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Continuing to live up to their reputation for bringing Mad Movie fans the best in titillating Eurotrash, the fine folks at Severin Films have recently put out a couple of legendary sexploitation flicks from the 80s, Sergio Bergonzelli's 1983 opus Joy, and Jacques Saurel's 1985 follow-up, Joy & Joan. Inspired by the 1981 autobiography of French-American supermodel "Joy Laurey" (a pseudonym, apparently) and its sequels, the Joy movie series spanned six films, including the French TV movies Joy in San Francisco and Joy in Africa (both 1992). Comparisons to the long-running Emmanuelle series are apt, especially in that those flicks were likely their model and cinematic inspiration. Judging from the first two films in the series, I'd be willing to say that the Joy films are almost as sexy and at least as MAD as their 70s predecessors, and have a lot to offer fans of both sumptuous Euroflesh and the kitchen-sink plotting that often makes European films of this vintage such a...well, joy to watch. In the first flick, the title role is portrayed by Canadian beauty Claudia Udy (a busy girl in 1983, appearing that same year in Skullduggery, The Funny Farm, and American Nightmare). This inaugural entry finds Joy already a successful, globe-trotting supermodel, filling her days posing for fashion spreads as well as skin-mag centerfolds, her nights with wild parties and champagne by the bucket-full. But she's haunted by the memory of one night as a child, when she spied on her father and mother shagging like rabid minx in their palatial country estate. (This we get to see in lovely, detailed flashback.) Sometime after this Joy's parents divorced, and it's clear the lack of a father figure--colored by this graphic, much-revisited childhood memory--has shaped Joy's psychological development in Very Significant Ways. How significant becomes clear when she meets older man Marc (Gérard-Antoine Huart, who previously appeared in 1970's The Blood Rose ["The First Sex-Horror Film Ever Made!" according to its dubious tagline] and a year after this film graduated to Emmanuelle IV) at a ribald art show opening. After tooling around the City of Lights for hours in Marc's not-at-all-a-compensation convertible, they arrive back at Joy's luxurious shag-pad (literally--the floor looks like someone fragment-bombed the Children's Television Workshop), where Marc sits outside her apartment for hours until she comes out in nothing but an overcoat to invite him in, whereupon he pins her arms over her head on the mattress and fingerbangs her to shuddery bliss. Then...he leaves, without so much as loosening his tie! Whether this was a master stroke (so to speak) of sexual power-games or the result of having forgotten his cock-ring in his other pants, the effect is the same: Joy becomes infatuated with her superannuated lover, and soon promises to do anything he wants, just to make him happy. Before you can say Story of O, Marc has taken Joy to a mysterious, richly furnished mansion, which is apparently some sort of club for wealthy degenerates. Telling her, "There is no love--only proof of love!", he takes her into a round room that looks like something out of a Star Trek holodeck (sex module) and commands her to sit in the Captain's chair and fiddle with the controls for him, IYKWIM. Things get weird when a tuxedoed old man and his two younger henchmen appear to set up a camera, complimenting Marc on his companion's good health while Joy frigs away for their entertainment. ("Oh, Monsieur, a magnificent specimen. A vagina in the bloom of youth, right in the middle of blossoming!" Gee, thanks, guys!) These gentlemen later retire to a control room to watch the CCTV feed, and Joy clearly gets off on this particular voyeurism/exhibitionism combination. It really is like the Château du Roissy, only with cams and cables instead of chains and whips. These are the voyages of the Starship Fucksurprise I was really interested at this point in the sexual power games going on: Marc as the Master, bringing out Joy's submissive tendencies through commanded exhibitionism rather than S&M. Add to that Joy's not-so-subconscious Daddy issues, and there was a veritable steam bath in the making. Udy has a great body--I mean, a REALLY great body--although her oddly-positioned 80s boob job and ocular-hazard nipples might be off-putting to some. Still, she invests Joy with a naive freedom and thirst for sexual discovery that's genuine and affecting. Director Bergonzelli, who also helmed exploitation classics like In the Folds of Her Flesh (1970, also available from Severin Films) and Our Lady of Lust (aka Christiana, the Devil Nun, 1972), has a real eye for sumptuous visuals, and a talent for sexy weirdness. However, the movie abandons this aspect of the story for most of the rest of the film, focusing instead on Joy's various adventures in France and internationally. We go with her to a photo shoot in Mexico, which allows Joy to run naked on the beach, pose provocatively on the Aztec ruins, and perform an awesome nude underwater ballet with a sea turtle, with whom she kinda makes out! Back home in France she becomes the spokesmodel for a new public service campaign: Let My People Come which makes her infamous and unpopular with a bunch of crabby feminists with whom she shares a TV panel. She visits her mom and her mom's second husband, and has an uncomfortable flashback of Stepdad molesting her when she was a teen, but quickly shrugs it off. Meanwhile, Marc is making souffle for his Other Woman while wearing a frilly apron (symbolism!) and getting cranky that Joy never returns his calls anymore. Finally she goes to America, where she stars in an action movie that is clearly a satire of the perceived American cinematic product of the time. (Her kung-fu fight in metallic overcoat is a hoot.) There she meets a professor who's into tantric sex, who takes her to a Yoga Orgy that is choreographed like a Busby Berkeley number and is just as effective. The sexual power games come back into play when she hooks up with Marc again, who, unmanned and desperate to reassert his dominance, takes her to a Dante's Inferno-esque sex club (located in the empty underground tanks at an old gas station!). The Jacob's Ladder-ish orgy here--complete with whipping, shackles, glass rooms full of writhing, oiled bodies and shower-rape/gangbangs--is in stark contrast to the paradisaical sex of the tantric cult, and after giving in to Marc's demands and participating in it all, Joy decides she's finally outgrown him and needs to move on. Then her friend from America calls with the answer to the riddle she's been trying to solve all along... Overall, Joy is a very sexy, very entertaining example of 80s softcore sexploitation, with some wild scenes, a couple of interesting ideas, and no shortage of beautiful nudity to gaze upon. Severin's transfer of the film is quite pristine by my reckoning, and looks great on my HD. The audio is good, though you might curse that fact after having to sit through the plaintive "Joy Theme Song" several times over the course of the film. The ad copy states this is the first release of the complete uncut version of the film, as the aforementioned "dungeon orgy" was apparently excised previously, which I think must have damaged the theme and resolution of the film. The only other extra is "Reflections on Joy," an 11-minute interview with Claudia Udy about the production. Without makeup but full of enthusiasm, Udy comes across as pleasantly spacey and New Age-y, and shares several interesting anecdotes. An excellent DVD presentation all round. Made two years later, the sequel Joy & Joan boasts a new director and a new star. One-timer Jacques Saurel is now behind the lens, and in front of it is Exploitation Royalty, Jean Rollin muse, and sometime porn star Brigitte Lahaie. You'd think such an illustrious actress in the lead role would signal an upping of the sexploitational ante, but whether due to the director's inexperience or simply the Law of Diminishing Returns, this second story captures only a little of the magic present in the first. That's not to say it's not worth watching, however, as the plot at least is about as mad as you could ask for. As happens so often in Paul Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky saga, this first Joy sequel seems to have only nominative continuity with the prior film. As this narrative begins, Joy is still in love with Marc (portrayed here by Jean-Marc Maurel, a much younger actor, thus negating the Father Figure sex issues so important to the first flick). In Joy, Marc was an architect and his wife/main mistress a journalist, but here it's Marc who is the journalist, and there's no SO to speak of. Also, the Marc of Earth-2 is much more of a dick. Within the first few minutes of the movie he dumps Joy at a club, picks up a disco-slut on the dance floor, and makes damn sure Joy sees him as he grinds against her derriere and performs the tongue-centered maneuver the French made famous--well, ONE of them, anyway. Joy gets extremely depressed, and it begins to affect her work--she can't even look happy while wearing a fluffy pink teddy bear head for a hat, so that should tell you something. In the depths or her despondency she's befriended by rich Germanic aristocrat Bruce (Pierre Londiche, in a role Helmut Berger would have knocked out of the fuckin' park), who showers her with gifts and offers to give her whatever she wants as long as she'll be his "companion." When Marc is called away on assignment to Thailand, Joy calls in the favor and has Bruce fly her over in pursuit. Her plans for how to get Marc back without looking like the most pathetic and needy woman on the planet are at this point unclear. Can't Bear It Meanwhile, Le Prince is spying on Joy, listening in on her phone conversations as she tries to track down where Marc is staying in Thailand. Le Prince is quite a character--the sort of guy who keeps a full grown tiger in a bamboo cage on his porch, conducts a native choir with his diamond-topped cane, and wears a white Neru suit buttoned to the chin, be he never so sweaty. He also has a weaselly face and David Bowie eyes, making him a weirdo henchman of the type Jess Franco would have killed for. On the run from Le Prince, who is the only person tracking her, she makes it to the city and finds Marc, who seems to think it perfectly natural she should rush up to him half-clothed in the city square in Thailand. They duck into a photo booth that looks like it's made from a discarded refrigerator box for a quickie, while what seems like thirty dollars worth of photos click away through the automated (and now butt-printed) lens. True to form, Marc then rushes off to catch his plane back to France, leaving Joy to find her own way among the Thais and the ruffians on her trail. Could she love him more? The rest of the movie has Joy and Joan on the run from Le Prince and Bruce, occasionally having rows due to Joan's fierce possessiveness that borders on psychopathy. There's some comic relief with Le Prince chasing them through the city's floating market Keystone Cops style, and it comes to a head when a kindly bartender befriends the girls only to have them kidnapped and taken to a cave-sauna/sex party that mirrors the first film's sex dungeon scene. Incredibly, Le Prince rushes in to the rescue here, fighting off half a dozen fully nude Thai men with his diamond-headed cane, chop-socky style! Eventually he's overwhelmed, though, Joy and Joan are raped, and they're all left in the now-empty cave complex to lick their wounds. From L to R: Joan, Joy The ending keeps spiraling into silliness, as Le Prince reveals his unlikely but charming ulterior motives for helping them, Joy flies back to France, and Joan joins her there later. When Joy leaves on a job assignment, lonely and petulant Joan is visited by Marc, which leads to a rather out-of-left-field denouement and a strong finishing sex scene. Saurel is not nearly the director that Bergonzelli is, and manages to make Brigitte Lahaie, while ethereally gorgeous as ever, somehow LESS sexy than Claudia Udy was in the first. Lahaie plays all of her scenes with a blank, bored expression, which is kind of her go-to mode, but a talented director like Rollin has shown how to get her to use that and break out of it when it will have the maximum effect. The plot is pretty wild, but the chase scenes drag on quite a bit and there's a lot of dead space. Also surprisingly for a movie with Lahaie in the lead, it feels like there's significantly less sex here than in the original film, to its detriment. What's here is pretty good though, and all the female flesh on display is well worth drooling over. Joan, thinking of eating out tonight Severin's presentation is good again, very clear both visually and audibly. (Once again there's a painfully plaintive pop theme song, leaned on even more heavily here than in the last film.) No real extras on this disc, except again the uncut version of the film. Severin has done a great job unearthing and presenting these two movies, and anyone with a soft (?) spot for Eurotrash softcore will be more than happy with the both of them. I give Joy 2.5 thumbs, and Joy & Joan 2.25. Both discs are available now from Amazon and the regular online and brick-and-mortar DVD merchants. Note: Severin Films provided both DVDs to MMMMMovies for review purposes. A few more images from Joy (1983) and Joy & Joan (1985): Her Heart Belongs to Daddy To compete with television and the Internet, the local Aquarium took drastic steps. Everybody Wants You Coming out of her shell Veggie Berger Make a Grab for the Gusto Doesn't Look Safe Confusing...but verrrrry interesting.

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Amenities include an indoor heated pool and spa, free high speed internet access in all rooms, guest laundry facilities and suites with microwaves and refrigerators. Pets are welcome. Meeting room space is available. Located just off Interstate 25 and Highway 70. www.motel6-lascruces-telshor.com 235 La Posada Ln. (575) 525-1010 106 rooms. Motel 6 offers the finest accommodations in economy lodging. 82 rooms, 24 extended stay rooms (with furnished kitchenettes). Amenities include an outdoor pool, guest laundry, free morning coffee and free local calls. Pets welcome. We'll leave the light on for you! Quality Inn & Suites 2200 S. Valley Drive. (575) 524-4663 55 rooms, an exercise room, outdoor pool & Jacuzzi and guest laundry. Suites available with Jacuzzi tubs and living areas .The hotel offers free hot continental breakfast, 24-hour lobby coffee & tea service, free high-speed Internet access, a business center and complimentary USA Today. Book Your Room Now! 201 E. University Ave. (575) 526-4411, (800) 2RAMADA 114 rooms. Rooms feature coffee makers, 27" TVs, hairdryers, data port, iron and ironing boards. On site restaurant, two lounges, beauty salon, masseuse, newsstand/cigar shop, gift shop, and heated indoor pool with children’s wading pool. We also have onsite shuttle service. Located three blocks from New Mexico State University. Off I-10 exit 142 and from I-25 exit University. www.ramadalascruces.com Royal Host Motel 2146 W. Picacho Ave. (575) 524-8536 26 rooms. Our quality spacious rooms come with ground floor convenience. Other amenities include a restaurant, refrigerator, outdoor pool (seasonal), cable TV (with HBO) and free local calls. Pets welcome with a fee. 1655 S. Main St. (575) 524-7791 28 rooms. Non-smoking rooms and swimming pool available. 2121 S. Triviz. (575) 522-1700 63 rooms. Our beautiful hotel features inside corridors and electronic door locks. The relaxing indoor pool and spa provide year-round enjoyment. Our spacious rooms offer two queen size beds, an oversized walk-in shower, and ample work space. All rooms are conveniently appointed with coffee makers, full sized irons and ironing boards, and hairdryers. Wireless high speed internet access, local calls, ShowTime, and USA Today are complimentary. A satisfying continental breakfast is served each morning. Coffee and tea service are available 24 hours. Our hotel is pet friendly (a nominal stay fee applies). Our guests exercise free at Gold’s Gym or will enjoy the jogging track located adjacent to the hotel. We are conveniently located adjacent to New Mexico State University, Pan American Center, Aggie Stadium, close to Memorial Medical Center, NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Mesilla Valley Mall, and local restaurants. We look forward to serving you! www.choicehotels.com SpringHill Suites by Marriott 1611 Hickory Loop, (575) 541-8887, (888) 772-8887 101 suite features separate areas for sleeping, eating or working. Amenities include in-room coffee maker, refrigerator, microwave and wet bar. Complimentary breakfast buffet, outdoor, year-round swimming pool, whirlpool, fitness center, golf privileges, daily newspaper, wireless high-speed internet access. At I-10 and Avenida de Mesilla. www.springhillsuites.com/lruss Book Your Room Now! $129 - $189. 2651 Northrise Dr., (575) 521-7999, (800) 238-8000 115 suites with fully equipped kitchens, living and office areas, free high speed internet access, complimentary breakfast buffet, evening sun downer reception, fitness and business centers, swimming pool. www.lascruces-hotel.com Click here for Mapit location Super 8, Las Cruces East Book Your Room Now! $44 - $51. 4411 N. Main St. 3405 Bataan Memorial West. (575) 382-1490 57 rooms. We provide 24-hour service for your convenience. Our rooms include in-room coffee makers, free local calls, HBO, outdoor pool and a toast bar in the morning. Upon availability, microwaves and refrigerators by request. Easy on/off access to I-25 & Highway 70. Click here for Mapit location Super 8, Las Cruces South 245 La Posada Ln. (575) 523-8695, (800-800-8000) 58 rooms with free local calls and Encore movie channels, Free internet and superstart breakfast. Microwaves and refrigerators are available upon request. 24 hour coffee available. Pets welcome with fee. www.super8.com Teakwood Inn & Suites 2600 South Valley Drive (575) 526-4441 130 rooms, Our overly spacious rooms come with king or two queen beds. Included in the rate is free hot breakfast (eggs, sausage, waffles, tortilla, salsa, cereal, juice, etc.), Free high speed wireless internet, free 24 hour business center with high speed internet, HBO, ESPN cable TV; free local calls, iron/ironing boards in all rooms, meeting facility up to 150 people, an indoor heated pool, guest laundry on premises, bus & truck parking, pet friendly hotel, non-smoking and smoking rooms, microwave, refrigerators and handicap accessible rooms available. conveniently located off I-10 and I-25, restaurants within walking distance and one block from New Mexico State University. Town House Motel 2205 W. Picacho Ave. (575) 524-7733 21 rooms. Large comfortable rooms. Queen and king size beds. Cable TV, HBO and play area. Free local calls. Click here for Mapit location TownePlace Suites by Marriott 2143 Telshor Court. (575) 532-6500 81 suites. TownePlace Suites Las Cruces is a new, moderately priced all-suite hotel that is designed for travelers who will be away from home for a week or even months at a time. The townhouse community provides - spacious studios, one and two-bedroom suites, fully equipped kitchens, large work spaces with data ports and voicemail, and on-site business services. Flexible housekeeping, laundry and exercise rooms conveniently located at the hotel enhance your stay. When it's time to relax, enjoy our outdoor pool and Jacuzzi. For your convenience, our service team and coffee service are available 24 hours a day. http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/lruts 2080 South Triviz Drive. (575) 528-2046 110 rooms with double bed, full size refrigerator, two-burner stovetop and a microwave, cable and high-speed internet access. Laundry and vending machines. www.valueplace.com 2155 W. Picacho Ave. (575) 523-5399 48 rooms. Kitchenettes, non-smoking rooms, swimming pool and restaurant. Top of Page

A luxury 2 night Spa break in Hastings. You are guaranteed a relaxing retreat away from the hussle and bussle of everyday life giving you the opportunity to enjoy each other's company with some well earnt relaxing time together. Included in this stunning East Sussex break a choice of luxury 55 minute spa treatment each, a romantic 2 course evening meal and afternon tea. What more could you require to have a break away from it all This gift experience is valid for 6 months from date of purchase for stays Monday to Sunday. Please book in advance to avoid disappointment. This experience cannot be used during the festive period of 24th-26th December. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offers. This experience is for two people, who will both receive the services listed above. The Price is based on two people sharing an executive double room for two nights. Bookings at this hotel are non-refundable and non-transferable. Please note: The health club and spa is located adjacent to the hotel, only a 2 min walk. |Your amazing stay will include:| |Two Nights luxury accommodation for two| Enjoy two nights accommodation in an executive bedroom which are decorated and furnished to fit your every need in a warm and welcoming surrounding Then rise each morning and enjoy a hearty full English breakfast. |A luxury Spa Treatment Each| Relax with a luxury 55 minute Spa treatments each from a choice of: |Dinner on one night of your stay| Enjoy a two course candlelit dinner for two in the unique Conservatory Restaurant is the perfect venue to enjoy superb food and great wines. |Afternoon Tea on one day| Enjoy your afternoon tea together at your leisure in our relaxing lounge |Full use of the Spa and Leisure facilities| Relax and unwind in the health club and spa by using our wide range of facilities including: gym, pool, sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, outdoor hot tubs & relaxation room with heated loungers |UK areas||South East| |Cities and Towns||Hastings|

The Swallow Eden Arms Hotel is a former 17th Century Coaching Inn in Rushyford with newly refurbished bedrooms and recognised for its fine food. Although small and intimate , the Eden Arms offers an indoor pool, spa bath, sauna, fitness room, solarium, steam room and conservatory where light meals and snacks are served throughout the day. - Restaurant Onsite - Pets Allowed - Property Size N/A - Conference Facility - Kids Allowed - Nearby City Durham - Nearby Water N/A - Open Dates All Year - Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME) / 11.4 miles - Newcastle Airport (NCL) / 27 miles - RAF Linton-On-Ouse (HRT) / 43.7 miles * Not all airports listed here may be open to public use, or service commercial flights +44 (0)1388 720 541 By clicking 'Submit' you are agreeing to our Terms of Service Vacation Request Successfully submitted. Thank You!

This is a print version of story Helping out a friend by joesal from xHamster.com Helping out a friend I was at a party that was just finishing with my friend Pete. A big mansion owned by some guy he worked for a whole ago. As the place emptied Pete and I were out by the pool deck near the sauna room when the owner, about 50 with a beer gut and body to amtch and one of his mate, who looked the same walked up to Pete and said "so who's your mate?" "I'm Joe" i blurted out offering my hand for the shaking. He shook it and turned to face Pete. "So, still wanting abit of extra money?" he asked. I assumed he meant work but then Pete got enrvous and said "Yaeh, but he might not" I was to confused to say antyhing ebfore the owner said "Fine by me" and he and his friend, to my surpirse, grabbed Pete and took him into the Sauna. It then dawned on me - they were going to fuck him! I was half horny half scared so I waited a few seconds and began to approach the sauna door. Through the glass I could see Pete stripping naked in front of the two men who had hard, thick dicks and their big beer bellies waiting to assault Pete's arse. No sooner had Pete removed his jocks tat the owner f***ed him to his knees and made him take his thick, veined cock. Once Pete was on his knees the other man walked behind him and started to run his finger along Pete's asshole. After a few seconds the otehr old man slipped to his knees and guided Pete's ass on to his thick cock. Pete flinched brifely as he becam impaled on teh old mans cock. By this stage I was pressed up against the window in the door. rubbing my throbbing cock when the host looked up and saw me there.! I wanted to move away put was to horny to move. Then the owner then let out a smile and held out his hand to me "Join us" Pete look up from this cock and looked at me and said "good money bud !" and with that I nervously stepped in taking my clotehr off to reveal my throbbing cock. The host moved away from Pete's mouth while he was still getting pumped by the other man and moaned "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" loudly. The owner sized me up as I braced for impact when to my surpise he dropepd to his knees and took my wet cock in his mouth. While he was sucking with one hand he used the otehr to begin to slowly finger my ass. I was so horny I wanted his thick cokc in my ass immediately. I didn't have tto wait long. Both of the old men stopepd what they were doing and leant on their backs "time to ride us cowboys!" ordered the owner. Pete then assumed the cowboy on his man and I followed. I felt a sting as the old mans thick cock enetered my arse, but that was soon taken over by pleasure as I began to ride more and more. Pete and I were riding like crazy when he leant oevr and kissed me strongly and then to my surprise I kissed him just as hard back. We had kissed a few times when Pete's old man moaned louldy and said "you read boy?!" "Fuck yeah" Pete screamed back. With that the old man puleed Pete's ass close to his groin and moaned "fuuuuuu---u---u-uuuuuuck" as his body quivered and jolted whole he shot a hot load into Pete's ass. Pete's slid off the old man who then turned over on to his Belly and barked"bury that dick in me boy" and Pete did slowly easing his hard young dick into an ass the slowly swalloed it whole. This seemed to trigger the host who then yelled "your turn buddy" and with that I felt several shots of his warm cum into my ass. As I slid off his ass he then sat up and f***ed me on to my back. This time he was going to ride me! He let out a slow moan of pleasure as my trhobbing. dripping dick diappeared into hsi huge arse. "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" they both moand as Pete and I sought our revenge on their asses when the host asked "so who's it gonna be ralph?" to his mate "from the throbbing mine's close" he eplied. Pete looked at me and smiled and siad "hold it if you can buddy, I'll make it worth it" I smiled and nodded back. Sure enough, Pete held his end of teh bargain as he began fucking Ralpj's ass stronger and stronger until he arched his abck and yelled "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" and shuddered as he gave the old man his seed. "Fuck yeah" said the owner "I wanna see this" and with that he suddenly got off me dick and pulled me to my feet. Before I knew it he pulled me over to Pete who got back on his knees. Ralph grabbed Pete's head and began to f***e it towards my cock. I started to resist when Pete said "just give it to me buddy, it's fine" and ebfore I had a chance to react the owne granned my arse and f***ed my cock into Pete's mouth. The old men were making me face fuck him and it felt great!! "Do it son...he can take it" said the host "yeah he can" said Ralph. "You cuming yet boy" barked the owner "Almost" I muttered. "Open wide Petey": said Ralph and Pete stopped sucking and opend his mouth wide to receive my load. The host then wrapped his hug hands around my wet, throbbing dick and stroked away! I couldn't hold it anymore and "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh" I yelled as I arched my back and shot my jizz into Pete's mouth and all over his face. As I finally finished squirting and the old man slowed his jerking Pete looked at me and smiled "so you wanna cum to the next party?" Story URL: http://xhamster.com/user/joesal/posts/14554.html

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 The 5-Star Marriott Hotel Manila at Resorts World Manila Posted 6:48 PM Labels: #RWManila, + Philippines, hotel, Hotel/Resort/Accommodation, PHILIPPINES, travel Today we take a look at the Marriott Hotel Manila, which is one of the three hotel properties at Resorts World Manila. The main focus of this hotel is probably business meetings and social events like weddings. The lobby lounge is spacious with several zones marked by the different furnishings. One of the areas is at the far end, near the garden with floor-to-ceiling windows, which allow you to enjoy the greenery and sunshine in air-conditioned comfort. Fancy a glass of wine? Help yourself! This is a nifty wine dispenser, the first I've ever seen in a hotel. The Marriott Cafe is on the ground floor. This is where you get to enjoy your buffets (especially breakfast!) and all-day dining. If you fancy fine-dining, there's Cru Steakhouse just around the corner from the cafe. A certified US Angus ribeye (250g) goes for PHP2,200 (about US$52). The Australian Tajima Wagyu will set you back PHP3,500 (about US$82). Of course, the Marriott comes with a fully equipped Business Centre (left), and a spa. Quan Spa includes a 24-hour gym, sauna, steam and hot whirlpools. Work up a sweat and then relax. Sounds great. The outdoor pool is a little small though. But let's head inside and check out the rooms. Here's one of the one-bedroom Executive Suites. Enter and you'll see a work area that's set in warm woods with elements of glass and steel. Internet access (high-speed, wired and wireless) is available for a fee. Facing that is a TV lounge for you to kick back and relax after your work is done. A nice king-size bed in this 72sq m suite. Bathrooms are neat and elegant. And you can see through the bathroom to the bedroom and vice versa. No worries, there is a retractable shade if you prefer privacy. This is the only one of the three hotels we didn't get to stay at, but it's a five-star business hotel and the Marriott name we are all familiar with. MARRIOTT HOTEL MANILA No. 10 Newport Boulevard, Newport City Complex Pasay City Manila, 1309 Philippines Tel: +63 2 9889999

This hotel doesn't have any reviews yet. About the hotel The hotel is located 1 km from Canillo town and 20 minutes from Andorra la Vella. This hotel opened in March 2008 and offers guests a range of modern fittings. There are 28 suites in total, each with beautiful views of the town of Canillo. The hotel offers Internet access (charges apply), sky lockers and free outdoor or garage parking (fees apply). Further facilities include an entrance hall with 24-hour reception, a hotel safe, a currency exchange facility, lift access, a café, a bar, a TV lounge and room and laundry services (charges apply). The suites are equipped with a fully fitted bathroom, a colour TV with DTT, a hairdryer, a telephone, a safe, Internet access and a small kitchen (charges apply) equipped with a glass-ceramic cooker, tea and coffee making facilities, a refrigerator, a microwave oven and crockery. The suites are for 2 to 6 persons. A double bed, heating and a balcony or terrace also come as standard. The hotel offers use of its spa and gym, where guests can make use of a hot tub, a sauna, a solarium, a steam room and a range of spa and massage treatments. Alternatively, guests can relax outside on the sun terrace. Showing Wednesday 6 May 2015 to Thursday 7 May 2015Change Search We currently have no rooms available for this hotel that match your search criteria. Try changing your search or select an alternative hotel. - Hotel services - 24 Hour Reception, 24 Hour Room Service, Laundry/Valet Service, Currency Exchange - In room facilities - Safety Deposit Box - Lift to all floors - Breakfast to go Useful Info Show/hide - From 14:00 hours - Until 11:00 hours - The price shown is based on the occupancy and dates you have searched for. Prices and availability are subject to change based on the arrival date, number of nights and occupancy searched for. All prices are inclusive of all local taxes. - Pets are not allowed Our reviews are from genuine LateRooms.com customers. We verify that the customer has stayed before leaving a review. No reviews yet

Large french villa 45 minutes from Meribel or Megeve, 1 hour to Val d'Isere Tignes or Chamonix. Ski a different resort each day. Located privately, on a sunny hillside with spectacular views of the Alps. Loads of room for a large family gathering. Spring, summer, and fall seasons are ideal for enjoying the private pool and tennis court. …see more Top floor 2 bed apartment in the pretty spa town of Brides les Bains with direct links to Meribel. Great value for skiing Meribel and the 3 vallees. Great location for summer Alps holidays and for 'curists' visting the famous spa centre FREE WIFI in apartment, DVD, PS2. Free underground carparking, shared swimming pool. Discounts on ski hire and ski school for our guests. …see more An excellent town with fantastic skiing in the winter with prices that are well below meribel .In the summer it is the famous spa/thermal town with lots to do walking,biking,horse riding golf and many more or just relax and have a glass of wine on the sunny balcony An excellent resort both in summer and winter with affordable prices .discount for 2 weeks or more …see more Free wi-fi, disabled access, near to the slopes, guest enjoy special discount rate use of indoor pool, sauna and gym. FREE underground car parking, own ski locker, cable TV. In summer we supply free "Sportignes" passes. There is a superb swimming pool/spa, sauna, steam room and gym on site. Discount rates. FREE wi-fi wifi. …see more Beautiful, excellent value, modern, homely, spacious apartment. 6th floor, balcony, amazing mountain views. Easy access to MeribeI and the three valleys via the Gondola. Free secure underground parking. FREE WIFI + satellite TV +DVD, washing machine and lots of extras. Swimming pool, sauna. Beautiful Spa town; lots to do all year round. Best value for 3 Valleys. Many extras. …see more Spacious two bedroom ski apartment, in the heart of the largest ski region in the French Alps, Paradski. Airy and tastefully furnished, fully made up before arrival with down duvets and 100% cotton linen, views of Mont Blanc from the balcony. …see more New MGM 4* luxury apartment built in savoyarde style, in ski chalet complex in the family friendly resort of La Rosiere.Excellent facilities including swimming pool, gym, steam, sauna,spa. Fantastic views. Ski in/out, next to slopes. www.larosiere.net Large balcony. Newly built Reception.Close to shops, bars, restaurants,ski school. Linked Italy. …see more Brand new self catered duplex apartment within a traditional Savoyard style chalet. 250 metres from Plan Bois ski lift and slopes, ESF Ski School and the centre of the village. Great family resort with skiing for all levels. …see more A studio apartment sleeping four, fully fitted with new furniture and appliances five years ago and now with FREE WiFi! Based in beautiful Brides les Bains, it offers easy access to Three Valleys skiing via Telecabine or driving, 20 minutes either way. Terrific value! A fun and quite different way for independent skiers on a budget to enjoy the massive 3 Valleys area! …see more Split level large (9+1) self-catering ski apartment with fantastic mountain views. Pool, jacuzzi,& Sauna. Only 150m from piste and lifts. Great for Families or groups. TV/DVD/XBOX. Excellent skiing for all abilities, …see more A Ski-in Catered Chalet with exceptional views of Mont Blanc. Large Sauna/Steam Room, Library, Playroom, Spacious Lounge, Family Suites all en suite. A homely gem in the heart of Paradiski. Gorgeous destination for winter skiing, Summer Biking, Hiking, Swimming. A unique family-run luxury catered chalet ,ski in, lots of personal touches. Great Food, Superb facilities, …see more This apartment sleeps six in a 4 star ski resort located in the French Alps. The resort, ARC 1950, is a Ski in - Ski out resort suitable for beginners and advanced skiers. The Paradiski ski domain covers over over 425 Km with a very efficient and modern chair lift syst …see more Self-catered apartment in the heart of Meribel Village in the Three Valleys resort. Access to a beautiful indoor pool (shared), stunning views with sunny balcony and the highspeed Golf chairlift just minutes from the front door. Range of catering upgrades available. …see more STUDIOS CONFORTABLES ASCENSEUR, place de parking, piscine, jacuzzi, wifi, terrasse,. TOUT LE CONFORT NECESSAIRE DANS CETTE RESIDENCE. ACCUEIL PAR LES PROPRIETAIRES. STUDIOS AU DECOR RAFFINE. AMBIANCE ZEN. CES STUDIOS SONT A LOUER UNIQUEMENT PAR PERIODE DE 3 SEMAINES AUX DATES indiquées: Location, location, location! Luxury Ski-in ski-out apartment. Next to lift. Pool, sauna, steam room, wifi, many luxury amenities. Great for families with children! Luxury ski-in ski-out south facing apartment in Courchevel 1850. Only 35 m. from bubble. Pool + sauna. …see more Studio au pied des 3 vallées dans la station familiale de Brides-les-Bains. Accès au plus grand domaine skiable du monde via la télécabine de l'Olympe. Vous pourrez profiter de la piscine intérieure et du jacuzzi. Sauna en supplément. Place de parking privée couverte. Sèche-cheveux, grille-pain, cafetière et bouilloire à disposition. Remise des clés par le propriétaire. …see more A brand-new luxury apartment in the pretty village of Les Coches within the huge Pardiski ski area. The apartment is very close to shops, ski school and lifts. Ideal for both familes and small groups, the development features an indoor poor, sauna, jacuzzi and hammam. …see more Studio au pied des pistes situé dans immeuble APOLLO - station du Corbier en Savoie Vallée de la Maurienne - Ski Glisse neige Animations - Tout pour la famille - piscine chauffée - Promotions Prix pas cher - Domaine des Sybelles - 310 kms de pistes Ski Surf Luge pistes Paiement en ligne : 1/3 à la réservation dés réception du contrat et solde 14 jours mini avant votre séjour …see more 3 Pièces dans résidence de luxe avec piscine, sauna, hammam, jacuzzi et salle de fitness. Skis aux pieds, très proche ESF et superette. Ascenseur, garage, village piétonnier, lave linge et sèche linge accessible dans la résidence. …see more "Le Chalet" 350 m2 , le luxe sobre et feutré des bonnes maisons. Martine et Frédéric vous invitent à vivre une expérience unique en famille ou entre amis. NOUVEAU dans les 3 vallées: "Le Chalet" le meilleur de la montagne! …see more Ultimate luxury skiing destination. The largest and newest private chalet in Sainte Foy. Balcony Jacuzzi's, bar, restaurant, library and spacious lounge area. Family-friendly and close to the chair lift, bars and shops. Private spa and swimming pool facility included free of charge. …see more Spacieux et confortable appartement pour 8 personnes. Le choix des équipements est de qualité. A votre arrivée, les lits seront faits (couettes), peignoirs de bain, serviettes et tapis de bain, torchons de cuisine sont à votre disposition dans l'appartement. SNCF : Bourg Saint Maurice. Horaires navettes : www.altibus.fr/047 907 0449. www.mobisavoie.fr …see more 1 bedroom luxury ski apartment in lovely car-free village. Fully ski-in, ski-out. Underground parking. Indoor pool, jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. Spa and lots of good restaurants within 2 minutes walk. …see more Sleeps up to 6 with pullout /sofa bed & 4 single beds ,breakfast bar ,5 mins from the ski slope ,fully equipped open plan kitchen with fridge ,cooker ,micro ,hob & oven ,tv ,internet ,music system ,cave for bikes & ski's,swimming pool,golf(summer) biking ,hiking & ski …see more INCLUDED IN THE PRICE • 7 nights accommodation • Linen and towels for the week • Toiletries and F&P extra touches • Dedicated in resort service from the Resort Manager • Bespoke pre-holiday care including assistance in booking transfers, lessons, ski passes and ski hire …see more 1-room studio 23 m2. Living/dining room with 1 pull-out bed (2 pers. 2 x 90 cm), TV. Sleeping alcove with 1 x 2 bunk beds (90 cm). Kitchenette (2 hot plates, dishwasher, microwave, electric coffee machine). Shower/WC. Maximum 1 pet/ dog allowed. Available on …see more Luxury 2-bedroom apartment with mountain views sleeps up to 8 people in beautiful spa town ideal for spa cure, summer activities like hiking, rafting and mountain biking with easy access to Meribel and largest skiing area in the Alps, the world famous 3 Valleys domain On fourth floor with access by lift and easy access to secure free underground car park …see more st Martin de Belleville is a traditional French village with a local butcher a small number of bars and some excellent restaurants including one with a Michelin star. Chalets du Gypse offers a daily morning bread and pastry service. The pains au raisin are delicious! stock up at Geant supermarket in Albertville and supplement everything else from the local shops …see more Our privately owned and upgraded top floor direct to piste ski apartment sleeps up to 6, 39sqm with fabulous views, situated in Aiguille Grive 1, an attractive, well designed complex in Les Arc 1800. Quiet location yet only 5 mins walk from the bars and restaurants. …see more "38K-48", 3-room apartment 58 to 63 m2. Comfortable furnishings: living/dining room with 1 double sofabed (140 cm), TV (flat screen). 1 room with 1 double bed (140 cm). 1 room with 2 beds. Sleeping alcove with 1 x 2 bunk beds. Kitchenette (dishwasher, 4 ceramic glass ho …see more 2-room apartment 25 to 34 m2. Comfortable and modern furnishings: living/dining room with 2 sleeping facilities and TV can be hired. 1 room with 2 sleeping facilities. Alcove with 1 x 2 bunk beds. Open kitchen (4 hot plates, dishwasher, microwave) with dining table. Bat …see more

Two bedroom, 2 bath condo with king bed in 33 acre resort. Double balcony with great ocean and pool views. Heated indoor pool and heated lazy river. 6 pools total, oceanfront cabana bar, playground, tennis. Recliner in living room, Linens provided King bed in master with private bath and TV. 2nd bedroom has twin beds with TV/VCR. 2nd bath off hallway. Kitchen has electric stove, full size microwave, dishwasher, new refrigerator with freezer on bottom and ice maker. Dining area has breakfast bar with 3 stools and table with six chairs. Living room has commercial grade queen sleeper sofa, loverseat and recliner. View of ocean from dining room table. Double balcony with high deck chairs and table. We provide beach chairs, boogie boards, tennis rackets, basketball and sand toys. Full use of 33 acre resort with six pools, heated lazy river, heated indoor pool, kiddie pool, multiple Jacuzzi's both indoor and outdoor, exercise room with steam room, sauna, basketball, volleyball, children's playground, oceanfront cabana bar with live music in Summer. Interaction with Guests Must be 23 to rent at the resort. We like to speak on the phone with all of our guests after accepting the reservation. We are only a phone call away if you need us. Close to Market Commons with high end shopping and restaurants. Close to Broadway at the Beach and Tanger outlets. Short drive to Murrells Inlet seafood capital of the world. Great restaurants galore. Clsoe to Myrtle Beach State Park. Surfside and Garden City both have fishing piers, where you can buy daily fishing license. Less than 10 minutes from airport. Other Things to Note Must pay 12% SC sales tax in addition to nightly rate, separate invoice will be emailed thru PayPal. Please bring own beach towels. No refunds for cancellation. No refunds for early departure. Must adhere to rental agreement rules, which will be emailed to you and posted in the condo. Plese strip beds before leaving and leave used sheets and towels in bathtub. Do not remove mattress pads or bedspreads, cleaning lady will take care of them. Wash dishes and empty dishwasher. Take trash to garbage cans near the elevator when leaving. Please empty refrigerator. Please do not use our towels to remove makeup or wipe up spills, paper towels are provided. You will be charged for stained towels. Smoking in condo will result in the loss of your $300.00 security deposit. My husband and I have been renting our vacation homes since 2003. We love dealing with our guests and making their vacations memorable. We have beautiful long haired Chihuahua named Bella and love renting our home in Garden City to fellow pet lovers. Our condos do not allow pets. Only our Garden City home is pet friendly. Serenity Cove has a fenced in backyard.

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Sunlighten saunas have been designed with the utmost in comfort for greater relaxation and stress-reduction. Relaxation is more important to health than most people realize. The American Institute of Stress estimates that 75 to 90% of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress-related problems. Long-term stress is the cause of countless physiological effects on the body, including increased blood pressure, weight gain and weakening of the immune system. According to New York Times best-selling author and fitness expert Jorge Cruise – as well as many other health professionals – the more stressed you are, the more cortisol your body produces. Cortisol is a “fight or flight” hormone made in the adrenal glands that raises heart rate and blood pressure and leads to the deposit of excess calories in the midsection. Scientific evidence also shows that infrared sauna therapy helps the body maintain healthy levels of cortisol. While cortisol levels stay the same or rise slightly during a sauna therapy session, they drop immediately afterward. In fact, Sunlighten saunas have been clinically shown to reduce both systolic and diastolic blood pressure with regular use. Through the use of cutting-edge Solocarbon® heating technology, Sunlighten saunas deliver the most therapeutic infrared sauna heat per square inch (up to 99% efficient), so that you can be enveloped in soothing warmth to help you relieve stress, ease your muscles and fully relax. And with the inclusion of our exclusive SO Sound acoustic vibrational therapy, you won’t be able to find a more effective combination infrared sauna heat and musical massage to induce deep relaxation and tension relief. Sunlighten saunas are guaranteed to help you relax in natural comfort with an invigorating deep tissue sweat that will have you feeling fully refreshed after every sauna session.

