Old Winter Palace Hotel, Luxor
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The Winter Palace Hotel, a 5-star hotel located on the banks of the River Nile in Luxor, Egypt just south of the Luxor temple, was built in 1886 during English and French occupation of the region.
In 1975 the complex was extended with the construction of the New Winter Palace. Classed as a 3-star hotel, the addition is joined by corridors to the original. The two hotels share many amenities including the gardens, pools, tennis courts, terraces and restaurants.
It is now owned by Sofitel, a French company. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, a collector of Egyptian antiquities who financed archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter's search for and discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, died the following year of pneumonia in a room in this hotel. This room has never been made available to anybody since his death.
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