Happy Hotelier

I am back from the white slopes in Switzerland and time for a tip.
When we drive to Switzerland we frequently make a stopover at Hotel Sonne (the Sun Hotel) in the very center of Offenburg.
Offenburg is next to the Motorway (Autobahn) Frankfurt - Basel, between Baden Baden and Freiburg. It is also easy to reach […]

“Never too late to start something new” must be what Bill Marriott, 75 soon and over 50 years of a world renowned hotelier, thought when he started dictating his first post for his personal blog Marriott on the move on January 16, 2007.

Yes, I am on the road and slowing down the posting a bit.
Today, I had an excellent lunch in what I believed was an observatory, but turned out to be an extraordinary high hide away above Zermatt in the Swiss Alps at 3100 m above sealevel which is almost two miles high, the 3100 Kulmhotel […]

Ahem, in an article of Sean Dodson in the Saturday Guardian Travel Section Best Net Tips I am quoted on one of my conclusions in an earlier draft of Istanbul and the art of booking a hotel online: Nothing Zen! between some Travel Gurus and Travel Blog Big Shots as:

Kevin May of Travolution Blog
Mark G. […]

I am starting this post at the end of 2006 because a journalist of the Guardian has asked me to give some insight comments about booking your travel via Internet. Well, what better answers to such question than to describe what you do on the Internet to get some answers while it is for real?
Once […]

In my post Hotel Blogs: Thanks Guillaume I paid already attention to Guillaume’s Hotel Blogs. He has an interesting tag 20 Blogs I Like. In a short interview he presents the person behind the Blog. In his interview with Paul Johnson from A Luxury Travel Blog.
He asks Paul the question:
Your top 3 hotels you […]

WWW also stands for World Wide Web. Nevertheless, just for the fun of it and to confuse the search engines, I will tag this post with my WWW tag that I originally intended for items related to the Internet. The other posts filed under WWW have now the tag “Internet”. My spell checker keeps saying […]

No he is not bubbling gum. On the photo (thanks AD) Barney kisses the PDC Trophee.
Yesterday Raymond van Barneveld, with nickname Barney won the final of the PDC Darts Championship against Phil Taylor who defended the title and had won it already 11 times. The PDC stands for Professional Darts Corporation, sometimes also known […]

You have suites with a view, but at the Palais Coburg Hotel Residenz in Vienna you can have a suite with a view and a safe in the vault.
Palais Coburg was built in the period 1840-45 by Duke Ferdinand Georg August of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1785-1851) on the Braunbastei [’Brown Bastion’] - a part […]