Word: cristallo
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...fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down...
...Hotel Cristallo's history reads like a rock star's autobiography: there's the sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever. That was in 2001, and the luxury five-star hotel in the Italian ski resort of Cortina is still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale?everybody wants to be here...
...Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking renovation and added a heated indoor swimming pool, indoor and outdoor Jacuzzis, a sauna and a hammam as well as the hotel's Transvital Swiss Beauty Center, which offers treatments like chocolate-therapy massage and herbal wraps, and an Isokinetic Sport Reconditioning Center, equipped to accommodate injured or training athletes. The guest rooms' decor of oak flooring, pine wainscoting and silk plaid curtains doesn't challenge, but that's the point: visitors are here to unwind...
...hotel's attention to detail is masterful: from the 16,000 handpainted roses on the ceilings and walls to the delectable handmade biscotti accompanying a sinful hot cocoa that my 5-year-old daughter dubbed "Willy Wonka's chocolate river in my throat." In 2005, the Cristallo won Italy's Leading Ski Resort at the World Travel Awards?like a rock legend, this hotel knows how to thrill, seduce and keep fans coming back for more...
...fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther~ with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down in 1978. Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking renovation and added a heated indoor swimming pool, indoor and outdoor Jacuzzis, a sauna and a hammam as well as the hotel's Transvital...