The hotel is located in a prime city location, near the Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace.

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The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.

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The towering, sequestered 300-room San Paolo Palace hotel on Palermo's eastern outskirts, part of the empire of families in the city's notorious Brancaccio district, employed 120 workers.

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Beginning in Phnom Penh, with a stay at Raffles Hotel, the first few days are spent exploring the city's sites, including the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda.

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