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Aussie kickboxer home after nightmare of mate dying in Thai hotel room
Aussie kickboxer has returned from Thailand Jay Tonkin watched mate, 21, die in hotel room Thai police laid no charges over ketamine stash Aussie kickboxer Jayson Tonkin has quietly returned home after seeing his young boxing buddy die in front of…
Suite Life: Atlanta developers turning hotel rooms into tiny apartments
Transforming the Otto's Apartment Hotel into pocket-size apartments was about more than just reviving a grand landmark. For developers Benjamin McLoughlin and Michael Graber, it was really about offering affordable living in the heart of the…
Dozens of luxury high-rise apartments and hotels along Miami's waterfront are sinking
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which…
I stayed in London tech hotel with £30,000 massage bed but best bit was in loo
TUCKED away in London's posh Belgravia neighbourhood is a hi-tech hotel that has ‘smart beds' worth as much as a house deposit. I'm The Sun's resident tech expert, and I spent a night in the gadget-laden Eccleston Square Hotel earlier this…
A convent and a hotel. Step inside Le Corbusier's La Tourette convent near Lyon
By Laetitia Møller Published today at 3:58 pm (Paris) 9 min read Lire en français Share on Facebook Share by email Share on Linkedin FeatureSomewhere between radical simplicity and brutalist aesthetics, this concrete monolith designed…
23 of the Most Charming Boutique Hotels in the U.S.
The way we travel is changing and so is the way we choose our hotel stays. As more of us identify with the term traveler rather than tourist, we seek deeper travel experiences when visiting a new city. Boutique hotels, inherently more intimate due…
Mattress runs': What's this latest travel trend about hotel bookings about?
There's a new trend in the travel and hospitality industry: ‘Mattress runs'. Guests are paying for hotel stays to accumulate status points or earn free nights. However, experts warn it's also a move that could backfire. Mattress runs involve…
I'm a butler at one of Singapore's most expensive hotels, where a night's stay can cost $26,000. Here's what it's like.
Tan Hong Kai, 24, from Singapore, is a senior butler at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Kai looks after guests in the hotel's most luxurious suites, some of which are invite-only. He said he enjoys interacting with famous guests, but last-minute…
FULL LIST of the NEW MagicBands Available for Disney World Hotel Stays!
If there's one Disney item we've seen totally take off during recent years, it's definitely MagicBands. Not only do these help you conveniently scan into the park, make purchases, and enter your hotel room with just a quick tap, but thanks to the…
Firefighters Put Out Blaze At Site Of The Doors' Famous Morrison Hotel In Downtown L.A.
The Los Angeles Fire Department knocked down a fire Thursday in a vacant downtown building that was formerly the home of the Morrison Hotel, which became famous after it was photographed as the cover art for the 1970 album by seminal L.A. band The…
Perthshire Planning Ahead: Loch Tay 'tenement block' and hotel disturbance fears
An eight-house proposal near Loch Tay – labelled a “three-storey tenement block” – has been given planning permission. Perth and Kinross Council accepted Strathtay Developments' application for terraced housing on land…
Branded hotels to log 13-14% growth in FY25 on demand surge: CRISIL report
Branded hotels in the country are likely to see double-digit revenue growth of 13-14 per cent in 2024-25, and 11-12 per cent in the next financial year on demand surge, a report said on Thursday. While domestic leisure and business travel will…
San Francisco Hotel Strikes are Over!
The Union says a new standard has been set for SF Hotel Workers, it was a very Merry Christmas for workers' rights in San Francisco this year. After 93 days on strike, Hilton hotel workers with the UNITE HERE Local 2 union in San Francisco have…
Luxury hotel expansion bid at North Wales castle site
Plans to convert a former award-winning museum and gallery into a hotel have been unveiled. Warner Leisure Hotels, who have operated a hotel at Bodelwyddan Castle since 1994, have applied for change of use of the adjacent buildings which closed to…
Lina Khan's Christmas Gift: Limits on Annoying Fees by Hotels and Ticketing Services
A few years ago, I started to notice something when I went to stay in a hotel. There would often be some sort of undisclosed “resort fee” or “facility fee” that I'd have to pay, which hadn't appeared on the upfront price…
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