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Mandarin Oriental Shepheard, Cairo
Cairo, Egypt · Mandarin Oriental · High Luxury · Opening soon
The original Shepheard's Hotel, opened in 1841 by Samuel Shepheard, was Cairo's most famous address for a century, and its Long Bar gave the world the Suffering Bastard cocktail in 1942. It burned in the Cairo Fire of January 1952, and a successor opened on the Nile in Garden City in 1957. That building is being restored to reopen in 2027 as Mandarin Oriental Shepheard, Cairo, with 188 rooms and 88 suites.
- 276 rooms
- Opened 1841
- Neighborhood: Garden City
- Not open yet
About Mandarin Oriental Shepheard, Cairo
- Paris designer Sybille de Margerie is leading the interiors, with a brief to keep the building's heritage character.
- Al Sharif for Tourism and Hotels, part of Al Sharif Group, won the redevelopment concession in 2020.
- Mandarin Oriental is also taking on the Winter Palace in Luxor and the Old Cataract in Aswan, both due in July 2027.
History
Samuel Shepheard opened the original hotel in 1841, and it became the centre of Cairo's social life for a century before burning in the Cairo Fire of January 1952. A new Shepheard Hotel opened in Garden City in 1957. Al Sharif for Tourism and Hotels won the concession to redevelop it in 2020, with Sybille de Margerie designing the interiors, and it is due to reopen under Mandarin Oriental in 2027.
Amenities
- Five restaurants and bars including a rooftop restaurant
- The Spa at Mandarin Oriental with eight treatment suites
- Rooftop swimming pool and indoor lap pool
- Rooftop ballroom and expansive function spaces
- Exclusive club lounge
- Fitness centre and beauty salon
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