Hurrah! have finally booked somewhere!!!!! and it is cairo!!!!!!! we are DIY ing it. our flights are £200 each (ish) and four nights in a five star hotel bang slap next to the pyramids is £270. making our total about £700 ish without spending, apparently cairo is quite cheap for stuff (is this true nik?). We are flying on Saturday1st march/sunday2 march with olympic airways and then coming back 5th or 6th (time diff and all that). Its ideal, exactly what we've been looking for! a bit of an adventure together ALONE but not for 7 nights which is too long. Really looking forward to 5* luxury and seeing pyramids etc as i havre always wanted to see them and so has chris. we've booked our accommodation with
www.octopustravel.com which belongs to easyjet and we've also booked two excursions with them (really good for a budget company!)
1. Day tour of pyramids/ sphinx (am) and then tour of cairo city and visits to museums etc (pm) This is really so we don't miss anything and find our bearings. Doing this on first day.
2. a moonlit dinner cruise on the Nile. how romantic..................
we can then please ourselves, we are 15 mins walk from pyramids and a short taxi ride from cairo.
sorry to go on but am just soooooooooooooooooo excited now!