Word: resorting
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...rignon is set to flow as international revelers from Robert De Niro and Jean Paul Gaultier to Bollywood star Bipasha Basu gather to celebrate the grand opening of the Atlantis, a $1.5 billion, 1,500-room hotel resort that is over-the-top even by Dubai's standards. A branch of Kerzner's landmark resort in the Bahamas, the Atlantis features opulent rooms from $450 to $35,000 a night; restaurants by star chefs Nobu Matsuhisa, Giorgio Locatelli, Santi Santamaria and Michel Rostang; a giant aquarium containing 65,000 marine animals; and the Middle East's biggest theme park with...
...headquartered in Omaha. Once upon a time, Depression-battered parents would buy bus fare for their children and hand them a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town." Their counterparts today "are parents who have tried to navigate the system for years, and this is their last resort; these are parents who ran out of patience too darn fast and gave up too early, and everything in between," says Boes...
...years ago, it seemed that the memories of the Fontainebleau's heyday - when the likes of Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich used to luxuriate among its marble columns - were about all the tired resort had left. But after a sumptuous $1 billion renovation, the Fontainebleau is making its comeback this weekend with a $5 million, celebrity-drenched celebration...
Such lavish revelry, however, seems out of place during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. This isn't exactly a propitious time to bank on the renaissance of a 1,500-room resort whose in-season rates start at $399 a night. "In this economy, what are they thinking?" the Miami Herald asked in a front-page article this week. And in Miami - which last month had the nation's third-highest number of home foreclosures - residents may find it outright offensive to hold a power party whose posh, satin-lined box invitations alone cost $70 a piece...
...fairness began three years ago, when Miami and the country still felt flush - is an impressive, lovingly detailed restoration of a national architectural treasure, right down to the lobby's signature, bowtie-shaped marble floor tiles. And the hotel's prices actually compare favorably to other upscale U.S. resorts. When the economy rebounds, say the Fontainebleau's new proprietors, the resort will still be what it was in the 1950s and 60s, a stage where even the middle class can see and be seen...