A grand old-style luxury hotel with a minimalist makeover
One of Paris’ top-end hotels, the luxury Meurice overlooking the Tuileries Gardens, went through a minimalist makeover by French designer Philippe Starck.
The legendary Le Meurice is a luxury hotel in the heart of Paris with a prestigious location between Place de la Concorde and the Louvre on the fashionable Rue de Rivoli. Following centuries in which Le [...]
Hotels sell rooms based on their location
Location, location and location > that is what sells hotel rooms and often at the best possible rate.
One of the most important marketing principles is about location, that is where your business is based and how easy can be accessed by your customers. The principle does not apply only to shops, but id does to any type [...]
A Greek village at Sandals Grande St. Lucian resort
Sandals is making plans for a 220-room expansion to Sandals Grande St. Lucian.
To be called The Greek Village, the new addition is scheduled to open in 2011 in the Gros Islet area of St. Lucia.
The Greek Village at Sandals Grande St. Lucian Spa and Beach Resort include swim-up river suites, rondoval suites and 20 over-the-water [...]
Architecture and Design Festival in Copenhagen
Cph ADD is a new architecture and design festival with focus on architectonical and designing traditions and trends.
Cph ADD, Copenhagen Architecture & Design Days, now on its third year. The event appeals to a broad audience. Thus there will be special made guided tours, increased opening hours and other design events giving everyone a [...]
A golden study in restored grandeur
The Alcron was refurbished in a manner befitting its elegant style and storied history.
Vintage photos of the lobby and restaurant offer only a hint of what was once the most luxurious address in town. Today the hotel looks better than ever, thanks to a painstaking effort to restore or replicate details like the centerpiece [...]
Berth at the Burj Al-Arab
The jury is still out on whether Burj Al-Arab (Arab Tower) is the world’s tallest and most spectacular hotel. What is undeniable, though, is that it is the planet’s most expensive and decadent hotel.
The cutting edge architecture of the Burj Al-Arab contrasts sharply with its sister hotel, the Souk Madinat (foreground).
The Burj Al-Arab, Dubai [...]
Hotels with a different take on the world
A list of the world’s most unusual hotels, compiled by Flight Centre, and there are some crackers in the line-up >
Dog Bark Park Inn, US > A guesthouse in the body of the world’s biggest wooden beagle, also known as Sweet Willy, at Dog Bark Park on Highway 95 in the small midwest town of Cottonwood, [...]
An underwater hotel on the way
Development of a $500 million under water hotel
The shallow water hotel is shaped as a bowl and positioned on the sea ground, according to Uwe Hohmann of the Crescent Hydropolis Group, which is managing the project. The deep water version is floating in the sea with anchors on the ground.
The bowl is constructed externally and then positioned on [...]
