In the morning, you'll awake to your own rhythm with a gourmet, in-room breakfast and 2 pm checkout.

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Auberge specializes in countryside European comfort and a holistic epicurean experience from the dark chocolate covered almonds waiting for you in your room to a decadent breakfast of duck confit hash with slow-cooked farm eggs.

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Mr. House says an east-west orientation is preferred because latitude works with the sun's motion, making it easy for an individual who wants morning sunlight in the breakfast room to position it on the west side of the home, with east-facing windows.

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Built for Frank Woolworth in 1915, the neo-French Renaissance mansion is 35 feet wide, with 14-foot-high ceilings, grand fireplaces and formal parlor and breakfast room.

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Dinners in the smart onboard restaurant have an unmistakably outback flavour, with kangaroo fillet on the menu, while Platinum Service passengers can order 24-hour room service and breakfast in bed.

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Who wouldn't want to stay in a beautiful home, with charming hosts and a proper breakfast, for half the price of a bog-standard hotel room?

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The three-hour experience at Remy starts by meeting a sommelier in Remy's glass-walled 900-bottle wine room to pre-select wines for the evening and finishes with enough food to skip the next morning's breakfast buffet.

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