Luxor Internet Cafes

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I know the last post was a little bit longer, but I forgot to mention a couple things...

Internet prices vary quite a bit here in Luxor and the speed does too. You will find cafes up and down television street for 5 egyptian pounds per hour, but there is a far better place, that has much better computers and a good connection that is open 24 hours a day just around the corner from Everest Hostel... The name of the cafe is "Key Net" and it costs 2 EP per hour.

The stores around luxor are much worse for screwing with tourists, all of them will try to get that extra few pounds. Even the simple corner store will do 2.50 pounds for water instead of the standard 1.50. You won't get them down to 1.50 but be happy with 2. It is a smaller town and some things are more expensive here, but generally you will pay "close" (within a pound) of cairo prices.

The best deals you will get is probably for the hotels. The cost of single rooms here is much cheaper than cairo... for the same cost of a dorm room in cairo you can get your own single room here in Luxor with breakfast.

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On a really unrelated note, I'm buzzing off this little post at about 80-90 words per minute and I have two kids in the cafe next to me who seem to be just amazed by my touch typing skills. I'm glad they are good for something :) LOL