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...capture the essence of a city like London? And how do you embody that essence in a hotel? David Collins' answer: the new London NYC. The Irish designer has transformed the former Rihga Royal, long a business traveler's stalwart in New York City, infusing it with what he calls the "Anglo-European attitude" of Britain's capital. Collins' vision of London is modern and understated - no bellhops in Beefeater costumes here. England's garden mazes inspired the lobby's black-and-beige Travertine floor, while the meanders of its giant silk tapestry nod to the pathways of London...
...plush chairs in the lobby of Macau's Mandarin Oriental Hotel are filled with a cadre of journalists looking distinctly slovenly in their luxurious surroundings. Tripods poke out from underneath couches, cameras rest on tables and reporters crane their necks to stare down the corridors. The object of the press pack's Friday night stakeout is not the Prime Minister of Portugal, here on a two-day visit to his country's former colony. Instead, we're hoping to catch a glimpse of a man known for getting busted trying to sneak into Japan to visit Tokyo Disney...
...again. That Friday evening, Japan's TBS television broadcast footage of a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam walking to a cab. He was wearing a powder blue sport coat and pink shirt, and drinking a green beverage from a bottle. "Are you staying at the Mandarin hotel?" the reporter asked. "I cannot tell you," the man replied. "My privacy...
...agitated TV cameraman sits on the edge of a couch. "Have you seen him?" I ask. "If I had seen him I wouldn't be here," he snaps. So we head out again, popping our heads into every club and casino we see. At the Grand Emperor Hotel, its entrance fronted by two gilded carriages, we ride an escalator to the amplified sound of jangling coins broadcast through the sound system. I doubt he's really here, but on a floor of slot machines, I ask hotel staff to page Mr. Kim. The woman behind the desk stares...
...tourism industry here isn't exactly supersophisticated--the Sheraton's approach to wake-up calls, for example, is laissez-faire--but more amenities are popping up, including high-end hotels like Arena di Serdica, built around the ruins of a Roman amphitheater, and Grand Hotel Sofia, which overlooks the Sofia City Garden, the former Royal Palace (now an ethnographical museum) and the National Theater. The nicest rooms top $300 a night, after converting from the euros that most hotel rates are listed in, alongside the price in Bulgarian leva...