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...this spring, he drove 80 miles in his GMC truck with a BUSH-CHENEY bumper sticker to do just that. It wasn't that he minded the oil-and-gas boom currently flooding the state with jobs and royalties. The problem, he told a government panel in a hotel ballroom in Casper, is that the rush to drill in Wyoming is swiping the land right out from under its people...
...people they will never, ever talk to. Rice and U.S. President George W. Bush are best friends, but the list of people, parties, organizations and countries they won't talk to is endless. It's time they grew up. Danute V. Handy Santa Barbara, California, U.S. Hotel Cells In "Jail breaks" [Aug. 7], Max Wooldridge claimed: "We've heard of office buildings and farmhouses being turned into hotels - but we had never heard of converting prisons." Please send him to Stockholm's Langholmen Hotel, a former prison that was closed in 1975 and then converted into one of Sweden...
...such behemoths really be considered spas? "They are more like leisure entertainment complexes for the masses," says Maggie Gunning, managing director at Spa Synergy, a Singapore-based spa consultancy. They're fast becoming hotel alternatives, too. An extra $17 at LaQua, for instance, lets you stay overnight in a fully reclining chair. Factor in the $23 entrance fee, as well as the costs of a massage and a meal, and you still have a bargain when it comes to lodging in Tokyo. Just don't expect a mint on your pillow...
Just as one waits ages for a bus only to have three come along at once, so Bangkok finds itself surfeited these days with boutique hotels. For many years, the Thai capital was bereft of the welcome alternative these fashionable little properties provide to the big chain hotels or the flophouses of Khao San Road - and it's still anyone's guess why so many have opened now.[an error occurred while processing this directive] Perhaps the adoption of Thai style in so many boutique hotels and spas in the West has encouraged local operators to welcome long-haul visitors...
...Already this month, three additional casinos have reopened their doors. The Grand Casino in Biloxi opened its 500-room hotel with a smaller version of a casino on its third floor. Definitely less lavish than its forerunner, the casino has its entrance on the third floor of the parking garage, but so many people flocked to the casino that patrons often waited up to an hour for their valet-parked cars. Three days after opening, few seats were available at slot machines, card tables or roulette wheels, and the line for the casino's popular buffet stretched well into...