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"Who's that knocking on your hotel room door? Is it room service or a ghostly visitor? Guests have recounted strange occurrences like these during their stays at some hotels. This title introduces reluctant readers to some of these haunted encounters with unwanted hotel guests"--Provided by the publisher.
11) Three Hotels
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Masterfully written by one of America's most lauded playwrights, this deeply human story unfolds in three hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands and Oaxaca, Mexico, as a married couple reflect on their lives as players in the game of international business. A devastating tour-de-force of humor, tragedy, and penetrating insight from one of America's premier playwrights.
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Giles Coren and Monica Galetti don their thermals and extreme weather gear, and trek 200km north of the Arctic Circle to Sweden's Lapland, where they enter a magical world of snow, ice, inky-blue skies, and Icehotel. Before bedding down in freezing temperatures, there's work to be done — rooms to be carved, drinking glasses to be hewn and the local delicacy of reindeer meat to be prepared.
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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can...
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Attention to detail is key at Royal Mansour. The hotel, built by royal decree on an unlimited budget by Marrakech's finest artisans, is frequented by world leaders, celebrities and billionaires who expect the best. Monica learns to 'show love to curtains' — 350 pairs of which must be caressed by hand to create perfect pleats. And Giles dons a butler uniform to administer to his guests' whims.
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Restaurant writer Giles Coren and chef Monica Galetti head to the Andean Cloud Forest of Ecuador to work at Mashpi Lodge, a $10-million modernist hotel featuring a gondola cable car that whizzes guests a mile through the jungle canopy at a dizzying height. Which might explain why 70% of the staff are former loggers, who have become proud conservationists since taking on roles at Mashpi.
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Think of luxury winter tourism and you think of St Moritz. The swanky Kulm Hotel caters to all things cold and posh. The grandeur of this Alpine resort's history is maintained, as it offers glamorous delights to those who wish to ski in the fanciest way possible. Giles and Monica take to the slopes in style, while enjoying the hotel's bespoke brand of whisky and indulging in some truffle fondue.
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Food writer Giles Coren and chef Monica Galetti discover Giraffe Manor, a unique hotel where giraffes, staff and guests coexist in a hunting lodge on the edge of Nairobi National Park. Impressing Giles and Monica is a tall order after their years in the hospitality industry, but Giraffe Manor succeeds by offering them the unforgettable chance to breakfast with giraffes in the hotel dining room.
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For 800 years Ashford castle has dominated the skyline over this part of Ireland. Its fortunes have been mixed, but a recent £50 million cash injection intends to make it one of the most opulent hotels on the planet. Guests are drenched in Irish charm as they gulp down oysters, partake in some shooting or luxuriate on their four-poster beds. Giles and Monica try to keep the occupants happy.
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Built on the elevator shaft of a 90-year-old grain container, The Silo promises a unique industrial-chic experience for the discerning city break patron. This art-themed hotel features chic design aspects such as bespoke windows that cost thousands to install and, as Giles and Monica discover, a great deal of sweat to maintain. Guests are oblivious as they enjoy the hotel's 14 varieties of gin.