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Hotel Club Med Punta Cana is opened in Dominican Republic after scale updating. In result of works, which cost has made $34 million, new spa-centre has been created, and the number of rooms is increased. Now visitors are offered 427 standard rooms (club room), 94 rooms of de-lux category and 32 magnificent family suits.
Hotel updating in Dominican Republic became a part of the program, which this network spends worldwide, modernizing and improving the hotels.
After renovation hotel Club Med Punta Cana has received “four tridents” category. Tridents are the symbol of all Club Med hotels; thus, they are above stars. So, four tridents correspond to five-or even to six-star service.
The cost of one week accommodation at Club Med Punta Cana hotel makes $5000 per week.

Recently opened at the airport of Zurich hotel Radisson SAS offers the unusual service. At will of the client the flying angel will bring a bottle of wine.
Group Rezidor has constructed hotel “wine tower-bar” in atrium - a pyramid of 4 thousand bottles, which height reaches 16 meters, and the weight makes 27,5 tons.
At certain time - since 11.45 till 17.15 visitors of hotel can order a bottle of wine from pyramid. The order will be delivered by flying angels - trapeze artists.
Rezidor has constructed the same tower of bottles in hotel Radissons SAS at airport Stansted in the Great Britain. However, the pyramid in Zurich became pride of the company as it surpasses the British tower in sizes.

Unique underground hotel has been constructed in Swiss Alps. The hotel is located directly on the well-known Saint-Gothard pass.
Swiss hotel La Claustra is created for those, who is ready to go down deeply under the ground for the sake of a coziness. The hotel has no TVs and mobile network, however, conditions for lodgers are comfortable.
The hotel is located in the former military bunker, which has a rich history.
In order to get to this hotel, it is necessary to find an imperceptible door in mountain slope. The 200-meter tunnel leads to the place, where area in 4 thousand square meters and 17 rooms, restaurant, bar, SPA-centre and conference hall with library are arranged.
Developing interiors of underground residence, designers had to create non-standard decisions. For example, the cleanest water in bathrooms arrives from underground mountain sources, and the role of windows in bedrooms is carried out by mirrors, in which it is possible to see the drawn mountain panoramas.
Accommodation conditions here requite comfortable: it is possible to relax in a bath equipped in ancient cave, to try dishes of European and Chinese cuisine. And in the late evening lodgers can enjoy star sky from hotel: in the former loophole in tunnel the powerful telescope is established.

Hoscar 2009 awards ceremony - ceremony of best hostels in the world- has been recently held in Dublin. As well as in previous years, winners were defined by tourists, who voted at Hostelworld.com.
About 800 thousand people took part in the voting, which has been hold within the year. They considered such factors as hostels’ interior, convenient location, service and cleanliness.
Portugal has appeared the best place for budgetary rest.  In this country hostels have taken leading positions in the rating. Travellers House has won the competition; the second place has been given to Rossio Hostel, and the third place - to Lisbon Lounge Hostel. All three hostels are in capital of Portugal.
Riverhouse Backpackers, located in Cardiff - capital of the British Wales is on the fourth place.
To the fifth place was given to Greg&Tom in Krakow. The awards have been also given to Sitting on the City Walls Courtyard House in Beijing, Academy Hostel in Florence, Flamingo Hostel in Krakow and Mambo Tango Backpackers in Barcelona.

Melia Madeira Mare - is a new five-star hotel Sol Melia in Portugal. The hotel is arranged in modern sea style, located in several kilometers from the city of Funchal. It is in the city of Lido, near to a walking zone at the sea, close to Praia Formosa, the largest natural beach of Madera. Visitors will be offered fascinating views to the Atlantic Ocean, 220 elegant and comfortable rooms and wide range of services.
The hotel will be opened in March and will become an ideal choice for travelers and businessmen. All rooms are equipped with last technologies, and their design will help to make your stay especial. The hotel also has 16 senior suites with exclusive furniture, kitchen and a small sitting room with several sofas, where loggers can relax and take pleasure in magnificent landscapes of a gulf of Funchal.
Here are the services, offered by Melia Madeira Mare: spa with various programs, room of hydrotherapy with a hydro massage, sauna, Jacuzzi and cosmetic procedures, and also fitness-center, three pools, excellent cultural program for children and adults, three restaurants, three bars, conference halls.

Luxury hotels compete in involving tourists. Smart hotel Palazzo Versace in Dubai starts the equipment of the beach system of artificial cooling. The president of hotel Soheil Abedian has informed that even in the hottest days, having a rest tourists could walk easy on sand and lay on it, not burning their skin.
Under the ground of a beach the system of pipes with a cooling liquid which will absorb heat from a surface will be arranged.
The territory around of pool will be also cooled. Except for cool paths near to pool, the air will not burn even under the scorching sun - huge fans will create freshening breeze.
Luxurious Palazzo Versace offers 205 elegant rooms, 75 cozy suites, 3 restaurants, boutique Versace and own mooring for yachts. Hotel network is going to construct 15 more similar hotels worldwide.

Hotel Couples Ocho Rios on Jamaica, closed in March, should begin its work already up to the end of this year and under the new name: Couples Tower Isle. During reconstruction 20 more rooms were added to 206 already existing numbers of the hotel.
In January, 2009 of the magnificent resort complex Solis The Palmyra Resort and Spa, located in 15 minutes of driving from international airport Montego Bay, will accommodate first lodgers. The lodgers will be offered comfortable rest, including large fitness-center with ocean view and restaurants with the refined kitchen and rare faults.
Montego Bay - is the center of a huge resort zone in northwest of the country. Here a half of magnificent hotels of Jamaica, magnificent sandy beaches, set of ancient private residences and plantations of tropical cultures is concentrated.
And in 2010 opening new cases of hotel GoldenEye, located in area of city Oracabessa of district St Mary in northeast of the country, is expected. GoldenEye already now offers comfortable accommodation and a set of additional services, including special programs for just-married couples.

