The early influence of French Art Deco aesthetics can be seen in the stained-glass ceiling of the ballroom in the otherwise largely Beaux Arts-style old French Sports Club -- now the Okura Garden Hotel -- as well as in some other interior flourishes.
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He has frequently invoked Benedict's name and work and has called him on a half-dozen occasions, making clear he has no intention of ignoring the fact that there's another pope still very much alive and now living on the other side of the garden from the Vatican hotel where he lives.
To add fuel to this efficient travel fire, Ruzwana Bashir, founder and CEO of Peek.com tells us during a fun Valley Girl chat at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto how we can do the same for the new, fun or adventurous activities we want to plan on our itineraries when we arrive in these locations.
Other locations leave them up just for the colder months where they substitute for regular ice, including at Disneyland Paris, the John Hancock Observatory and the roof garden of the Out Hotel in New York City.
These pushcart affairs can be found anywhere - at the east end of the backpacker ghetto on Lebuh Chulia, in the Red Garden center behind the Hotel Continental, on the seafront esplanade.
The restaurant and terrace especially heats up after work when corporate bigwigs descend from the office towers to relax with a drink and appetizers in the hotel's garden bar to the sounds of live music.
Shrouded by dense greenery and palm trees, the hotel wraps around a garden with a cosy swimming pool and popular bar.
Run by a friendly British couple, all five rooms are lovingly restored, meals include ingredients from the hotel's organic garden, and animal-lovers will revel in the presence of half a dozen friendly canines.
The Saxon Hotel, Villas and Spa is a garden-like oasis shrouded in tall trees and flower blossoms set on 10 acres in the Sandhurst neighbourhood, 1km west of Sandton.
Every time I entered the hotel, I had to walk the length of the garden to my room.
His wife, who had been most excited to see the Floating Market, slept even through dinner, for he remembered a meal in the hotel with only Romi and Ruma, in a solarium overlooking a garden, tasting the spiciest food he'd ever had in his life as mosquitoes swarmed angrily behind his children's faces.
The hotel consists of two restored Renaissance palaces, separated by 11 acres of garden.
The hotel also has a modern version of a Chinese tea house and sunken garden on street level.
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