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Robot butlers 'a gimmick', says hotel workers' union
A US hotel chain has been criticised over its plans to introduce robot butlers to its workforce. Starwood is currently trying out the machines with a view to using the butlers in 100 hotels across the world. The butler is able to bring guests items such as towels and toothbrushes, freeing human staff for other activities, the company said.
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Aloft Hotel to Begin Testing ‘Botlr,’ a Robotic Bellhop
Think of it as the Terminator’s human-friendly sibling. In a hotel lobby across the street from Apple’s corporate campus, a desk clerk places a razor in the bin of a three-foot-high robot and taps in a room number on a display. The robot, “Botlr,” chirps an R2-D2-style acknowledgment and rolls off to an elevator and its final destination.
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Plans for floating snowflake hotel with view of the Northern Lights
If you want to get the best view of Aurora Borealis, it is best to be as far away from light pollution as possible. So this new floating hotel could be the perfect answer for holidaymakers who want to spend their evenings looking skyward for a glimpse of the glorious Northern Lights. Rather appropriately, the new luxury hotel will be shaped like a snowflake and will be based in the fjords near the Norwegian town of Tromso, which sits within the Arctic Circle.
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Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
A hotel in tony Hudson, NY, has found a novel way to keep negative reviews off Yelp and other sites — fine any grousing guests. The Union Street Guest House, near Catskills estates built by the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, charges couples who book weddings at the venue $500 for every bad review posted online by their guests.
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We Spoke to the Manager of Gaza's Five-Star Hotel
Sitting to the north of Gaza City, right on the gleaming white beach, lies the Al-Mashtal hotel. From the right angle, at the right time of day, this 200-room oasis looks like any other luxury escape. Shimmering palm trees ring an azure blue swimming pool, and a beach view to the north stretches as far as the eye can see. Back in early July, the hotel was priming itself for a decent season, with guests tweeting holiday snaps from the balcony.
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Hilton is betting $550 million on smartphone technology in a race to win over millennials
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is placing a $550 million bet that hotel guests increasingly will use smartphones to choose rooms, check in and even unlock doors.
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North Korea to build underwater hotel in East Coast city of Wonsan
North Korean authorities have announced an expansive development project for the east coast city of Wonsan that will include the construction of an underwater hotel, a Pyongyang Times article said last Tuesday. The ambitious plan, which focuses on the construction and development of infrastructure and buildings primarily related to the leisure sector, will see Wonsan become a “tourist city,” the Pyongyang Times said.
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What it will be like to stay on board a space hotel
After a tiring 300km journey, there will be no time to relax because zero gravity will have you in an uncontrollable spin. The trick is to find your centre of mass, usually just behind your belly button. Once you learn how to push off objects along an imaginary line running through this point, you can stop spinning and move around.
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Here’s How Easy It Could Be for Hackers to Control Your Hotel Room
Shenzhen is the Silicon Valley of mainland China. Situated about 50 minutes north of Hong Kong, the modern city is home to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and numerous high-tech giants and startups. So naturally, the city’s five-star hotels regularly host wealthy moguls in their luxury rooms. Last year, one of those hotels also hosted a hacker from Spain who discovered that he could seize control of the wealthy guests’ highly-automated rooms.
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Coffin suites and prison cells: Is this the world's WEIRDEST hotel?
Ever fancied sleeping in a coffin? Or perhaps you would prefer a flying bed? This German hotel has some bizarre rooms that it claims are works of art.
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Why Do Expensive Hotels Charge for Wifi?
It's an economic mystery: The cheapest backpackers' hostel has free wifi. Brands like the Ritz-Carlton do not. Why is that?
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The Communist Chic Hotel, for all your Stasi Nostalgic Needs
There is a phenomenon that exists called ‘Eastalgia’ (or ostalgie), referring to a wistful longing for the Cold War era, Berlin Wall-separated, Stasi-policed German Democratic Republic of the 1970s and 80s. Seriously.
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What to Pack on a Haunted Holiday
The main objective for most people on a haunted holiday is to a catch a glimpse of a ghost. Whilst many hotels are known for their frequent apparitions, sightings are never 100% guaranteed.
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The end of the hunt
On a stretch of road that was once the famous Route 66 in Monrovia, California, a small bedroom community 10 miles outside of Los Angeles, lies a mostly forgotten historic landmark: the Aztec Hotel. It’s known for its beautiful, Mayan-revival façade, an intricate layering of stucco and paint designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s contemporary, Robert Stacy-Judd.
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Hotel hermit got $17M to make way for 15 Central Park West
In 2004, developers Will and Arthur Zeckendorf bought the famed Mayflower Hotel and several adjacent lots on the Upper West Side for just over $400 million. Only one thing stood in their way: A 73-year-old recluse named Herb Sukenik, who refused to move from the hotel. In this excerpt from his new book, “House of Outrageous Fortune”, author Michael Gross reveals the most expensive eviction in New York City history.
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Hôtel de Glace, The Coolest Hotel in Canada
The Hôtel de Glace is a truly unique and different experience. Built from scratch every year, the ice hotel is definitely the coolest hotel in Canada.
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Rodman drunk, vomited, defecated all over Koryo Hotel in NK
Dennis Rodman checking himself into an alcohol rehabilitation center upon returning from a trip to North Korea was the first news all over the U.S. media, but at that time, he confirmed only to the fact that he is an addict and has never recovered from the habit. But according to a report cited by Free North Korea Radio, he was practically forced out of the hermit kingdom for his full-blown drunk and disorderly behavior.
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Russian Officials Fire Back at Olympic Critics
"We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day," he said...
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The hotels Brazil needs for the World Cup never got built
The Gávea Tourist is an empty shell of a hotel, a 14-story modernist monument of disintegrating concrete and decaying beauty that has been abandoned for four decades. It is one of three huge, architecturally stunning ghost hotels in Rio de Janeiro, all of which are vacant in a city facing a chronic shortage of rooms for June’s World Cup soccer tournament.
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'Ghost' photo captured outside Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles
An ABC7 Eyewitness News viewer claims to have captured a ghostly image outside of the famous downtown Los Angeles hotel. Koston Alderete, a Riverside boy with a love of scary films and ghost stories, took the picture, which shows a ghostly figure outside a fourth floor window. He says it looks a little too real.
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