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...Groups such as Hilton argue that small hoteliers benefit from franchise deals, which give them the power of a bigger brand....
...Annabel’s daughter got married in the gardens there....
...During a busy schedule, I walked across the road past my hotel, the Asticou Inn, and checked out the Asticou Azalea Garden, now run by the island’s Land and Garden Preserve....
...The restaurant looks towards the river, over a largely edible garden, in which Baron grows not just herbs but types of ginger, Sichuan and Korean pepper, sea buckthorn and rosebay willowherb, which fermented...
...The group behind the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands has more than 4,300 hotels in the Americas....
...Marriott trades on more than 14 times and Hilton nearly 16 times, according to data provider S&P Capital IQ. Even so, that gap does not look huge....
...Now there is free outdoor yoga on the roof garden, an annual cookout and a charity basketball match....
...But it is memories of his wife Helena that provide the greatest relief: their chance meeting at a country inn, the “tweed of her coat, the silk of her dress”....
...At more than 20 storeys, Nairn feared that Lewis Solomon Kaye and Partners’ Hilton Hotel on Park Lane was in danger of “urbanising Green Park”....
...Now you can do this in Mayfair at the relaunch of its former Covent Garden premises, spearheaded by executive chef Andrea Cofini....
...And I can get a little bit puffed going up the emergency stairs at Covent Garden underground so something for that would definitely be a useful addition to my pill box....
...He told Politico in an interview this year: “When you’re waking up for your 45th morning at the Hilton Garden Inn in Manchester, you better think you can win, because that walk from the bed to the shower...
...We like to stay at the magical Island Inn or at Nebo Lodge, where they have just nine guest rooms....
...With writer and gardener Tilly Gathorne-Hardy, he’s scouring heritage seed lists and planning crops for the kitchen at the walled garden of the nearby Glemham Estate....
...This curiosity was cemented in the kitchens of an organic gastropub, The Bull Inn at Totnes, and east London’s BRAT, which followed a stint at Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork in 2019....
...There are drinks pop-ups; for a bite to eat, get there early and make for the dockside 18th-century Dickens Inn, with its west-facing terraces covered in geraniums....
...Kubrick’s Space Station V in Earth’s orbit had a Hilton Hotel with picturephone booths and groovy Olivier Mourgue Djinn armchairs in the lobby to serve as the gateway to the Clavius Moon base....
...Doubles at Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle, in the palace gardens, cost from €2,308 (airelles.com); or try the Waldorf Astoria Versailles (doubles from about €290; hilton.com)....
...The Rose & Crown has also stayed close to the “inn” part of its history, with 13 bedrooms that look to book up pretty quickly in July....
...The chief of Holiday Inn owner InterContinental Hotels Group has warned that the UK stock market is “not a very attractive place” for listed companies and called on authorities to get on the “front foot”...
...Auberge Resorts Collection, which has a corner on the market for plush West Coast hospitality, recently opened The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern in one such town, Los Olivos....
...Spicy Nepal is cheap (main dishes hover around $15), has an outdoor garden, and judging by the party of Nepalese guys who brought a bottle of whisky, is probably BYOB....
...It’s a project – we’re now building a garden studio. A trip here typically starts at The Horse Guards Inn, which sits on a hilltop right next to the church in the tiny village of Tillington....
...Noble Inns declined to answer my questions about their pricing....
...The Bull & Last Frequently voted among London’s top gastropubs (particularly noted for its blowout Sunday roast), the Bull & Last, a historic Heath-side inn with rooms, is one of the finest places to dine...
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