What do Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston, Richard Nixon, Jane Fonda, Elizabeth Taylor and Barack Obama have in common?
They have all been guests at the most famous hotel in Egypt, the Mena House in Cairo.
But the list of notables who stayed at the Mena House is actually much longer, including Charlie Chaplin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Julio Iglesias, Gloria Gaynor, Agatha Christie, Roger Moore, Sarah Bernhardt, Bill Clinton, Barbara Bush, Bryan Adams, Kyle Minogue, Angela Merkel and Will Smith.
Not only did Charlton Heston stay there in 1956 when he was filming The Ten Commandments, but so did director Cecil B. DeMille and the entire film crew – for three months!
History was literally written at the hotel in 1943, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and general Chiang Kai-Shek, met there to make decisions about Japan at the end of World War Two.
The Mena House was closed to the public for a while in 1979 when President Jimmy Carter was there with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, discussing the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
But it will be open for Kathleen McGowan and the members of her Egypt tour group next April, and there are still a few spaces open for you to join them.
Some of the tour highlights include…
- Private entrance into the Great Pyramid King’s and Queen’s Chambers
- Private visit between the paws of the Sphinx
- Cruise onboard a deluxe Nile sailing vessel with guided meditations and integration sessions, sound baths, storytelling and much more,
- Private visit to the Osirion megalithic underground structure
- Sunrise entrance to the Philae Temple of Isis with two-hour private visitation
See Complete Egypt Tour Details Here
But don’t wait too long, because we only have eight spaces left!
Photo credit:
Charlton Heston photo by Alexa-S. via Flickr under Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/