Posted by Ruth Miller on Thu 12th July 2007 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Hotels, Travel News
London’s growing room capacity seems to be showing no signs of slowing with the opening of a new boutique hotel to be called The Paddington Park. Due to be unveiled in Spring 2008 the project is being masterminded by London Town Hotels at a cost of £4 million. The hotel will include 85 rooms with air conditioning, large LCD flat screen TV’s and lots of other bells and whistles.
(Via Luxury Travel Blog)
Unveiled in December, the Adam and Eve Hotel is likely to become a Mecca for those who see their bodies as “their temple”.
Targeting the hedonistic market, this miraculous hotel includes the “worlds longest bar” a vast 2 storey night club, and a sexually charged pool (“the world’s longest”) for late night romantic antics. Get this - the pool includes submerged sun loungers in the shallows for those who can’t make it to the spa.
Claiming to be “the worlds sexiest hotel” (it’s difficult to argue with that claim) the Adam and Eve includes 400 plus bedrooms incorporating wall to ceiling mirrors and spacious whirlpool baths. Apparently the penthouse suite includes a DJ booth!
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Posted by Ruth Miller on Mon 25th June 2007 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Travel News
If you’re in to breathtaking cosmic experiences then should try and keep your diary free for 4am August 13 2007.
We’ve all seen shooting stars and made a wish. Still waiting for my windfall! But imagine looking up into the heavens and seeing maybe hundreds of shooting stars fizzing through the atmosphere. Scientists are predicting with amazing accuracy that on the 13th a shooting star should be visible every few seconds.
This amazing cosmic event is a result of an obscure comet’s last pass through the solar system leaving a trail of miniscule ice crystals and debris to rain down onto the earth’s surface. The comet in question (named bizarrely Swift-Tuttle) made it’s pass way back in 1992 and only now are the remnants of it’s journey due to pass into the path of planet earth.
To view this natural light show you really need to get out of the big cities and into pitch black rural areas. Outer Hebrides would be perfect!
Alternatively, if you’re on holiday in the Mediterranean the chances of clear skies could make this event a breath taking experience for the family to witness.
Apologies to our Southern Hemsisphere cousins but this is likely to be a Northern Hemisphere event only.
Richard Branson and of course his space concept “Virgin Galactic” finally seem to be making some giant strides for mankind by appointing Elegant Resorts as their exclusive UK tour operator.
Flights are thought be scheduled for departure in 2010 from the Mojave desert in California.
Tickets are a snip at £100,000 ($200,000) with a 50% deposit required.
Anybody whose booked up, please get in touch. I would love to hear about your motivations.
I wonder if you can take hand luggage on board?!!!
Posted by Ruth Miller on Thu 21st June 2007 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Travel News
We all might take plenty of the shampoo and body lotion from the bathroom, the odd towel and maybe even a bathrobe. But would you really think about stealing a £500,000 ($1,000,000) gold bath tub from a hotel.
That’s what some thieves did at the Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, south of Tokyo. Police were called after the chambermaid noticed the bath tub was missing from a room on the 10th floor. Quite how you would get through the front lobby of a hotel with a gold tub under your arm I don’t know, but there you go.
Tokyo Police Department are said to be “washed out” by the case.
