Courtney Flynn writes:
Thought ye might like this typo… at the Intercontinental Hotel in Muscat, Oman.
The Mountain Hotel Project, soon to be built in Guizhou, China by Milan based design firm Stefano Boeri Architetti – a tiered 250 room hotel covered with vegetation from the ground up.
Imagine the spiders, though.
The Manta Resort off Pemba Island in Zanzibar is a floating hotel with an underwater guest room extending four meters below the surface of the Indian ocean.
Designed by Swedish architect Mikael Genberg, the structure – constructed of local hardwood – also has two decks above water.
For gloating.
Spitbank Fort – the first of three abandoned 18th century coastal defense forts in the Solent off Portsmouth to be redeveloped for tourism.
Spitbank is a luxury 8-berth hotel with spa, firepit, recreation room and outdoor heated pool. Horse Sands Fort is now a museum and No Man’s Land Fort is currently being developed into an even larger luxury hotel.
DUBLIN’S BURLINGTON Hotel, bought by property developer Bernard McNamara at the peak of the property boom in 2007 for €288 million, is back on the market with a guide price of €65-€75 million.
Mr McNamara has been one of the biggest casualties of the property crash with overall debts of €1.5 billion.
And now. The punchline…
Paul Collins, of CBRE Hotels, said yesterday there had been a remarkable recovery in the Dublin hotel market, and city hotels were now among the best-performing in Europe.
Beautiful.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)