Drawn to the city by its history, culture and - you guessed it - food, Eveline ran a boutique hotel when she first arrived and offered her guests the chance to take a Turkish cooking class in the hotel kitchen during their stay.

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Lifting laundry bags is nefarious enough, but it's hardly world-class in the hotel-theft department.

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From the decadent marble bathrooms with soft lighting to its huge, uncluttered rooms, the Ascot Hotel is all class.

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And whereas certain celebrity children are allowed to run riot, causing pandemonium in top class hotel rooms, the Beckham brood define extremely well behaved.

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For a touch of class try the Library Bar in the Lanesborough Hotel (1 Lanesborough Place, Belgravia).

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Here they have one Galleries Lounge for business, the First lounge for First, and just to confuse things, only in Terminal 5 (there are also lounges in 1 and 3) they have the Concorde Room, also for First class passengers, with hotel-style rooms featuring beds and en suite bathrooms, plus restaurant-style dining.

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Its location near the geographic centre of the US, a world-class airport and a rash of recent hotel developments in its pedestrian-friendly core have combined to make Denver an increasingly regular stop on the business travel circuit.

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The twenty-city bookstore tour with first class airplanes, limousines, and hotel suites?

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In India, where the middle class also is growing, Mr. Capuano said Marriott plans to introduce its lower-end Fairfield hotel chain.

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