Spoiler alert: I hadn’t. The largest hotel in the world doesn’t just raise the bar; it tosses the bar out of sight. With a mind-blowing 7,000+ rooms, this hotel is a destination in itself.

For visitors keen to get involved, the largest Sofitel hotel in the world has opened in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

A Guinness official inspected the golden ceiling and confirmed that it is a whopping 1,056.97 square meters, distinguishing it as the largest continuous gilded ceiling in the world. The hotel was ...