Al Maha Desert Resort in Dubai

Luxurious hotel-parking for beduins has been opened in Dubai.
Unique style, eccentricity, contact to the nature and unforgettable impressions are guaranteed by Al Maha Desert Resort. Al Maha Desert Resort visitors to spend holiday in desert heart in luxurious hotel-parking for beduins.
Al Maha Desert Resort is located in 45 kilometers from a city, and it is possible to reach there only on hotel jeeps, in view of its exclusive exclusiveness. Entrance by private cars is forbidden - the administration safeguards their lodgers.
The hotel has been constructed so that not to break surrounding landscape, that is in absolute harmony with desert and with careful relation to flora and fauna. But all this, of course, together with the drawing magnificent conditions, including private pools, vast bathrooms, library, a bar, beautiful furniture, antiques and the accessories made manually, beds king size, a DVD-player, satellite TV, safe, fitness center, SPA and restaurant with the best cuisine, creates unusual atmosphere.
But, besides luxury and the conveniences, the surrounding nature invites travelers to get acquainted with desert life. For this purpose Al Maha Desert Resort offers visitors the diversified actions - trips astride horses or camels, a safari or pedestrian walks in desert, accompanied by guides, who will show a lot of interesting things, including the rare animals, who are on the verge of extinction, such as Arabian gazelle or Arabian foxes.

Exclusive hotel Vogue Avantgarde in Turkey

Vogue Avantgarde founders have provided various variants of visitors’ accommodation, depending on their preferences. In extensive territory of hotel the basic case with rooms, executed in a various style manner, which transfers atmosphere of oriental luxury in a combination with European traditions of refinement and respectability, are arranged.
Vogue Avantgarde offers Fans of family or friends rest about 40 villas with 200 sq. m territory, favorite vacation spots of the European aristocracy. Villas on seacoast with the open and closed pool, huge own beach and garden, where on the area in 2,5 thousand sq. m the finest representatives of fauna from different corners of a planet have cozy settled down, are also offered.
Service level in hotel is indisputable and corresponds to the most exacting inquiries of the tempted public. The hotel offers variety of restaurants and bars with modern and classical directions of refined world cuisines.
Street of shops, where exclusive marks of clothes and jewels are presented, are worth of your special attention; 27 leading brands of a world fashion will satisfy your taste and desires.
For small visitors of hotel the huge children’s club by a total area in 2,5 thousand sq. m, where the sensitive personnel will not allow to start missing to any child, is created.
However, the hotel has many other pleasant surprises. Your pets will enjoy separate hotel that allows visitors to spend the holiday, not being separated with the friends-animals.

New luxury network of hotels in Italy

Crisis has not affected determination of the Italian investors. One of these days in Rome new network of luxury-hotels under name Hassler Hotels and Resorts has been officially created.
According to the general manager of new formed hotel network, those companies, which are going to be engaged in the tourist real estate seriously and for a long time right now, when cost of the ground areas and the building has decreased, have come an opportunity to move forward and to grow; certainly, if they have enough money for this purpose.
Now the hotel in Rome, opened about Piazza Trinita dei Monti 6, is the only representative of this network. However, the next 5 years the network plans to start tens hotels worldwide, in such cities, as New York, London, Zurich, Doha.
Hassler Hotels and Resorts offers its clients many pleasant highlights and services.

Hotel in the form of a sail in Barcelona

Hotel brand - the innovator in hotel industry - in the end of this year W Hotels Worldwide will celebrate West European debut with opening of new hotel W Barcelona in Barcelona, which promises to become the vanguard architectural icon towering over the Mediterranean coast in the most dynamical and stylish city of Spain. Project of Hotel W Barcelona project is developed by world famous Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, who has already developed such projects as Shiseido towers in Tokyo, buildings of corporations Cartier and Christian Dior in Paris and so forth.
Bofill’s projects show ability of the architect to find harmony with local cultures.
Hotel W Barcelona will be a 26-storeyed building in the form of sail, settled down on coast of perpendicularly landing stage thanks to what visitors can enjoy unique sea and city views from each room.
The hotel will offer 473 rooms, including 67 suites, two suites of WOW category and one Extreme WOW suites, and also Bliss Spa, restaurant with sea views,  Ignite Group night club, W bar, pool surrounded with terraces and qualitatively equipped booths and modern fitness centre Sweat with Technogym equipment. For conferences and special actions halls a total area in 2500 sq. meters, including unique hall Great Room with tremendous views of the sea here, will be opened. The hotel will be opened on October, 1st, 2009.

