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Hotel Arts Barcelona Gets Smart...Cars, That Is
Just two months after a popular European urban sustainability exhibit swung through the eastern Spanish city, Hotel Arts Barcelona is now hawking electric smart cars of its very own.
Starting this fall, Club Level guests will have exclusive access to 100% electric smart cars, which will be branded with the hotel's logo (though, better that than Frank Gehry's nearby fish sculpture).
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A Hotel For Plants? Now We've Heard It All
We suppose we should have seen this coming. After all, if you can book a massage for your dog, and make use of pet loyalty programs, then it's really no surprise that a shopping mall in Madrid is now offering a hotel for plants.
Hotel Para Plantas, which had exceeded its bandwidth limit when we tried to visit its site, is located inside the Isla Azul shopping center, located off the M-40 highway. Not too far away is the Egido Via Lusitana, with rates starting at €46. So even if you prefer to ride with your cacti on the airplane, you can at least have separate sleeping quarters once you land in Madrid.
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El Palace Hotel’s Top Dollar Refurb Is Now Complete
One of Barcelona’s most iconic hotels, the five-star El Palace has just completed a pretty intense makeover--two years in the making and a cost of about 22 million Euros. From the photos, it looks like it has been worth every penny.
Just check out the bedroom above where the designers have paid homage to the hotel’s 1920’s roots whilst creating a grand, lavish feel throughout.
The hotel was originally opened in 1919 by César Ritz and over the years various celebs have slept in the beds - The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Sophia Loren, Woody Allen, Sir Paul McCartney and Whitney have all been spotted there. Kind of like The Savoy London, only in Spain.
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Bueno! The Waldorf Astoria Sevilla to Open This Summer
Not content with one luxe country retreat in London (Syon Park), The Waldorf Astoria Collection has announced another one in Sevilla, Spain, their first ever hotel in the country.
The brand is converting the Hacienda La Boticaria into Waldorf Astoria Sevilla and what's more it will open this Summer. Talk about quick work!
The original building opened in 2004 and has a massive 40 acres of private grounds for guests to go wild in. According to the release "The property will be a warm and inviting hideaway, where guests will discover the delights of the Andalusian lifestyle while enjoying exceptional facilities." So no student rampages here then.
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One Week On, The Reviews Are In For Barcelona's Ohla Hotel
Last week we had the first glimpses of Barcelona's newest five-star digs, the Ohla Hotel, and now that it's opened, the first reviews are trickling in—and they look good.
Writes one TripAdvisor who's already checked in:
The Ohla Hotel is new to Barcelona and its recently opened rooms are immaculate and staff are super-keen as a result.
The exterior may be historic, as is the nature of Barcelona, but the inside is ultra-modern and minimalist. How minimalist? It's tough to find the toilet in your room. It's actually hidden behind a moving wall.
The amenities are new, clean and slick, though. My room had a big TV, a queen-size bed with extra large pillows, a large window and free Wi-Fi (very important).
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Could Spain Be Getting Its Very Own Las Vegas-Style Strip?
Could Las Vegas Sands Corp., of Venetian fame, really be bringing a giant clutch of casino-resorts to Spain, a country where unemployment now tops 20 percent? Yes, at least according to chairman Sheldon Adelson, who told reporters late last week, "I want to do a mini Las Vegas." He suggested the overall price tag for the development would be €10-€15 billion, but there's not yet a timetable for the project.
The company is already in talks with governments in Barcelona and Madrid, and Valencia and locations along the Costa del Sol are also on the Sands' radar for the 20,000-room super-project that Adelson claims could create as many as 180,000 jobs.
He appears to be serious about this! And while it seems unlikely that the Spanish would be rushing to gamble at new casinos and fill additional rooms in an already weak market, Spain does offer one thing that Las Vegas and Macao don't: proximity to English punters.
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Searching For the Newest Hotel In Barcelona? Just Look For the Security Cameras
UPDATE: the hotel tells us that the official opening is 18 February. In the meantime, PulsoBCN has found out that room rates start at 170 euros for basic rooms, 190 for interior rooms and 270 for junior suites. To be continued...
