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Luxury Hotels and Resorts in Vietnam

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Vietnam offers a variety of luxury hotels, resorts, and villas. In my last post, I profiled some of my favorite accommodations. Here are three more wonderful places to stay, including a tropical beach resort, an exotic island retreat with a great spa, and an historic hotel that feels more French than Vietnamese:

Evason Ana Mandara, Nha Trang

Ana Mandara means “beautiful home for the guest,” which makes it the perfect name for this deluxe beach resort. At one end of the property a large infinity po

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An Atypical Place to Stay in Paris

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As you might know I use to write about experiences I have in hotels, especially in Paris because I go there often for my work.

 

I discovered a weird hotel, why weird? I should say atypic...

 

26 rooms, all different, some worthy of a decoration Stark, others more childish, or even naughty, there's something for all tastes.


But the decor is not the only surprise about this hotel ... Indeed, the rooms are large, very large for Paris and the bathrooms, so stylish!

 
I had never seen a hotel so ch

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Rates of hotels in Sarajevo for 2011 year

 

HOTEL

DBL ROOM

SGL ROOM

ADD BED

ADD MEAL

NOTE

5*****

 

 

 

 

 

HOTEL CENTRAL                    Center

60 €

100 €

-

14 €

 

HOTEL EUROPE                     Center

75 €

100 €

70 €

15 €

 

4****

 

 

 

 

 

HOTEL HOLLYWOOD               Ilidža

 40 €

50 €

35 €

10 €

Standard room

HOTEL HOLLYWOOD               Ilidža

50 €

60 €

40 €

10 €

Superior room

HOTEL HOLIDAY INN    Marijin Dvor

62 €

89 €

-

16 €

 

HOTEL HERCEGOVINA            Ilidža

50 €

80 €

-

10 €

 

HOTEL HUNGARIA                   Ilidža

50 €

80 €

-

10 €

 

HOTEL

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Summer Beach Picnic Recipe Contest

Submit your Beach Picnic Recipe

To Win a Late Summertime ‘Beach Getaway’

 

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View from Casa Marina Hotel Penthouse

The Casa Marina Hotel & Restaurant in Jacksonville Beach invites ‘foodies’ to submit your favorite recipe that would be appropriate for a Beach Picnic.  The historic Hotel (circa 1925) is located directly on the dunes of the Atlantic Ocean, where having a beach picnic is one of the hotel guests’ favorite summertime dining options. Today’s food lovers choose variety and a blend of regiona

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You might think London hotels would be sold out or vastly marked up during Royal Wedding week. Well, you might be wrong. Seems a lot of folks got the idea that it would be a total Picadilly circus, and decided to stay away. Travelocity, for example, just reported there’s plenty of availability, affordability, and even bargains – so if you can scrape the time together, you can get thee thither for Wills and Kate’s Excellent Adventure. 

When it comes to hostelries, of course, the city on the Thame

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Lately, I’ve been traveling a lot so I’ve had time to read those inflight magazines. The other day I was on an American Airlines flight and was able to read theAmerican Way magazine. To my surprise I found an article about the hospitality industry using social media, which obviously caught my attention.

I know there are many tools out there that focus on research and analytics but there is one research/analytic tool that is specific to the hospitality industry, it only works with hotels and it’s

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Creating a Blog for a Hotel

So the hotel you work for has asked you to start a blog, so how do you start? Well that’s easy go to either wordpress, blogger, tumbler, etc and open up an account and blog away.

Well it’s a little bit more complicated than that as 

Social Media Guru Brian Solis explains in one of his blog posts,”Think about a blogging strategy. Sit down with the executive and marketing team, including PR and Web. Chart-out an official plan, identify prospective participants and writers, and dedicate time to makin
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Wrong Goals in  Arab World Tourism Development

The usually upbeat Arab News.com  was, as usual, upbeat in projecting solid growth for Middle East tourism, even as it writes of 2011 because of home-grown revolutions against Arab dictators.

Quite literally banking on the area’s historic and religious sites, its world-class shopping, infrastructure and growing wealth, the site reports that “the tourism industry is resolutely optimistic.”

Quoting a spokesperson from Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which inc
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GALVESTON ISLAND, Texas (March 15, 2011) – As part of its ongoing monthly centennial celebrations, Hotel Galvez & Spa, A Wyndham Grand® Hotel, will host a Spanish Wine Pairing Dinner on Friday, April 15 at 7 p.m. with visiting Chef Pedro Angel Garcia of Houston’s El Meson Restaurant. This special event is part of the 2011 Galveston Island Food and Wine Festival.

 

Priced at $100 per person plus tax and gratuity, the evening will begin with a Cava wine reception featuring the customary sparkling wi

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How to Find A Luxury Resort?

