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...The Ritz is a magical experience, having all these little things brought to you, especially if your seven-year-old daughter is with you....
...In 1999, the King’s former mistress was best known for agitating ashtrays and the bands of marriage and galumphing around muddy fields: the staged photo capturing the couple outside the Ritz Hotel having...
...buffet and straightforward “Ritz classics” (club sandwiches, Caesar salads, etc)....
...Marriott-owned hotel group Ritz-Carlton launched its own luxury cruise liner last year. Luxury resort operators Aman Resorts and Four Seasons have also announced plans to launch their own cruise ships....
...clip, presented in a dimly lit room at the Ritz in Paris as dangling from a pair of jeans....
...Trump can’t lock up billionaires in a Ritz-Carlton for a “sheikhdown”, as Mohammed bin Salman did in Saudi Arabia. He lacks China’s power to make disobedient business leaders “disappear”....
...Puttin’ on the Ritz Architect-designer Tanju Özelgin has reinterpreted slick 1970s design at The Ritz-Carlton’s first European standalone private residences in Istanbul (from €1.57mn) with a moody palette...
...Buying the Ritz a few years later, in 1995, was the most public display of their wealth. While even this trophy asset was tax-efficient, the great attraction was a ticket into high society....
...It wooed potential IPO investors in glitzy hotels including the Ritz. “That just shows the aspirational multiple they were looking for,” recalls one investor....
...The problem with owning a bar is that you end up drinking there because you’ve already paid for it. But there are other great music venues with good bars, including Bar Le Ritz PDB....
...No one wants a Ritz-ified carvery, so for filling grand rooms at quiet times in labour-efficient ways the showpiece roast has become its unofficial successor....
...As well as owning Fulham, Al Fayed, who moved to London in the 1960s, for several decades owned Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, west London, and the Ritz hotel in Paris....
...Ritz-Carlton’s first ship launched two-and-a-half years later than planned because of pandemic-induced delays at the shipyard....
...In 2020 came a breakthrough: the Barclays sold the Ritz to Abdulhadi Mana al-Hajri, a Qatari businessman, for about £750mn....
...He also acquired trophy assets on his account, including the Ritz hotel in Paris, which he bought in 1979....
...The business, which buys hotels across southern Europe and refurbishes them before leasing them out to hotel operators including the Ritz-Carlton, Hilton and Marriott, has since increased its portfolio more...
...DJ Jeremy Healy describes how on one occasion he went to the Ritz hotel in London and discovered Galliano was “in the lift, with no clothes on, for four hours, and he was telling everyone he was a lion ....
...Whether the style is restrained art deco, like Claridge’s or The Savoy, beaux-arts-Parisian like The Ritz, imperial striped pomp like The Connaught, or gothic fairytale like the St Pancras Renaissance, they...
...“It’s pretty much guaranteed that if you are buying a Ritz-Carlton branded residence you are going to have a fair bit in common with your neighbours....
...I started with the apple as a mascot — a “Puttin’ On The Ritz”-type character — then, as it progressed, that changed slightly . . . this worm poking out and smoking a cigarette just fitted in naturally.”...
...The Ritz-Carlton Melbourne looks set to service both the business and leisure traveller from 80 storeys above the city, where the views extend from the Yarra Ranges to all the way out over the Bass Strait...
...As thousands of delegates, who paid $15,000 to attend the glitzy gathering, packed into the Ritz-Carlton hotel, drones filming the spectacle hummed under the Arabesque domes of the hotel’s conference centre...
...Thereafter he led the nomadic existence of an exiled monarch, including a stay in the Ritz in London, in the days when you could still settle your bill with a gold brick, before eventually coming to rest...
...For more on his extravagant lifestyle, including his 322-foot boat that was once described as “Ritz-Carlton on the water”, click here....
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