A Devon hotel, Hotel Gleneagles in Torquay, which inspired the legendary TV comedy series Fawlty Towers has been officially re-opened by one of the show’s stars.
Prunella Scales (who played Sybil Fawlty) has officially re-opened Hotel Gleneagles after arriving in a replica of the red Austin 1100 car, which, in one of the series’ most famous […]
Posted in Design, Luxury, News, Sources on September 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
When you try to research cosmopolitan Herbert Ypma on line, it is hard to find something else about him than the introductions to his world famous series of Hip Hotels Books on book sellers sites (or have a look at this transcript of a chat with him on USA Today). It is a Dutchman […]
Posted in News on September 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Today at the Dutch Horecava (a hospitaliy fair) the record of building a pyramid of champagne glasses has raised from 35,000 glasses to 39,000 glasses and a height of 7 meter.
Look here for some pictures.
Posted in General on September 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Yes I do remember where I was: Under way to a building meeting, when my DW called in shock and I went back to see the life feeds on TV of those horrific hours. I will never forget the footage of people in sheer panick sky diving from twintowers head along…
Posted in General, Luxury, Blogs, Trackbacks on September 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Shortly after stumbling on A Luxury Travel Blog and mentioning it on weekendhotel here - which post I translated today with its original time stamp, in line with my policy to use the original timestamps of the Dutch posts to give the reader my historic perspective here - I invited Paul Johnson to […]
Posted in Hoteliers on September 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Um, just a few days after I launched Happy Hotelier Juliana Shallcross, Hotelchatter’s senior editor, launches another nice alliterative tag Hot Hotelier News with an on and off love story about NY Hot Hotelier Andre Balazs and star Uma Thurman who “burn it up again”:
Today we introduce a new feature called Hot Hotelier News […]