Condo, 1 Bedrooms, 1 Baths, 4 Sleeps Aloha! Welcome to another Cesar's loving place. This is a brand new completely renovated luxury condo, located on the 15th floor in building, conveniently located near the elevator with excellent views of gorgeous Ala Wai Canal and Koolau Mountain Range from living room and two lanais. In order to maintain a high level of luxury, this is strictly a NON- SMOKING condo. This immaculate, executive condo is for the discriminating visitor who demands top quality in their surroundings. The entire condo unit was recently renovated as my second home with imported Indian Granite floors, top quality brand new synthetic (ANTI-ALLERGIC) carpet and superb corian granite countertops in the kitchen and bathroom. The kitchen and bathroom cabinets were replaced with luxurious maple wood cabinets. The kitchen was also furnished with brand new top quality stainless steel apliances. The building is just a short walk to the beach and the Zoo in the best side of Waikiki close to several convenient stores. THE SPECIAL AMENITIES ARE: -Gorgeous full size rattan futon bed serves as couch or pull out bed for children or additional couple. -Flat screen cable/TV in living room with VCR and DVD for your - Floor to ceiling mirror closet doors in private bedroom. - King size top of the line deluxe pillow top "Celestial" bed complete with feather down pillows and 400 thread count Egyptian - Top quality anti-allergic mattress futon bed. - Unit is equipped with its own washer and dryer. - Assigned, covered parking stall with security gates. - Free unlimited local phone calls. - Two brand new air conditioning units with remote control. - Two lanais. - Private roof top Pool, dry sauna, workout room on roof top building as well. - Best center location, short walk to the beach, very close to the - Completely renovated, all first quality and new. Great service and location About the Owner 2 traveler reviews Great service and location Our best experience in Waikiki Activity and Interests Scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, surfing, boating, sailing, windsurfing, waterskiing, jet skiing, parasailing, cruising, golf, hiking, rock climbing, fishing, running, canoeing, sight seeing, wildlife viewing, shopping, restaurants, life theater, cinemas, museums, surfing lessons at Waikiki Beach almost all day, Zoo, Aquarium, Pearl Harbor, out door beach movies. - Nightly Rate: $89 - $110 Weekly Rate: $553 - $700 Monthly Rate: $2150 - $2660 For Calendar availability and booking go to: WaikikiTraveler. com April to June monthly SPECIAL $75 per night or $2250 monthly plus 13.96% Hawaii tax. Weekly SPECIAL: $79 per night or $553 weekly plus tax. Last minute special: If booked within 7 days from arrival, receive 10% off, coupon code to get the discount on our website is: "lastminute". Does not apply together with any other promotional or additional discounts. Our website address is WaikikiTraveler. com This rates apply for maximum of three guests, any additional guest is $10 per night on weekly basis and $7.50 per night Private assigned parking with 24 security is available with in and out privileges for $10 per day on weekly basis or $7.00 per day There is a $25 booking fee, $90 per night departure cleaning fee, and a $200 refundable security deposit providing there are no incidents. There is no maid service. Deposit of 30% will be due to reserve and balance not later than 40 days prior to arrival. We accept cashier's checks, money orders, wire transfers. Credit cards can be accepted through our website or through Paypal. Personal cheques will be accepted if sent no later than 60 days prior to arrival. - To keep a high level of luxury, in our policy, the $90 departure cleaning fee does not cover carpet stains or wall marks of any kind or burned stove/oven/microwave. - Until confirmed, rates are subject to change without notice. Pool / Spa - Outdoor Pool - pets not allowed - Beach View Sports & Adventure Activities - 1 Bathroom - Bathroom 1 - 1 Bedroom, Sleeps 4 - Bedroom 1 - Excellent views of majestic Ala Wai Canal and Koolau Mauntain range from living room and Lanais or balconies. Provides two lanais, one in living room and another from bedroom. Fully loaded kitchen with brand new upscale stainless steel appliances, imported Indian granite tile floors, new anti-allergic syntetic carpet, INSIDE UNIT WASHER AND DRYER, private assigned covered parking with in and out privileges and security gates, King size "celestial" top of the line pillow top bed with Egyptian quality cotton sheets, first quality linens and towels, telephone with answering service, unlimited local phone calls, brand new cable/TV with VCR and DVD player with security camera to see visitors, two brand new A/C units with remote control, alarm clock, coffee maker, microwave. The bathroom has mediterranean style tub and shower combo with custom tile work. His and Hers DOUBLE SINKS in Corian granite, mirrors and custom lighting sure not to disappoint even the most discerning makeup artist. Gorgeous roof top pool has 360 views of ocean and mountains. Roof top includes lounge area with more than one grill/bbq areas, a workout room complete with fitness machines and free weights. Unit is walking distance from all Waikiki beaches, main attractions, restaurants, Starbucks, International Market, Honolulu Zoo, Waikiki Aquarium and also close to the famous Ala Moana Shopping center.

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These species are called aspens: - Populus adenopoda – Chinese Aspen (China, south of P. tremula) - Populus davidiana – Korean Aspen (Eastern Asia) - Populus grandidentata – Bigtooth Aspen (eastern North America, south of P. tremuloides) - Populus sieboldii – Japanese Aspen (Japan) - Populus tremula – Eurasian Aspen (northern Europe and Asia) - Populus tremuloides – Quaking Aspen or Trembling Aspen (northern and western North America) Habitat and longevity The aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. They are all medium-sized deciduous trees reaching 15–30 m (49–98 ft) tall. All of the aspens typically grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling, and spread by means of root suckers; new stems in the colony may appear at up to 30–40 m (98–131 ft) from the parent tree. Each individual tree can live for 40–150 years above ground, but the root system of the colony is long-lived. In some cases, this is for thousands of years, sending up new trunks as the older trunks die off above ground. For this reason, it is considered to be an indicator of ancient woodlands. One such colony in Utah, given the nickname of "Pando", is estimated to be 80,000 years old, making it possibly the oldest living colony of aspens. Some aspen colonies become very large with time, spreading about 1 m (3.3 ft) per year, eventually covering many hectares. They are able to survive forest fires, because the roots are below the heat of the fire, with new sprouts growing after the fire burns out. Aspens do not thrive in the shade, and it is difficult for seedlings to grow in an already mature aspen stand. Fire indirectly benefits aspen trees, since it allows the saplings to flourish in open sunlight in the burned landscape. Lately, aspens have an increased popularity in forestry, mostly because of their fast growth rate and ability to regenerate from sprouts, making the reforestation after harvesting much cheaper, since no planting or sowing is required. In contrast with many trees, aspen bark is base-rich,[clarification needed] meaning aspens are important hosts for bryophytes and act as food plants for the larvae of butterfly (Lepidoptera) species—see List of Lepidoptera that feed on poplars. Aspen wood is white and soft, but fairly strong, and has low flammability. It has a number of uses, notably for making matches and paper where its low flammability makes it safer to use than most other woods. Shredded aspen wood is used for packing and stuffing, sometimes called excelsior (wood wool). It is also a popular animal bedding, since it lacks the phenols associated with pine and juniper, which are thought to cause respiratory system ailments in some animals. Heat-treated aspen is a popular material for the interiors of a sauna. While standing trees sometimes tend to rot from the heart outward, the dry timber weathers very well, becoming silvery-grey and resistant to rotting and warping, and has traditionally been used for rural construction in the northwestern regions of Russia (especially for roofing, in the form of thin slats). - "technology transfer fact sheet: Populus spp.". Forest Products Laboratory: R&D USDA. Madison, Wisconsin: United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Retrieved 20 September 2010. - Quaking Aspen by the Bryce Canyon National Park Service - The Biodiversity and Management of Aspen woodlands: Proceedings of a one-day conference held in Kingussie, Scotland, on 25th May 2001 - Fox, Mark, Linda E. Tackaberry, Pascal Drouin, Yves Bergeron, Robert L. Bradley, Hughes B. Massicotte, and Han Chen (2013). "Microbial community structure of soils under four productivity classes of aspen forests in Northern British Columbia", Ecoscience 20(3):264-275 DOI:10.2980/20-3-3611 |Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aspen trees in heraldry.| |Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Aspen.| - Aspen Information Resource, U.K. - Quaking Aspen Forests of the Colorado Plateau - Bioimages: Populus grandidentata bigtooth aspen - Aspen Research Bibliography - Aspen Photo Gallery - Aspen Compounds, Medicinal Benefits and Uses - Loyola Medicine: Aspen Dosage, Interaction, Warnings and Side Effects - Steens Aspen Video produced by Oregon Field Guide

Nordic Information Literacy Summer School Transformation from Digital Library to Digital Learning Korpo, Finland, 7-11 June, 2010 The ninth NordINFOLIT Information Literacy Summer School will take place in the southwestern archipelago of Finland in June 2010. The theme of the course will be learning processes and tools in the digital world. Anyone interested in learning and teaching English and Scandinavian languages (teaching in English, social program also in Swedish) The registration fee covers tuition, cultural and social program, accommodation (rooms for 2 persons), breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, and charter bus transportation Turku-Korpo on Monday and Friday. Deadline for registration The dead line is extended to 26 April, 2010. 1. Learning Processes in a Digital World Transformation from digital library to digital learning a mixture of learning processes and tools - The Construction and Use of Shared Management and Learning Spaces. - Project Management and Learning as Forms of Digital Production. - The New Nomads: Ubiquity and Virtuality from the Project Management Perspective - Project Partners - Teachers and Students - as Developers and Co-researchers. - Blended Learning. - Blogs and Word Processors: Learning-by-Writing/Management-by-Writing. - Dual-level Writing: Text and Context/Structure. - Digital Story-Telling: Design, Production and Use. Low-threshold Impartment of Project Results. - Triggers for Project Managers: Entry Points to In-Depth Discussion of Main Development Challenges. - Interaction Frameworks: Wikis, Blogs and Learning Platforms (VLEs) - Wikipedia: A Global Platform for Lexical Knowledge - Words & Numbers: Practical Collaborative Solutions for the 3 R’s (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic) 2. Tools for Digital Collaborative Production and Presentation The summer school will consist of practical hands-on work with a variety of web-based tools for teaching and learning. At the same time the teaching relates to relevant learning theories. All participants will write and upload an essay with a presentation and a picture onto the course blog before the course starts. Helge Høivik (professor, director of LATINA/lab, Center for Educational Research and Development) Tord Høivik (associate professor, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science) Lars Egeland (director, Learning Center) Morten Reksten (senior adviser, Learning Center) Aslak Ormestad (technical adviser, LATINA/lab), Oslo University College, Norway The social program introduces local culture, including a boat trip to Konungskär Island in the Southwestern Archipelago National Park and a sauna evening. Planning group in Finland Päivi Helminen, coordinator of the planning group, Helsinki University Library, paivi.helminen Helsinki.fi Maaria Harviainen, Sibelius Academy Library, maaria.harviainen siba.fi Leena Järveläinen, Turku University Library, leena.jarvelainen utu.fi Kirsi Heino, Aalto University Library , kirsi.heino tkk.fi Anne Kakkonen, Helsinki University Library, anne.kakkonenHelsinki.fi Eeva Koponen, Jyväskylä University Library, eeva.koponen jyu.fi Kirsi Luukkanen, Helsinki University Library kirsi.luukkanen Helsinki.fi Tiina Sipola, Oulu University Library, tiina.sipola oulu.fi Antti Virrankoski, Helsinki University Library, antti.virrankoski Helsinki.fi Helsinki University Library P.O. Box 53, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Telephone 358 50 4154420

Malaysia beach resorts the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. The Award goes to the Tanjong Jara Resort. The beach resorts designed to reflect the elegance and grandeur of 17th century Malay palaces, Tanjong Jara is a 99-room resort with an authentic taste of the region's spirit and an enduring embodiment of the gentle Malay art of service and hospitality. It is based on the Malay concept of Sucimurni, which emphasises purity of spirit, health and well-being, Tanjong Jara encourages true rejuvenation of both body and spirit. Laguna Redang Island Resort Tanjong Jara Resort had been awarded several of award such as ‘One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World - Condé Nast Traveller UK, 2006’ and ‘Best Beach Resort (Listed), Best Spa Resort (Listed) - The Best of Malaysia Travel Awards, 2010 by Expatriate Lifestyle’. This is the endorsement that Malaysia beach resorts are world class resorts. Damai Beach Malaysia (Damai Beach Resort) is one of the Malaysia beach resort that has a beautiful location that covers 90 acres of prime sea-front land and close to Sarawak Cultural Village near Kuching. It has pristine sandy beaches by the South China Sea. There are also fine jungle trails all the way for hikers to explore to the legendary and majestic Mount Santubong. The resort offer jet skiing, windsurfing, water-skiing, tennis, mountain biking, squash and fitness centre. Damai Beach Malaysia address: Santubong Kuching, Po Box 2870, Damai Beach, 93756 Kuching, Sarawak. Laguna Redang Island Resort is among the top Malaysia beach resort visit by the tourist stood on the largest island of Trengganu’s archipelago. The resort provide an excellent opportunity for snorkelling, scuba diving and jungle trekking to keep tourists relaxing along the glistening white beaches. Pulau Redang is the centre of a large-scale marine park which is a protected zone 26 nm north of Kuala Terengganu whose reefs burst with the largest assortment of coral species that peninsular water has to offer. The waters surrounding the 9 islands of Redang form one of the richest marine habitats that tourist can experienced. Under the crystal clear water are splendid coral gardens filled with corals both hard and soft, foliose and gargonian in the shallower regions - along with a captivating variety of fascinating tropical fish, unspoiled reefs and many types of sea creatures. Other popular Malaysia beach resorts that in the West of Malaysia is Tanjung Bungah Beach Resort offered 200 guestrooms. It is perfect hotel for tourist and local to come to Penang for business and leisure. Every room has bathtub, television, in house movies. Visitors can experience the high standards of comfort while staying at this luxury Penang hotel with everything they prefer such as meeting facilities, laundry service, dry cleaning, concierge, shops. Leisure and sports facilities available on the hotel's property such as massage, kids club, water sports (motorized), gym. Along with its convenient location in Penang, the hotel also offers a wide range of services and facilities to the guests and gorgeous views of the sea or hills. Rent a car through the hotel and spend a day exploring nearby attractions like the Penang Butterfly Farm and Gurney Plaza. Visitors can book room through secure online booking form. Resort address: Tanjung Bungah Beach Hotel, 505, Jalan Tanjung Bungah, Tanjung Bungah 11200, Penang, Malaysia. Teluk Dalam Resort, Pangkor Malaysia is paradise resort of Malaysia beach resorts by the sea. It occupies 40 acres of mostly landscaped gardens in a quiet place. It situated at the northern of Pangkor Island, off the west coast of Penisular Malaysia. The resort provided 140 individual wooden chalets and bungalows with a magnificent view of either the garden or the sea. These chalets and bungalows feature "kampung" styles architecture and are furnished and equipped in a manner to achieve a total pleasure and comfort of visitors. Designed in the true style of traditional Malay kampong. Resort contact: Tel: 605 685 5000 or Fax: 605 685 4000 - Teluk Dalam Resort, 32300, Pulau Pangkor, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia. Tiara Beach Resort an `inland sea resort' spread over 23 acres is the biggest man-made beach in Malaysia. It is an ideal place for the whole family to have an enjoyable clean, safe and fun seaside vacation with top class facilities for corporate and private functions. It is the first fully integrated resort in Port Dickson with 980 studio suites (1264 rooms). It is just 90 minutes drive from Kuala Lumpur city. There are 4 F&B outlets; Canopy Beachfront Café, Terrace Café, Fun Pub and Chinese Restaurant. The Terrace Café – an outdoor all day dining restaurant acclaimed local and international dishes and Canopy Café that overlooking the beach front provides a small selection of local snacks and hawker favorites and refreshing beverages. The Canopy Café is an ideal rendezvous place to relax with live sports events, pool tables, darts and many exciting games. Other facilities include the mini theatre, giant inflatable, gymnasium, sauna rooms and karaoke theaters. Address of Tiara Beach Resort: Sales & Marketing Department , No. 1, PD Tiara, Batu 13, Jalan Pantai, Pasir Panjang, 71250 Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus, Malaysia. 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Sleeping at the Brunswick Hotel in Glasgow Our 18 hotel rooms are all en-suite with prices starting at 50GBP. Everything you need for an overnight stay in a busy city centre! All accommodation is priced per room, not per person. All rooms are individually colour schemed so that no two are the same. They also have TV, direct dial telephone, wifi, tea and coffee facilities and very comfortable beds for a great nights sleep. Check in time at the Brunswick is from 2pm and guests and must be checked out on their day of departure by 11.00 am. Room Types and Sizes (approx. Width x Length): |Compact Double||3m x 2.4m| |Standard Double||3.5m x 4m| |Double||2.9m x 4.8m| |Twin/Triple||2.5m x 5.4m| |King||4m x 5.25m| |3 Bedroom Apartment||8.7m x 15m (x 2 levels)| The Apartment floor space includes: 2 double bedrooms, 1 king size master bedroom, sauna, bathrooms and lounge areas (no cooking facilities). Individual rooms with European appeal The Brunswick Hotel's rooms have been styled with clean lines - simple yet modern and individual. Bold colours accentuate public areas and calmer colouring resides in each bedroom. You could be in Paris, Milan or Barcelona with our small European feel or even New York with our big personality! Our king rooms are also suitable for disabled guests and we have a lift that will take you to all floors. Pets are welcome although prior notice is essential. We also have a stunning 3 bedroom apartment nestling under our copper curved roof. Although not all rooms boast the quality of views seen from our 3 bedroom apartment, you are still on the doorstep of one of the most stunning cities in Europe. See our gallery for a selection of our images. Friendly and continental service Our kitchen cafe and bar Brutti Ma Buoni is available to residents until 4am and there is someone at reception 24 hours a day to help you with anything you may need. Our self-service continental breakfast includes various cereals, sliced ham, fruit juices, fresh fruit, yoghurts, cheeses and preserves. To start your day at the Brunswick we shall prepare you a fine espresso, latte or a coffee of your taste, speciality teas, or hot chocolate to go with your toast and warm croissants. We use hand roasted Tuscany coffee, one of the finest in the world! Magazines and newspapers are always available and the music is gentle to wake up to.

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Originally Posted by HeavyRob Chris, you're gonna have to rest sometime! You'll burn out with all that intensity! I forgot to mention that I kick back in my sauna for about an hour on either Saturday or Sunday. That really seems to help keep me focused.

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These are my notes from reading Lise Elliot’s What’s Going On in There?. “Prenatal Influences on the Developing Brain”. This chapter goes through all the things that can affect the development of the fetus – mostly negatively. Nutrition (lack of), alcohol, drugs, chemicals, infections, stress, etc etc. On a more positive note there is a section about folic acid and how it helps prevent neural tube defects. A few interesting facts I learned: - There is enough folic acid in normal multivitamins for the needs of pregnant women. There is no evidence that the extra amount in specialist pills is useful (or unsafe, for that matter). - A woman needs about 300 kcal extra per day during pregnancy, and 500–600 during breastfeeding. Teratogens and birth defects Life in the womb is characterised by lack of stimulation: dark, warm, confining, quiet. This seems to be important for early brain development: premature babies have a high risk of mental and neurological problems. Preterm babies who stay in a “womblike” environment stay healthier and develop faster. The fatigue and nausea that many women experience may be another way to protect the embryo / fetus. The mother feels most miserable during the baby’s most vulnerable phase, and this keeps her from risky physical activities, and from spoiled and exotic foods. But the womb is not immune from the outside world. Almost every drug, chemical, hormone, or infectious agent will cross from mother’s blood into the placenta to some extent. Substances that can cause fetal malformations are called teratogens. These are difficult to identify, because it’s a question of probabilities. The baseline probability of some kind of defect is 2–3%. Thalidomide, one of the worst teratogens known, caused malformations in 20% of exposed fetuses. Most birth defects (65%) occur without any identifiable cause. Another 20–25% are linked to defects in chromosomes or genes – some inherited, some spontaneous. Known environmental or disease agents are responsible for 10%. Teratogens are likely to have the worst effect during the first 3–4 months of pregnancy, when the organ systems are forming, but the nervous system is more sensitive because its development goes on throughout the entire pregnancy. The effects of teratogens on the brain are hard to identify, because brain damage can be caused by smaller amounts of teratogens than other congenital abnormalities. Also the effects on the brain tend to be more subtle and may even not be evident until in later childhood. Very few drugs and chemicals have been tested for these effects so the general approach is “better safe than sorry” and pregnant women are advised to avoid heavy exposure to anything suspect. It also makes sense because many teratogens have a cumulative effect: the risk of one exposure is low, but exposure to one thing increases the damage done by others. For example, smoking increases the probability of other teratogens causing damage. The flip side of this approach is that it sometimes leads to excessive worry and the stress of avoiding endless minimal risks may be more damaging than the risks themselves. A significant minority of parents even choose to terminate pregnancies because of their fears about such risks. A large number of such abortions took place in the US after the Chernobyl accident, even though the amount of radiation reaching the US was too small to measurably increase any risk. Neural tube defects One of the most important phases of brain development is the closure of the neural tube (from day 22 to day 28). If this fails in the spinal cord, it leads to spina bifida (part of the spinal cord developing outside the vertebrae). If this fails at the top end, the result is anencephaly (most of the brain fails to develop). The symptoms of spina bifida range from none to severe (paralysis); anencephaly is lethal. Neural tube defects (NTDs) occur in 0.1% of pregnancies in the US. The rate of NTDs may be much higher because many miscarried fetuses have NTD, but this normally goes undetected. NTDs are caused by several factors combined: genetic, ethnic, nutritional, chemical, etc. There have even been reports of seasonal variation. NTDs are more common when the pregnant mother has diabetes or epilepsy. Some drugs are known or suspected to be a risk; so is high body temperature (whether due to fever or a sauna). Most NTDs can be detected early in the 2nd trimester by blood test, amniocentesis or ultrasound. When the neural tube fails to close, a certain protein present in the fluid in the ventricles leaks into the amniotic fluid and to the mother’s blood. The blood test is performed between 16–18 weeks of pregnancy, and if positive, it is followed up with other methods. All the methods together are able to detect ca 93% of NTDs during the 1st half of pregnancy. The risk of NTDs is lowered significantly by folic acid (vitamin B9). The original study found 60% reduced risk for first-time NTDs, and 76% for women who had already had a pregnancy with NTD. The official recommendation is that all women capable of becoming pregnant should consume 0.4 mg of folic acid every day. This amount is present in most standard multivitamin pills. Special prenatal pills contain a higher dose, which has not been proven more effective but appears to be safe. Folic acid is also present in many foods (leafy green vegetables, peas, beans, citrus fruits, liver, whole wheat bread) but these forms of folate are less easy to process by the body, and less stable when cooked, so some experts say it is hard to get the recommended 0.4 mg even with an excellent diet. A problem with this recommendation is that many pregnancies are not planned. Because neural tube closure begins very early in the pregnancy (only 8 days after a missed period) many women will not be taking folic acid when it is actually needed. Many countries therefore require folic acid to be added to food. In the US it is added to all grains (flour, bread, pasta, rice, cereal). This extra amount is beneficial but small enough that women are still advised to take folic acid supplements before and during early pregnancy. Unlike chemicals and drugs, general nutrition (getting enough calories) is less important during early pregnancy, and more important later, because the fetus requires less energy when it is small in size. From halfway through the pregnancy to about 2 years after birth, nutrition is very important for the growth and development of the brain. The earlier malnutrition begins, and the longer it lasts, the worse the effects. By comparison, starvation does not damage the brain in adults. Babies of malnourished mothers are likely to be small. Within the normal range, birth weight and head size are not strongly related to later intelligence, but very small babies (birth weight less than 2 kg) have a higher risk of mental deficits. Optimally a pregnant woman should gain about 20% of her ideal pre-pregnancy weight, and bigger is generally better (up to a limit). A woman needs about 300 kcal extra per day during pregnancy, and 500–600 during breastfeeding. When a pregnant mother is malnourished the placenta will not develop properly, which makes it even harder for the fetus to get the necessary nutrients. This sometimes happens in well-nourished mothers as well and is called intrauterine growth retardation. The problems are similar when there is more than one fetus competing for nourishment. After birth, malnourishment leads to smaller brains, weaker dendrite growth and less myelin. Because neurons are produced early in the pregnancy, their number is not affected, but the number of glial cells (which produce myelin) is, because these are produced later. Malnourishment often occurs together with other problems (the baby may be neglected, sick, abused, or just so hungry that it has no energy to learn), so it is hard to isolate the effects of malnutrition. However babies who are undernourished because of illness, but who are in a stimulating environment, do not suffer from mental deficits – a supportive environment can compensate for malnutrition. Also, children who are rescued early from malnutrition can recover most of their intellectual ability. Chemicals and drugs Nowadays drugs are assumed to be harmful in pregnancy, unless proven otherwise. For most of the known harmful medications, there are safer alternatives. Although over-the-counter medicines are generally less risky, it is best to avoid even those, unless absolutely needed. In particular, aspirin and ibuprofen are associated with pregnancy complications, and Tylenol is recommended instead. Alcohol. Alcohol crosses the placenta easily, and will reach almost the same concentration in the fetus’s blood as in the mother’s. Prenatal exposure to high doses of alcohol causes fetal alcohol syndrome (face and head defects, growth and mental retardation, anomalies of internal organs), increases the risk of miscarriage, premature birth, and birth complications. In the brain, alcohol kills neurons and disrupts the migration of neurons and glia. Modest consumption (less than 2 drinks per day) appears to be harmless. As with most teratogens, there is probably a level below which alcohol has no effect on fetal development, but that level is not known. Cigarettes. Smoking (including passive smoking) is one of the leading causes of low birth weight, and also increases the risk of miscarriage and premature birth. Nicotine interferes with the fetus’s breathing movements – this may also explain the higher risk of SIDS in babies born to smoking mothers. Nicotine also interferes with the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, affecting neuron structure. Drugs. All of the widely abused drugs increase the probability of miscarriage and premature delivery, and to various sorts of behavioural problems. Caffeine. Caffeine crosses the placenta and may even concentrate in the fetus. Caffeine has been found to be teratogenic in rodents, but does not appear to be a teratogen in humans. Aspartame. In the body, aspartame breaks down into aspartate and phenylalanine (both normally present in the body) and methanol. The amount of methanol is minute. None of these appear to pose a risk. MSG. High doses of glutamate overexcite neurons, which can damage or kill them. However glutamate does not cross the placenta well, and the amounts consumed are too small to be risky. Both aspartate and glutamate pose a higher risk to infants and should be avoided in baby food. Other chemicals. Based on current knowledge, pregnant women should avoid: organic solvents, oil-based paints, herbicides, pesticides, PCBs, vinyl chloride, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, mercury compounds, and other heavy metals (including cadmium, nickel and lead). The greatest risk occurs if any of these is inhaled or ingested. This includes X-rays and gamma rays. In adults radiation can lead to cancer; in a fetus it can lead to fetal death or birth defects, particularly in the brain. Exposure during the first 2 weeks after conception are generally lethal to the embryo. Between 2 and 8 weeks will likely damage other organs than the brain. Between 8 and 15 weeks (when neuron production is most intensive) brain damage is likely. After 15 weeks radiation continues to be dangerous but the risk of mental deficit is significantly lower. Irradiation for treatment purposes (mainly cancer) is never advised during pregnancy – if it is necessary, abortion may be advised. Diagnostic irradiation should be used if necessary, but elective radiation (such as dental X-rays) should be postponed until after pregnancy. This catch-all term describes energy waves that may penetrate tissue but do not break apart biological molecules – light, microwaves, radio waves, ultrasound. The main factor limiting their safety is whether they raise the temperature of the fetus. They are generally considered safe as long as they don’t raise the temperature above 39°C. UV light does not penetrate deeply enough to harm a fetus. Despite scare stories, exposure to microwave ovens, televisions, computer monitors, or low-frequency magnetic fields (from power lines) does not appear to be harmful. Evidence about MRI is mixed (women are recommended to avoid it during the first trimester), and for ultrasound the benefits far outweigh the possible minimal risk. Several viruses are known to cause malformation of the brain or later mental deficits. As with all the other risk factors, the effects are greatest in early pregnancy. Rubella (German measles): the woman may show no symptoms, while the fetus can be severely malformed. Luckily most women are immune by the time they are pregnant (due to earlier infection or immunization). A test is usually done at the first prenatal checkup. Cytomegalovirus is a member of the herpes family. Again, adults often show no symptoms. This is the most common and most dangerous infection that a fetus can be exposed to. Luckily most of the population has already been infected before adulthood, and such recurring infections are less dangerous for the fetus. Most adults catch it from toddlers, so mothers in subsequent pregnancies are particularly susceptible. About 1 or 2 babies in 1000 is born with major brain or sensory damage due to CMV. No vaccine is available yet. Infection is spread via all bodily fluids, so pregnant women in contact with toddlers (own or others’) should be careful with hygiene. Toxoplasmosis is a parasite often caught from animal feces (cats and mice), as well as raw meat, eggs and milk. Mothers’ symptoms are, again, often very mild. The chances of infecting the fetus are lower during the first 2 trimesters when it would do more damage. Still, 1 or 2 out of every 10,000 infants will be severely affected by toxoplasmosis – mental retardation, epilepsy, blindness, hearing loss. Avoid eating raw meat and eggs; wash hands and surfaces that have been in contact with these. Avoid all contact with cat litter. Genital herpes can, in rare cases, be passed on to the fetus. Infection is more common during birth and can lead to severe brain damage. Antiviral drugs greatly lessen the severity of the infection. Syphilis can cause severe damage to the fetus. Women are now routinely screened in early pregnancy, and penicillin is effective at blocking transmission. Influenza is nowhere near as dangerous as the other diseases mentioned, but it is speculated that it may interfere with neuronal migration. Hormones and stress Most maternal hormones can influence the fetus in some way. Some cross the placenta and affect it directly. Thyroid hormone, for example, is crucial for neuron production, synapse formation and myelination. The fetus will start producing its own thyroid hormone halfway through gestation, but relies on the mother’s thyroid before that. Other hormones affect blood flow to the placenta. Very high amounts of stress hormones are suspected to contribute to all sorts of problems: cleft lip and Down syndrome; newborn problems such as eczema, stomach ulcers and ear infections; even higher rates of miscarriage. These hormones can also interfere with almost every step of brain development. High levels of stress hormones in mothers may lead to higher levels of the same hormones in the baby, so babies born to stressed mothers are often fussier and more irritable. Physical exercise leads to higher levels of some stress hormones, but lowers the levels of others. The current view is that exercise is safe for pregnant women, especially those who were physically active before pregnancy. (Avoid exercising in hot weather or at high altitude, and avoid scuba diving.)

Donna D'Cruz Blissed Out the Standard for WMC 2012 You can go to a hundred clubs in Miami with half-naked party people sweating it out to a world-class DJ. But last night, the Standard flipped the script on that template, hosting a free, life-affirming meditative journey led by Donna D'Cruz on the (CDJ) wheels of steel in the hotel's hamam spa. D'Cruz is not only a globetrotting party girl but also the leader of musical therapy sessions at super-high-end Phoenix drug rehab centers as well as a fund-raiser for parolees. Guests were led to a third-floor terrace, where a bowl of cucumber water greeted them. The view wasn't bad either. There was mixing and mingling. Then they were offered Mercy, an "elixir" that supposedly eliminates hangovers if it's ingested preemptively (while you're getting drunk). People drank it. But there was no liquor anywhere in sight. Some of them walked around in bathrobes. They picked up gift bags and smiled. Then they were led into the hamam. It's like a sauna. In Turkish. They relaxed and waited for the DJ. There was a bunch of candles burning in the middle of the room. There was a tub if you wanted to take a bath. Then D'Cruz entered the room and hit the decks. She soothingly repeated Zen quotes and played new-age music. She looked like she was having a good time. A couple of hours later, it was over, and people thanked her and told her how much they loved the experience. It must be tough to be a DJ. Get the Music Newsletter Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

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Hot yoga; it’s a form of exercise quickly gaining in popularity, with multiple studios popping up in big cities and small towns across the country. For this week’s “Try it with Tabby,” I decided to jump on the sweaty bandwagon and give Bikram yoga a try. Named after founder Bikram Choudhury, Bikram yoga combines 26 asanas (poses) with rhythmic breathing and a room heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Think a traditional yoga class, stretch it to 90 minutes and move it into a sauna, then you have Bikram yoga. While I am not a yoga guru, I have practiced traditional forms of yoga for quite some time. Going into Bikram, I felt a sense of confidence in my skill set and figured the addition of heat would be a hurdle easily overcome. Wrong. Acclimating to the 105-degree studio prior to the yoga practice is something easier said than done. Each breath in is like inhaling fire, burning in my lungs and inducing a mild suffocation paranoia. It is safe to say, I do not like extreme heat. Class began with a breathing exercise, which ironically took my mind off of the fact that I felt as though I couldn’t breathe. From breathing we moved into standing poses, and soon the sweat and heat combined to make simply standing nearly impossible. Lightheaded is an understatement, but just at the right moment we moved to the ground for floor poses. At this point I took the instructor’s advice from the beginning of class, and moved into a resting pose as to not pass out. Five minutes of rest and I was back at it, and somehow made it through the entire class without passing out. Twenty six poses and 90 minutes later, I left feeling not only successful, but also a bit more flexible. The larger benefit is in a 90 minute Bikram class, an average of 500-1,000 calories are burned.

Apartmens in Haus Andreas Our traditional farmhouse has been beautifully renovated to provide comfortable and modern accommodation. Located just 2 minutes walk from the centre of Seefeld, all the services and conveniences of the village are on your doorstep. Book one of our cosy 1- and 2-room-apartments with a wonderful view at the tyrolean mountain scenery. Apartments in Haus Flora Our cosy bungalow with a large 2-room-apartment and a even bigger 3-room-apartment is located next to Haus Andreas. The idyllic location offers also a spectacular alpine panorama in every direction. Almost every apartment has a balkony or a terasse. Every unit has a kitchenett or a seperate kitchen, FlatscreenTV and a safe. Free WiFi an free parking is of course included. Summer and winter the free village and ski shuttle stops directly next to the properties. Both properties are surrounded by large, established gardens and extensive lawns for lazy summer days and they share an in–house sauna for relaxation. Interested in golf? If you book an apartment in one of our houses, you'll get a huge discount on both golfcourses. The leading golfcourse Seefeld-Wildmoos and the Golfacadmie Seefeld - Golfclub Seefeld/Reith.

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It's no different for Toni Lydman, who returns to his native Finland as a member of the Anaheim Ducks as they spend a week in Helsinki preparing for the 2011 Compuware NHL Premiere games against the Buffalo Sabres (Helsinki, Oct. 7) and the New York Rangers (Stockholm, Oct. 8). With the trip home -- where he'll play in front of family, friends, former teammates and many others in the tight-knit Finnish hockey community that helped him reach this point in his professional career -- just days away, Lydman has spent more than a bit of time reminiscing about the road he has travelled to become a full-time player in the best hockey league in the world. Lydman a serious rock & roller There is a lot of pressure on Anaheim's Finnish-born players -- Teemu Selanne, Saku Koivu and Toni Lydman -- to come up with some fun off-day activities for their teammates to enjoy during the Ducks' week-long visit to Helsinki. Koivu told NHL.com that he would make sure his teammates got to experience the Finnish sauna culture during their stay and also suggested a traditional Finnish meal could be on the docket. But Lydman told NHL.com he wanted to do even better than that. He wanted to give the Ducks a taste of the Finnish extreme metal music scene, which is considered the pinnacle of metal music for many aficionados of that particular genre. However, he said he was foiled in his attempt to do so. "I couldn't figure out anything," Lydman said, laughing. "But there is always something to do over there. I was trying to look at the metal shows, but there weren't too many while we are there. There's nothing great. I was going to take them to an extreme metal show and see what they think." Lydman's love of metal music is well known by his teammates. In fact, George Parros was wondering if Lydman's band would entertain the boys during the trip. That's right, Lydman plays his own brand of metal in his free time when he is back home, joining together with some friends to form a band called Mononen, which plays a self-described fusion of metal and death metal with some elements of punk music. "It just started four or five years ago," Lydman said. "A couple of guys had a birthday party and they said wouldn't it be fun to get a band together and play a few songs and write a few songs for that band. We did that and all of sudden I left for the season and they called me and said some bar wanted us to play. All of sudden, they were playing a random show here and there. Usually we get together in the summer and play a few shows. It's kind of fun. It takes your mind of hockey and all that stuff. And Lydman takes it pretty seriously, even writing material during hockey season. "I've written a few songs," he said. "I record them by computer and send them over (to Finland) and they turn them into real songs or something that resembles a song." So, will Mononen put on a surprise show for the Ducks during their time in Helsinki? "I don't think so," Lydman said, laughing. "I don't think it will work out." --Shawn P. Roarke Before their opener against the Sabres, the Ducks will play a preseason game against traditional Finnish power Jokerit. Lydman, coming back from summer shoulder surgery, isn't sure he will be able to play in the regular-season game in his home country. He started practicing with the club during training camp and is on schedule with his rehabilitation, and if things continue on that path, he should be cleared right around the time of the Premiere game in Helsinki. If that clearance comes after the Ducks play Buffalo at Hartwall Arena on Oct. 7, it is something Lydman can live with -- unhappily, perhaps. "I'm hoping to be back for the opener," he told NHL.com in early September. "Everything is going good. I'm on schedule and skating and all that. Hopefully, (playing in Finland) is possible, and that is the goal, but I'm not going to risk it if (the shoulder) is not ready." But whether he is standing on the ice when the Finnish anthem is played before the regular-season game against the Sabres or he is sitting in the press box watching his teammates play in a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, Lydman likely will spend a bit of time marveling at the long, strange journey that delivered him to this night as a returning NHL hero considered to be among the best Finnish-born defenseman of his generation. After all, it wasn't that long ago that Lydman was hoping just to find his way in the top Finnish pro league, SM-liiga. Fifteen years ago, as a 19-year-old, Lydman played in his first SM-liiga game, suiting up for Tampere after a long apprenticeship with the Reipas program in his hometown of Lahti. On that night, and all the nights that followed that season, the reality of playing in Finland's top league, in front of family and friends, was the pinnacle. The NHL was nothing more than a daydream, a pleasant diversion while laboring through practices or working in the weight room. "It was a dream to come and play in the National Hockey League, of course, but I didn't really expect it until the draft," Lydman said. Lydman was taken by Calgary in the fourth round of the 1996 Entry Draft just before he joined the Tampere club -- a fortuitous turn of events that shaped the rest of his hockey career. "When I got drafted, I thought maybe there was a chance if I kept working even harder," Lydman said. After two seasons with Tappara and another two years with HIFK Helsinki -- Jokerit's biggest rival, by the way -- Lydman was deemed ready for the NHL and joined the Flames at the start of the 2000-01 season. Despite the passage of more than a decade, he still remembers like yesterday the night he was told he would be in the lineup for the first time. "I was getting dressed for that first game, I remember thinking, 'At least I get one game,'" Lydman said, chuckling as he recalled the milestone. "You know, things worked out well." That's a bit of an understatement. Things have worked out fantastic for Lydman, who has played more than 700 NHL games for the Flames, the Buffalo Sabres and, for the past two seasons, the Ducks. Last season, Lydman had 25 points and a plus-32 rating, which was a personal best and just one behind the League-best total of Norris Trophy finalist Zdeno Chara of the Boston Bruins. Now he brings those gaudy numbers back to Finland, returning as a mainstay for a Ducks team laden with Finnish stars that will dominate the news cycle in their home country for the first eight days of October. He once again will be near family and friends, and if his shoulder cooperates, could play before those adoring family, friends and fans for the first time since playing eight games with HIFK Helsinki during the 2004-05 season. "Last time, I played in Finland was during the lockout," Lydman said. "It's been a long time since that, too."

