Expert reviews
“Standing between two towering office blocks overlooking the Nile, this luxury hotel will appeal to both business and leisure travelers. The interior design looks to the early 20th century for its inspiration; to balance the yin and yang, there are two different color schemes for the rooms—a rich black and gold, contrasting with cool ivories and natural tones.”
“A location amid Nile City Towers Mall gives the hotel easy access to shopping and entertainment — catch a movie at the Renaissance Cinema. Though since Fairmont Nile City sits on the banks of the Nile, your gaze likely will be locked on the world’s longest river.”
What guests liked
- Top location
- Swimming pool
- Comfortable beds
- Free Wifi
- Private parking
- Friendly staff
All you need to know
Hovering right over the edge of the world’s longest river, the Fairmont Nile City is a luxury escape built into Cairo’s striking Nile City Towers complex. Designed by the famous global architecture firm Hirsch Bedner Associates, the hotel seamlessly blends sleek, modern structural lines with timeless, elegant Art Deco interior accents.
Its coolest architectural bragging right is easily the 25th-floor Sky Pool. As the highest rooftop swimming pool in Cairo, it treats you to unbelievable, panoramic views of the city skyline blending into the horizon—on a clear day, you can actually spot the ancient Pyramids of Giza frames in the distance while you swim.
If you are looking to explore, the hotel serves as an excellent central anchor. You are just a short drive from Tahrir Square and the legendary Egyptian Museum, which houses a massive treasure trove of ancient artifacts. The bustling, historic alleys of the Khan El Khalili bazaar are also within easy reach for souvenir hunting.
Inside the hotel, the atmosphere stays incredibly alive after dark. You can catch authentic belly dancing performances and live music over shisha at their vibrant Bab El Nil restaurant, or slide into the Saigon Lounge for some sophisticated pan-Asian dishes and live jazz.
Location
Recent guest reviews
30 December 2025
Very good
Location
Nothing
29 December 2025
Not for families
Location
Hotel is not for families and the hotel needs to do something about what goes in the lobby. Quality of the breakfast is also poor.
28 December 2025
Fabulous
Great location. Fabulous hotel. Great breakfast. at the main restaurant. The Fairmont gold lounge access was good Although limited breakfast. Definitely recommend staying here. Central to attractions.
26 December 2025
Excellent choice
Location Service
24 December 2025
I felt super safe the whole time and lived up to expectations.
Very safe and comfortable.
The transport services are super over priced.
20 December 2025
Pleasant
After 12 AM, there was a very loud and disturbing noise from the music.
17 December 2025
Room with a view to Nile
Location, excellent staff and great restaurants
7 December 2025
Good place to stay in Egypt
Rooms are so big and comfortable.
Long time for check in .
4 December 2025
Very good
The room was nice. The restaurants and the breakfast was fantastic.
We were told that everything in the room would be complimentary so we opened a bottle of red wine. The only bottle that wasn't included. The price of that red wine for a half bottle size costs us $US 200. So clarify with the front desk if everything in the room is included.
2 December 2025
very good stay but service level for 5 star questionable
service generally slow
23 November 2025
It’s a nice hotel with a very helpful staff
Luxurious and comfortable
The location
21 November 2025
I recommend this hotel for travelers
Cleaning room , excellent location
Na
12 November 2025
I had enjoyed
Very nice
No thing
4 November 2025
Enjoying Cairo with Lexury
Hotel facilities and room are well maintained. quality of hotel restaurants is excellent.
Nothing
4 November 2025
A true VIP experience.
Very nice rooms and facilities. Felt like a royal during my stay.
Some additional services are too expensive.
3 November 2025
The hotel's location is excellent. The staff are friendly and helpful. However, the behavior of some guests is inapp
The location
Not suitable for children or families
31 October 2025
Decent hotel but getting outdated so not as worth price-wise
Loved the rooftop pool
It’s getting outdated
31 October 2025
Excellent staff & hotel
Excellent in all
Nothing
27 October 2025
A very pleasant stay.
