Adding to the ever-growing list of new developments cropping up in the Miami area, Orient Express Hotels has announced plans for a luxury hotel/condo complex in South Beach:
The Sun Sentinel reports:
The $150 million South Beach project will have 100 hotel rooms and 28 condos priced from $2 million and is expected to open in three years.
The condos are starting at 2 million? Yikes. Then again, after getting wind of a Plaza condo selling for $24.6 million, that doesn't seem too bad. ]]>
Introducing our first submission for a Paula Abdul Hotel.
Earlier this month we wrote about how the Hotel Cipriani in Venice was undergoing an 50th "anniversary facelift", but too bad the Wall Street Journal's Finicky Traveler got there before the new look was completed.
Our fave hotel critic Laura Landro spent a few nights there and the opening of her review says it all:
Our suite at Venice's legendary Hotel Cipriani has stained mauve carpet, ratty faux-bamboo furniture and a platform bed looking into a whirlpool tub-for-two that seems not to have been scrubbed out since the 1970s. We feel positively transported -- to a honeymoon motel in the Poconos.
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