Author Somerset Maugham stayed here, as did Winston Churchill and Al Capone.

It was seized by the Egyptian government after the revolution in 1952, and five years later the Metzger family was expelled from the country.

In 2007, after a lengthy court battle, legal ownership of the hotel was returned to the Metzger family, who subsequently sold it to the Egyptian government.

[2] This hotel appears in The Alexandria Quartet, written by Lawrence Durrell and the novel Miramar by Naguib Mahfuz.

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