Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayya Casino
The front entrace of the Cairo Marriott Hotel
Hotel facts and statistics
Location	Cairo, Egypt
Management	Marriott International
No. of rooms	1,089
No. of floors	20
Website	www.cairomarriotthotel.com

The Cairo Marriott Hotel is a large hotel situated on the River Nile in the centre of Cairo, Egypt. Once a palace built on orders from the ruler of Egypt in 1869, the hotel was converted to a by Marriott International to a modern hotel. The hotel consists of 1,089 rooms, making it one of the largest hotels in the Middle East.

Zamelek Tower and the open-air theatre from Gezira Tower.

The rooms are located in two identical twenty-storey buildings - the Gezira and Zamelek Towers. Situated between them on ground level is the palace and main entrance to the hotel, which reconstructed now contains the reception and administration areas. On the roof of the palace is an open-air theatre which faces the Nile.

[edit] History

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The original palace was constructed by the Nile on orders from Khedive Ismail. He asked the architects of that time to make it resemble another palace in France, Versailles, where Empress Eugénie used to stay. The purpose for that palace was to host the French Empress Eugénie who was invited along with her husband the French Emperor Napoleon. The occasion of that invitation was the opening of the Suez Canal, which was a huge project at that time.

[edit] See also

• List of largest hotels in the world

[edit] External links

• Cairo Marriott Hotel website