Ranked shortlist · 10 of 20 lodging
Best lodging in Cairo
The 10 most notable lodging in Cairo, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Dahab Hostel
Rooftop, 7th Floor 26 Mahmoud Bassiouny, Talaat Harb
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.397, percentile 100 of 20
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2
Madina Hostel
5 Kasr Al Nile
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.303, percentile 94.74 of 20
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3
The Australian Hostel
23 Abd El-Khalik Tharwat
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.245, percentile 89.47 of 20
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4
cairo house hostel
20 Adly
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.219, percentile 84.21 of 20
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5
Cheers Hostel Cairo
3rd floor 34 Talaat Harb, Yacoubian building, downtown, Cairo Governorate Yacoubian building, downtown, 34 Talaat Harb
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.187, percentile 78.95 of 20
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6
Wake Up Cairo Hostel
33 A, Ramsis St. Marouf Tower.Downtown
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.133, percentile 73.68 of 20
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7
Holy Sheet Hostel
2 Al Qadi Al Fadel
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.032, percentile 68.42 of 20
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8
Sufi House Hostel
43 شارع شريف باشا، الفوالة، عابدين،
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.007, percentile 63.16 of 20
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9
Meramees Hostel فندق ميراميس
32 Mohammad Sabri Abou Alam Talaat harb، square
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.991, percentile 57.89 of 20
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10
Tahrir Square Hostel
11 El-Tahrir Square
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.969, percentile 52.63 of 20
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).