Our plane To "Madinah" was scheduled
for 2:30 am - it was cancelled and rebooked on
another flight the following day at 5:30 pm, but
no one had the decency to call us with that
information and save us from going to the Airport
in the middle of the night for nothing..
- At Cairo Airport, there was no
representatives from the Travel agency to assist
us. Standing in huge unorganized lines, you see
many Travel agencies representatives, carrying
dozens of passports with their tickets and going
behind the counters to finalize the procedure for
their customers in minutes, while we are standing
there, being shuffled from one counter to another
with no one willing to help.
- A woman in the same group as ours, who traveled
from San Francisco and was in transit to travel on
this plan, ended up crying after she found out
that her wait at the airport for 5 hours did not
get her on a plane as planned. She had no other
choice, but to spend the night in the airport as
she does not have any family in Egypt to go to.
She pleaded her case to the supervisor to get her
a hotel room. His answer was we are sorry, but we
are an airline, if you were traveling with a
reputable travel agency they should have looked
after you and arranged it for you.
- Arriving in Madinah late at night and
visiting "Al Haram El Nabawy" was
simply a magical feeling and a breath taking
view. I had
decided to put everything behind me and enjoy this
spiritual trip, I had planed for, for so
long. Unfortunately, problems started
again, when my group was supposed to travel by
plane, to find out that
Mohamed Elsherbini simply lied to us and we were
to take a bus on a very lengthy road
ride. The air-conditioning
on the bus was not working, yet Mohamed Elsherbini
thought he was talking to Egyptian peasants who
just don't know what air conditioning is and tried
to convince us that it was working, simply
insulting our intelligence. We
had no choice, but to endure the very long ride to
Makkah, to yet face another problem. The incompetent
"Mohamed Elsherbini" never made any
hotel reservations and was scrambling to figure
out what to do with our group. We spent
hours sitting on the Hotel's Lobby's floor, tired
and hungry until we were able to get rooms in
different hotels.