Luxury resorts are accepted for their ambit of amenities, which may cover golf, baptize sports, and spa services. Whether you ambition to honeymoon, accept a ancestors holiday, vacationing at a affluence acreage is abiding to be an alarming experience.

An island affluence resort is an ideal way to adore beaches in peace. Here are some pointers on allotment one -

1. Accept your destination carefully. Altered islands accept assorted resort options. Depending on whether you ambition a ancestors resor
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With the economic climate putting on hold a lot of people's travel plans and many tourism-dependent regions being adversely affected by such factors, many places are now offering self catering accommodation. Such accommodation is cheaper than standard travel hotels and resorts and are thus enjoy a new-found popularity, especially with those traveling on a budget (which is now a case for a lot of people).

 

It is indeed true self catering accommodation offers several great advantages, which include

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Mixing the Business Trip With The Family Vacation

The road warrior, the business traveler represents a huge 50% or more of a hotel’s revenue, so the report just out in Travel Leaders  was good news..

The 2011 business travel survey suggested that 76% of business-focused travel agents are predicting their booking will match or exceed bookings for 2010, and while they were at it, they identified the top reasons a business traveler books a hotel.

But what we found very interesting in the same report,
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Hotel Ratings and Nigeria

The use of hotels in tourism in the modern times cannot be overemphasized, it connotes a useful and satisfactory meaning due to comforts, free gift of nature, and confidence people derive from it. The way people spend their vacations has undergone a great change. People like to spend good times with families and friends while at the same time exploring various tourist places across the globe. As a result the tourism industry across the globe has seen an unprecedented growth which in turn has als

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Unusual Hotel Bars in Paris

Pleasant and sociable, bars are great places to unwind in after a day’s work or a day of leisure. Paris is no exception to this trend, with chic or offbeat establishments that never fail to amaze. The Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau has created a list of the most unusual bars in Paris:

Hotel bars:

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Such is the case at the Ice Kube the bar of the hotel of the same name, without doubt one of the most astonishing bars in Paris. The new decor of this bar in ice is a copy of one of the hotel’s gues
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Monday night, following the angst caused by the competition at day one of the Westminster Dog Show, with a winner named, what a great relief to head home for the night -- even if that home is temporary.

That's where the Hotel Pennsylvania comes in.

New York City's Westminster Dog Show owners, handlers and dogs' hotel-of-choice, this canine-friendly accommodation goes above and beyond for its four-legged stars.

So, while the best in show may or may not be there (see details here of who took first pl

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World’s Best Hotels: TripAdvisor’s  2011 Travelers Choice Awards

When TripAdvisor came out with its highly-publicized list of the world’s dirtiest hotels, many thought it was a shameless grab by the review giant for publicity.

But others, including MSNBC, reported that the traveling public appreciated the list and used it in planning their travels.

Now TripAdvisor gives us their Travelers Choice The World’s Best Hotels.

About 676 hotels and inns were chosen based on what TripAdvisor calls “millions

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TripAdvisor Names The World’s Dirtiest Hotels

It made the news at CNN a few hours ago.

Then Time NewsFeed picked up and amplified the story: TripAdvisor has just come out with its list of the top dirtiest hotels in the world.

And some of them are pretty bad.

Take the Aqua Gumbet Hotel in Turkey or rather in this case don’t take it.

This Aegean Sea hotel had 121 “terrible” reviews and is considered by TripAdvisor to be the worst in Europe. Probably because the po
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Vacations in Sydney

Sydney receives millions of international visitors each and every year. What is the reason behind its amazing popularity? Well, there are several reasons behind it.

There are various aspects behind its unmatchable popularity, which has helped the city to win the hearts of the visitors, irrespective of their ethnicity.

The beautiful Australian city was formed on 26th of January, in the year 1788 by Arthur Phillip. Sydney is surrounded by the beauty of Mother Nature, and is located in the south east

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Maine is well known for its lobster, lighthouses, mountains and Martha Stewart. A standout among these and many other State of Maine bright spots is our restaurant community. Maine's chefs and restaurateurs have developed a stellar reputation. Dining scene accolades started flowing in years ago and thankfully, buzz about Maine as a place for good food has not slowed. National newspapers and culinary publications have no shortage of positive things to say about our chefs, brewers, specialty food

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Cheap Luxury Hotels

You occasionally need to book and stay in a luxury hotel room even when your budget is tight , and you could shop around at a discounted price for you to enjoy the amenities of a 5-star luxury hotel. If you’re traveling with romance, i.e.: in a honeymoon, you can sweeten the experience of staying in with the luxurious 24 -hour service, designer beds and linens. Booking early can offer you discounted price and for a while, exempts you from staying at cheap budget hotels.

Browsing the internet coul

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