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Sleep Like a Monkey: Nine Highflying Tree House Hotels
Check into one of these hotels to fulfill your childhood fantasies but with grown-up, luxury accommodations.
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The 11 Fastest Growing Trends in Hotel Interior Design
Modern hotels have cleverly adapted to rapid social changes with creative solutions. In this post we will cover 11 of the most striking interior design trends that shape up today’s hospitality scene. From rethinking guestroom configurations to ensuring highly personalized experiences, hotel owners are transforming accommodation units into the highlights of any escape.
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Exclusive Resort on an Intimate Coral Island: Gili Lankanfush, Maldives
Welcome to a 5-star resort set on the private tropical island of Lankanfushi in the Malé Atoll, surrounded by the waters of the Indian Ocean.
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What Hotel Concierges Really Think of Your Dumb Questions
Todd Briscoe and Anna Drezen work as concierges at two Manhattan hotels. Their job is, obviously, to assist guests with all manner of requests. But what they’ve done with their blog, How May I Hate You, is a service to us all, as it records the funniest, most bizarre, and all-around amazing interactions the two have had during their years helping hotel guests enjoy their stay in the big city.
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Russia To Open A Hotel In Space by 2016
The rich and famous look for the most exotic places to spend their vacations. Orbital Technologies, a Russian company, has announced plans to make one of the most exotic hotel ever. Their idea to create a space hotel for commercial use is both metaphorically and literally out of this world.
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Something special: Zanzibar’s underwater hotel room
Rooms in luxury hotels are reliably comfortable, but the cookie-cutter spread of marble-clad bathrooms and safe, conformist interiors found in high-end properties around the world mean they can often be indistinct. Not so the newly unveiled Manta Underwater Room located off Pemba Island in Zanzibar which, as the name suggests, is located some 13ft (four metres) beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean.
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Does Haiti really need luxury hotels?
It has been a long slog to recovery after Haiti’s earthquake almost four years ago. Thousands remain in provisional housing of plywood, tarps, and corrugated metal. New lodging is being created, though. It’s just not all of the type you might expect.
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Take A Look Inside The World's First Panda Hotel
Themed bars, restaurants and clubs have been a part of popular culture for decades now, but at the foot of the Emei Mountain in southwest China’s Sichuan province, a new hotel with a unique theme recently opened. It’s officially the world’s first ‘Panda Hotel’ and despite there not being any actual pandas meandering around, everything else, from the curtains and general decor to the pillowcases and furniture has a black and white Panda theme.
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Super Bowl 2014 - Five-star prices for one-star lodgings
Nightly rates at a no-frills, budget hotel in West Orange, New Jersey, average around $100 for a queen room outfitted with a coffee maker and basic cable television.
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Check Out The Stunning New $10,000-A-Night Suite
The Four Seasons Hotel in Riyadh recently unveiled their Kingdom Suite, a duplex that spans the 48th and 50th floors of the hotel and offers incredible views of the Saudi Arabian capital city.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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