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Feb
22

Never Again a Side Table: The Best City Hotels for Singles

by Gesa Noormann February 22, 2010, 11:28 am

Valentine’s Day with its seemingly sugary interpretation of love is over and singles feel relieved: time to plan your next vacation. Are you one of the jinx, who mistakenly ended up in a family club complex last summer, or were surrounded by happy smiling couples and candlelight in the supposedly trendy restaurant? Then you have probably decided to spend the next short holiday in a cool, trendy design hotel, preferably in the metropolis. After all, the chances of finding nice interlocutors at the bar are much better here. And nobody dares to offer you the famous side table next to the kitchen…. Here are our top 5 city hotels for a single holiday:

Le General HotelThe Rockwell

1) The hotel roomz vienna is centrally located, close to all attractions and the nightlife of Vienna. This hotel has a modern design and an uncomplicated service concept. The restaurant and bar is open 24 hours and is also a hotspot for Viennese. The amazingly affordable room rates of this budget design hotel will bring you delight.

2) For Francophiles the best place to stay is the laid-back Hotel Le Général, which in one direction is only 500 meters away from the Georges Pompidou Center while in the other from the trendy quarters Bastille and Oberkampf. Franck, the extremely nice owner, has excellent knowledge about the Parisian night life.

3) In the young, hip design hotel The Rockwell in the beautiful district of Kensington the best shopping opportunities (Chelsea and Knightsbridge) are just around the corner. The innovative concept of this new 4 star hotel is characterized by a combination of tradition and modern design: traditional English style elements have been retained everywhere and in the restaurant there’s an English kitchen, however, with a modern interpretation.

4) The Casa Camper in Berlin’s trendy district Mitte is the first hotel under the flag of the trendy shoe label Camper. This new hotel is characterized by a modern, colourful design and an international audience. Individual shops, cafés and bars are within walking distance in the surrounding streets of Berlin, the capital for singles.

5) Also a metropolis for singles is New York. Recommended for an exciting short city holiday is here the hotel Room Mate Grace , kept in a young, hip design. Guests not only rent a room here: the concept of this creative, Spanish hotel chain is to provide a home and create space in a public area to establish contacts – tailor-made for singles!

Fitness room roomz vienna Pool Room Mate Grace


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Oct
23

Shopping in London: a Christmas spirit spree

by Holly Maguire October 23, 2009, 9:14 am

There is no better way to fend off the winter blues than to wrap up warm and enjoy a guilt-free Christmas shopping spree in a cosmopolitan world metropolis. Gather up your Christmas gifts early and you’ll have the whole of December to enjoy office parties and festive markets, with the smug knowledge you won’t be part of the last minute stampede.

The weak pound should be any excuse for continental visitors to make the quick hop over the English Channel to London, where Oxford Street’s Selfridges and Topshop are just fashion jewels in the capital’s glittering shopaholic crown. Boutiques and Covent Garden’s cobbled streets and covered market will spoil with handmade jewellery, snazzy art pieces and clothing, whilst Liberty’s and Harrods leave you in awe of their grandeur and old worldliness – and offer up the presents for the relatives who you’d think already have it all.

The perfect week to combine festive inspiration with your own beach daydreams is between 5 and 8 November, when Conde Nast Traveller’s Luxury Travel Fair takes place in Kensington Olympia alongside the indulgent Spirit of Christmas Fair. Here you’ll find plenty of gift ideas from innovative socks to sushi makers, whilst wine merchants and cheese makers will keep you topped up with tasty nibbles. There are still plenty of bargain flights to whisk you over to the great British capital– and for somewhere to stay, put the icing on the cake with a delectable Escapio hotel.

London Christmas giftsThe Soho Hotel


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