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Paradise Inn Windsor Palace HotelvsSteigenberger Cecil Hotel
Both hotels are rated highly by professional travelers. Overall, Steigenberger Cecil Hotel is the choice of most reviewers compared to Paradise Inn Windsor Palace Hotel. Steigenberger Cecil Hotel is ranked #1 in Alexandria with recommendations from 6 reviewers like Travel + Leisure, Fodor's and Lonely Planet.
Paradise Inn Windsor Palace Hotel
Fodor's
Travel + Leisure
DK Eyewitness
Rough Guide
17 El Shohada Street, Ramal Station, Alexandria, Egypt
From $47/night
- Bar/Lounge
- Hot Tub
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
"Erected on the Alexandria Corniche in 1906, the Windsor Palace retains a period look and feel thanks to its furnishings, tapestries, and oil paintings." Full review
"Built in 1906, this grand hotel is the place to see Alexandria’s faded glamour." Full review
"Perched since 1906 on the Corniche facing the sea, the Palace is an old hotel with “cage lifts” and high-ceilinged rooms."
"Run by the same chain as the Metropole, this refurbished Edwardian hotel charms with its wrought-iron elevators, rich green and gold decor and high-ceilinged rooms."
Steigenberger Cecil Hotel
Insight Guides
Travel + Leisure
DK Eyewitness
Rough Guide
Fodor's
Lonely Planet
16 Saad Zagloul Square, Alexandria 1726, Egypt
From $55/night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
"The glamour has long gone, but it remains an atmospheric and romantic place with good service. The comfortable rooms boast sweeping bay views."
"The setting for much of the Alexandria Quartet novels, with many rooms overlooking the Mediterranean Sea." Full review
"Alexandria’s most famous hotel gained its fame in the 1930s–40s when it was one of the city’s glitziest social venues."
"An Alexandrian institution: dead central, and with wonderful views of the Eastern Harbour."
"With the Cecil, you're paying for history more than creature comforts, but if atmosphere is what you want you'll find it here in spades." Full review
Top choice
"The historic Cecil Hotel, an Alexandria legend, has been refitted several times over the last couple of decades, sometimes for the better." Full review