Villa Belle Époque

 

You will find the Egypt’s beautiful Villa Belle Époque occupying conjoined 1920s villas in Maadi, a leafy suburb created to house British civil servants and Egyptians working in the court of the Khedive Abbas Hilmi II. This whitewashed structure has black window casings and balcony trims and 13 guest suites with a tasteful mix of contemporary Egyptian art and European and Oriental antiques.

 

Guests can curl up in a library stocked with design magazines and books on Egyptian art and history, or lay by the pool in a lush garden of mature fruit and palm trees. The restaurant serves European and Egyptian fusion dishes. Amid the quiet neighbourhood of historic villas, mosques, a synagogue, and low-rise apartment buildings, the hotel is a five-minute stroll to Road Nine, Maadi's main street, popular for its mix of vegetable sellers and small souks offering shisha pipes, cartouches, and other souvenirs.

The Cairo Metro stops here on the way to Coptic Cairo and Tahrir Square, while the Pyramids are 30 minutes away by car. The helpful hotel staff can arrange taxis, feluccas, and private guides. Everything is in reach in this little known area of Egypt when it comes to mass tourism, which in itself makes it great place to enjoy sumptuous splendour surrounding by a calm and peaceful area.