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...York City's W Hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue. It opened last month, and three more spas are set to open in 2005 in W Hotels in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. The New York spa, which features a manicure-pedicure lounge, a shaving station, and women's and men's locker rooms with saunas and aromatherapy-infused steam rooms, will also offer unique treatments like Bliss's Carrot & Sesame Body Buff and Triple Oxygen facial. But the biggest bonus is that hotel guests will receive priority booking, which means they won't have to endure...
...roughing it is the best wake-up call in Scotland: in the pristine winter air, from some of Britain's highest ground, there are panoramic views stretching 150 kilometers or more. The next snowy trek takes place March 12-14 and is priced at $508, including airport or train-station transfer and lodge accommodation when you're not snug in your snow hole...
...Cityplaza Ice Palace, Hong Kong Hong Kong's subtropical climate might make ice skating seem an unlikely pastime, but this is a great place to escape from the heat. Centrally located and right on top of the subway's Taikoo Station, Cityplaza's rink features a skylight for sunny days or moonlight skates, and is one of only two in the world with a fully computerized skating-school system that schedules lessons, locates coaches, and monitors skaters' progress, making it popular year-round. The Cityplaza Ice Palace offers an all-day pass, from...
...nowhere near Bangkok. He says he didn't have time to inform his boss before the wave hit, but he had no need to. Sumalee Prachuab, who supervises the Bangkok office, was having breakfast at a beach resort in Cha-Am in southeast Thailand when a local monitoring station told her about the quake. By 9 a.m., she knew that the shock had been off Sumatra, and the Bangkok office had started to fax details to local radio and TV stations. But the duty officer concedes that there was no sense of urgency. "The earthquake was far away," he says...
...Kahawa, on the south coast, the cars of a train lie separated and sprawled on the ground, relief workers and Buddhist monks in saffron robes crawling over them. This is where at least 1,000 people died. Karl Max Hantke, a German with a holiday home overlooking the train station, says that shortly after the first wave hit, he saw a packed train come to a halt, perhaps because its engineer thought stopping was safer than moving on. When the first wave retreated into the ocean, he says, local people ran to the train and left their children there. Then...