The Happier the Hotelier, the Happier the Guest!
Posted in Austria on Feb 8th, 2007
Kate Connolly reports in the Guardian of today No room at the plush Austrian inn for Russians and their roubles that 16 out of 20 of Kitzbühel’s four- and five-star hotels have agreed to limit Russian tourists to 10 % of total.
Sepp Schellhorn, president of the Austrian Hoteliers Association, condemned the Russian quota as “absurd” [...]
Posted in Austria, Been There, History, Luxury, Suite Talk on Jan 1st, 2007
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 [...]
This will prove you wrong if you believed everything has been invented already:
In July 2005, under the motto “Book a Pipe Dream”, Austrian Andreas Strauss has set up Das Parkhotel/ Andi’s Place (the Park Hotel) in a park in Ottensheim, on the Danube river border, near Linz, Austria. It is only open in [...]
Posted in Austria, Been There, History, Luxury on Nov 27th, 2006
On my recent trip to Vienna I was able to take this photo of Schloss Fuschl as I remembered it. My DW and I stayed once in the mid eighties in suite 101 (the Sissi Suite) which has a magnificent view over Lake Fuschl that is located 20 km east of Salzburg in Austria.
Actually that [...]
Posted in Austria, Germany, History, Hong Kong, Luxury, Singapore on Oct 17th, 2006
Frequently Vienna is our travel destination: Be it to visit family or to show Dutch friends around this charming city. Hence my more than average attention for Vienna and now some attention for Andreas Augustin who was born in Vienna in 1956 and recently paid some attention to one of my favourite grand old ladies [...]
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