Archive for April, 2007

Apr17

Panama Pedro Gonzаlez Island

Eleta Company, possessing Panama Pedro Gonzаlez Island, will transform it into the resort. The island, belonging to the group of Pearl archipelago (Archipielago de las Perlas) has been in the property of the company for a long time - since 60th years of the last century. For last 3 years the owners of the island [...]

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Apr16

Tourist kleptomania

According to the researches, published by Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine, more often tourists steal towels from hotels - 32 % have complained of plunders of bathroom accessories from approximately thousand interrogated owners of hotels. Besides, hotels constantly miss dressing gownes and ashtrays which bear a trade mark of the hotel. Often, checking out from the [...]

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Apr14

Heat in the Western Europe

Temperature anomalies are more often disturbing us, reminding of global warming. Weather reports became number 1 news in the Europe. Germans and Belgians had no time to forget about the abnormally warm winter as these weekend Europeans had to change clothes urgently in summer clothes.
The heat has suddenly come to the Western Europe. This year [...]

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Apr13

Hi-tech room-numbers in Marriott hotels

The Marriott hotels network represents an exclusively new type of Plug-in room-numbers. The so-called “multimedia” room-number is equipped with the 32-inch LCD-screen, the adapter for connection to the notebook screen, mp3-player, video camera, hookup games and many other techniques. Such room-numbers have the only one, but very significant disadvantage: it is almost impossible to provide [...]

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Apr13

New Turkish hotel is located in a rock

Recently new Serinn House boutique hotel, located in a rock, has been opened in the Cappadocia (resort region in the south of Turkey). Serinn House offers only five room-numbers, each of which represents a cave, arranged by exclusive design furniture and equipped by modern techniques: the TV-set with the plasma panel, CD-and DVD-players, and also [...]

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Apr12

The highest skyscrapers

From year to year megacities compete in construction of “Babel towers”. For example, on March, 30th, “Tokyo Midtown” tower has been opened in the Japanese capital. An architectural masterpiece- 248 meters in height -is the highest building in Tokyo. In the new center tourists can not only do shopping and to eat tasty food in [...]

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Apr11

The museum of counterfeit goods in Germany

Recently, the first-ever museum of the forged goods has been opened in Solingen (Germany). In an exposition near to Original Armani jeans are skillfully adjoining to its counterfeited copy. The price of these “false Armani” jeans and sunglasses are really fantastic- just 20 and 10 euros accordingly.
The idea of creation of a museum of commodity [...]

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Apr9

The most “comfortable” airlines of the world

Big space for legs, clean toilet and the TV in a back of a seat - here a short list of what the travelers would like to see most of all onboard the plane.
The interrogation lead by popular English site for travelers Trip Advisor has shown the following results.
The greatest part of respondents on a [...]

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Apr8

The most desperate traveler of the year will receive brandy for $1 million

The world of alcoholic production pleases us with unusual novelties. The choice of traditional super expensive drinks with faultless taste, is, certainly, wide enough, however at times it would be desirable to try something absolutely new. Mendis Company does the unique offer - first coconut brandy. Besides purchase of an exclusive bottle of this brandy [...]

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Apr8

Chocolate festival in Belgium

Confectioners from Belgium “have modeled” the biggest chocolate swan in the world. The huge sculpture executed from white and black chocolate, reaches two meters in height, and it weight is about 2,2 tons.
The chocolate swan is established in the Belgian city Brugge on the occasion of carrying out the second festival of chocolate products here.
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