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Meme the original Travel Chick

I copied and pasted the text below as a draft post for further review and editing, but accidentally pushed the publish button. It appeared I had to replace my keyboard as it hung. A couple of hours later I realized the post was published in raw and un edited format and […]

On the occasion of the 10th Istanbul Biennial the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art has a temporary exhibition on the whole ground floor called “Times Present Times Past” that we visited.
The building itself is excellently located on the Bosphorus. I was mezmerized by the restaurant and bar: what a stunning view over the Bosphorus while […]

Istanbul: View of the Golden Horn.
A Turk singer and three Derwish
dancers preparing for a video shoot
Photo © Happy Hotelier

I just returned from a week’s trip to Istanbul with a group of 26 and a lot of information to share with you.
Trip and organization
First I would like to address the actual travel details.
We flew with KLM […]

Last Saturday the reverent Dutch Daily Newspaper

NRC Handelsblad

published a story about one of the future locations of a Citizen M Pod Hotel in Amstelveen, a suburb of, and connected with, Amsterdam. It gives more insight about the format of the Citizen M Pod Hotel concept.
It appears that the neighborhood, a middle to up class […]

Sometimes I get requests to pay attention to this or to that. Sometimes I honor those requests and sometimes I forget them.
Cheyenne Morrisson, the Islomaniac,
President of the Islomaniacs Society and Owner of Coldwell Banker Morrison’s Private Islands, one of the world’s leading private island firms with 200+ island listings valued over $1.5 Billion USD. Featured […]

Introducing:

After my July review of the current situation in T-List and L-List Blogland (T-List and L-List: The Next Step: Community Building), I noted the following developments:

Crispitality Wiki has some 16 members
Facebook | T-List Community currently has 73 members, but not much group interaction thus far
Albert Barra has created an English language channel on his Spanish […]

CitizenM Logo

Early 2008 will see a third (the others being the Qbic and the Yotel) Pod Hotel, CitizenM Hotels, opening at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The 230 rooms (pods?) counting hotel is presently under construction.
Under the “Affordable Luxury” slogan:
CitizenM has partnered with internationally renowned architects Concrete, and European design giants Philips and Vitra to offer “affordable […]

Ever faced the problem of copying and pasting a too big photo in your Blog and seen your Blog losing its sidebar? Ever seen a picture mis morphed in a widget? Do you know how to fit one and the same picture in both a computer-, a PDA- and a cellphone screen without getting […]

Two months ago a 23 year old (I should say young) student Kyla Ebbert was reprimanded by a South West Airlines flight attendant because she was under dressed. First the flight attendant wanted to boot her, but she was allowed to continue the flight under a blanket eventually.
This “news” hit the US news networks as […]

Picard Solar Trolley

Need power to charge your camera, Ipod, Iphone or laptop on the road? Take your solar cells covered trolley or bag with you!
The over 75 years young German Company Picard Lederwaren has introduced a solar cell covered trolley and two solar cell covered bags: The Picard Solar Bag and the Picard Solar Messenger […]

Thanks to the UK Independent we now know their five best Factory Hotels:

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Alicia Room Mate Hotel in Madrid, Spain.

The Room Mate history is this:
3 friends, Kike, Carlos and Gorka, having drinks mentioned how there weren’t any hotels in Madrid that would satisfy their needs and those of their friends. So they started wondering what kind […]

This week sees the opening of the former Boston Charles Street Jail reborn as The Liberty Hotel after an US $ 150 mio acquisition / refurbishment of 5 years.
The luxury hotel features 300 rooms (i.e. a US $ 500,000 investment per room) of which 10 lavish suites. Not all rooms are crammed in the old […]

The Delft Ikea shop is able to produce traffic congestions on the motorway on its own. To my knowledge it is the only shop with its own motorway junction here in The Netherlands.
Ikea has expanded the shop and will establish a center of excellence. That will serve as a pilot for new concepts and products […]

After the recent Facebook unpleasantnesses I looked again at WiWiH (Who Is Who in Hospitality). Earlier I stayed away from it for the same reason as I stayed away from Hyves (the Dutch My Space alternative), Second Life, My Space, Twitter and other community sites only meant for school going kids….as I should have stayed […]

Unpleasantness again?

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Sometimes this is what I get if I try to connect with Facebook after some of my contacts on Facebook “did” something that cluttered my e-mail in box. Usually I find […]