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Festival Hotels
2007 Festival Hotels: Shirts Off Breakfast at Hotel Glória
February 19, 2007 at 12:02 PM | 0 Comments
Carnival (Feb 17 - 20) is in full swing, and according to The Guardian, plenty of American soldiers on leave are turning the sensual Brazilian celebration into a sexual conquest game.
Companies like Tours Gone Wild make a mint packing soldiers and other tourists into Rio de Janeiro hotels this time of year, and it takes a toll on the hotels.
One such Carnival party hotel is Hotel Gloria. On the Saturday of Carnaval the Gloria hosts an insane costume contest early in the evening, which is considered one of the best Carnaval parties by many long time attendees.
Heaven for doughboys, no doubt, however, guests of the hotel see the post party fallout year round:
Our room was a huge disappointment. Paint off the walls, tv entertainment system not working.
Lots of loud Brazilian guests with getto blasters at the pool. Staff did nothing. People with bare upper bodies at breakfast.
Where we are from, we call these places topless donutshops, in Brazil sounds like they call 'em "luxury hotels".
We are sure Hotel Gloria cleans up nice at some point after Carnaval. After all, they have a helipad on the roof, and guests who check-in via helicopter tend to like a clean room.
Related Stories:
· Hotel Gloria [TripAdvisor]
· Hotels in Brazil [HotelChatter]
Hotel News
New Hotel Next to London Helipad
February 14, 2007 at 10:00 AM | 0 Comments
If you usually travel by private helicopter on your holidays, then the news that the London Heliport site at Battersea is to be redeveloped will be particularly important for you. The heliport site that has seen people like Tiger Woods and Jackie Onassis land there has just been bought by the Von Essen group who plan a boutique hotel there with a Gordon Ramsay restaurant (you might know Gordon from Hell's Kitchen).
The heliport site next to the Thames will soon be home to a 70-room luxury hotel including a subterranean spa and a roof-top restaurant seating 200, run--probably--by British superstar chef Gordon Ramsay, which would add up to his tenth restaurant in London.
Being the only heliport in London, locals have already long been complaining about the noise from helicopters and are whinging again that the new development will make things worse. But the Von Essen group is planning to build its own office headquarters next to their 7-storey boutique hotel, so it doesn't seem like they'll be changing their mind any time soon.
[Photo: lunaticg]
Related Stories:
· Von Essen Acquires London Heliport [Times UK]
· Gordon Ramsay To Open New Restaurant [DigitalSpy]
Miscellaneous
Helipad Tennis At The Burj
March 31, 2005 at 10:15 AM | 0 Comments
Tennis on a helipad anyone? High above Dubai, at the Burj Al Arab, Roger Federer and Andre Agassi hit the ball around.
Since these photos show up on the official Burj site, we are assuming they are not computer generated.
Another photo after the jump.
Related Stories:
· Burj Al Arab Hotel [damnfunnypictures]
· Burj Al Arab Dubai Reviews [TripAdvisor]
· The Only Seven-Star Hotel In The World [Fark]
· Amazing Race 5 Hotel Update: Burj Al Arab [HotelChatter]
