ROOMS with jaw-dropping views usually come with equally eye-watering price tags. At the Shangri-La Paris, which looks onto the Eiffel Tower , a bed for the night starts at a whopping £1,500, while you can expect to pay hundreds for hotels with London Eye views. But in Egypt , the land of the Great Pyramids of Giza, you can snag front-row views of the towering golden peaks and the Great Sphinx for a steal.
For just £75 a night - working out to just £37.50pp - visitors can check into an Airbnb apartment overlooking the last remaining Ancient Wonder of the World. Booking in for a quick weekend city break, I felt a twinge of apprehension with the listing showing pictures of the pyramids with bright blue skies - almost too perfect.
Friends either warned it was probably a scam or laughed at me for being gullible enough to book what they thought was an obvious fake. But at such a bargain price, I figured it was worth taking the risk. Arriving in Giza a few weeks later, after a five-hour flight from London and a 30-minute Uber from the heart of the Egyptian capital Cairo , it all became more real as the pyramids came into view.
Getting to the apartment itself left me feeling like Brendan Fraser in The Mummy hunting for Hamunaptra, as I navigated dusty, narrow alleyways trying to locate the right building. After finally finding it and braving a frighteningly rickety elevator that trundled up to the 10th floor past stairways strewn with rubble and construction debris, I arrived in c.
