Keeping up standards
Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna
Tempus fugit, and all that. Suddenly, four years have flown by – where did they go? – since The Budapest Times spent a few days at the Palais Hansen Kempinski[…]
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Beside the seaside
Return to Sri Lanka, Part two: down the coast
Slowly, deliberately, a Sri Lankan man is climbing the long thin trunk of a palm tree. Ropes have been tied around the trunk to give him hand-holds and foot-holds but[…]
Memories are made of this
Return to Sri Lanka, Part one: Colombo, the capital
Sri Lanka lays out its welcome mat as our big bird, flight QR 200 from Budapest, descends to Bandaranaike International Airport at Colombo. The mat is woven from the green[…]
Held captive by splendour
Hotel Ta’ Cenc , isle of Gozo, Malta
The classic British TV series “The Prisoner” follows a former secret agent who is abducted to a mysterious coastal village resort. Where is it? Who captured him and why? Who[…]
Getting the right royal treatment
Corinthia Palace Hotel and Spa, San Anton, Malta
A hotel is a hotel and a palace is a palace, you say, and a hotel that calls itself a palace is giving itself something it must live up to.[…]
Making capital in the regions
CPI Hotel’s Clarion Congress brands in Ostrava and Olomouc, Czech Republic
Fortuitously, Jamaican fast man Usain Bolt’s hotel and the arena where he will race in the 100 metres in Ostrava, Czech Republic, look to the casual eye to be almost[…]
Left, right and centre
Starwood Hotels & Resorts` Sofia Hotel Balkan, a Luxury Collection Hotel
Sofia may not be among Europe’s most fashionable capitals, but a capital it is, and well worthwhile with a good sprinkling of stately buildings, pretty parks and monuments from its[…]
Wish you were here: Balkans, 2016
Kempinski Hotel Grand Arena, Bansko, Bulgaria
Cow bells can be heard outside when we wake after our first night in Bansko, Bulgaria. Going out onto our hotel room’s verandah, we find that the bells actually belong[…]
Room with a view – a mountain view
A weekend in Bulgaria’s main city, Sofia, at the Hilton Sofia hotel
“Dobro utro. Iskate li da tancuvame?” we say to the waiter in the Hilton Sofia breakfast room, having learnt a few phrases before arriving in the Bulgarian capital the night[…]
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