Dear Friend of The Most Famous Hotels in the World;

When you find this mail in your box, you know: it's weekend, again!
Once a week we give you entertaining, informative andinspiring reading.

NEW: www.famoushotels.org now features YOUR NEXT TRIP, introducing legendaryhotels at the revolving point of history. ... more

FEATURE: The background of Evita Peron's visit to Madrid, and her visit to theHotel Ritz. ... more

HISTORY: The lost Bristol Hotel of Paris: was it inspired by the Earl ofBristol? Was it, in return, the inspiration to CésarRitz’ Hotel Ritz in place Vendôme? We foundinspiringanswers. ... more

BOOK OF THE WEEK: Welcome to the Grand HôtelMétropole Palace in Hanoi, as this wonderfulhotel has been called on its opening day in 1901. Stroll through thehistory of exotic Vietnam and meet the protagonists of this book:Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Pierre Loti, Marguerite Duras,Somerset Maugham and Noël Coward and of course the“war correspondent” Graham Greene, Jane Fonda andJoan Baez, ...  –– A book full of fabuloushistoric and contemporary photographs, presenting the story of one ofthe last grand hotels of the exotic East. ... more

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AT FAMOUS HOTELS:Did we discover the largest pyramid ever built? 

Near the MenaHouse Hotel, one of its regular guests, Egypt'schief-archaeologist Dr. ZahiHawass, discovered the Pyramid of Djedefre, or the so-called lostfourth pyramid.

Zahi Hawass: ‘The pyramid itself wasplanned as a relatively modest structure with steep sides ...’ ...more.

May the weekend sun shine upon you, wherever you are in this world,

wishes you 

sincerely

Andreas Augustin

mails to: andreas.augustin@famoushotels.org