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Named after a play by famous Elizabethan-era playwright, Christopher Marlowe, the 155 room luxury hotel will be the first UK opening from Dublin-based O’Callaghan Hotel Group.
The hotel's double height lobby will include a feature staircase and overlooking library, with the ground floor also featuring four different food and drink areas including a brasserie, horseshoe-shaped cocktail bar, colonial-style ‘Garden Room’ serving afternoon tea, and a deli called ‘Steam’.
Meanwhile, the hotel will feature 5 conference rooms and a library that can also be hired for drinks receptions and events.
The word resort originated from the French word resort, derived from the term hote - meaning host. The term initially referred to any building that has regular visitors. Today, a hotel is an institution that delivers lodging, foods along with other services to travelers for a fee. The first record of any reference about paid lodging will be during biblical times. In compliance with the Bible, Mary and Joseph were able to get lodgings because There was no room in the hostel. It had been throughout the Ancient Rome Empire that hotels started to proliferate. These were recognized for the aim of encouraging visitors to the empire.
In accordance with the Guinness World Records, the earliest hotel that's still in operation now is the Hoshi Ryokan based in the Awazu Onsen part of Komatsu in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It was founded and is still run by the same family for 1, 292 years. The hotel continues to be with the family for forty six generations since 718. The hotel was constructed near a warm water spring that is considered to possess miraculous healing properties. The resort has 100 rooms and it may accommodate up to 450 guests. In America, the first hostel was recorded to possess been established in 1607.
In 1792, the City Hotel, the primary openly held hotel, opened in NY. The Buffalo Statler, the first company hotel in America started its operations in 1908. Throughout the years individual preferences have altered and it was inevitable that hotels altered based on what the customers wanted. Nowadays, clients can select from a greater selection. Customers may select to stay in a luxury resort or a spending budget hotel, dependant upon their spending budget or available funds. For those who want some adventure, they could check out some unusual resorts like the Null Stern Hotel in Teufen, Appenzellerland, Switzerland that used to be a nuclear bunker which was transformed into a hotel.
There are also cave resorts in Cappadocia, Turkey and Spain. Costa Rica has Treehouse resorts and Japan has capsule resorts where individuals sleep on top of every other in rectangular containers. Since it's cold for majority of the year in Canada, Finland also Sweden, these nations have hotels which are made of snow and ice. There are also under water hotels in Sweden and Florida, USA. The largest hotel in accordance with the Guinness World Records it is the First World Hotel situated in Genting Highlands, Malaysia. The tallest resort is the Rose Tower that is located in Dubai.
