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In the 1950s years ago, swimming pools were not necessarily part of the basic facilities of an Asian hotel. In the 1960s, The Oriental in Bangkok was among the first hotels to have its own pool, long before any other hotel in Bangkok.
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From Our Roving Ambassador and Occasional Tango Correspondent, Adrian Mourby, who found that London’s Waldorf Hilton has introduced the tango to Great Britain in 1910.
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Some hotels are world famous, some are not. The Swan Hotel in Lavenham is quintessentially English, says famoushotels - travelling amabassador Adrian Mourby while trying to find his way to the bar.
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Hotel Theresa opened in 1913 on 125th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem and closed its doors as a hotel in 1970. It was built by German-born stockbroker Gustavus Sidenberg to the designs of architects George and Edward Blum.
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The Austrian mountain resort Lech in the western alpine region of the Arlberg mountains can certainly claim that it can hold book presentations at an outstanding level. This time at 2333m on the summit of the Rüfikopf.
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Evidently it was in a bar at The Imperial that Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatama Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Lord Mountbatten agreed the partition of India and Pakistan.
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Built in 1912 by the hotelier Anton Hanl in „fin du siècle“- style, the HOTEL ASTORIA opened its doors as the most modern hotel in the whole city. 125 rooms equipped with hot and cold running water, telephone and central heating were “state of the art” back then.
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Stephen has reopened the first legendary Grand Hotel of modern China, the People’s Grand Hotel Xian in Shaanxi Province
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The launch of the book 'I Had Tea at the Nellie — The Mount Nelson Treasury' brings us together again. Xavier Lablaude runs one of the legendary flagships of the Belmond Group, the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, or as it is known around the world of luxury travelers, "the Nellie".
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The Lygon Arms in Broadway looks exactly how you’d expect an old Cotswold inn to appear. Stone fireplaces, heavy wooden doors, uneven flagstones, ...
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