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Photo Source:  Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel, London

The Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel in London, England is situated in two historic 18th century townhouses with over five floors accommodating 119 beautifully designed bedrooms, an award-winning restaurant, a cozy lounge, a lively bar, a gymnasium with beauty treatment room, and seven function rooms for meetings and events. Combining modern elegance with traditional style and perfectly located – where else? – on the one and only Baker Street, visitors find themselves eager to join the master sleuth’s famous “irregulars” in this chic London hotel, within easy reach of popular attractions, including Wembley Stadium (10 minutes away), Madam Tussauds, and Regent’s Park.

Photo Source:  Stikliai Hotel, Vilnius

The Stikliai Hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania is comfortable and elegant with spacious individually designed rooms and upscale dining and is exceptionaly situated in the picturesque old town area, just a short walk from the city‘s shopping and business district where glassblowers and other craftsmen plied their trades during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In fact, the name Stikliai comes from Lithuanian and stands for “glassblowers“. Set in the hotel‘s interior courtyard, with luxuriant creepers climbing to a vaulted glass roof, the Stikliai Hotel restaurant is one of the top tables in town blending Lithuanian and French cuisine. Its menu rotates seasonally and highlights a delicate potato risotto garnished with black truffles and scallops, venison steak with duck liver and an impressive wine list. Accessed from the main hotel lobby it seats 80 people with private dining rooms from 8 to 20 guests.

Photo Source:  Hotel Napoleon, Paris

The Hotel Napoleon, at 40 Avenue de Friedland, is located a stone’s throw from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris’s cinematographic and literary heart. Its seven colourfully windowed storeys are proud models of intimist Directoire style with a unique history. The hotel was built in the 1920s and was bought by a rich Russian businessman as a wedding present for the young French girl with whom he had fallen head-over-heels in love. In the years that followed, prestigious guests arrived to savour the delights of the city. Errol Flynn, Josephine Baker, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Gabin, Dali, John Steinbeck and Constantin de Grèce, to name a few. Treat yourself to a stay in these sumptuous and altogether magical surroundings. Enjoy their spaciousness and authenticity, and the unrestricted views they provide over the rooftops of Paris.

Photo source:  Hôtel Touraine Opera, Paris

The Hôtel Touraine Opera in Paris, France is located in a lively district near the Opera Garnier, and the Department Stores (Printemps, Galeries Lafayette) with easy access to Montmartre (& the Moulin Rouge), Madeleine Square or Gare du Nord train station (Eurostar, Thalys), and Le Bon Marché. The hotel’s 39 air-conditioned and non-smoking rooms are arranged over seven floors with a view over the courtyard or the street. Some rooms are romantic style with exposed beams. Breakfast (14 €) is served from 7.00 am to 10.30 am in the breakfast room located on the lower ground floor in a magnificent cellar of dressed stone that seats thirty persons.

Photo Source:  Rainers Hotel, Vienna

The Rainers Hotel in Vienna, Austria is located very close to the Vienna city centre and to the new main railway station Hauptbahnhof Wien. The hotel provides culture lovers, city tourists and business travellers with a modern ambience, a dedicated staff who know the importance of professional service, a fitness room with modern equipment, a good connection to public transport, as well as 60 parking spaces.

Photo Source:  Hotel Steinmattli, Adelboden

The Hotel Steinmattli in Adelboden, Switzerland is situated in a quiet location in the heart of Adelboden with its bustling main street and great variety of bars and shops. Nestled in a fantastic mountain landscape with 200km of hiking paths starting just on its doorstep, the hotel is only 100m away from the most important gondola in Adelboden, the Sillerenbahn (Dorf-Oey-Sillerenbühl). After a fun-packed day, visitors may relax and unwind in the hotel’s sauna, steam bath, jacuzzi, solarium and rest room. Or treat themselves to a soothing massage. Afterwards, its fine dining at their new restaurant with a 4 course menu and selected wines from the hotel’s cellar.

Photo Source:  Villa Carlotta Taormina, Sicily

The Villa Carlotta Taormina in Sicily is a traditional aristocratic Sicilian villa converted into a luxury boutique hotel and situated in the most panoramic and peaceful area of town with stunning views across the sea and Mount Etna, yet close to the lively pedestrian area of Taormina, just a few minutes away. The old walls are still echoing the typical Sicilian way of life but today the villa has been given a new breath of life offering the discriminating traveller the opportunity to enjoy the romance of Taormina for a blissful honeymoon, a relaxing weekend break or a perfect holiday in Sicily’s most romantic boutique hotel.