LOCATION : The Cosmopolitan Hotel, ordered from Swiss-born hotel manager Charles Albert Baehler and built by the Italian Alphonse Sasso, was inaugurated 1928 as the Metropolitan Hotel. For Baehler, the hotel was his last gift to Cairo's townscape, after creating some of the most beautiful hotels, apartment and office buildings, mansions and shopping colonnades in the city, as well as the Winter Palace in the Upper-Egyptian town of Luxor. Some experts even consider Baehler as being the founder of new Zamalek, that posh district located on the Nile island in the middle of the town.

ACCOMMODATION : The Cosmopolitan Hotel offers clean and air-conditioned single and double bedrooms as well as six suites, all of them simple but stylishly furnished and equipped with private bath, telephone and TV.

HOTEL FACILITIES : The Hotel hosts a restaurant, a cafeteria, a business center, the King's Bar and the patisserie Le Moulin.