Hyatt Amman

... jewelry shops and currency exchanges but a dearth of hospitable looking cafes, so we changed plans and hopped a cab to the Grand Hyatt Amman for a little pampering. No sooner did the cab pull up at the door and we walked through a security gate ...

... bitter reality of the recent violence in the region, I was browsing the web yesterday and came across a reminder that Amman, and specifically the Grand Hyatt where we had dinner a month ago, was hit by a tragic triple suicide bombing in November of 2005. ...

... Bah. So for the third time that weekend I threw myself together in like less than 4 minutes and was out the door. Thanks goodness the Hyatt is like the nuts here because I wouldn't have known where to tell the taxi to go. Actually when I got there I ...

... as the concert was its locale and sponsorship. It was a free concert in a hall at the Zara Centre, right behind the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The American Embassy cultural office sponsored it, so we had a taste of the “good life” with afternoon tea ...

... of other crap. Now I am at work and after work I am actually going with Baha and the big boss man to the Hyatt for a meeting. I'm going to help them formulate and draft up a few funding proposals and hopefully get some food out of the whole arrangement ...

... and miles due to its population of 23 million) you have various types of architectural styles and different colored buildings (versus Amman where most of the architecture is the same and the buildings are all white---which I think is also ...

... larger for the evening festivities Saturday night.   Saturday night we all went to dinner at a great Italian restaurant in the Hyatt...and I mean great even by US standards.  The wine flowed like water and the food was spectacular...how in the ...