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Africa Five Star Hotels

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5 star hotels in South Africa : Five star South Africa hotel list
   
South Africa 5 (Five) star hotels and resorts directory. South Africa accommodation choices for 5 star luxury hotels and resorts. See list of South Africa hotels for full list or South Africa hotels for list showing a brief summary, reviews and customer ratings. For hotel information, hotel reviews, the best rates or to make a reservation, select a hotel and let asiahotels.com be your South Africa travel agent.

List of Cape Town hotels

 Arabella Western Cape Hotel

 
 Cape Royale Luxury Hotel 



 Commodore Hotel Cape Town
 Mount Nelson Hotel Cape Town
 Portswood Hotel Cape Town
 Radisson Blu Hotel  Waterfront
 Table Bay Hotel Cape Town
 The Westin Grand Cape Town
 Arabella Quays Hotel

List of Durban hotels
 Royal Hotel Durban


List of Johannesburg hotels
 Crowne Plaza Hotel Johannesburg-The Rosebank



 D'oreale Grande Hotel At Emperors Palace Johannesburg
 Hilton Sandton Hotel
 InterContinental Hotel Airport Sun  Johannesburg
 InterContinental Sandton Sun & Towers Johannesburg
 Melrose Arch Hotel Johannesburg
 Michelangelo Hotel Johannesburg
 Michelangelo Towers Suites  Johannesburg
 Park Hyatt Hotel Johannesburg
 Ten Bompas Hotel  Johannesburg
 The Westcliff Hotel Johannesburg

List of Sun City hotels
 Palace of the Lost City Sun City



 Sun City Hotel
 The Cascades Hotel Sun City
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Africa Hotels

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Africa Hotels offers a huge range of discount hotels, motels, accommodation, and resorts ranging from affordable 1 star hotel to luxurious 5 star hotels in Africa. Book cheap accommodation in advance and plan your vacations.


Destination spotlight
Cape Town in South Africa Enjoy the beaming sunshine in Cape Town with its towering mountains and natural breeze from the Indian and Atlantic Ocean.

Tourists' Hotel Recommendations:
  • High-end: Commodore Hotel Cape Town
  • Mid-range: Cullinan Hotel Cape Town
  • Budget: The Avenue Hotel Cape Town

Read more about other attractions in our Cape Town guide. See what fellow travelers have to say in the traveler's tales section. Don't forget to choose Cape Town hotels from our list to view the rest of our luxurious African hotels. 
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Five Star Hotels in Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka 5 (Five) star hotels and resorts directory. Sri Lanka accommodation choices for 5 star luxury hotels and resorts. See list of Sri Lanka hotels for full list or Sri Lanka hotels for list showing a brief summary, reviews and customer ratings. For hotel information, hotel reviews, the best rates or to make a reservation, select a hotel and let asiahotels.com be your Sri Lanka travel agent.


5 star hotels List of Bentota hotels

Saman Villas Bentota


Offering beautiful views and calm breeze of the ocean, the Saman Villas Bentota is the place for a perfect holiday.

Taj Exotica Bentota


Offering a good position, the Taj Exotica Bentota with comfortable accommodation and excellent services welcomes all types of holidaymakers for a pleasant and tranquil stay.

List of Colombo hotels
Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo



The Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo provides you with all the modern facilities and conveniences that are needed for a wonderful and enjoyable vacation.

Cinnamon Grand Hotel Colombo

Surrounded by ten acres of beautifully landscaped tropical gardens, overlooking the Indian Ocean, Cinnamon Grand Hotel is an ideal place for a pleasant as well as an unforgettable holiday.

Galadari Hotel Colombo

Galadari Hotel Colombo is an advanced property offering its guests, with first class facilities and comfortable accommodation in the city of Colombo.

Hilton Colombo Hotel 


Blending luxurious accommodation, friendly atmosphere and convenient facilities, this charming property makes you to enjoy all the privileges, for an unforgettable stay.

Hilton Residence Apartment Colombo


Providing courteous service and comfortable accommodation, this property makes your stay pleasant and relaxing one.

Taj Samudra Hotel Colombo


Trans Asia Hotel Colombo   

Placed on spacious ground facing the lake, the Trans Asia Hotel offers a unique character, look and feel where you can enjoy a fantastic vacation gazing at the tranquil waters, strolling in the Japanese gardens or dining in fine restaurants.

List of Negombo hotels
Ayurveda Pavilions Negombo

Being an ideal place in the city of Negombo, this property offers a warm welcome, pleasant ambience and convenient facilities to make your stay a memorable one.

The Beach Negombo 


Boasting a beautiful location, the Beach Negombo offers comfortable accommodation for those in search of peace and tranquillity.
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Fictitious Hotels

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Hotels have been used as the settings for television programmes such as the British situation comedies Fawlty Towers and I'm Alan Partridge, the British soap opera Crossroads, and in films such as the Bates Motel in Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.


Fawlty Towers


Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Although only twelve episodes were produced (two seasons with six episodes each) the programme has had a lasting and powerful legacy.

The setting is a fictional hotel called Fawlty Towers located in the seaside town of Torquay on the 'English Riviera' (which was where the Gleneagles hotel that inspired John Cleese was situated). The show was written by Cleese and Connie Booth, both of whom played main characters. The first series in 1975 was produced and directed by John Howard Davies; the second in 1979 was produced by Douglas Argent and directed by Bob Spiers.

