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...GLOBAL ADVISOR Travel: Hong Kong's back! Dossier: Kiwis return to roost Hotels: Warsaw luxe Books: Long haul reads Style: Chocolate treats Tech: Portable entertainment Golf: Cost-of-living-it-up Index...
...GLOBAL ADVISOR Travel: Hong Kong's back! Dossier: Kiwis return to roost Hotels: Warsaw luxe Books: Long haul reads Style: Chocolate treats Tech: Portable entertainment Golf: Cost-of-living-it-up Index...
...years, business travelers in Eastern Europe have griped about the lack of first-class accommodation in the region. Now travelers to Poland can finally stop complaining and check into the Hotel Rialto, Warsaw's first boutique luxury hotel. Housed in a 100-year-old building on quiet, tree-lined Wilcza Street, the Rialto's 44 rooms are done up in the Art Deco style of the 1920s and '30s; owner Iza Smolokowska spent two years traveling the world to pick the 300 pieces of original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics...
Since emerging from communist rule more than a decade ago, Poland has become a draw for history-hungry tourists. Its capital, Warsaw, saw the debut last month of its first boutique hotel, the Rialto, situated in a prewar neighborhood just a few hundred yards from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There...
...particularly following the arrest by U.S. forces of ten Turkish commandos in northern Iraq ten days ago - the Pentagon is having to face the reality that many of the armies most competent to help in Iraq are simply unavailable. The addition of small numbers of troops from the old Warsaw Pact countries may ease some of the burden on U.S. forces in Iraq, but it's unlikely to allow the U.S. to draw down its own troop commitment there - to put it bluntly, it will take the combat power of the Americans, rather than the Latvians and Fijians, to wage...