History of Marriott Mena House Hotel
The Mena House Hotel is a luxury hotel and resort with a direct view of the pyramids located near Cairo in Giza, Egypt, and the five-star hotel, the hotel played an important role in the history of Egypt and hosted several influential international figures such as Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon, Agatha Christie, Frank Sinatra, King Saud and many others owned and operated by Legacy Hotels Company of Talaat Mustafa Group.
History
Mena House was originally built by Khedive Ismail Pasha in 1869 on an area of 40 acres to be a private break where he spends his time after returning from long fishing trips and meeting his guests in it, and this break overlooks the plateau of the pyramids and surrounded by Jasmine gardens with an aromatic scent to look more like a green oasis.
Frederick and Jessie the wealthy family who bought the hotel from khedive, spent their honeymoon and expanded its construction and named it Mina Frederick added English touches from the grand fireplaces in the corners, which were unusual in Egypt at that time, but gave a wonderful inspiration to the place when mixed with drinks, handmade blue tiles, mosaics, hand-carved wooden doors inlaid with copper and mother-of-pearl. in 1885, they sold the palace to an Englishman and his wife, Ethel and Hughes Lockie King, a family famous for its love of ancient Egyptian antiquities, During the first World War, the hotel became the headquarters of the Australian and New Zealand troops and then turned into a hospital at the end of that war, and during the Second World War in 1943.
The Mena House Hotel witnessed the events of the Cairo conference, which included former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, former US President Roosevelt, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek to discuss the events of the war.
The Oberoi International Hotels Company of India took over the management of the hotel and renovated it more than once. in December 1977, the Mena House conference was held between former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and representatives of the United Nations before the Camp David peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.
Renovation and expansion
2008 the hotel was renovated again, and the number of hotel rooms reached 486 rooms and suites (7 junior suites and 4 master suites each with a spacious private balcony overlooking the pyramids), and the hotel consists of four floors, characterized by a stair of luxurious marble with the style of Islamic architecture in which the rest was constructed, and with several handmade chandeliers of colored glass, which are up to three floors tall, and varied There are 96 rooms in the main building of the hotel and 390 rooms in the annex building, all rooms are furnished with handmade Persian carpets and decorated with ancient murals in addition to retaining the old wooden windows, all rooms overlook the first and largest swimming pool built in Egypt, as well as an 18-hole golf course, tennis court, running field and fitness center, and more than one banquet and conference hall.
