Sunday, January 9, 2011

Hospitality Business News: Shanghai's first capsule hotel opens

Already popular in Japan, the Xitai Capsule Hotel is the first in Shanghai, perhaps in response to soaring local real estate prices. Indeed it's a surprise someone didn't think of this space- and price-maximizing option before now. ...

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Pardeeville World War I Memorial Marker

3.1 miles away); Major Elbert Dickason / Dickason's "Hotel" (approx. 3.1 miles away); Dickason Park / Toppe Field (approx. 3.2 miles away); Site of Fort Winnebago (approx. 6.7 miles away); Fort Winnebago (approx. 6.7 miles away). ...

Friday, January 7, 2011

Festivals of Speed Unveils 'Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction ...

Positioned just steps away from the exhibit in Vinoy Park, is the host hotel, the Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club. Thought to be to be the showplace of St. Petersburg's waterfront, the Vinoy overlooks Tampa Bay and is surrounded by ...

Thursday, January 6, 2011

FII freediving camp Kona, Hawaii

Mo'o Twins Homesite and Punawai Spring On opposite sides of the Keauhou Beach Hotel Tennis Courts lie the homesite of the legendary Mo'o Twins and Punawai Spring. Legend tells us that the Mo'o Twins were prophetesses of the lizard goddess who, ... Where the path runs around the end of the tennis courts is a lovely little glade enclosed by a tidal pool…this is the homesite of the Legendary Mo'o Twins. Paokamenehune The breakwater predates the 15th century temple … ...

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Shanghai May Invest $15 Billion for Disney Park, Resort, 21st ...

Shanghai's government may spend more than 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) on Walt Disney Co. 's theme park and a holiday resort, the 21st Century Busine...

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Take a look at the Barossa Valley Wine Regions of South Australia x

Tanunda is a different historic city, which delivers a snapshot of German life in the 19th century. Tanunda nevertheless has the original settler cottages and also the authentic street designed as a result of the aged city, now regarded ... It also has the historic 1866 built Eden Valley Hotel, that is not just a hotel, but a tourist attraction all by itself.Williamstown presents a significant bunch of extremely well-known attractions, coupled with the standard wineries. ...

Monday, January 3, 2011

Around the world in 365 days: Week 46 - USA - Charleston, SC to ...

On Monday, after a final breakfast in the hotel lobby (including some wicked sticky cinnamon buns with pecans), we checked out of the hotel and started our drive to Savannah. We drove south out of Charleston, to the islands ..... We walked along Royal Street enjoying the bright coloured eighteenth century Spanish colonial architecture and fabulous wrought ironwork, stopping to peek through the windows of antiques galleries. We walked past a couple of literary haunts such ...