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...InterContinental Hotels Group, the owner of the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza chains, said business was “closer to pre-pandemic levels” in 2021....
...Prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha rejected the overture....
...They include the Hôtel de Crillon, the Plaza Athénée and the recently renovated Lutetia, an Art Nouveau gem that was requisitioned during the second world war by German occupation forces....
...“The hardest thing to do was marry the protected facades with the interior floors and halls.”v The residences open in mid-September, the culmination of years of work at Lamela’s company....
...Thailand’s student movement began coalescing in July around a pro-democracy group called Free Youth, which demanded Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha resign....
...During one trip to Havana, Stanfield stumbled upon a government-run bookshop in the city’s oldest square, Plaza de Armas....
...Plaza Athénée....
...Hotel Ritz Madrid, Plaza de la Lealtad 5, 28014 (+34917-016 767; mandarinoriental.com). Museo Nacional del Prado, Calle Ruiz de Alarcón, 28014 (+34913-302 800; museodelprado.es)....
...The Michelin guide, Europe’s oldest hotel and restaurant guide, also gave its maximum three-star rating to French chef Christian Le Squer’s Le Cinq at Paris’s George V hotel....
...19 The designer of the suit was the subject of an exhibition at the V&A in London in 2015, which proved the most popular in the museum’s history....
...Savoy in London, the Plaza in New York and the George V, Paris....
...It was not born great but had greatness thrust upon it when, in 1309, the newly elected French Pope Clement V decided that he would rather not live in Rome and settled instead in this pleasant small town...
...The others are the Bristol, the Four Seasons Hotel George V, the Meurice and the Plaza Athéneé. Mr Jauslin was delighted by the publicity that secured....
...Graff, which presented its wares in a suite at the Ramada Plaza hotel next to the Baselworld halls last year, will instead take its new collection on a world tour in March, stopping off in such markets as...
...The 31-room Casa Gangotena mixes neo-classical and art nouveau styles, has a wood-panelled library and a terrace with great views over the cobbled Plaza San Francisco, one of the city’s most important squares...
...The George V, run by Four Seasons, has regularly been voted among the world’s best hotels....
...V and the Ritz had “removed all credibility” from the award....
...Luckily, the Radisson Blu, where I was staying, is adjacent to the Sea Plaza mall, though the 8pm closing time didn’t leave much post-meeting time to browse....
...Just down from Plaza Vieja, in the historic district, I entered Bodega La Caridad....
...When I was there the bars and restaurants had all shut by 8.30pm, and the windswept central plaza was deserted, though piped music played eerily on....
...These include the Ritz, the George V, the Meurice and the Plaza-Athénée, the last two being part of the Dorchester group....
...As luck would have it, my final day’s lunch meeting at the Four Seasons Nile Plaza (www.fourseasons.com) was delayed, so the tactful concierge directed me to their in-hotel luxury boutique, Beymen, selling...
...And then to finish, choose a tempting dessert from the Pastelería V, run by Nicholas Goendoecs, a Viennese pastry chef....
...Plaza Athénée in New York, Byblos in St Tropez and the Four Seasons George V in Paris....
...“Clients who come to us don’t come here for expensive hotels and houses,” she says....
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