Like a beautiful fairytale castle, the hotel is sits in the fantastic alpine landscape of the Upper Engadine. All around it, the mountaintops rise majestically into the sky. Lakes glitter deep down in the valley, dark blue in summer, covered in ice i...
In 1856 the later legendary Johannes Badrutt first took out a lease on the former Pension Faller. He then acquired the establishment in 1858 for the sum of 28,500 francs, promptly rechristened it the Hotel Engadiner Kulm, and thus opened the first h...
www.famoushotels.org/images/hotels/hotel_296/stmoritz_palace.jpg Resembling a fairytale castle, Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St Moritz was one of the select founding members of The Most Famous Hotels in the World in 1986. This is a place where the ma...
Johannes Baur, born in Austria in 1795, was a visionary entrepreneur who profoundly shaped Zurich’s hospitality industry. In 1837, at the age...Read More
The historic building (top, slide to the right): The "new" Raffles main building in 1899. It opened on 18 November 1899, featuring the all new...Read More
Since decades “The Oriental”, as it is affectionately known by travellers from all over the globe, leads the lists of most...Read More
In 1952, a group of wealthy individuals including Donald Deskey, the fabled designer (among his works the Radio City Music Hall); Harvey Firestone,...Read More
You don your safari gear during the day, but you always dress for dinner. Because Mount Kenya Safari Club Nanyuki is an exclusive retreat. High on...Read More