Barceló

Giza


Well placed for a strategic visit to the Pyramids, without totally giving up on the city. The Giza metro stop is about 3km away, and the Pyramids are 4km. It’s a standard chain, but modern and well kitted-out, with good breakfast and a nice rooftop pool.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Giza attractions

1. Dr Ragab’s Pharaonic Village

2.15 MILES

This theme park is cheesy but offers a child-friendly glimpse of what life in ancient Egypt would have been like, with a boat trip past actors in…

2. Wissa Wassef Art Centre

2.39 MILES

The artisans of the Wissa Wassef Art Centre, who work in open studios, are known for their distinctive tapestries depicting rural scenes. Crude imitations…

3. Nilometer

2.8 MILES

At the very southern tip of Roda, inside the Monastirli Palace compound, the Nilometer was constructed in AD 861. Like others built millennia before, it…

4. Umm Kulthum Museum & Monastirli Palace

2.82 MILES

Set in a peaceful Nileside garden, Monastirli Palace was built in 1851 for an Ottoman pasha whose family hailed from Monastir, in northern Greece. The…

5. King Farouk's Rest House

2.9 MILES

East of the Great Pyramid of Khufu is a ruin of a different era: King Farouk’s Rest House, a grand neo-Pharaonic structure built in 1946 by Mustafa Fahmy…

6. Tomb of Meresankh III

2.91 MILES

The bas-reliefs of daily life – scenes depict farming and craftspeople as well as Meresankh's family – inside this 4th dynasty tomb provide a colourful…

7. Eastern Cemetery

2.94 MILES

In this cemetery, on the eastern flank of the Queen's Pyramids, you can still see the perfectly smooth limestone facing along the bases of some structures…

8. Solar Barque Pits

2.95 MILES

On the east side of the Great Pyramid of Khufu note the solar barque pits that housed the giant ritual boats buried with the pharaoh.