Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . h 38 is ; btm a- ? ,. l [ / i y tl & FQ tT IJI RAH f M 1 0 V, Vg V» 1 I«Jl»iil«. 415 6. Suez, Ain Miisa, and the Red Sea. On arriving at the busy station, the traveller is beset by a numberof cicerones who speak broken English, French, and other languages. Hotels. Hotel Sdez (PI. a), situated on the coast, at a considerabledistance from the station, a first-class house, fitted up in the Englishstyle, and kept by a German; board and lodging 16s. per day (less if aprolonged stay is made
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . h 38 is ; btm a- ? ,. l [ / i y tl & FQ tT IJI RAH f M 1 0 V, Vg V» 1 I«Jl»iil«. 415 6. Suez, Ain Miisa, and the Red Sea. On arriving at the busy station, the traveller is beset by a numberof cicerones who speak broken English, French, and other languages. Hotels. Hotel Sdez (PI. a), situated on the coast, at a considerabledistance from the station, a first-class house, fitted up in the Englishstyle, and kept by a German; board and lodging 16s. per day (less if aprolonged stay is made). There are two scales of charges: (1st) break-fast 4, tiffin 4, dinner 6s.; (2nd) 2, 2, and 4s. respectively. Bottle of aleor porter Is. 6d. The servants are Indians, — quiet, attentive people,with delicate features and of slender build. English Church service onSundays. The shady court of the hotel affords a pleasant lounge. News-papers for the use of visitors. — Hotel dORiENT, in the Rue de Colmar,the principal street, Vi M. from the station; pension, with wine, 10 day ; unpretending, but tolerable. — Most of the restaurants and cafesare very disreputable-looking. Lad
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