Named Autostadt (Car City), the VW campus is open to the public and is marked most promimently by a Ritz-Carlton Hotel (the only other one in Germany is in Berlin) and two cylindrical towers 48 meters high that hold 400 new cars ready for pick-up by their prospective owners.
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After several meals at Il Lago, guests might want to work out in the sixth-floor fitness center or get a massage from one of the hotel's staff therapists.
W. Marriott, Jr. said the move was a bold one to move out of the growth-stunted years that the hotel industry has sustained.
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The company is famous for constructing a 15-story hotel in six days in 2010 and a 30-story one in 15 days the following year.
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The plans are a twist on a more ambitious previous proposal to significantly overhaul the ship and convert it into a luxury hotel docked alongside one of the sheikdom's manmade palm-shaped islands.
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The prestigious 3, 690-room Caesars Palace is in the process of transforming one of its existing hotel towers into the The Nobu Hotel, a Japanese-themed, 81-room boutique hotel designed by architect David Rockwell.
The store that put everything under one roof - even a hotel for overseas visitors and true shopaholics - is now online at mustafa.com.sg.
Part of one wing of the property would become a 70-bed hotel and spa.
Derele Scarfe presented the hotel with a range of menus -- including one from a New Year's Eve party her mother attended in 1937.
Jasper itself, a five-minute cab ride from the hotel, is the proverbial one-horse town.
In the luxury hotel industry there is a lot of amenity one-upping, and hotels routinely steal innovative ideas from one another, and hopefully this one will be pilfered.
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"At night, we will attend one of the (post-caucus) rallies at a hotel and hope to see the candidates in person, " Nelson said.
The boutique hotel has eight one- and two-bedroom apartments, a large pool, spa, courtyard and sun decks.
One of the best-connected investors I know whispered to me in a hotel lobby the night before that he had heard "from members of her economics team" that she would make a major policy announcement on Europe.
Whether occupying a room in which Judy Garland stayed or sitting next to Catherine Denueve at the hip Hotel Costes in Paris, there are plenty of one-of-a-kind ways to vacation.
But the initiative was stillborn, not least because it coincided with the Palestinian intifada and one especially terrible atrocity in which a Hamas suicide-bomber blew himself up in a hotel, killing 30 Israelis at Passover.
The hotel's one-block proximity to the Technopark tram station puts it within a half-hour ride of the airport and within steps of the nightclubs, cafes and corporate towers sprouting up on every corner.
But the most compelling keynote was the one at 9:30 pm in the hotel bar by Paul Pablos Holman, a real-life hacker from the envelope-pushing, avant-guarde Intellectual Ventures founded by Nathan Myhrvold.
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Assets: Family owns prime real estate in Munich, a property development outfit, the Arabella hotel chain and breweries including Paulaner, one of Germany's best-known brands.
Near the narrowest point, which is just four metres wide, intrepid climbers tackle the notoriously tough Hotel Supramonte, a near-vertical limestone cliff which towers 400m above the Gola Su Gorropu and is one of the hardest climbs on the island.
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