November 6th, 2009
A private space tourism company, Galactic Suite Limited, has announced that they will be opening the first space hotel in 2012
The company is offering a three-night stay for 3 million euros ($4.4 million).
The zero-g resort will orbit the Earth at 30,000 mph, completely circling the planet once every 80 minutes, while offering visitors 15 sunrises per day.
August 26th, 2009
The Wealth Bulletin has compiled a new list of the World’s Top Ten Most Expensive Hotel Rooms.
Despite the past year’s financial and economic turmoil, prices at the best hotel suites have risen by an average of 10% this year.
The winner is the Royal Penthouse Suite at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva Switzerland which charges a whopping $65,000 a night.
August 5th, 2009
Set to open in Milan in 2010 is the Armani Hotel, situated in Via Manzoni, one of the most prestigious streets in Milan’s fashion district.
The designer’s name will become muse to ninety-five luxurious guest rooms, a gourmet restaurant and Armani Spa.
The hotel will occupy floors two to eight of the historic building, which was built by architect Enrico A Griffini in 1937.
July 12th, 2009
New York design firm Leeser Architecture have won a competition to design a hotel in the Zayed Bay district of Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Called the Helix for its spiraling floors, the hotel is located in the bay and sits partially over the water.
The building includes a glass-bottomed swimming pool on the roof, visible eight floors below, and a running track on the fifth floor.
June 17th, 2009
The gaming giant on Tuesday announced its latest push to spread its name around the world, this time through a partnership to build an MGM Grand nongaming luxury hotel near Cairo, Egypt.
MGM Grand New Giza will be a 550-room hotel that will be part of a 1,500-acre master-planned community.
The community will include homes, three hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, golf courses and other sports facilities.
June 17th, 2009
Britain sent the decommissioned QE2 (Queen Elizabeth 2) to the Gulf as a floating hotel. Now Dubai is to return the favour, building the world’s biggest yacht to be anchored beside the Thames as a floating hotel.
The Aquiva is expected to be the world’s largest pleasure boat.
It will enable hotel guests to obtain a flavour of the mega-yacht lifestyle when it is moored amid what today is a semi-derelict London landscape of warehouses and building sites.
