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"The hotel faced the river. My room was dark, one of a long line, with a verandah on each side of it, the breeze blew through, but it was stifling. The dining-room was large and dim, and for coolness"
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The Earl of Bristol has nothing to do with the city of Bristol. All hotels called Bristol have! Soon we realised that this was a dilemma all Bristol hotels around the world suffered from. They all told the same story.
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Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka spent considerable time in London at The Savoy, where he created some of his most famous London works.
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Back when cocktails were a serious part of life, a man named Frank Meier held sway over the bar at the Ritz in Paris.
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The Forming of the Bucher-Durrer Hospitality Empire — Franz Josef Bucher and Josef Durrer were among Europe’s leading hotel pioneers in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Carl Kracht went to Zurich, where he married Carl Kracht and his family went to live in Zurich. He married Emma Pauline Baur, the daughter of the Swiss hotelier Theodor Baur, who owned both the famous Hotel Baur au Lac as well as the Savoy Baur en Ville.
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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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