hotels and holidays

Hotels.com Claymation TV Commercial

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:28:03 +0000

The latest TV commercial from hotels.com & Y&R Chicago, featuring claymation animation from Aardman, and directed by Peter Peake.

TASCHEN’s Favourite Hotels

The first volume in a series on the world’s most memorable hotels

Flip through this book and take a trip through 72 of the world’s most enchanting, welcoming and unforgettable hotels. Some are sleek and minimal, others charmingly plush and traditionally luxurious; whether you prefer a secluded rural retreat or the pulsing centre of the urban experience, you’ll find a room—or suite—to your taste. However, what all these establishments share is personality, atmosphere, sophistication and a great location.

Similarly, though their rooms range from modest to extravagant, all of them represent excellent value, no matter which end of the price scale, from two to five star hotels. The eclectic mix includes the romantic hotel Spielweg in Germany’s Black Forest, where everyone should spend Christmas once in their life; the secret jewel Ksar Char-Bagh in Marrakech; the Al Mamlouka in the middle of Damascus, and the most exquisite Spa hotel in Jordan, the Evason Ma’In Hot Springs. Other highlights are the Shigar Fort Residence, a 400-year-old palace saved and restored by the Aga Khan Foundation in Northern Pakistan; a sensitively restored 1930′s colonial guest house, the Boddhi Tree Del Gusto in Phnom Penh, for less than 40 dollars a night; or the outstanding Corbusier-style beach villas in Kep, Cambodia, called Knai Bang Chatt resort. To get away from it all, there’s Richard Gere’s Bedford Post in upstate New York, or the Golden Rock Estate on the Caribbean island of Nevis, owned by American artist Brice Marden. Finally, nobody who has stayed there will ever forget the stunning Remota, surrounded by the mountains, lakes and glaciers of Chilean Patagonia.

Explore The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:27:45 +0000

Join Mark for a sweet treat and a stroll around the brand new Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana.

Luxury Hotels Top of the World

teNeues Publishing is delighted to have been awarded the prestigious PRIX VILLEGIATURE 2007 for its book Luxury Hotels – Top of the World. This much sought-after Award is the European tourism industry’s ultimate distinction for Hotel books. The prize was awarded to teNeues in the course of a formal ceremony in Paris on 22.10.2007. What makes a luxury hotel “top of the world?” The answers might include exquisite linens, museum-quality furniture, stunning surroundings, and of course, impeccable standards and exacting attention to detail. This selection of the world’s very best lodgings profiles the ultimate in accommodations across the globe. This generously proportioned addition to teNeues’ Luxury Hotels series contains an extensive selection of delectable hotel interiors, exteriors and surroundings. Perhaps only a select few will ever get to stay here, but now many more can dream of doing so. This special double edition is over 400 pages in length.

Hotel Party! – Video Blog 8

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:50:52 +0000

Wes, Ted, and Phil are on the road again to speak at a few schools in the Midwest and East Coast. With all the traveling they’ve done over the last 1 1/2 years, they’ve stayed in A LOT of hotels. Here’s what they think of them. SUBSCRIBE! youtube.com OFFICIAL wongfuproductions.com FACEBOOK http TWITTER twitter.com STORE areyouaniceguy.com

Luxury Hotels Top of the World

Kempinski Hotel Ajman – Destinology

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:27:40 +0000

The Kempinski Hotel Ajman is an elegant hotel situated in the historic and picturesque Emirate of Ajman, which is located on the golden coast of the Arabian Gulf. Here you will be able to indulge in an authentic Arabian adventure whilst enjoying the luxury of a 5 star world class resort. The Hotel offers the ideal location for a relaxing and tranquil break whilst also being perfectly positioned to explore the hustle and bustle of some of the other Emirates, including Dubai which is only 20 minutes away. Here you will discover impeccable service, sumptuous accommodations and a host of world class facilities that will ensure a memorable holiday of a lifetime in this stunningly beautiful Emirate. www.destinology.co.uk See more luxury videos on Destinology’s You Tube Channel www.youtube.com

Hotels

Hotels is a three dimensional game of high rises and high stakes where the object is to develop a chain of hotels and drive your competitors out of business. For 2-4 players, ages 10 to adult.