In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 that was voted by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was placed first.It was also voted fifth in the BBC's "Britain's Best Sitcom" poll in 2004.
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Living in Hotels

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A number of public figures have notably chosen to take up semi-permanent or permanent residence in hotels.

Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London. Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death he raised his hand and told the diners "it was the food".


Savoy Hotel


The Savoy Hotel is a five-star hotel located on the Strand, in the City of Westminster in central London that opened on 6 August 1889. The hotel, called "London's most famous hotel", remains one of London's most prestigious and opulent hotels, with 263 rooms and panoramic views of the River Thames across Savoy Place and the Victoria Embankment, part of the Thames Embankment.

The hotel has been closed since December 2007 for extensive renovations and is expected to reopen in the spring of 2010. The owners expect to spend more than £100 million on the renovations.


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Motels Hotels

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Motels

A motel (Motor Hotel) is a hotel which is for a short stay, usually for a night, for motorists on long journeys. It has direct access from the room to the vehicle (for example a central parking lot around which the buildings are set), and is built conveniently close to major roads and intersections.




A motel is a hotel designed for motorists, usually having direct access to an open parking area.

Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances, a common area; or a series of small cabins with common parking.

As the United States highway system began to develop in the 1920s, long distance road journeys became more common and the need for inexpensive, easily accessible overnight accommodation sited close to the main routes, led to the growth of the motel concept.


 
History

Wigwam Motel No. 6, a unique motel/motor court on historic Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona

Auto camps predated motels by a few years.Unlike motels, auto camps and tourist courts typically provided bed and breakfast or hotel style service, usually with stand-alone cabins. After the invention of the motel, auto camps continued in popularity through the Depression years and after World War II, their popularity finally starting to diminish with the construction of freeways and changes in consumer demands. Examples include the Rising Sun Auto Camp in Glacier National Park and Blue Bonnet Court in Texas. Such facilities were "mom-and-pop" facilities on the outskirts of a town that were as quirky as their owners. They attracted the first "road warriors" as they crossed North America in their new automobiles.


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World Record Setting Hotels

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Largest Hotels

In 2006, Guinness World Records listed the First World Hotel in Genting Highlands, Malaysia
as the world's largest hotel with a total of 6,118 rooms.








Oldest Hotels

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest hotel still in operation is the Hoshi Ryokan, in the Awazu Onsen area of Komatsu, Japan which opened in 717.


Tallest Hotels




Burj Al Arab in United Arab Emirates is the tallest building used exclusively as a hotel. However, the Rose Tower, also in Dubai, which has already topped Burj Al Arab's height at 333 m (1,090 ft), will take away this title upon its opening.



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Unusual Hotels

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Many hotels can be considered destinations in themselves, by dint of unusual features of the lodging or its immediate environment:

Treehouse hotels

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

Treehouse hotels
Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

Cave hotels
Desert Cave Hotel in Coober Pedy, South Australia and the Cuevas Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (named after the author) in Guadix, Spain, as well as several hotels in Cappadocia, Turkey, are notable for being built into natural cave formations, some with rooms underground.

Capsule hotels
Capsule hotels are a type of economical hotel that are found in Japan, where people sleep in stacks of rectangular containers.

Ice and snow hotels
Main article: Ice hotel

The Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, and the Hotel de Glace in Duschenay,­ Canada, melt every spring and are rebuilt each winter; the Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland is located within the walls of the Kemi snow castle; and the Lainio Snow Hotel is part of a snow village near Ylläs, Finland.

Garden hotels
Garden hotels, famous for their gardens before they became hotels, include Gravetye Manor, the home of garden designer William Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Underwater hotels
Some hotels have accommodation underwater, such as Utter Inn in Lake Mälaren, Sweden. Hydropolis, project cancelled 2004 in Dubai, will have suites on the bottom of the Persian Gulf, and Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida requires scuba diving to access its rooms.

Other unusual hotels

  • The Library Hotel in New York City, United States is unique in that each of its ten floors is assigned one category from the Dewey Decimal System.
  • The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, built on an artificial island, is structured in the shape of a boat's sail.
  • The former ocean liner RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, United States uses its first-class staterooms as a hotel.
  • The Jailhotel Löwengraben in Lucerne, Switzerland is a converted prison now used as a hotel.
  • The Luxor, a hotel and casino on The Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States due to its pyramidal structure.
  • The Liberty Hotel in Boston, United States used to be the Charles Street Jail.
Resort hotels
Some hotels are built specifically to create a captive trade, example at casinos and holiday resorts. Though of course hotels have always been built in popular desinations, the defining characteristic of a resort hotel is that it exists purely to serve another attraction, the two having the same owners.

In Las Vegas, Nevada there is a tradition of one-upmanship with luxurious and extravagant hotels in a concentrated area known as the Las Vegas Strip. This trend now has extended to other resorts worldwide, but the concentration in Las Vegas is still the world's highest: nineteen of the world's twenty-five largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67,000 rooms.

In Europe Center Parcs might be considered a chain of resort hotels, since the sites are largely man-made (though set in natural surroundings such as country parks) with captive trade, whereas holiday camps such as Butlins and Pontin's are probably not considered as resort hotels, since they are set at traditional holiday destinations which existed before the camps.

Railway hotels
Frequently, expanding railway companies built grand hotels at their termini, such as the Midland Hotel, Manchester next to the former Manchester Central Station and in London the ones above St Pancras railway station and Charing Cross railway station also in London is the Chiltern Court Hotel above Baker Street tube station and Canada's grand railway hotels. They are or were mostly, but not exclusively, used by those travelling by rail.
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