This ultra-exclusive quayside hotel is all standalone bathtubs, spotlit deck beds, varnished wooden floors and swish private lounges.

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At one unionised hotel, he recalls, the pool attendant was not allowed to take the deck chairs out of the pool when the wind blew them in.

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At the Hotel Belvedere in Bellagio my room had high ceilings, a big comforter, marble basin and a huge private deck with a view of the lake.

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On the morning after that pool-deck encounter in Florida I headed out for a walk, and in the parking lot of the hotel I saw one of the Tokens loading his stage clothes into his car.

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