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2009: Famous in June
Dear Friend of The Most Famous Hotels in the World;
Thank you for this overwhelming response and thanks to Forbes Magazine - we have updated the Copenhagen story and are resending you last month's newsletter, the new one is already in the pipeline!
We visited Kiev in Ukraine and introduced our new book PREMIER PALACE with a great concert at the Philharmonic Society and a wonderful event at the hotel itself. 500 VIP guests were invited. Where were you? Why not join the Friends of The Most Famous Hotels in the World to receive personal invitations to events like this one. Enjoy a preview of the new book.
We were in Copenhagen, staying at the world's first design hotel, 50 years old next year and bound to become A Select Member of The Most Famous Hotels in the World.
We paid a visit to Duesseldorf's newly opened (and oldest hotel) Breidenbacher Hof and tell you more about this in one of our next newsletters.
And more good news: Maloja Palace, one of the great hotels of Switzerland, is going to reopen this summer. We have a portrait of one of his previous owners, Sir Henry Simpson Lunn.
Yours sincerely
Andreas Augustin
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