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...former custodians of the Hotel Flamboyan in Baucau, the picturesque seaside town on East Timor's northeast coast, had a lot to learn about hotel management. Here, during East Timor's darkest days under Indonesian rule, paying guests were treated with disdain by staff dressed in combat fatigues and carrying M-16s and hand grenades. This was an Indonesian military facility that had kept its fa?ade as a hotel to mask its real function as a place to detain, interrogate, torture and sometimes kill Timorese sympathizers of the pro-independence movement...
...country. His song should be sung. Baucau's old city?built in the shadow of a limestone cliff overlooking the ocean?is home to some of the finest examples of Portuguese architecture in East Timor, including the newly restored and renamed Pousada Baucau, once the infamous Hotel Flamboyan. Now under Timorese management, this grand hotel is the place to enjoy spicy Portuguese-Timorese fusion food and a glass of fine Portuguese wine before retiring for the night. Reassuringly, the staff now carry corkscrews instead of M-16s. Rooms cost $50 a night, including breakfast?call (61418) 176 003 for reservations...
...single room, without meals). Governor Luis Ferré's brother José, who last year bought the troubled Darlington Hotel and renamed it the Borinquen, has cut rates by a third and appealed for middle-class and convention customers. Other hotels, including La Concha and Flamboyan, have posted their off-season rates sooner-and dropped them down further-than last year. They are offering double rooms for $21 to $26 a day, about $20 less than the usual high-season rate. Their decision to give the tourists some bargains comes none too soon. "Right now the lobbies look like...
...occupied, including the suburban motels and unpretentious rooming houses. Space was so tight in the top spots that prospective guests at the Rockefeller-owned Dorado Beach Hotel, where rates run to $75 per couple per day, were putting up a $300 deposit just for a reservation. The 160-room Flamboyan Hotel, which opened last week, is already booked through the season. And later this year, Philco, Gibson Refrigerator and the Disciples of Christ have scheduled conventions that will bring 18,000 visitors to Puerto Rico...
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