Fortunately, we flew with a Spanish charter airline based in Palma and our flight left for London on time, but hundreds of others were sleeping on the floor in the departure lounge, waiting for cancelled or delayed flights home.

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The lounge girl was waiting.

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As things turned out, it was a pretty monotonous evening, and I was regretting my mistake long before Arthur came into the lounge bar and stood waiting for someone to serve him.

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Inside the DNA Lounge, hundreds are packed together waiting for the show to begin.

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Chalet Gerard, however, takes traditional architectural forms and gives them new energy, from the undulating roof that recalls a ski slope waiting for fresh tracks, to the curvaceous fireplace that recalls a hovering spaceship in the lounge.

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