Does the craze for men extend to the hotel industry as well? While the world’s largest hotel, the Abraj Kudai, with no less than 10,000 rooms, has just opened in Medina, Saudi Arabia, we’re a bit giddy in the face of the mass-accommodation renaissance. The establishments crossing the iconic bar of 5,000 rooms are rather located in the United States; Las Vegas is doing particularly well in this area, in China and the Emirates.
On the scale of our old continent “very largeHotels have long been associated with the post-war period and the Iron Curtain. A few beautiful remnants remain, such as the former Ukraine Hotel in Moscow (today the Radisson Royal Moscow Hotel), 1,000 keys in 1955, frozen in the antiquated splendor of Stalinist architecture.
Long awaited renovation
In sweet France we have always preferred the Hotel des Voyageurs in our provinces, or the Hotel du Nord in Paris, when the rooms have the intimacy of life. Can we imagine in Marcel Carne’s film…
Source: Le Figaro
