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Hotel Review: Anantara Siam, Bangkok

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Hotel review: Anantara Siam, Bangkok (Siam Suite) Bangkok, May 2018 Introduction After a beach holiday in Hua Hin I had booked a room for one night at Anantara Siam in Bangkok. I wanted to try a new hotel and this would be our second Anantara experience on this trip after checking out their sister property Anantara Riverside Resort about a week earlier. This time I booked a Kasara Club Room directly from the hotel's website. The price was pretty much the same everywhere, but booking directly got us an afternoon tea set for two at the lobby for free, and that sounded like a fun thing to try. Check-in and lobby We arrived at the hotel after 2pm, pretty close to a normal check-in time. Anantara Siam, The Lobby Our bags were immediately taken care of by the welcoming staff, and we were seen to the most luxurious lobby I'd ever seen. This really looked like a five star hotel to me! The hotel radiated elegance and style, and there

Review: DoubleTree by Hilton Krakow Hotel & Convention Center

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Review: DoubleTree by Hilton Krakow Hotel Introduction We decided to take a little family vacation with my mom included, and I ended up booking two Executive rooms in DoubleTree Hilton Krakow, Poland for 5 nights in June. None of us had been to Poland before and I had heard positive comments about Krakow. The DoubleTree Hilton is a new hotel and from the photos the pool area looked really nice and I thought it would be the most important factor for our daughter who's keen on swimming. We arrived by taxi from the airport after about 2 hours' direct Finnair flight from Helsinki. The taxi took about 30mins and brought us to the front of the hotel. Curiously there is also a Hampton by Hilton Krakow, which is next to the DoubleTree. Lobby and check-in From the outside the hotel looks a bit...dull, I guess. But once you enter, the experience transforms. At least it happened to us. The lobby is very light, there is open space and although not luxurious, it's n

Qatar Airways Business Class sale

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Qatar Airways has just launched another global  business class sale (2 for 1), and now that they've started flying from Finland, there are a few quite good deals from:  Helsinki : Bangkok (BKK) from 2139€ = 1070€ /pp Phuket (HKT) from 2259€ *Other interesting deals from Scandinavia include these: Stockholm , Sweden : Krabi (KBV) from 20519 SEK Kuala Lumpur (KUL) from 22519 SEK Singapore (SIN) from 23459 SEK Oslo , Norway : Bangkok (BKK) from 20999 NOK Singapore (SIN) from 24019 NOK Cape Town (CPT) from 24659 NOK Maldives (MLE) from 24759 NOK Copenhagen , Denmark : Bangkok (BKK) from 20019 DKK Bali/Denpasar (DPS) from 24699 DKK Phuket (HKT) from 20999 DKK Melbourne (MEL) from 21895 DKK Singapore (SIN) from 21519 DKK Krabi (KBV) from 22459 DKK Kuala Lumpur (KUL) from 23619 DKK Other points  to consider with the sale: Qatar Airways claims it's a "two for price of one", but actually the starting price fo