The Happier the Hotelier, the Happier the Guest
From the monthly archives:
And here ladies and gentlemen you see the bath tub where our dear Queen Beatrix, Crown Prince Willem and/or his Maxima and kids splash around, when they are on holiday in Patagonia.
How do I know? because an indiscreet hotelier mentioned them (and John Major) in an interview as guests visiting her hotel Las Balsas in Patagonia.
I am sure the paparazzi love this sort of information, but our Royalties will certainly not appreciate this indiscretion. What do you think?
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Three young Dutchman of 27 yrs have designed, developped and launched The Senz Storm Umbrella. It gets a lot of attention worldwide and they won a prestigious German 2007 Red Dot Award.
Even the Red Dot site is not up to date yet:-)
Again a nice amenity/gadget for a hotel.
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Nancy Jarecki of NYC hadn’t planned on starting a cosmetics company, until a few years ago she noticed in a Roman hair salon a ritual whereby the ladies leaving the shop got a small envelope from their haircolorist. Asked what that was about, the receptionist answered “Per sotto per farli cobocaiari” meaning “For the hair down there”.
Back in the USA her own hair salon owner friend told her that there were no special coloring sets for the nether parts available in the USA, and if they would be available she believed her clients would love them as she would love to use them herself (admitting having a couple of gray hairs down there).
So Nancy started up Betty Beauty Com.
The amount of media attention she got in the mean time is astounding: According to Advertising Age of November 2006 an Alexa projected number of 2 mio unique visitors will hit her site on an annual basis. Allure of November 2006 applauded her under the funny title “Bush meet Betty ” for breaking a taboo.
Am I off topic? I don’t believe so. I think it is an excellent idea and it would be an excellent extra amenity for a Hotel or a Spa, a place where usually you have a little more time to soak in a nice bad and pay some extra attention to your body, than you allow yourself at home. Finally: if you look at my picture at the right, I believe you will understand that I know how the gray among us think:-)
Thanks to Constance’s Dutch Shopping Blogo
However, if you believe it to be too much of a hassle to color it down there, you can always think about using this line of Picture Perfect Panties:
The line will become available in black, brunette, blond and maybe red and perm also
Thanks to The Cool Hunter’s Pic of the day.
If you click through to the Flickr page you will find a male undie idea as well.
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Hideo Stores stores sells this stylish attache. The designer is Hideo Wakamatsu, a Japanese designer based in Tokyo. He draws on Japanese and French design traditions.
Born and raised in Tokyo, Hideo is the scion of a family business that is Japan’s leading maker of “randoseru”raditional Japanese schoolbags. After studying Japanese and French art and literature in university in Japan, Hideo moved to Paris where he spent the next ten years immersing himself in European culture and working with a wide range of bag makers. He then brought this experience back to the family business in Japan, where his brand is headquartered. Hideo now lives in Tokyo, but regularly travels throughout Europe, Asia and North America.
It is also available in a trolley version. Maybe something to put your laptop in, so that you don’t have to take it out at the airport security (?).
Thanks to Constance of Stewardess Blogo
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Backpackers on High Heels: Bangkok is a site that originates in Amsterdam, well the registrant has his address in Amsterdam. Currently it gives a stylish presentation about where to go, eat sleep and party in Bangkok.
Amsterdam, Hanoi and Bali are to follow soon.
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PAL-V stands for a hybrid of a car, a motorbike and a gyrocopter: a Personal Air and Land Vehicle. PAL-V is an initiative of Dutch entrepreneur John Bakker. John takes the Carver Technology one step further. The Carver technology has been developped by another Dutchman, Chris van den Brink, who developped the
Carver One, a closed fast three wheel tilting vehicle. The first production model has been on show at the Geneva Motor Show from 7-18 March 2007.
The PAL-V project is yet in its first phase: looking for investors. Not a bad idea.
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The Ambassador’s Last stand is a blog about the last days of the famous LA Ambassador Hotel.
They still have to update with the actual demolition of the hotel which was all over the news recently.Â
I was wrong: The demolition I was referring to, was a Las Vegas Hotel
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Sometimes you have to sit behind your computer screen and read a Blog post of someone far away in a foreign language (0300VD) to become a little bit proud of your own city where with a lot of difficulty a piece of the infrastructure has been knitted together and now attracts attention because of its architectonic value :-)
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The Uk Times Travel Blog is currently written by a fellow hotelier from Cornwall, Mark Hayes, who prior to buying and building his own 3 room B&B, used to fill 25.000 hotel rooms per night in Florida for Disney.
I would say it is a great promotion for a B&B if you may write about it for a big audience such as the Times’.
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Sean is a journalist who writes for the Guardian a weekly column “Best of the Net” and who has started a Blog Idle Jottings in January. Not much content there yet, but that will be difficult when you are bound to give your best to the Guardian first and for all. I hope he will devote more time to it when he comes to speed.
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