The new additions included star gazing and daisy chain-making.

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Mandarin is also the only chain with a 5-Star in tourist mad Las Vegas.

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Neither was a star player and both come across as cerebral underdogs who fought their way up the food chain.

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It also has the only five-star hotel in Russia outside Moscow and St Petersburg, put there in a fit of premature optimism by an Austrian chain, Marco Polo, and later turned over to local management.

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