Istanbul: Breakfast with Pinar Kartal Timer
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Pinar Kartal Timer of the iconic Istanbul Pera Palace Hotel has accompanied the hotel through its historic renovation. At the breakfast table we talk about other things,
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Mourby of Harwich
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He travels the world, visits the hospitality palaces of our globe, lives at luxurious hotels, surrounded by famous names of legendary travelers. And then, Adrian Mourby came to stay at THE PIER HOTEL, HARWICH.
MOURBY OF ATHENS
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The liveried staff prepared by calmly removing the brass handrail in case a riot ensued. This is a hotel that has seen a lot of history and gives the impression of floating serenely above it all.
The current grandeur of the Grande Bretagne owes much to the current owners, the Laskar
Hotel History: Lakeside Inn, Mount Dora, Florida*
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The Lakeside Inn, listed on the National Historic Register, is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Florida. It was first built as a ten-room two-story wooden structure called the Alexander House by John Alexander, Annie Donnelly and her husband John P. Donnelly and Colonel John A. McDonald.
Breakfast with Michel Rey
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He is the doyen of Swiss Hospitality and became certainly one of the longest serving hotel general managers of the world. From 31. December 1969 until 2012 he was at the Baur au Lac, since 1982 he served as the general manager: Michel Rey at the Baur au Lac (opened in 1844) in Zurich, Switzerland.
Le Royal Mourby of Monceau
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A pianist will come and play in your suite, just for you. It sounds good in practice but does it work in theory? Our contributing editor investigates ...
MOURBY AU LAC*
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To say that the Baur au Lac is an institution is a bit like saying Elizabeth II is a queen, finds A. Mourby.
PARIS: Mourby of Meurice
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There is no hotel in Paris with a history as long as that of Le Meurice — finds A. Mourby
† Raymond Flower
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Raymond Flower – a man of great inspiration – the grand raconteur of hotel- and history-telling, is dead.
Langham London: Antonín Dvorák’s Breakfast
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"Why seek far afield when the good is close by?" Contributing Editor Adrian Mourby knows where to breakfast.
Paris: The lost Bristol Hotel
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The long lost Hotel Bristol in Paris seems to have inspired legends about a travelling Earl, and maybe even hotel genius César Ritz. Charles Dickens mentions staying at the Bristol in his diary from 1844.
LONDON: Mourby of St Pancras
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This railway hotel next to Kings Cross Station (now known as The St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel) is an intensely beautiful building and one of the greatest achievements of Victorian Neo-Gothic in the world.
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