Photo: Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY 3.0What Innlantern is
Upper Egypt has hundreds of places to stay, from five-star palaces on the Nile to family guest houses in Nubian villages. Booking sites list them all, but they rarely tell you which part of town suits your trip, what the ferry means for your evenings, or what the scores of thousands of guests actually say about a place.
Innlantern answers those questions for two cities, Cairo, Luxor and Aswan (with Abu Simbel), in English and Spanish. Each hotel page compares public facts in our own words, each city page explains the areas, and the travel guides help plan the trip around the hotels.
Who is behind it
Innlantern is run by Axel Silipo, from Norway. It is an independent project: it is not owned by a hotel, a tour operator or a booking site, and no hotel in the guide owns any part of it.
How the guide is made
We do not pretend to have slept in every hotel we cover, and we never invent guests, quotes or reviews. Instead, every page is built from sources you can check yourself:
- Guest scores from Booking.com and Google Maps, which summarise hundreds or thousands of real stays. We show the score, the number of reviews and the date we checked.
- Location: the hotel's map position, straight-line distances to the main sites and the practical consequences (a ferry, a boat, a long drive).
- Policies the hotel publishes: check-in times, children, pets, payment.
- Official and well-established sources for everything else, listed at the end of each guide.
The full method is on how we choose and review.
How Innlantern earns money
The guide is free to read. It earns money in two ways, both clearly labelled:
- Affiliate links. Buttons such as "See prices on Booking.com" are affiliate links. If you book through one, Innlantern may receive a commission from the partner. You pay the same price. See the affiliate disclosure.
- Featured places. A hotel can pay to appear in the "Featured" box of a city page, which is always marked as an advertisement. Paying does not change what we write about the hotel. See information for hotels.
Contact
Corrections, questions and suggestions are welcome at [email protected]. We cannot make or change bookings: for that, contact the hotel or Booking.com directly.