Airbus is offering airlines the option of installing extra-wide seats for overweight passengers on its A320 jets to cope with what it describes as “trends in demographics”. The super-sized seats will measure 20 inches across instead of the standard 18 inches, and will likely be installed only as aisle seats. Window and middle seats will [...]
Het Arresthuis was one of the Netherlands’ most feared prisons for almost 150 years, but following its closure and something of a makeover, it has been transformed into a luxury hotel. The 105 prisoner’s quarters have been converted into 40 spacious rooms, including 24 standard rooms, 12 deluxe rooms, and four suites, all of which [...]
Hôtel de Glace in Quebec, Canada, is a palatial building constructed entirely out of ice. Hôtel de Glace is built each year with a new themed design out of hundreds of thousands of tons of ice and snow. The hotel opened its doors on January, kicking off its 13th season. 2013 theme was inspired by [...]
Sleepbox Hotel, located in the centre of Moscow, Russia, is the first capsule hotel to open in the city. The hotel features fifty cramped, windowless pods, some of which can sleep up to three people, and which can be booked for the night, or for a matter of hours. A night’s accommodation is reported to [...]
With its frosty furniture and glittering white walls, Hotel of Ice Balea Lac in Romania certainly attracts visitors keen to experience the unusual surroundings. Even the beds are made from ice, so guests best not bring a hot-water bottle. And they can be certain of having a truly unique stay, as the Hotel of Ice near [...]
Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Hungary has been shut down after the control tower developed electrical problems. Flights are being diverted to Vienna, Bratislava and other major airports nearby. The airport closed at 11:50 a.m. local time and may not reopen until about 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, officials said. Ferenc Liszt International Airport is [...]
The Tropical Islands Resort in Krausnick, Germany, is the world’s largest indoor beach with 400 sunloungers – and not a cloud in sight. Yet with up to 6,000 visitors allowed in at a time, there are bound to be towel-fights over them – especially as this “indoors paradise” is in Germany. The Tropical Islands Resort [...]
LAX employees are threatening to strike over being denied healthcare on Thanksgiving eve, the busiest travel holiday of the year. A coalition of labor and community leaders is calling for the protest of alleged violations by LAX contractor Aviation Safeguards for breaking a healthcare contract with the airport earlier this year. Andrew Gross-Gaitan, the director [...]
Former hotel staffer Jacob Tomsky has detailed the sketchy, raunchy, and sometimes scandalous things that hotel workers do when guests’ heads are turned in his new book, Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustlers and So-Called Hospitality. After 11 years in the industry, including a couple years at a high-end hotel in New [...]
On Thursday, November 22nd, America celebrates Thanksgiving, the traditional harvest feast which dates back to 1621. Check the list below for the best ways to give thanks, whether it’s on a traditional plantation or with giant helium balloons. Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, New York City There is always something going on in the city that never [...]
Insano, the world’s tallest water slide, is towering over the Brazilian landscape at a whopping 41 metres high, it is the equivalent of a 14-storey building. Insano has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and brave riders plummet down the slide at a nerve-shredding speed, reaching around 65 miles an hour. The [...]
Ryugyong Hotel, the 105-storey building which dominates the skyline of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, may open next year, 26 years after construction began. The pyramid-shaped building has become known as the “Hotel of Doom”. Reto Witter, chief executive of the Kempinski group, which will manage the Ryugyong hotel, said only 150 rooms on the [...]
Hobbits and elves are squashed in next to Orcs and wizards on board of Air New Zealand flight – suggesting the latest movie adaptation of a J.R.R Tolkien classic has been given a modern twist. The scene is taken from Air New Zealand’s new in-flight safety video, which even features a cameo from director Sir [...]
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula has invited some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, The Werewolf family, and [...]
A $1 billion project to build a replica of the Taj Mahal has been unveiled in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. The Taj Arabia complex would be much bigger than the original monument to love and include a 300-room hotel, shops and commercial buildings, developer Arun Mehra said. It would be ready by 2014 and [...]
