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Halifax Downtown Hotel unveils $5m lobby renovation

September 22, 2015 • admin
After a $5-million renovation, the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel is able to unveil its brand-new Great Room, a thrilling new twist at the traditional hotel lobby concept. The downtown Halifax, NS hotel also expanded its event space to 22,000 square feet as a part of the renovation, and is now fully prepared to satisfy the wishes of any sort of meeting or event. At the center of the hotel’s new Great Room is the harbourstone sea grill & pour house, which replaces the hotel’s 44 North and Fife and Drum restaurants. The restaurant, with seating for 177 diners, specializes in specialty offerings including a breakfast buffet and native beers on tap. The bar at this downtown Halifax restaurant is a really unique venue. Featuring comfortable lounge seating, it really is...
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News: The Taste of Travel Theatre serves fine dining at 30,000 feet

September 22, 2015 • admin
The highly popular Taste of Travel Theatre wooed visitors at the opening day of this year’s World Travel Catering & Onboard Services Expo in Hamburg with top chef Gerard Bertholon displaying his culinary skills along with wine connoisseur Duncan Brown of Concha y Toro offering advice on serving the proper form of wines within the cabin. The Taste of Travel Theatre opened with Gerard Bertholon, Chief Strategy Officer and Bhasker Raghav, Business Development Manager from Cuisine Solutions, presenting three delicious dishes, two of which might be currently being served by airlines. Modern culinary methods deliver quality food by enhancing flavour through cooking processes akin to sous-vide, which was explained in greater detail during Gerard Bertholon’s preparation of “Amazon Cod” and “72 hours Short Rib”. For over five years, the Brazilian...
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News: Unprecedented demand for Oasis of the Seas first European season

September 20, 2015 • admin
Following last week’s announcement that the world’s largest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, would embark on its first ever European season and transatlantic sailing out of a UK port of call, thousands of holiday hungry Brits have pre-registered their interest to be first within the queue to make a booking when it makes its debut in autumn 2014. The unprecedented demand is the very best ever volume of pre-booking registrations ever seen by Royal Caribbean International. With the limited cruises set to head on sale on Thursday 11 April 2013, holidaymakers keen to secure their ultimate holiday experience have made the foremost of the cruise line’s amazing news to get their first pick of the itineraries by registering their interest in droves. Oasis of the Seas’ European season went...
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Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolis to be converted to Radisson Blu

September 18, 2015 • admin
Chartres Lodging Group today announces the purchase of and upcoming conversion of the Radisson Plaza Hotel Minneapolistoa Radisson Blu property, element of the Radisson hotel group’s upper-upscale brand portfolio. With renovations to start this year, the valuables is ready to be completed and rebranded in 2014. A top Minneapolis hotel in an A+ downtown location, the Radisson Plaza currently boasts 360 guest rooms, occupying 17 floors of the 36-story Plaza Seven building. The hotel contains a popular restaurant and bar, in addition to 22,000 square feet of meeting space, access to underground parking, and an instantaneous link to the city’s climate-controlled skyway system. Currently flagged as a Radisson with the newest renovations occurring in 2003, Chartres Lodging will renovate and rebrand the hotel as a life-style-oriented, upper-upscale flag: Radisson Blu....
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News: Saudia expands OnAir inflight connectivity

September 18, 2015 • admin
Saudia is expanding its inflight connectivity programme on routes between the dominion of Saudi Arabia and most of Saudia worldwide destinations. This comes after Saudia was providing OnAir’s GSM and Wi-Fi on its A330s for just about three years. Saudia’s passengers have taken to social media to claim how much they value staying involved with family, friends and associates, updating social media and surfing the web during flights. Comments have included: ‘Thanks, it’s excellent because it’s easy to take advantage of;’ ‘I used my mobile on a flight today: excellent;’ and, ‘Awesome: keep going.’ Saudia’s new A330s, if you want to be delivered throughout this year and next, could be equipped with Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir. They may join the A330s already flying with OnAir connectivity, bringing the whole...
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