According to its website, lady members can use all facilities except for the members' bar on the ground floor and the members' dining room at lunch time.

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Valuation levels are decent across the market at this point, and the earnings expectations bar is set so low that there is little room for disappointment.

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George Clooney regularly stays here and, even if you cannot afford the pricey room rates, it is worth popping in for an early evening cocktail at the Gabbiano Bar.

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He felt cold and liked it, knowing that at home the room would be baking, the two-bar heater running day and night on pilfered electricity, the family luxuriating in excess warmth, even though the spring weather had come.

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For those dining alone, meals can be served at the marble-topped bar on the edge of the elegantly minimalist dining room.

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Or Dodgers reliever Joe Beimel, who in 2006 claimed he hurt his hand in his hotel room, but later admitted he sliced the hand dropping a beer bottle at a bar after curfew.

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Some work the room aggressively, dressed in sequins and stilettos while older women linger with a drink at the bar.

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You can also sit at the sushi bar or a couple of long high kitchen tables overlooking the cooking, as well as the private teppanyaki room.

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