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Fuel Cafe helps energize the RiNo neighborhood It's not quite spring, but there's hope: Ramps and morels are on the menu. If the weather wasn't so cold and rainy, the waiter could open the glass garage door that separates our table from the patio. Soon, he says. Beyond the patio and the parking lot, everything's dark — the way it would be in the unlikely event that we were ordering gnocchi at a gas station in Swink or Hugo on the eastern plains. Fuel Cafe, though not exactly a gas station, also has automotive roots. Part of the TAXI complex, it occupies a building where Yellow Cabs were once dispatched to downtown, less than two miles to the south, and points beyond. TAXI is turning into a compound of loft condos and office space for creative types — including Mickey Zeppelin, the developer, and his son, Kyle — as well as a gym or two, a coffee trailer and shops for tradespeople who build the actual things that go along with the ideas. Zeppelin and his architects are adding new TAXI buildings to the old at a speed dictated by the economy. I always loved this part of Denver, and it's about time that humans came here — not just to work, but to live and eat. All the same, I'm glad that these urban pioneers didn't mess with the ambience, happy that Ready Mixed Concrete is unchanged to the east, that the banks of the South Platte just across the street remain undeveloped, weedy and lush. We're on the very border of Globeville, which continues to hold its own as a dependably exotic place. Dinner will be served in a building that was once full of cars. I like cars, and many clues to the space's automotive origins have been left in place. Since I'll be looking around a lot, I hand my notebook to my sister Marina, who has food credibility, having cooked seriously since she was three, married a chef and burned through countless issues of Cook's Illustrated. Also, many years ago, she gave me a gas-station squeegee for my birthday. It meant a lot at the time and still does, I now discover, surrounded as I am by industrial/residential romance. Back in the day, cabs would have lined up not far from this table. I remember a driver who used to recite existential poetry over the radio to his fellow cabbies, most of whom were surprisingly tolerant of Allen Ginsberg. While I poke about the place, Marina writes this in my notebook: Despite the fact that the building is essentially a cinderblock cube, it has a good energy. It feels like a little, inviting secret, but not an "only-in-the-know" place. Though we are in the know, so what do we know? Fuel is undeniably hip, at least in the classic way: hard edges and concrete floors, plain white plates, plain black T-shirts, good-looking people — many quite young — and a menu driven by a personality. To give you an idea of that personality, chef Bob Blair prefers to be called a cook, which is so modestly unhip as to be sort of charming. Fuel is his place and he cooks what he wants: Mediterranean-inspired dinners, from small plates to bigger, meatier entrees. He also cooks where he wants, though when he started Fuel over two years ago, he says, "I was a little nervous. It didn't make sense, at first, to put a restaurant in the middle of nowhere." But the middle of nowhere proved sustainable, not that I'm surprised. Right now, I like the middle of nowhere enough to cook up a daydream in which I live across the parking lot in a 600-square-foot loft, grow spring greens in a community garden and force any itinerant train-hoppers to lend a hand. I appreciate that TAXI attracts creative people, but the real draw, for me, is its un-loftiness. There's no Greenwich Village pressing in; no prefab new-urbanism "Town Center." Everyone who lives here — or eats here — is on the frontier. Not in the Davy Crockett way, but in the way kids go nuts at the prospect of building a fort, even if they only go as far away as under the dining room table. That kind of frontier. If you lived here, your mother might be writing you a plaintive letter: Oh, honey, I always pictured you in that nice home down the block, the one with the walkout basement. With the Anderson replacement windows and all those good schools. My own mother wouldn't have bothered. She knew my mind was warped early on by custody visits with my father, who lived for many years in a Long Island boatyard. A boatyard is not a yacht club. Three generations of Yugoslavian boat-builders worked there, some making beautiful, seemingly hand-carved wooden dories, others swearing at engines and drinking beer. There was no running water, other than what came from a hose on the dock, and nothing traditional to play with. We were always wandering from one giant, dusty shed into another, thinking of all the possibilities. Ever since, I've fantasized about living in airplane hangars, abandoned Piggly Wigglys, freight cars, wine casks — or, hey, what about the Butcher Block Cafe #4? It's four blocks from Fuel, if that. If they'd quit serving eggs and rent me the place, I'd be an excellent tenant. I wouldn't require track lighting, granite countertops, closets or any of that fluff. Hell, I wouldn't even need interior walls. No need to get rid of that grease trap, either, not when it could be reborn as...a wood-fired pizza oven? World's smallest chapel? Sauna-ette? Really, if this isn't an itty-bitty Zeppelin project in the making, what is? Plus, who needs a satellite Whole Foods when you're this close to Do-it-ur-self Plumbing and Heating, with its yard full of orderly clawfoot bathtubs? It's the best place on earth to buy a large pink toilet someone wishes she still had. Mickey Zeppelin appears to be sitting not two tables away, with a group of friends and his partner, Susan Wick, of City Spirit fame. (That legendary LoDo spot lives on in pieces of a mosaic mural at Fuel.) I hear she lives in an old brothel by the railroad tracks. Lucky, lucky, lucky. But enough petty jealousy. It's time to eat. Our first small plate arrives: fried baby artichokes ($9) with harissa aioli. The concept is French, with a little Morocco thrown in; down-to-earth in a continental way. Then comes a pile of the Italian crepes known as crespelle ($10), fused with ricotta and aged provolone, drizzled with herbs and roasted tomato. Unaccountably, both Marina and I think of eating this dish while watching a really good football game on a very big TV, and every time I grab another crispy little artichoke, I think of diner food. At a five-star diner. In spring. When I run this by Blair a few days later, he politely rejects it. "I do world cuisine," he says. "Solid, traditional Mediterranean classics. Not over-thought and over-complicated. Not reinventing, just revisiting. We did this appetizer of radicchio leaves sandwiched around smoked mozzarella and a slice of prosciutto, pan-roasted and fried; the filling oozes out the sides and gets crusty.... Everyone asked me how I thought of it, but it's just a simple family-style restaurant dish in Italy." Point taken, especially by Marina, who recently spent $500 on a twenty-course meal at Moto in Chicago. She and Ryan ate goat-cheese snow — "essentially goat cheese blown through a snow machine," she says — and a dessert consisting of orange peel smoked by a laser and dunked into pinot noir. "The whole thing was spectacular," she recalls, "and we picked every dish apart in awe. But we started feeling chemically weird by course seventeen or so." In short, it was exhausting. Sometimes foodies need a break from dissecting every gourmet meal, she writes. You get the feeling that Bob is just doing what he likes, making some good food for good friends. Maybe, but my friends have yet to serve me anything as inventive as Blair's gnocchi with ramps ($14). Native Americans depended on ramps to cure such wintertime vitamin-deficiency ailments as scurvy. I can feel these particular ones entering my bloodstream and turning me carnivorous. I attack a New York strip ($26) served with bourbon-ramp butter, pecan potatoes and arugula. The steak is a perfect medium rare, though our server never asked if that's how we wanted it, and while I usually think a good steak is best left alone, the morel-booze flavors change my mind this time. The main thing, though, is the side — the pecan potatoes. The potato stuff, Marina scribbles, that's where the genius is. Every other bite is a little different — a little toast, a little peppery green, some warm, buttery love. Like wearing fuzzy-footed PJs. Hmmm. Dr. Denton's. It could get to that point. After I lived here for a while, no one would care what I wore to Fuel. I'd be a regular. If I didn't live here, I could live in an antique office suite in the old Livestock Exchange Building only half a mile away. And what was that big pink warehouse by the railroad tracks? Decades ago, for about a month, it was an unofficial nightclub known as the Stockyards; I played under-the-table gigs there with an under-the-radar band. Whatever the actual logistics, my barely-suitable-for-human-habitation-building fantasy always involves regular meals at a restaurant designed by me — a dreamy combination of bar, oyster shack, taco trailer, Morton's of Chicago and WaterCourse Foods. In the boatyard, my dad bought lobsters off the boat, boiled them in a stainless steel pail and served them with no sides at all, unless you count vodka, and I was too young for that. The boatyard also introduced me to stacks of ripe tomatoes with basil and the cheese known to Long Island eye-talians as "mozz." Simple, indigenous cuisine. Blair stops by to ask about dinner, but also to bus the table. "I'm a cook, I'm a dishwasher, I'm a server," he shrugs. "Whatever has to be done." Unpretentious, Marina writes. Unapologetic is another good word. Dessert is a tarte tatin ($7) made not with apples, but with rhubarb — a tweak almost as original as the goat cheese ice cream, which is velvety, not too sweet and kind of inspiring. I'm thinking there's a lot of open land around here. TAXI could run its own herd of goats. Fuel could make its own line of goat-derived products. I could use the goat-derived manure in a massive compost operation designed by some of the creative people I keep hearing about. It's probably a ridiculous idea, but when I live here, they'll have to humor me. The thing is, I'll bet they know how to do that, too. Get the Dining Newsletter The week's top local food news and events, plus interviews with chefs and restaurant owners, dining tips, and a peek at our print review.

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Postulate a big tread to the lateral, with your justness pes out and knee inclined, your port add cropped, hand leg even. Save the bunk embody uncurved and ironlike, shoulders degage. Dpress your breath. Repetition to a still occupation, change sides and ingeminate. Monday, 4 June 2012 What if I were to say you that righteous six months from now your IQ could be 25 proportionality higher than what it is today? And what if I told you that all you required to do was action a apiculate daily utilise that would achieve it befall? In fact, there is brawny evidence that by doing this one easy recitation, you can dramatically amount your IQ -- and flatbottom form yourself a einstein! So what is this someone, wanton and terrific trailing all your thoughts on publisher. 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Hawking is a shriveled up lump of a frail beingness homebound to an electronic wheelchair. He cannot speak, create, or equal run writer than rightful a trifle. But 32 eld after getting his disease, Physicist is thoughtful among the world's preeminent thinkers. He remarried a few life ago after a separate, and shows no signs of speed strike with his contributions to astrophysics and quantum relativity theory. Though unable to physically sustenance a leger, Hawking has usedputers and otherwise mechanical aides to constantly disc not only new ideas and scientific theories, but his own privileged reflections. � When he was a preteen man, Albert Physicist took a fauna mate sailing for a assort. The see didn't go really well. The adolescent white was frustrated because Einstein scarcely said a morpheme to her -- but instead spent the whole day scribbling in a miniature ledger he carried with him. Now here's solon secure word: to get all of the IQ structure effects of regular journaling, you don't flatbottomed do to create plume anything that is adhesive! This fact is demonstrated in the the leger of one of the great minds of the 19th Century, Arts inventor Apostle Chemist, a man more admired by Physicist himself. Chemist filled thousands of notebooks with seeming utter meaninglessness. Umpteen jazz deliberate the journals of Physicist hoping to gestate the key to his ringing obey. All bang been frustrated. In Win Winger and Richard Poe's aggregation, The Physicist Cipher, one investigator wrote: "(Physicist's) Diaries bonk the ufortable pattern of ideas jotted pile, repeated and otten � a morass or articulated and unarticulated principles, concepts, observations and energetic facts." In fact, the mortal method to build your IQ seems to be carrying a writing with you throughout the day andposition downward any haphazard thoughts as they be to you. 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Following trend to lure women golfers, Pinehurst adds golf/spa package PINEHURST - Women looking for some luxury along with their golf have more choices than ever - more resorts are offering golf/spa packages to help entice women, either solo or with their families. For example, the Pinehurst resort in North Carolina , which opened a $12 million spa in March, 2002, believes the spa/golf experience will attract more women to golf. "This is the first year we've done combination packages, golf and spa," said Janeen Driscoll, of The Spa at Pinehurst. "We've had really favorable results." The resort doesn't have specific figures, but said women seem to be responding. "When we opened, the male-to-female ratio was different than it is now," she said. "We've had a five percent increase in the female market after opening the spa for a resort that focuses on golf." The Spa at Pinehurst, located in the sandhills of North Carolina, has its roots in the 19th century, when the resort was primarily thought of as a "healing retreat." "When people think about Pinehurst, they think 'golf,' and with good reason," said Pinehurst President Patrick A. Corso. "But, before golf took center stage at Pinehurst, our resort was founded as a healing sanctuary, and in many ways this spa represents and honors that vision." The spa offers 28 private treatment rooms for massage, facials and body treatments, a three-lane lap pool, a full-service salon and image center for hair, scalp and nail treatments, a 1,300 square-foot fitness center and men' s and women's locker rooms with whirlpool, steam and sauna. The spa also offers body and skin care therapies, hydrotherapies as well as exercise and golf conditioning. It's those last two that keep visitors, particularly women, coming back to the spa. "The women in the golf school practice in the mornings and in the afternoons, go out for on-course practice," Driscoll said. "People are sore after that day. We're finding a lot of women - and men - are going into the spa just to relieve muscle tension. It's very topical right now, we're definitely seeing an increase in it. Men and women are foregoing 36 holes of golf in one day for 18 holes and a spa treatment." The golf/spa vacations seem to be particularly attractive to "early baby boomers." "They're very active," Driscoll said. "They're looking to fill their schedules with all they can. The spa component for them is no longer just something the women do while the men go play golf. It's something couples are doing together." The resort is part of the Pinehurst Company group of resorts, a division of Dallas-based ClubCorp. Women looking for pampering along with golf can find a wide range of options. For example: Spa Finder www.spafinder.com has a section on its web site dedicated to resort spas that cater to golfers, - such as the Chateau Elan in Braselton, Ga., Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club in Lennox, Mass., and The Breakers, in Palm Beach, Fla. Willow Stream offers a spa program for golfers that includes treatments specifically geared to women golfers, including facial and body drenching massages. Landsdowne Resorts have "his and hers" package that includes a round of golf and a spa treatment each day. "We have found that many couples will book for two nights - play golf together one day and get massages together the next," said resort spokesman Josh Herman. The La Quinta Resort & Club, with five golf courses, offers four golf/spa packages. For those women just starting golf who might feel intimidated by the men, Golf Digest Schools has an easy answer. Instructor Dave Maga instructs women to get a glass of iced tea and a lawn chair, and watch the men tee off the first tee of any golf course for an hour. "He guarantees they will feel more competent and confident than they may have been before," said Golf Digest School's Jennifer Munro. "And, of course, more open to learning and enjoying the game." December 4, 2004

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Holiday Inn Express & Suites Chicago O'Hare Airport Grand Opening in March 2009, the newly built Holiday Inn Express & Suites will feature 135 rooms, including 25 suites perfect for business or leisure travel. Hotel has indoor swimming pool and Jacuzzi tub. Best Western Chicago Hillside The Best Western Chicago-Hillside is the perfect "Chicago Alternative" located in the Chicago, Hillside and Oakbrook area. We are the ideal location for the leisure or business traveler offering 238 guest rooms, 14,000 sq. ft. of newly renovated meeting and banquet space, perfect for weddings, small tradeshows and business meetings. Free high speed internet, 24 hour food service, on site restaurant and lounge, fitness center, heated outdoor pool, business services, and much, much more. Our major expressways and short proximity to downtown Chicago are all key aspects which contribute to the success of our property. 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Weekly rates, easy access to I-55, outside entrances for all rooms, quiet atmosphere. Fairfield Inn & Suites Joliet North/Plainfield Fairfield Inn & Suites Joliet North/Plainfield is located just off I-55. This Marriott hotel is conveniently located off I-55 & Rt. 30. We offer exceptional friendly and quality customer service! Group and extended stay rates available. Super 8 - Joliet South Continental breakfast, Rialto Theatre, casinos ½ mi. away, queen beds, cable, and in-room coffee makers. Best Budget Inn A great locationin Joliet with Indoor pool and whirlpool. Comfort Inn North - Joliet Indoor pool and hot tub. Fax, copier, business classroom, 24 hour coffee. Comfort Inn South - Joliet Newly renovated, only moments away from: Empress and Harrah's Casinos, Route 66, Chicagoland Speedway and shopping. Free The Wall Street Journal and 24-hour coffee and tea in the lobby. Be sure to relax in the indoor heated pool and spa. Enjoy our free hot breakfast featuring eggs, meat, yogurt and fresh fruit, cereal and more, including your choice of hot waffle flavors! Business travelers will appreciate conveniences like free wireless Internet access, and copy and fax services. Holiday Inn Convention Center This AAA Diamond hotel is only minutes to nearby shopping Chicagoland Speedway and Route 66 Raceway. Tweeter center, 40 minutes from Midway and 45 minutes O'hare International. Ramada Limited South - Joliet Close to Hollywood & Harrah's Casino's, Rialto Theatre, First Midwest Bank Amphitheater and Route 66 Raceway. Ask about special rates. Best Western Joliet Inn & Suites Green Eco-friendly practices, complimentary hot breakfast, new indoor heated swimming pool area, spa, large atrium with a sundeck, retractable roof, a meeting room for up to 40 people, spacious rooms with microwaves, refrigerators and free high speed wireless internet access. Holiday Inn Express Joliet Enjoy free HBO, CNN, ESPN, hot continental breakfast, free WiFi, fax and copy services and guest laundry. Located just off the I-55 and Rt. 30. Marriott Townplace Suites Joliet All suite hotel featuring our "Morning Break" breakfast, "In a Pinch" market, and complimentary high speed wireless internet. Our Suites are 30% larger than a standard hotel room and feature fully equipped kitchens. Red Roof Inn - Joliet Newly renovated rooms, contemporary furniture, new bathrooms with granite counter tops, a comfortable easy chair, in-room safes, and more. Free WiFi. Free coffeehouse-style coffee and tea. Pets stay free. Located near I-80 and Larkin Avenue & close to shopping & restaurants. Lincoln Motel - Jonesboro 20-room roadside motel. Hilton Garden Inn Kankakee Hilton Garden Inn Kankakee is only minutes away from Kankakee River Road Park, Splash Valley Water Park, and Ice Valley Centre Ice Arena. There are also several golf courses as well as our beautiful Kankakee River State Park within only 10 miles of our facility. Our features at the Hilton Garden Inn Kankakee, Illinois include our full breakfast, dinner and evening room service in the Great American Grill. Also enjoy our complimentary workout facility and indoor heated pool and Jacuzzi. Conveniently located off Hwy. 34/78 in Kewanee with 24-hr. front desk assistance. Guests of the Quality Inn hotel are invited to relax in the sauna or grab a refreshing workout in the exercise room. Other amenities include: free wireless high-speed Internet access, free hot breakfast and free newspaper M-F. All spacious guest rooms offer cable television, a coffee maker, desk, hair dryer, alarm clock, iron and ironing board. Some rooms feature a refrigerator, microwave, whirlpool and sofa sleeper. Quality Inn is a pet-friendly hotel with four-legged friends allowed to stay for a fee. Kewanee Motor Lodge 29 rooms conveniently located in downtown Kewanee offering affordable and comfortable accommodations. All rooms offer a refrigerator and microwave. 6 room hotel, cable television, restaurant within walking distance. Sleep Inn - Lake Bluff Affordable rates and clean, comfortable hotel rooms with every inch designed to be user-friendly and accommodate those features most frequently requested by travelers. The hotel is conveniently located by an array of local restaurants and attractions including the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Six Flags Great America, Gurnee Mills and the Veterans Affairs Naval Hospital. The hotel offers free high speed Internet, a free hot waffle continental breakfast, 5,000 sq ft. of banquet facilities and a 100% Guest Satisfaction Guarantee to ensure all your needs are met. Holiday Inn & Express Hotel & Suites A brand new hotel conveniently located off Hwy. 12 and Route 22. 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Starway Inn - Lansing Furnished with micro-fridge, wireless Internet, Cable TV, three minutes away from shopping malls and movie theaters. Semi-truck parking available. Sleep Inn - Lansing Sensible hotel with standard guest rooms in south suburbs of Chicago. Amenities include fitness center, deluxe continental breakfast & free wireless internet. Multi-purpose meeting space available. Pet friendly hotel. Red Roof Inn - Lansing 25 miles south of the Chicago Loop, Red Roof Chicago/Lansing is located close to the Horseshoe Casino & the River Oaks Mall. This hotel features free Wi-Fi & complimentary local & long distance calls within the Continental U.S. Extended Stay America We offer studio suites at a great price to accomodate your needs. All of our rooms come with a well-equipped kichen, including a full-sized refrigerator. Motel 6 - Lansing Whirlpool suite, no pets, HBO, ESPN, CNN. 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Budget Inn - Lincoln This motel sets away from all the rest, they also accept all major credit cards, and semi truck parking is available. Checks are not accepted. Holiday Inn Express - Lincoln Very nice up-to-date motel, close to everything, semi truck parking lot across the street behind steak'n'shake, all major credit cards are accepted, and checks are also accepted, but only if you have a credit card present Super 8 Motel - Lincoln 43 rooms, sits back-to-back with Comfort Inn, semi parking available, all major credit cards accepted, no checks please. Free cable/HBO, and free local and 1-800 calls. 64 bedroom newly opened hotel Best Western Plus Lincoln Inn This Inn features 58 rooms on two floors. It offers complimentary parking, a bar, air conditioning, and cable television. Pets are allowed. It is also home to the World's Largest Railsplitter Covered Wagon. Homewood Suites by Hilton Lincolnshire All of the beautifully designed 1 & 2 bedroom suites offer a wide range of amenities for the comfort of both short and extended stays. Take advantage of great facilities such as separate living and sleeping areas, a fully-equipped kitchen, with full-size refrigerator, microwave and coffee maker and TV's with on-demand movies. Enjoy a complimentary hot breakfast seven days a week and an evening Manager's Reception Monday through Thursday. Some of the fantastic amenities include an indoor swimming pool, fitness center and room service. For the business traveler there is a business center, meeting rooms and a complimentary printing service. Close to Arlington Park, Chicago Botanic Gardens, Historic Long Grove Village and Six Flags Great America. DuPage County, Chicago’s Western Suburbs - 316 suite-sized guestrooms, perfect for leisure or business travel. 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Guests enjoy complimentary HomeTouch Breakfast and a weekday managers reception in our Gatehouse. Westin Lombard Yorktown Center DuPage County, Chicago’s Western Suburbs - The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center will boast 500 luxurious state of the art guest rooms featuring the Westin Heavenly Bed & Bath. Visit Westin Workout powered by Reebok to jumpstart your day or unwind at Harry Caray's Holy Mackerel! American Fish House. Comfort Suites Lombard DuPage County, Chicago’s Western Suburbs - The 66-room hotel features spacious king and double queen suites with separate sleeping and sitting areas. Features microfridge, coffeemaker, hair dryer and iron/ironing board. Complimentary breakfast buffet. Fitness room and indoor heated pool. Extended Stay Deluxe Lombard DuPage County, Chicago’s Western Suburbs - Welcome to Extended Stay Deluxe Lombard. Our hotel is designed especially for longer stays with large studios featuring fully-equipped kitchens and plenty of work space - amenities you won't find in a typical hotel room. Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Chicago - Lombard DuPage County, Chicago’s Western Suburbs - Spacious rooms & suites, complimentary deluxe continental breakfast, high speed wireless internet, coffeemakers, hair dryers, ironing boards, swimming pool, hot tub,exercise room, and more. Adjacent meeting space is available. Hyatt Place Hotel Chicago - Lombard/Oak Brook DuPage County, Chicago’s Western Suburbs - Intimate coffee/wine cafe, freshly prepared menu items available 24hrs, high definition plasma flat screen TVs with plug & play technology, Hyatt Grand beds, heated indoor pool & fitness room. Close to many restaurants, shopping, and major hwys. TownePlace Suites by Marriott Lombard DuPage County, Chicago’s Western Suburbs - 125-room new, moderately priced all suite hotel by Marriott designed for travelers who will be away from home for a week or months at a time. Quality Inn & Suites of Loves Park Quality Inn & Suites of Loves Park is the perfect place to find comfortable and relaxing accommodations for the business traveler. It offers free deluxe continental breakfast, unlimited in-room high-speed Internet access, a unique business office to accommodate all of your needs, complimentary USA Today, indoor pool and fitness center to relax your mind, and many other services included in a great price. Discounted Magic Waters tickets available. Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites - Loves Park Located just off I-90. As with all Holiday Inn Express hotels, our ample complimentary "Hot" Breakfast Bar and Simply Smart baths are the leaders in the industry. Complimentary WiFi and hard wired internet are included. Offers 119 beautiful rooms equipped with a mini refrigerator and microwave. A Business Center and meeting rooms are available. We also have a heated swimming pool and whirlpool with outside patio and grills, a cardiovascular fitness center. We are a pet friendly hotel.

Hotel Berlin, Berlin is a 4-star superior-hotel and is located at the very heart of the capital. Thanks to its central location our hotel is an ideal starting point from which to explore Berlin. It offers you 701 differently designed rooms and suites in 6 categories. Because we wish our guests to feel particularly at home during their stay with us, we attach great importance to individual service and personal ambience. Hotel Berlin, Berlin has a sophisticated restaurant and a summer garden. A modern sauna and fitness area is also available to our guests at all times. As a modern conference and seminar hotel, Hotel Berlin, Berlin offers excellent conditions for conferences and events of all types and sizes: whether a small meeting, major conference, workshop, training session, seminar, congress or official ceremony – the event, conference and meeting rooms of our certified Conference & Event Area open up unlimited possibilities to you. More than 3,000 m² of space are available to you for your events in Hotel Berlin, Berlin – with 48 event rooms of 20 to 540 m², for events, festivities and parties for up to 500 participants in the largest room.

Book your room at Los Angeles & Spa Double or Twin RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant) Single RoomMax Occupancy: 1 guest Triple Room, 3 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant) 4-star Granada hotel in Genil, near Generalife Located in Genil, this spa hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Basilica de las Angustias, Alhambra, and Plaza Nueva. Granada Cathedral and San Jeronimo Monastery are also within 2 mi (3 km). This hotel features a full-service spa, a restaurant, and an outdoor pool. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a poolside bar, and a spa tub are onsite. All 130 rooms offer free WiFi, balconies, and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Other amenities available to guests include minibars, room service, and down comforters.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! In addition to a full-service spa, Los Angeles & Spa features an outdoor pool and a spa tub. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Granada hotel also offers a children's pool, a sauna, and a rooftop terrace. Onsite parking is available (surcharge). - Rooftop terrace - Luggage storage - Conference space size (meters) - 200 - One meeting room - 24-hour front desk - Total number of rooms - 130 - Breakfast available (surcharge) - Free newspapers in lobby - Dry cleaning/laundry service - Full-service spa - Free WiFi - Tours/ticket assistance - Laundry facilities - Spa treatment room(s) - Multilingual staff - Poolside bar - Safe-deposit box at front desk - Self parking (surcharge) - Spa services on site - Spa tub - Children's pool - Outdoor pool - Television in lobby - Wedding services Available in all rooms: Free WiFi Available in some public areas: Free WiFi Self parking (surcharge) - Dial-up Internet access (surcharge) - Down comforter - Connecting/adjoining rooms available - Blackout drapes/curtains - In-room safe (laptop compatible) - Flat-panel TV - Climate control - Free toiletries - Air conditioning - Daily housekeeping - Private bathroom - Hair dryer - In-room massage available - Cable TV service - Cribs/infant beds available - Room service (limited hours) - Free WiFi Where to Eat Breakfast is available for a surcharge each morning. Los Angeles & Spa has a restaurant on site. Room service (during limited hours) is available. Nearby Things to Do An outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply. - Golfing nearby - Downhill skiing nearby - Skydiving nearby - Bicycle rentals on site Narcissus Spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include Thai massages, massages, facials, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and reflexology. - Thai massage - Manicures and pedicures - Body scrubs - Aromatherapy treatments - Body treatments - Facial treatments Check-in time starts at noon Check-out time is noon You need to know Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges. Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed. - Breakfast fee: EUR 8.5 per person (approximately) - Valet parking fee: EUR 16 per day We should mention Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.

Never. Drink. Tequila. Again. I hope everyone enjoyed the long holiday weekend, and quite frankly, that you didn’t make the same mistakes I did. We double dated Saturday night with a couple that apparently brings out my wild side. Now don’t get your panties in a bunch… I didn’t start dancing on the bar and lifting up my shirt (Let’s not forget I breastfed Stella for several months. If I flashed the bar all I would be doing is mortifying the other patrons). What I did do was ingest ungodly amounts of tequila and sake (that’s right, sake – we had drinks at a mexican restaurant, then went for sushi, and then went back to the mexican restaurant to ensure we really killed our Sunday). Okay, so I’m pretty embarrassed to confess this next part of the story. To be quite honest it’s worse than flashing pancake boobs… I slept in my makeup for the first time in probably 15 years! I won’t even attempt to make excuses for my careless actions. I was actually considering telling you that I did it on purpose as field research so I could properly dish out advice. But even I can’t convince myself of such lies. So, to make a long ugly story short — I woke up with my lash extensions sealed together and skin that hasn’t been this pissed off since the Clinton administration. If you’ve experienced my dreadful situation, I’m sure you were tempted to scrub the hell out of your skin the next morning. No bueno. It’s just teasing the bear — your skin is already red and irritated, don’t anger it further! First, apply a deep cleansing oil-based cleanser like Elemis ‘Pro-Collagen’ Cleansing Balm to dry skin and leave it on for at least a minute to allow the cleanser to penetrate and start dissolving skin sludge. Then, slowly add water and massage. Next, use your Clarisonic Cleansing Brush to gently (GENTLY!!!) go over your face and rinse. If you don’t have a Clarisonic, use a super soft face cloth or a moistened cotton pad. Now, assess the damage in the mirror. And by the way, don’t be fooled and think you’re staring back at the worst of the damage. Your skin will air its distain with your alcohol-induced decisions by surprising you with pimples, dry patches, whiteheads and blackheads for the next 24-48 hours. Your strategy is to calm down your skin’s tantrum so no picking, squeezing or over-treating! I digress… After your skin is cleansed, swipe or spray on a hydrating, alcohol-free toner like Indie Lee Co Q10 Toner which has skin-plumping Hyaluronic acid and soothing Aloe Vera. Then, press into your skin a calming serum like Jurlique Calendula Redness Rescue Restorative Treatment Serum and if your skin is dehydrated (which most hungover skin is) then apply a Hyaluronic acid-based serum like Kerstin Florian Correcting Hyaluronic Serum. Since Hyaluronic acid attracts 50 times its weight in water, I spritz mineral water and then follow with a calming moisturizing cream like REN Evercalm Global Protection Day Cream. For the rest of the day I try and do the obvious things to avoid conflict with my skin — stay out of the sun, go makeup-free, avoid hot steamy showers, say no to the hair of the dog, etc. And, if you do brave the sunlight, slather yourself with non-irritating mineral sunblock and don your biggest, most glamour sunglasses. If you do have blemishes that pop up or detect a painful red bump that you fear will morph into an alien-size pimple, instead of drying it out with topicals try zapping out the bacteria with a TANDA Zap Power. I can’t promise your skin will bounce back to its glorious self by Monday. In fact, mine still isn’t speaking to me and punished me this morning by having me wake up to still-dehydrated skin and red angry patches. Fun times. Eventually we’ll make up and everything will go back to normal. In the meantime, maybe I should avoid the tequila and sake and just stick with vodka. Jokes! Disclosure: I was gifted some of these products with no editorial obligation.Posted by janna Tags Anti-Redness, Clarisonic, Dehydrated Skin, Dry Skin, Elemis, Indie Lee, Jurlique, Kerstin Florian, REN, Tanda Before this past weekend, I never would have thought I would rate a ski resort spa like the St. Regis Deer Valley Remede Spa (SRDVRS) in Park City, Utah as one of my top 5 luxury spas of all time. I mean come on, I detest the cold, and I’m certainly no skier (zero coordination). But I must tell you, after this visit, I may have to reconsider this whole ski bunny concept. (Of course my version does not involve any skiing. Semantics.) As soon as I arrived I was told by the bellman to take the funicular (it’s a fancy word for tram) to the top of the mountain. The ride to the top was spectacular, giving me a stunning view of the mountains and Park City. After disembarking the tram, I found myself in the fanciest of ski lodge surroundings. The various lobbies, sitting areas, bars, and restaurants had the typical ski lodge vibe with rustic wood and fireplaces, but all with a modern, classy flair that just screamed, “big shots and celebrities stay here.” I found my way to the dimly lit, spacious spa, checked in with the friendly staff, and made my way to the locker room. Oooh how I love amenities and this spa’s locker room and relaxation lounge are filled with them! Let me start by saying that I loved that the hotel was smart enough to dedicate two floors and 14,000 square feet to this spa wonderland. Nothing irks me more than when a luxury hotel wedges a spa into a tiny space (I hate mentioning names, but the ZaZa in Dallas and Four Seasons in Chicago are two offenders that left a scar). The locker room area includes a steam, sauna, jacuzzi, multiple showers, and amenities like skincare and toothbrush/toothpaste kits. The relaxation lounge boasts a big fireplace and… <<wait for it, wait for it>>> handmade truffles and candies. My one complaint — they went for a minimal display with the candies and truffles, spacing out 10 on a huge platter. I felt like such an oinker taking more than one (they were tiny, so I obviously did!), but I noticed an attendant quickly replenished after my binge. After popping a few (perhaps more than a few) delicious truffles in my mouth and enjoying a warm chamomile tea (I didn’t recognize the brand, but the bags were made of silk and the teas were lovely and fragrant), my esthetician Christianna Brown, picked me up and took me to our treatment room, down a spiral staircase past a reflecting pool that extends to a heated outdoor terrace. Since I was in sky-high (7,000 – 9,000 feet) altitude, I opted for the 90-minute Deer Valley Regenerating Facial, featuring my favorite oxygen line in the world, IntraCeuticals. I love a good oxygen facial, but most facials use a standard machine that just give you a spray, whereas IntraCeuticals facials use pressurized oxygen infused with targeted serums to plump and give you a ridiculous glow. (See left pic of me with my adorable friend Molly after my facial. I’m the brunette.) Here is a summary of the treatment: – Paraffin on hands and feet – Cleansed and analyzed (I instructed no extractions since I was going out that night) my skin – Gentle exfoliation with Skin Resonance Peeling by Comfort Zone – Mask application: Herbal Lavender Mask by Elemis – Oxygen machine with Atoxelene infusion (described by Christianna as No-tox Botox) – Oxygen machine with Rejuvenation serum infusion – Application of Intraceuticals Hydration Gel and Eye Contour Gel – The service ended with an oxygen inhalation, while Christianna massaged lotion into my hands and feet I’m telling you, if this was a 2 hour treatment, the Mauna Lani “Fire and Ice” would have serious competition. For now, the SRDVRS‘s 90 minute Rejuvenation Facial easily takes the #2 spot as my favorite spa service in the universe. My only regret? Not dragging my husband to experience the ultra-deluxe couples suites, which include fireplaces, soaking tubs, and heated al fresco patios. There’s always next year…Posted by janna Tags Elemis, Facials, Intraceuticals, Luxury Facial, Spa Slut, St. Regis Deer Valley Remede Spa

All-Inclusive! Includes room, meals, drinks and activities. 15 minutes from airport, 10 minutes to town Voted "World's Most Romantic Resort" 12 years in a row, Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa beckons with two extraordinary vacations in one on Antigua's best and most famous beach, Dickenson Bay. Cooling trade winds soothe the soul as you immerse yourself in a seaside garden oasis graced by majestic palms at the authentic Caribbean Grove. Savor the sophistication of a fine European Hotel in the all-suite Mediterranean Village. Awaken your most sensual side in an exotic Rondoval with its soaring 20-foot conical roof and spacious circular floor plan; or languish in the luxury of a 1400 square foot Mediterranean villa — both with private plunge pool and your own butler. Unwind in the East Caribbean's largest pool (one of six). Celebrate the high art of food and drink with world-class faire and intimate settings at nine restaurants and eight bars including an English pub. A night out on the resort is really like a night out on the town. Whether you're dining on classic Italian, sumptuous sushi, or a sizzling steak, Aphrodite presides over every meal as you share the most romantic vacation of a lifetime. Two perfect worlds in one grande resort all designed for love. Please note: Guests aged 18 and older are considered adults at this resort. Amenities - Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa 193 Rooms, 6 Freshwater Swimming Pools, 5 Whirlpools, Fitness Center, Aerobics, Steam Rooms, Spa Services* (Saunas, Swedish and Aromatherapy Massage, Reflexology, Hydrotherapy, Herbal Body Wraps, Skin Treatments, Facials, Wax Treatments, Dry Sauna Baths, Eucalyptus Steam Baths, Hot and Cold Plunge Pools), Canoes/Kayaks, Hydro-Bikes, Sail Boats, Scuba Diving, Snorkeling, Water Skiing, Windsurfing, Knee Boarding, Aquatrykes, Hobie Cats, Table Tennis, Billiards, Day/Night Tennis, Horseshoes, Shuffleboards, Croquet, Volleyball, Indoor/Outdoor Chess, Cards, Golf (Nearby)*, Gift Shop*, Tours*, Photographer*, Dry Cleaning*, Video Venture Mail and fax*, Car Rental*, Money Exchange*, Internet Access*, 10 Restaurants, Multiple Bars, 32,000-Square-Foot Shopping Area, Art Gallery. * denotes activities/services available for an additional cost. Amenities and inclusions are subject to change at any time. Room Categories and Descriptions - Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa Room amenities include air conditioning, cable television, telephone, refrigerator, CD/clock radio, coffee/tea maker, iron/ironing board, safety deposit box, and hairdryer. Children Policy: No children permitted, this is an adults-only resort. Minimum age to check in is 18 years old. Caribbean Deluxe - 1 king bed. All rooms are located in one-story cottages in the tropical garden of the Caribbean Grove. These are newly refurbished rooms that feature a separate vanity area. Caribbean Honeymoon Deluxe - 1 king bed. All rooms are located in one-story cottages in the tropical gardens of the Caribbean Village. These are newly refurbished rooms that feature a separate vanity area. Caribbean Premium - 1 king bed. All first-floor garden-view rooms with patios, separate vanity area and more spacious than Deluxe rooms. Closest rooms to main pool. Caribbean Honeymoon Premium - 1 king bed. These rooms are more spacious than the Deluxe rooms and they offer a patio, separate vanity areas and are furnished with four poster mahogany king size beds. These are the closest rooms to the main pool and offer views of the pools & gardens. Located on the first floor of the Hibiscus building. Caribbean Grande Luxe Poolside Room - 1 king bed. Centrally located within the Caribbean Grove, the completely renovated Honeymoon Grande Luxe Room features a four-poster king size bed with a separate seating area and a balcony or patio just steps from a secluded pool and tranquil gardens. Set in Flamboyant and Oleander Blocks. Caribbean Honeymoon Grande Luxe Poolside Walkout Room - 1 king bed. Newly refurbished room with a separate sitting area, mahogany furnishings and a four-poster king size bed. Room offers a large flat screen TV, and a patio that opens to a pool. Bathroom features marble wash basins. Sunset Bluff Honeymoon Luxury Club Level Room - 1 king bed. Large room which sits atop a bluff offering panoramic views of Dickenson Bay, resort gardens and main pool. All rooms are furnished with four-poster mahogany beds, with a patio or balcony. Sunset Bluff Luxury Poolside Walkout Club Level Room - 1 king bed. Large room which sits atop Sunset Bluff, offering views of the resort gardens and pool. All rooms are furnished with a four-poster mahogany king size bed and a patio which opens up to the pool. Caribbean Club Level Veranda Suite - 1 king bed. Large rooms include bedroom with a four poster mahogany bed and sitting area. All rooms with balcony. Mediterranean Club Level Suite - 1 king bed. This suite is furnished with a sofa, a writing desk and a four-poster, king-sized bed. The bathroom has twin washbasins, a whirlpool tub and separate walk-in overhead "rain" shower. The suite is fitted with a large, flat-screen TV, and has a balcony or patio. There are two suites in this category fitted for wheelchair access. Caribbean Walkout Club Level Veranda Suite - 1 king bed. Large rooms featuring a four-poster mahogany king size bed and sitting area. All rooms have a patio and you can walk out to the lush gardens. Mediterranean Walkout Club Level Suite - 1 king bed. This suite is furnished with a sofa, a writing desk and a four- poster, king-sized bed. The bathroom has twin wash basins, a whirlpool tub and a separate walk-in overhead rain shower. The suite is fitted with a large, flat-screen TV and has a patio which opens up to the lush gardens. Mediterranean Honeymoon Oceanview Club Level Suite - 1 king bed. New Mediterranean Village Suite: These suites are located on the 4th and 5th floors of the Cypress Tower building and on the 3rd floor of the Almond building. A large suite, which features a large bathroom with whirlpool tub, separate shower and two wash basins, a four-poster bed, a sitting area with a desk, and an inviting sofa facing a large flat screen TV. Mediterranean Oceanview Grande Luxe Club Level Suite - 1 king bed. Experience the ultimate indulgence as you lay claim to this palatial, extraordinarily spacious, 625-square-foot suite, featuring custom-made mahogany furnishings; an unbelievably plush king-size, four poster bed with Egyptian cotton bedding; and dazzling marble mosaic bathrooms with his and her vanities, a whirlpool tub and a separate walk-in shower. Lounge in your expansive living room and watch your favorite shows on your flat screen TV. Enjoy a chilled glass of champagne from your large, in-room bar. Or sit on your balcony or patio and gaze out at breathtaking views of lush, green grounds, powdery white-sand beach and the sparkling, aquamarine Caribbean Sea. Caribbean Beachfront Grande Luxe Club Level Room - 1 king bed. Two-story Frangipani Block facing ocean and beach. All rooms feature mahogany furniture, with patio or balcony overlooking intimate pool area. Caribbean Honeymoon Beachfront Grande Luxe Club Level Room - 1 king bed. Newly refurbished room with pickled and mahogany furnishings and a four-poster king size bed with a large flat screen TV. Bathroom features marble vanity, and hand held luxury shower head. Caribbean Beachfront Grande Luxe Walkout Club Level Room - 1 king bed. Newly refurbished room with elegant pickled and mahogany furnishings and a four-poster king size bed with a large flat screen TV. Bathroom features marble vanity, and hand held luxury shower head. Rooms are located on the first floor of the Frangipani Block and you can walkout to the pool and beach. Caribbean Honeymoon Beachfront Grande Luxe Walkout Club Level Room - 1 king bed. Newly refurbished room with elegant pickled and mahogany furnishings and a four poster king size bed with large flat screen TV. Bathroom features marble vanity, and hand held luxury shower head. Caribbean Honeymoon Seaside Butler Suite - 1 king bed. Expansive rooms with bedroom and living area incorporated in one area. Located in the 1st and 2nd floors of the Poinsettia Blocks. All rooms have balcony or patio. Rooms are furnished with mahogany four-poster beds. 24-hour room service. Caribbean Honeymoon Beachfront Butler Suite - 1 king bed. Expansive suite with bedroom and living area. All suites have a balcony or a patio. Suite is furnished with mahogany four poster king size bed. Newly refurbished bathroom features two marble wash basins, whirlpool tub and overhead "rain" shower. Suite has a large flat screen plasma TV, 24-hour room service and spectacular ocean view. Mediterranean Honeymoon Romeo and Juliet Oceanview Penthouse One Bedroom Butler Suite - 1 king bed. These suites offer panoramic views of the Mediterranean Village pool and gardens, Dickenson Bay and fabulous sunsets. The living room and bedroom both lead out to an oversized balcony with chaise lounges. The living room is furnished with a sofa, chaise and writing desk. This is complimented with a hidden microwave and wet bar. The bedroom has a King-sized, four poster canopied bed. The bathroom has twin wash basins, a roman whirlpool tub and a separate walk in over head "rain" shower. Both the bedroom and living room are equipped with large flat-screen TVs. 24-hr. room service. Caribbean Beachfront Butler Rondoval - 1 king bed. Unique accommodations in the round. Each cottage has cone-shaped roof and features mahogany furnishings and a relaxing patio, set alongside the beach and in the manicured gardens. Mediterranean Oceanview Penthouse One Bedroom Butler Suite - 1 king bed. These penthouse vistas offer penultimate views of the Mediterranean Village, Dickenson Bay and fabulous sunsets. The living room and bedroom both lead out to an oversized balcony with chaise lounges. The living room is furnished with a sofa, chaise and writing desk. This is complemented with a hidden microwave and wet bar. The bedroom has a king-sized, four poster canopied bed. The bathroom has twin wash basins, a Roman whirlpool tub and a separate walk in over head "rain" shower. Both the bedroom and living room are equipped with large flat-screen TVs. 24-hr. room service. Caribbean Honeymoon Butler Rondoval with Private Pool Sanctuary - 1 king bed. Same unique accommodations as Luxury Beachfront Rondovals, but with view of manicured gardens instead of the ocean. Steps away from the beach, these exotic suites are in individual circular buildings with cone-shaped roofs, featuring patios, private plunge pools, mahogany beds, and 24-hour room service. Mediterranean One Bedroom Butler Villa Suite with Private Pool Sanctuary - 1 king bed. This is a true one storey villa in paradise. Each villa has an expansive private pool deck which leads to the plunge pool & whirlpool. The living room, which is furnished with a sofa, a love seat and a writing desk, looks out onto the pool deck. The bedroom is furnished with a king sized four poster canopied bed. The bathroom has twin wash basins, a roman whirlpool tub and a separate walk in overhead "rain" shower. Both the bedroom and living room are equipped with large flat screen TVs. This villa offers total romantic seclusion. 24-hr. room service. Specific bedding and/or special requests are fulfilled based on availability and cannot always be guaranteed. Dining and Bars - Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa Bayside - Delicate breezes spill in off the sea, past the yellow and cream striped awnings, stirring your white tablecloth and the fronds of the potted areca palms that run the length of this charming rectangular space. Gaze out through white limestone arches to the breathtaking, multi-hued sea as you dine splendidly on International fare for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Resort Casual. Mario's - Scenes of Italy adorn one side of this majestic restaurant, where you can satiate your hunger for breakfast, lunch and dinner beneath a towering v-shaped glass roof that allows streaming light to pass through its unfurled brown and tan draperies, illuminating a spectacular room ringed with two walls of dark-wood French doors. Resort Casual. Eleanor's - Savor splendidly spiced Caribbean cuisine under a festive v-shaped ceiling festooned with dancing, banana-frond paddle fans, all looking out over a sea shimmering beneath the silvery glow of a starlit sky. Resort Evening Attire. Reservations required. Barefoot By The Sea - Bask in impeccable white-glove service and dig your toes into satiny sands, as you feast on sublime seafood and listen to the ocean waves serenading you in this beguiling spot set directly on the beach, with only a wood-shingled Caribbean roof between you and a night sky overflowing with stars and glowing with the light of the moon. Resort Casual. Reservations required. Cricketer's Pub - Cross the Atlantic the instant you enter this authentic English pub, complete with carved walls, rich wooden benches, genuine cricket paraphernalia and a clubby billiards room. Sample some of the best pub grub this side of London as you drink in the warm, hearty ambiance of this British enclave. Resort Casual. Kimonos - Thrill to a dazzling display of virtuoso knife-work and the constant flow of laughter, as your talented chef flips a still-sizzling shrimp onto your plate. Enjoy freshly prepared sushi along with exciting teppanyaki favorites, all within the soothing, Zen-like confines of this handsome, Asian-inspired space set amidst luscious leaves of towering bamboo. Resort Evening Attire. Reservations required. OK Coral - Munch on tex-mex dishes in this octagonal, open-air eatery perched two stories above the beach offering amazing vistas of the shimmering, teal sea spread out before you. Resort Evening Attire. Reservations required. Soy Sushi Bar - Located next to Kimono's serving Sushi specialties from 6:00pm to 9:30pm. Resort Evening Attire. Courtyard Bistro - We know that you can't live on love alone so we will never let you go hungry at Sandals Antigua. If you would prefer a light snack, if you have missed lunch, our Courtyard Bistro is open from 12 Noon - 5:00 pm serving juicy hamburgers, hot dogs, fruits, French fries, sandwiches, salads, etc. Bella Napoli Pizzeria - Bite into crisp-crusted pizzas, expertly prepared in our wood-fired oven and laden with your choice of delectable toppings, under red umbrellas on a terrace overlooking manicured lawns, with our perfectly proportioned reflecting pool glinting in the distance. Resort Casual. Café de Paris - A Parisian-style patisserie, featuring sinful pastries, crepes, coffees and dessert delights- all whipped up by our resident pastry chef- forms the centerpiece of restaurant row, After all, everyone works up a sweet tooth sooner or later. Limited room service available. Multiple bars located throughout the property. Two pool bars, a piano bar and an English 'pub' are among the locations serving unlimited cocktails, lagers and top-shelf liquor. Weddings and Honeymoons - Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa If marriages are made in heaven, then a WeddingMoon at Sandals is like heaven on earth because no other resorts in the world are so completely dedicated to couples in love. A Sandals WeddingMoon is the perfect start to the perfect marriage, because happily ever after begins here. Included in Beautiful Beginnings WeddingMoon Package*: --Magenta Dendrobium Orchid Bouquet --Magenta Dendrobium Orchid Boutonniere --Beautiful Beginnings Table with White Linen and magenta Dendrobium Centerpiece --Beautiful Beginnings White Fondant Cake --Personal pre-travel wedding planner --Personal resort wedding planner and dedicated resort wedding team --Preparation of marriage documents --Musical accompaniment (pre-recorded) --Sparkling wine & cold hors d'oeuvres reception for bride, groom and six guests --Free Personal Wedding Website --Free Wedding and Honeymoon Gift Registry --Wedding gift from Sandals / Beaches Resorts --One (1) 5x7 honeymoon photograph --Honeymoon dinner for bride and groom at a resort specialty restaurant with --white-glove service and complimentary bottle of sparkling wine --Decorated honeymoon room --Mimosa breakfast-in-bed a morning of your choice *Government/Administrative fees apply (extra $270 USD) *A Beautiful Beginning wedding is free with stays of 6 paid nights or more in all room categories. All weddings that do not meet the minimum night stay requirement will be subject to a $750 processing and administration fee, which is inclusive of the minister and government documentation fees listed above. All fees subject to change at any time. ** Reception is for bride, groom, and up to 6 guests Please consult your Vacations To Go travel counselor for more details. Resort Rating Key Exceptional (Premier property with finest services, amenities and exquisite surroundings) Deluxe (Prime location with outstanding service, elegant accommodations and a wide array of amenities) Good (Tastefully furnished accommodations with assortment of amenities and services) Moderate (Comfortable accommodations with limited amenities and services) Fair (Clean, basic, budget property) Very limited appeal Mon-Fri 7am to 11pm, Sat 8am to 9pm, Sun 9am to 10pm, U.S. Central Time

