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Home  >  EgyptAir • Lounge Reviews  >  Review: EgyptAir Gienah Lounge Cairo (CAI)
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Review: EgyptAir Gienah Lounge Cairo (CAI)

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 25, 2021November 25, 2021 6 Comments

After stepping off my EgyptAir flight and then dealing with the drama at the transit desk, I was famished. Upstairs, I quickly found the Gienah Lounge, one of several EgyptAir lounges in Terminal 3.

EgyptAir Gienah Lounge Review

Rather than offer a huge, central lounge, EgyptAir offers small lounges scattered throughout expansive Terminal 3 at Cairo International Airport.

Location + Hours + Access Requirements

Access to this lounge is reserved for business and first class passengers as well as Star Alliance Gold members traveling in any cabin of service on a Star Alliance flight. EgyptAir Plus members with Gold, Elite, or Platinum status enjoy access, but not those with Silver status. The lounge is open 24/7 and located in Terminal 3, Concourse G, near Gate 10.

Seating

Upon walking in and presenting your credentials, you can turn left or right to find lounge seating. at 5:00am, the entire left side of the lounge was closed, leaving a small seating area on the right side.

A TV blared CNN (in English). Each chair had an end table within reach as well as an electrical outlet (European style 220-volt). Large round windows offer nature light during daylight hours.

This is what the other side of the lounge looked like (from my 2016 visit):

(you can see that nothing changed)

Restrooms

I stopped first at the restroom and found it clean. Showers are not available.

Food + Drink

All hot food is gone from EgyptAir lounges, at least during my November 2021 visit.

At 5:00am, the selection included:

  • baked breakfast breads
  • sandwiches
  • sliced vegetables
  • whole fruit
  • cereal
  • hummus
  • yogurt (labneh and fruit)
  • baba ganoush

There was also a manual coffee machine, a microwave, and a refrigerator with soft drinks and juices.

I great enjoyed some Arabic mezze as well as a cappuccino and warmed up croissant:

Service

While attempting to make the coffee myself, a lounge worker came over and told me to sit down and that he would make me the coffee. He also (rather forcibly) took the plate from my hand, told me to sit down, and said he would serve it.

I was one of only two people in the lounge at the time so I get that he wanted to keep busy and serve, though I was perfectly capable of carrying of my own plate.

The coffee wasn’t great and I’m not sure this type of labeling would fly in the USA:

CONCLUSION

After filling up on cucumber slices dipped in hummus and labneh, I moved onto my next lounge. This lounge hasn’t changed a bit since my last visit four years earlier. While not a great lounge, it covered the basics well and I did enjoy the food spread as a far better alternative than the food served onboard Egyptair.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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6 Comments

  1. Tom Reply
    November 25, 2021 at 8:22 am

    Maybe because I’m not American but what’s wrong with the coffee labeling? Looks like a rather happy man dancing because he has his coffee in hand, no? I know Americans are rather sensitive to pretty much everything but I’m not seeing the issue here. What am I missing?

    • Alex Mann Reply
      November 27, 2021 at 3:49 am

      Americans are sensitive to everything? What are you missing? I won’t waste my time , you are an idiot

      • Michael Warnick Reply
        January 11, 2022 at 1:10 pm

        And you are a real asshole

    • Michael Warnick Reply
      January 11, 2022 at 1:12 pm

      I speaking as an American, you hit the nail on the head as this country has become so super sensitive to everything

  2. Matthew Reply
    November 25, 2021 at 10:09 am

    Side note: So I was randomly intrigued by Temmy’s cereal in your pictures. I did some research and it is manufactured by Kellogg’s. So that would be the reason the mascots on the boxes correlate with Kellogg’s cereal.

  3. T Bartlett Reply
    November 27, 2021 at 3:16 am

    Compared to British airways..it’s 5 stars

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