The breakfast buffet is extraordinary. The location is good and the staff are very attentive. The pool was a real bonus.
The lighting in the room is not good.
26 October 2025
Fabulous
Location is very good
Some guests were bad
9 October 2025
Very good hotel in Cairo
Lovely hotel, clean. Pleasant staff
More expensive than other hotels we stayed in Egypt
15 September 2025
Fabulous
Fairmont Gold was perfect especially the lounge .
No Sound isolation between rooms & Corridor .
18 August 2025
Very good
The same comments were made in the previous review
Safe access to Nile side
18 August 2025
Very good
Security Control and Access Hospitality Customer Service Housekeeping
Access to Nile side from the hotel as there is no safe walk way. We used the vehicles ramps which is un safe.
19 July 2025
Fabulous
Everything was very good
Some resistriction about lounge
17 July 2025
Fabulous
The staff + the view
16 July 2025
Fabulous
The service, the rooms are pretty clean
The people that stays there 👎🏽 it give the Hotel bad reputation
12 July 2025
Great stay
Location,Staff and atmosphere
8 July 2025
Good location
The room so comfortable the singers snd dancers are good comfortable atmosphere
The mall next is not that good
27 June 2025
Fabulous
Location, Staff very friendly, GYM, , room
Massage spa is over priced
24 June 2025
Fabulous
The staff is very friendly, especially Ali from the housekeeping (8th floor), who was very helpful and professional
No proper sports bar in the hotel!
12 June 2025
Fabulous
The service by the pool it’s not a exceptional
2 June 2025
Enjoyed my stay
Location Staff Food
Furniture is a bit old Parking fees not included even for gold rooms
1 June 2025
Excellent stay
Excellent rooms, location and service and attached to a small mall with several restaurants and shisha places.
6 May 2025
Wonderful stay in a great, spacious and clean room with great staff!
The room was spacious, had a great view, clean and the bed was extremely comfortable!
The room was a bit dark, specially the bathroom. Need better lighting options.
5 May 2025
Very good
Sometimes one person can transform the entire experience of a destination. The pyramids had been disappointing for me because I had used the earlier gate and had fallen prey to the local guides, the horse carriages, camels etc. The concierge at the hotel, Yasser, patiently listened to my rant and helped me book my tickets online, and arranged an excellent driver, Waheed. He went beyond the call of duty and constantly checked with Waheed to ensure that my trip went off well. As I stare at the photographs of the enchanting, mystical Pyramids which are now a part of me, I.think of Yaseer and thank him from the bottom of my heart.
There should have been more fruit in the breakfast buffet selection. Also, the buffet had very limited variety.
29 April 2025
High quality place in Cairo
Staff and service was incredible. Had a friends birthday and they arranged a cake free of charge. We bought the cake to one of their restaurants and they even arranged a celebration for him.
One small complaint is that upon check in I was told that breakfast was complimentary but ended up having to pay.
15 April 2025
Fabulous
Loved the level of service you received at this hotel. It never disappoints
13 April 2025
Very good
Noisy cant sleep early , you shall stay awake until 3am sometimes due to music outside and its Not suitable for families
13 April 2025
Good
The gym and spa are both perfect.
8 April 2025
Enjoyable
Pleasant staff and facilities
NA
6 April 2025
Expensive but good location. Friendly and helpful hotel staff.
Prices are extortionate, you could pay 4 x the price of a drink at a neighbouring hotel. And service charge is applied to everything, even if you take a drink out of the mini-bar you get charged service. And the cleaners for the rooms often left the room door open while they went away to get provisions and cleaning materials. This meant that the door to your room would be left wide open for several minutes with no one inside it. And I know this because I came back to the room twice to find it like this.