Book your room at Grand Mercure Oriental Ginza Shenzhen Superior Twin Room, 2 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child) Superior Room, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child) Deluxe Room, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child) Deluxe RoomMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 2 children) Executive Twin Room, 2 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child) Executive Room, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child) Suite, 1 King Bed, Bay ViewMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 child) 4-star Shenzhen hotel in Futian with 7 restaurants Located in Futian, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Shenzhen International Garden and Flower Expo Park, Splendid China Folk Village, and Window of the World. Donghai Cultural Square and Mangrove Seashore Ecological Park are also within 2 mi (3 km). Along with 7 restaurants, this hotel has an indoor pool and a fitness center. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a coffee shop/café, a sauna, and massage/treatment rooms. All 481 rooms feature thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers, along with free wired Internet and 24-hour room service. Guests will also find satellite TV, minibars, and separate bathtubs and showers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! In addition to an indoor pool, Grand Mercure Oriental Ginza Shenzhen provides a sauna and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 7 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. This 4-star property offers access to a business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This business-friendly hotel also offers spa services, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Grand Mercure Oriental Ginza Shenzhen has designated areas for smoking. - Indoor pool - Spa treatment room(s) - Fitness facilities - Airport transportation (surcharge) - Business center - Express check-out - Multilingual staff - Safe-deposit box at front desk - Express check-in - 24-hour front desk - Total number of rooms - 481 - Number of floors - 25 - Dry cleaning/laundry service - Babysitting or childcare - Breakfast available (surcharge) - Concierge services - Hair salon - Free WiFi - Barbecue grill(s) - Shopping on site - Designated smoking areas - Tours/ticket assistance - One meeting room - Parking (limited spaces) - Luggage storage - Number of restaurants - 7 - Number of buildings/towers - 1 - Coffee shop or café - Gift shops or newsstand - Limo or Town Car service available - Spa services on site - Wedding services Family Friendly Amenities - Indoor pool - Free Wi-Fi - Babysitting or childcare Available in all rooms: Free wired high-speed Internet Available in some public areas: Free WiFi Parking (limited spaces) - Free newspaper - Climate control - Blackout drapes/curtains - Free bottled water - Coffee/tea maker - Turndown service - Private bathroom - Hair dryer - Separate bathtub and shower - Satellite TV service - In-room safe - Iron/ironing board (on request) - Free wired high-speed Internet - Air conditioning - In-room massage available - Room service (24 hours) Where to Eat Coffee Shop - This coffee shop serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Chinese Restaurant - This restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Kenzo Teppanyaki - This restaurant specializes in sushi and serves lunch and dinner. Garden BBQ - This diner serves dinner only. Sports Bar - Onsite pub. 24-hour room service is available. Nearby Things to Do Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center. - Number of treatment rooms 5 - Accessibility equipment for the deaf - Accessible path of travel - Braille or raised signage - Roll-in shower - In-room accessibility - Accessible bathroom Check-in time starts at 2 PM Check-out time is noon You need to know Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. - Breakfast fee: CNY 113 per person (approximately) - Airport shuttle fee: CNY 350 per vehicle (one way) - Rollaway bed fee: CNY 210 per night

- Auf der Karte anzeigen The Talbot Carlow is a four-star, luxury hotel that welcomes families. It is situated near Carlow Town and features conference, wedding and leisure facilities. The Talbot Carlow is one of Ireland’s top family-friendly accommodations. The four-star property, which is situated just outside Carlow Town, is within easy access of Kilkenny, Kildare, Wexford, Waterford and Wicklow, making it an ideal base for exploring the Southeast. The hotel, a member of the prestigious Talbot Hotel Group, offers 82 standard guest rooms that include flat-screen TV, Wi-Fi access, iron, ironing board, hospitality tray, hairdryer, direct dial telephone and luxury toiletries. There are also two spectacular suites that provide added comfort and wonderful views of the rolling countryside. Another place to take in panoramic vistas is the hotel’s Liberty Tree Restaurant, situated on the fourth floor. It is the perfect spot for indulging in fine wines and an exquisite array of cuisine. Alternatively, guests can visit Corries Bar and Bistro, a popular eatery that features a spacious design with fresh food available throughout the day. At the weekend, live music adds to the ambiance. In addition to great food and drink, the Talbot provides fine health and leisure facilities at its Inspirit Club, winner of the White Flag award. The centre boasts a 20 metre swimming pool, children’s pool, state-of-the-art gymnasium, sauna, steam room and fitness studio with a range of classes. For the ultimate in relaxation, hotel guests can pamper themselves at the Pure Beauty Spa, which offers facials and massages in addition to beauty and hairstyling services. For those planning a special event in Carlow, there’s no better choice than the Talbot. The hotel offers a diverse selection of conference rooms and a banqueting suite as well as the attention of a professional and dedicated staff that help makes every event a success. Carlow is a picturesque region with mountains, countryside and river valleys. For avid walkers, it offers three of Ireland’s key routes: The South Leinster, The Barrow and Wicklow ways. It is also home to a number of fantastic golf courses, gardens and heritage sites.

Sometimes I wonder at the leap of faith it must have taken for that first person to discover that while wine left too long became unpalatable, if left even longer, would become palatable again as vinegar. Or that flour and water, when mixed together then left alone, would take on a life of its own amidst a bubble of bacterial activity. And who was brave enough, discerning enough, or hungry enough to discover that the gooey, sour mess is actually a delight when combined with flour, salt and water, and then baked into bread? The sourdough starter I’ve used for the past decade or so was given to me by a guest who also happened to be a chef. He claimed that his starter was over 100 years old and had traveled west with the early settlers, then returned back east via his grandmother. With its rich smell and mellow flavor, I have every reason to believe him. Because it’s so precious to me, I’ve frozen a couple of batches just in case something goes terribly awry and I lose my working starter. It’s more an insurance policy than a likelihood; what’s more likely is that my well-fed starter will take over the schooner galley in its zeal to consume starch. My journey of discovery into bread-making, and sourdough bread-making in particular, was a combination of science, art and good timing. I received the gift of the sourdough starter around the same time I was experimenting with no-knead baking. The combination of sourdough starter, my quest for a no-knead bread, the challenges of working in an ultra-small cooking space and my desire for creativity all merged. The result? Not so much a recipe as a template for bread-baking that produces loaf after loaf of creative, delicious breads. Instead of using sourdough as a leavening, I use it primarily for flavor. While it does add to the leavening of my bread, I don’t depend on the sourdough alone; I also use yeast to insure consistency and to shorten the rising and/or resting time. This also allows for a higher moisture content, which makes for a terrific crust and a moist interior. The best part is that I can now incorporate all sorts of leftover grains into my bread with ease and consistency. Brown rice, oatmeal, millet, quinoa and polenta all find a second life in my healthy breads. So this is how it works: 1. In a large bowl, mix together a ratio of: 5 cups flour (or flours) of your choice 1 tablespoon yeast 1 tablespoon salt 2. Add 1 to 2 cups of cooked grain such as brown rice, oatmeal, millet, quinoa or polenta. 3. Then add 1/2 to 1 cup of flavoring ingredients such as olives, dried fruit, roasted red peppers, etc. 4. Also add any herbs or spices – around 2 teaspoons of dried or 1/4 cup freshly chopped herbs. 5. Add 1 cup sourdough starter; begin to mix everything together with your hands. 6. Add water and continue to mix, adding water, until the dough just barely forms a ball and there are no little dry bits hanging out in the bowl. Depending on how moist the cooked grain is, the amount of water can vary from 1/2 cup to 2 cups. 7. Cover the bowl with a layer of plastic wrap; and let the dough rise at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours, until the surface of the dough has risen and is flat, not rounded. For those who have worked with traditional kneaded dough, this will look like a disaster. Just wait, it will be fine. 8. Put the dough in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or overnight. No need to punch it down, in any event, it will look too loose for that. 9. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Place a heavy (empty) pan or skillet in the bottom of the oven (you’ll use this when you put your bread in the oven to create steam). I use a cast iron skillet, filled with rocks I’ve picked from the garden and scrubbed clean, to create a sauna of sorts. It just stays in the oven all the time. The addition of moisture in the oven air helps the bread rise more and then creates a terrific crust. 10. Shape the dough into the loaves of your choice – three baguettes, two batons or one large boule. Do this by turning the dough onto a floured surface, cutting into the number of pieces you need and gently turning the edges under to form the desired shape. Sprinkle a baking sheet with corn meal or rice flour and place the loaf/loaves on the baking sheet. 11. Cover with plastic wrap and let the dough rise again for another 20 to 45 minutes depending on the size and looseness of your loaf/loaves. 12. Slash the tops of the loaf/loaves with a sharp knife, transfer the baking sheet to the oven and immediately pour a cup of warm water into the pan on the bottom of the oven to create the aforementioned steam. Be extra careful with this step and quickly remove your arm from the oven once you’ve poured the water. 13. Bake until the exterior is golden brown and the bottom is firm, from 25 to 40 minutes depending on the size of your loaf/loaves. Dutch Oven Bread Another way to achieve a similar result is to bake your bread in a Dutch oven. This covered pot creates a convective space for moist air, which allows the bread to rise beautifully, and then, once the moisture has dissipated, creates a terrific crust. I use this method at home frequently. However, aboard the Riggin I need to make four loaves at a time – but I don’t have the space for four Dutch ovens, so I choose the traditional oven method described above. To make the Dutch oven bread variation, follow steps 1 through 8, then: 1. Place a covered Dutch oven in the unheated oven. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. 2. Shape the dough into a round boule; place the loaf in a bowl lined with parchment paper. 3. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise again until doubled, another 45 minutes to 1 hour. 4. Slash the tops of the loaf with a sharp knife and transfer the parchment paper and dough to the hot Dutch oven and cover with the hot lid. 5. Bake until the exterior is golden brown and the bottom is firm; about 50 to 70 minutes (no peeking for at least the first half hour). Remove from both the oven and the Dutch oven and let cool before slicing. Variations to the Basic Recipe OATMEAL WHOLE WHEAT BREAD 2 cups cooked oatmeal 2 cups whole wheat flour 4 cups bread flour 2 teaspoons yeast 2 teaspoons sea salt 2 cups sourdough starter 1/2 cup water Follow the directions above. SUN-DRIED TOMATO, ARTICHOKE AND SPINACH BREAD To the basic recipe add: 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes 3/4 cup artichokes, drained and broken into pieces 1 cup lightly packed spinach, de-stemmed, washed and well-drained ROASTED GARLIC AND BLACK OLIVE BREAD 1 cup black olives, pitted and halved 1/2 cup roasted garlic; about 3 heads roasted and peeled Reduce salt to 2 teaspoons Anne Mahle of Rockland is the author of “At Home, At Sea.” She can be reached at [email protected]

Safari Glamping is in Dorset and provides glamping for families and small groups of friends in a 50 acre idyllic woodland orchard. This holiday is about total relaxation, peace, privacy and convenience with the onsite services and activities. …see more Swanage Isle of Purbeck Bestival Studland Beach Corfe Castle Tankfest Steam Railway Farm. Unique glamping tents on our dairy farm, small and exclusive site, great location for day trips to the beach and tourist attractions in the Isle of Purbeck. Tents sleep up to 6 people, fully equipped with en suite facilities (shower), hot water, woodburning stove. …see more Safari tent in totally secluded countryside setting within deep rural Dorsetshire countryside. The tent is designed to provide comfortable camping with the basics including linen and towels supplied with the rental. Visitors on horeback are encouraged. …see more We call it Crafty Camping - luxury adult only 'glamping' in a hand-crafted woodland environment. Stay with us and our cosy bell tents can be your home-from-home in the woods. Piping hot woven willow tree shower and proper loos. Shared sauna yurt & wood fired pizza oven. Live availability & online booking 24/7: www.mallinson.co.uk …see more This is the estimated nightly price based on a weekly stay. Contact the advertiser to confirm the price - it varies depending on when you stay and how long for. This is the estimated nightly price based on a weekly stay. This is the total cost of the stay for the dates and number of guests that you entered. This price is an estimate based on the latest rate information available to us. Contact the advertiser to ask for the exact price, including any additional fees. Prices for this home are unknown, please contact the advertiser to confirm the price.

Individual differences | Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology | Modesty comprises a set of culturally or religiously determined values that relate to the presentation of the self to others. It can include: - Moderation in one's actions or appearance, not wishing to attract undue attention to oneself; - Downplaying one's accomplishments (see humility); - False or Sham modesty, a form of boasting through excessive self-denigration; - Modesty about sexuality and the display of the human body, especially taboos against nudity in many cultures. This concept of modesty is of great importance to many people, and is the topic of the rest of this article. Body modesty is the wish or requirement not to expose too much of the human body; this applies to the bare skin, but also to hair and to the display of undergarments, and especially to the intimate parts; it involves not only covering body parts, but also obscuring their shape. It is accomplished by suitable clothing, special ways of changing clothes (see beach), closing or locking the door when changing or taking a shower, etc.; it varies according to who could see it, with categories such as - spouse, partner, - friend or family of the same sex, - strangers of the same sex, - friends or family including those of the opposite sex, - people of the same social class, - people in general. Modesty can be controversial. An alternative term for modesty used by some critics is body shame or gymnophobia. Excessive modesty is called prudishness. Excessive immodesty is called exhibitionism. Proponents of modesty often see it as respect for their bodies and the feelings of themselves and others, and some people believe it may reduce sexual crimes. (This is based on the widely-held belief that victims of sex crimes are at least partially accountable for the crime, if they were immodestly dressed and thus "baited" the offender). Modesty is conditioned by culture, and also by occasion and who is present; for example, a Finnish person who might happily take all one's clothes off in a mixed sauna would probably not want to walk down the street naked. Similarly, someone who might wear a bikini to the beach would not wear it to a business meeting. Western norms of modesty Western culture in general requires the intimate parts of the body to be covered in public places at all times. Exceptions are made for situations such as public changing rooms, which tend to be single-sex venues, and saunas, which tend to be mixed-sex venues. Traditionally, there is an expectation that shirt and trousers or dress etc. be worn in public places. In particular, it is generally unacceptable to be shirtless in most public spaces, except places designated for bathing or in the vicinity of these places (such as beaches, and on deck near a swimming pool). However, it is common for formal spaces like restaurants, etc., to overlook a beach or pool, in which case the boundary of modesty is spatial, but not visually segregated. For example, at a poolside or beachside outdoor patio restaurant, there is usually a railing. On one side of the railing, barefoot and shirtless people can converse with those dining on the other side, and may even be part of the same group. More recently, multi-use spaces such as urban beaches are beginning to emerge, washing away even the above mentioned boundaries between more and less modest space. Thus it is now, in many places, acceptable to sunbathe in beachwear next to waterplay fountains located in the heart of a city or business district. In private homes, the rules may be more relaxed. For instance, nudity among immediate family members who are cohabitants of the home is sometimes permitted, especially in the bedroom and bathroom; or wearing undergarments casually, which would not be done outdoors. Elsewhere in the home, particularly when visitors are present, some simple casual clothing is expected like a bathrobe which can be quickly donned when full clothing is not required, or if it's unavailable nearby depending on convenience. Wearing less than the Western norm Other cultures, such as some African cultures and traditional Australian aboriginal culture have far less requirement for modesty, though how much exposure is acceptable varies greatly, from nothing for some women, to everything except the glans penis for men of some tribes (see foreskin). In other African cultures, body painting is used for body "coverage" as well and is an "attire" considered by many. Wearing more than the Western norm Many religious and cultural traditions have greater restrictions. Islam, and the Amish culture, for example, require "modest dress" to be worn by both sexes. Many Muslim women wear the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, as a way of expressing modesty. In some Islamic sub-cultures, this is taken to extremes, in particular in some Islamic countries where some women wear the burqa, an all-encompassing garment intended to conceal every part of the body, including the eyes. Wearing a burqa or abaya as it is called is quite common in many Islamic countries. However, not all women cover their eyes. Instead, they wear the 'abaya to cover their bodies. Most Islamic interpretations require a women to cover everything with the exception of hands (from wrist) and face. Orthodox Judaism and Sikhism both require men to wear a head covering, in the form of a yarmulke or turban respectively. However. a yarmulke (also called kipa) is not related to modesty; its function is as a religious physical reminder of God. Orthodox Judaism expects married women to cover their hair; this is achieved by scarves, hats, or — in many communities — wigs ("sheitel"). The Jewish "dress code" is referred to as Tzeniut; this applies to both men and women, and is also seen as a way of drawing attention to the internal while de-emphasizing the physical. Catholics, especially women, must dress modestly, but often this is overlooked for the sake of fashion. Women are to cover their upper arms and shoulders, and the neckline should not reveal anything. If they are to wear trousers (and many traditional Catholic women do not), they should not be tight. In general, they are not to wear clothes that flaunt their bodies and make them sex objects.Our Lady of Fatima said in 1917 that "Certain fashions will be introduced which will offend My Son (Jesus) very much." Men are required to dress modestly as well, but demands are not as strict for them as for women. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also live by a modesty code. Modest versions of nudity In art, ways of reducing the depiction of nudity include: - fig leaves - a piece of cloth (or something else) seemingly by chance covering the genitals - in a movie, filming a supposedly nude person from the waist up (or from the shoulders up, for women) - in a movie, maneuvering (turning, having objects in front) and film editing in such a way that no genitals are seen (Mike Myers consciously mocked this technique several times in his Austin Powers films, and decades before, W.C. Fields had done the same thing in one of his films) |This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).|

Choose your preferred language. We speak English (UK) and 41 other languages. Most often used by people in the United Kingdom Guildford Road, Dorking, RH5 6HS, United Kingdom – Show map |Superior Double Offer NR| |Double Room Offer NR| |Denbies special offer Double room| |Superior Double Room| |Twin Room Offer NR| |Special Offer - Double Room| Hi My name is Sarah Bristow and I am the Reservations Manager here at Wotton House. I have worked here for 2 years and I have seen the hotel develop within that space of time. The hotel is set in 13 acres of gorgeous Parklands with a fully equipped leisure centre and within close proximity of Guildford Wotton House takes special requests! Add in the next step - get instant confirmation when you book. No booking fees • Save money! Best price guarantee — enter dates to see these prices! 4 properties in Dorking Including hotels, apartments, villas and more. 202 verified reviews They speak your language! Wotton House's staff speak: English Booking is safe When you book with us your details are protected by a secure connection. Tennis court, Hiking, Cycling, Sauna, Fitness centre, Hot tub, Indoor pool Food & Drink WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge. Free public parking is possible on site (reservation is not possible). Packed lunches, 24-hour front desk, Express check-in/check-out, Luggage storage, Laundry, Dry cleaning, Ironing service, Shoeshine, Meeting/banquet facilities, Business centre, Fax/photocopying, VIP room facilities Newspapers, Safety deposit box, Non-smoking rooms, Facilities for disabled guests, Lift, Heating, Non-smoking throughout 14:00 - 00:00 hours Until 10:00 hours Cancellation and prepayment policies vary according to room type. Please enter the dates of your stay and check the conditions of your required room. Children and extra beds All children are welcome. All children under 4 years stay free of charge when using existing beds. All older children or adults are charged GBP 15 per person per night for extra beds. The maximum number of extra beds in a room is 1. Any type of extra bed or child's cot/crib is upon request and needs to be confirmed by management. Supplements are not calculated automatically in the total costs and will have to be paid for separately during your stay. Pets are not allowed. Cards accepted at this property Hover over the cards for more info. Based on 202 reviews Value for money Show reviews from: Set in 27 acres of peaceful grounds and woodland, the Hilton Cobham is within easy reach of central London which is just a 30-minute train ride away. Score from 416 reviews Good Set in 16 acres of tranquil Surrey countryside and surrounded by lawns and garden terrace, Hartsfield Manor combines Victorian grandeur with impressive contemporary comforts and facilities. Score from 274 reviews Very good Amid quiet, extensive Surrey parkland, Horsley Park offers guests free access to its leisure facilities, including croquet lawn, football pitch, sauna, gym and indoor swimming pool. Score from 476 reviews Very good Set in the heart of a 400-acre estate, this 19th century mansion hotel includes 2 championship golf courses, tennis and squash courts, a state-of-the-art gym and a luxury health spa with pools. Score from 381 reviews Fabulous 27 April 2015 It was perfect. Beautiful location Lovely old hotel 16 April 2015 No mobile phone network. So we were unable to make use of our phones and the free wifi. 14 April 2015 I ordered a bottle of champagne prior to arrival to celebrate Anniversary and Brian's birthday on 11th April and it didn't arrive even though we mentioned it twice. We love the feel of Wotton House and the beautiful setting. 13 April 2015 The evening meal was not quite up to scratch, my fish and chips were a little burnt and the onion soup was incredibly strong in flavour but watery. The grounds were impressive the staff polite and attentive at all times. They even upgraded us to the bridal suite as it was our anniversary however we quickly discovered that there was an issue with the plumbing so we were unable to stay and had to move rooms a couple more times before we settled for the evening. They did compensate us by waiving the cost of the meal and room service. 12 April 2015 Clean but very boring room.....would have paid more if better 7 April 2015 The room was in a very poor state. Stains on bed, torn wall paper, mark on ceiling and rust around plug in sink. 5 April 2015 Very poor servive during dinner and we didnt have the breakfast we ordered as there was a problem with the oven! Location and look of hotel 31 March 2015 Jiggly faucet, slow drain Comfort, service, felt at home, beautiful surroundings 31 March 2015 The bed had a thick mattress protector which was not quite big enough and as such meant there was a lip on the side of the bed so the nights sleep was not the best but only gripe Overall the staff, ambiance and location were all excellant 30 March 2015 room too hot overnight 20 March 2015 Staff were very friendly and attentive; the spa facilities were great; enjoyed walking the lovely grounds in the snow the next morning! 17 March 2015 We did think our room needed to be upgraded, for the price it wasn't the best value. The bed was very soft and the old tv didn't have all the channels. We stayed for a wedding being held at Wotton House so stayed in the hotel. It was a lovely location and breakfast was a good mix of healthy fruit, breads and full English choices. 12 March 2015 The service at the restaurant was extremely slow (in the end just had starter and gave up on main meal after waiting for one hour and a half!) and the fire alarm went off at 1.50 am! 9 March 2015 Hotel in a great location lovely grounds and hotel had character 2 March 2015 Staff service was slow when we ordered bar food and it arrived at different times so we had to eat separartly. Breakfast was a bit chaotic and disorganised. Grounds, ambience, comfortable good sized rooms 26 February 2015 Very friendly staff , quirky venue! 24 February 2015 I stayed at this hotel four times last year and I was very very disappointed that the issues I had last year have not been resolved. The menu has not changed and the price of food available is far too expensive. The staff make all the difference to this hotel. They are very friendly and very helpful. 18 February 2015 Asked for newspaper in the mornings but they never arrived. Asked for biscuits with morning coffee in lounge area but they never arrived. Waiter showing me and my guest to dinner table referred to us as 'love birds'.....grossly impertinent !!!!!! Chef's 'Triple cooked chips' were uncooked and hard . Steak was good though !! Wandering Bear Merlot from bar marked up by 345%.......disgraceful. WILL NOT BE RETURNING TO THIS PLACE. 3 February 2015 26 January 2015 Most guests were attending a large wedding reception and remainder of venue was relatively deserted. Bed was extremely soft and spongy; offering no support. A magnificent house set in beautiful, extensive grounds surrounded by countryside and convenient to Gatwick. Good, functional bathroom. Spacious and full of character. Helpful and friendly staff. 14 January 2015 The bedrooms are dated and in need of refurbishment. It's not a 4 star hotel by any means General hotel facilities are good, food is excellent 14 January 2015 The receptionist couldn't find the booking. Then he didn't know we'd requested an upgrade for the extra price. The room he gave us was already occupied. The next room he gave us was absolutely tiny and so squashy that it was hard to get to the bed (avoid room 305) . Eventually we got a standard room on the ground floor which was lovely but beware that the wall are very thin!! The hotel is reasonably priced and stunning. The location was convenient for us 13 January 2015 Service not up to it 6 January 2015 The appalling christmas dinner. We booked for christmas eve to boxing day and treating ourselves to a lovely xmas dinner. I booked in advanced by email and my husband rang in advance to check. Only to be told there is no booking for us. we were sat by the fire exit, the food was of a very low quality and we felt we should leave with in one hour. At the beginning of the session we were offered a glass of champagne,only to be told straight away that we were only allowed one each in strong tones. It was embarrasing. Although we were given a discount we were sorely dissappointed as it was Christmas dinner not just a sunday roast. The lovely setting, lovely bedroom good breakfast and pleasant staff. 6 January 2015 The meal was at the back of the bar and was a very limited menu. It was in effect a bar meal. The cooked breakfast was cold. We would return but without food. Room and Sport Facilities and House all excellent We've negotiated with thousands of hotels to get the very best deals. We call them Secret Deals and they only last for a limited time. You can get these deals for free by subscribing to our newsletters. You can even choose your favourite destinations to receive personalised deals. Get started now by entering your email address. We'll instantly send you a link to our Deal Finder! 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After about a month off, I'm bringing back the Japanese scene weekly updates to keep you updated on what is happening in Japan. This week saw a few upcoming cards take some hits due to injuries, but luckily the fighters who replaced them aren't much of a step down at all. Gagny Baradji, who was set to fight Naoki Ishikawa in one of the ISKA Lightweight Tournament semifinals at Krush.29 was forced out of his bout due to an arm injury. Replacing him is Xavier Bastard who pushed Krush 60kg champ Hirotaka Urabe to the limit the last time he was in Japan, but lost on a somewhat controversial cut stoppage in an extension round. He has just as good of a chance to win this tournament as Baradji did, if not even better, and his semifinal with Naoki Ishikawa should be a great fight. The other fighter to be bit by the injury bug was Ayano Oishi, who was set to face Greece's Maria Pantazi at Hoost Cup Kings. Replacing her will be one of her recent opponents, Kimiko Sasaki, who put up a valiant effort, but ultimately lost to Oishi in her last fight. In what looks to be RISE's best card of the year so far, RISE has announced a huge champion vs champion matchup as 63kg champ Sun Hyun Lee faces 65kg champ Yasuomi Soda at 65kg on July 20th at RISE 94. This follows in the footsteps of RISE 93's big matchup between 60kg champ Kosuke Komiyama and Yuki, who Sun Hyun Lee won his 63kg title from earlier this year. Lee, who is the LiverKick #4 Lightweight, lost his last bout, though it was at 70kg to Yoshihiro Sato in GLORY, a man who stands over 6 inches taller than him. Soda won his most recent bout where he took the 65kg title from Koji Yoshimoto in a rematch. Also expected to participate on the card are the aforementioned Komiyama, 55kg champ Dyki, 57.5kg champ Ittao, LiverKick #2 ranked Lightweight Masahiro Yamamoto and Daiki Watabe. NJKF announced a pair of big matchups to join the July 15th card that already features LiverKick #1 Lightweight Masaaki Noiri against NJKF Super Lightweight champ Seiji Takahashi in a fight for the vacant WBC Japan Super Lightweight title. In a fight to determine WBC Japan Welterweight champion Yuya Yamato's next challenger, NJKF Super Welterweight champion Kenta takes on J-Network Welterweight champ Masato Otake. In a fight to determine WBC Japan Lightweight champion Yosuke Mizuochi's next challenger, NJKF Lightweight champ Keijiro Miyakoshi takes on Shota Saenchaigym. Mizuochi won his title from Miyakoshi and Shota recently upset Mizuochi. MA Kick announced a fight for their June 30th card between K-1 veteran Yuji Takeuchi and Kanongsuk Weerasakreck. Both fighters have struggled over the last couple of years, but have been looking more like themselves lately. A win here for either guy will be huge. HEAT has announced a 70kg tournament for HEAT Korea vol.1, their first event in South Korea. In one semifinal MA Kick and WPMF Japan Super Welterweight champion Hiroto looks to continue his run against RISE veteran Cha Un Pyo. In the other semifinal, K-1 veteran Choi Woo Young takes on Ok Ton-ju. Hiroto and Choi would have to be the favorites here, but Cha is a good candidate to score an upset. HEAT also announced a big fight for HEAT 27 on July 28th as 70kg champ Danilo Zanolini puts his title on the line against Yuji Nashiro. Results from this past week after the break. Big Bang 13 took place this past weekend, headlined by a Super Featherweight matchup between rising prospect Yasuyuki and veteran Shunta Ito. For the second time, Ito was unable to stop a surging star and Yasuyuki finished him off with a 5th round TKO in a close fight. Yasuyuki took control of the early rounds as Ito started to mount a comeback in the 3rd and 4th, but Yasuyuki got the better of some back and forth exchanges in the 5th leading to two standing eight counts, the latter of which caused the referee to call the fight. Both men were left bloody and Yasuyuki had a hematoma over his left eye, but he managed to pick up the best win of his career. The co-main event featured Krush 70kg champ Yasuhiro Kido against Iran's Minnai Massoud who he knocked down twice and scored a unanimous decision over on scores of 30-25(x3). At 64kg, MA Kick Super Lightweight champion Mohan Dragon and Toshiki Taniyama fought to a majority draw. On the same day that Big Bang 13 took place, Krush held Krush IGNITION vol.4. In the headliner, Hiroki Nakajima scored a 1st round knockout of NJKF's KEN. At 67kg, Krush GP participant Makihira Keita defeated Taeyeon, although the fight was stopped due to a cut on Taeyeon's right shin. In the Krush 55kg WILDRUSH League, Kazyosi was supposed to take on Masanori Shimada, but Shimada fell in the sauna while cutting weight and was forced to pull out of the fight, giving Kazyosi two points. Instead, Kazyosi fought an exhibition against Shota Takiya, who recently vacated his Krush title. It is unclear whether or not Shimada will return for the rest of the WILDRUSH League. At the end of the 3rd leg, the standings look like this 1. Takumi - 7 pts (3-0-0, 1 KO) 2. Yuya Suzuki - 4 pts (1-1-1, 1 KO) 2. Kazyosi - 4 pts (1-0-2, 0 KO) 4. Yuki Masato - 3 pts (1-1-1, 0 KO) 4. Kazuki Okawa (1-2-0, 1 KO) 6. Masanori Shimada (0-3-0, 0 KO)

My home is my castle: Bosch supplies security solution for luxury apartment project in Vietnam BOSCH SECURITY SYSTEMS | Date: With 750 modern apartments spread over five 28-storey buildings, Vietnam's first luxury residential project, the Vista in Ho Chi Minh City, is the result of investments totalling US$200 million. The developers turned to Bosch Security Systems when it came to ensuring the occupants' safety and the premise's facilities. The latter includes 35,000 square meters of retail space, a 50-meter pool and a modern clubhouse boasting a steam bath, spa and sauna, a gymnasium, putting green and a tennis court. “The project has set high standards in terms of its design, and these are naturally reflected in the security requirements”, says Terence Ng, General Man-ager, Bosch Security Systems Indochina. At The Vista, Bosch surveillance cameras are in operation to detect movement and so protect people and property. An audible alarm warns of intruders entering a restricted area, and the sound is loud enough to be heard over a large distance. In addition, the integrated Public Address system informs the relevant occupants that an unauthorized person may be in the area. The alarm thus serves a two-fold purpose: it announces when a zone is in danger and can further help in capturing the intruder. To facilitate round-the-clock surveillance throughout the complex, Bosch installed 56 vandal-resistant IR Dome cameras, three AutoDome Series day/night PTZ cameras, and 15 of the LTC Series cameras. These are backed by the latest high-resolution, high-performance LCD monitors from the UML range, coupled with seven digital video recorders. Alongside this CCTV system, no fewer than 800 LHM and general-purpose ceiling loudspeakers were integrated to allow for clear emergency messaging and Public Address announcements. Finally, Bosch installed more than 200 of the highly-efficient LBC horn loudspeakers, as these provide excellent speech reproduction and sound distribution for a number of outdoor applications. With this reliable security solution supplied by Bosch, the Vista occupants can relax in their luxuriant surroundings, knowing they are in a completely safe environment. One which other developer are likely to refer to in future.

