Envied by hotel General Managers across the globe, Las Ventanas has a sterling reputation as perhaps the finest luxury beach resort on earth.
Mr. ZULFIQAR MALIK (General Manager, Islamabad Marriott Hotel): My name is Zulfiqar Malik, and I am the general manager of Islamabad Marriott Hotel.
"We had to buy some bigger chairs and life jackets, " says Marc Langevin, the hotel's general manager.
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In January the hotel's general director, Yevgeny Tsimbalistov, was shot dead, apparently for trying to reorganise things in a way that upset the balance of power between the gangs.
"This was totally Biki's baby, " says Anil Madhok, the hotel's first general manager.
And every evening, he said to himself, One day I will ride to work as general manager of the hotel.
Paul Nash, the general manager of the hotel, gave a Champagne toast to the deceased and survivors, reminding everyone this was not a celebration but a way to honor the Titanic's legacy.
While some hotels charge a fee for these over-the-top services, many do not, adding it to the lavish perks and anticipated benefit of any stay at an extraordinary hotel, says Jonathan Frolich, general manager of Andaz 5th Avenue in Manhattan.
Most notably, deflation's advocates point to falling prices for certain goods, such as cars, clothes and hotel rooms, as evidence that the general price level is falling.
The general manager at the Birnam Hotel in Dunkeld, Perthshire, said he had to call in extra staff to cope with the surge in demand for rooms on Sunday afternoon.
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Top architects and designers like Terence Conran and Vivienne Tam were recruited to create the restaurants and suites, and the general manager comes to the hotel from the luxury Shangri-La chain of hotels.
Instead, check into the creaky old Palmyra Hotel where luminaries including Jean Cocteau and General de Gaulle once slept, and explore the spectacular ruins of ancient Heliopolis - the "Sun City" - whose Temples of Bacchus and Jupiter hold their own among the Mediterranean's finest.
Carl Lekic, the general manager of the Helmsley Sandcastle hotel in Sarasota, cared for her.
" Says Mohit Bhargava, general manager of the Retreat resort hotel: "Women friends of mine have stopped wearing expensive jewelry.
"It wasn't about women asking to not be around men, " says General Manager Patrick Davidson of the hotel's decision last year to reserve one entire floor for women guests.
"Two years ago, no one would have touched anything to do with Lake Las Vegas, " says Andrew Stegen, general manager of Ravella, the hotel that filled the Ritz-Carlton's shell in early 2011.
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"It looks like I'm running from a crime scene, " says the general manager of London's Corinthia Hotel.
"They put us up in a little better hotel, " said Liney Halldorsdottir, secretary-general of Iceland's National Olympic and Sports Association.
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Rahimi is the general manager of the 120-room hotel at Kibbutz Hagoshrim.
Back in Singapore she landed a sales job at the Mandarin Hotel and worked her way up to become assistant general manager.
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"With the ongoing unrest and growing security concerns, the number of tourists visiting Tahrir Square and Cairo in general remains very small, hence the low (hotel) occupancy rates, " she says.
Jones' investigators tracked her down because they had heard rumors in Arkansas that in 1978, Clinton, then the state attorney general, had sexually assaulted her in a Little Rock hotel room.
In 1932, the general manager of the Peabody and his friend returned to the hotel after a weekend hunting trip.
"Workers with little to no experience are overlooked in China, but we find they're like sponges, absorbing quickly and willingly, " says Anthony Ross, general manager of The Opposite House, Swire's boutique hotel in Beijing.
Saturday's shooting comes several months after Chile's consul general in Caracas was kidnapped, shot and wounded after leaving a hotel.
General de Gaulle made straight for the city centre and there, at the Hotel de Ville, he made his first speech to the citizens of a free Paris.
Privacy, according to general manager Jessica Davis, is the biggest benefit for the client, while for the hotel, the buyout ensures occupancy is at 100%.
Ralph Burnet, a general partner and owner of the W Minneapolis-The Foshay, pushed to get his new hotel open in time to welcome the Republicans.
When the hotel opened in April 2011, his workouts were sporadic and at the end of the first year as general manager he'd given up finding time to work out.
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