Just as things seemed to be getting back to normal in Egypt comes a mini hotel news blow: Hyatt is dumping the Grand Hyatt Cairo. A tipster pointed us in the direction of this breaking news story on Hyatts website claiming unresolved contractual disputes with the hotels owner for...
March 21, 2011
Back in June we were stunned to hear that the owner of the Grand Hyatt Cairo committed the biggest party foul EVER by dumping out the remaining bottles of liquor from the hotel, worth nearly $1 million, into the Nile River. Aside from getting unsuspecting fish drunk, Sheik Abdelaziz al-Brahim...
August 26, 2008
PARTY FOUL, MAN: the owner of the Grand Hyatt Cairo recently decided to ban liquor from his hotel. Citing religious reasons, the Saudi owner showed everyone he was totally serious by reportedly pouring over one million dollars-worth of beer, wine and whisky into the Nile River. One million dollars....
June 23, 2008
Alcohol may be on the brink of extinction at Egyptian hotels, if the worst fears of tourism officials there come true: After the Saudi owner of the Grand Hyatt Cairo banned the sale of alcohol at the hotel, destroying millions of dollars of the stuff in the process, officials now...
May 23, 2008
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with...
December 13, 2007
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