VRBO is part of the HomeAway family, the world leader in vacation rentals with over 1 million listings. We offer the largest selection of properties for any travel occasion and every budget. We’re committed to helping families and friends find a perfect vacation rental to create unforgettable travel experiences together. Learn More Enjoying close proximity to the Menaggio & Cadenabbia Golf Club and also the famous resort town of Menaggio this beautiful modern villa (ID 875) provides sumptuous contemporary self-catering accommodation for up to 9 guests, with excellent links to Switzerland and the nearby activities and attractions of Lake Como. The townhouse style property is conveniently situated just off from the principal road into Menaggio and offers a private garage behind the exclusive small-scale gated residence. No expense has been spared to this luxury lake view retreat which boasts a high-spec contemporary finish and fantastic facilities throughout! To the first floor entrance level guests are welcomed into a spacious modern open plan living and dining room which is perfect for entertaining and relaxing. The beautiful room is furnished with a fully fitted modernist kitchen with a dining area perfect for preparing tasty family meals and enjoying dinner parties during your stay. A half landing then leads down from the slate tiled kitchen to the lovely lake view living area which is furnished to a high standard with leather L-shaped sofa, a wall mounted flat screen SAT TV, music stereo and complemented with solid wood flooring. Guests can slide the full-length glass doors open and step out onto the beautiful lake view balcony terrace furnished with dining furniture and parasol. Here guests can enjoy dining ‘alfresco’ and a family-size BBQ is also located to the sunny garden below for relaxed lunches. The views from the back of the villa are truly spectacular and feature the surrounding Menaggio hillside and far-reaching views of the breathtaking lake towards Bellagio. The property features flexible accommodation for large groups and families of up to 9 with various bedrooms to suit different guest needs and requirements. The luxury accommodation comprises one spacious Double bedroom boasting a private lake view balcony, a second Tuscan-style Double bedroom situated to the garden level and enjoying direct access to the swimming pool, a third child friendly bedroom with modern bunk bed and pull out single bed with lake view balcony access and, a fourth sleeping option from a comfortable double sofa bed. Two beautifully fitted bathrooms complement the property, the first one being fitted with a Jacuzzi tub and the second one with a Power shower. A washing machine and tumble dryer are provided for guest’s convenience. As well as providing a fabulous place to relax and entertain the property also boasts fantastic private leisure facilities, from its stunning indoor swimming pool with sauna and gym and its beautiful outdoor swimming pool with contemporary decked poolside with sun-loungers, outdoor lounge furniture, a large hammock and a romantic outdoor lake view day bed. Guests can really enjoy their Lake Como stay with the full luxury of hotel-style facilities with the freedom that comes from privately renting, making this property highly desirable and highly enjoyable! Guests can also make use of the private garage and a car is advised for your stay due to the hillside location. Menaggio: Menaggio is a picturesque village nestled in a convenient central position on the lake. It is a historical lake side town with many quaint neighbourhoods which extend north along the lake and up into the green hills and valleys. Menaggio offers stunningly beautiful views of Lake Como and the majestic mountains which surround it overlooked by the Alps to the North. There is a fine selection of restaurants, delis, fresh grocers and of course delicious gelato and pizza! To keep you moving and fit while on vacation: play a round of golf at the infamous Menaggio & cadenabbia Golf Club, mini golf, hiking trails, mountain biking, free climbing, swimming and a new orienteering field all located in stunning locations -these are just a few possibilities offered to you in and around Menaggio. There is a museum dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci at the new “Lido Giardino” and in the Val Senagra Park, a museum featuring the value of antique buildings, artisan and peasant objects and creations. Other culturally rich events including music, fireworks, public markets and local festivals are to be enjoyed. Menaggio’s tourist office, situated in the main square, Piazza Garibaldi, offers a great deal of information detailing what’s going on in and around the lakes, sightseeing, history and sporting activities. The property features flexible accommodation for large groups and families of upto 9 with various bedrooms to suit different guest needs and requirements. The luxury accommodation comprises one spacious Double bedroom boasting a private lake view balcony, a second Tuscan-style Double bedroom situated to the garden level and enjoying direct access to the swimming pool, a third child friendly bedroom with modern bunk bed and pull out single bed with lake view balcony access and, a fourth sleeping option from a comfortable double sofa bed....moreless Two beautifuly fitted bathrooms complement the property and provide one luxury Jacuzzi bathroom and a shower room with power shower. A washing machine and tumble dryer are provided for guest’s convenience....moreless Please Note: The Jacuzzi is inside the property. Additional Features and Facilities Include: Clothes Horse, Interior Jacuzzi/Hot Tub and Suitable for Elderly Please Note: ** The indoor heated pool service cost is 30 euro per day and must be specified clearly as we need at least 3 days to heat the indoor swimming pool. We offer a range of extra facilities, which are available for hire through our office 'Happy Holiday Homes' in Menaggio: Cot Hire - € 20 per week, High Chair - € 15 per week, Push Chair - € 25 per week, Camp Bed – € 85 per week, Wi-Fi or USB Internet Stick - € 35 per week (includes € 10 consumable credit). Please note that signal and connectivity is not guaranteed and may depend on the strength of the signal in your rental property....moreless Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (€) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the manager / advertiser. Additional information about rental rates: Our one & two weekly service charges are inclusive of final cleaning, bed linen, towels, heating, utilities & air-conditioning (if installed in the holiday property). Tea towels & beach towels are not supplied. If your booking is for more than one week, clean linen & towels will be provided on a weekly basis. (Please check Service Charge costs at time of enquiry) 3 night break - 40% off weekly tariff / 4 night break - 30% off weekly tariff / 5 night break - 20% off weekly tariff / 6 night break - 10% off weekly tariff. We offer a range of extra facilities, which are available for hire through our office 'Happy Holiday Homes' in Menaggio: Cot Hire - EU 20 per week, High Chair - EU 15 per week, Push Chair - EU 25 per week, Camp Bed – EU 85 per week, Wi-Fi or USB Internet Stick - EU 35 per week (includes EU 10 consumable credit). Please note that signal and connectivity is not guaranteed and may depend on the strength of the signal in your rental property. ** The indoor heated pool service cost is 30 euro per day and must be specified clearly as we need at least 3 days to heat the indoor swimming pool. Making a Booking: To make a confirmed booking, you will be asked to fill in our online booking form and pay a 30% deposit by wire transfer or credit card. The remaining holiday balance will then be due 6 weeks before arrival. We manage a number of properties. The calendar updates are not shown, due to continuous availability changes. Please enquire for your chosen dates, cancellations and special offers. In riferimento alla delibera della Regione Lombardia n IX/2555 del 24.11.2011 articolo 4d in applicazione dell’art. 9 c.1 e dell’art. 25 c.3 L.R. 24/2006 se dichiara che l’immobile in soggetto non è soggetto all’obbligo di certificazione energetica. Travel with confidence Pay with an approved method (credit card, check, or bank transfer) to protect your payment up to $1,000. Before making a payment always call the owner at the number listed on our website, and never use instant money transfer services such as Western Union and MoneyGram. Adding our Vacation Protection services can make sure your getaway goes smoothly, no matter what. We offer Cancellation Protection, Carefree Rental Guarantee, and Damage Protection so you can truly relax. Protect your payments in case you need to cancel. Guarantee the rental meets your expectations. Ensure you're prepared in case of accidental damage. The main hillside road from Lake Lugano passes by the property and conveniently leads to the centre of beautiful Menaggio in just 5 minutes by car. Local activities include tennis, golf, horse riding, swimming, canoeing, boat hire, sailing, wind surfing, cycling and hiking. Menaggio features a pretty cafe-lined piazza, a variety of great restaurants, a wide range of shops including boutique shops, supermarkets and delicatessens and also fantastic Lido and frequent car and passenger ferry links to the famous resort towns of Bellagio and Varenna. As well as enjoying the beautiful central lake attractions and fabulous dining opportunities guests are also conveniently placed to enjoy the nearby nature reserves and cosmopolitan Swiss capital city on Lake Lugano. During the summer the area boasts fantastic opportunities for many activities including mountain biking, cycling, horse riding, walking, many water sports including kite surfing, fishing, tennis, and of course golf at the historic Mennagio & Cadenabbia Golf Club www.menaggio.it.The Ferries run from Menaggio to both the North and South of Lake Come making it an ideal centre for sightseeing. The lovely lakeside and harbour have many cafes where you can sit and relax while watch the world go by. Outdoor activities abound in this area and are very popular with holiday makers. An18 hole golf course, mountain biking, water skiing and lots of other sports are all here to be enjoyed by you and your family.

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We stayed with Carolyn and Gary (and Brandy the Dog) for three nights in November of 2012. Our room was the "Prince of Wales" suite which was very large and very comfortable (we also peeked into the Queen Anne suite as well...yes, it was unoccupied...and it was equally beautiful). The king sized bed was VERY comfortable and my wife enjoyed the jacuzzi tub. There is also a Finnish dry sauna in this room and while we didn't use it, it would be nice to have that option for those so inclined. This room also has a small veranda which we didn't use (it was about 40 degrees at the time) but would be great for summer and early fall breakfasts which they will gladly deliver to your room if so desired. We prefer to interact with the "locals" at breakfast for advice on where to go, what to see and what to avoid. The breakfasts were great and you won't find nicer hosts that Carolyn and Gary. They were incredibly accommodating and go out of their way to make your visit all about what you want to do. Their recommendations were on the money as far as dining and sightseeing options. We found that in addition to the Falls, which were awesome by the way, we made our way to Niagara on the Lake, about a fifteen to twenty minute (and gorgeous) drive north along the river toward Lake Ontario. We did a little wine tasting and enjoyed Peller perhaps the most. We also had lunch at the Riverbend Inn which was equally beautiful, and their food was great. In the small town of Niagara on the Lake, we had a few pints at the Irish Harp Pub. The consistent theme at these wineries/bars and Park Place was the customer service and genuine hospitality. Being as it was the beginning of the Winter Season, the area around the Falls were gearing up with the Holiday decorations, and it was gorgeous. There is one particular area of Niagara Falls which was pretty much...how should I put it..."tacky" is a fairly accurate description...any place that has a Wax Museum tends to fall into that category...that entire area was virtually shut down due to the winter season and lack of tourists. But the Falls themselves are incredible. They are also lit up at night which added an entirely different dimension to them. In addition to the "Coney Island" district as described above, the Maid of the Mist boats were also shut down for the season, much to our disappointment. We would highly recommend a stay with Carolyn and Gary. The home is gorgeous, they keep it spotless and we found the entire experience there to be very, very comfortable. If traveling to Niagara in the future we would no doubt stay there again, perhaps the highest praise one could give to a B&B. - Official Description (provided by the hotel): - Come and enjoy a blend of old world charm with contemporary comforts in this beautifully restored, Queen Anne Revival heritage estate. Two elegant in-house suites, plus a separate spacious, private Carriage House -Features: king beds, spa baths, full breakfasts from a menu enjoyed in the suite or by candlelight in the main dining room, and concierge assistance- self-directed wine tours with complimentary tastings- are part of the experience. Extra services can be ordered. ... more less - Reservation Options: - TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Priceline and Booking.com so you can book your Park Place Bed & Breakfast reservations with confidence. We help millions of travelers each month to find the perfect hotel for both vacation and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers.

Radisson SAS Stansted Airport Hotel Fancy an overnight airport hotel stay? The Stansted Radisson SAS Hotel has everything to kick your holiday off in style and even offers an airport parking package at a low price too. Room only from £89.00 Room with 8 days parking from £119.00 Room with 15 days parking from £139.00 The Stansted Radisson SAS Hotel is conveniently located within the airport boundary and offers superb views of Stansted airport and runway, directly linked to the terminal by a covered runway. The hotel has plenty of leisure facilities to help you relax before your holiday. Facilities include a swimming pool, gym, sauna, steam room and an aerobic and spinning studio. For fine dining this 4 star luxurious hotel has four individually designed restaurants. There's something to suit all tastes with the Italian Bistro and Pizzeria with open fire, Tapellya- spanish Tapas and the New York Bar & Grill. Room facilities include an ensuite bathroom, a colour TV with satellite channels, telephone, radio, hairdryer, trouser press, mini bar, air-condidtioning, internet access and tea/coffee making facilities. Take the opportunity to kick your holiday off in style and comfort. Book the Stansted Radisson SAS Hotel with Airparks today. What the customers say: Mr Hardy - "Nice lay out of room. Underfloor heating was great as were the speakers in the bathroom. The wine tower looked fantastic and the staff were helpful and friendly." Mrs Mendez - "The hotel was lovely and so convenient making a lovely relaxing start to out holiday, it was fab having our car all ready for pick up just a short walk from the airport." Mr Evans - "I thought that this hotel was one of the nicest airport hotels I have stayed in for a very long time. The rooms and restaurants were very high quality, all the staff were very helpful and friendly and the parking simple and stress-free. All in all it was excellent value for money." Published by: Tony J.W Hill Other Related Articles Birmingham Airparks Upgrade Underway Work has begun to enhance security and improve the customer experience at Birmingham Airparks. The £350,000 investment will increase the car parkâs security features; providing even more secure fencing and improved CCTV. Manchester Airport Passengers Warned About M56 Roadworks Planned roadworks on the M56 may delay journey times for passengers travelling to Manchester Airport. Show and Stay winners Congratulations to the winners of our fantastic Show and Stay competition! Update on Airparks' kickboxing champions! Airparks' two amateur kickboxers won gold in the World Amateur Kickboxing Championships Giving Airport Parking Prices A Kicking Airparks have sponsored two amateur kickboxers in the World Amateur Kickboxing Championships

Conveniently located just 2-hours north of Seattle, and 1.5-hours south of Vancouver, B.C., Mt. Baker Lodging is your source for private, self-catered, fully equipped Mt. Baker area cabins, cottages, condos, chalets, and executive vacation home rental accommodations, located in the mountain villages of Glacier and Maple Falls, at the magnificent gateway to the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, and the adjacent Mount Baker Ski Area! The Nooksack river is one of the last "wild" rivers in Washington state. Five species of wild salmon swim and flourish is it's waters. Also available trout and deep sea fishing in the area. MENTION AD # 1324 WHEN PLACING YOUR RESERVATION, AND RECEIVE A SPECIAL GIFT AT CHECK-IN! Our accommodations range from cozy cabins for two, and family cabins,(cribs available) to spacious group chalets. And you can be as close to or as far away from the action as you want. Available Options Include Hot Tubs, VCR’s, Fireplace, Wood Stove, Sauna, Propane BBQ, Dishwasher, and Game Rooms: GLACIER SPRINGS: This 2-story, 3-bedroom, 1-bath cedar cabin is located in a great wooded area. The exterior includes a large deck with an outdoor gas grill and a private hot tub. The interior floorplan includes one bedroom with 1-full bed, 1-full bath, a fully equipped kitchen, and an open living/dining area including a freestanding gas fireplace on the 1st floor. The 2nd floor includes two bedrooms (each with 1-full bed), and a large loft game room with a futon, a pool table, and a walk out balcony. This pet-friendly vacation property will sleep up to 8-persons. SNOWLINE: This large 2-story 3-bedroom 1 3/4 bath cedar cabin backs onto the National Forest and the Nooksack River! With a nicely designed wraparound deck, this vacation property includes one bedroom on the 1st floor with 1-queen bed, 1-full bath, a 2-person sauna, a very large living/dining room area with an open hearth woodburning fireplace (firewood provided), a fully equipped kitchen, a separate laundry room, and an adhoc gameroom with a ping-pong table. The 2nd floor includes two bedrooms...both of which include 1-double bed and a 1-set of bunk beds, plus a 3/4- bath. This pet-friendly vacation property will sleep up to 10-persons. MT BAKER HWY: GLACIER: European Eloquence! A private 2nd story 2- bedroom 1-bath ensuite attached to a private residence located on 16 beautiful acres beside the river! This mountain view property includes two bedrooms (each with 1-queen bed), and 1-full bathroom. The cozy open living/kitchen area includes a freestanding woodstove (firewood provided), a European style kitchen with a range, (no oven) and a cozy eating area. This vacation property will sleep up to 4- persons. Nearby attractions and activities: The Mount Baker Recreation Area is a year-round playground. SUMMER Guests enjoy great hiking, mountain biking, mountain climbing, rock climbing, freshwater fishing (lake and river), small game hunting, whitewater rafting, kayaking, canoeing, swimming, nature viewing, tennis, and golf. WINTER Guests enjoy spectacular downhill and cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, and sledding. Don’t forget your camera...the photography is unsurpassed year-round! From Vancouver, take Hwy. 99 to the border, then I-5 to exit 255 (Mt. Baker Hwy) direct to Maple Falls. RATES: Rates are in US funds and are subject to 10.5% WA State Sales and Lodging Tax. Rates are subject to increase during the Christmas/New Years Holiday Season. There is a 2-night minimum stay year round and a 3-night minimum stay on US & Canadian Holidays. Some, (but not all) homes are "Pet Friendly", please inquire. POLICIES: Mt Baker Lodging must be notified in advance of any increase in the size of your party. 1-night deposit is due upon booking and the remaining balance is due 14-days prior to the guests scheduled date of arrival (except for the holiday season when all balances are due by Dec 1st). A credit card is required on all rentals as a security deposit and will be charged for any damages or unnecessary housekeeping. Management reserves the right to move your party to a similar residence should the one booked become unavailable. As all homes are privately owned, our insurance requires that a "Guest Rental Agreement" must be completed with all confirmations. We have a Limited Refund Policy, based upon our Cancellation Policy. CANCELLATION: If cancellation is received 21 days prior to arrival*, we will gladly refund your deposit, less a Sixty Five Dollar ($65.00) or 8% (whichever is greater) service charge. 20 through 15 days will forfeit the Advance Reservation Payment, unless home(s) can be re-rented, then only a Sixty Five Dollar ($65.00) or 8% (whichever is greater) service charge will apply. If cancelled 14 days or less to booking date, will forfeit full payment, unless the homes(s) can be re-rented in which case the Sixty Five Dollar ($65.00) or 8% (whichever is greater) service charge will apply. No Exceptions! *All bookings for the period of December 15th - January 2nd require payment in full by December 1st, and if canceled prior to December 1st, the Advance Reservation Payment will be forfeited unless the home(s) can be re-rented in which case only the Sixty Five Dollar ($65.00) or 8% (whichever is greater) service charge will apply. After December 1st guest will forfeit the entire rental amount unless the home(s) can be re-rented in which case only the Sixty Five Dollar ($65.00) or 8% (whichever is greater) service charge will apply. Mt. Baker Lodging is pleased to offer a Weekly Rate Special; pay for 6-nights...stay for 7-nights!* *Offer subject to current availability, N/A December 15th through January 1st. Rates range from $109.00 to $1219.00 per night, and from $654.00 to $8533.00 per week USD + tax. Reservations are subject to a 2-night minimum stay during regular periods, and a 3-night minimum stay during holiday and special event periods. An Advance Reservation Payment equal to 50% of the total reservation cost, including tax, is required to reserve a vacation property. The remaining balance is considered due-in-full 14-days prior to our Guest's scheduled date of arrival, and is automatically debited to our Guest's credit card on the scheduled due-date. We gladly accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover/Novus, and American Express as forms of payment. Sorry, NO personal checks. About This Supplier Joined InfoHub: Mar 2005 Client Request Served: 64 Conveniently located just 2-hours north of Seattle, and 1.5-hours south of Vancouver, B.C., Mt. Baker Lodging is your source for private, self-catered, fully equipped Mt. Baker area cabins, cottages, condos, chalets, and executive vacation home rental accommodations, located in the mountain villages of Glacier and... View this supplier profile | Submit your review Please take this quick survey and tell us, in your opinion, how original is this trip? Email it to a friend: Click here to email this vacation to a friend |Check out these similar vacation offers:

Located at ;the center of it all, ; and towering 39 stories above the world;famous Atlantic City Boardwalk, Trump Plaza Hotel Casino is the center of excitement. Towering 39 stories above the world-famous Atlantic City Boardwalk, Trump Plaza Hotel Casino is the center of excitement . With over 86,000 square feet of casino action, Trump Plaza offers a first-class experience with Trump-style luxury waiting at every turn . It is home to some of the world's top entertainers and sporting events and offers 904 exquisitely appointed rooms, all with ocean and bay views . PLEASE NOTE that the Plaza's Health Club and Pool will be closed until further notice . This Atlantic City landmark hotel features 904 of the most spacious, tastefully appointed and comfortable rooms in all of Atlantic City . Blanketed in soft, brushed gold, each Trump Plaza guest room and suite features a wealth of amenities to make your stay memorable . The recently renovated hotel has several room styles, ranging from deluxe rooms, to various suites, including the Manhattan-inspired Penthouse Suites, so you're sure to find your perfect Plaza fit . Each deluxe room features Simmons Health Smart pillow top mattresses and luxury bedding . All hotel rooms include an in-room safe, refrigerator, coffee maker and a signature Lodgenet system for on demand movies, digital music and Nintendo games . For those blending work with play, high speed internet service is also available . Non-smoking and handicap accessible rooms are available based on Hotel availability . Room Service is always a phone call away, available 24 hours a day . At the Trump Plaza spa, try relaxing in the Jacuzzi or Sauna after a vigorous workout in our full service coed Fitness Center, featuring a complete line of Body Masters weight machines, free weights and state-of-the-art cardiovascular equipment . Top the day off with an exceptional array of beauty services at the Salon at Trump Plaza with our well educated and excellent staff waiting to perform the perfect services customized to your needs . For nonstop action, head to the nearly 87,000 square foot casino . From the thrills and chills of a baccarat or blackjack tournament to the fun and excitement of the craps pit, the table games at Trump Plaza are unequaled in excitement and first-class, courteous service . Enjoy your favorite games at over 80 tables, including everything from Blackjack, to Craps, Roulette, Midi- and Mini-Baccarat, Texas Hold 'Em, Spanish 21, and Let it Ride . Or, try something a little more exotic like Pai Gow Poker or Tiles . If slots are your preference, try your luck at over 2,000 of the newest machines ranging from single game progressives, wide-area progressives, video poker, traditional reels and video slots loaded with fun and exciting bonus games . Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has complete convention and meeting facilities, including full catering service in a variety of meeting rooms and an exhibition area . All rooms are equipped with soundproof walls and individual sound, lighting and climate controls with the most up-to-date audio and video technology available . One of Atlantic City's most exciting spots for live entertainment, the Trump Plaza Theatre has been home to some of the worlds top entertainers and sporting events . The 800-seat theater features advanced light and sound systems and is equipped for live television production . UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE the Pool at the Plaza will be closed on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday's . - Family Rooms - Fitness center - Swimming pool - Wheelchair accessible - Business center - Private dining for groups - Meeting rooms - Non Smoking Rooms Availability - Data port - High-speed internet - Dry cleaning/laundry - First Class Hotel - Convention Center - Interior Corridor

Condo, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 6 Sleeps Costa Bonita is a beautiful condominium complex on Mazatlan's best beach, just north of the Golden Zone. Close to Pueblo Bonito Emerald Bay, yet costing a fraction of the price. The complex offers big resort amenities in a small and intimate environment. On-site lobby concierge service, gift shop, minimarket, internet access, restaurant, bar, beach snack bar, pool, jacuzzi, tennis, gym and sauna (for a small fee), volleyball, beach palapas, children's playground, fish cleaning facilities, gas BBQ, massage, etc. Our place is peaceful and quiet, yet only 10 minutes into the Golden Zone, with its hundreds of restaurants, bars, and shops, via frequent bus and inexpensive taxi transportation. Historic old town Mazatlan, with it's beautiful museums, majestic cathedral, colorful market place, and daring cliff divers, is an easy 20 minute cab trip away. You'll never have to rent a car when staying at Costa Bonita! This freshly painted, recently remodeled, ground floor unit comes fully furnished. Queen beds in each bedroom, huge walk-in closet (specially installed for our long-term renters),sofa bed in living room, full bathrooms, kitchen with full-size fridge, oven, stove, dishwasher, coffee maker, blender, toaster, microwave, etc. Utensils and place settings for 6. Our garden patio overlooks the pool, and is directly adjacent to the nearby outdoors hot tub. Stay in touch with friends and family via our apartment's cellular phone. Bring your laptop to take advantage of our hard-wired apartment (specially installed for our business guests) and on-site WiFi capabilities. Equipped with TVs and DVD players in the livingroom and each bedroom, our condo offers a video library with hundreds of movie titles available on DVD, so you won't have to go out and rent your own. Don't forget to check out our wide variety of music CD's for your musical enjoyment. We also have a stack of board games and jigsaw puzzles for your indoor entertainment, a large collection of paperback books for your intellectual stimulation, tennis racquets and lots of pool and beach toys for your fun in the sun. Walk out onto 3.5 miles of Mazatlan's most sought-after beachfront, virtually at your doorstep. Sunbathe on the soft sand, or take a nap on a lounger under the shade of a palapa, specially reserved for guests at Costa Bonita. Swim and play in gentle waves on the soft sandy bottom of our beach. For a change of pace, Playa Bruja is a casual fifteen minute walk away, with its awesome surfing beach, and rocky point, great for cast fishing. When you go to Playa Bruja, make sure to visit our favorite casual dining spot, Mr. Lionso's Restaurant, which features lobster tails and giant prawns for 130 pesos (about 10 bucks), ice cold Corona and Pacifico beers, 2 for 1, cost a buck and a half, and huge margaritas, 2 for 1, cost 50 pesos (less than 4 bucks). Also check out Ginger's Bilingual Horses right next door (yes, they understand commands in both English and Spanish) for rides on the beach at about $25 an hour. Enjoy a cool drink on our patio or by the pool after a long day of sightseeing or frolicking in the water, and witness some of the world's most beautiful sunsets over the calm Pacific Ocean. Take a moonlight stroll on the beach, and let the soothing sound of gentle waves put you into that very special relaxed mood. Return to your unit, slip into "his and hers" terry cloth robes (provided specially for our romantic renters ;-), and dip into the hot tub, directly adjacent to the patio of our apartment ... how seducingly convenient! The only part of renting from us that we can't truly describe is the intangible feeling of being "at home" while on vacation. Most other condos are sterile, cookie cutter units, painted in hotel white, with exactly four identical hotel towels, exactly six matching dinner plates, etc. When you walk into our place, you'll immediately notice the personality of the apartment. Amy has decorated the unit in bright pastel colors and traditional Mexican motifs. Al's personal touches are musical, including a hand-made Mexican guitar made from world-famous Paracho, Michoacan, as well as the antique cornet sitting on the livingroom cabinet. The kids have their favorite seashell collections for all to admire, and we've left a few photos of our family for guests to see with whom they are sharing their very unique Mexican experience. Are we exaggerating? This all may sound too good to be true, but seeing is beleiving! Email us, and we'll send you a big batch of pictures of us, our kids and family, and our apartment, as well as the great town and resort complex we've chosen as our very special home-away-from-home. "Al and Amy's Oceanfront Getaway" is available for long weekends, weekly, monthly, or long-term rentals. Utilities and taxes (17% extra at hotels and resorts) are always included. Our local rental manager is available 24 hours a day, as is the friendly staff at Costa Bonita.Before you arrive, we'll send you a list of vacation recommendations, a list of "what there is to see and do" in and around town, and a bunch of money saving tips, only known by the locals ... and some special secret ones not even known by them. Past renters report having saved hundreds of dollars on our specific referrals to local doctors and dentists, pharmacies, artisans, sailing cruises, fishing expeditions, sigh About the Owner Activity and Interests In Mazatlan ... too many to list. You name it ... it's here! |Rate Period||Nightly||Weekend Night||Weekly||Monthly *||Event| My Standard Rate Jan 1 2015 - Jan 1 2016 1 night minimum stay * Approximate monthly rate. Actual rate will depend on the days of the month you stay. Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser. Additional information about rental rates - Refundable damage deposit $300 Personal check, bank checkier's check, PayPal Nightly Rate: $75 - $150 Weekly Rate: $550 - $1000 Monthly Rate: $1500 - $2500 Contact us about our very competitive rates. We believe we can beat anyone else's! Ask about last-minute deals for that spur-of-the-moment vacation! Pool / Spa - Hot Tub - Outdoor Pool - pets not allowed - Beach View Sports & Adventure Activities - 2 Bathrooms - Bathroom 1 - Bathroom 2 - 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 6 - Bedroom 1 - Bedroom 2 - Full kitchen with microwave, toaster, blender, coffee machine TV's and DVD players in the livingroom, and one in each bedroom, with 100's of movies Tons of beach and pool toys for both adults and kids Closet full of indoor board games and paperback books Heated pool directly adjacent to condo Beach 30 seconds walk away from your front door Nearby parasailing, horseback riding, surf board rentals, shopping, sightseeing Hot tub just steps away from your own private patio Pool-side full service restaurant and bar with best prices in town Bilingual property manager and staff available 24 hours a day

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The JCC has served Columbus’ Jewish community since 1913, when Joseph Schonthal provided meeting rooms to all segments of the Jewish community at 355 South Washington Avenue. The primary function of the center was to help in the integration and settlement of the wave of immigrants coming from Eastern Europe, Russia and Lithuania, and as a center for youth activities. “Pop” Schonthal himself was an immigrant, born in Austria, and a scrap metal dealer by trade. He came to Columbus in 1891 and was a manager for the Kinkade & Liggett elevator company before establishing the Joseph Schonthal Iron Company in 1903. (He also served as president of Temple Israel from 1903 until his death in 1929.) In 1918, Schonthal expanded his vision by purchasing the old Hoster Brewery Mansion on East Rich Street, which he named the Schonthal Center. In addition, he also established the Jewish Infants Home of Ohio, located next door to the Schonthal Center. (One of the orphans who lived in the home, Milton Rice, was later adopted by Leo Yassenoff and his wife, Betty Luptonn, who had worked as the head nurse.) In 1927, Schonthal purchased 25 acres of land in Union County to establish one of the first Jewish summer camps in the area – Camp Schonthal, located near Magnetic Springs. In 1949 – 20 years after Schonthal’s death – the property was sold and the monies raised from the sale went toward the building of the new Jewish Community Center on College Avenue. A few years prior, in 1935, the United Jewish Fund (the forerunner of the Columbus Jewish Federation) earmarked funds to build a Jewish Community Center. A groundbreaking was held in 1949, and the new center’s cornerstone was laid during a ceremony on Oct. 30, 1949, over which Joseph S. Summer, grandson of Pops Schonthal, presided. Built for $650,000 the “new” Jewish Center contained an auditorium, bowling alley, basketball courts, a swimming pool, classrooms and a sauna. Its location, just south of Livingston Avenue, recognized the movement of the Jewish community from the “Driving Park” district into the east side of Columbus and the nearby suburban enclave of Bexley. The passing of the years brought additional milestones: the summer day camp site at Hoover Reservoir was aquired as a gift from Millard Cummins in 1965 and an outdoor swimming pool complex opened in 1966. The son of another Jewish immigrant to Columbus would play prominently in the JCC’s history. The aforementioned Leo Yassenoff, the son of a Russian immigrant, settled in Columbus as a teenager in 1912 and attended The Ohio State University – playing on the Buckeye’s offensive line for two seasons, 1914-15. After graduating from OSU in 1916, he served in the 116th Aerial Squadron during World War I, and co-founded the F&Y Construction Company in 1919. Among other projects, his company built drive-in theaters, including the Riverside, Eastside and CCC Auto Theaters. A philanthropist in life, Yassenoff left a considerable portion of his assets to the Jewish Center when he died in 1971. Groundbreaking for a more modern facility at 1125 College Ave., built on the same site as the 1949 structure, was held in May 1981. The doors to the newly constructed Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus opened on Jan. 6, 1983, and a dedication ceremony honoring Leo Yassenoff was held on Oct. 2, 1983. A few years later, an Early Childhood Education wing was added to serve the community’s preschool population. Since then, the JCC began operating facilities in Dublin and New Albany, as the Jewish community has grown and expanded. In 1996, the JCC opened an Early Childhood Education program in Dublin with 20 children. The JCC continues to rent its Dublin facility from St. Andrew’s Church at 1985 Swansford Rd. Two years later, the JCC expanded its Early Childhood Education program to New Albany, with classrooms located in the educational wing of Temple Beth Shalom and later in the former New Albany Elementary School. In fall 2007, the JCC dedicated the Zusman Center, located behind the JCC, in honor of philanthropists Larry and Leonore Zusman. The Zusman Center, used primarily for the JCC’s Summer Camp and Kaleidoscope After-School programs, features a beautiful multi-purpose great room, changing and restrooms, a nurse’s office, and an art room with a kiln. A few weeks prior, the JCC opened its Sprayground, a water playground for children to cool off with buckets, spray jets and fountains during the summer. Groundbreaking was held on Oct. 5, 2008, for a new 43,000 square feet, $4.5 million facility, located at 150 E. Granville St., in New Albany. The new Northeast Jewish Community Center serves children from 6 weeks old to pre-Kindergarten in the JCC’s New Albany Early Childhood Education program, as well as children from Kindergarten through 5th grades at the Columbus Jewish Day School. The facility was dedicated on Aug. 23, 2009, with a ceremony that included a “Torah Walk” from the New Albany Elementary School building to the new building. Groundbreaking for a 16,000 square foot expansion of the College Avenue facility took place on December 6, 2012. The recently completed construction will increase the current fitness, sports, and community gathering space for youth and adults. For more information on contributing to the JCC Capital Campaign: Linking the Generations, please contact JCC Executive Director Carol Folkerth at (614) 559-6223 or firstname.lastname@example.org.

29km north of Kuusamo, Ruka village (Western Ruka) 200m. Apartment, built in 2002, bedroom: double bed, upstairs: 2 beds, living room: convertible sofa for two, combined kitchen/living room, electric sauna. Area of the apartment 57 m²: downstairs 47 m², upstairs 10 m². Apartment situated near Central Ruka area, at the foot of the front slope. Nearest ski lifts Talvijärvi and Kuru. Other distances: Oulanka National Park / Pieni Karhunkierros Trail 23km, Riisitunturi Fell 29km. Additional information: Suitable for family and business use. Balcony towards Ski Stadium. Reservations start at 16.00 and end at 12.00 (also in weekend bookings). Property Type: Townhouse Number of Rooms: 2 57 Square Meters Interhome Quality Rating: 3 Star: Comfortable furnishings. Comfortable and tasteful. Above average standard. Ideal for guests who enjoy a nice, comfortable vacation home. * ski : 100 meters * publictransport : 300 meters Property Attributes: shower, nonsmoking, hikingmountains, bbq, dishwasher, fireplace, sauna, tv, freezer, microwave, oven Additional Features: Allianz cancellation insurance Included in the price, Final cleaning Included in the price, Laundry (initial supply of bed linen and towels) Included in the price

|Minimum Stay||7 nights| Chalet Du Grand Col is a very luxurious and well equipped individual chalet for 10 to 12 people. It has 5 nice bedrooms with mountain view, 3 bathrooms en suite, 2 separate toilettes, ski room with ski shoe dryers, washing machine and dryer. Big sunny terrace with tables and chairs an outside panoramic Barrel Sauna and Scandinavian Storvatt, ( Hot tub). Heated bij wood. Big living room with an stunning view on the mountains, an open kitchen with bar, dishwasher, big oven and microwave, very well equipped. Big open fire place you can sit around the fire with all your friends and family, lounge corner with lounge bed, TV ,DVD and wifi internet. Decoder for receiving all the TV channels you want. Balcony with table and chairs. Stunning view on the mountains and forrest surrounding you. 1 bedroom with 2xdouble bed (ideal for children) with TV and DVD player. warm and cold water. 3 bedrooms with double beds. 1 bedrooms with bunk bed and shower. 1 big bathroom with double shower , 2 sinks and a nice bath. 2 bathrooms are ensuite . Fire wood, electricity, cleaning and bed and kitchen linen, tourist tax are included. It`s only a small walk to the slopes or forest. You can ski back tot the chalet. Parking place infront of the chalet. Quit surroundings, ideal with children they can play safe next to the chalet. We are Pim and Anita Lexmond - Boone. We live and work ( we have 2 fitness clubs )in the south of Holland. Close to Belgium. We've been coming to Sainte Foy since 1995. Fell in love with the station and never left. Sainte Foy is for us the best place to go for our winter, summer and in between holidays. We cycle every summer all the big Cols with friends. Walk and ski in the autumn and winter. We love skiing off piste as well as on the beautiful slopes. Since we are here 2 friends bought apartments also here. Every year we are surprised with the new extensions they make in the station. It's keep getting better every year. Anita Boone purchased this chalet in 1998 It was always our dream to have a chalet in the mountains. We visited Sainte Foy in the summer of 1995. They were going to start to build the first 5 chalets and this was for us the right tine to make our dreams come true.We love to do all the sportive things you can do in summer and winter.And never get bored with the beautiful view we have from our chalet. We see this love for the mountain live back in our children. The big tree house they build in 1995 next to our chalet is still there. the stunning view, the mountain atmosphere in our chalet. The picturesque village of Sainte Foy. and let's not forget our big terrace with the Barrel Sauna and Storvatt. There nothing like having a glass of champagne with friends in the Storvatt. after a day of skiing or walking. We have celebrated our holidays in Sainte Foy for a few years now and every time we feel more and more welcome and at home due te the good care of Anita. The house is beautifully decorated and furnished to cook, eat, relax and enjoy the good things in life.We love the house and we love the mountain. Our group has a big variety of age and experience in wintersports, but there are opportunities for each person to have a great time. We highly recommend Chalet du Grand Col. This year we had a wonderfull stay in the Grand Col chalet for 2 weeks over New years. Even though we didn't have that much snow we still had a very good holiday. We had a lot of days when the snow wasn't that good that we just stayed in the chalet, lit the fire and had a nice day or reading and playing games. Over new years we had a big outdoors bbq on the deck and we sat in the hottub. This chalet makes your holiday complete even when the snow isn't the best. But luckely we go some good snow after new years and we could ski some pow in, what I still think, the best freeride resort in France. Hope to be back there soon. Perfect location for die-hard free-riders and recreational skiers and even non skiers. We had a very diverse group of friends and everyone had a great weekend. The chalet is absolutely stunning. The kitchen is great, the living is too cosy to leave and all the bedrooms are equally wonderful. The sauna and the Storvat make it extra special. My friends said when they arrived they never saw a chalet this beautiful... we all had a hard time leaving. Highly recommended. Price - value very ok. A lovely chalet exactly as described. 4 of our children aged 12 and under all slept in the "quad" room with the DVD player and loved it. There was everything we needed in the kitchen and more. Anita responded promptly to e-mail queries and everything was well organised. Even late in the season it was (just )possible to ski back to the chalet ...through a few trees and across a stream at this time of year! Getting onto the piste was also easy with a 50m walk. We loved the "Storvatt" hot tub at the end of the day and the sauna-with-a-view was a real treat at the end of the day and easy to operate. It took 25 minutes to be parked at Tignes, possibly less to Brevieres and we also skied Les Arcs ,parking at Bourg St Maurice which is also 25-30 mins away. I'd definitely recommend the chalet. St foy Tarentaise is in my opinion the best resort in the Alps! If you're looking for high quality skiing that is. Ever since i've been a wee guy shredding my snowboard I've been going to St foy. And I still like it as much as I did then. Maybe even more! It's perfect for families with kids that are just learning how to ski/snowboard. The resort is built up well and its fairly easy to oversee a big part of the resort. So they can go their own way without getting lost. But now, as an experienced snowboarder, there is still lots of new ground to discover! ( off-piste) and even more if you're willing to hike for a wee bit! ( amazing backcountry!) I've been in a lot of resorts both in Europe and in North-America, even for several consecutive months, and I still love coming to St Foy and especially the Grand Col! It's located next to the slopes so you can ski unto the patio! Switch the sauna 'on' on your way in, get rid of your wet gear and sneak back into the sauna! Or the storvatt if that's more your thing :) I can go on forever, but I think I made my point.. It's the perfect chalet in the perfect resort! Have a good one! I've been coming to Grand Col for some years now. Arriving in the luxurious chalet always feels like coming home after the long journey. We arrived after a week of heavy snowfall, so the mountain was loaded! Our group consisted of advanced snowboarders lookin' to ride fresh powder slopes, so we couldn't have arrived a better time. Grand Col offered us a luxurious stay with loads of space. Heading out the first day brought us nice pistes which were groomed very well every day without exceptions. We didn't see much of the pistes though, since st. Foy is known for its backcountry riding, and we made sure we'd use the opportunity. Our group was familiar with the mountain and ski-resort so we could ride full days in the powder. I would recommend asking locals for routes or hiring an off-piste guide early in the week if you want to do hiking and backcountry slopes! The storrvat was sure to relax us after a day of heavy riding. I would definitely recommend this house for anyone looking for a relaxing week with no worries. The accomodations and scenery will leave you without a care in the world! Stay in a authentic Savoie village, at a very charming and luxurious Savoie chalet. Stunning panoramic view over Mont Pourri, and the Aiguille Rouge. Also you are next to the beautiful forrest. Parking places in front of the chalet. Chalet du Grand Col is in the upper part of the village. It`s quit here and with free space around the chalet. Ski back on your big sunny terrace at the end of the day. Outside barrel sauna and Storvatt. Is an Scandinavian Hot Tub. The slopes of Sainte Foy are famous through the whole valley. For beginners/ intermediate as for advanced ski- and snowboarders. Lots of opportunities to ski off piste. Good restaurants and bars, and very friendly english speaking Frenchmen. Val d` Isere, Tignes, Les Arcs en La Rosiere are close by to make different ski adventures. The snow conditions are almost always perfect because of the position of the slopes. Come and enjoy the Savoie way of skiing holidays. Skischool and lifts at 300 mtrs. Other Activities: Off piste skiing, helicopter skiing, dog sledges |Rental Period||Minimum Price||Additional Nights||Weekend Night||Weekly||Monthly||Event Price| 29 Mar 2015 - 25 Apr 2015 7 night minimum stay for 7 nights |Fees||No additional mandatory fees| |Refundable Damage Deposit||€750| The security deposit is 750,00 euro a week. It is payed before the holiday and booked back after checking the chalet. We pay for our guests the tourist tax. The rental price is included: wood for the fire place and Hot Tub, cleaning, water and electricity, kitchen towels, and wifi internet, use of washing machine and tumble dryer Guests bring there own bath towels, or rent them at 8,00 a person 500,00 to make the booking, rest of the renting amount 8 weeks before the arrival date with the 750,00 deposit After the check on saturday, the deposit will be payed back if everything is in order Please Note: The owner of this property accepts payment in the original currency specified (EUR), before use of conversion tool. The conversion tool is provided for your convenience only. The owner may accept other currencies if specifically agreed in advance. Learn more about this vacation rental at the manager's website:

Book your room at Grand Hotel Mercure Biedermeier Wien Deluxe Double Room, 1 Queen BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child) Biedermeier, Classic Twin Room, 2 Single BedsMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child) Deluxe Room, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child) Biedermeier, Suite, 1 Double BedMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 1 child) Biedermeier, Classic Single Room, 1 Single BedMax Occupancy: 1 guest 4-star Vienna hotel in Landstrasse, walk to Hundertwasser House Vienna Located in Landstrasse, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of MAK, Hundertwasser House Vienna, and Viennese City Park. St. Stephen's Cathedral and Wiener Prater are also within 1 mi (2 km). This hotel features 2 restaurants, a full-service spa, and a fitness center. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a coffee shop/café, and a sauna are onsite. All 198 rooms offer free wired Internet, minibars, and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Guests will also find room service, free newspapers, and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! In addition to a full-service spa, Grand Hotel Mercure Biedermeier Wien features a sauna and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This 4-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. This business-friendly hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, a library, and tour/ticket assistance. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service. - Breakfast available (surcharge) - Coffee shop or café - 24-hour front desk - Express check-out - Express check-in - Dry cleaning/laundry service - Number of floors - 4 - Full-service spa - Hair salon - Concierge services - Shopping on site - Total number of rooms - 198 - One meeting room - Rooftop terrace - Luggage storage - Laundry facilities - Multilingual staff - Safe-deposit box at front desk - Train station pickup (surcharge) - Airport transportation (surcharge) - Free newspapers in lobby - Fitness facilities - Gift shops or newsstand - Tours/ticket assistance - Free WiFi - Year Built 1816 - Number of restaurants - 2 - 24-hour business center Available in all rooms: Free wired high-speed Internet Available in some public areas: Free WiFi - Iron/ironing board (on request) - Daily housekeeping - Private bathroom - Hair dryer - In-room safe - Satellite TV service - Air conditioning - Free wired high-speed Internet - Free newspaper - Climate control - Free toiletries - Room service (limited hours) - Flat-panel TV Where to Eat Grand Hotel Mercure Biedermeier Wien has 2 restaurants on site. Room service (during limited hours) is available. Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna and a fitness center. Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, RelaxClub. The spa is equipped with a sauna. - Sauna in spa To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the “Special or Accessibility Requests" section of “Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel. - Accessible bathroom - In-room accessibility Check-in time starts at 2 PM Minimum check-in age is 18 Check-out time is noon You need to know Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges. Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed. - Breakfast fee: EUR 17 per person (approximately) - Pet fee: EUR 15 per night We should mention A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.

