The World’s Largest Sailing Yacht Ushers in a New Era for Orient Express
The 54-suite vessel launches in Saint-Nazaire with maiden voyage from Marseille in June, competing against Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons yacht collections.
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At 58 meters tall - just a little taller than the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but with considerably more heft - the St. Pauli bunker in Hamburg, Germany, has dominated the city skyline for just over 80 years.
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Fit for an emperor: Bulgari Hotel Roma
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Louis Vuitton’s First Luxury Hotel Is Set to Open Inside Its Paris Headquarters
Louis Vuitton will not be put in a box—or a monogrammed trunk, for that matter. Over the past 160 years, the French label has expanded beyond luggage and leather goods to fashion and accessories to pop-up restaurants and interactive exhibitions. Now, it’s opening a hotel. Chairman and CEO Michael Burke has told Women’s Wear Daily that the brand’s headquarters in Paris, France, will soon be turned into a giant complex featuring the world’s first Louis Vuitton hotel and the largest-ever LV boutique.
UK Hotel Investment Volumes Surged 84% to £4.14 Billion in 2021
Following a bumper fourth quarter, where £1.42 billion changed hands, total 2021 UK hotel investment volumes reached £4.14 billion, according to Savills.
London Will See A Bumper Crop Of New Luxury Hotels In 2021
"London opens to you like a novel itself… It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, doors and passages. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand," writes Anna Quindlen in Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
No breakfast buffet and sanitising fog machines: a night in a post-lockdown London hotel
I'm afraid I can't take your bags," says the manager of The Dixon, a boutique hotel just south of Tower Bridge. He greets me in the lobby on reopening day (Saturday 4 July) after the pandemic forced the hotel to close for four months. A smile beams from behind the clear plastic visor that covers his face. "We have a new procedure, you see."
Qatari firm buys London's Grosvenor House hotel
A Qatari state-backed company is to buy the Grosvenor House hotel on London's Park Lane, the latest in a string of acquisitions of the capital's trophy assets.
French court approves Colony Capital purchase of hotel group
A Marseille commercial court approved U.S. investment group Colony Capital and France's AccorHotels to take over French hotel group Maranatha in receivership since 2017.
Hotel Investment In Barcelona On Hold Since October 2017 | tourism-review.com
The hotel investment industry in Barcelona has been on hold since last October 1, due to the political crisis in Catalonia and, even though numerous investments have been on decline, diverting to cities like Madrid or Valencia, there is still interest in the hotel market as the city regains its stability.
Beauty maven Bobbi Brown is getting into the hotel business | cnn.com
Bobbi Brown is best known for the beauty brand bearing her name. The minimalist, flattering eyeshadows and lipsticks won many busy working women as fans, but Brown sold the company to Estee Lauder in 2016 and has been looking for a new project ever since.The answer came in a form she didn't expect -- a hotel in her pretty suburban New Jersey hometown.Unlike many in the beauty and fashion worlds, Brown was content not to be a regular on the New York City party scene, preferring a quieter life with her husband, developer Steven Plofker, and three sons in Montclair, about 45 minutes outside of Manhattan. Montclair is a picturesque, sleepy college town that refutes the cliche of New Jersey as dirty and industrial.Does this mean that A-listers might abandon Manhattan for the 'burbs? Brown thinks it's worth taking the risk, and she spoke to CNN Travel about her new life as a hotelier.
Inside Legoland's new Castle Hotel featuring 657 models made from 2.1 MILLION bricks - mirror.co.uk
This is the enthralling latest addition to Britain's Legoland theme park - a new hotel with 657 models made with a total of 2.1 million bricks. Wannabe knights and wizards of all ages have an exciting treat in store at the Castle Hotel, the newly opened addition to Legoland Windsor Resort. It has 61 fantastical family bedrooms (with separate sleeping areas), in knight and wizard themes, set to fire children's imaginations. I took my (almost) four-year-old, Ollie, for a very special sleepover the night before it opened, and we were in good company. Celebs we spotted included Steps' Claire Richards and her family, McFly's Tom Fletcher and wife Giovanna and their two kids, Buddy and Buzz, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor and her brood. Everything was awesome but these were the particular highlights...
Britain's first underground hotel will treat guests like troglodytes, councillors say | telegraph.co.uk
A plan to build Britain's first underground hotel has angered councillors in London's West End who claim guests will be treated like “a bunch of troglodytes”.
Permission was granted last month for developers to build a 166-room windowless hotel fifty feet below the streets of Bloomsbury.
The project's backers have described it as "innovative" and "exciting", and argue it will make the best use of limited space in the crowded capital.
How Premier Inn Crowdsourced Its New Hotel Room | forbes.com
When the U.K.’s Premier Inn wanted to design a new hotel to met the services expectations of its guests and the cost requirements of city center properties, it literally took a room to customers to get their input.
“We actually built a room, put it on a lorry, and went around to major cities,” said Simon Ewins, Premier Inn’s Chief Operating Officer.
Unlike a typical crowdsourcing campaign or contest however, the innovation project, begun in 2011, started with two certainties: The room dimensions, which were based on the company’s deep experience (and came to 11.4 sq. meters), and a cost “envelope” that provided a framework that would inform what was possible, or, as Ewins put it, “keep us honest.”
This Storybook Hotel in Romania Will Bring Fairy Tales to Life | travelandleisure.com
Castelul de Lut, or the “Clay Castle,” is straight out of a fairytale. Despite being called a castle, the hotel looks more like a witch's cottage (hey Hansel, hey Gretel) than somewhere Sleeping Beauty would call home. The thatched roofs, crooked doors, and curvaceous plaster walls are made of entirely organic materials like clay, straw, sand, and wood. And while organic is a very modern trend, the hotel is a throwback to days of old.
Group Makes $1.3 Billion Offer for Grosvenor House, Plaza Hotels | bloomberg.com
A U.K. multifamily office and two Middle Eastern partners submitted a $1.3 billion bid for London’s Grosvenor House hotel and majority stakes in New York’s Plaza and Dream Downtown hotels to majority owner Sahara India Pariwar, controlled by once-jailed Indian businessman Subrata Roy. The bidders “are committing our own capital resources to acquire all three” hotels, Jesdev Saggar, managing director of the U.K. multifamily office, 3 Associates Capital Management Ltd., wrote in an e-mail. “We now await the sellers’ acceptance of our bid.”
The hotel room with no walls or ceiling - but you'll still want to stay there | telegraph.co.uk
The first incarnation of this hotel was a zero-star offering in an underground nuclear bunker, but its second has more stars than any other in the world. This summer the Null Stern Hotel, holiday accommodation in art form, opens its only room, without walls or a ceiling, beneath the night sky on a mountain-side in Graubünden in Switzerland. In 2008 it was in a bunker in St Gallen.
Brexit: What impact on European tourism if British demand falters?
The United Kingdom is a key source market for many international tourist destinations. Across the European continent, and especially within the Eurozone, many hotel markets rely heavily on the contribution of British arrivals. In light of their respective exposure to the Kingdom's clientele, which countries could be affected the most by the outcome of the referendum?