Gloria Palace Hotel

... Palace.  It was beautiful.  I never got to see it the other time I was in Beijing.  The walkway to the palace was very ornate.  Beautiful blues and reds with gold as well.  There was a cool tree I have never seen before. ...

... , I came across a pair of hotels which happened to be run by the same Armenian Brothers. They were called the Hotel Gloria and The Knight's Palace, and had recieved good reviews, if you consider that they were in the Old City itself (classically ...

... Sameer Ambastha, Senior Executive of Greaves Travel, the local agent, who accompanies me for my transfer from Delhi International Airport to the Taj Palace Hotel where my room awaits. We are driven (on the left side of the road) by Mr. Rohtas who is using ...

... me in subsequent years, because I have traveled with her group many times since then.   BEIJING - April 23-27, Gloria Plaza Hotel: During our five days in Beijing,. . . . . . . . . .  we visited the ...

... ; Anyway the wall is awesome, spectacular, an amazing achievement. The Wednesday I took it easy, had nice dim sum at the Gloria Plaza Hotel and picked up my visa for Vietnam.  I then went for a fitting for my cheongsam, which is looking ...

... in the air, etc. Pure gold, and a great high to leave Rio on.  Drinking 15R$ caipirinhas at the Copacabana Palace hotel with all the rich old american jewish couples, and feeling exceedingly luxuriant. Lows Helen having her bag snatched... ...

... I actually thought it was a Japanese thing, but it seems the Thai people are big on it too.  We arrived in the Singburi Palace Hotel Singing Louge (not as grand as it sounds!!) all stalwartly refusing to do a turn.  Its amazing what a few beers ...

... at 7:00am even though we pulled into the station at 4:00am. Our cabin guys serve us one final time. I leave for my hotel (The Taj Palace) at 7:30am but while the literature told me that I cannot check in until 2:00pm, Mr. Indraneel Tripathi, the ...

...  The third pit was more recent.  The emperor's tomb won't be accessed for 100 years.  The warriors are in front of the palace so they think there is so much to get through it will be a very long time.  Plus I think they are waiting for ...

... are glad we visited both complexes, and would recommend other travelers to do the same. On our final day, we visited the Sultan's Palace . The tour guide provided us with some interesting facts. The current Sultan has 5 girls, no boys, and only one wife. ...

... , I am led by Mr. Singh, the Palace on Wheels “fixer,” to the Crystal Gallery, a balcony at Fateh Prakash Palace where there sits a museum of furniture made of crystal glass along with chandeliers and crockery and more, all of crystal. Later, ...

... off his whiteboard and give it another shot with the next landing (or should I say sucker..) We make it easily now to the hotel and Gloria is horrified.  She said this is a new scam she hadnt heard of yet. There is an airport mafia but she would complain ...

... is that it only cost 2Rs which is like 5 cents and you could spend an hour looking and reading everything inside where as the Tippus palace in  Bangalore cost us 100Rs and there was only a building and nothing to read and do. By the time we finished ...

... humid night, I slept like a baby. The following day I set off to have a look at the river, the market, the Independence Palace and a few shopping centres, before settling down to lunch at Quan An Ngon. I sampled the southern version of bun cha which uses ...

... other side!  In defiance of the communists we responding by going to the next best capitalist option when there's no Starbucks; Gloria Jeans!   Fuelled up on coffee, we headed to the Army Museum which featured a collection of Vietnamese and US ...

... to drive in/around, was incredibly interesting for having been built in and around the ruins of the Roman Emperor Diocletian's Palace. Walking around Split's Old Town, one notices many columns and other very old structures, but with a guide these ...

... Maserati was initially associated with Ferrari S.p.A., but more recently it has become part of the sports car group including Alfa Romeo.  Gloria (great name) our guide took us through the history of Maserati prior to starting  the tour.   Wow, what a ...

... Today we will go to the Topkapi palace and after that back to the shopping, I’m going to plonk myself down in a Gloria Jeans drink coffee, shop, drink coffee, read my book, surf the net, while Elizabeth indulges herself in the shopping experience. ...

... day to see if any rooms became available. Hence, we settled at a more expensive but nowhere near as nice place called Gloria Amanda for the night. We have had a long day moving around traveling from Borobudur to Yogya, and then scouring the entire ...