Pacha Sharm still open for business
Written by Infusion Crew    Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:48    PDF Print E-mail

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Pacha Sharm chief Maya Challita chatted to Infusion this week about the fall-out from Egypt's recent revolution and revealed that the Red Sea superclub remained open throughout the three weeks of street protests and chaos.

"The club was never closed at any point, but to cope with the drop in numbers of visitors to Sharm we opened the indoor room and closed the main open-air room," Maya revealed.

"Numbers for the entire month of February were very low, and we worked at 10% of our usual capacity, but as of this week, we'll be reopening the main open-air room twice per week on our main nights of Thursday and Sunday."

Almost 400 people died and over 6,000 were injured in anti-government riots in Cairo and Suez last month, which saw feared dictator President Mubarak stepping down on February 11 to be replaced by a military council. Maya said Sharm, remained entirely peaceful.

"The city and the whole Sinai Peninsula is quite isolated from the rest of the country and there were never any demonstrations or violent incidents in Sharm at all," said Maya. "Only the local people discussed politics while for the tourists, Sharm was the same peaceful place as always just with less visitors."