Let’s look at the clues (said in a Lloyd Grossman Through the Keyhole accent).
- It’s called Costa D’Este, which is almost Spanish (that would be Costa de Este, ’cause they don’t do the apostrophe thing).
- It’s not exactly in Miami but it’s just up the coast, before you get to Orlando. In Florida.
- It’s the second hotel from this Latina lovely, who already has one in Miami and speaks Spanish.
Did you get it? Yes, it’s… (more…)
Vegas. Funny old town. You’d think it would be the gayest place on Santa’s green earth what with the sparkles and the showgirls and boys dancing around in tight-fitting costumes and Seigfried and Roy. But nup. Strangely straight with the shonkiest gay scene this side of Doncaster (prove us wrong, Vegas!)
But at least one casino/hotel (same difference in Vegas) has noticed that the pink pound and dollars out there could very easily be exchanged for chips of varying colours. Paris (the one with the ‘Eiffel Tower’) has decided that in the face of Caesar’s Palace putting on a long line of gay icons – Celine, Elton, Bette, Cher, Tina T – it will put out an ad with two jacks fondling each other.
Pack those bags, Leonard, we’re off!
OK, so Rome may be The Eternal City etc blah, but you don’t necessarily need that reflected in your living quarters.
In fact, Rome can be so zzzzzzzzzzz-inducingly antique, you do actually need something contemporary to rest your eyes on every once in a while. And now – hooray! – the brand new Pulitzer Roma (we’re big fans of their Barcelona outlet) gives us said respite and allows us to be the fabulous jet setters we really truly are.
See the inside over the jump… (more…)
If you have a cool £200,000 to spend on your hols, you can join the likes of Princess Beatrice at zero gravity, travelling at speeds of Mach 3 (and you thought it was a razor) into the fringes of space on a Virgin Gallactic flight (if you can hold off a bit, it gets cheaper).
You have to go on a training course-type thing in the desert and go through medical checks before they’ll let you anywhere near that spacecraft, but once you’re on you get dragged up there at ridiculous speed and then get to gaze back the 65 miles to planet earth through the special observation windows.
Or you could always go back to that nice hotel in Corfu.
Welcome to Schipol Amsterdam airport. Very beautifully designed anyway – those mini tiles! those curved corners! – it just got a major upgrade in the VIP department with a lounge fit for – and in parts, reserved for – royalty (well, it was opened by Queen Beatrix herself, so she’s going to get first bags, isn’t she?)
Designed to cater to the needs of Ministers, very important business-type people and them royals, this is probably about as close as you are going to get to the Concrete-designed loveliness of it all.
Oh, look, some more pictures… (more…)
Side-by-side classic roll-top baths on their own mezzanine might pique your interest, while the idea of 10-foot windows, crystal chandeliers and a snooky breakfast nook will all make you sit up and take notice.
But just wait till we tell you that from certain rooms in Manchester’s Great John Street Hotel you can actually see the houses in Coronation Street… (more…)
Having got rid of Concorde (OK, it was noisy and smelly but so is Lulu and no one’s getting rid of her!), very clever people in overalls have come up with this futuristic old thing.
It’s called the A2 (yes, like a very large piece of paper), is part of a project called Lapcat (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies) and it can go at five times the speed of sound – or Mach 5, if that doesn’t make you think of a razor blade. And that’s twice as fast as your average Concorde.
Other things you may be interested to learn about this amazing bit of techno wizardry are… (more…)
Look at these two gays going on their holidays in matching Hawaiian shirts! And while there are families on board and everything!
It’s part of American Airlines’ very laudable campaign to break it to the world that gays actually fly on planes too. Sometimes together. In pairs! Though not necessarily in such dolly blouses.
We applaud them and their flawless record on equality (they have the top score of 100 on the Human Rights Corporate Equality Index) and for putting out such cute adverts. Keep your eyes peeled for the lady version, due out soon.
You’ve done Barcelona to death. And Madrid. And Spain in general. But you still love that Iberian, you know, thing.
Try Portugal. Poor country’s having its worst ever year PR-wise what with Maddie and those people who drowned saving their children so it could do with some cash dollars. And they’re going about getting them in all the right ways with this brand new, not-quite-open-yet hotel in Lisbon.
It’s called the Fontana Park Hotel and it’s an early 20th century building totally gutted and refitted. Located in full-on downtown Lisbon – a truly fun place to go out of an evening, by the way, and with some totally not-bad beaches – it opens on 1st December and is offering a big old 10% discount to get the ball rolling.
See more pictures and find out about that deal after the jump… (more…)
