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...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...in Europe, a Beaux Art palace with a 241-metre facade lit by 365 windows....
...Think water-skiing along Lake Como, stunt-driving classes and casino visits. Some will be critical, arguing that it’s a move away from travel as a means of connecting with a destination....
...So I went on the Tube to Green Park, which is the nearest station to the palace. And even at the station it was really busy and on the pathways that lead up to it....
...Palazzo d’Avalos, the 16th century Bourbon royal palace that until 1988 was used as a maximum-security prison, looms over the north-eastern part of the island from atop its craggy promontory, its dun-coloured...
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...The palace would, I soon realised, be a great base for exploring the reinvigorated old town....
...A single slip, a rock falling from above, a broken handhold, and he’d be dead....
...home of Korean “Bar-B-Q”....
...It is still a hotel today, filled with climbing memorabilia....
...Sipping cocktails on the roof terrace of Singapore’s five-star Fullerton Bay Hotel, well-heeled couples gazing at the glittering Marina Bay Sands Casino are contemplating a rather more regal landscape....
...lamps he has created for Flos, Vitra and B&B Italia, but, in partnership with Patricia Viel, he designs whole hotels too, notably the Bulgaris in Bali and Milan and now this, an 85-room purpose-built hotel...
...The glass of 1996 Château d’Yquem was not quite right....
...Meanwhile senior executives scheduling meetings will want to book early for the five-star Schweizerhof and Palace hotels....
...A hotel, casino and entertainment complex is planned nearby at Bokor Hill station but also a smaller-scale sustainable resort, Song Saa Private Island, built on two islets known as “the sweethearts”....
...“This is an environment, not a casino hotel,” he insists. “The two million people that live here in this city and the suburbs, they will come here again and again....
...When I got back to the hotel after midnight, rue de Bagnolet was hopping. Mama Shelter is opposite one of the hottest rock clubs in Paris, La Flèche d’Or, which occupies a disused railway station....
...In fact, he saw an investment opportunity and acquired a 52 per cent stake in the Société des Bains de Mer, which owned major parts of Monaco, including the Hotel de Paris, the Hotel Hermitage, the casino...
...the MotorCity Casino Hotel, housed in a former Wonder Bread factory....
...And, even following Napoleon’s defeat, a fresh wave of aristocrats, including Queen Victoria and many Russians, flocked to Biarritz. Villa Eugenie became a casino, then the Hotel du Palais....
...The next development is likely to be a five-star hotel next to the casino....
...His critics whisper that quite a lot of his youth (and too much of his country’s money) was spent at the tables of Europe’s smarter casinos....
...She lives in a mobile home with her 17-year-old daughter Stacie. They both worked at the Palace Casino in Biloxi, which was badly damaged by Katrina and will be closed for the foreseeable future....
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