On Christmas the biggest in history the ice hotel will open doors for visitors in Lapland. About sixty tourists can lead night on ice beds at temperature up to a minus 5 degrees on Celsius.
Inside of the ice rooms, made in the form of a needle, it is possible to find sleeping bags, the sheep skins and the instruction telling about how to win “force of dream”. After night in silent ices hot berry juice is offered to lodgers, and clients, who are afraid of frost, will be offered “warmer” rooms, booked in advance.
This ice hotel has been created by 15 professional sculptors within three weeks. Creation of a fantastic building required more than thousand trailers of snow. The hotel, which has received name Ice Hotel, which is being built annually, has been built in Lapland already for the eighth time. This year founders have attached additional three rooms, and thus the hotel has 30 double suites.
Except for rooms, the hotel, occupying territory in 7,5 kilometers and located in small village, has a bar and the restaurant, which are also made of ice. The interior of a building is decorated with ice statues. The hotel will work the whole winter and will be closed only in the spring, when the snow will start to melt.

Newspaper Times together with a site Hostelbookers.com has made a rating of the best hotels for fans of skiing.

1. Cube Savognin, Savognin, Switzerland
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 95 %.
Nearest airport: Zurich/Milan.
Price: from £36.

2. Euro Youth Hotel, Bud Gastajn, Austria
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 94,3 %.
Nearest airport: Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck.
Price: from £14 for a place in general room, £17 - for a place in separate room.

3. Good Bye Lenin, Zakopane, Poland
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 93,4 %.
Nearest airport: Krakow.
Price: from £8 per night for a place in general room, £14 for separate room.

4. The Aparthotel Götzens, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 93,1 %.
Nearest airport: Innsbruck.
Price: from £35 per night for a place in separate room and a breakfast.

5. Fireside Inn, Colorado, the USA
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 92,3 %.
Nearest airport: Denver.
Price: from £20 per night in general room.

6. Hotel Moravsko Village, Bulgaria
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 92 %.
Nearest airport: Sofia.
Price: from £12 per night in separate room.

7. Shimaya Ryokan, Nagano, Japan
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 90,4 %.
Nearest airport: Matsumoto, Osaka and Tokyo.
Price: from £35 per night in separate room.

8. Backpackers Villa Sonnenhof, Switzerland
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 89,6 %.
Nearest airport: Zurich.
Price: from £20 per night for a place in the six-seater room, from £28- in separate room.

9. Hotel L´Ermita, Andorra
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 87,5 %.
Nearest airport: La Vella, Andorra.
Price: from £19 per night.

10. Ski hostel Farellones Refugio Aleman, Chile
Hostelbookers.com users’ average rating: 86,1 %.
Nearest airport: Santiago.
Price:  from £27 pet night for a place in six-seater room.

1. Christmas with Santa in Finland
Rest in Finland is traditionally cheaper, than in other countries of the Western Europe, and here it is possible to try fine Finnish berry tinctures: cowberry and cranberry, blueberry and cloudberries.

2. Traditional Christmas in the Alps. France
You are sure to enjoy fantastic slopes, small houses on slopes, chocolate pie, tremendous French kitchen, fireworks.

3. Christmas in luxury hotel in Bulgaria
If you used to celebrate Christmas in respectable atmosphere of magnificent hotel, it is difficult to choose a variant more interesting and more habitual. Kempinski-hotel “Grand Arena” in the Bulgarian region Bansko has kept cultural originality. Kempinski is located at bottom of slopes and offers all conditions for rest on a magnificent resort with huge pools and a greater complex a term, and also reasonable prices.

4. Sleigh vacations in Austria
To mountain-skiing trips all for a long time have already become so habitual, but they are still popular.

5. Shopping and skiing in Italy
For those who, likes to combine sports with shopping, it is a high time to go to Italy. Livino with remarkable slopes of Dolomite and duty-free shops is a real paradise for those, who pay attention to the appearance. It is especially favorable to do here purchases of every possible electro devices, perfumery and alcoholic production.

6. Family tour to France
Christmas season of family discounts traditionally operates in a chalet Les Gets.

7. Andorra - paradise for lonely skiers
It is quite good for lonely travelers to make a break and to go to holiday to master snow slopes of Andorra. Hotel Refugi Del Isard is just five minutes of walk from extensive and solar slopes the Pas de la Casa.

8. France with discount
It is difficult to find something more fantastic, than comfortable rest in Pyrenees in the end of December. Ques on lifts are small; slopes will approach for beginners and those who confidently stand on skis. And the prices are 25-50 % below, than for those who by tradition will go to have a rest to the Alps.

9. Rest in a family way in Switzerland
Verbier and its wonderful neighbor Nendaz ideally approach for children. Here there are wide gentle slopes for kids, and family discounts for ski-paths, and there are also fine children’s ski schools, paths for the pedestrian winter walks and game stores with libraries.

10. Austria - only for teenagers
If you don’t have a chance to goon vacation, your children should go to the one of the most attractive ski directions - Austria. Week of training to mountain skiing or snowboard with other 13-17-year-old teenagers will allow your child to have a good active rest and to practice foreign language.