1 April 2025
Fabulous
Excellent breakfast (quality & choice), a few restaurants and bars to choose from (our favorite was saigon's cuisine and bar. Beautiful and comfy room /beds, stunning bathroom! We absolutely loved the staff, the concierge team is beyond amazing and genuinely care about helping you (Ahmed, Sarah and hussein?). The spa area is great, and the gym is a proper highly equipped and maintained gym. The swimming pool area and food is excellent and the staff there is really lovely 🙏🏼 thank you for everything
1 April 2025
Lively hotel though location a bit iffy
Beautiful property w black marble tiles floor and walks, high end glam decor. Bedrooms very comfortable. Bed excellent , sheets and towels lovely and super luxurious. Bathroom very nice. Pool at the top of the hotel. Staff excellent especially Youssef ( reception) & Christen & Sarah ( concierge ). The pool area , though nice could be windy, smallish and definitely not enough sun umbrellas and those they had were crochet so though looked good didn’t protect you from the sun. There was no outdoor dining or bar ( other than pool area ) in use so everything was indoors. No casual dining area though the hotel had a new mall attached and there is a nice bistro there. Though the hotel is opposite the Nile ( across a busy road ) there is nothing really walkable so had to catch taxis everywhere.
28 March 2025
Pleasant
The room is super tidy and clean, and the location is really convenient. And the breakfast is pretty decent compared to other hotels.
Hot water is very unstable, fluctuating between hot and cold. Moreover, the shower head faucet is too tight and difficult to operate.
27 March 2025
Excellent hotel, will stay again.
All good
Nothing
24 March 2025
Chilling
The location, the Omos here and everything
None
24 March 2025
Chilling
All was good, the location, including the atmosphere
None
17 March 2025
Very nice stay. The staff was wonderful and the room was great
Very nice people, very nice room.
They overcharge on personal drivers (150$ when it was 6€ by uber).
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Breakfast in the room
- - Snack bar
- - Special diet menus (on request)
- - Kids' meals (additional charge)
- - Kid-friendly buffet
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
- - Fruits (additional charge)
- - Coffee house on site
General
- - Room service
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Facilities for disabled guests
- - Barber/beauty shop
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Soundproof rooms
- - Packed lunches
- - Car hire
- - Heating
- - Air conditioning
- - Designated smoking area
- - Shuttle service (additional charge)
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Business centre (additional charge)
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Express check-in/check-out
- - Currency exchange
- - Tour desk
- - Luggage storage
- - ATM/cash machine on site
- - Concierge service
- - Private check-in/check-out
- - Lockers
Activities
- - Sauna
- - Fitness centre
- - Casino
- - Spa and wellness centre (additional charge)
- - Massage (additional charge)
- - Hot tub/Jacuzzi
- - Hammam (additional charge)
- - Nightclub/DJ (additional charge)
- - Evening entertainment (additional charge)
- - Beauty services
- - Facial treatments
- - Waxing services
- - Make-up services
- - Hair treatments
- - Hair colouring
- - Hair styling
- - Body treatments
- - Body scrub
- - Body wrap
- - Light therapy
- - Spa facilities
- - Steam room
- - Spa lounge/relaxation area
- - Spa/wellness packages
- - Back massage
- - Neck massage
- - Foot massage
- - Couples massage
- - Head massage
- - Hand massage
- - Full body massage
- - Massage chair
- - Fitness
- - Yoga classes
- - Fitness classes
- - Personal trainer
- - Fitness/spa locker rooms
- - Live music/performance
- - Aerobics
Outdoors
- - Terrace
- - Outdoor pool
- - Sun terrace
- - Outdoor pool (all year)
Entertainment & family services
- - Babysitting/child services (additional charge)
- - Board games/puzzles
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Ironing service (additional charge)
- - Trouser press (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
Parking
- - Parking garage
- - Accessible parking
Accessibility
- - Wheelchair accessible
- - Lower bathroom sink
- - Emergency cord in bathroom
Pool and wellness
- - Rooftop pool
- - Pool with view
- - Heated pool
- - Pool bar
- - Shallow end
- - Pool cover
- - Sun loungers or beach chairs
- - Sun umbrellas
- - Kids' pool
- - Swimming pool
- - Swimming pool
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Key card access
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - CCTV outside property
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Delivered food is securely covered
- - Access to health care professionals
- - Face masks for guests available

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31 December 2025
The perfect stay in a beautiful hotel