Galle Face - Pimm’s o’clock
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Around the World in 80 Hotels (5)
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East of Suez, on the shipping route from Europe to Asia, we searched in vain for the remains of the great hotels in Port Said and Suez ...
Feuilleton 345 – Because we Care - Galle Face, Quiz, Jumeirah
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On 14. March 1931, at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Ceylon (today Sri Lanka), the restaurant served for Lunch … ——— Why do...
Feuilleton 351 — The Christmas Tree Extravaganza
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One never thinks that hotels have Christmas trees, too. But in fact there is a real competition of who has the largest and shiniest. F...
Feuiletton 360 — The Letter
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Time flies, only my father takes slow boats and sends letters via surface postal services. Yesterday an envelope arrived containing pho...
5 Rooms 5 Acts
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5 Rooms 5 Acts is a strong signal from an European city hotel. The classic Viennese Hotel Regina entertains – Corona-adjusted – a l...
A Palace on the Strand
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In 1900 visitors to London were advised by Baedeker to find a hotel on the Strand. The choice began with 700-room Hotel Cecil, then the...
Raffles Hotel
The historic building (top, slide to the right): The "new" Raffles main building in 1899. It opened on 18 November 1899, featuring the all new...Read More
Le Royal
Recently renovated and painted white, the hotel dates back to the heydays of Indochine in the 1920s. In 1923/24, the construction of a 55-room...Read More
Galle Face
The Galle Face Hotel was established in 1864, five years before the Suez Canal came into operation. A journey through the Suez Canal was a...Read More
Half Moon
In 1954, a group of wealthy individuals including Donald Deskey, the fabled designer (among his works the Radio City Music Hall); Harvey Firestone,...Read More
Savoy Baur en Ville
On 24 December 1838, 43-years old Johannes Baur opened the Baur en Ville, a huge guesthouse in the heart of the Swiss city of Zurich. It...Read More