Mena House Hotel

The Mena House Hotel is a hotel on the outskirts of Cairo with a view of the pyramids. It was orginally a hunting lodge built in 1869 but soon developed into a luxury hotel which played host to a wide range of celebrities.

The hotel still operates today as part of the Marriott group.

Mena House Hotel and Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie stayed at the Mena House when she toured Egypt with Max Mallowan in 1933.

Mena House Hotel in the works of Agatha Christie

 * Poirot and Hastings spend some time at the hotel during the events in The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb.
 * In Death on the Nile, Linnet Doyle and Simon stayed at the Mena House and are dismayed when Jacqueline de Bellefort also turns up there.