Sara Inn Hostel

Cairo


The Sara Inn offers both dorms and private rooms for shoestring travellers and is a small and personable place where you can easily get to know the staff. Rooms come in a variety of sizes and are a hodge-podge of beige and orange frayed carpets and local tapestries that have a well lived-in, old fashioned feel.


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