The Plaza in New York has re-opened after $400 million of investment and a two-year break. Now with 282 guest rooms, including 102 suites, the hotel offers one or two special services such as touch panel access to a personal butler. Retail outlets will open later in the Spring and the official grand opening of [...]
Ever wondered what food you might be served on a business-only airline? Here’s what’s on the menu with Silverjet, created by the London restaurant Le Caprice, for the month of March: London – New York daytime menu This month’s daytime menu consists of salt beef and green bean salad or endive salad with [...]
From the end of this month, a new airline – Porter Airlines – will begin flying between Newark (EWR) and downtown Toronto’s City Centre Airport (YTZ). This allows passengers wanting to fly to Toronto to actually fly to within minutes of the downtown area of the city, rather than have to go to Pearson. [...]
Emirates has 58 of the huge, double-decked A380 planes on order, and has announced that it will be flying from Dubai to a number of destinations before the end of the year. Flights from Dubai to New York begin in October 2008 and will be followed by Dubai-London Heathrow flights from 1st December 2008. Routes [...]
MonteLago Village Resort at Lake Las Vegas is offering an Unlimited Golf Package with big savings. The package includes one night’s lodging in a luxurious studio condominium and unlimited golf from just $214 per person, a saving of $150! Golfers have the choice to play at one of two spectacular golf courses; the Jack Nicklaus-designed [...]
Just when you thought Dubai already had it all, news has broken that it’s about to get four new theme parks. SeaWorld, Aquatica, Busch Gardens and Discovery Cove are all to be developed there, following an agreement between Orlando-based Busch Entertainment Corporation and Dubai property developer Nakheel. Preliminary work is underway and the anticipated opening [...]
The Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, the first Renaissance property in downtown Boston, opens this week. The $165 million hotel project is the next chapter in the fast-paced development story of the South Boston Waterfront’s Seaport District. It has 471 guestrooms, including 21 suites, and features over 21,000 sq. ft. of flexible meeting space, [...]
World-renowned chef Alain Ducasse has opened a French restaurant in the Big Apple, with a focus on wine. Adour at The St. Regis, New York is named after the river in southwest France where Ducasse was born, and where he had his first culinary inspirations. Traditional French cooking will be accompanied by an interactive goatskin [...]
A recent academic study by Antonio Rangel of the California Institute of Technology (published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) suggests that we can have a tendancy to turn our noses up at cheaper items even if they are essentially the same. Interestingly, the implication of this is that if people [...]
Sheraton Hotels and Four Points by Sheraton Hotels has announced that all of their smoking rooms will become non-smoking by the end of 2008. This affects more than 300 properties and some 8,000 rooms across the US, Canada and the Caribbean.
One of the most romantic spots with stunning, sky-high views of Manhattan, would have to be the Lobby Lounge at the Mandarin Oriental, New York. Reservations are now available for their new Champagne Tasting Menu debuting just in time for Valentine’s Day. Toast your delighted valentine with fine Champagnes, savoury delicacies and the Manhattan skyline [...]
Get cozy with your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day and surprise them with Affinia‘s sizzling Passion Package. Affinia have hotels in Chicago, New York and Washington DC. With this package you will get to enjoy a rose petal turn-down service, Champagne for two, a ‘Let’s Get Frisky’ gift basket which includes items such as Chocoholics Body [...]
SpaFinder recently acquired SpaWish and immediately re-named and re-branded it “Spa & Salon Wish”. Through the acquisition, SpaFinder will add the vast U.S. salon industry – a significant new market opportunity – to its spa gift program, while further expanding its reach into traditional spa retail channels. In an email I received, they said… We [...]
The Cliffs is proud to introduce Keowee Springs, a new and unique kind of healthy-living community. At Keowee Springs, family wellness is an exciting journey of discovery, of living completely, of enjoying life to the fullest. The Cliffs at Keowee Springs is the ideal place to begin, or continue, a legacy of living well that [...]
Four Seasons is heading for downtown Manhattan. It will retain its midtown location but will also occupy the first 22 floors of an 80-story residential tower that is planned near Ground Zero. The plans form part of a proposal from World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein. The new tower will be Robert A.M. [...]
