HOTELS

Harry Potter at The Balmoral

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London: The Savoy closes

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Designer Pierre-Yves Rochon marks the recent development of various Select Members of The Most Famous Hotels in the World. He has recently completed the interior design of the Hotel Sacher Wien. Soon we will find his fingerprints on the ambitious project concerning an icon of London hospitality. The Savoy will close from end of this year until 2009. The Savoy is a Select Member of The Most Famous Hotels in the World® (and one of the most successful books of our publishing program).

GM to Inherit St Moritz Hotel

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St Moritz Rebooting!
Where the makers and shakers of the past century have long displayed their wealth, Alfred Hitchcock enjoyed his drinks and Greta Garbo wore her diamonds, fairy tales are still happening. This time the king bequeathes his castle to his first knight. Or, to be less prosaic, the happy ending sees a managing director receiving a special 2006 Christmas present: he is to inherit Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St Moritz.

Oriental Bangkok: Penthouse Spa

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The Oriental, Bangkok’s Award-Winning Spa unveils Authentic Ayurvedic Penthouse

Exhibition: Grand Hotel Royal

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With 24 picture boards famoushotels.org organized a comprehensive history exhibiton in four languages for the Grand Hotel Royal Budpaest, following years of research and a book presentation.

Engadin - The Suvretta Story

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The Story of a Region - The Engadin — Lightly I do not speak of happiness, Yet I almost think I am happy here! said Thomas Mann

Schweizerhof Bern temp. closed

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Schweizerhof Bern closed its doors for an approximate period of 18 months

The Green Hotel - A Journey

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An Inspiration

The Taj Group

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Billed by the Times, London as the finest hotel in the East, the Taj's first hotel, the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Mumbai was perhaps the only place in the world where a British Viceroy could rub shoulders with an Indian Maharajah: The story of India's traditional hotel group Taj.

1946: Atlanta: Winecoff Fire

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America's deadliest hotels fire - a combination of missig fire escapes, combustible interior finishes, a delay in calling the fire department, and the lack of a fire alarm and automatic fire suppression system.

2007: Kronenhof Pontresina - Renovation

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A generous upgrade of a 150 years old property

The Lenox: Meeting Jimmy Fisher

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As I stride across the carpeted lobby of Boston’s Lenox Hotel I am clamped firmly on the wrist. What can I have done? Has my past caught up with me? Andrew Williamson travels to Boston, USA, and meets Jimmy Fisher.