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Famoushotels.org recognises only a few Imperial Hotels (in bold) as Select Member hotels. However, a name doesn't necessary confirm outstanding quality. There are a lot of hotels around the world bearing the same name. We have listed some of them for the records.
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Some books come out too late. So I have to say: 'Sorry my dear Wes Anderson! After you had contacted famoushotels in search for a suitable location for your movie The Grand Budapest Hotel, I should have recommended that one.
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Baedeker and Murray developed the guide book, Badeker invented the first "Star rating system".
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For almost one century the Kadoorie family is running the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Company (Peninsula).
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Cook is 'swamping Europe with everything that is low-bred, vulgar and ridiculous' — During the 1870s, a new 'movement' was to be observed in England. The English suddenly travelled in larger groups than any other nation ...
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One of the most famous hotels of America was designed to rival the finest hotels in Europe. At its opening in 1913, the Hotel duPont contained 150 guest rooms, a main dining room, rathskeller, men's café/bar, ballroom, club room, ladies' sitting room and more.
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An interesting article from 1973 — Did you know that the average life of a carpet is some seven years, a mattress ten years and that you should never rely on one supplier? In December 1975, the Imperial Hotel Vienna (Austria) was modernised. By Godfrey Blakeley
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The oldest hotel in the French Quarter is the Hotel Monteleone, with its ornate baroque facade, which was built in 1886 in the Beaux-Arts architectural style. It remains one of the few longstanding family-owned hotels in the U.S.
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One of America's great resort hotels, the Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa had its origin in the post-Civil War period. On a rainy night in 1865, a group of travelers en-route to Montreal, was stranded when their stagecoach overturned in Whitefield, N.H..
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Tim Ananiadis arrived at the Grand Bretagne six months after it reopened under Starwood – following a major refurbishment.
The Bayerischer Hof was opened in 1841 - on the wishes of King Ludwig I, who wanted a comfortable place for his guests to stay. The Bayerischer Hof...Read More
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
