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age x-ray and bomb-sniffing dogs that check arriving across the street from the Nile. Although we didn’t
vehicles. Oh, and here’s one more reason; you can know it when we booked, the hotel is next door to the
find alcoholic beverages in the restaurants and bars American Embassy. From the look of the clientele,
in these four and five star hotels. many of the hotel guests had business at the Embas-
Fortunately, our tour agency gave us the choice of sy or worked for the government. That meant there
Fairmont or Kempinski for our hotel - a tough deci- was heightened security around the entire neighbor-
sion since we like them both. We picked Kempinski, hood in addition to checkpoints at the entrance to the
because of its central location in the Garden District hotel.
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