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The Luxor Sheraton has seen better days.

That was probably the reason we got the holiday at such a low price from LastMinute.com in the first place.

It's also something that the owners recognise, in that they were showing details of how the hotel will be updated over the summer. So I wouldn't go to the hotel until they finish the works later in 2006!

Saying that, the problems are really confined to the buildings, the grounds and to a certain extent the pool. As an example, we had two attempts before we got an acceptable room, but even then it didn't have the facilities you would expect in a four star hotel. The bed was not the most comfortable, which meant that we didn't sleep as well as we usually do.

We were hungry after the flight and had a choice in the hotel of a buffet, Indian or Italian restaurants. Nothing was really Egyptian! Sad!

We choose the Italian and got a pleasant surprise.

I had lentil soup, but one that was much more Italian than Egyptian and a steak in a pepper sauce. Perhaps, I should have asked more about gluten, but I didn't, as I was tired. But I got no reaction at all, so my assumption that the food didn't contain wheat flour was correct. I enjoyed my meal, although Celia chose a meal that wasn't completely to her taste.

The real surprise was the wine.

As Egypt is mainly a Moslem country, I'd expected that hotels would sell bad and overpriced, imported plonk. They may have done, but I didn't try it. Instead we had a very acceptable bottle of Egyptian Red Wine called Obelisk.

Note that later in the week I had a glass of Rose Obelisk. Don't! I drunk it, but then I can drink most things alcoholic. Except beer of course!

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