Advertisement★★★★½ Reviews & adviceHotel reviews A hotel fit for a king, a tsar and Princess Di doesn’t disappoint Michael Gebicki August 8, 2026 — 12:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Share A A AThe hotel Mandarin Oriental Old Cataract, Aswan, Egypt Checking in The hotel is perched on granite cliffs overlooking islands in the River Nile. The Palace Wing is the original while the Nile Wing was built in 1961 to house Russian engineers working on the Aswan High Dam. These are functional rooms, and while they share the Palace Wing rooms’ riverside location, they lack their grandeur and opulence. It needs to shake off the stodge, and the Mandarin Oriental group has what it takes.