Barcelona may have been off our hotel radar for a little while, but looks like things are hotting up in Spain’s city of cool – because, right in time for V Day, a new hotel opened its doors for a soft launch on Saturday.
It’s called the Ohla Hotel, it’s five stars and it’s on Via Laietana, just round the corner from the cathedral and the Gothic Quarter.
PulsoBCN, who wasn’t too impressed with the W Barcelona when it opened, got a sneak peek before the weekend, and from his pictures, we like what we see! It’s in a big old palazzo of a building and they’ve jazzed up the outside with security cameras popping out all over the front, which looks kinda cool. The bar, with its mismatched crates on the walls, also looks fun.
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What A Load Of Garbage: The Rubbish Hotel
Where: Madrid, Spain
We’ve stayed in some gross hotels before but nothing quite as trashy as this one.
Corona’s Save The Beach Hotel is made out of 12 tons of rubbish gathered from beaches around the world. The idea behind the hotel is to raise awareness of the campaign to keep beaches litter free and stop people using the ocean as a garbage dump. However, like yesterday's trash, this hotel has already been hauled off to the junk yard.
The 'boutique' hotel was only open for four days in Madrid on January 19th but the five double rooms were fully booked for the whole time. A rubbish hotel that sells out--impressive!
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Miley Cyrus Photo Fakery at the Westin Palace Madrid
We feel pretty pervy even looking at this photo but the Internet was abuzz yesterday that Disney star Miley Cyrus was caught in her first nude photo scandal.
Sure, she's 18 now and her recent performances have been so sexually charged that this might not seem surprising but for those of you are still clinging to the idea that Hannah Montana is still pure, you will be relieved to hear that the photo is a fake.
And what's really interesting is that whoever faked it went to great lengths to rent a room at the Westin Palace Madrid to do so.
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Budget Hotel Brand Lookotels Is The Latest In The Pod Hotel Room Game
Where: Spain
Jumping off the trend for hotels to become more energy-efficient, and mindful of that worrisome little thing called the economy, Lookotels, out of Spain, is the latest company to enter the low-cost, pre-fab hotel room fray.
On its website, Lookotels admits that this concept is already being trialed by other companies, but claims its edge is that it's bringing professionalism to the game--reducing overall costs with energy-efficient design, a reduction in construction time and costs, centralized control, and a reduction in personnel costs.
It certainly sounds like the future, whether we like dispensing with all the pomp and circumstance of luxury hotels or not.
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The Next Must-Have Hotel Amenity Could Be a Music Studio
Inside a typical room at the PuroHotel Oasis Urbano
Where do the heavy hitters of the music industry stay when they're far away from their mansions and second and third homes? Well, they either go way remote and luxe like a cabana in the Seychelles or they go somewhere with good proximity to a studio, like a friend's mansion with home studio or a hotel nicely located near one. Well, Mallorca's Puro Hotel Oasis Urbano is keeping their music industry guests happy by just building one into the hotel.
Apparently Puro, a hotel that has it's own music mix albums in the minibar, is the place to stay for visiting DJs, who are a big part of the cultural scene on Palma de Mallorca. The new music studio, opening in March 2011, will be in a private wing, a "completely new area which can be hired exclusively by musicians, or small groups looking for a private space to celebrate."
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VoyagePrive, Another Hotel Private Sale Site, Comes to the US
Well, looky what we've got here. It's another private sale hotel site! This one—VoyagePrive—isn't anything new, however; it's been around for awhile overseas, bestowing travel deals on its 5 million members in Britain, France, Italy, and Spain. They've just opened up the site to the US, and so far, we're liking what we see. Too bad it's getting difficult to keep all the private sale sites straight.
VoyagePrive offers up a selection of approved hotels for 5-day sales, with room rates slashed up to 75% off. Looking at this week's sales, featuring $59 rooms at New Orleans' Hotel St. James, $135 junior suites with free WiFi at DC's Capitol Hill Suites, 2 nights with breakfast for $259 at Barcelona's AC Hotel and more, we'd say the average discount is 50% off. But then VoyagePrive goes a step further to offer multiple night packages at each hotel, so that the longer you stay, the higher your discount and lower nightly rate.
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