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Old Winter Palace Hotel

In 1886 it was opened a hotel in Luxor, built in British Colonial style and soon to become a legend. This was what today is called the Old Winter Palace. The first New Years Eve party had Crown Princes and Pricesses from Europe and Royal families from the Orient to the masked costume ball.

How Winter Palace was located on the Nile bank hundred years ago. Colourised photo.

It was here Howard Carter himself announced for the first time the finding of the now so famous tomb of TutAnchAmon.

How it looks today, filled with legends.

Luxor was a city famous for its dry climate and pleasent winter temperatures, and this hotel was the best place to stay. Of those who have stayed here can we mention King Farouk and King Fouad of Egypt, The Agha Khan, Empress Eugenie of France, the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Prince Charles. Sir Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery, President Giscard d'Estang, President Gamal Abd el Nasser, President Anwar El Sadat and President Hosny Moubarak. President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Prime Minister M. Tatcher and Councilor Helmut Kohl. Of course Agatha Christie and Howard Carter, as Egypt's own Omar El Sherif - and the list goes on...

The grand entrance hall.

The grand entrance hall at Old Winter Palace tells its own story from the time Luxor was a place visited mainly by royals and nobility.

The 1886 Restaurant.

In the bar you can find old books to accompany your favourite drink before a dinner in the small gourmet restaurant 1886. The front terrace is facing the Nile and you can hardly find a better place to see the red sun going down behind the Valley of Kings on the other side of the flood. You will find very good swimming pools along with a children pool and the large exotic garden areas is as made for night strolls under the African moon.

Not a standard bar, this is the Royal Bar!

The hotel got 7 suites and 117 rooms, and the very special presidential suite in Victorian period style. The rooms are facing either the beautiful and large tropical garden or the Nile.

One of the rooms.

Old Winter Palace is more than a hotel, it's a monument among monuments.

Rooms at Old Winter Palace:

Standard Room with Garden View.
Standard Room with Nile View.
Executive Room with Garden View
Executive Room with Nile View

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