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Hilton Opens Three New Far-Flung Hotels

Hilton Hotels is adding more international properties to its brand than the Jolie-Pitts are adding kiddies to its clan. The company recently debuted three new hotels in far-flung locales like Japan, China and Poland.

Check after the jump for more on the new hotels.

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A Former Mill Turned Hotel in Poland Impresses the NYT

Where: ul. Ogrodowa 17, Łódź, Poland, PL-91-065

Oh, how worldly you are, NYT! For its latest Check In, Check Out review, the paper headed to Poland. Specifically to Andel’s Hotel Lodz in the country’s third-largest city, Lodz. The hotel was apparently “still a bit unsteady” a few months ago—it opened in May—but is getting its footing fast. The red-brick building was once a weaving mill but is now home to business hotel for the booming city. The lobby, says the Times, is “improbably grand.”

Highlights: Loft-high ceilings in the guest room showed off the building’s original exposed brick and ironwork, while modern touches included a glass-top desk and flat-screen TV. The reviewer was able to order a full meal from the hotel’s bar menu despite arriving after 11 p.m. and the food was “above room-service average.” At first the waiter forgot the beer ordered but it was on the house when it did appear soon after. There’s a modern spa and a glass-domed rooftop pool with great views.

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Ground Control To Major Tom: A Cool Tin Can In Poland

Where: ul. Kosciuszki 42 61-891, Poznan, Poland

A candidate for our Geek Hotels 2010 list.

It makes sense that a luxury hotel decked out in electronic art would be located somewhere between Berlin and Krakow. (Or, for that matter, floating round a tin can far above the moon). Blow Up Hall 50 50 opened up last month in Poznan, Poland and it has taken interactive art to inhabitable levels.

Guests figuratively should take their protein pills and put their helmets on before entering the black-walled foyer flanked with a video installation created by Tate museum display artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Think meta-meta: 2,400 CCTV scrambled images of the hotel's guests doing whatever they do in the hotel lobby recorded for art's sake. Thankfully, this does not include footage from inside the guestrooms or bathroom use.

Too bad, though — as the bathrooms are niftily hidden behind closet doors and have disorienting mirrors strategically mounted for bizarre levels of voyeurism. (Actually, we're very glad there aren't cameras in the bathrooms).

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