we’d an early start and the guy was helpful, wanted to check the room but didn’t keep us waiting. Overall, I’m quiet happy we stayed here and would give 4/5, as it was good value for money. You’re not paying for the Ritz Carlton here, Mahmound seems to be an honest guy doing an honest days work and that made our trip better. Improvement Tip: I think there should be a Wifi booster in every room.,quicker coffee and cleaner staircase.

Honest review. The location is great, close by to everything. Clean and beautiful rooms but if you stay here, you are on your own. Expect zero service from the hotel whether it is check in on time, early breakfast request (specially if you requested it a day prior and they agreed still you won't get) , help with luggage (even if 3 ppl are looking at you struggling with luggage, no help) , room services like if you get kettle on request and you ask for glasses, they won't like it, room with 3 beds have only 2 blankets and If you ask for 3rd one, they won't like it. No help with the routes, as they don't know most of the things in their own city. They made us feel like we asked too much from them though these are some basic things which they should provide. They just need good reviews and they will ask you to write good reviews 10 times, but when it comes to providing services, you wont get anything. Though they let us keep the luggage when we were outside the city, thank you very much for that.

Cet hôtel se trouve au 5e étage d'un immeuble horriblement dégradé, mais ce n'est rien à côté du comportement du gérant qui nous a reçus, mon épouse et moi-même. Le problème n'était pas qu'il essaye de nous vendre des excursions avant même que nous soyons assis dans le salon où il nous a fait entrer, car ce procédé est très habituel en Egypte. Ce que nous avons trouvé inadmissible, c'est qu'il nous demande de payer plus cher que le prix sur lequel nous nous étions pourtant entendus par mail et, surtout, qu'il nous envoie dans un autre hôtel ENCORE PLUS MINABLE, sûrement parce qu'il a compris qu'il ne nous tirerait pas un dollar de plus. Nous avons dû passer notre soirée de Saint-Valentin dans un bouge sans eau chaude, aux draps mouillés et à la fenêtre qui ne fermait pas alors que ma femme avait choisi un hôtel soi-disant "luxueux" et très cher (36 dollars au Caire, c'est très cher). Cet homme devrait avoir honte et changer de profession.

Very rude stuff ,we had tour to cairo with a travel agency that we already booked before they denied that we are at the hostel to sell for us tour and book a car from hostel so they could make money from us ,they sell the tour very expensive ,we never return back , Dont trust them .❌❌❌❌❌❌❌