Best WiFi hotels

If free, high-quality WiFi services - are in the list of your main requirements, it is useful for you to learn more about the list of the best hotel networks, rendering the given services, made by hotelchatter.com.
1. Element and Aloft hotels: Starwood hotels are quite often included into the list of the worst from the point of view of wireless Internet communication, basically that the given service here is given for money. But thanks to Element and Aloft Starwood has finally started to offer free WiFi. Hotels Element are created for long residing, therefore the Internet here is simply vital necessity.
2. Kimpton Hotels. In 2007 Kimpton hotels have cancelled free WiFi service and have entered 10$ payment for the Internet. However, InTouch program members can use this service free of charge.
3. Hotel Indigo: this network has appeared several years ago, but only this year a significant amount of hotels of a network started to offer free WiFi. Indigo - is a bra-boutique from Intercontinental Hotels network, focused on making stay of visitors more personal and comfortable. Free Internet access is offered.
4. Hyatt Place Hotels: Hyatt Place - is Hyatt’s answer to madness concerning budgetary hotels. Thanks to free WiFi it was included also into the given list. By the way, hotel also offers access to all media devices - laptops, DVD and MP3 players, TVCH-TV game systems.
5. Courtyard By Marriott: this budgetary brand from Marriott has for a long time offered free WiFi at the lobby, but this year it became especially pleasant to use the given service: Courtyard has presented ultra-modern zone for work and rest Media Pod with LCD TVs, Internet access and other conveniences.

First hotel Fairmont will be opened in China

Hotel network Fairmont Hotels and Resorts opens the first hotel in China. Hotel Fairmont Beijing settles down in the centre of Beijing.
Now room reservation for the first visitors of hotel is carried out for dates from August, 15th till November, 15th, 2009.
On the occasion of hotel opening the special offer “the second night free of charge” operates.
Design of Fairmont Beijing combines modern lines and local traditions. The building facade is made of gold and pink glass. The hotel foyer will be decorated by a 16-metre chandelier in the form of a dragon, consisting of hundreds tiny crystal small fishes, which are considered by Chinese as a success and prosperity symbol. Hotel has 222 rooms, including suites and exclusive rooms Fairmont Gold.
Visitors are offered room-service; rent of best cars, including Bentley, BMW and Rolls Royce, and also round-the-clock services of the personal assistant on each floor of hotel. Two restaurants will offer refined dishes for all tastes and bars will please guests with delicious and extravagant drinks.
Besides, for carrying out of business meetings and seminars, Fairmont Beijing will offer perfectly equipped three conference halls. The pool and the three-level spa-complex, which area will make 2000 square meters, will open in the end of 2009.
Fairmont Hotels&Resorts networks belong also such legendary hotels as Plaza in New York and Savoy in London.

Radisson Blu Marrakesh will be opened in Morocco

In 2011 Company Rezidor plans to open new hotel Radisson Blu Marrakesh in Morocco.
According to the group managers the general who room fund of the hotel will make 204 rooms and it will be constructed in territory of prestigious complex Carre Eden.
New hotel will be constructed in one of the most beautiful cities of the world.  Rezidor Hotel Group also plans to open hotels in the cities of Tangiers and Saidia, therefore Radisson Blu Marrakesh will become a good addition to the list of hotels in Morocco.
Five-star Radisson Blu in Marrakesh will become attractive vacation spot both for business tourists, and for travelers.
The hotel and its shopping centre will become interesting sights for tourists.
Hotel Radisson Blu Marrakesh will be constructed in territory Carre Eden, an elite complex, where 80 apartments of premium class, and also the trading and entertaining centers will be settled down.
Besides 204 modern hotel rooms, the hotel infrastructure will include 2 restaurants, a bar, pool, the spa-centre where visitors can visit real Moroccan traditions. Besides, in hotel the zone for carrying out of negotiations and conferences by a total area of an order 1 000 sq. m. will be provided.

