First look
This is Taj planting its first flag in Egypt, and it is doing it through restoration rather than new build. The signed project converts the historic Grand Continental on Opera Square in central Cairo, taking a 176-room building up to roughly 300 keys in partnership with EGOTH. On paper, a heritage shell on one of downtown Cairo’s most storied squares is the kind of address that does not come up often.
There is no firm opening date yet, which keeps this firmly in the watch-this-space column. What we will be watching for is how the renovation handles the old bones of the building, and whether the room count expansion comes at the cost of the original character. A conversion this size lives or dies on those details, and Taj has done convincing palace restorations before in India. We have not stayed, so this is anticipation, not a verdict.
