We got them to give us a 9:00 check out on the boat, and slowly packed up all our junk and prepared for our departure. We'd been told what a cab ride should cost to the hotel and actually managed pretty easily to find 2 cabs and negotiate the correct rate. We were moving to the
Pyramisa Isis Island Hotel. You have to take a boat to get there, and we rode over with our huge pile of luggage, and an Egypt Air flight crew. As soon as we set foot on the island we realized we'd made a serious error in judgment by not booking for more days. The hotel is gorgeous, and the service was really awesome there. We were most excited by the pool and swim up bar, but the weather never cooperated enough to make swimming a viable long term option. We had arranged with our new best friend Sayed to take us out for lunch, so after we got settled and enjoyed a drink outside we met sayed back on the mainland. He put us on another boat and off we went to the Dokka Nubian restaurant. I was still hoping this would be a little less touristy, but when you go inside there are long tables already set up, and you can tell who's going there, the big groups. That's ok though, because the food is actually worth the effort here it's cooked in a metal bowl and you can choose among fish beef or chic
ken cooked in an amazing tomato sauce. Of course your meal starts with the standard breads and dips, and they serve these really wonderful fruit drinks. When you go there, spring for the Nubian coctail; a mix of gauva, mango and strawberry juice. We ate until we were absolutely stuffed, and then saw a coffee making demonstration, so we could see how the delicious Turkish coffees we'd been drinking were handcrafted by Nubians. After gorging ourselves we planned on spending a full day at the pool. There was sunning and nap time and not a whole lot else going on for the rest of the day. We had to rest up, because we had a full agenda planned for the next day. Nobody else was hungry for dinner, so W and I had dinner outside on the patio (the mezze platter and some fish and chips) and crashed early. there was a 4 am wakeup call waiting for us the next morning.
We got them to give us a 9:00 check out on the boat, and slowly packed up all our junk and prepared for our departure. We'd been told what a cab ride should cost to the hotel and actually managed pretty easily to find 2 cabs and negotiate the correct rate. We were moving to the Pyramisa Isis Island Hotel. You have to take a boat to get there, and we rode over with our huge pile of luggage, and an Egypt Air flight crew. As soon as we set foot on the island we realized we'd made a serious error in judgment by not booking for more days. The hotel is gorgeous, and the service was really awesome there. We were most excited by the pool and swim up bar, but the weather never cooperated enough to make swimming a viable long term option. We had arranged with our new best friend Sayed to take us out for lunch, so after we got settled and enjoyed a drink outside we met sayed back on the mainland. He put us on another boat and off we went to the Dokka Nubian restaurant. I was still hoping this would be a little less touristy, but when you go inside there are long tables already set up, and you can tell who's going there, the big groups. That's ok though, because the food is actually worth the effort here it's cooked in a metal bowl and you can choose among fish beef or chic
ken cooked in an amazing tomato sauce. Of course your meal starts with the standard breads and dips, and they serve these really wonderful fruit drinks. When you go there, spring for the Nubian coctail; a mix of gauva, mango and strawberry juice. We ate until we were absolutely stuffed, and then saw a coffee making demonstration, so we could see how the delicious Turkish coffees we'd been drinking were handcrafted by Nubians. After gorging ourselves we planned on spending a full day at the pool. There was sunning and nap time and not a whole lot else going on for the rest of the day. We had to rest up, because we had a full agenda planned for the next day. Nobody else was hungry for dinner, so W and I had dinner outside on the patio (the mezze platter and some fish and chips) and crashed early. there was a 4 am wakeup call waiting for us the next morning.
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