Georgia’s beautiful, subtropical Black Sea coast is once again drawing tourists from far and wide, and the government hopes focusing on gambling will help pull in visitors all year round. When you are in Batumi, it is hard to believe that this was once a corrupt and crime-ridden city, cut off from the rest of [...]
Pictures have emerged showing the inside of the 105-storey pyramid-shaped Ryugyong hotel that has been under construction in Pyongyang for 25 years. North Korea began building the Ryugyong hotel in 1987, but construction was halted for 16 years when funds ran out. Although work restarted in 2008, the hotel has become, for many, a symbol of [...]
Oktoberfest 2012, the 179th edition of the world’s most famous beer festival, has begun on September, 22, at the Theresienwiese fairground in Munich (München), Germany. September, 22 is also the day of autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, which brought a heavy rain to Munich. At the “Schottenhamel” beer tent, Mayor Christian Ude performed the [...]
When word got out that Kate Middleton’s mother, Carole, was following Dukan regime to slim for her daughter’s wedding, it swiftly became the hottest weight-loss plan of the year. Dr. Pierre Dukan’s book shot to the top of the charts, becoming the best- selling diet book of all time. Published in 50 countries and translated [...]
The West Indian American Day Parade & Carnival celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2012. The party starts on the Thursday before Labor Day, August 30th, and doesn’t end till around 6 p.m. on the following Monday, September 3rd. 1. Monday September 3, 2012: WEST INDIAN CARIBBEAN AMERICAN LABOR DAY PARADE The parade starts at 11 [...]
A number of popular Cape Cod beaches have been closed after multiple reports of sharks, including deadly great whites, swimming not far from the coast. The closure is just the latest twist in an unusually shark-infested Cape Cod summer. A string of beaches off the shore of Chatham, Massachusetts were shut down indefinitely on Wednesday, [...]
During the summer holidays, some Italians make for fashionable islands like Capri or the calm waters of Lake Garda. But those who head to the Riviera Romagnola on the Adriatic coast, have a rather less serene experience. With a mixture of pride and embarrassment – that is how locals tell you they are off on [...]
A discussion on online community site Reddit has revealed a series of gripes, handy tips and confessions about things to look out for by hotel workers. It followed a question posted by user Smadisond on Tuesday. The site user asked: “Hotel staff of Reddit, what is something that hotels keep from their guests?” 1. Whisky [...]
Located in Brussels in Belgium, Nemo 33, the world’s deepest swimming pool, contains a whopping 660,500 gallons (2.5 million litres) of non-chlorinated, highly filtered spring water that is kept at a temperature of 30C (86F). Swimmers wanting to fetch something off the bottom of this pool will certainly need more than a lungful of air [...]
History of chocolate is being re-told in Akmescit, capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine, where a chocolate museum was opened. Opened in 2008, the museum used 1,5 tons of Belgian chocolate to tell the story of chocolate. It took 6 months to make chocolate paintings and statues in a bid to tell [...]
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Obama administration knew IRS was targeting conservative groups since June 2012Obama administration knew since June 2012 about an investigation into complaints from conservative tea party groups that they were being harassed by IRS, and the probe was…
EU bans refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tablesStarting with 2014, the European Commission will ban the use of refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tables. From 1 January 2014, restaurants may…
Eurovision 2013 winner is Denmark's Emmelie de Forest with Only TeardropsDenmark has won 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Swedish city of Malmo. Danish Emmelie de Forest had been the overwhelming favorite among the 26 entries, with her…
Zahra Shahid Hussain shot dead in KarachiSenior Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's…
Eurovision 2013: 26 countries competing in Malmö Grand Final2013 Eurovision Song Contest is under way in the Swedish city of Malmö as 26 countries compete in front of millions of TV viewers. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest is the…
Rome: Thousands rally to oppose Italy's austerity measuresThousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, have rallied in Rome against the policies of Italy’s new coalition government. Wielding red flags and placards, they urged…