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...joint six-night, eight-day Hong Kong and Lion City package for as low as $1,098. China Airlines has a three-night two-for-one special from the U.S. West Coast starting at $949. The special promotions appear to be working. Most upper-end hotels, like the Ritz-Carlton and the Island Shangri-La, are reporting more than four out of five rooms booked. "Just look at the lobbies," says a relieved Mark Lettinbichler, chairman of the Hong Kong Hotel Association...
...been wanting to try your hand at digital photography but don't want to buy pricey equipment, this camera may be for you. It's the world's first 100% digital disposable camera, and it goes on sale at Ritz Camera Centers this week. For $10.99 you get an automatic flash, metered exposure control, a self-timer and--because it's digital--the option to instantly delete any pictures that don't pan out. The camera comes out of Pure Digital Technologies in San Francisco. Ritz does digital photofinishing in an hour, or you can use your printer. Walt Disney...
...second floor of Lowell House, a new student is unpacking for the coming year. He unwraps a computer keyboard from the T-shirt that swaddles it and apologizes for the mess of clothing draped over his bedframe. Some snack food—two packages of Ritz crackers, a row of oranges—adorns the mantle of the common room. Several toiletries stand like chess pieces on the linoleum floor tiles, and the open door to a coat closet nearby reveals a jumble of cardboard boxes...
Vacation resorts, mindful of the increased desire for family excursions, are also adding services for children and teens. "People used to come alone, but that's really changed since 9/11. Now they want to bring the whole family," says Suzanne Holbrook, executive spa director at the newly opened Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Orlando, Fla., where the spa offers acne-treatment facials, fizzing salt manicures and other teencentric services. "There's been a real boom, and it's being felt throughout the hotel industry." Over Memorial Day weekend, the San Antonio Hyatt Regency opened SPAhhhT after being deluged by requests from...
...this school year, working as a costume designer in Vermont and driving to Harvard on weekends. The couple plans to live and work next year in Denver, where Helfrich proposed a month ago when the two looked at houses in the city. Helfrich says he took Cullum to the Ritz Carlton hotel and asked her to stand in front of a mirror with her eyes closed. “I got her a necklace,” he explains, “because she sews and can’t wear rings on her fingers.” She opened...