The neon colors were changing every 30s or so and that was the best color combination.
Westin Hotels & Resorts’ new brand positioning around creating a personal and instinctive experience is meant to inspire a feeling of renewal.
This lounge at the Westin Grand Sukhumvit Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand inspires more a feeling of contemporary-chic.
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cornelius and i love visiting hotel bars. we usually just get 1 drink each. i love the little snacks they serve, complimentary!
Today we discovered a fellow hotel lounge maven in Vancouver, Canada - whose little joy in life is to visit upscale hotel bars and write about them. What a great day for us here at HotelDrink.com.
“Kickpleat” recently visited the hotel lounges at the Hotel Georgia, the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver and the Four Seasons in three instalments, then featured her experiences in a blog article.
…the third installment took place at the Four Seasons Hotel lounge. The room was wood panelled and cozy with a round bar in the centre of the room. While my drink was nice and strong, it was the complimentary nibbles that won me over. Wasabi peas, an assortment of herbed olives and salted nuts. Lovely presentation and everything from the little olive forks to the napkins were Four Seasons branded. But for all that presentation, the drinks were the most expensive that we’ve tried so far. [blog]
Editor’s Note: I’ve been to all three hotel lounges above. The Georgia’s tiny jungle-themed den is comfy and boring. The Hotel Vancouver has nice free appetizers and live jazz in the evenings. The Four Seasons is the best hotel lounge in town to see Hollywood stars, but drink prices are more suited to Bill Gates.
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The 5 star Radisson SAS Hotel features the world’s largest cylindrical aquarium with 2,500 tropical fish. The “AquaDom” is 25 metres high and situated right in the hotel lobby.
And when you’re tired of looking at fish, you can drink like one at the swank-blue hotel lounge adjacent to the AquaDom.
I was just so enamored of that aquarium, it was completely extraordinary. We made sure to get a room facing it, so we could enjoy it and I’m so glad we did. The scuba divers were in there every morning cleaning it up and it was just really something for me to be able to see that just out my hotel room window. One of my favorite things on our vacation…[TripAdvisor]
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The lounge at the hotel Semiramis in Athens, totally wacky - designed by Karim Rachid
In Karim Rashid’s Words: “…I believe that we could be living in an entirely different world - one that is full of real contemporary inspiring objects, spaces, places, worlds, spirits and experiences…”
Athens is known for its hip hotel style, as you can see from this image of the lounge at the Hotel Semiramis.
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The coolest bar on the planet is the Absolut Ice Bar at the Ice Hotel, in Jukkasjärvi in Lapland, Sweden. Here, 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle winter reigns eight months a year.
The only drink served is Absolut, not on the rocks, but IN the rocks! Everything is made of crystal clear river ice.
The bar, glasses, everything is made of ice. And, a few drinks may warm you up so you may want to run around in your underwear like these daring Dutch guests…
