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...long ago, a hotel guest's options when it came to musical entertainment were limited to Muzak on the blackened channels of the TV, or the tinkling of a lobby pianist. Nowadays, of course, you can carry your entire CD collection around with you on an iPod - and there's also Internet radio with thousands of online stations[an error occurred while processing this directive] available for free through your laptop. Don't know how to choose between them? Here are four surefire hits for while you're on the road. LIVE365.COM The world's largest Internet-radio network offers...
These days, no brand is complete, it seems, without its own hotel. Volkswagen has Fox, a 61-room Copenhagen property named after the automaker's compact runabout. Italian jeweler Bulgari has lent its name to a hotel in Milan. And in Barcelona, Spanish shoemaker Camper has its own venture, Casa Camper, www.camper.es, set on a street off the city's famed Las Ramblas. Like the footwear it's named after, this 25-room affair demonstrates that style and affordability are not mutually exclusive. For a low-season average of around $250 a night (roughly $300 in the high-season months...
...studies at Queens College in New York City, Diane visited Hungary several times to do research and wanted to share the experience with her mother. So she surprised her mom Carol Hornbuckle with a trip to Budapest as a 70th-birthday present. Diane found them a pretty four-star hotel, the K+K Opera in Budapest, introduced her mother to her Hungarian friends and took her to places of historic interest like Esztergom Cathedral on the Danube and the Museum of Ethnography. At the museum, Carol spent hours entranced by the 19th century embroidered clothes and hand-painted furniture like...
...Bernadette, 37, a fund raiser, offered to take him on a trip Down Under funded by all the sisters. "My father never asked anything for himself," Bernadette says. "He was giddy for the next six weeks, watching audiotapes and reading books." Driving from place to place, often without hotel reservations, the daughters set a frantic pace. Although Michael kept up, it was sometimes a struggle for him. Still, he adored the trip. At a nature preserve in Australia, he let a huge python wrap itself around his neck. In Auckland, New Zealand, he sipped espresso and watched in amazement...
...look restrained. Freedom of the Seas, as the Royal Caribbean cruise line has christened it, cost more than $800 million to build and can accommodate 4,375 passengers. How tough was the 160,000-ton ship to build? Imagine trying to combine all the services of a four-star hotel with the navigational mechanics of a commercial airplane and the security concerns of a small city. And make it all float...