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Celebrate 250 Years of Guinness In Style At Ashford Castle

Where: Cong, Co Mayo, Ireland, 00000

Ashford Castle – an actual, 13th-century castle in County Mayo, Ireland, that doubles as as five star hotel – is celebrating its 70th birthday next month. So far, so worthy. Forgive us being slightly more excited about the fact that Guinness is turning 250. Now that’s worth celebrating.

Luckily, the folks at the castle agree with us (it was once the country retreat of the Guinness family, which probably has something to do with it). So they’ve designated October as Guinness Month and 15 October as the date for a five course "Black and White dinner", where the head Brewer will talk about the black stuff.

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Hilton's Iru Fushi Opening Is A National Event in the Maldives

Where: H. Male-thila, Meheli Goalhi , Male, Maldives, 00000

It’s not every day that you get a national president to attend your hotel opening, but since tourism is the main industry in the Maldives, President Mohamed Nasheed was on hand to help open the Hilton’s new Iru Fushi Resort and Spa.

The new resort is Hilton’s second of four planned properties in the Maldives. The Conrad Maldives is already open on Rangali Island, the Beach House will join the Waldorf-Astoria Collection starting November 1, 2009, and a Doubletree will open in the island nation’s capital of Malé sometime in 2011.

Iru Fushi is located on the island of Medhufushi in the Noonu Atoll (no joke, that’s its name) about 40 miles north of Malé, and looks like 52 acres of paradise. President Nasheed gushed, “I am delighted to be here for the inauguration of hits beautiful resort and am sure that the Hilton family will continue to set the standard for hospitality excellence in the Maldives with its latest opening.” That’s a much more positive reaction than most “Hilton openings” receive. Tee hee.

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