The News Review:

- Ayada’s Elmhurst Thai Dazzles
- Starwood Reports Fourth Quarter 2008 Results
- Sheraton Hotels and Resorts Forges Global Agreement with …
- THE PWER F TRAVEL
- The best hotels for each star sign.
- First Anantara Luxury Serviced Apartments to open in Heart of Bangkok

Ayada’s Elmhurst Thai Dazzles
Village Voice NY 
bama’s Black Widow (18) Thanks to Bush and bama the National Security Agency now knows more about you My Brother the Slumlord (16) Going public is something Amy Neustein never could resist Let’s Avoid Neil Young’s Next Record (13) The old stuff enthralls but the new stuff terrorizes at MSG NYPD Seeks an Air Monitor Crackdown for New Yorkers (11) A city councilman and the cops don’t want you to have that Geiger counter without their permission Surfing Bay Ridge at Asmak Taama with Gibby Haynes Matching fish with rock stars in Bay Ridge Gambling and Gourmandizing at Colandrea New Corner Restaurant Red and alive in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights Tossing Tentacles at the John Dory Brilliant expensive seafood in a darkling corner of Manhattan Hearty Krishna Cuisine in Jersey City New vegetarian restaurant hits Jersey City’s Newark Avenue Bushwick Tacos Redux: Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos The little tortilla factory that could We stared in wonder at our raw shrimp salad ($7)—eight gray beauties beheaded and deveined each splayed specimen meticulously mounded with a tasty emerald relish. “That doesn’t look very Thai” I volunteered to our laughing hostess. “Some of us worked at a Japanese hotel in Bangkok” she explained indicating that what we were eating was a sort of Thai-Japanese fusion but one that would raise no eyebrows in Bangkok. I felt like a grizzled prospector who’d just returned from the utback—and I don’t mean the steakhouse. After several years of seeking out the fiery fishy and austere regional cuisine of Isaan in various boroughs I’d just returned at least figuratively to Thailand’s glittering capital and been amazed at the variety and richness of the cooking. The shrimp were fantastic though the sweet density and slug-like texture can be off-putting at first. Moreover it was a dish so rich that one or two crustaceans per person proved sufficient.

Starwood Reports Fourth Quarter 2008 Results
Trading Markets (press release) CA 
– Revenues from vacation ownership and residential sales decreased 48. 7% compared to 2007. — The Company signed 31 hotel management and franchise contracts in the quarter representing approximately 6100 rooms. For the full year the Company signed 147 hotel contracts representing approximately 35700 rooms. Fourth Quarter 2008 Earnings SummaryStarwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (“Starwood” or the “Company”) today reported a loss from continuing operations for the fourth quarter of 2008 of $0. 25 per share compared to EPS of $0.
Related from Liabilitymanagementsystems: Signature Bank Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results

Sheraton Hotels and Resorts Forges Global Agreement with …
WELT NLINE Germany 
Spatality is an international spa management and brand delivery companywith offices in Denver Colorado (U. A); Bangkok Thailand; and soonDubai U.

THE PWER F TRAVEL
Concierge NY 
Just positioning his hotel as a luxury oasis on one of Thailand’s most overbuilt honky-tonk beaches was challenge enough. n the ocean side crowds of beer-swilling tourists counterfeit handbag hawkers and prostitutes compete for the walkway along a strip of noisy restaurants bars and T-shirt shops. Down the way Rock Hard A Go-Go offers pole-dancing girls in bikinis and at the Moulin Rose and other cabaret clubs transvestites sing pop songs. To Wolfgang keeping the riffraff out was more important than community outreach. That all changed in December 2004 when the tsunami that devastated the region swamped the beachfront wiping out hawker stalls trashing dozens of hotels and restaurants and killing more than seven thousand people up and down the Thai coast.

The best hotels for each star sign.
4Hoteliers Hong Kong 
): Eastern remedies in deluxe island setting Villa Lawana Koh Samui Thailand For health conscious Virgo wellness and relaxation is the number one priority for an ideal holiday experience. In addition she has very high quality standards so she will love the luxurious Villa Lawana resort on the island paradise of Koh Samui. Beautifully located on one of Thailand’s most idyllic beaches Virgo can enjoy various spa treatments like herbal aromatherapy baths Thai herbal body polishes and relaxing Swedish massages at this elegant and stylish resort. Ratesbegin at 9073 THB (ca. 198 EUR) per night for two people in a double room.

First Anantara Luxury Serviced Apartments to open in Heart of Bangkok
Focus on Travel News Turkey 
Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments will open in central Bangkok in March 2009. Working in partnership with Rajprasong Pattana Company Limited Anantara will manage the 97 one and two bedroom apartments on a 5000 square metre plot on Rajadamri Road close to the city’s main shopping and business areas.

You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.