Category: International

Behind its neoclassical façade, The Majestic Hotel and Spa Barcelona has delivered five-star service on the illustrious Paseo de Gracia for nearly a century. Following a complete refurbishment, the hotel now offers brand new meeting rooms with the largest capacity in the centre of Barcelona holding up to 500 delegates. And some fantastic promotional rates to go with it!

The hotel chain, Sana has a special offer at all their hotels until the end of March 2013: 

Free internet access is included in the daily delegate rate as well as a welcome drink on the day of arrival.

The 5* Epic Sana Algarve www.algarve.epic.sanahotels.com is now open for sales and will be operating in full from the 14th of March 2013.  This is a resort hotel is located on Fálesia Beach in Albufeira, with 162 rooms, 24 villas and 43 apartments.  There is free wifi in the bedrooms and public areas, and the hotel has a spa, 5 outdoor swimming pools and an indoor pool, a multi-sport centre, three restaurants, two bars and a pool-side snack bar.

The conference centre has more than 17,000 square feet of meeting rooms and nearly 11,000 square feet of outside area. 

The Epic Sana Algarve has an opening offer of 10% discount on the standard group rates (subject to following conditions)

Due to its long history and first-class quality, the “Czech beer” has become a protected geographical indication of the European Union. The Czech beer tradition dates back to early Middle Ages. There are hundreds of Czech breweries producing thousand kinds and labels of beer nowadays.

Visit some of the famous glass galleries in Prague and admire beautiful works of art the country has become world-known for. Local glasswork factories offer the possibility to experience this traditional Czech craft and to create your own piece of art using your artistic flair to paint a piece of glass.

According to the Prague Information service, there are about 500 hundred towers and spires in Prague. Towers and spires thus became one of the symbols of Prague. Some of them can be also used for cultural and entertainment events. Explore their magic and visit the five most famous Prague Towers.

On Friday October 5, the anniversary of Vaclav Havel’s birth, a resolution of the Government of the Czech Republic comes to fruition when the Ruzyne airport takes on the name Vaclav Havel Airport Prague. Members of the domestic political leadership, as well as key social and cultural figures have been invited to the formal opening, along with ambassadors of various nations present in the Czech Republic and airport partners. Accompanying the formal opening is a photographic exposition featuring photographs from the CTK archives documenting the life and work of Vaclav Havel, as well as the uncovering of an art object by Borek Sipek commemorating the works of the first post-November president.

Vienna can offer event organisers a huge choice of bedrooms, ranging from luxury hotels in former palais, international and Austrian hotel chains and family-run establishments through to small, quaint guest houses. Between July and September visitors can also take advantage of student halls of residence which serve as low-cost summer hotels.

The city can offer…

 

19 five-star hotels 3,827 rooms 7,242 beds

158 four-star hotels 13,210 rooms 24,908 beds

153 three-star hotels 7,186 rooms 14,296 beds

70 two- and one-star hotels 2,376 rooms 4,769 beds

9 summer hotels 965 rooms 1,690 beds

409 hotels 27,564 rooms 52,905 beds

Frankfurt am Main, commonly known as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth largest city in Germany, with a 2011 population of 695,624. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region which has a population of 5,600,000 and is Germanys second largest metropolitan region.

 

Frankfurt is the financial and transportation centre of Germany and the largest financial centre in continental Europe. It is the seat of the European Central Bank, the German Federal Bank, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and the Frankfurt Trade Fair, as well as several large commercial banks, e.g. Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and DZ Bank. Frankfurt Airport is one of the world’s busiest international airports, Frankfurt Central Station is one of the largest terminal stations in Europe, and the Frankfurter Kreuz is one of the most heavily used Autobahn interchanges in Europe. Frankfurt lies in the former American Occupation Zone of Germany, and it was formerly the headquarters city of the U.S. Army in Germany.

 

Frankfurt is an international centre for finance, commerce, culture, transport, education and tourism. It is therefore considered an alpha world city as listed by the Loughborough University group’s 2010 inventory. It was ranked 10th among global cities by the Global Power City Index 2011, 11th by the Global City Competitiveness Index 2012 and 7th among international financial centers by the International Financial Centers Development Index 2012.

Stricter night time curfews recently introduced at Frankfurt airport will force Lufthansa to relocate its busy Cape Town service to Munich. The decision was announced to the media by Kay Kratky, Lufthansa’s passenger manager, at Julys meeting of the Frankfurt aviation club, with reports appearing on airliners.de and news24.com.

 

Introduced at the end of 2011, the curfew at Frankfurt prohibits departures after 23.00. Lufthansa’s Cape Town service departs every evening at 22.15 and this restriction allows little if any leeway should a flight be delayed for any reason. According to Fraport (the operator of Frankfurt) around 14,000 passengers have been stranded overnight (because their flights failed to depart on schedule) since the new curfew took effect.

 

Some 10,000 of these were flying Lufthansa with the remainder booked with foreign carriers. Passengers have either been accommodated at nearby hotels or have had to sleep inside the airport terminal. Frankfurt is a major airline hub so only passengers who originate there will be inconvenienced as Lufthansa holds a monopoly for this route. Lufthansa passengers connecting from other airports in Germany or elsewhere in Europe will be offered connections to Cape Town via Munich.