Sofitel Winter Palace Luxor - Historic Hotels
Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor
It is the tallest and the most recognizable structure in Luxor and its resorts, as it has accommodated the greatest personalities of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The establishment was inaugurated in 1886, and the building was the brainchild of the English engineer J. Crusoe on behalf of Thomas Cook, who was responsible for the construction of the hotel in the Victorian style. This was the first hotel which Thomas Cook built in his entire life anywhere in the world.
The hotel has been the center of many significant events, which it has well communicated. The hotel lobby, for instance, remembers the starting point of the stunning discovery of King Tut’s tomb. On the other hand, the regal dining chamber recalls the event which strained King Farouk and Queen Farida’s relationship resulting in separation.
Through its vast span of corridors and lounges, one encounters various actors from history including the well-known Arabic archaeologist Howard Carter, who excavated Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s grave, former King Farouk of Egypt who has a specifically dedicated suite as his name, Sir Winston Churchill the British Prime Minister among other notable figures.
The hotel’s corridors and lounges speak of the talks of such celebrities as the eminent Egyptologist Howard Carter, taper to Farouk who has a suite named after him, the former English Prime Minister Winston Chuchill, and Agatha Christie who wrote a well-known book ‘Murder on the Nile’ after the magic of Luxor and beauty of Aswan in which she was immersed in.
The year was 1922, when Egyptologist Howard Carter went out on the balcony of the hotel and declared to the world that he had discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Also in 1974 the hotel accommodated part of the sessions aimed at adjusting relations between President of Egypt Anwar Sadat and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The hotel hosted some of the sessions to improve Egyptian-American relations between Anwar Sadat President of Egypt and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger of America in the year nineteen seventy four.
The Sofitel Winter Palace is a luxurious 5-star hotel. By the shores of the Nile in Luxor, Egypt, swimmer south of the Luxor Temple, this hotel was constructed in the year of 1886 boasting of sixty-eight rooms and six suites. This grand structure was composed British people in the year of eighteen eighty-six. The Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel sits right next to the Nile River lavishly surrounded by tropical gardens and has always been adored by adventurers and kings alike and it is calm while depicting the great Pharonic patterns.