The 9/11 Hotel – Part 5 of 5

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:28:06 +0000

Please read the full description before watching the video. Thank you. Seven years after 9/11, this powerful documentary brings a fresh angle on the terrorist attack. It reveals the extraordinary stories of the people trapped in the 22-storey Marriott World Trade Center Hotel, which nestled beneath the twin towers. Up until now, these stories of luck, sadness, bravery and heroism have rarely been reported; this impressive programme more than compensates. The Marriot was one of New York’s busiest hotels. At 8.45am on 11 September 2001, the hotel was at full capacity, with more than 1000 people staying in its 825 rooms. While guests were finishing their breakfasts, working out in the gym or relaxing in the luxury pool, the hotel’s tranquil environment was shattered by the roar of jet engines and the horror of falling and burning debris. Initially it wasn’t clear to hotel guests exactly what had happened. Some, unable to see the full extent of the carnage way above the hotel, assumed it was minor incident and that the emergency services would soon have things under control. In fact one American lawyer was so busy, preparing for an impending trial, that he stayed in his room. By the time the second plane hit the South Tower at 9.03am, many hotel guests had managed to escape, but as the fires continued to burn out of control and the towers came crashing down, some guests and staff became trapped. Miraculously, 14 survived. This documentary meets some of the survivors. They …

The Cornell School of Hotel Administration on Hospitality: Cutting Edge Thinking and Practice

This cutting edge and comprehensive book—with contributions from the star faculty of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration—offers the latest thinking on the best practices and strategies for hospitality management. A must for students and professionals seeking to enter or expand their reach in the hospitality industry, The Cornell School of Hotel Administration on Hospitality delivers the authoritative advice you need to:

Develop and manage a multinational career and become a leader in the hospitality industry
Maximize profits from franchise agreements, management contracts, and leases
Understand and predict customer choices, and motivate your staff to provide outstanding service
Manage hospitality businesses and the real estate underlying the businesses
Control costs, coordinate branding strategy, and manage operations across multiple locations

Nairobi Serena Hotel

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:52:13 +0000

Justly famed for its exceptional standards of efficiency, service and five-star hospitality, the elegantly sophisticated Nairobi Serena is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World group and is consistently voted ‘Best Hotel in Nairobi’ by airlines and international travel magazines alike. Despite its pivotal central location, the Serena remains true to its title and offers an oasis of serenity amidst the bustle of one of Africa’s most vibrant capital cities. The interior décor reflects an entirely pan-African theme featuring art and inspiration from Ethiopia, the Maghreb, West Africa and East Africa. Offering a range of dining experiences, the hotel is renowned for its ‘Mandhari’ fine-dining restaurant, which is rated as one of the Kenya’s finest. The Nairobi Serena also offers a world-class Conference Centre and the exclusive ‘Maisha’ Health Club and Spa. Nairobi’s undisputed business venue of choice – both for visiting executives and for regional corporate event planners, the Nairobi Serena offers an unrivalled choice of executive suites, global connectivity, business support, conference-planning proficiency, product launch expertise and high-profile international corporate events venues. FACILITIES ? Wide selection of rooms and suites: all with AC, satellite TV, WiFi and voice-mail ? International restaurant and coffee shop ? Pool bar and poolside brasserie ? Mandhari fine dining restaurant ? Ethiopian-styled Aksum Bar ? Luxury heated swimming pool ? ‘Maisha …

Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir

The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him.

Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father in the years after he returned from serving as a sniper in the Marines. Adjusting to life after war, he watched his older brother succumb to cancer and his first marriage crumble, leading him to pursue an excessive lifestyle in Manhattan that brought him to the brink of collapse. Consumed by drugs, drinking, expensive cars, and women, Swofford lost almost everything and everyone that mattered to him.

