First World Hotel

... to begin the cycle tour) leaves Hamburg at 2:28 PM that afternoon and by evening I should be spending my first night in a small family run hotel-restaurant called "The Village" in the little town of Sarnau on the Lahn River. This could be the trickiest ...

... sad that money now rules and small countries like Uruguay can now only dream of such triumphs. We headed to the Estadio Centanario where the first World Cup Final was held in 1930. For footy fans, this is a little piece of history to savour. They have a ...

... the heavy suitcase!! But at least we made it. We then had to walk to the hotel. And walk and walk and walk........  The first world hotel is at the other end of the resort from the sky-rail and, after many escalators, we made it to the hotel. It ...

... ; GENTING HIGHLANDS      In 2006/2007/2008/2009, Guinness World Records listed the First World Hotel in Genting Highlands Malaysia, as the world's largest hotel with a total of 6,118 rooms. FIRST WORLD SHOPPING CENTRE, ...

... leg room, quieter neighbours, better food and a good movie, but we arrived. Customs and baggage was easy enough, receiving our first visa's in our new passports! So exciting for me. We made it to the central terminal and purchased our train tickets to ...

... .  Our first impressions of Hong Kong are of a modern, clean city with well organized transit systems....from the third world to the first in six hours.... The next two days of touring Hong Kong were facilitated by buying tickets on the Hop on Hop ...

... where I am sitting right now, polishing this goobldigook off before boarding my final flight home to home, jersey, first world stressful routines, reality........ autumn... all that depressing stuff.. on the other hand, will relish reunions with family ...

... a while. We also went to the Genocide Memorial Centre which deals with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, famous through the movie Hotel Rwanda. The museum itself wasn't too impressive (probably also due to political tensions over how to deal with the ...

... ; Picnicking out here consists of pulling up a bit of sidewalk, putting down some cardboard, eating food and socializing.      I explored for a few more hours before heading back to hotel to relax.   I am ready to go home ...

... . But instead of heading to the pyramid I was brought to what I term "Third world professional salesmen meets first world sucker" or in lay mans terms the Egyptian Painting Store. Unfortunately for me curiosity and wanting to experience all ...

... who ride donkeys on a daily basis, use horse drawn carts to get around, still walk into the hills for their fire wood. This is a first world country, a second world country a country with modern problems and ancient problems.....sleep comes ...

... shrines, really enjoyed it and found the people very friendly yet reserved. Next stop, 4 days in Shinjuku, a little different from the first stop.Hotel room was on the 15th floor and we had an amazing view, we were 2 mins from the famous red light ...

... was uninteresting except for the container terminal which is frenetic. Kerry commented that it was all the eBay goods heading out around the world. Hotel is not too bad. The rooms are very small, can't be more than 20 squ m. We were offered an upgrade ...

... Well we carried on discovering MV, but had this antarctica stuff in the back of our scrambled brains. Went to the stadium where the first world cup was held, built in 1930 in 8 months and has had no work done since! The museum was excellent and the ...

... the designer there has done a masterful job. It's really beautiful. From there, we walked to the Mount Nelson Hotel, a traditional, old world hotel, much like the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. It had a long drive up from the street, which was mostly ...

... After returning home to drop off our terrible Fanatics gear, Matt and I had just an hour or so before we headed off to our First World Cup game at the new Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. Along with a fellow Fanatic - Lauren, from my Hyde apartment, we ...

... were pleasantly surprised with the capital. The Sheraton where we stayed was new, gorgeous and overbooked. (This was just about the first full hotel we have seen on our ttravels.) We managed to negotiate a discount on a suite and felt like we were in ...

... Lotte World train station. We laughed at the Trevi Fountain in the underground, then visited the loos at the Lotte World Hotel (okay -- I like hotel loos), then finally found our way to the entrance to Lotte World. How do I describe Lotte World? It's ...

... was sway my hips to my i-pod occasionally. After seven days of intense work, Sarah and I celebrated the completion of Gbangbadou's first world map. As I was walking back to my hut after finishing, a middle school student came up to me and asked ...

... the Victoria Station ... with our luggage.  Well it ended up taking us just over an hour to finally reach our first honeymoon hotel.  Later we discovered the Earl's Court tube stop was literally a two minute walk from our hotel.  That came ...

... visit. We spent two nights in a marginally acceptable hotel and paid 5 times more than in Bali, but Singapore has the benefits of a first-world city, in addition to the cost. We went to the Night Safari, and it was fabulous. I especially liked the Bat ...