Mena House Hotel
The Marriott Mena House (formerly Mena House ) is a traditional luxury hotel near the pyramids of Giza .
history
The Mena House Hotel was built in 1884–1886 at the end of Pyramid Road . As early as 1883, Frederick and Jessie Head, a young British couple, had acquired the former hunting estate of the Khedive . They soon sold to the British couple Hugh and Ethel Locke-King, who opened as the Mena Hotel in 1886. It was named after the pharaoh Menes . The first manager of the new luxury hotel was the Austrian baron Ernst Rodakowski. In February 1890, the Mena Hotel opened the first hotel swimming pool in Egypt. The owner couple, however, operated too generously and were not economically very successful. In 1896 it was sold to Emil Weckel and an investor named Schick. Rodakowski sold his shares for £ 45,000 two years later. The golf course was opened in December 1899, and in 1904 Schick and Weckel sold to George Nungovich, an Egyptian self-made millionaire. In the First and Second World War, Australian troops were billeted in the hotel, in 1943 an important conference of the Western Allies and found here Chiang Kai-shek instead.
In 1964 the management of the nationalized hotel was taken over by the Oberoi Group and in 1972 a major expansion began. In 1978 the garden wing was created with over 200 additional rooms. The latest renovation took place in 2007/08.
As of January 1, 2013, Mena House is no longer managed by the Oberoi Group.
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View of the pyramids
Hotel entrance
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Famous guests
Politicians, crowned heads and stars were among the visitors and residents of Mena House from the start. Examples are the Prince of Wales (1889), Arthur Conan Doyle (1894), Winston Churchill , (several times, from 1914). King Faruk was also a frequent guest. President Richard Nixon visited the hotel in 1974 and 1979. In the context of the Camp David Agreement , Menachem Begin lived in Suite 908, Jimmy Carter in the Churchill Suite and Anwar as-Sadat in the Montgomery Suite. Even Agatha Christie , Roger Moore , Cecil B. DeMille , Charlton Heston , Frank Sinatra and Charlie Chaplin were guests of the house.
literature
- Andreas Augustin: The Mena House Treasury, Cairo [1] 2005, ISBN 978-3-900692-14-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augustin, p. 35
- ↑ Augustin, p. 37.
- ↑ Augustin, p. 47
- ^ "The Mena House: Review, history and photos of the legendary Oberoi hotel in Giza near the Pyramids." Cosmopolis 24 Jan 2008: http://cosmopolis.ch/travel/giza/mena_house_e0103.htm .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Augustin, p. 71
Web links
Coordinates: 29 ° 59 ′ 8 ″ N , 31 ° 7 ′ 58 ″ E