Cairo Marriott Hotel
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| Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayya Casino | |
 The front entrace of the Cairo Marriott Hotel |
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| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
| Management | Marriott International |
| No. of rooms | 977 |
| of which suites | 112 |
| 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.
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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.
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