When a son is in trouble he hopes to turn to his greatest source of wisdom and support: his father. But Swofford and his father didn’t exactly have that kind of relationship. The key, he realized, was to confront the man-a philandering, once hard-drinking, now terminally ill Vietnam vet he had struggled hard to understand and even harder to love. The two stubborn, strong-willed war vets embarked on a series of RV trips that quickly became a kind of reckoning in which Swofford took his father to task for a lifetime of infidelities and abuse. For many years Swofford had considered combat the decisive test of a man’s greatness. With the understanding that came from these trips and the fateful encounter that took him to a like-minded woman named Christa, Swofford began to understand that becoming a father himself might be the ultimate measure of his life.

Elegantly weaving his family’s past with his own present-nights of excess and sexual conquest, visits with injured war veterans, and a near-fatal car crash-Swofford casts a courageous, insistent eye on both his father and himself in order to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide, after nearly ending it, what his life can and should become as a man, a veteran, and a father.

3rd RFTS S02 E03- Hotel Dick (1/3)

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:27:57 +0000

Aghast at the treatment of aliens in a hit science fiction movie, the Solomons attend a science fiction convention to try to set the record straight — and Sally’s first experience of hotels get her hooked on room service.

Hotel: An American History

When George Washington embarked on his presidential tours of 1789?91, the rudimentary inns and taverns of the day suddenly seemed dismally inadequate. But within a decade, Americans had built the first hotels?large and elegant structures that boasted private bedchambers and grand public ballrooms. This book recounts the enthralling history of the hotel in America?a saga in which politicians and prostitutes, tourists and tramps, conventioneers and confidence men, celebrities and salesmen all rub elbows. Hotel explores why the hotel was invented, how its architecture developed, and the many ways it influenced the course of United States history. The volume also presents a beautiful collection of more than 120 illustrations, many in full color, of hotel life in every era.

Hotel explores these topics and more:

· What it was like to sleep, eat, and socialize at a hotel in the mid-1800s

· How hotelkeepers dealt with the illicit activities of adulterers, thieves, and violent guests

· The stories behind America’s greatest hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza, the Willard, the Blackstone, and the Fairmont

· Why Confederate spies plotted to burn down thirteen hotels in New York City during the Civil War

· How the development of steamboats and locomotives helped create a nationwide network of hotels

· How hotels became architectural models for apartment buildings

· The pivotal role of hotels in the civil rights movement

3rd RFTS S02 E03- Hotel Dick (2/3)

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:52:53 +0000

Hotel: An American History

Hotel explores these topics and more:

· What it was like to sleep, eat, and socialize at a hotel in the mid-1800s

· How hotelkeepers dealt with the illicit activities of adulterers, thieves, and violent guests

· The stories behind America’s greatest hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza, the Willard, the Blackstone, and the Fairmont

· Why Confederate spies plotted to burn down thirteen hotels in New York City during the Civil War

· How the development of steamboats and locomotives helped create a nationwide network of hotels

· How hotels became architectural models for apartment buildings

· The pivotal role of hotels in the civil rights movement

The 9/11 Hotel – Part 4 of 5

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:27:52 +0000

The Cornell School of Hotel Administration on Hospitality: Cutting Edge Thinking and Practice

Develop and manage a multinational career and become a leader in the hospitality industry
Maximize profits from franchise agreements, management contracts, and leases
Understand and predict customer choices, and motivate your staff to provide outstanding service
Manage hospitality businesses and the real estate underlying the businesses
Control costs, coordinate branding strategy, and manage operations across multiple locations

Hotel Massage In St Louis Mo

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:30:03 +0000

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Hotels

Hotels is a three dimensional game of high rises and high stakes where the object is to develop a chain of hotels and drive your competitors out of business. For 2-4 players, ages 10 to adult.