Eagle’s Nest, Bay Of Islands, New Zealand This North Island boutique retreat is the ultimate in exclusivity and beyond-five-star hospitality, encompassing 75 acres of subtropical bush, and secluded beaches and islands to explore. With private chefs, infinity pools and even a Porsche at your disposal, you can do as much or as little as you please. All villas have their own gourmet kitchens, and each is provided daily with breakfast provisions. However, most guests forego DIY and make use of the resort's resident private chefs, who will prepare anything you'd like: freshly caught local fish, crayfish, lobster, venison and lamb are all on offer. You can also bring in your own chefs if you wish. There is no actual public bar area – simply let staff know what drinks you require and they'll be delivered immediately. The wine cellar is world-class. One-bedroom villa First Light is most intimate for couples; panoramic Rahimoana Villa has four ensuite bedrooms, a fireplace, home cinema, bar and a 25-metre heated lap pool, as well as a Jacuzzi, sauna, gym and private beach. Rates include a dedicated concierge, well-stocked fridge and loan of the Porsche Cayenne Turbo. If you need a change of pace after relaxing in your villa, there are plenty of activities to keep you entertained: take the retreat's chopper to see magnificent views of the Bay of Islands, and then on to Kauri Cliffs for a round of golf, or the Bay is renowned for its water pursuits. Staff can advise you on everything from sea kayaking to parasailing, waterskiing, scuba diving, snorkelling, world-class deep sea and big-game fishing, as well as sailing and cruising throughout the many picture-perfect islands, bays and coves. Back on terra firma, bush walking, mountain biking and romantic picnics on your own private island are all possibilities. Contact Book Eagle's Nest with Mr & Mrs Smith online, or call 0845 034 0700. Rates Villas, from around NZ$1,150, including breakfast, fruit platters, a bottle of champagne, selected minibar items, WiFi and tax at 12.5 per cent.

Top -Ten picks Spa —Laura Lanz-Frolio Supple Spa Recruit your bestie, boyfriend or even that chick on the street who looks like she could use some stress relief, because this spa, which was recently featured on MTV dating show Gamekillers, is designed for shared services. Snag one of their five private couples rooms for a Swedish massage, pore-cleansing facial, (usually $65 each). If the thought of chatting about the newest episode of work drama throughout your relaxation session stresses you out, spa offerings can also be enjoyed solo. New York Magazine's profile — Sarah Walker Supple Spa came to be after its founder detected a lack of—and high demand for—day spas for couples. Located steps from Sixth Avenue, the spa's cheerless entrance serves as a vivid contrast to what's inside: Past the hushed and dimly lit reception area, behind paper screens, potted orchids, and live topiaries, is a lineup of private rooms, each with its own romantic theme. The Paris Room, decorated to resemble a Parisian terrace, is set up for side-by-side massages; the Daydream Room offers the same, with a sauna and Then there's the Tokyo Room, or Sunset Room, an Asiatic recess where clients can take in the Royal Bath Massage—a 50-minute Swedish or deep tissue massage, followed by a full body salt scrub, and a soak in a wooden tub filled with hot water, rose petals, and lemons. Other services include waxing, collagen treatments, and deep pore facials using Dermalogica products. Not solely for those with an eye on romance, Supple hosts parties for up to ten people, serving American Spa Magazine The couples massage at the Supple Spa (New York City) begins with the twosome enjoying champagne in the spa's massage chair which are located in a quite alcove.The pair is then led to a room that is sprinkled with rose petals, and lit by scented candles. The wine awakes the couple and they are allowed to take their time while disrobing and continuing to unwind. When the couple is ready two therapists enter and perform concurrent, side-by-side Swedish or Deep-tissue massages. "It was packed on Valentine's Day." Says owner Jason.And with June being bridal season, the new couples rooms are sure to stay filled. NEW YORK MAGAZINE Sandra Romani review of the Royal Bath Best known for its couple’s services and romantic double rooms, Supple Spa offers Royal Baths that can be enjoyed both by singles and duos. A 50-minute Swedish or Deep-Tissue massage gets the circulation moving, dry skin is banished by a thorough TimeOut New York 2011 Review of the Pink Rub — Alison Zeidman Technician Jasmine began with a light massage through a body-covering towel to gauge my muscle tension. Next she treated my whole frame to some deep-tissue shiatsu, and then rubbed me down with a pink-colored mineral salt solution to improve my circulation and polish my skin into a noticeably smoother state. After cleaning me off with a hot towel she applied a cool, fragrant pink cream and ended with a scalp massage. Best part: Jasmine deeply stretched my quads during the cream application (bending each of my legs back far enough that I could kick myself in the butt), adding to the invigorating, athletic feeling I got from the whole 70-minute treatment . When I rose from the table my muscles felt like they’d just received the same benefits as I’d get from an intense workout—without putting in any sweaty time at the gym. Why it’s worth it: The heated massage table left me warm for the entire wintry walk home and the vigorous kneading kept me relaxed through the next day. Best on a budget: Sunset Room at Supple Spa Although you can head to this relaxation spot for a solo session the five rooms are designed with shared treatments in mind (folding partitions open up to create double rooms). The Sunset Room is one of the largest, most private spaces and although the decor is a bit hokey, with pink lighting , floral decals on the walls and faux flower garlands strung up everywhere, none of this will matter once you’re face down on the massage tables, covered in actual rose petals. Get this: The dimmed lights and candles will help transcend the less-than-desirable surroundings during Supple’s 75-minute couples massage. Make sure you let your technician know if you like a gentler touch, otherwise the pressure during this shiatsu-style rubdown burrows deep into your muscles to work out tough kinks. $139 per couple (normally $164). TONY DEAL Mention TONY Treat yourself, your friends or family. Supple Spa gift- certificates are available . Call today for an appointment! 212 929 5948

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The Hotel Windsor ZEN space on the top floor boasts a stimulating light and promotes both the concentration and creativity. We can host here seminars or training. Several arrangements are possible: school, U, theater or other specific provisions. The 8 with its terrace, offers a more traditional space facing the garden for a small group. We provide you with all the equipment you need (projector, screen, TV, paperboard ..) and bring the necessary care to the organization of your breaks. After a day of work, everyone will find the atmosphere he wants in our hotel: the freshness of the tropical garden beside the pool, the sweetness of the lounge bar near the fireplace or the heat of the sauna and steam room, followed possibly by a massage with essential oils. Our expertise and knowledge of the city and the region are at your disposal to organize a special event and suggest unusual activities!

GET OUT! - When the alarm sounds At approximately 9:15pm, Thursday, October 15th, 2009, the fire alarm in the Elmen Center, the Athletic/Recreational facility on campus, sounded. The sounding of the alarm initiated the evacuation process the Rec Services Staff had trained for. But this time it was real. An off-duty Rec Services staff member had been in the pool when smoke could be smelled coming from the men's locker room. The student staff member entered the locker room to investigate the smell and was immediately confronted with thick black smoke and flames shooting from the location of the sauna. Just a week prior, the entire Rec Services staff participated in the annual emergency procedures training which included a fire safety segment and fire extinguisher training. The staff member activated the fire alarm using a pull station and ran to the main desk to warn the staff of the fire. A student staff member and a member of the maintenance staff each grabbed a fire extinguisher and entered the men's locker room in an attempt to put out the fire. Both extinguishers were emptied, but the fire was to big. The Rec Services staff calmly evacuated the entire building and ensured everyone was out of the building. Sioux Falls Fire Rescue arrived a few minutes later and immediately went into action extinguishing the fire. Security cameras in the Elmen Center recorded how thick smoke filled hallways in a matter of minutes. Once the fire was out and the smoke cleared, the following investigation found that an item had been placed on the heating unit in the sauna causing it to start the fire. The fire was confined to the only wood structure in the men's locker room, the 8 foot by 8 foot sauna. While the actual fire was limited to a small area of the building, final cost estimates exceeded $500,000. Because of the quick calm response of the Rec Services Staff no one was injured. The video footage captured by the security surveillance system in the Elmen Center is a good reminder why it is so important to evacuate a building quickly once the alarm has sounded. The camera footage shows that once the hallway located just outside the men's locker room began to fill with smoke it took less than 1 1/2 minutes for the hallway to fill to capacity making it impossible to navigate the hallway safely. The video is now used as a training tool to demonstrate the importance of acting quickly when the alarm sounds. When the alarm sounds.........GET OUT!

912-veld Castle Hotel Pegnitz River Franconia Bavaria Germany Nuremburg area Rooms room Rates Candle Light Dinner Gift Certificate Travel Coupon Coupons Knights meal Medieval Feast club tour Groups People New Years eve Party Vacation Package History Hiking Trail trip Mountain Biking Tours in Swimming pool Wellness Solarium Sauna hot Springs Thermal spa Golf Clubs Courses Sport Trips Course Golfing Tennis Court game Lesson Horse back Riding Holidays Stalactite cave Leisure park Map of Airports Distances Hotels Road Munchen Munich Airport Neuschwanstein Ausgburg Freeway Wurzburg Bamberg Regensburg Nurnburg Nuremberg Middle Franonia Upper Palatinate Nurnberg Bayreuth Lauf Franconian Swiss Train Station Parking Information Reservation High above the balcony, there is a flag waving on which the word "hospitality" is written in large letters. Escape from everyday life and enter your castle. Enjoy the peaceful quietness and tranquility of the castle facilities. Have a bird's eye view when you stand on the balcony and look down on the beautiful Franconian farmer land. 912-veld castle hotel Pegnitz River, the castle for experiencing, discovering, living and walking. Picture of the castle view | Picture of the castle on the castle hill on the Pegnitz River | Picture inner courtyard Welcome! The spirit of the centuries welcomes the guest of the 21st century as soon as he enters the old, dignified castle on the Pegnitz River. The history of the castle, which was originally built in order to serve as a border fortification, reaches back until the year 1008. Changeful years brought the castle into the hands of many different owners - the members of the family of Hohenstaufen, the bishops of Bambert, the knight of Epstein and also the administration of Middle Franconia. Original, authentic, old and dignified, from the basement to the roof - who would not want to live in a castle like that?! Become castle lady or castle lord - and if it's just for a romantic weekend, a vacation or in the course of conferences and seminars. Experience the Middle Ages - with the comfort of our days. 17 hotel rooms with 42 beds Dog (without food) per day 3 EUR. 912-veld castle hotel Pegnitz River Dining in the knight's hall for more than 900 years. In former times on rustic tables with wooden spoons and fingers - today, on a beautiful banquet with fine porcelain and noble silverware. Ever since the early days of the castle, people have eaten and drunk in the knight's hall, even during the wild times of the Thirty Years' War, which couldn't do no harm to the walls of the castle. Franconian wines and other different kinds of wines, foamy beer of a traditional brewery, wild game and fish as well as poultry and meat butchered by the farmers of the surrounding area. Eating and drinking here is authentic and natural, just like the walls of the castle. Restaurant 58 seating places, tower room 42 seating places Knight's meal medieval feast from 15 Mondays, the restaurant is closed after breakfast for lunch and dinner. The hotel is opened for overnight stay guests. Church in Neuhaus on the Pegnitz River: |912-veld castle hotel Pegnitz River Franconia Bavaria Nurnberg Nuremburg Mid Franconia|

Travel advent calendar: 24 Christmas travel ideas Too often the weeks leading up to Christmas are spent panicking about gifts, worrying about having too little food, worrying about having too much food and feeling guilty about opening 15 of your chocolate advent calendar windows on December 1. We've found the solution. Some great festivals, traditions and events take place around the world during December, so here's a travel advent calendar you can open in one shot without crying. Start December with a bang as the countdown to Christmas begins in the lake region in the south of Finland in Lehmonkärjentie. Take in the snow-covered scenery through a range of snowmobile rides from short beginner trips to long safaris catered to expert snowmobilers. Packages start at €95 (US$127) a person for a 20-kilometer, 1.5-hour beginner’s course at the Lehmonkärki holiday resort. www.lehmonkarki.fl; (03) 7666 330 Also on CNNGo: 10 mountains for every kind of climber Warm up in the cold winters of southwestern Hokkaido in the Noboribetsu Onsen area. The water in the hot springs in the area contains a high level of sulfur, and at Jigoku Valley ("Hell Valley"), plumes of yellow volcanic gas seep to the surface, casting a ghostly tint to the area, giving the place its name. The Dai-ichi Takimotokan boasts seven in-house hot springs on its premises. Rates for a four-person room in the Main Building start at around ¥20,000 (US$258). www.takimotokan.co.jp; +81 143 84 2111 Also on CNNGo: 5 of Asia’s strangest spa therapies Join in the race in aid of Cancer Research Aid Committee or just spectate as six-strong teams of Londoners dress up in zany outfits for the 31st Great Christmas Pudding Race in Covent Garden. www.xmaspuddingrace.org.uk; +44 7818 077036 Also on CNNGo: 20 of the world’s most iconic skyscrapers Pick up snowshoeing in Sarajevo -- easier to learn than skiing as snowshoes distribute your weight over a larger surface area. The 98-meter high Skakavac Waterfall, which freezes completely in winter, is difficult to get to on foot because of heavy snowfall, so it’s the perfect place to snowshoeing. Snowshoe trips start at €22.50 (US$30) with Green Visions. www.greenvisions.ba; +387 (0)33 717290 Also on CNNGo: Australia’s highest mountain by snowshoe Winter swimming, not to be confused with ice swimming, is a less extreme winter activity. Participants do not jump into a frozen river in nothing more than bathing suits, but often wear winter-suitable neoprene suits. The Berlin Seals swim in Lake Oranke in Berlin every Sunday between September and April. The highlight of the Berlin Seals calendar is a winter swimming event in mid-January, but you can still dip into the cold Orankesee in December with the family-friendly group. Also on CNNGo: World’s 15 most spectacular swimming pools Trains have been thundering along the historic four-day Toronto-Vancouver route, known as The Canadian, since 1955. Experience the wintery Canadian landscape leisurely as the train makes its way through Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Jasper. Today the route is operated by VIA Rail Canada, and departs from Toronto on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. One-way economy-class tickets start at CAD530 (US$510). www.viarail.ca; +1 888 842 7245 Also on CNNGo: 6 great Australian train journeys Christmas may have been co-opted by Hong Kong businesses hoping to rake in year-end sales, but the city’s efforts to make the holiday festive continue to be impressive. This year, Hong Kong will again host WinterFest, with a giant outdoor Tiffany & Co. Christmas tree lighting up Central. Despite the lack of freezing temperatures, an ice-skating rink will also be open at the Centenary Garden in Tsim Sha Tsui, where you can skate under the Christmas lights. Also on CNNGo: Beginner’s guide to Hong Kong food Be prepared for an adrenaline-pumping ride as you scale Barron Mountain in New Hampshire in a Pinzgauer, a modified six-wheel drive Swiss Army vehicle. Alpine Adventures offers an alternative way to see the wintery sights of northeast America. Tickets for adults are US$36, and groups must contain at least four persons; and Alpine Adventures suggest advance reservations for the winter. www.alpinezipline.com; +1 603 745 9911 Also on CNNGo: World’s 7 most unusual vehicles Christmas markets flourish in every city and town in Austria, though most visitors try to hit the markets in the largest cities Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck. The capital holds “Christkindlmarket” in many areas of the city. The largest is at the Rathausplatz, in the square in front of city hallm where you can slurp mulled wine, munch mince pies and buy trinkets for your tree. Other notable markets in Vienna include the market in front of Schroenbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the Hapsburg emperors, and the market at Spittelberg, considered the most authentic. Also on CNNGo: 50 must-visit traditional markets in Korea If you’re already getting tired of all the snow and the below-zero weather forecasts, head to the southern hemisphere where summer is hitting its stride. You can count down the days in December and celebrate Christmas Day on many beaches in Australia, but the balmy weather also makes Christmas a great time to explore all the holiday markets in Sydney. It’s a nice change from huddling in layers of clothing in a packed European market, slipping and sliding on melted snow. Also on CNNGo: Oz adventure: 40 summer outings Almost every big-name cosmopolitan theater and small-town community theater in the world puts on a Christmas event for December, and "The Nutcracker" might be the most beloved of all Christmas theater shows. This year, the newly reopened Bolshoi Theatre is the best place to catch a production of "The Nutcracker." The Bolshoi Theater was opened in 1856 and reopened in October this year after a six-year renovation that cost more than US$700 million. www.bolshoi.ru; +7 499 250 73 17 Also on CNNGo: World’s best tourists The shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe is one of the world's most visited places of pilgrimage for Catholics, and millions flock to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City every year. The feast day falls on December 16 this year, and is the last big holiday in Mexico before the Christmas season begins. Join the other devotees in the square of the Basilica, which bursts with pilgrims, artists and musicians all adding to the festivities. Also on CNNGo: 10 of the world’s most loved airports Trakai is home to the medieval Island Castle that sits in the middle of Lake Galve. In the winter the lake freezes over, and ice-fishing is a popular pastime. Just remember to do as the locals do and bring a flask of vodka to warm yourself up through the day. Trakai is about 20 kilometers west of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Buses run between Vilnius and Trakai, making ice-fishing an ideal day trip. The Trakai National Sports & Health Center provides equipment for winter activities like ice-fishing and horse-drawn sled rides. Trakai National Sports & Health Center, Karaimu St. 73, Trakai; +370 5285 5501 Also on CNNGo: 15 romantic European castle hotels Lillehammerwas the site for bobsledding and luge events at the 1994 Winter Olympics. The Lillehammer Olympic Bobsleigh and Luge track offers a range of winter activities including bobrafting, four-man bobsleighing and skeleton sledding. Prices vary depending on the activity, but start at NOK 230 (US$39) a person for bobrafting. www.olympiaparken.no; +47 61 05 42 00 Penguins are a fixture of the popular imagination of Christmas, even though they live in the southern hemisphere and don’t bunk in with Santa Claus in the north. Approximately 60,000 pairs of Magellenic penguins, who form life-long partnerships, live on Isla Magdalena, and the numbers on this small island makes it an ideal location for penguin-watching. Many tour operators conduct penguin-watching tours. Turismo Comapa operates a ferry tour that departs from the city of Punta Arenas. Tours do not run every day, so it is best to check in with the tour operator before heading out. Adult tickets are CLP 25,000 (US$50). Also on CNNGo: 50 natural wonders: The ultimate list of scenic splendor One of the best ways to soak in the Christmas spirit in New York City is to spend a few hours at Bryant Park. With a free skating rink and more than 100 shops to peruse while sipping hot chocolate or hot spiced apple cider, it can turn a cold winter’s day into a cockle warmer. Or turn it into a nighttime activity, skating with the hordes at night, with the sky lit up by a giant Christmas tree overlooking the rink. theholidayshopsatbryantpark.com; +1 212 661-6640 Also on CNNGo: Best city hotel rooms with a view Otepaa, a small town 50 kilometers from Tartu, the second largest city in Estonia, is a haven for winter sports, but if that’s not your thing, try out an Estonian hot smoke sauna for a relaxing weekend. You can get to Otepaa by buses from Tartu,Tallinn, and several other departure points. Suitsusauna Talu (smoke sauna farm) is a small sauna retreat that accommodates up to 20 visitors. A bed per person for a night starts at €12.78 (US$17) and reservations should be made in advance. Pyeongchang is due to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, so why wait to test your skis at an Olympic-approved venue? Yongpyong Resort is one of the oldest ski resorts in Korea, and is home to 31 slopes, including six that are approved for international competitions. Yongpyong Resort is also well-known as the site for several filming locations of the extremely popular Korean television series "Winter Sonata." The series has brought droves of visitors to Yongpyong Resort in Pyeongchang. www.yongpyong.co.kr; +82 33 335 5757 Also on CNNGo: Most eco-friendly tours in Korea Numbers of Siberian tigers in the wild have slowly increased after efforts by the Russian government and the World Wildlife Fund. The Siberian tiger remains elusive to visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of the beautiful big cat. Eco-tours offer visitors a holistic experience, and possibly even a sighting or two of the Siberian tiger. Try the “Realm of Amur Tiger” package offered by U.S.-based Travel all Russia, which adheres to ecotourism principles. www.travelallrussia.com; +1 800 884 1721 Also on CNNGo: 10 ‘novel’ travel ideas December 20 marks the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that spans eight days, and what better way to countdown to Christmas by experiencing yet another wintertime holiday celebration? The winds gusting through Jerusalem during winter make the traditional menorahs unfeasible, so they are lit up and put in a glass case as “aquarium menorahs.” Spend an evening snacking on a sufganiyot, a Hanukkah jelly doughnut, and wander through the streets in the neighborhoods of Nachlaot and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. tour.jerusalem.muni.il/eng; Jerusalem Tourist Info Center: +972 62 903 8202 Also on CNNGo: 15 of the world’s weirdest museums The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival only kicks off in early January, but the beautiful ice sculptures start going up in mid-December. The China Harbin Ice and Snow World is one of the venues of the Ice and Snow Festival. Also on CNNGo: China’s coolest chocolate art The winter solstice falls on December 22, a day when druids and pagans celebrate the shortest day of the year at Stonehenge in Wiltshire. Aside from believers, including the supposed present reincarnation of King Arthur Pendragon, non-believers have increasingly flocked to Stonehenge in recent years. If you are thinking of joining the hundreds who will gather at Stonehenge, be prepared to deal with slippery roads up to the prehistoric site before sunrise. Also on CNNGo: World’s 12 worst tourist traps The long Christmas season in Puerto Rico begins at the end of November and lasts all the way till early January. Parrandas, or carolers, go door-to-door singing carols, in what is a thoroughly lively affair. If you haven’t had enough of Christmas carols yet, beginning nine days before Christmas Day, churches conduct misas de aguinaldo, or mass of carols, every day at dawn. Visit the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, the second-oldest church in the Western hemisphere. www.catedralsanjuan.com; +1 787 722 0861 Also on CNNGo: World’s 50 best beaches In St. James Parish, right outside New Orleans, Christmas Eve is celebrated with the lighting up of bonfires and fireworks. The bonfires are higher than three meters, and dot the banks of the Mississippi River. St. James Parish is about 97 kilometers, or roughly an hour’s drive, from New Orleans. Also on CNNGo: 10 of the world’s most hated airports

The BEST WESTERN Hotel Raumanlinna is ideally situated in the very center of Rauma, next to a beautiful park and in the vicinity of Old Rauma. Raumanlinna was originally built as a civilian defense headquarters in 1933. The functionalist-style building has been completely renovated in the 2000s.The hotel has 71 modern and versatile rooms, all of which have flat-screen TV, free Internet access, coffee- and tea-making facilities and a minibar.Breakfast and dinner is enjoyed at the relaxed street-level located Mr Jones Bar & Kitchen. The generous buffet style breakfast consists of local produce and is included in all our room rates. Click on the link to our menu: http://www.mrjones.fi/ruokalista.phtml The lobby bar located in the reception area serves hot and cold beverages and small snacks. The hotel also houses the popular Nightclub Domino. The hotel sauna is available on request. Parking spaces for hotel guests are available behind the hotel building.Visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Old Rauma, is a must when in Rauma. The idyllic wooden houses district is only a five minute walk from the hotel. In Old Rauma you can find interesting shops, museums and cafes. Your stay with us will earn you Best Western Rewards and SAS EuroBonus points. Welcome to the town of Rauma and the BEST WESTERN Hotel Raumanlinna! • 24-hour Reception • Food and socializing, nightclub • Complimentary buffet breakfast • Lobby bar serving coffee and refreshments • Free parking • SIXT Car Rental Service • Sauna on request • Safe deposit boxes at the reception • Laundry service, price list in the room • Catering services (www.hovisales.fi) • Porter services (request at reception) • Late check-out • VIP Services for Rewards members (request at reception) • Free wireless Internet access in the public areas and rooms • Business Center; computer, photocopier and printer in the lobby, postal services 500 meters: Old Rauma, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Old Rauma, the largest wooden house district in the Nordics and an UNESCO World Heritage Site, is only a five minute walk from Raumanlinna. The area houses interesting shops, museums, cafes and restaurants. In the heart of the Old Rauma’s narrow, cobbled streets is a market square, where you can enjoy the famous "pystykaffeet."http://www.visitrauma.fi/?lang=english 0.7 km: The Church of the Holy Cross A beautiful medieval greystone church built alongside the canal. 1 km: Marela The former home of Merchant-Shipowner Gabriel Granlund, now an Old Rauma museum, open Tuesday to Sunday, and daily during the month of July. 5 km to the departure point: Kylmäpihlaja lighthouse island Wild sea buckthorn grows on this remote island, offering an undisturbed view of the open sea. The lighthouse houses a café and a restaurant, hotel rooms and a guest harbour. OL3 Olkiluoto nuclear power plant Olkiluoto nuclear power plant visitors' center is open daily. Admission is free of charge. The distance from the hotel is 25 km in the direction of Pori. 1.5 km: Swimming pool 1.5 km: Ice-skating 2 km: City theatre 3 km: Golf course • 90 km: Turku • 50 km: Pori • 250 km: Helsinki Distances to companies and educational institutions • 2 km: Oras factories • 3 km: UPM 's paper mill (United Paper Mills) • 3 km: Rolls-Royce Ltd's factories • 3 km: STX Europe shipyard • 3 km: Port of Rauma • 25 km: Teollisuuden Voima Oy • 25 km: AREVA OL3 • 0.5 km: University of Turku, Faculty of Education, Rauma • 1 km: Satakunta University of Applied Sciences Breakfast and dinner is enjoyed at the relaxed street-level located Mr Jones Bar & Kitchen. The generous buffet style breakfast consists of local produce and is included in all our room rates. The restaurant is open Monday to Friday, starting at 16, and Saturday Sunday from 13. Please follow this link to see our menu: http://www.mrjones.fi/ruokalista.phtml The lobby bar located in the reception area serves hot and cold beverages and small snacks. The BEST WESTERN Hotel Kalliohovi, only a short walk away, houses the nautical-themed restaurant Kapteeninhuone. Try the delicious fish dishes, the city's best steaks or gourmet pizzas. The BEST WESTERN Raumanlinna does not offer meeting or conference services. Please book these services via the Hovi Service, as these facilities are available at our sister hotel, the BEST WESTERN Hotel Kalliohovi, as well as in other locations offered by our sales service. They will assist with any meeting facility, catering or event requests you may have. BEST WESTERN Hotel Kalliohovi offers versatile meeting facilities as well as spacious sauna facilities. Hotel Kalliohovi, and it's famous restaurant Kapteeninhuone, offer the most notable lunchtime fish buffet in Rauma. It also serves á la carte lunch and dinner. Hovi Sales provide professional assistance for booking meeting facilities, catering and other services for your events in Rauma. The staff has extensive experience of organizing a wide range of small and large events, from intimate client functions to rock-music events. Contact us: email@example.com From: the south: Take Road 8 and turn to the left for the BEST WESTERN Hotel Raumanlinna. From: the north: Take Road 8 and turn to the right for the BEST WESTERN Hotel Raumanlinna. FIN-26100, Rauma, Finland Pets allowed with Restrictions • 24-hour Reception Traveler reviews are now on our website. Look for the TripAdvisor logo for more information!

Rooms at Amsterdam Bed and Breakfast CityCenter Available for the guests, on the second floor of the house, there are two no smoking double rooms. The rooms are high and light, with authentic wood rafters. Very romantic. Exellent quality Queen size bed! These two rooms share one luxurious bathroom with hydro massage and steam sauna shower. Everyday a rich and delicious breakfast will be served in your room. On Sunday, holiday days and special events your breakfast will be served in a restaurant close our bed and breakfast. Your room will be cleaned daily and fresh towels will be provided every day. Fresh bed linen will be provided every two days. Each room has: Teas and coffees Queen size bed Free city map Free tourist guide Free public transport map Rates: 95* € - 135* € per room per night (*Includes rich breakfast - Tourist tax 5,5% is not included) (*During holiday days and special events the minimum stay and the price may change).

Welcome to Bansko Chalets! We are Matt and Ellie, a British/Bulgarian partnership and we run 4 beautiful ski chalets in the heart of Bansko ski resort in Bulgaria. Over the past four seasons we have become renowned for running chalets with high quality service, accommodation and food at less than half the price of the Alps. WHY WOULD YOU BOOK WITH BANSKO CHALETS? 1) Price: Our normal standard fully catered weeks in Chalet Isabella cost 277 GBP per person, which are inclusive of: * Unlimited complementary wine and beer during meal times * Use of our outdoor hot-tub in the chalet garden * Superb three course evening meal on six nights * Return airport transfers from Sofia airport to Bansko * Home made cakes/biscuits on your return from the slopes * Flexible transfers to the pistes (or direct to the chairlifts if there is more than a 10 minute gondola queue) * Breakfast with cooked/continental option each morning * Discounted use of swimming pool/sauna/steam room at a nearby hotel * Mulled wine and canapes on arrival In Chalet Elena the price is even cheaper, with standard flexi-catered weeks selling for 257 GBP per person. * All our independent chalets have high speed Wi-fi, a Games room, games console and drying room * In Chalet Isabella we have a Hot-tub on the outside decking and in Chalet Orbelus there is a sauna and indoor jacuzzi bath. * All chalets have a range of books/board games and DVD’s * All chalets have a Flat screen TV, MP3 music player, DVD player and Cable TV channels. * With Chalet Elena comes complementary use of a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, Sauna and Steam room in a four star hotel just 150 metres from the chalet. * All our chalets are only 5-6 minutes walk from Bansko town centre. * Direct flights to Bulgaria currently cost between £80 and £180 return with Easyjet, BA or Bulgaria Air. * Newly installed lift system opens up the 75km of pisted runs. There are 8 chairlifts, a gondola and 5 drag lifts. * All chalets have views across to the pistes on the Pirin mountains, the most spectacular range in Bulgaria. * As the ski area extends from 1000m up to 2600m, the snow is guaranteed from 15th December to until 8th April. 4) Service: * All catered chalet prices include flexible return piste transfers every day and return airport transfers. Your chalet hosts live out of the chalet and are friendly, helpful and trained in high level customer service. Please see 6 years of our reviews on http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g318870-d2261972-Reviews-Chalet_Isabella-Bansko_Blagoevgrad_Province.html or above on the ‘testimonials’ option. * We can take payment through bank transfer or all credit/debit cards. * We can pre-book lift passes, lessons and equipment for no extra cost. We hope you find everything you need to know about the chalet accommodation on this website, but if you have any questions at all or would like to make a booking then please don’t hesitate to contact us on either email@example.com or 0161 8188886. Matt and Ellie, Bansko Chalets Ltd, Bansko, Bulgaria

Several years ago D’Ann Johnson purchased a two-story, L-shaped Victorian house built in 1876 on a hill across from the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Originally built as a finishing school, the house had endured some ill-conceived remodeling experiments and fallen into disrepair. As part of an overall rehab, D’Ann asked me to remodel three of the home’s bathrooms, including a master bath with fourteen-foot ceilings. D’Ann described the room as “a bad plan, poorly implemented, and only partially completed.” The room included a raised plywood floor, a sunken tub, an uninviting tiled shower, an unfinished sauna, an open plywood loft of indeterminate purpose, and a lot of unused, unusable open space. D’Ann wanted to incorporate as many green building elements into the remodel as possible, within her budget constraints. We found an early opportunity to utilize the green concept of reuse/recycle during the demolition process when we discovered the original longleaf pine flooring was still in place under the plywood floor. We removed the boards to use again as flooring and trim in other parts of the house. We also donated the old bathroom fixtures to the local Habitat for Humanity ReStore. A bathroom is more than a place for personal grooming—it can be a nurturing retreat. Here’s how we created a special space for D’Ann. D’Ann chose ceramic tile for the bathroom floor. Tile floors are durable and compare favorably in cost with other green flooring alternatives such as prefinished bamboo plank flooring and natural linoleum. Ceramic tile is the least susceptible to moisture damage, has relatively low environmental impact in manufacture, and is available in a wide variety of materials, colors, dimensions, textures, and styles. D’Ann chose a hexagonal white tile with small black diamond accent tiles at the corners and stripes at the borders for the tub surround, wainscoting, and countertop. Tile was also the best choice for the countertops and the walls surrounding the tub. Cultured marble countertops and fiberglass tub surrounds, though inexpensive and easy to clean, aren’t recommended because their manufacture contaminates air and water and they can outgas harmful contaminants after installation. For the open side of the jet tub, we installed glass-block walls instead of a shower curtain or a glass shower door. Even with the shower going full blast, very little spray gets through the opening onto the tile floor. The best way to install tile for tub surrounds and countertops is the old-fashioned mudset method. After installing moisture-resistant sheetrock (“greenboard”) on the walls, the tile installers apply a thick layer of mortar, or “mud,” to the walls. (Mortar mixes and thinsets are all fairly nontoxic as long as you’re careful not to breathe in the dust.) The tiles were applied with cement thinset. Fortino Rodriguez, an experienced tile installer in Austin, prefers this method to the more standard procedure of installing tiles with thinset over cement backerboard because he believes it’s the strongest, longest lasting, and least likely to let moisture penetrate, lessening the possibility of rot or mold. Rodriguez recommends against using grout sealer on bathtub and shower walls; he says it won’t prevent moisture from penetrating the grout, but it does trap moisture in the wall. Other tile installers disagree. Like many choices in remodeling, this is a matter of the homeowner making a decision based on a contractor’s and subcontractor’s recommendations, his or her own research, and, finally, intuition. To install the tile floor, we glued cement backerboard over a wooden subfloor. We used a low-VOC adhesive and ring-shank nails to fasten the backerboard to the subfloor and installed the tiles using thinset. Using larger tiles reduces the number of grout lines, and darker grouts are easier to clean and maintain. Whereas conventional wall-tile adhesives can contain toluene, benzene, naptha, and other dangerous solvents, Rodriguez likes to use Laticrete White Multi-Mastic 15, a water-based product, for both wall tiles and gluing backerboard. This product does contain ethylene glycol and mineral spirits, but it’s water soluble and relatively safe. Another safe tile adhesive is Safecoat 3 in 1 by AFM. Light and ventilation Natural daylight not only saves energy, but also adds an element of warmth to bathrooms. Ventilating skylights work well in bathrooms, and windows can be opened for ventilation in good weather. Where privacy is a consideration, use windows with frosted glass. In addition, vent fans help eliminate odors and remove moisture-laden air. Vent fans should always be ducted to the outdoors, either through the roof or a wall. In D’Ann’s bathroom, two glass-block windows high on the interior wall adjacent to the loft provide natural light; eventually she plans to install an awning window on the exterior wall above the tub. We mounted a vent fan/light combination in the lower ceiling over the commode. The high ceilings also help disperse moisture. The current trend of dropping a sink into an antique chest of drawers and using it as a bathroom vanity can be considered a green option as it’s an example of reuse. If you’re choosing conventional cabinets, however, avoid those made with particleboard or medium-density fiberboard (MDF), which outgas formaldehyde and other toxic chemicals. Most cabinet shops will use plywood instead of particleboard if asked. Exterior-grade plywood is best; interior-grade plywood glues can have considerably more formaldehyde than exterior grades. Wheatboard, also known as strawboard or wheatsheet, is an MDF made from wheat straw with a nontoxic binder instead of formaldehyde. Strong and easily machined, it’s an excellent choice for cabinets and holds paint well. Wheatboard with a hardwood veneer is also available. When D’Ann remodeled her kitchen, she used recycled longleaf pine lumber for her cabinets. She wanted to do the same in the bathroom but wasn’t able to because of budget constraints. She bought the pressboard vanity cabinet at Home Depot. We provided plenty of ventilation after cabinet installation so that the formaldehyde could outgas. Saving energy and water Every bathroom remodeling project should include energy- and water-saving devices. Low-flow commodes are vastly improved over the older models. At 1.6 gallons per flush versus the old standard of 5 to 6 gallons per flush, the water savings is obvious. D’Ann replaced all the commodes in her four bathrooms with water-saving models. For the master bathroom, she chose a round Kohler toilet, primarily because it was available in black. Other highly rated models include Toto’s Drake, Kohler’s Santa Rosa, and American Standard’s Colony toilets. Many municipalities provide residents with free low-flow fixtures or provide rebates. Austin does both—the Universal Rundle/Crane model is provided free, and twenty-eight other models are eligible for rebates. Austin also pays $30 toward the cost of installation. D’Ann wanted to select her own model, so she chose the rebate option. Low-flow showerheads use 2 to 2.5 gallons per minute, compared to 6 gallons per minute for conventional showerheads. Again, current models are greatly improved over the earlier versions, which reduced water flow to a light drizzle. Most low-flow showerheads aren’t advertised as such, but the flow-rating is usually indicated on the package. In addition to the environmental benefits they offer, low-flow showers can offer savings in water and energy consumption of between $90 and $320 over ten years. The Price-Pfister tub/shower faucet kit that D’Ann chose included a 2.5 gallon-per-minute showerhead. She commented that it was like getting the faucet kit for free. Bath, shower, and sink faucets should have brass or ceramic valves; plastic valves wear out and need replacement much sooner. If possible, the shower wall containing faucet pipes should be contiguous to a closet or another area where an access panel for future replacement or leak repairs can be unobtrusively installed. Bathroom remodeling usually entails removing existing plumbing fixtures, and sometimes the old fixtures have been leaking inside the walls or onto the floor for a long time, causing rot or water damage that becomes visible when the fixture is removed. Homeowners should also be prepared to encounter corroded plumbing lines and inadequate wiring. All bathroom outlets are required to be ground-fault interrupt (GFI), which prevents electric shock from water contact.

Should you find your hotel room, with the same booking conditions, at a lower rate on the internet after you have booked, we’ll match it. Just contact us within 24 hours of booking, with details of the website. Note: No Best Price Guarantee if you book a hotel room through or in combination with Membership rates, Frequent stay, Loyalty points or other 'reward' type programs or special promotions of the hotel you booked. You will pay the property in the property's local currency (CZK). The displayed amount is indicative and based on the exchange rate at the time of booking. Показать цены в валюте отеля How to book hotel Riviera 1.Choose the preferred dates of staying 2.Filling reservation form 3.Immediate number reservation 4.Getting supporting documents 5.Payment for booking to hotel |Internet Services||Internet services, WiFi, Free WiFi| |Check in/out||Check-in from 14:00 until 22:00| Check-out until 10:00 Hotel Riviera offers luggage storage, non-smoking rooms, sun terrace and BBQ facilities. Guests can enjoy indoor swimming pool, hot tub, sauna or massage during their stay. |General||There are rooms with bathroom, Pets allowed, Bar, Garden, Terrace, Non-smoking rooms, Family rooms, Safety deposit box, Heating, Luggage storage, Ski storage, Designated smoking area, Private beach area, Restaurant (à la carte), Restaurant (buffet), Sun terrace, On-site parking, WiFi available in all areas| |Activities||Sauna, Skiing, Massage, Children's playground, Billiards, Table tennis, Hot tub, Hiking, BBQ facilities, Cycling, Bowling, Horse riding, Ski school, Indoor pool| |Services||Airport shuttle, Barber/beauty shop, Bicycle rental, Fax/photocopying| |Internet Services||Internet services, Free WiFi| |Accepted credit cards| It is the responsibility of the hotel chain and/or the individual property to ensure the accuracy of the photos displayed.

when I was going through my out of town transfer a couple of months ago. My clinic recommends 36 hours of bedrest, but retrieval and transfer were a day later than expected, which meant that I would have had to change flights to get the full 36 hours. In the end I decided not to come home on a later flight - I only had 15 hours of bedrest. My clinic (whom I love) admitted that the research does not necessarily support bedrest, but they wanted to be cautious. They asked that I stay hydrated and recline as much as possible on the plane, not lift heavy things, and not do anything to raise my body temperature (exercise, hot bath, sauna).

