The Leela Hotel group has been quietly expanding and growing their presence within the Indian market over recent years, culminating in the acclaimed Leela Palace Hotel in Bangalore.
However, for their most daring development yet, Leela have acquired a three acre plot in Delhi for $150 million, making it one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in the country.
The new hotel is set to open in summer 2008 and will include 90 serviced residences as well as 319 guestrooms and suites. We can only speculate what the final costs will be, but judging by Leela’s other hotels, there will be no skimping on luxurious features.
Can you believe that the Pan Am brand is 80 this year! To celebrate they have launched this very cool range of cabin bags. They are beautifully designed on the 1950’s originals and cost from £125 to £500 each. We actually prefer them to Louis Vuitton and the likes which often cost more. These truly are first class!
There’s 3 collections:
Prestige Collection, crafted in the finest leather and boasting a printed satin lining and monogrammed studs and zips.
Prices start from £415.
Hawaii Magic Carpet Series, featuring artwork from beloved 50’s American artist Norman Rockwell. Hop on board with a cream Hawaiian vanity case – £125.
These bags are exact replicas of the original cases given to Pan Am’s First Class passengers in the 1950s.
Diffusion Collection, featuring retro remakes of Pan Am’s classic cabin bags.
The Presidential is the same bag JFK carried while campaigning and costs £40.
There’s only one place to pick these up…and there’s a waiting list so bag your place today at Discoo.co.uk.
Posted by Ruth Miller on Thu 28th February 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Holidays
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Overnight sensations retails for a very reasonable £50 ($100).
Got a spare £25m knocking about and fancy yourself as a pop star, racing car driver or serial playboy?
Then the Bombardier Global Express XRS ultra long-range business jet could well be for you. This is the world’s most expensive private jet and can travel up to 6,150 nautical miles at a cruise speed of Mach 0.85, and 5,450 nm.
It can fly at 51,000 feet and take 8-19 passengers.
Dubai have come up with another eye catching development to add to their burgeoning tourist offering. It comes in the form of a new $1 billion Jurassic theme park called Restless Planet. The park will include 109 animatronic dinosaurs from over 40 species, all to be housed in a 500,000 square foot (46,000 square metre) area. The park will be part of a large entertainment and business development called City of Arabia.
The Restless Planet will be brought to life with the help of Natural History Museum of London, acclaimed dinosaur authority Jack Horner and Tokyo based animatronics team Kokoro. All the exhibits will be enclosed in a vast 75 metre dome.
Billed as the first of it’s kind, this place is sure to wow visitors in a big way…
