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Hello to March, and the latest issue of WOW.travel, edited by Mary Gostelow. Read below for quick bites - you can also click straight through for Seven Sensational Airport Hotels, so handy for before or after a trip. Read also insider thoughts from Bangkok-based entrepreneur Bill Heinecke and a concierge's ideas for San Francisco. Designer and spa owner Alexandra Champalimaud shares her personal style. You have stories from Around the World: Australia, Bali, India, Scotland and the USA. Read about Prague's annual Carnival, and what many say is London's best pub - and Away-Night takes us to Madrid. Here, too, below, you have WOWconfidential. So please enjoy the whole of WOW.travel.
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WOW.travel visits Prague's Crystal Ball
As always, these last few weeks have been - BUSY, and worthwhile fun. One Saturday WOW.travel minuetted the night away - or at least part of - at the annual Crystal Ball at the Prague Carnavale, in the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic. Read more on Carnavale here.
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Urban Bites is a Gastronomic Journey
Vancouver chocolatier Thomas Haas is on the agenda for the whole- and half-day Urban Bites that are jointly organized by Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver and Edible British Columbia. Take an Urban Bites tour to visit China Town, Granville Island and Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver.
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Hong Kong International Film Festival
Hong Kong's International Film Festival, from March 22nd, 2009, includes Shinjuku Incident, with Jackie Chan, and Night and Fog, with Ariel Chan and Audrey Chan. Stay in one of the third-floor terrace suites of InterContinental Hong Kong, shown, and you look down at Avenue of the Stars, and across to Hong Kong Island.
InterContinental Hong Kong, Hong Kong, S.A.R., China
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Visit Lucerne's Easter Festival
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe is on its way to Lucerne's Easter Festival, opening March 28th, 2009. This year the festival celebrates the bicentenary of the death of Haydn (with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Mariss Jansons conducting) and the 250th anniversary of Handel's death (with David Stern).
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Worthwhile tourism is the new luxury
Youngsters near the old hill station of Almora, 6,200 feet up in the Indian Himalayas, giggle and smile as they welcome visitors trekking in their area. Yes, worthwhile tourism is the new luxury, read more here.
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Bill Heinecke has plenty to smile about
Bill Heinecke - center, seen with the COO of The Minor Group, Dillip Rajakarier - has plenty to smile about. On March 23-29, 2009, he once again hosts the annual King's Cup Elephant Polo at his Anantara Golden Triangle in northern Thailand (all his resorts offer memorable experiences: read his Insider thoughts here).
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Hilton Melbourne International Airport offers the best runway views
Chris Partridge runs Hilton Melbourne International Airport, a kind of 'sculpture' - designed by architects Peddle Thorp - atop the busy airport's carpark (we love watching the runway activities from the hotel's bedrooms). See our Seven Sensational Airport Hotels, ideal for before, or after, a trip.
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Shangri-La's Boracay Resort & Spa opens!
The white sands of Boracay Island in the Philippines are very tempting in today's stressful world. On March 2nd, 2009, the 219-room Shangri-La's Boracay Resort & Spa opened, with half a mile of beach - its 50 villas have private pools. Shangri-La's been busy: the same day, it opened its latest city hotel, the 204-room Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo.
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Learn to make the perfect bond martini at Duke's Hotel
Shaken not stirred is the way to make a Martini, according to James Bond - whose creator, Ian Fleming, is alleged to have come up with that phrase at the bar at Duke's Hotel, London, which he often visited. Charismatic barman, Alessandro Palazzi, holds Martini-making classes, www.dukeshotel.com.
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Toronto's PATH Underground Safari
Micah Lexier's Synopsis of Categories sculpture is starting point for a 2.5-hour Toronto PATH Underground Safari walk led by urban explorer Phil Reilly, on Saturdays March 7th, 14th and 21st, 2009. PATH is the world's largest underground shopping complex and the tour ends at The Fairmont Royal York.
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Shah Abbas: The Making of Iran at the British Museum
In London, the British Museum's Shah Abbas: The Making of Iran, runs until June 14th, 2009. It explores seventeenth-century Iran through the reign and legacy of one of its most influential rulers, Shah Abbas I, who reigned 1587-1629.
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Melbourne gears up for Formula One
Melbourne's FORMULA 1 ING Australian Grand Prix is Sunday March 29th, 2009. InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto - a brilliant conversion of an 1891 heritage row - officially opens three days before.
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The World Watch and Jewellery Show
This LG watch-phone might be a challenge... But for the best collection of 'traditional' watches - those collectors' Cellini, Chanel J12, Ernst Benz IWC Schaffhausen, Tourbillon, Ulysse Nardin and Urwerk, pieces - head for the annual Baselworld, March 26-April 2, 2009, www.baselworld.com.
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Have your kid's next birthday party at Hôtel Plaza Athénée
Hôtel Plaza Athénée, New York, has several yoga ideas for children's parties, including Yoga and Origami, or Yoga and Hair-braiding. Since they will take up to 20 kids, ages two and up, it definitely sounds worthwhile for anyone in the Big Apple vicinity to let the hotel do all the work rather than trying to do it yourself, at home, www.plaza-athenee.com.
Hotel Plaza Athenee, New York, United States
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Ukraine's unique Fashion Week
Oleksiy Zalevskiy apparently 'designed' this androgynous outfit. Other designers showing at Ukrainian Fashion Week, in Kiev's Pushkin Park March 12-18, 2009, include Roksolana Bogutska, Marina Fedorchenko, Tetiana Ivashchenk and Yuriy Zhuykov.
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Taste some of the best wine at Montage Laguna Beach
Oh to be in Laguna Beach, California, on Sundays this month. The Loft Bistro at Montage Laguna Beach has some spectacular two-hour wine tastings. March 8th, 2009, concentrates on Pinot Noir; March 15th, 2009, offers gout de terroir, the earth tastes of Champagne, Chablis and the Loire Valley, and March 22nd, 2009, is French and US oak barrels, www.montagelagunabeach.com.
Montage Laguna Beach, Laguna Beach, United States
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Temples of Dynasty welcomes you to the beautiful land of Myanmar
Our heart goes out to the lovely people of Myanmar (Burma). Wunna heads Temples of Dynasty Travels and Tours Company Limited and he says he can offer all support, arrangements and guiding if you are visiting his country, www.templesofdynasty.com.
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Biki Oberoi, of Oberoi Hotels, believes in quality
Our dear friend Biki Oberoi - PRS Oberoi, officially - is one of the world's leaders when it comes to total quality (well, his shoes are John Lobb, for a start). He keeps fine tabs on an empire that includes hotels, resorts and Nile cruise ships. Read how you can support India, and especially Oberoi and Taj here.
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Wahanda's spa pick of the month
Wahanda.com says that the new 93-room SHA Wellness Clinic, 45 minutes from Alicante, Spain, combines east and west traditions, including macrobiotic food according to the great Michio Kushi. Bye-bye stress, ageing and the need to smoke (and three percent of your bill supports needy Latin American kids).
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Coming Up Next Month!
Next month you will find our choice of Seven Sensational Sunday Brunches and, as always, find out what is going on, around the world. Meanwhile, if you have not yet signed up for WOWconfidential, please do so (and tell your friends!).
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