Articles in the Hotels Category
Posted in Alcohol, Concept, Drinks, Hotels, Spirits, Vodka, Wine on 2 October 2008
Tired of cheap supermarket liquor? Not anymore. There is a soon-to-be released miracle machine for all those of you who want to sip on quality spirits without having to spend too much. A creation of Dragons Den veteran and entrepreneur Casey Jones, this wonderful gadget comes at a neat price of 350 pounds.
Claims are that this ice-bucket look alike can turn any cheap booze into a bottle of vintage in just 30 minutes. The space-age ultrasound technology behind has garnered a lot of interest. Leisure chain Hotel Du Vin is even in talks about promoting the working title ‘Ultrasonic Wine Ager’.
Posted in Hotels, Luxury, News, Travel, Worlds Most Expensive on 6 August 2008
If you have spare $1 million in your account and heart to spill over the fat sum for recreational purpose then here is your bait. News is the Emirates Palace Hotel has plans to set a record by offering world’s most expensive holiday package priced at $1 million. This “once-in-a-lifetime” seven-night trip for a duo details at offering a deep-sea fishing trip, Emirates Palace Sunset and Desert Island Tour, gifts counting Emirates Palace Gold Champagne, the unique pearls in the world from Robert Wang and an assortment of sporting guns from Holland.
Posted in Architecture, Designer, Hotels, News on 5 August 2008
It has all: Sun, Sand, Sea minus Beach. If you are willing to compromise on the presence of beach then located on Weymouth beach in Dorset, UK, here stands the world’s largest and only sand castle hotel made wholly of sand. And it is also missing on clandestine or any shower or toilet services and hence leaving you with the only option to sit with legs crossed. A team of six was engaged for continuous eight days (12-14 hours/day or 600 hour’s total) to erect the 50 foot square by 13 foot high sand hotel. Featuring sand pillow, sand bed and other sandy interiors, the structure is formed using 1,000 tons of Weymouth beach sand and water from the sea.
Posted in Hotels, Luxury on 13 July 2008
Ithaa, positioned five metres (15 feet) below sea level is the world’s leading undersea restaurant enclosed by a coral reef, at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island in Rangalifinolhu, Maldives. Synonymous to Pearl in Dhivehi, the restaurant is sheathed in R-Cast acrylic, which is a translucent acrylic roof providing 270° panoramic view to its patrons. Served with a Maldavian-Western Fusion menu with a price range varying from $120-$250, counted 14 people can dine in one go.
Designed and developed by a New Zealand-based design consultancy company M.J. Murphy Ltd, this $5 million restaurant was constructed in Singapore and was later shipped to the island on a colossal barge outfitted with a massive derrick to enable it dive in the sea. The thrilling experience starts right on the way as the unique wooden walkway directs you to reach the welcoming door of restaurant. Carsten Schieck, the GM commented on the usage of aquarium technology that serves diner face-to-face with the spectacular submarine surroundings of the Maldives.
Posted in Architecture, Designer, Estate, Hotels on 2 July 2008
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Frank O. Gehry, a popular draftsman behind eon building Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has taken a step ahead in erecting a tavern or to be precise a wine hotel offering a pilgrimage to all wine addicts in Spain. Called the Marques De Riscal, the metal masterpiece is positioned in the heart of the Rioja wine region of Spain and houses a variety of vintage wine and barreled wine detailing 16,000 bottles. After enjoying a wine-bath, guests are allowed to feel comfortable in cozy lodge featuring elegant interiors. The Marques De Riscal features its own chateau offering an interesting stroll to its savvy guests.
Posted in Elite Find of the Day, Hotels, News, Technology on 21 June 2008
Flagging the novelty proportion, many latest restaurants in U.K. are revising their way of taking orders. Shunning the need of menu card, they are now in a mood to go hi-tech and are welcoming the accessibility of touchscreens that keep the diners engaged while they hang on for their orders. The e-menu form address a higher level of sophistication along with fast and efficient service with no burden on someone standing on your head to take order. And if you are afraid the germs attached to screen, the Israeli-based restaurant Frame (video) assures that a small number of methodical swabs suffice to provide a germ-free screen. But yes, like everything, it also has few drawbacks. There is a possibility that you might be served with a wrong order if customers happen to make errors while placing order.
Posted in Designer, Hotels, Luxury on 12 April 2008
If you are tired of making visits to ordinary hotels spread over some XXXX-foot of area offering XYZ and plus-minus store of facilities, then here is the sure spot destination to put an end to your hunt. Thanks to Atkins first for applying all his levels of imagination and erecting a magnum opus that has bagged an award in an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel located within gorgeous 100-meter profound quarry in the Songjiang district, near to Shanghai in China.
