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There is no hotel in Paris with a history as long as that of Le Meurice — finds A. Mourby
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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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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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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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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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John F Kennedy announced his candidacy for Congress, Longfellow and Jacques Offenbach were inspired, Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X were employed. And Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol while a guest there.
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The first suite named after a former bellboy. Billy Garioch finds his name on room 502 at Edinburgh's "Caley".
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Not only can I look down from Hemingway’s window, I can also sit in his chair.
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The Grand Hotel Majestic stands on an old road into the Roman colony of Bononia. Bologna’s oldest hotel celebrated its centenary in 2012.
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Fa-raon, the 21-month white Burmese, is the hotel's biggest star. He was purchased personally by general manager Didier Le Calvez and turns out to possess a natural talent when it comes to catwalk.
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The name “Waldorf” is forever linked to ”Astor” in the public imagination. It was John Jacob Astor I, the wealthiest man in the United States at the time of his death in 1848 who was ultimately responsible.
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