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...fitness center or spa?but there's a DJ booth smack in the middle of the lounge, and a grooming center for your dog. What else would you expect from a hotel designed by the likes of Tei Shuwa of Intentionallies and British design gurus Tomato...
...ship's glamour--and, with a nod to nostalgia, one of its whistles. But the focus is catering to modern taste: the QM2 offers the only planetarium at sea, the largest dance floor afloat, education-lite courses by Oxford professors and a luxurious 20,000-sq.-ft. spa run by the upscale Canyon Ranch chain. Cabins are comparatively roomy, and three-quarters of them have balconies. Some observers on the preliminary tour complained that the furniture in some of the lounges looked cheap and that deck chairs for the lowest-priced cabins were white plastic instead of the traditional teak...
...minibars and no gym or spa - those are too passé - but there's a DJ booth smack in the middle of the lounge, and a grooming center for your dog. Hotels don't come any more idiosyncratic than Tokyo's newly refurbished Claska, and that's a credit to its designers, Tei Shuwa of Intentionallies (best known for their line of cooking appliances) and British design gurus Tomato (whose clients range from Nike to MTV). Remodeled from a 1960s business hotel, Claska has become the talk of Tokyo , which until now didn't have a world-class boutique hotel...
...package costs $490 a night. BERLIN: Hotel Adlon kempinski Amenities for pets include a comfy sleeping basket and a special pet menu. The concierge provides dog-walking services. tel: (49-0) 30 2261 0; www.hotel-adlon.de. The pet package is $50 a night. CAPE TOWN: The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa Pooches are paw-printed on registration and pampered with their own sleeping basket, linens, treats and toys. Special pet room service and massage treatments are also available. tel: (27-021) 437 9000; www.12apostleshotel.com. For $650 a day, you get a sea-facing room, breakfast and dinner for two humans...
That was the idea behind Stephanie Wilkinson's recent weekend at the Mirbeau Inn & Spa in the Adirondacks with her college friends Elisabeth and Jennifer. The three traveled separately from Lexington, Va., Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, leaving a total of six children under 7 behind at home. "In our crazy, busy lives, I feel as if we have no real time with our friends," Wilkinson says. "It seems the only way to maintain a friendship is to go away with them...