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2005-12-20 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-12-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dang. I liked the Hilton in Manama.

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-20 00:27|| 2005-12-20 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The Holiday Day Inn was a close second. $8.00 for a pint of Guinness was a bit dear however. But the all girl Phillipino band singing Achy Breaky Heart night after night made it all worthwhile.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-20 00:32|| 2005-12-20 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Sea, this is probably just part of a series of realignments going on in the hotel industry worldwide. 9/11 and oil prices have changed the economics for tourists from some places to the middle east ... Golden Tulip caters to Euro travellers whose airfares will be a lot less expensive (in some cases subsidized by their governments) than they would be for American travellers. Hilton just sold a bunch of hotels in the UK too, some of them to Golden Tulip IIRC.

Posted by lotp 2005-12-20 00:34|| 2005-12-20 00:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought it might be something like that, but one never knows these days, does one? I stayed at a Golden Tulip hotel in Amsterdam. I may even still have a towel or two from there...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-20 00:40|| 2005-12-20 00:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The Holiday Day Inn was a close second.

Yeah, the Holiday Inn was nice. But the flight attendants stayed at the Hilton... (heh).

Posted by Pappy 2005-12-20 00:42|| 2005-12-20 00:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Strange how the Holiday Inns overseas are quite nice places, in sharp contrast to their stateside establishments.

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