Travel to Mecca from Alexandria

Good morning fellow travel lovers! Today we will be flew out from Alexandria Egypt to Mecca Saudi Arabia.  We got a great nonstop flight through Saudi Arabian Airlines for only $213 per person! We booked our flight online so we were able to use our credit cards and American dollars for the transaction. We were only in the air for 2 hours and 5 minutes, which is great for me considering I am terrified of airplanes.  




I believe that Saudi Arabia will be much of a culture shock for us.  When looking at hotels we found the Mercure Grand Umm Al Qura Hotel Mecca.  It was inexpensive, clean, beautiful, and had a great view. However when we went to book it we read that to be there you had to be of the Muslim faith! Craziest thing I have ever heard of! So we started looking else where and found that it was that same way in the majority of the city. We looked and looked until we finally found a place to stay that was within our budget and likable! We will be staying at the Makkah Hilton Hotel.  This hotel has all the amenities we were looking for. However they only had rooms with twin beds available so we had to get two.  For 162.50 per night is not bad for a hotel room, but for six nights that puts us at $975.90 per room for a grand total of $1951.80.  Yet again since we booked online we were able to use our American credit cards to pay for the expenses. 

A picture from the Hilton website of the front of our hotel 

http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?tovr=-1294477296
https://mymotels.com/reserve/hotel/default.aspx?HotelID=179232


Total Expenses: 
$852 airfare
$1951.89 accommodations
$2803.80 Total