After what seemed like a protracted and sometimes controversial buildup, the 2016 Summer Olympics are finally upon us. Athletes by the thousands are en route to Rio to represent their countries across 28 different sports, while billions will be watching around the globe. Nearly every nation on earth will be represented, in what is considered the world\u2019s foremost sports competition.<\/p>\n
The Olympic Games wasn\u2019t always this monolithic presence in the public consciousness. It has grown exponentially with every iteration, leaving behind some memorable events in cities across the globe. To celebrate Olympic season we\u2019ve decided to take a look at some prior host cities, providing some hotel inspiration along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After what seemed like a protracted and sometimes controversial buildup, the 2016 Summer Olympics are finally upon us. Athletes by the thousands are en route to Rio to represent their countries across 28 different sports, while billions will be watching around the globe. Nearly every nation on earth will be represented, in what is considered the world\u2019s foremost sports competition.<\/p>\n
The Olympic Games wasn\u2019t always this monolithic presence in the public consciousness. It has grown exponentially with every iteration, leaving behind some memorable events in cities across the globe. To celebrate Olympic season we\u2019ve decided to take a look at some prior host cities, providing some hotel inspiration along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"stoc_hidden_slugs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[170,206,1005,479,114,1012,920,179,1011,1004,161,1003,226,134,1006,1002,1007,1010,478,1008,1009,1013,155,600,180,22,171],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiwi-curated","tag-andaz-west-hollywood","tag-athens","tag-belmond-copacabana","tag-brazil","tag-california","tag-carlton-hotel-st-moritz","tag-conrad-seoul","tag-england","tag-giardino-mountain","tag-grand-hyatt-rio","tag-greece","tag-hotel-grande-bretagne","tag-london","tag-los-angeles","tag-me-london","tag-new-hotel","tag-park-hyatt-seoul","tag-petit-ermitage-hotel","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea","tag-st-moritz","tag-switzerland","tag-the-hari-hotel-london","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-west-hollywood"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}