Like a solar boat in suspension, Hyatt Regency Cairo West sits elevated on the banks of the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road. The solar boat metaphor is an accurate one, and is the main artery of the hotel’s appeal. Every careful detail is a nod to the age-old solar boat, first discovered in King Khufu’s burial pyramid. A boat which, interestingly enough, reached its final home earlier this August at the Grand Egyptian Museum – right across from where Hyatt Regency Cairo West now sits. With a distinct Egyptian brand of modernity, the hotel is a bed for Egypt’s most promising form of hospitality. Opening October 2021, it promises to sweeten the stress of business tourism and recreate the most idyllic parts of Cairo – without the noise. Hyatt Regency Cairo West’s wide-casted mashrabiyat and first-grade technology provide a meeting point for glass and wood, the historical and contemporary. General Manager, Tarek Al-Masry, promises that Hyatt’s brand “isn’t only back, it’s back with a completely new F&B [food and beverage], dining, and accommodation experience. Cairo will see something that it has never seen before.” Long gone are the years of modern cubist…