True, from the pictures featured here, the hotel almost looks unrealistically picturesque but it is all set to prove its reality feel on its completion by May 2009. The revolutionary concept is stimulated by the natural water and scenery featuring quarry, thereby arresting the wild thoughts of judges to nullify opposition from two other global firms. The excavation will shield it from the unexpected weather conditions and would cut down the energy requirement of the hotel. The complex would be equipped with restaurants, cafes, sport facilities including undersea public areas and guestrooms in addition to offering conference facility for up to 1,000 people.
The inventive drawing of the 400-bed resort hotel positions two levels advanced than the rock face of the 100 meter deep quarry. Sustainability is essential to the design arraying from using green roof for the arrangement above the ground level to geothermal energy withdrawal. A marine theme runs through the structure both visually and functionally. Two submarine levels will accommodate a restaurant and guestrooms facing a ten-meter deep aquarium.
The lowly level of the lodge will house a leisure compound with a swimming pool and water-based sports. It also offers space for activities like rock climbing, bungee jumping and others.
Via GreenRoofs
Posted in Designer, Hotels, News, Robot, Technology on 8 April 2008
Germany is known to be a land infused with Ideas and the history proves it has had its share to offer. Mind you the aspirin, the airship, the printing press and the diesel engine are all invented by Germans. And now they have one more to be added to the list. BBC News crew lately visited Germany to get a feel of SBaggers, the robotized, fully mechanical restaurant with no single waiter standing and also plates ride over your head on steel rails to arrive at your chair. A complete futurama feel!
Good part is its functioning is admired by all. Located in Nuremberg, this fully mechanical restaurant follows an elite way for placing an order. It makes use of a touch screen that gives you access to surf net while killing time before the order flies to your color-coded seat. It is only at the cooking front that some manual exercise is done by some Elzar apprentices (70% human, 30% iron chefs) within the building. The great mind behind Baggers technology welcomes the huge market for such restaurants that are undoubtedly offers ultra fun while cutting costs to the owners as well as clients.
And BBC agrees to their argument that it is fun, delicious, fast, and no tips. Moreover, it absolutely erases the need for a terrible job of waitressing.
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Posted in Designer, Hotels on 27 February 2008
Marcel Wanders, a globally renowned design icon and an original member of the influential Droog collective based in Netherlands, has visualized Mondrian South Beach Hotel as Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Morgans Hotel Group has made a revolutionary move away from the commotion of Miami Beach’s oceanfront sightseer hub to the stylish, growing vicinity of Biscayne Bay. Ready to be opened in early 2008, Mondrian South Beach will blend the most enlivening design essentials of a fantasy modern get-away together with placate and amenities of home. Starting at $400,000, Mondrian South Beach comes equipped with 342 studios, one and two-bedroom apartments and penthouses.
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Via Cubeme
Posted in Eco-friendly, Hotels on 28 January 2008
Icehotel, touted as world’s first ice hotel has hosted more than 200,000 people in the history of 18-years. The hotel witnessed its 18th season on 7 Dec., 2007 and has plans to swarm 29,000 people in its 80 ice rooms, bar and chapel this season. The hotel will be open till mid April. The creation of this hotel begins every year in November. Doing away with the usage of bricks to give it s form, it purely depends upon the tons of crystal clear ice from the Torne River near the village of Jukkasjarvi in Sweden, till the time it dilutes into water the following season.
The inspiration behind this model hotel is of a Japanese ice sculptor, who was engaged in Jukkasjarvi in the early 1990s. Floored away by his work, French sculptor Jannot Derit requested him to generate an exhibition in an igloo constructed on the Torne River. It was this 60-square-meter Arctic Hall that invited the attention of the foreigners’ as there was a dearth of lodging in Kiruna and they choose this igloo to spend their night. This led to the formation of the hotel.
With a room temperature zero minus five degrees Centigrade, one night at this hotel would cost you $800 plus while a six-person standard room costs $400. It features 80 rooms, 58 standard rooms and other specially designed suites by artists from all across globe. Besides an elite stay on the ice beds, other activities here include wilderness camps, husky tours, fishing on ice, northern lights Aurora and snowmobile safaris. You would be surprised to know that all glasses and chairs here are made of ice. Guests here can order a drink for 13 euros and the following ones will cost them 10 euros (only before the glass melts).