Lennox Beach Resort - Lennox Head, Ballina 7 Park Lane - Ballina1-877-662-6988 Searching for vacation resorts in Lennox Head? Take a peek at Lennox Beach Resort! Enjoy a spot of lunch or an evening meal at this 4 star Lennox Head resort's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. Whether visiting Australia on holiday or for work, make sure you take time out to de-stress as you can find a spa tub, a sauna, an outdoor tennis court and a steam room on site. Don't forget to pack your swimsuit and towel as this resort features 2 outdoor swimming pools. Guests can also enjoy drinks as there is a bar/lounge. Staff can provide tour/ticket assistance. Free Wi-Fi is provided. Staff are available at the front desk during limited hours. Other amenities include beach/pool umbrellas, a garden and a computer station. Check Availability at Lennox Beach Resort - Personal newspapers - Luggage room - City tour - Room service - limited hour - Beach umbrellas and deck loungers - Steam bath - Hydromassage Jacuzzi - Internet/Email services - Tennis court - Free parking - No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property. Check-in: between 2 PM and 5:30 PM. Check-out: before 10 AM. The front desk is open during the following times: - Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM - Saturday - Sunday: 9 AM - 3 PM Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges. Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed. The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out. - Fee for in-room wireless Internet: AUD 6 per hour (rates may vary) - Late check-out fee: AUD 20 - Weekly housekeeping provided; fees apply for additional cleaning - Crib (infant bed) fee: AUD 10 per night - Rollaway bed fee: AUD 35 per night The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change. AAA Tourism Pty Ltd assigns an official STAR Rating for accommodations in Australia. This Self Catering property is rated 4 stars and is displayed on this page as 4 stars. Lennox Beach Resort is also known as Headland Beach Resort - Lennox Head Headland Beach Resort - Lennox Head Hotel Lennox Head Headland Beach Resort - Lennox Head Hotel Lennox Beach Resort reviews - January 2015 - Venere Guest - April 2014 - Venere Guest Lennox Beach Resort reviews by TripAdvisor Lennox Beach Resort has 40 guest rooms, all featuring washers/dryers and DVD players. Rooms open onto balconies. Well appointed kitchens offer a range of facilities, including full-sized refrigerators/freezers, stovetops and dishwashers, allowing you to save on dining expenses while you travel. Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy LCD televisions with cable channels. Corporate travelers will benefit from wireless high-speed Internet access (charges apply) as well as complimentary newspapers during their Lennox Head visit. Rooms also include climate control, air conditioning and coffee/tea makers. Private bathrooms are outfitted with hair dryers and complimentary toiletries. - Air conditioning - Extra beds - Coffee and tea maker - Hairdryer in each room - In-room ironing facilities - Individually controlled air conditioning - DVD player - LCD flat screen TV - Cable TV - Wireless Internet access - Dial-up Internet access Distances from Lennox Beach ResortBallina Golf Club - 6.4 km / 4 mi Ballina Jockey Club - 6.7 km / 4.2 mi Shelly Beach - 7.4 km / 4.6 mi Ballina Fair Shopping Centre - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi Lighthouse Beach - 8.1 km / 5 mi Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum - 8.9 km / 5.6 mi Kings Beach - 10.8 km / 6.7 mi Tallow Beach - 12.8 km / 7.9 mi Byron Bay Golf Course - 13.5 km / 8.4 mi Cape Byron Lighthouse - 18.1 km / 11.2 mi Wategos Beach - 18.2 km / 11.3 mi Belongil Beach - 18.8 km / 11.7 mi The preferred airport for Lennox Beach Resort is Ballina, NSW (BNK-Ballina - Byron Gateway) - 5.7 km / 3.6 mi. Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile. Transportation services Lennox Beach Resort - Free parking

Carnival Miracle Cruise Review by NCTribeFan: Reunited with Carnival Miracle 12-14-09! Member Since 2007 Compare Prices on Carnival Miracle Western Caribbean Cruises Reunited with Carnival Miracle 12-14-09! Background: I'm a single female, mid-50s; DD just (finally) finished college, age 23. This was my 11th cruise, 10th on Carnival, making this my first as a Platinum cruiser. DD will be Platinum on her next. I sailed the Triumph's Cruise-to-Nowhere in October, solo, specifically so I'd be Platinum, as our embarkation in Port Everglades two years ago was not very pleasant at all. Two days after returning from our fantastic, exhausting cruise last May on Victory, I lost my job. I debated for the next couple of months whether to cancel this Miracle cruise or go ahead and make final payment. Although I have little savings and the job prospects aren't good, I just knew that if I cancelled, I'd end up with a job at the last minute and either wouldn't be able to rebook, or would be able to sail but would lose the aft cabin I'd booked 14 months ago. I discovered Cruise Critic a few months before we sailed Miracle on 12/17/07. Our roll call from that cruise is still going. At some More point, we started talking about sailing her together again. This became our Lime Gang Reunion cruise, since we had all worn lime-green leis at our Meet & Greet on that cruise. Unfortunately, we ended up with just one couple from that cruise being able to make this one. Although I didn't find a "real" job, I do have a temporary position lined up for mid-January through mid-April, so I don't feel quite so guilty about going ahead with my cruise. I really, really wanted to do this since I plan on relocating this summer and don't know that I'll ever have the opportunity to take another vacation like this with my daughter. It's been just the two of us since she was three years old, so this was important to me. Of course, after I'd made final payment, a couple of crises occurred, and I was "this close" to having to cancel and lose my deposit or worse. The last crisis happened the Wednesday before we were to sail, which would've meant I'd lose every dime. Thankfully, all crises were averted. It was very stressful, though, and I began to think that I really wasn't meant to take this cruise. I think it was appropriate that we were sailing on the Miracle, because I was felling like that is what it would take to actually pull this off. I wasn't going to believe it was really happening until I was actually standing on the deck. Sunday, 12/13, Durham to Fort Lauderdale I booked the 1:50 nonstop flight on Southwest Airlines from RDU to FLL. I had booked an airport taxi online for 11:30 pickup. I'd taken the dog to the vets to board on Saturday, so just had some last-minute packing to do (you know the stuff - making sure all my little bottles of liquids were actually in a zip bag, making sure we had cross-packed two checked bags and had sleepwear, swimwear, undies, etc. in the small roll-on case). The weather was in the 40s and rainy, and generally unpleasant. I was looking forward to getting to southern Florida, even though we'd had some glorious late fall weather here. But not this day! Got to the airport in plenty of time and got some lunch. Flight was uneventful and on time. We went to the baggage claim and I went to the phones to call the Hyatt Place for pickup. Although luggage was already on the belt, I was told she couldn't send the driver until I had the bags and was ready to go to the pickup point. So, about three minutes later, I called again and said we were ready. I was told to exit the terminal and go past the end of the building all the way down to a sign that said "off airport hotels" or something similar. So off we went, wearing our cold-weather clothing, dragging our bags down the sidewalk. Of course, the couple of benches were occupied, so we stood there for a bit, feeling rather warm and uncomfortable. I looked back toward the terminal, and there was the little Hyatt Place shuttle, sitting right in front of the door to the terminal. So, I left DD with the bags, and I walked back to the bus and asked the driver why we'd been told to walk all that way. He had no idea. So I boarded and he drove down and picked up DD and the luggage. In a few minutes, we were at the hotel. Check-in was quick and painless. Unfortunately, our room didn't face toward the port, but I walked down to the end of the hall later (searching for the ice machine), looked out the window, and saw a large ship pulling out, just at dusk. I believe it was the Celebrity Solstice. A couple of guys from our Roll Call were disembarking her after a transatlantic, boarding Miracle the next day, then flying to California to board HAL's Amsterdam for a Panama Canal crossing. I try to not think too much about how nice it would be to have the money and time to travel like that, because I really don't like being envious of others, but it's hard to keep from thinking, "Why not me? Why don't I have that life?" Instead, I try to just be grateful that I've been able to travel as much as I have. Given my situation, I may be living in a box under the freeway by this time next year, so obsessing about what I don't have or can't do is pointless. I'd been told about an Irish pub near the hotel, so off we went for supper. Had very good fish & chips and a couple of pints of Guinness, while DD had the steak and kidney pie and a Strongbow cider. I was so stuffed! Just getting myself tuned up for all the overeating I knew I'd do on the ship. I didn't sleep very well, probably due to the overeating and the excitement of boarding the ship the next day. Monday, 12/14/09, Embarkation Day I was up fairly early (as usual), had my shower, walked down to the end of the hall and took a long-distance photo of the ships in port through the window, went down for the continental breakfast (which was pretty feeble), loaded up my plate, and took it all back up to the room. Then I pulled out my little roll of tape and attached my VIP luggage tags. Yes, you can board with luggage tags that you printed in B&W, that aren't laminated, aren't stapled, and aren't attached with zip ties! We went down to turn in our room cards and the shuttle was already loading. It was only about 10:40, so we decided to wait for the next one. The weather was glorious (which was great, because it had been very cold two years ago). By the time the next shuttle was ready to load, there were quite a lot of people waiting. Surprisingly, those who had arrived later actually pointed out those of us who were there first! The van was small, with only a small luggage space in the back. I was expecting a larger van or small bus towing a luggage container. We headed for the port and went to the Ruby Princess dock first. We didn't have anyone going to the X ship this time. Then we were off to the Miracle's dock. We unloaded the luggage, tipped the driver, gave our two larger bags to the porter, gave him a tip, and headed to the terminal building. At least this time the line wasn't a mile out the building although it was back to the doors. I went in, showed my FunPass with VIP on it, and was escorted to the front of the security line, where the gentleman held out his arms to halt the line and send us through. Oooooh, I'm so important! We went up the escalator and were directed to the VIP checkin. There were three employees checking people in, so we were given a #6 card. We sat down and filled out our little health questionnaire, and were called in just a couple of minutes. DD wasn't Platinum, but her gold card was there with my lovely, impressive Platinum card. We were then invited to help ourselves to the cookies and water or lemonade and instructed to go around the corner and have a seat. Turns out we sat next to a couple on our Roll Call (who I recognized because she told us what she would be wearing). They were just off the Dream, so were doing a back-to-back of sorts. We chatted with them for a while, and then it was time to go. We were led past where the "normal" cruisers were checking in/waiting and straight to the area to have our photos taken for our S&S cards. I would guess we were on board by about 11:40. We were on so early that the buffet lines weren't open! We pretty much had an empty cruise ship to ourselves. I was familiar with Miracle, having sailed her two years ago, but had forgotten just how very different the layout is from other Carnival ships (which, to me, are just variations on a theme, based on the Fantasy-class and adjusted/expanded for size). I really like the Spirit-class layout SO much more! The flow is much better and just feels so much more spacious. We took a quick walk through Gatsby's Garden, since I hadn't done that on the first Miracle cruise, and were heading down the staircase from Atlantic to Promenade deck when a crew member stopped us and told us we didn't need to drag our carryons around even though it was so early. So we went up to Main deck, aft, and put our two bags in one of the closets (and had my first glimpse of my aft cabin). Then it was up to Lido for lunch, where I had a corned beef and pastrami combo from the deli. It was tasty but a bit greasy. We decided to see if/when they were doing the spa tours as we always register for the drawing. We were told the tours would start at 2, so we just wandered around the ship a bit more. Back to the cabin to check out the aft balcony that I'd waited 14 months to see! We were in 4230, which is "just" a regular cabin, next to the highly desirable wrap-around aft (which I doubt I will ever be able to afford to book). There was no view, as we were facing the parking deck, and it was extremely hot out there. We got ourselves a cup of tea, and sat by the pool closest to the spa area and waited for the tour. Of course, it started to rain. We got our spa tour and registered for the drawing. Back to the cabin to await the call to muster. We were Muster Station D, which was just out the side door near our cabin and down to Deck 3. It was really, really hot and we were all grateful that we no longer have to wear the life vests. It was over with quickly, so we headed up all those stairs to Lido and the bar by the Orpheus pool for our Meet & Greet. I ordered a Funship Special (regular glass) and DD had something with mango that was yummy. We had already met four of the Roll Call members earlier. Then we spotted CWcruisers, our reunion friends who live in San Diego and who cruise many times every year (those Milestone S&S cards are pretty cool). It was so good to see them again! We all stood/sat and chatted and introduced ourselves and shared our real names. We needed to be back at the spa at 5 for the drawing. By the time we hiked from stern to bow, the aerobics room was packed, so I let DD stand by the door and listen for names while I sat on the seat of one of the exercise machines, watching Florida recede. Of course we didn't win anything. When we left the gym, the sun was setting behind Miami and I could see a couple of Carnival ships leaving port. Then it was time for more food, so down to the sushi cart. It isn't the best sushi, but I had been craving sushi - any sushi - for weeks, so I quite enjoyed it. I stopped by Formalities and purchased the cheaper wine package and was told I would receive my coupons from my waiter at dinner. Off we went to the cabin to stare at the wake a bit more, then it was time to get ready for dinner. We had late dining and were seated in the Ariadne Room at table 237. The table was next to the door leading into Jeeves lounge. It was a table for 4 and no one else was there, so we sat in the booth with our backs to the wall, looking out over the rest of the room, toward the main dining room. The grapes are still ugly. There was a young couple at the next table and no one else with them, either, so the four of us sat facing out, which was great for observing our fellow diners and the wait staff. Our head waiter was Mihai from Romania, and the assistant was Glenn from the Phillipines. I have to say our service was much quicker than I was expecting. Maybe that was partially because that room was never more than about 60% full. They had an 8-top, us, the couple next to us, and another table for four, so they had a lot fewer people to take care of than has been the case on our past few cruises. I had the cured salmon appetizer, a shrimp cocktail, and the tilapia while DD had the vegetarian Indian dish. Although she's not a vegetarian, she has had this twice and thinks it is one of the best meals on the cruise, so if anyone likes Indian food, give it a try. After dinner, it was off to Frankie & Johnnie's to hear the band and do some "chick dancing" with "W" of CWcruisers, my reunion friend. I stopped at the casino on my way back to the cabin, but no luck. I had a very limited gambling budget on this cruise, so stuck pretty much to the $0.01, $0.02 and $0.05 machines. Tuesday, 12/15/09, 1st Fun Day at Sea I have no idea when I got up! And, to be honest, I should take notes because after several days, it all becomes a bit of a blur. I use sea days to relax. I'm not one to participate in a bunch on onboard activities. I headed up to Lido, found the omelette station, got my hot tea and headed outside by the Orpheus pool to have my breakfast and do a little reading. Then I went back down to the cabin, to sit out on my lovely balcony to read some more, allowing DD to sleep in. We're on very different internal clocks, which sometimes makes traveling a little difficult. I'm an early riser and she isn't, which means we're rarely ready to eat at the same times. That's OK, though. Usually, by the time she's up and going to have breakfast, I'm ready for my 2nd breakfast! Since I'm Platinum, I had a free entry for the slot or blackjack tournament. I don't have the courage to play the card tables in a casino, so I decided to try the slot tournament. All I can say is that it's a good thing I didn't have to pay for my entry. I probably had the 2nd lowest total. Oh well! It was free, so why not? We had lunch (I tried the turkey on sub roll and decided I really liked it), and then we went up to the Sun Deck (where there were plenty of empty chairs), and sat and read for a bit more. In case it hasn't become apparent by now, DD & I are avid readers. Tonight was the first Cruise Elegant night, and the Captain's Party, which I imagine most Carnival cruisers now know offers $1 off drinks rather than the former freebies. DD wanted to nap, so I showered and dressed and decided to go down to see what was happening. Well, when I arrived in the lobby, absolutely nothing was happening! So I had a seat at the bar and ordered a glass of wine. I had a nice chat with the young couple next to me, who live about 20 miles away and were on their honeymoon. I also talked with Patrick, the bartender, who was from Mauritius. After retrieving DD, we had a look through the photo gallery (which we think is better entertainment than most of what happens on board). Then it was time for our dinner. DD had the lobster & shrimp, but I was so greedy that I had that AND the duck, which was absolutely delicious! As stuffed as I was, I still managed to go to Frankie & Johnnie's for a little more dancing. Wednesday, 12/16/09, 2nd Fun Day at Sea I was up fairly early, considering that I was out pretty late the night before, and had a few glasses of wine. When I went out back to have my breakfast, it was practically empty. The water in the Orpheus pool was coming out in big waves across the port side of the aft deck, and the wind was so strong that the sea spray was blowing back under the cover, where the dining tables were. I realized that I wasn't really very hungry, so I only ate a few bites, drank my tea, and went back to the cabin. I ended up lying on the bed, dozing for a couple more hours. DD finally woke up at about noon! I've had motion sickness problems my entire life and just knew I'd hate cruising. Despite my bow cabin and 14' seas on little Jubilee, I was still hooked by Day 2. Still, I wasn't a big fan of sea days. Thanks to Cruise Critic, I learned about Ginger tablets, and took those on my 1st Miracle cruise 2 years ago and had zero problems, for the first time. I was convinced I was cured. On the next cruise on Glory, I couldn't even tell the ship was moving. That was the only reason I booked a cruise with 4 days at sea. But there have been a few times since then that I also had to take a Bonine. This was one of those days. Although I never felt nauseated, I just didn't feel "right" and had no appetite. For that to be the case on a cruise, I knew I wasn't my normal self. I spent most of the day bundled up in my bathrobe, out on the balcony either trying to read or dozing. It rained several times and I was glad I had changed my original booking from a cabin on Deck 5, since we have much more of an overhang on Deck 4. Still, I had to turn the chair sideways, and turn myself toward the wall to keep my book from getting wet. I called for room service and ordered 2 roast beef & brie on baguette with chips. When it arrived, there was only one sandwich, but it was OK as I still had no appetite. The room service was a bit sketchy. Sometimes the order was perfect, sometimes it was missing items, or we'd receive 2 of something when we'd only ordered one. After taking ½ Bonine three different times, I decided I could manage to go to dinner, as long as I didn't spend a lot of time trying to get ready. Honestly, it's the time spent cooped up in the bathroom, either in the shower or in front of the mirror that seems to bring on the seasickness. So I just quickly changed in the cabin and decided I would have to go sans makeup. I doubt that anyone noticed! Judging by the lack of diners in the dining room, it seems I wasn't the only person on board who had a problem with the motion that day. It wasn't until our last day, during our talk with the Captain during the Behind the Fun tour, that I discovered we had diverted around Cuba, going on the west side rather than the east to avoid a storm, and we still had 10'+ seas. I had the French Onion soup, shrimp cocktail, and the braised short ribs, although I only managed a few bites of the entrEe. I had some lime sherbet for dessert, because DD insisted that it would be good for my stomach. So, it was an early night for us both, which was OK, because the next day was Panama! Thursday, 12/17/09, Colon, Panama When I book a cruise, I try to find an itinerary that has new-to-me ports. I sail to see the ports, not really for the ship experience. Both of the books I had brought to read on the ship were set in Panama. I hadn't finished the 1st, but had actually learned quite a bit from reading an "adventure" novel. I also do some research before I sail to learn something about the history and culture of the ports I will be visiting. With so much information instantaneously available to anyone with an internet connection, there's no reason to not be an informed traveler. We had put out the breakfast card on Wednesday night. I always order the smoked salmon, a croissant, and hot tea. For DD, it was Raisin Bran, toast and jelly, and hot tea. I had booked tour CL007 with MyFriendMario, thanks to threads I'd read on the Panama POC board. I'm always on time or even early, but I have a hard time getting DD out of bed and ready to go. We were a little late getting to the meeting place, but others were still arriving. Our tour guide was Laurie, a British woman who had moved to Panama with her family when she was 15, so she spoke perfect English and Spanish. Folks, let me tell you, this was a fantastic excursion. I have to rank it in the top three I've taken. Of course, if your idea of enjoying yourself in port is a day of drinking near the pier, or shopping, then this isn't really for you. I might want to do that some day after I've visited Panama a half-dozen times, but not yet. We started out with about 16 of us, most of whom appeared to be together (extended family, I think). We drove for a while as Laurie gave us some background info about herself and Panama. We made a stop at a fruit stand where she bought some items for our lunch. Then we arrived at the Chagres River, which is the body of water which empties into what is now Gatun Lake and provides most of the fresh water which floods the canal locks. At this point, we split up into two groups and boarded Embera Indian dugout canoes that had been fitted with outboard motors. She said we'd get wet, especially near the front of the boat. What she should have told us is that we should just remove our outer street clothes and make the journey in our swimsuits. Let's just say that those in the front of the canoe were soaked to the bone, those in the middle were drenched, and those in the back were merely saturated! We had traveled just a little way when her cell rang and we came to a stop. A slightly smaller canoe pulled alongside and the folks in the other canoe had to move to the smaller one. Apparently, there were 14 people who had tentatively booked this excursion but who had never confirmed. Yet they showed up - late - at the meeting place. They needed the larger canoe to carry the other group. So, we took off again, and it turned out that those in the smaller canoe were barely getting any splash at all while we were soaked. I had brought my big beach tote bag and was glad I had because I put my camera down in the bag, between the two Carnival beach towels. Of course, that meant I got very few photos. We traveled up the river and through the lake for quite a long while. Finally, we pulled up to the Embera Indian village and dropped off the cooler with drinks and the fruit Laurie had purchased and then continued up the river. We then turned up a small tributary and eventually came to a stop in a very rocky area. We had to walk/climb quite a ways to reach a waterfall. Although the water was pretty cold, I certainly wasn't going to go all that way and not get in! I mean, I was already soaking wet, right? We returned to our canoes and went back to the village. It was fascinating. I mean, it was like being in a National Geographic show! These were Central American natives! How cool is that? We climbed the stairs to a platform covered by palm fronds where some women were preparing our lunch. The men were loincloths with a small beaded skirt-type covering, while the women wear cloth skirts and some of them wear a decorative top, but not all of them. Before you lecherous guys start thinking "oh, yeah, baby" please realize that most of the women who were topless were the older women in the village. While we learned about their customs, we helped ourselves to water, soft drinks or Panamanian beer, which must have been fairly weak, because I drank three that afternoon and felt nothing, despite the very hot sun. The women fried fresh Tilapia that was caught in the river, and also fried plantains. It was so good. We then had the fresh bananas, pineapples and melons that Laurie had purchased earlier. The "facilities" were really just a cement hole in the ground, but at least they provided TP, because I had left my little travel roll in the cabin. We had time to shop (of course), and DD bought two pairs of earrings. The mahogany carvings and the baskets were beautiful, but I'm not a souvenir person. We re-applied sunscreen and re-boarded our canoes to head back. Once again, we were drenched within minutes. Then it was off to the Gatun Locks portion of the Panama Canal. It is such an impressive feat of engineering, especially considering the age. The fact that ships have only recently gotten too large to traverse the canal shows how much foresight they had when building it. Of course, thanks to my novel and my research, I knew about how the French had thought to build a canal similar to the Suez Canal, but found the terrain much more difficult to work with and they ended up abandoning the project. The 2nd novel I brought about the Canal is actually set in the late 1890s, but I've only just gotten started on it, so that should be interesting, after having seen the Canal for myself. There was a cruise ship just entering the lower lock when we arrived, so we got to see her exiting into the Caribbean. There were also several freighters coming through. Unfortunately, we didn't spend nearly enough time at the locks, imho. I would have preferred to have spent just a little less time at the Indian village after we ate and more time at the locks. Remember the 2nd group that cause us to have to stop and change canoes because they needed the larger one? It turns out that they were all elderly, and when the women saw the canoe, they decided they weren't going. So, that time that we wasted on the water could've been spent at the locks. I guess none of the 14 people in that group actually read the description of the excursion. You know, the part that states, "we will take a 40 minute traditional Indian canoe ride through the Chagres River to arrive at the village"??? I wonder what part of "traditional Indian canoe ride" they didn't comprehend. Sigh. Still, it was a great day. Really great. We re-boarded the ship and headed straight up to Lido deck for our late lunch. Then DD needed her afternoon nap, which I sat on the balcony and watched us leave Panama. The sight of dozens of ships sitting at the mouth of the Canal, waited their turn, as the sun went down, was really impressive. WARNING: I totally have the meals for the next few nights mixed up. I know what I have, but am not sure what we had on which nights until the last two, so I can give no guarantee that what I show as being on the menu for days 4 & 5 are actually on the menu for those nights. It's very likely that I have them switched. Sorry! For dinner, I had the Petit Marmite (really just beef stock & vegetable soup), Caesar salad, and the lamb. It was quite good. DD had the crepes and the blackened Tilapia. I have no idea if we did anything other than go to the casino for a little while. Friday, 12/18/09, Limon, Costa Rica This was another new port for us. We booked with Charlie Soto of OkeyDokey Tours, based on our reunion friends' recommendation. They had used him a couple of times for tours from the Pacific side and highly recommended him. We had to walk though the shopping area and through the terminal building, and then across the street to the waiting minivan. There were a couple of women there who had been on our Panama tour, along with CWcruisers, and the two guys I mentioned earlier who had done the TA on Solstice and were doing the repo on HAL following Miracle. For some reason, Charlie had gotten the impression that this was DD's birthday (it was in May!). I gave him her age when I booked the tour, just because when I say I'm travelling with my daughter, some may assume she's a child, which she certainly is not (at least not chronologically). Our guide was George/Jorge. I had a little difficulty understanding him at first, but once my ear got used to the accent, I didn't have any problem. He was very knowledge and likeable. Our first stop was to have a look at some Howler Monkeys in trees right by the road. There was also a sloth. Then we stopped at a fruit stand, where we sampled ripe bananas and pineapple. Then we went to Cedar Valley Ranch for a pit stop. I'm not really sure why we were there, since there were facilities once we got to the banana plantation, but it was a nice place. I recognized the sign from TallyRockChick's review of this itinerary back in December, 2007, shortly before I took my first Miracle cruise. They do horseback riding and ziplining from there, and there's a gift shop with some surrounding gardens. We boarded the van and it was time for our breakfast beer, Imperial, which had a bit more flavor than Panama had. A bit more driving and we arrived at the Del Monte banana plantation and processing plant. Now, this stop was probably a bit more interesting for me than for some. When DD was born, I lived on the north side of Atlanta. I worked for a man from Ecuador. There were employees from the Dominica Republic, Puerto Rico, and Guatemala. In fact, I'm pretty sure I was the only one who spoke English as a first language and, unfortunately, I speak no Spanish. Anyway, this company would get orders from agents in Central and South America giving the dimensions of the plantation, the expected output, etc. He would then design the conveyor systems and order the various parts necessary to put together the overhead conveyor with the hooks that bring the bunches in from the field, the conveyor belts that carry bananas to various other parts of the plant, and the roller conveyors that carry the separated bunches on trays. So, for me, it was very interesting to see these various conveyor systems in action. After another pit stop, we re-boarded and headed to the Tortuguero Canal. There we split up and boarded two small, covered boats and headed out to see some wildlife. We saw Iguanas, a sloth with her baby on her back, a crocodile, a Green Basilisk (which is a lizard, not a giant snake (for you Harry Potter fans)), and then the most interesting wildlife sighting. We pulled over to the bank where a local boy had a turtle and was showing it to people in another boat. In front of them was another boat where a passenger was holding a small croc. DD & I were in the front seats of our boat, just near the side of this 2nd boat. While this man was holding the croc, a kid reached up and touched it's underside. It whipped around and bit the man in the nose and the tail lashed him near his right eye. Stunned, he first let go of the muzzle, then the tail, so the croc was loose in the boat. As we pulled away, one of the boat employees was trying to stanch the bloodflow, but his t-shirt had a lot of bright red on it. Moral of the story: if you're going to hold a crocodile, don't let some kid goose it! Back to the van and on to Bonita Beach Resort for lunch and a couple more Imperials. DD was also serenaded with a Latin-influenced version of Happy Birthday. There was also a man on the van who was really celebrating his birthday (I think) and they brought out a birthday cake. I thought there would be time for a swim, so had brought our suits and lugged the two beach towels, but there wasn't. Oh well. It was a good day, anyway. On our way back to port, we pulled over for a photo op and then a stop at a grocery store, where everyone loaded up on cheap, good Costa Rican coffee. I'm not a coffee drinker, but DD bought a couple of bags for friends. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that when we got back on the ship, we went up to Lido and had our deli sandwiches. I do believe I had a turkey with swiss on a sub roll every day except the day we boarded. I do believe this was the Past Guest party night, but honestly can't remember. DD didn't want to get up from her nap, so I went alone and sat on a stool in the back row. I finally got the opportunity to whoop when Malcolm asked how many were Platinum. Had a couple of glasses of white wine and then went back to the cabin. For dinner, I had the mushroom soup, shrimp cocktail, and the veal parmigiana. I love the soup, but the veal was just OK. It was a bit dry around the edges, but the flavor was nice. If I hadn't been avoiding the beef dishes, I would've had the filet mignon. DD had the vegetarian lasagna, which she said was quite good. Don't remember doing anything that evening, so I guess it was a quick stop in the casino to lose my daily gambling allowance, then off to bed after another interesting but tiring day in the hot, Caribbean sun. Saturday, 12/19/09, 3rd Fun Day at Sea Slept in a bit, then went up to Lido for breakfast. It was quite overcast, and I was hoping to do a little sunbathing later. I didn't really want another omelette, but cannot eat the scrambled eggs. That's when I discovered hard-boiled eggs. And there were no bacon police at this buffet line, either. I had my breakfast and took my cup of tea down to the cabin where I sat and read for a while, waiting for DD to get up and get moving. I changed into my suit and went back up to the Orpheus pool area and sat to read in the sun, which had come through by then. DD joined me a while later, and we sat out until I was ready for lunch. I brought us a couple of deli sandwiches (yes, I had the turkey sub again). Then I decided to visit the hot tub in the gym, while DD went back to the cabin to read. We went down for tea, but the lounge was completely full at 3 pm. Someone decided not to wait for service, so we got a table and shared with another couple and a woman who was actually with the people at the table next to us (so sat with her back to us most of the time, talking). I'm a hot tea drinker, but the way the service operates, with one person bringing around the tea selection, then you wait, and someone brings around the hot water (which doesn't make proper tea anyway, because your water needs to be boiling), then it's next to impossible to get someone to bring you milk for your tea, then you wait for the cart of goodies (which are very tasty, but it's not like we can't get tasty food 24/7 on the ship), I'm just not sure I'll "do" tea again. I prefer tea to be relaxing, and enjoy listening to the live music provided. Instead, it seems to be just another reason for people to stuff their faces with "free" food and to spend the time bellowing at each other even though they're seated two feet apart. I ran into "W" who had a bottle of champagne compliments of the hotel director on Legend. They had also done a quasi B2B, sailing on Legend the week before Miracle. I had really wanted to see their 9A cabin, but her DH - the "C" in CWcruisers- was having a nap, so she brought her perfectly-chilled bottle and 3 chilled champagne flutes down to our cabin instead, where we sat and had a nice visit. This was the 2nd Cruise Elegant evening. I had the Delice of the Ocean (I could've eaten at least three of them) as well as the Creamy Bing Cherry soup. For my entrEe, I had the grouper, which was excellent. DD had the Chateaubriand, which she said was very good. She normally doesn't eat a lot of red meat, and I normally do, on the ship at least, so we sort of switched around our normal cruise dining choices. Of course, we've cruised more frequently the past few years, so why not try something different? If you don't like it, you can always ask for an item that you've had before and know you like. I hadn't been to a show on a cruise since my Miracle cruise two years ago. I'm just not that into that type of entertainment (revues, comedy, jugglers, impressionists, etc.), and since I switched to late dining on that cruise, I find that I just prefer to visit the casino for a little while and/or find the lounge with the band. I don't do the piano bar (too much smoke and haven't yet heard a singer that I would want to sit through multiple songs; and I just don't like the whole sing-along stuff). So Ticket to Ride has been the only show I've seen in two years. Unless you lived through the Beatles era (I was a very impressionable pre-teen when they appeared on the scene), you can't really understand what an impact they had on people. Anyway, it was entertaining, although not quite as good as I remember the show from two years ago. We again stopped for a little while in the casino and then off to bed, since we had a early excursion the next morning in Belize. Sunday, 12/20/09, Belize We had been to Belize on our Glory cruise in May, 2008, and went cave-tubing with Major Tom, which was great. I hadn't seen any ruins since our very first cruise on Jubilee in April, 2001, so decided I'd like to see Altun Ha. Because I was a bit concerned with some of the independent excursions cutting it very, very close with getting back to the ship, I decided to book the Carnival excursion that was Altun Ha and River Wallace. All the independent tours offered Altun Ha and a Belize City tour, but we had seen most of Belize City when we were traveling to and from the cave tubing last time. Our tickets said to meet in the Mad Hatters Lounge at 7:45. Since we had put out the breakfast card the night before, we wolfed down our breakfast, and hurried down to the lounge, which was already full and had a line out the door, but which moved quickly. We were given an orange #10 sticker. They called a couple of tours, and then ours. We were heading to the tender at 8 am. People complain about the long tender ride, and maybe it is compared to Grand Cayman, but it really doesn't take all that long - probably less than 15 minutes. At the dock, we were met by Oscar and the other tour guide. I don't recall the name of their company, but their shirts also had Chukka on them, which I've used in other ports through Carnival. We were split into two groups, given time for a potty break, asked to sign the waiver forms, then put onto two speed boats. By the time we were ready to go, it was 9 am, ship time. This is why I don't do ship excursions any longer. Besides being considerably more expensive, you spend half your time being herded around and loaded onto and off of transportation. It was very cool and looked like it could start raining at any second. One of the employees came around selling rain ponchos, which several people purchased (at $2 each, I believe). Silly me had assumed, when I looked at the grey skies that morning, that the clouds would burn off like they had the prior day, and it would be hot and sunny. Wrong! Unfortunately, our various hoodies and jackets were in the cabin and we were wearing sleeveless tops and capris. Fortunately, I had thrown one of the Carnival beach towels in the tote bag at the last second (just in case we got wet on the boat again). My legs were sore from both the dancing I'd done and all the stair climbing (I haven't had a lot of exercise the past several months). My left quad was especially sore, which is one reason why I had wanted to visit the hot tub in the spa. Well, when I stepped down into the boat (it was a big step down), I felt a really sharp pain in my upper left quad. Uh oh. The cool, damp weather certainly didn't help. Prolonged periods of sitting didn't help, either. We finally left the dock and head up the coastline. We were freezing! They stopped the boat a couple of times to point out places on the shore, and just before we headed up the river, we stopped to watch for Manatees. Apparently they like that area because the feeding is good where the fresh water river meets the Caribbean Sea. We saw several just poke their nostrils out of the water for a breath of air, but couldn't actually see the entire animal. Then it was full ahead as we blasted up the river, trying to huddle against one another and find a little shelter from the wind. I finally realized that the $0.99 ponchos I had purchased at Wal-Mart years ago and that I'd been carrying around in that tote bag for about eight cruises might help a little. I pulled one out and it did help a tiny bit, and DD then could wrap the beach towel around her exposed arms. I had really been hoping to see some big, beautiful, colorful, tropical birds and was pretty disappointed that we didn't. I'd love to have one, but not at this point in my life. We did see several water birds, another croc, some little bats clinging to the underside of a tree trunk, and assorted other wildlife, but nothing that was really impressive. I think the cool, cloudy weather didn't help with the wildlife viewing. I could have sworn that when I made the reservation for this tour, it stated it was 7:45 - 12:30. Judging by that, I thought we'd be back to the pier in time to have lunch at Iguana Rana and do so shopping. I'm not a shopper, but I had wanted to purchase a couple of items at the pharmacy and had seen some things in a clothing store while we waited that morning to get under way. Well, we finished with the river portion of the tour at 11 am. At that time, we left the river at the dock of the Black Orchid Resort. Lunch was on our own, and we were told we had 45 minutes there. I asked Oscar if we would be back in port early enough to have lunch and do some shopping there and he said no, we wouldn't. So, DD & I split an $8 plate of chicken with black beans & rice, fried plantain, and cole slaw. I also had my Belikin beer for $4, and she had a cup of coffee for $2. It looks like a nice place. I could see myself spending several days there. I finally got to see my large, colorful, exotic bird. They have a resident parrot in a tree by the pool. I wanted to take him home with me! They also were selling various wines and were providing samples. The cashew wine is terribly sweet. I could never drink something like that. The star fruit wine wasn't as sweet, but was still almost more like liqueur than wine. I had already had a beer so refrained from sampling any others. We were then all herded onto a large bus and rode for quite a long while and it finally started to rain lightly. We had been told that if it was raining, we would not be allowed to climb the pyramid at Altun Ha, which is one of the things I had most looked forward to doing, although I was concerned with the way my leg was hurting. We bounced along the road for what felt like an hour, but I'm sure it wasn't, really. When we arrived at the site, we were practically the only people there. We were told that we would have a different bus for the ride back, since there was a problem with the suspension on ours (which is why we had bounced along for such a long time). We left everything on the bus except our camera and head out with the guides. Of course, it was raining a bit harder by then, but wasn't pouring. Altun Ha hasn't been fully excavated and is not as large as some of the other Mayan sites, but I still found it fascinating. After stopping in Plaza A, we proceeded to Plaza B and then up the steps of the Temple of the Sun God, which is where the Jade Head was found. Back down the other side of the pyramid and off to the parking area. There was no time to browse the vendors on site, which I imagine didn't make them very happy. I retrieve our bag and towel from the first bus and boarded the replacement. They did a head count and came up one person short. Someone then said that a woman had gone back toward the vendors, so one of the guides went hunting for her. Oscar got out the waiver lists and started calling off names, most of which he couldn't read! Eventually, they decided that every was on the bus after all and we headed back to the port. That was another waste of about 10 minutes. Somehow I had neglected to notice that the capers stated we would sail at 4 pm. Apparently I had looked at the time for Costa Rica and thought we were sailing at 3 pm, meaning we would need to get a tender before 2:30. Well, it was already 2:30! Had I been on an independent excursion, I would've been freaking out by then. Anyway, we finally got back to the pier but had no time to shop. Naturally, the one port where I had wanted to do some shopping, there was no time. I did run into a pharmacy and bought several Albuterol inhalers for DD. We were just about the last people on the tender. Just as we pulled away from the dock, three people came running up with horrified looks on their faces. I'm sure there was one last tender with some crew members, but if that had been me, I would have ended up in a Belizian ER with heart failure! So guess what we did when we got back on board? Well, the first thing was to go to the cabin and put on a sweatshirt. Then it was to the deli for my turkey sub. That night, when we walked into the dining room, there were two men sitting at our table! They actually existed! They were two men who had known each other since grade school, had kept in touch over the years, and ended up both divorced and living close to each other in NY. So we finally had some people to converse with over dinner. That night, I had both the smoked duck and the chilled cream of peaches, then the farfalle with roast turkey breast. And, finally, it was bitter and blanc night. DD must have had the rack of lamb, but I can't remember getting a taste, which is shocking, but considering how much I had to eat, I didn't really need a bite of anything extra! I had my letter from the casino giving me 500 points and a complimentary drink, so decided I needed to redeem that. I was at a slot machine, so sent DD to find a casino host. She came back with one (I had talked with him earlier in the cruise but have forgotten his name; he wore glasses and was from India). He offered DD a drink as well. Since we had each brought a glass of wine from the dining room (I had my last coupon for the last night at dinner so we needed to do some drinking!), we ended up with four glasses. DD had been kind enough to "help" me with all that wine at dinner throughout the week. She headed off to the shops while I sat and played the slots and guzzled wine. I probably stayed up later than I should have and know I drank more than I should have. On embarkation day, I had gone to the excursion desk and signed up for the Behind the Fun tour, and knew we had to be ready to go at 9 am the next day. Monday, 12/21/09, 4th Fun Day at Sea Sigh. Last day of the cruise. And the first day of winter! I'll tell ya, this 8-night cruising is great. I've done several 5-day cruises and they're over so quickly. Even on 7-day, by about day 4, I'm already getting depressed that the cruise is nearly over. But on day 4 of this one, I was thinking, "we still have 4 full days!!!" Because we had the on-ship excursion, and because DD isn't an early riser, she put the breakfast card out for herself, but I got up and went to the Lido deck for breakfast. We had been told to report to the Joker Card Room at 9 am for the Behind the Fun tour, wearing closed-toed shoes and to NOT bring a camera or cell phone. Unfortunately, I should have known to take some seasick meds, since I knew we'd go backstage (which meant we'd be in the bow) and I wouldn't have the opportunity to get out on deck in the fresh air. There were 17 of us in the group. We were given our special ship passes, and given an introduction to the tour by Diane, our leader. As we left the card room, we had to stand and be "wanded" by the security guy to be sure we didn't have cameras or cell phones. No photos allowed! We went into the theatre and up on the stage where we met one of the technical guys, who talked about the stage, lighting, and sound. Then it was down into the dressing room, which is about as far forward as you can get on the ship. It was quite warm and stuffy down there and I started feeling not-so-good. As we were leaving, I asked Diane if she happened to have any meds in her backpack (that might be something they should consider for future tours), but she didn't. She said we'd be passing the infirmary, but not for about another hour. The fact that I had an extra glass or two of wine last night probably didn't really help how my stomach was feeling, you know? Next, we walked through Gatsby's Garden, up the lobby staircase, and into the photo lab. Several people asked about options other than printing every freaking photo they take, only to throw them away. She said that they are working on other options, but that people are more apt to purchase if they have a photo in their hands. She also stated that about 75% of the photos are trashed. Knowing the prices of photos, that 25% must generate a very nice profit. I think I've purchased one photo in the last 5 cruises. Maybe. I don't personally understand why people spend so much money, considering that most folks now have cameras that are easy to operate and take nice photos. We just ask someone to take a pic of us. The background on the ship is good enough. In fact, I prefer it to the Grecian columns or piano with champagne flutes, or palm tree and sunset stuff. But that's just me. It's really none of my business what other people do with their money, is it?!?! But as a Carnival shareholder, I can't help but feel that the whole photo printing process is wasteful. As I said earlier, although I rarely buy photos, we do sometimes have them taken when getting off the ship in port (it's easier to stop than to fight them saying you don't want it) and at dinner, and there were several times we couldn't even find them. What if I'd wanted to buy a couple? Then it was back to the stern and down to Deck 2 and the main galley. I did a galley tour on Fascination last year and while I find it interesting, I don't find it THAT interesting, you know? But it is amazing, to me, how efficient the operation is. They were still finishing breakfast service while preparing for lunch. I looked over at Diane, and she was holding a packet of seasick meds! She was my new best friend! While the dishwashing system was being described, I snuck back to the galley entrance and took a pill. I felt better within minutes. We then had a group photo with the head chef. Before leaving the galley, we had a quick demonstration of how the chef made floral decorations from vegetables. He was amazing. All the females in the group were given a "lily" made from some gourd (I think) that was yellowish-orange. At this point, I probably have forgotten the sequence of areas we visited, but will touch on most of them. From there, we went down to Deck A (which is where you disembark in port) and to the Engine Control Room. I got a little lost about which engineer he was (not the Chief Engineer, but the 1st Engineer, I think), and his accent was a little difficult to understand, but it was a very interesting stop. The security officer stayed with us. Too bad we can't see the engine room itself, but I understand their reasoning. I'm happy we got to see as much behind-the-scenes areas as we did. We then went to see the various food storage lockers. I'll tell you, the big walk-in freezer where they keep the ice cream and the blocks of ice for the carvings is really, really cold. Really cold. No, seriously. You know, like freezing! We also saw the meat-thawing lockers and the cooler where they keep the water, sodas, beer & wine. Next, we met the Environmental Engineer where he described how they pulp the leftover food and feed it to the fish (at least 12 miles from shore), and how they separate and store the items for recycling, shred the items that can't be recycled, and where they have the incinerators. We continued down "I-95" to the crew mess areas, where we were offered water/tea/lemonade. There are several different dining areas for the different levels of crew/staff. Diane explained how they were on a 28-day menu rotation and the chef talked about how he incorporates requests for various ethnic foods for the crew. From there, we stopped in the crew lounge, where we got our potty break and Diane answered more questions from the group. We then saw the training room, which is Diane's area. There are several stations with headphones where the crew can work on their language skills, using Rosetta Stone software. She explained how new crew members usually start out working in the crew/staff areas and progress from there up to working with passengers. She also described the crew living quarters and how they try to accommodate couples and roommate requests. Then we went down to Deck C, below the water line, which, of course, you can't tell because there are no windows. Still, it was a bit strange knowing that. We went through the laundry facilities and saw the great machines that dry, press & fold the sheets. I need one of those! I couldn't hang out in the room to see the beach-towel folding demo, because the heat down there was starting to make me feel quesy again, so I waited in the hall outside the door. It was finally time for the highlight of the tour (at least it was for me). From Deck C, we went to Deck 8 and headed forward to the Bridge. It was right at noon, so Captain Lubrano was off giving his midday report. Let me tell you, the view from the bridge is spectacular! The first thing I noticed when I walked in was a Carnival ship off our port side, heading south. We were told it was Legend, the day after she left Tampa. We looked at the port wing control board, and had a look through the plexiglass square on the floor (yikes!). We were told what the various displays were for, and saw the radar screen. We had a good view of Cuba out the starboard wing windows. I loved how they had houseplants scattered around. They certainly get enough light up there. Oh, and the security officer accompanied us while on the bridge, as well. The Captain entered and talked to us for a while, and answered questions. Until that point, I had been unaware that our original course, on those first two sea days, was to have been off the east coast of Cuba, between Cuba and Haiti, but the good Captain has taken us west around Cuba to miss most of the tropical depression that was south of Hispaniola. Someone asked him about the worst storm he'd sailed through, and he said it had 24' seas with 60+ mph winds! And he casually said that he could "feel" it, somewhat. Yikes! We then had a group photo and individual photos. Unfortunately, our individual photos did not turn out all the great. The Captain looks wonderful, but we didn't. Oh well. I think I'll put mine in my Platinum Carnival Souvenir Photo Frame that I received as my Platinum gift. The last thing we noticed was a panel with several small, square buttons. Two of them said "morse code" beneath them, and then the last one said "abandon ship!" I didn't like seeing that very much. To finish off, we went aft to the Lido area and up to Nick & Nora's Steakhouse. I have only eaten in one supper club (on Glory), and while it was very good, I would just prefer to spend that money on other activities. I was a bit surprised to hear them explain that changing from "supper club" to "steakhouse" meant it was a little more casual. Personally, I would rather see Carnival go a little more upscale rather than bring everything down to the lowest level they possibly can! Anyway, I also was surprised that the lower level was open to Horatio's below. It was very noisy. We had a quick galley tour there as well, and then were seated to fill out the evaluation form, and offered OJ, water, or champagne. Of course, I had champagne. We were then given our "goodie bags" and also a soap that had been carved as a swan. It looked like it was white chocolate, so we were warned to NOT eat it. We then turned in our passes and were done. I had been rather skeptical about paying $95 each for this, especially given my current economic situation, but it really was a special tour. I don't know if newbie cruisers would get as much out of it as those of us who have cruised a bit more. The logistics of keeping a ship that size running smoothly must be very complicated. Considering how very many things could possibly go wrong, it's amazing that things so rarely do go wrong! We went right down the clear staircase to Horatio's for lunch. I wanted to pay another visit to the hot tub in the gym, so went down and changed into my swimsuit and headed for the spa. When I went in, there were about 8 people in the tub, and they had stuff on every lounger, so I turned around and went in the steam room instead. I maybe lasted 10 minutes, then went in the sauna for only about 5, then jumped in the shower. At some point in the afternoon, I was going up the aft staircase from Deck 2 to our deck (Main, Deck 4), and thought I smelled something burning. Interesting! I walked the short way down our hall to the stern, and when I turned the corner, there were three men in firefighter garb, and another man in a blue crew uniform. There is a laundry room across from those mid-aft cabins, but I think they had the door next to that open. Anyway, the first thing I thought of was that "Abandon Ship" button I'd seen earlier! The head chef sent a plate of yummy chocolate-covered strawberries to everyone who had been on the Behind the Fun tour. Unfortunately, we didn't find room for all of them or the little muffin thingies that were on the plate. Hard to believe, I know. But I'm not much of a sweets person. I did have one the next morning before we disembarked. We realized we'd only had sushi on the first night, so we went down and had a snack. DD decided she needed some more, and I decided I needed to go to the Farewell Party and get a beverage (although I knew I had a full bottle of wine waiting in the dining room). When I walked in, the place was pretty full and the only thing going on was the band playing and some people dancing on the stage. While standing there, I looked over and there was Diane and Malcolm. Diane came over and asked if I needed a drink, and stuck her head in the door to tell someone she needed a white wine. I thanked her again for helping me out with the seasick meds and we talked about the tour some more. I did tell her I thought it would be great if it could be scheduled on a day other than the last, since it would be nice to have that last day at sea to get in those last few hours of relaxation. We then started talking about disembarkation, and about the snowstorm that had hit much of the country while we were in the sunny (mostly) Caribbean. I had read conflicting accounts of how Platinum disembarkation was handled. I had booked an 11:10 am return flight, and was a little concerned, although I knew it was a short taxi ride to the airport. I had been told that Platinum had their own luggage tags that were silver #1 tags and would be the first called, even before self-assist. She asked Malcolm and he stated that this was not the case. He said that in Port Everglades, customs wanted all the self-assist, then the others. We had received a letter in our cabin detailing instructions, along with two blue #1 tags. The letter stated that if we were doing self-assist, we should meet in Frankie & Johnnie's at 7:20. If we were doing regular, we should put the tags on our bags and meet in F&J's at 8:20. I decided I needed to do the self-assist. Sadly, it was time to pack (sigh), so we started throwing our dirty clothes in one bag, our not-dirty-but-not-clean clothes in another, and gathering and separating the things that couldn't go in our carry-on bags. We had most of it done, but there was still a lot to put away in the morning. It was nice to not have to spend too much time on our last evening packing to put our bags out in the hallway, though. It was time for our last dinner on board the ship. Only one of our tablemates joined us. He had a lot of interesting things to say about his time in the Navy, so it was a good evening, even if I was sad that it was all coming to an end. I had the Mango Cream soup, a Caesar salad, the chicken breast on fettucine as the entrEe, and the cappuccino pie for dessert. DD had the crab cakes and prime rib. We finished most of the remaining wine, and took a couple of glasses to the casino. We both managed to cash out with some funds on our cards, but no big win like I had last time on Miracle. Tuesday, 12/22/09, Disembarkation Day and home to Durham, NC We again put the breakfast card out the previous night, and it arrived promptly at 6:30 am. I scarfed down my smoked salmon & croissant, and worked on getting the remaining clothes, toiletries, shoes, papers, etc. in the various suitcases. The letter for Platinum cruises had said to be in Frankie & Johnnie's at "approximately" 7:20 for self-assist debarkation. Well, I had heard various announcements while we were getting ready, but they aren't broadcast in the cabins, so I didn't know what was being said. Apparently, they were already calling self-assist! We walked into F&Js right at 7:20. There was one couple standing there who said the Platinum group had already left, going through Mcguire's and through the casino. Their kids were late, so they were still waiting for them. We decided to go that way and see what happened. As we were going through the casino, a Carnival staff member came over to see what we were doing. I told him we were Platinum and that the group had left early, and he said to just go around and to the front of the line, so that's what we did. We were off the ship in minutes, down the escalator in the terminal building, and into the line for immigrations. There were two lines for non-US, and three for US passport holders. We were in the line next to the non-US, and just when we got to the front, the gentleman stopped us and started letting more non-US up to the counter, although there were many more in the US lines. I know a lot of the non-US were crew members, but if they wanted to clear them first, they should've just made an extra line for them. We waited only a few minutes, and then were outside, heading for the line of taxis. After two taxis were loaded, we were next. We were at the airport by 7:45! Sure, we were flying from Terminal 1, but still! Twenty-five minutes from the time we entered Frankie & Johnnie's until we entered the airport. That's pretty good. And hauling the bags wasn't difficult at all. Next time, though, I'll walk down the cabin hall to the elevator nearest the meeting point rather than take the elevator near the cabin and then fight the traffic on the deck crowded with everyone waiting to disembark. Taxi was $13.70 plus tip. It took us twice as long to get checked in for our flight and through security as it had to get off the ship and to the airport. The line at Southwest was very, very long and they were pulling people out of line for a flight leaving fairly soon. Considering the length and the confusion, it moved along pretty quickly. Then it was through security and to the gate. The flight at that gate was being held up because they couldn't land in Chicago due to ice on the runways. Got some coffee and picked up a sandwich for us to split while we were on the flight (can you believe I had to PAY $7.50 for a turkey sandwich after a week of stuffing them in my face for free?) and sat down to read. I moved twice to try to get away from the little groups of friends/family who (again) feel as though they must bellow at the top of their lungs even though they're sitting right next to each other. I just got tired of re-reading the same paragraph over and over because I couldn't concentrate. I was tired, I had gotten up early, and I wasn't happy that my cruise was over. Shortly before we boarded, a couple with a little boy sat near us. I was sitting at the end of a row of seats, with my back to the window. Little boy came over to look at the plane and the luggage carts and proceeded to scream MOMMY!! MOMMY!! MOMMY!! MOMMY!! MOMMY!! You get the idea. Then Mommy said, "Oh no, Caleb, don't spit on the nice lady!" What? Yes, the little darling had been standing behind me spitting on the back of my jacket. I was not happy, not one little bit and let her know it by informing her that she needed to keep him away from me. I don't expect children to sit quietly every second, but they need to be taught the difference between acceptable behavior at home and how you can Less Read more Carnival Miracle cruise reviews >> Read Cruise Critic's Carnival Miracle Review >> Compare Prices on Carnival Miracle Western Caribbean Cruises Cabin review: 8M4230 Excellent location, great aft balcony with enough overhang to just about stay dry when it rained; hot when docked and facing the sun; quite a lot of movement; wake very loud; very quiet; almost no passenger traffic in the hallway; plenty of closet space; more shelves in bathroom than other ship classes. First Time Cruisers Great Spring Break on the Dawn Norwegian Delivers Again First Cruise, Last Cruise First family cruise; it was A ... Had a great time...

