HOTEL EXCELSIOR

You can't miss the abandoned structure of the Excelsior Hotel, with its walled windows, crumbling balconies and stray cats, the last inhabitants of a building that was the pride of the city. Some scenes from Georges Lautner's 1967 film La Grande Sauterelle with Hardy Krueger and Mireille Darc were shot there: enough to give an idea of the luxury that reigned there. The hotel had one of the most famous discotheques in the Middle East, the Caves du Roy, frequented by the finest jet set of the 60s.