Hot list of the best new hotels of the world

Recently the list of the best new hotels in the world has been declared. Conde Nast Traveller magazine has chosen 70 places, where it is possible to stop in 30 countries. It has been made within the limits of annual guidebook Hot List release.
Among these 70 there are only two Australian hotels - Sal Salis Ningaloo in the western part and Southern Ocean on Kangaroo Island, located in the south of the country. Sal Salis Ningaloo is well known for the fact that all energy used in hotel, is received from solar batteries, and the hotel does not bring harm to environment.
Here there are also 25 rest houses, noted by especial favour of jury. Their list in alphabetic order looks so: 1. Aman in the Summer palace (Beijing, capital of China); 2. Aman New Delhi (Delhi, India); 3. Resort Anantara Phuket (Phuket, Thailand); 4. Atlantis the Palm (Dubai, United Arab Emirates); 5. Banyan Tree Sanya (China); 6. Borgo Santo Pietro (Tuscany, Italy); 7. Carbon (Genk, Belgium); 8. Castiglion Del Bosco (Tuscany, Italy); 9. Cavallo Point (San Francisco, the USA); 10. Citizen M Schiphol (Amsterdam, the Netherlands); 11. Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge (Uganda); 12. Crazy Bear (England); 13. Desert Island Resort and Spa (Abu-Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates); 14. Diva (Maldives).
Close this list of 10 following institutions: 15. Dontainebleau (Miami, the USA); 16. Four Seasons Hotel Firenze (Florence, Italy); 17. Four Seasons Hotel Macao (Macao, the Peoples Republic of China); 18. Four Seasons Resort Bora Boar (French Polynesia); 19. Four Seasons Resort Mauritius (Mauritius); 20. Geejam (Jamaica); 21. Hilton Moscow (Moscow, Russia); 22. Hotel Du Vin Poole (Great Britain); 23. Hotel Montefiore (Tel Aviv, Israel); 24. Hotel Santa Teresa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 25. Hotel Tugu Lombok (Indonesia).

Null Stern hotel has opened in Switzerland

Hotel with sound name Null Stern (”Zero stars”) has opened in the former military bunker in the Swiss city Sevelen, which is on the boundary with Liechtenstein.
The cost of night in standard room of hotel makes only € 6,6. However, for this money lodgers should be ready to face the absence of central heating and they will have to warm the beds by means of hot-water bottles. Nights will be “noisy” because of ventilating mine.
Standard rooms of hotel Null Stern are arranged in Spartan spirit. Beds remind cots in military infirmaries. But for € 12 it is possible to move to “suite” with an ancient bed.
Lodgers will be given slippers, so that they would not get cold on ice floor after a hot shower. In hotel also there are no windows, number of monitors on the reception desk, on which images from an earth surface are being broadcast, is the only way to get in touch with the world.

Prices for hotels decrease all over the world

British company Hogg Robinson Group (HRG) has published a rating of cities of the world with the most expensive hotels. The first place in it was given to Abu-Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), where the average price for standard room makes $421 for night. According to HRGs data, price for one night in Abu-Dhabi made $355, but during first two months of 2009 the average price has increased to $421, that has made capital of the United Arab Emirates country with the most expensive hotels.
Abu-Dhabi and in the Indian Bangalore are among ten cities with the most expensive hotels. Moscow is on the second place of the list, capital of Qatar -Doha-is on the third place. Delhi occupies the fourth position and Dubai is on the fifth place.

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