Choose your preferred language. We speak English (US) and 41 other languages. Coulsdon Court Road, Coulsdon, Coulsdon, CR5 2LL, United Kingdom – Show map |Double Room with Four Poster Bed| |Luxury Double Room| |Standard Double Room with Garden View| |Executive Double Room| No booking fees • Save money! Best price guarantee — enter dates to see these prices! 1 property in Coulsdon Including hotels, apartments, villas and more. 269 verified reviews They speak your language! Coulsdon Manor ‘A Bespoke Hotel’'s staff speaks: Slovak, Hungarian, French, English Booking is safe When you book with us your details are protected by a secure connection. Tennis Court, Golf Course (within 2 miles), Racquetball, Sauna, Fitness Center, Solarium Food & Drink Restaurant, Bar, Breakfast in the Room WiFi is available in all areas and costs GBP 10 per hour. Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed). 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Based on 269 reviews Value for money Show reviews from: Selsdon Park Hotel & Golf Club is a country mansion on 205 acres of picturesque Surrey countryside. It features spa facilities and an 18-hole championship golf course. Score from 652 reviews Good These elegant, serviced apartments are in residential Westminster within 3.5 acres of idyllic landscaped grounds along the Thames River. Score from 1022 reviews Very good Close to the A23 and Croydon’s train stations, the modern Flexistay South Park Aparthotel provides free parking. There are two large shopping centers within walking distance. Score from 349 reviews Good High on Reigate Hill, with magnificent views of the surrounding countryside, this recently refurbished hotel is conveniently located on route A217, just off exit 8 on highway M25. Score from 321 reviews Good April 25, 2015 Rooms too hot (v hot day) but wi bides painted shut. Evening meal over prices and my friend staying too spent all night being sick with good poisoning. When telling the staff the next morning she got a heart felt apology, but Jo money off, just breakfast deducted. We brought her little boy down to breakfast with us (age 2 ate own breakfast) as she was still being sick so that was hardly compensation! The staff The price The breakfast April 20, 2015 If you want a drink in the bar you'd need to enjoy the company of golfers Position and value of hotel. April 14, 2015 Helpfullness of staff at check in & the size and comfort of the room April 12, 2015 Incredible value at £45 pn April 12, 2015 Very friendly staff. April 11, 2015 What's not to like...from the helpful hotel staff...comfortable rooms and free use of the leisure facilities. Evening meals not bad either. Ample car park space April 1, 2015 Central heating was very noisy in 303. The breakfast was good overall but had the smallest egg I have seen for a long time! Good location. Plenty of parking. Well laid out residential area. March 31, 2015 We were right above one of the function rooms & the music was extremely loud & the bass was making the whole room shake. It didn't stop until 0020am. I had asked for a quiet room & this was far from it. I did complain & the price of the room was reduced. We weren't the only people to complain. When we went down to breakfast on the Sunday morning my husband took my son to the hotel toilets and they hadn't been cleaned. He said there were glasses and sick everywhere. Lovely breakfast. Nice view over the golf course. Pleasant staff. March 30, 2015 Good value hotel March 28, 2015 March 25, 2015 Breakfast too expensive for what it was. March 23, 2015 March 22, 2015 Easy going bar, location easy to find March 19, 2015 March 17, 2015 Sash window was double glazed but draughty Breakfast was cooked to order March 17, 2015 The hotel needs updating March 17, 2015 the room and breakfast March 14, 2015 Hotel is tired looking. Bed was VERY uncomfortable. We had an uneven floor in the room!! Carpets were threadbare. Taps in the bathroom didn't work properly! Toilet flush was naf! March 11, 2015 Hotel looks a bit tired and needs money spent on it. This appears to be happening but only slowly! Newly fitted out room was comfortable. The Gym is good though needs some decoration. March 1, 2015 On arrival we were upgraded from a superior to a four poster room...gorgeous room all dark wood with modern bathroom, flat screen tv, coffee & tea making facilities, iron and ironing board...comfy bed...lovely all round February 28, 2015 Struggled without WiFi as lead to believe it was £10 per hour. However, on last evening discovered it was FREE. What IS going on here? Location and facilities. February 27, 2015 Sadly the hotel although clean tidy and a great night sleep, could do with a good bit of maintenance doing. Or even better for the regulars a complete refurb. Always a warm friendly atmosphere. In a great position. February 24, 2015 The mattress was too soft, would have preferred a firmer one. nice size rooms, good facilities for travellers, good view of the golf course February 24, 2015 The poached egg was raw, didnt get another when sent back. Drafty windows stuck with tape. Bed, staff, surroundings. February 15, 2015 Noise in reception after 10 which echoed up to the room. Comfort and friendly service from the outset. Get started now by entering your email address. We'll instantly send you a link to our Deal Finder!

I traveled with a group to this hotel and stayed two days. Pros: The view from my room! My room faced the city and the train tracks. I was placed in a blissful trance looking out my room window! The location was good for walking to the city center and for taking the train. My room was fairly large for european standards and was clean and comfortable. The pool was a welcome surprise! Enjoyed the water massage and the sauna.....great for relaxing after a day of walking! Cons: Each time you lifted the telephone receiver you were charged! Even to call the front desk or other rooms in the hotel! We were not told this upfront. Some rooms were much smaller than others and had little to no view. Getting to the pool is a bit of a challenge as they are undergoing renovations. The room key is very heavy.....I know that this may seem silly but it adds weight to a purse and is bulky for a guy to carry. - Official Description (provided by the hotel): - Zentraler geht es nicht! Das 4-Sterne-Haus mit Tradition und privatem Management ist direkt am Nurnberger Hauptbahnhof und Sudstadtpark gelegen. In bester Citylage ist es der ideale Ausgangspunkt fur Ihr Shopping-Vergnugen oder Ihren Spaziergang in die wunderbare Nurnberger Altstadt mit vielen interessanten Sehenswurdigkeiten.Direkte U-Bahn-Verbindung zur Messe und zum Flughafen. Tram direkt vor dem Haus.15 Veranstaltungsraume*Restaurant*Lobby-Bar "My Lord"*kostenloses W-Lan in allen Bereichen des Hotels*Hallenschwimmbad*finnische Sauna*Dampfdusche*Infrarot-Warmekabine und Dreamwater Lounge (geg.Gebuhr). Freuen Sie sich auf Gastlichkeit, die von Herzen kommt! ... more less - Reservation Options: - TripAdvisor is proud to partner with Expedia, Hotels.com, Booking.com, Travelocity, Agoda and Priceline so you can book your Ringhotel Loew's Merkur reservations with confidence. We help millions of travelers each month to find the perfect hotel for both vacation and business trips, always with the best discounts and special offers. - Also Known As: - Ringhotel Loew`s Merkur Hotel Nuremberg

The Magnolia Hotel Dallas - Continental Breakfast - Free High-Speed Internet - Room service Photos of The Magnolia Hotel Dallas TravelPod Member ReviewsThe Magnolia Hotel Dallas Nice rooms and free coockies and milk in the evening This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com. Historical Traveler Reviews The Magnolia Hotel Dallas The absolute best deal in town I know this is primarily a business hotel, but if you're traveling to Dallas with a family or a big group of friends, this place is perfect. I had 20 family members come in for the Thanksgiving holiday and I booked 5 suites at the Magnolia. It couldn't have worked out better. The suites were HUGE - all had a living area with a pull-out sofa and a full kitchen complete with a full-size refrigerator, washing machine, oven, microwave, dishes the whole shebang. The Magnolia is smack dab in the middle of downtown in walking distance to Neimans, multiple restaurants and DART (Dallas' train/subway system) so you don't really need a car. Plus there's a free shuttle that will take you anywhere downtown. The absolute best feature was the second floor. It was basically a large living room with couches, tables and sitting areas everywhere. It also had a stunning fireplace and a billiards room with flat screen tv perfect for ordering pizza and playing pool. Like the rest of the hotel is was nicely decorated in a hip but comfortable modern style. Aside from the slow service at the bar (which is only open from 6pm to 10:30pm) the staff was incredibly helpful. Free breakfast in the morning, snacks and drinks in the evening, and cookies and milk at night were also a nice touch. The only drawback was the lack of an on-site restaurant and "real" bar. (The upscale Adolphus next store or the down-home City Tavern around the corner are better bets.) Plus, room service stops at 10:30pm which didn't work out too well for late-arriving guest. But overall it was a great hotel experience. I'm assuming rates can get high during the week. Since this was a holiday weekend (and not very crowded at the hotel) I found a $139 rate for the suite which has to be the absolute best deal in town. Loads of TLC Just completed a perfect anniversary weekend at this beautiful hotel. Received a spacious and comfortable suite with loads of amenities. Enjoyed the delicious continental breakfast each morning. It had a nice selection and was tastefully displayed. The evening reception and late night cookies with milk were a real treat. The hotel does not have a restaurant, but room service offers a nice variety of sandwiches and the evening special of lasagna with salad was good and reasonably priced. When we asked about area restaurants and shopping, the doorman advised a van was available for complimentary transportation. The staff was very friendly and professional. We highly recommend this lovely and comfortable hotel! A Wonderful Experience! Every year when my family and I visit Dallas to see the Oklahoma Sooners play Texas, we choose to stay at the Magnolia. We have always had a wonderful time! This hotel has plenty of amenities, fabulous services, and spectacular rooms. The staff at the Magnolia always make us feel totally comfortable and right at home. We recommend this hotel to everyone! The ambience and decor of the Magnolia is so sophisticated we sometimes forget we are in a hotel! The Magnolia...a real hidden treasure! Tucked away in downtown Dallas, just a block from Neiman Marcus and around the corner from great food and fun is the most amazing, top-notch hotel! What a treat...from the moment my husband and I got out of the car and were greated by Jason, our favorite valet, to the time we left, we were treated wonderfully! You step inside and feel and see the ultra-cool interiors, the absolute attention to every single detail. The entire interior of this hotel is eye-candy...and the bed was downy-soft, two pillows per person, BIG room, WALKIN CLOSET?!?, and a huge soaking tub with a terry-cloth shower curtain of the finest quality fabric. The lighting, colors and fabrics and the period furniture all made the experience more wonderful...take a tour around the second floor library room and meeting rooms. The third floor has a wonderful spa, workout room with all the latest equipment and tv's to catch the news or pass the time on the treadmill. Morning breakfast, afternoon happy hour, and cookies and milk at bedtime were just icing n the cake. Who cares if there's no restaurant in the hotel...you're in Dallas!! Lots of great places to eat, and a shuttle to take you to the closest places. If you are all about comfort and feeling pampered, this is definantly the place!! We look for the unique places to stay when we travel, and the Magnolia has made a place on our list of favorite places to stay! Don't miss this one-of-a-kind experience!! Wonderful stay at Magnolia in Dallas Downtown Dallas has lots of BIG (as in 1000+ rooms) hotels. Magnolia is more in the 300s (still big, but relatively personal), has no on-site restaurant, but the accommodations are terrific, at least, the suites are, and half the rooms are suites. Suites are only slightly more $ than rooms (still under $200), and are extremely spacious, with a full-sized kitchen, complete with dishes, pots, pans, stove. Heck, the suite would make a decent one-bedroom apartment. Super-high ceilings with tall, tall windows. Only negative, the continental breakfast is pretty mediocre. For dinner, head across the street to Jeroboam, very good bistro with unusual but addictive fries. Magnolia- Never stay there I stayed at the Magnolia last month. I cannot believe to tell you how horrible this hotel was. The customer service and hospitality were horrendous. They locked me out of my room 3 times and I had to take the elevator, which takes about 10-15 minutes to get to your location. Even though it is a 4 star hotel and the prices do show it, it was not worth it. My ratings for this hotel in its customer service, hospitality and treament is terrible. I would never stay there again. I will say their decor and suites are nice and spacious. This is a shame since it's decor and accomodations are quite classy. Magnolia compared to the Adolphus Ok, I just reviewed the Adolphus and wanted to compare the Magnolia. This is based on over 20 stays at each location, and is from the perspective of a business traveller. First the bad: The Magnolia's two greatest faults are it's poor staff training/standards and bad food. I've had several problems here: late room service, lost reservations, barely understandable people speaking over the phone, and just a generally shoddy staff, indicating to me a poor training program. This is compared to an almost perfect staff record at the Adolphus. Next, the food is pretty bad and of limited selection. This is somewhat explicable considering they don't have a restaurant on premises, but the food is really on par (and sometimes below) that of frozen dinners. Go around the corner to Subway or Jeraboam, or walk to West End. A few little things: the elevators are very slow, the rooms are small (though the suites are nice and huge), and they don't have high-speed access (which the Adolphus does). Now, on the plus side: First, the decor is very contemporary and pleasing with nice comfortable beds. If you get a suite you will be very happy--they are enormous and much better than the Adolphus suites. As with the Adolphus, I get a great business rate ($115), and almost always upgrade to a suite ($138). I like that they have 2 movie channels and 2 ESPN's, so I rarely end up renting a movie there. They have a neat 2nd floor bar/service area with a 5:30-7:30 happy hour with 2 free drinks coupons per day and some free snacks, and also a free serving of continental breakfast. Their workout area is better than the Adolphus, though roughly comparable (unless you use their sauna a lot, which the Adolphus doesn't offer). It has the same benefits of location as the next-door Adolphus: walk to West End restaurants, Neiman Marcus, Jeraboam, Subway, and others. The Magnolia is a little frustrating because they have the right ideas and right execution in a lot of places, but just haven't realized the importance of good food and good service (to frequent travellers especially). I'll take the Adolphus over it almost always, but occasionally change it up and stay at the Magnolia. Will never forget it! My fiance and I STILL talk on a regular basis about our trip to Dallas and our stay at the Magnolia last summer and have even discussed imitating the style in our own home. The Magnolia is the most classy and elegant hotel I've seen - and who can beat cookies and milk at bedtime, provided by a most gracious and accomodating hotel staff. The Magnolia employees bent over backwards to make our stay memorable. And the view! We were up high in the building and huge windows afforded a thrilling view of the city. I could go on and on, but in short - I whole heartedly recommend the Magnolia. If I ever return to Dallas, I will not stay anywhere else. Inspiring. Its all in the details even the elevator doors are something to behold. My standard room was on the small size, but very comfortable and beautifully appointed. The bed was tall, bouncy and soft. The bathroom was very nice and the bath products were worthy of being taken home. Rooms have HBO and mini fridge. Service is great, but watch out for room service and all the food in general (theres no eat-in restaurant onsite). Better off eating at some of the trendy dinner spots near the hotel not great if you want to just unwind after a working day, but great if you want to people watch. Valet parking only, can sometimes get backed up retrieving cars, but theyre very nice about it. Easy access to major highways. Starbucks is in same building. Evening cookies and morning breakfast nice touches, but food sucked. The fitness room and locker rooms are stupendous! Much better than any national chain. Im not one to take pictures while traveling, but I was inspired to photograph the hotel lobby and the wildly-colored Pegasus outside by the water fountains. Used to be Exxon Mobile (formerly Magnolia) headquarters the renovation is magnificent, and theyve retained the Pegasus motif. Interesting history and a great place to stay. Dallas Magnolia Hotel -- a flower in the city If you disdain cookie-cutter-rromed, bland, tinny modern hotels, but don't want to sacrifice water pressure for charm, The Magnolia Hotel in Dallas is for you. This thoughtful renovation of a classy old building is the ideal blend of old charm with modern amenities. The location is excellent if you have business at the convention center of nearby and the staff will make you feel most welcome. A continental breakfast buffet and cocktail hour buffett are served daily in the second floor "club," a great place to have an informal meeting -- or use one of the more formal "sanctuary" rooms provided. As an added bonus, you will always be able to find your way back; the hotel is topped by a big red lighted sculpture of Pegasus. TripAdvisor Reviews The Magnolia Hotel Dallas Travel Blogs from Dallas Our flight was uneventful and immigration at LAX pretty quick. I was surprised to see Beau Bridges in the lounge with us on his way to Hawaii. We landed in Dallas and tok a 30minute taxi ride to Downtown passing the very new, clean, wealthy outer suburbs. Our hotel was the Magnolia, the original office of Magnolia Oil which became Mobil Oil, and … Left Austin around 10am, driving to Llano to join the parents. Road trip! Ate lunch in Goldthwaite at a restaurant - can't remember the name but they had a large pot of free beans! Fairly good salad bar too. Had coffee in Stephenville, then on to Dallas. We stayed at the Magnolia Hotel, and got the "downtown rate" since Colton and … ... to recall the events of that day. The cockroach museum lightened things up for us- it was a quick, but memorable stop( wink, wink!). Our drive to Austin was full of exclamations-"Blue Bonnets!! Blue Bonnets on the right!!" The roadside was so colorful. Once in Austin, it was fried chicken at Lucy's- fun to sit out in the cool evening air with a tin bucket of fried chicken- and some FRIED deviled eggs. Yep- gotta get a cholesterol check once we return ... ... the real deal. The traditional buildings, and old fashioned style give tourist a true “southern hospitality” feeling. There were plenty of people around me who were also taking pictures, buying merchandise, but mostly, enjoying the fresh air, and absorbing all of the history, and culture. Since the Stockyards are located in Fort Worth they are surrounded by multiple dining locations, and lodging options. Right around ... Generally I am a big proponent of slowing time down. I am not obsessed with trying to recapture my youth on live for eternity, it just seems like every year and every month is lived and chronicled as history quicker and quicker when I pause to reflect on where I'm at and where I have been. However, with my upcoming trip to Peru and Bolivia; I can't spin the hands of the clock fast ...

Things to see and do - Minden Leaving for Germany Minden Travel guide Minden : Michelin's recommendations At the exit of the Porta Westfalica - the final gap through which the Weser passes, where river, railway and road strike out unencumbered across the great plain of northern Germany, Minden occupies a key site for transport. Markt 11 D - 32423 Minden The hotel is located in the heart of Minden, close to the market place, surrounded by the Minden cathedral, the city hall as well as by many half timbered houses of the city. Built in 1840, it now has been transformed into a jewel of architecture. .. Wettinerallee 50 D - 32429 Minden Offering an a la carte restaurant and free Wi-Fi, Hotel & Restaurant Grotehof is located in Minden. A fitness centre and sauna area are also featured here. Rooms here will provide you with soundproofing, a flat-screen TV and satellite channels. The ..

Our Wellness for Life Retreat is for individuals or groups who are seeking nutritional, mental and emotional guidance to enhance health and wellness. Our nutrional and fitness specialist together with our professional therapists offer a well-balanced program to walk you through the path to wellness for life. This essential retreat offers: - Six nights of spacious guest room accommodations - Breakfast, lunch and dinner; morning and afternoon snacks - Access to and use of all our resort amenities - Comprehensive nutritional consultations with our resident nutritionist - Fitness assessment with one of our certified trainers - Personal fitness training sessions with our certified trainers - Daily fitness classes and morning meditation - Body treatments by our licensed therapists - Herbal Wrap or Hydor Baths to relax and detox - Daily Massage to enhance function and aid the healing process - Steam rooms and dry sauna to detox and cleanse from the insode out - Round trip transportation from Tampa or St. Petersburg/Clearwater airports - Physician's Consultation* $2580 single occupancy / $4,405 double occupancy *Physician's Consultation $300.00 per person The Wellness for Life Retreat starts with a Sunday arrival - minimum 6 night stay required. All fees and taxes are included. **Please contact the Resort directly to reserve this package.

Located adjacent to the Administrative Center at:We'll Fit Your Family 1400 Railer Way Lincoln, IL 62656 The Lincoln Park District's SportsCenter is your resource for a community health and wellness facility focused upon families of all fitness levels and likes. Newly reinvented, we offer a multitude of optimal strength training, flexibility and cardiovascular equipment paired with FREE fitness classes. The Strength Room includes an assortment of dumbbells, free weights and selectorized equipment. If free weights are not for you, our Circuit Room includes a multi-station training circuit as well as cardiovascular equipment including treadmills, elliptical machines, stair steppers, upright and recumbent bicycles and much more. Machines are equiped with a cardio-theater entertainment system. To add variety to your exercise program, try one of the fitness classes in our Aerobics studio. In addition, four full-sized courts offer you a choice of tennis, basketball or volleyball. A walking/running track is also available to round out your fitness needs. We also offer full locker and shower rooms, towel service, family changing room and sauna for our patrons. What are you waiting for? Spend time with your family and friends and feel great doing so. Lincoln Park District's SportsCenter... We'll fit your Family!Hours of Operation Daily 5:30am to 10:00pm.Holiday Hours and Closings New Year's Day: Closed Easter Sunday: Closed Thanksgiving Day: Closed Christmas Eve: Open until noon Christmas Day: Closed New Year's Eve: Open until noon

Away from the city the resort of Sitges, with its beaches and historical sites, is within easy reach and is well worth a visit; while a day trip to the ancient ruins of Tarragona and nearby Salou with its magnificent promenade is also recommended. Back on-parc and an indoor pool and sports including badminton, basketball, tennis, fitness classes and a gym make for a lively stay. Meanwhile, action and adventure can be found at the nearby Port Aventura theme park and Caribbean themed waterpark, Costa Caribe. The parc’s enviable location, set within 40 hectares of gardens, has a spa with Jacuzzi, hammam and sauna - a great spot to enjoy a little rest and relaxation after a day’s exploring. A seven night break at Vilanova Park arriving 16 February 2013 costs from £196 per family, staying in a 2 Bedroom Horizon mobile home (sleeps six, maximum four adults) with air conditioning and decking, accommodation only and including an early booking discount of £84 if booked by 28 February 2013. Ferry crossing and fly-drive packages can be arranged through Eurocamp at a supplement. For further information on Eurocamp, please call 0844 406 0552 or visit www.eurocamp.co.uk. For further press information, please contact: Alexandra Clough at Amaze PR on 0161 242 5650 or email firstname.lastname@example.org GET IN TOUCH Breaks to beat the winter blues with Eurocamp This press release was distributed by prleap.com

Cane butts heads with Tyler, Adam tells Sharon his plan, and Victor pushes Victoria's buttons. Victoria opens her door to Victor, who needs her help with the Valentine's Day wedding. She says she'll do it for Nikki. Victor wants the family together at Christmas. Billy appears. He says they're taking the kids to Jamaica. Victor says he's inviting both of them. Billy rolls his eyes as Victor talks about the orphanage and how disappointed Nikki will be if they don't come. Billy mocks him, but Victoria is moved. She tells Billy she wants Christmas with her family. Billy tries to change her mind. Vikki thinks her father will behave. Billy agrees to stay in Genoa City. Adam arrives at Sharon's house. He tells her Victor backed off on the condition that he brings down Jack and gets Newman back for him. Adam says he feels he owes Jack, who gave him a chance and who trusts him. They worry about Jack folding Jabot into Newman and Victor taking it. Adam says the only way to prevent that is to boot Jack before he dissolves Jabot. Sharon imagines what it's like for Victor to want something so badly yet not be able to have it. Adam looks at her intensely. Adam tells her Jack has a weakness; all he has to do is exploit it. Sharon tells Adam the doctor thinks her meds are working, but feels it's best she stay away from him. Adam says she should listen. Sharon says he can save his marriage. Adam says Chelsea's been hurt enough. Sharon thanks him for everything with a cheek kiss. Later, Sharon decorates her tree. At the Abbott house, Kyle doesn't think Jack got his wake-up call. Jack assures him he's through with the pills. Kyle asks why he should believe him. Jack says, "You shouldn't. I'm a liar." Jack tells Kyle he will beat this - for him. They embrace. Jack decides to combat the rumors. Neil arrives and tells Jack he can take Jabot to the next level - he needs his trust. Jack apologizes for how he acted - someone leaked a story that he's hooked on pain killers. Neil asks if it's true. Jack insists there's no problem. Neil says he recognizes denial. Jack gets riled up and suggests Neil get back to his job. After, Jack gives an interview setting the record straight - he's not addicted to pain killers. Kyle listens unhappily. Tyler greets Lily at Jabot - he says he's there because of her. Cane overhears. Tyler tells her she's the one person who understood his pitch. She tells him he's exactly what they need at Jabot. He suggests they collaborate on their shared passion. Cane interrupts. Lily leaves. Cane tells Tyler he talked to Jack and his ideas aren't right. After, Cane tells Lily he sent Tyler on his way. She argues his idea is ahead of the curve. At On The Boulevard, Tyler tells Leslie he pissed Cane off. She clucks, "Did you hit on his wife? Come on, Tyler, not again." He says he'll get the job. She reminds him Cane's the CEO's son-in-law. Tyler replies, "Yeah and I'm that good." Tyler and Cane end up in the Athletic Club sauna at the same time. Tyler admits he noticed Lily, saying no disrespect, but it's hard not to. Cane calls him on his cocky attitude. Tyler points out he's not the one married to the boss's daughter. Cane warns him to put his ego in check before he makes his final decision. Tyler thought Neil had the last word and says he'll let his work do the talking. At Newman, Adam watches Jack's earlier interview and looks at his pill bottle. He places them in the drawer as Jack arrives. He tells Adam his head is clear. Adam offers him the CEO chair. Jack gets to work and Adam watches from the hallway as he spots the pills. Victor calls and Adam tells him things are in motion. Jack puts the pills back. Cane returns to find Neil reinstated at Jabot. Neil's upset that he didn't hire Tyler and orders him to do it. Meanwhile, Tyler returns and tells Lily he has more ideas and that Cane thought he was flirting with her. Cane appears and tells him he's got the job. Genoa City Spoilers for Tomorrow on The Young and the Restless: Jack tells Kyle and Adam that next week, Jabot will be a subsidiary of Newman Enterprises. Chelsea tells Chloe this is all payback for the awful things she's done. Chloe counters that if anyone has a dose of bad karma coming, it's Sharon. Nick says to Sharon, "You're getting better. And really, who knows you better than I do?" **Please be aware we have a link-only policy.** Please abide by the Soaps.com guidelines when posting and contact us if moderation is required. Read Y&R news, Y&R comings and goings, and Y&R spoilers! Join Soaps.com on Twitter @soapoperafan, "like" Soaps.com on Facebook to dish on "The Young and the Restless," all the other soap operas, "Dallas," "Glee," "Grey’s Anatomy," "Pretty Little Liars," "Revenge," "Vampire Diaries," and "Venice The Series." - Candace Young

The "African Rainforest Experience" is an awkward name for a spa treatment. Unlike a deep-cleanse facial, or dumbbell massage, you really don't know what you're getting yourself into when signing up for this one. But once you've experienced it, there's no looking back: they have taken elements from the rainforest, such as extreme heat alternated with pouring "rain", stirred in some humidity, and then mixed in some African fragrances, and there you have it! An African Rainforest Experience in good old semi-arid SA. "They take a number of sauna and shower elements from around the world and combine them with African fragrances and ideas about relaxation," says Hanri van Zyl from ArabellaStarwood Hotels & Resorts South Africa. "The result is a remarkable and distinctive experience…" But enough background, let me tell you more about the good stuff… The African Rainforest Experience is called an "experience" because it involves various treatments in a 15-step programme that takes about two and a half hours to complete. The menu includes scrubs, therapeutic showers, steam treatments and more. The underlying logic is to vary heat and cold to stimulate circulation, to enhance the powers of aromatherapy oils, and to promote detoxification. The heat is created by sauna, steam room and heated blankets. Although science is not convinced of the medical benefits of sauna, popular belief is that it has relaxation and health benefits, hence the old Finnish (where the sauna originated) saying: "…if the sauna doesn't make you feel better, you are probably dying." A sauna's dry heat has profound effects on the body. Skin temperature soars and the average person will pour out about half a litre of sweat during a short stint in the sauna, claims the Harvard Medical School. The pulse rate jumps by 30 percent or more, and most of the extra blood flow is directed to the skin. "All in all, saunas appear safe for the body, but there is little evidence that they have health benefits above and beyond relaxation and a feeling of well-being," says Dr Harvey Simon from Harvard Men's Health Watch. A word of warning: because of the effect on the heart rate, heart patients should probably check with their doctors before taking a sauna. Cold showers, a mist shower and reflexology foot bath comprise the "cold" element of this hot/cold treatment. Cold showers need no introduction. The mist shower is gorgeous: you are bathed with a soft drizzling mist to cool you down after the sauna. The reflexology foot bath involves two tanks of water - one hot, the other cold - between which you alternate your feet. This controls body temperature and is said to stimulate blood circulation and relaxation. Treatments are spaced by resting periods during which you 'chill' under a hot blanket, butter yourself up with hydrating moisturisers, drink water, or take a nap. The grand finale of the 'active treatments' is a full body massaging shower. Full body because, instead of standing up you're lying down, with warm water pelting you from head to toe. It's magic. The African Rainforest Experience is rounded off with a 30-minute relaxation session in a warm, dimly lit room. For more information, or to book a treatment, phone 028 284 0000 or visit www.westerncapehotelandspa.co.za. Step-by-step explanation of the African Rainforest Experience Step 1 – A soap or salt rub To slough off old, rough and dry skin and make it more receptive to the treatments that follow. Step 2 – A hot shower followed by a cold shower The hot shower warms the body up, relaxes the muscles and opens the pores of the skin. The cold water improves circulation. Step 3 – Eucalyptus steam room The steam opens the pores and benefits the respiratory system, while the eucalyptus is effective against headaches, fatigue and stress. Step 4 – Cold shower Cools the body down after the high temperature of the steam room. It also stimulates the lymphatic system to clear toxins. Step 5 – Rest underneath a heated aromatherapy towel Aromatherapy oils such as lemongrass, lemon, orange, lavender, peppermint, and ginger encourage relaxation and help induce feelings of calm and serenity. Step 6 – Aromatherapy sauna Your choice of aromatherapy oil is added. The heat of the sauna increases the benefit of the oil which helps the body detoxify faster. The pores open and the body starts to perspire, flushing away toxins. Step 7 – Waterfall shower This cool shower cleanses the skin and closes the pores. Again lymphatic drainage is stimulated and circulation enhanced, helping to detox. Step 8 – Dry heat sauna The dry heat sauna causes more perspiring so the body is further cleansed. Muscles are relaxed by the heat. Step 9 – Cold mountain mist Soft cold mist falls lightly down on the skin and cools the body. Step 10 – Dry relaxation beds This is where the body calms down, refreshes and relaxes. During this step you should also drink water to prevent dehydration. Step 11 – Reflexology footbaths with pebbles Alternating your feet between warm and cold water tanks. The warm water regulates the body temperature. Through heat the water will activate circulation, giving a relaxed and calm feeling. Step 12 – Rainforest shower beds Pamper and relax under a cascade of warm water. This treatment is said to soothe the mind and bring the heart rate down. Step 13 – Drying and application of soothing and rehydrating moisturisers After the hot sauna and using the showers, the skin needs its moisture replenished with soft, hydrating cream. Step 14 – Relaxation experience in the Candle Room Your body's detox system has been activated but you will be feeling very, very relaxed. Fall asleep, allow the body to calm and awake feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Step 15 – African Tea ceremony Choose between a relaxing rooibos/chamomile or cleansing rooibos/peppermint blend.