We arrived at the hotel at Hurghada in the dark and there seemed to be a bit of a reservation problem as we were relegated out the back to an old holiday apartment block separate from the hotel . Our room had no power, no hot water and was quite dirty - maintenance had the power solved OK, but not the hot water - not too worry, we would make do.

There is a mantra we use in times like this "it's only one night". It's got us through all sorts of accommodation nightmares.

It proved to be a great night, as a dinner table was set up for just the Busabout crew outside and this was to be our guide Hany's last night. He would head back to Cairo and we would continue on the next day to the ferry that would take us across to Sinai.

Lots of photos were taken and email addresses exchanged then Hany said he had a surprise for us - a belly dancer and a disco! A great time was had by all.