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...long ago, a hotel guest's options when it came to musical entertainment were limited to Muzak on the blackened channels of the TV, or the tinkling of a lobby pianist. Nowadays, of course, you can carry your entire CD collection around with you on an iPod?and there's also Internet radio with thousands of online stations available for free through your laptop. Don't know how to choose between them? Here are four surefire hits for while you're on the road...
These days, no brand is complete, it seems, without its own hotel. Volkswagen has Hotel Fox, a 61-room Copenhagen property named after the automaker's compact runabout. Italian jeweler Bulgari has lent its name to a hotel in Milan. And in Barcelona, Spanish shoemaker Camper has its own venture, Casa Camper, www.camper.es, set on a street off the city's famed Las Ramblas...
...America" conference, put on by a liberal group called the Campaign for America's future, it was like "stepping into the lion's den," as one attendee put it. For most of her 25-minute speech, the former First Lady impressed the more than 300 people in a D.C. hotel ballroom with a deft mix of Bush-bashing, proposals for Democrats and a little humor. "I've lived long enough to know that things happen, and things you?d never expect," she said and then paused, as the members of audience began to laugh nervously. "But we ought to reverse...
...rooftop bash that included chocolate fountains and a sushi bar, and Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and another potential candidate, flattered the bloggers as if they were a bunch of campaign fundraisers about to hand him checks. Meeting with a few dozen of them in a hotel suite, Richardson, wearing jeans, a T-shirt and a blue blazer, said he spent so much time on in his work as governor he had little to read anything beyond "the New York Times and a few of your blogs." Richardson told the crowd, "I'm mainly here to acknowledge...
...first date" between the presumptive Presidential candidate and the liberal blogosphere. It was perhaps a infelicitous metaphor, given both the seediness of Las Vegas and the ridiculous excess of the party itself. Reportedly thrown at a cost of $50,000, the gathering made the observation floor of the Stratosphere hotel positively groan from the weight of the sushi tables, ice sculptures and open bars. There was a Blues Brothers cover band (if it is possible to cover a cover band), an Elvis impersonator and, puzzlingly, a chocolate fountain. If you get a chocolate fountain on your first date...