Top Hotel Deals: March 2010

March 30, 2010

Japan Hotels Pics

In Japan, hotels can be divided into four basic categories.
First, there is the ryokan.
There are many ryokans in Shizuoka Prefecture’s hot spring towns.
The buildings are traditional Japanese style and the rooms have tatami mats.
They are equipped with a large hot spring bath which guests can use freely.
A smaller version of a ryokan is the minshuku.
These are family run guest houses with a warm, homely atmosphere.
The rooms are smaller than in a ryokan, but many make up for this in the wonderful homemade food that they serve.
There are also city hotels and business hotels.
City hotels are generally very luxurious and there are many world-famous chain hotels and long established Japanese hotels which offer excellent foreign language services.
These large-scale hotels are located around train stations and in resort areas.
Business hotels are comparatively cheaper and have long been used by workers on business trips, however recently they have begun offering a prominent and hospitable service aimed at tourists.

Japan Hotels

Japanese Foods

Japanese food

March 29, 2010

Travel

of course I’d love plenty of airplane tickets for travel! {France, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, India, Morocco…}

Galerie Lafayette, Paris, France

Tokyo, Japan

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Taj Mahal, India

Morocco

Ukraine Hotels 2010

“Odessa” is a 4 star modern hotel, located in the very heart of Odessa overlooking the Black Sea and the Old City. It is the first luxury hotel where the Ukrainian hospitality is skillfully combined with the modern facilities providing exceptional standards of comfort to meet all the guests. The hotel offers 158 luxurious guest rooms which enjoy beautiful view of the Black Sea.

Address: Odessa (Ukraine), 6 Primorskaya Street

Ukraine Hotel

Ukraine Foods

There are certain dining experiences that just make you feel like a New Yorker. Sitting at Veselka’s counter sipping coffee and dipping chalah into a bowl of soup exemplifies this notion 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Originally opened as a candy store in the mainly Ukrainian East Village of the 1950s, “Veselka,” Ukrainian for “rainbow,” has been spreading cheer amidst an ever-changing neighborhood by sticking to its roots: authentic and affordable Ukrainian food in an unhurried atmosphere.

ukraine food

Ukraine Pictures

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova (including the disputed territory of Transnistria) to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev (Kyiv) is Ukraine's capital.
The nation's history began with that of the East Slavs. From at least the 9th century, the territory of Ukraine was a center of the medieval Varangian dominated East Slavic civilization forming the state of Kievan Rus', which disintegrated in the 12th century. From the 14th century on, the territory of Ukraine was divided among a number of regional powers and by the 19th century the largest part of Ukraine was integrated into the Russian Empire with the rest under Austro-Hungarian control. After a chaotic period of incessant warfare and several attempts at independence (1917–1921) following the Russian Revolution and the Great War, Ukraine emerged in 1922 as one of the founding republics of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's territory was enlarged westward shortly before and after the Second World War, and again in 1954 with the Crimea transfer. In 1945, the Ukrainian SSR became one of the co-founding members of the United Nations. Ukraine became independent again after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This began a transition period to a market economy, in which Ukraine was stricken with eight straight years of economic decline. But since about the turn of the century, the economy has been experiencing a stable increase, with real GDP growth averaging about seven percent annually.

Ukraine

Dubai Foods

Dubai Food

Top Dubai World

Dubai World

Dubai Hotels 2010

“Dhow” is a traditional-style boat found on the Gulf Sea and on Dubai Creek. This hotel seeps in tradition and style with its Dhow shaped exterior, and inside with its Arabic Hospitality

Dubai Hotel

Dubai Tallest Buildings 2010 2012

One such place is Dubai, which is the commercial capital of middle east (atleast by now). It is now ‘officially’ the home of the world’s tallest skyscraper. Sorry…make that the world’s tallest super-tall skyscraper (considering a lot of buildings have the title ’skyscraper’). So what does it take to qualify as super-tall? Well, there is no maths for this…it is kind of a ‘thumb-rule’…A building with atleast 300m (~1000ft.) in height can have the title. And 300m is tall, very very tall. So what about the tallest building in Dubai then? At an insanely 818m (holy mother earth!), it is by far the tallest structure ever made by man. Number of floors? A mind boggling 164 !!! In a comparative scale, Sears Tower (which use to have the most number of floors) has only 108. So that’s Sears Tower x 1.5 ! The building is named Burj Dubai.