Cosmopolitan Hotel (A4a001)
| Superblock: | A. Al-Bursa Superblock |
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| Land Use Activity: | Travel and Tourism |
| Frontage on passageway: | 17m |
| Address: | 1 Ibn Thaalab |
The Cosmopolitan, originally named the Metropolitian opened in 1929, and was the last hotel venture of the greatest hotelier Egypt had, Charles Baehler. His total holdings through various companies at the height of his career included: the Winter Palace, the Cataract Hotel, The San Stephano, the Mena House, The Gezirah Palace, the Grand Hotel Helwan, the Continental Savoy, the Semiramis Hotel, and of course Shepherds. With the glory days of the Grand Tour at an end, and the beginning years of the Great Depression about to begin, Baehler wisely priced the hotel rooms modestly to account for the times, at 90 piasters a room compared to 160 at the Shepheards. The strategy worked, for the hotel survived the financial drought of the 1930s and is still in business today.