Cairo Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayyam Casino www.marriott.com
An Egyptian casino named after an eleventh-century Persian poet ... why not? Omar Khayyam is famous for immortalizing life's pleasures: "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou." Enhance these essentials with an exclusive gaming establishment reminiscent of an old-fashioned men's club and day trips to the Pyramids of Giza, and you have Cairo's most well-rounded luxury holiday. Anchored by a guest palace built in the 1860s, this Marriott gracefully blends old and new, melding its historic building with two modern towers to offer more than 1,000 guest rooms and suites, fifteen restaurants and six acres of palace gardens, all on an island in the middle of the Nile.