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Floating Hotel Opens in Thailand

Hilton Hotels & Resorts has opened a floating hotel in Pattaya, Thailand. Called Hilton Pattaya, the sleek and modern property offers a fresh, luxe beachfront experience to the heart of the international beach resort of Pattaya, which overlooks the Gulf of Thailand and is about 90 minutes southeast of Bangkok. Pattaya is a once-sleepy fishing village that first captivated Americans as a R&R destination during the Vietnam War era.

The cosmopolitan, full-service hotel rises above the new "Central Festival at Pattaya Beach" complex that is Southeast Asia's largest beachfront shopping and entertainment facility with more than 200 shops and restaurants, a 10-screen cinema and a 16-lane bowling alley. Guests will have direct access through an exclusive ground floor entrance, but the hotel's main lobby is on the 16th level.

Hilton Pattaya enhances its prime location on Pattaya Beach with 302 stylish, Zen-inspired guest rooms and suites located between levels 19 and 33 that offer panoramic ocean views from private balconies. Rooms are light and relaxing with elegant, modern furnishings done in whites, beiges and light woods, while spacious bathrooms come with separate a rain shower and deep soaking tub. Each room is also equipped with a Serenity Bed Experience, LCD TVs and high-speed internet service. Suites offer floor-to-ceiling windows and separate living and dining areas, while many feature outdoor bathtubs on private balconies. The hotel's infinity-edge pool, which is set amid lush, landscaped gardens, offers sweeping sea views from the 16th floor.

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Floating Budget Hotel Planned For The UK

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Britain's largest budget hotel chain, Premier Inn, is creating a new cheapie hotel on water. The Floatel will be built in Hartlepool Marina during 2009 and the company says it will be the first time a budget hotel has been purpose-built on water. The hotel will have 54 bedrooms with ensuite bathroom, TV and Internet access. The hotel's design will allow it to float vertically with the tide and the horizontal movement will be restricted by sleeved piles driven into the marina. The waterfront hotel will be linked to an existing Premier Inn by a pedestrian ramp and an external platform lift.

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Queen Elizabeth 2 To Become Floating Hotel

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The latest extravagance in Dubai will be the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship. The ship is being sold to the Dubai World firm by Carnival for a cool $100 million. The ship will be turned into a floating hotel located on a pier in the Palm Jumeirah development. The company plans to recreate the original decor and fittings of the ship that she had when she was launched in 1967. The ship has crossed the Atlantic more than 800 times and carried over 2.5 million passengers. She will be docked at the Palm Jumeirah and open for business in 2009.

[Thanks, Timothy]

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UnderSea Resorts Going For Malta

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I've written about the UnderSea Resort before and their plan to create a floating hotel in the Miami area. It turns out they have now gone European to and are in talks with the Government of Malta to take over the Marsa Shipyard in Malta. The shipyard has one of the longest dry docks in Europe. The company is planning the UnderSea resort and casino for the Qawra Bay in Malta as well as their project off Miami Beach, another in the Bahamas and other ones near New York and San Francisco. The press release from UnderSea makes the Malta negotiations sound like an almost-done deal but a Malta newspaper tells a far different story saying that what they have been shown in inconclusive and vague. I can't say I am exactly surprised, I'd be amazed if any of these ambitious projects actually gets built.

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