Located between the train station in Tours City Centre and the Vinci Congress Centre, this early 20th-century hotel offers Art Deco-style guest...... more

Located between the train station in Tours City Centre and the Vinci Congress Centre, this early 20th-century hotel offers Art Deco-style guest rooms. It has a 24-hour reception with a tour desk.

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This centrally-located hotel is just 120 metres from De Brouckère Metro Station and 300 metres from Grand Place. Hotel Opera offers a...... more

This centrally-located hotel is just 120 metres from De Brouckère Metro Station and 300 metres from Grand Place. Hotel Opera offers a 24-hour reception, a tour desk and free Wi-Fi.

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Located in the centre of Fatih in Istanbul, Dareyn Hotel offers rooms with free Wi-Fi and a flat-screen TV. Facilities include a tour desk. The...... more

Located in the centre of Fatih in Istanbul, Dareyn Hotel offers rooms with free Wi-Fi and a flat-screen TV. Facilities include a tour desk. The Grand Bazaar is a 5-minute drive away.

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La Legende is located in the very centre of Brussels, less than 150 metres from both Grand Place and the Manneken Pis Statue. It benefits from free...... more

La Legende is located in the very centre of Brussels, less than 150 metres from both Grand Place and the Manneken Pis Statue. It benefits from free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour front desk and a tour desk.

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Just 150 metres from Bayswater Underground Station and a 5-minute walk from Hyde Park, this 4-star hotel offers a 24-hour front desk, a tour...... more

Just 150 metres from Bayswater Underground Station and a 5-minute walk from Hyde Park, this 4-star hotel offers a 24-hour front desk, a tour desk and free broadband internet.

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This Arizona hotel is located 1 mile from the entrance of Grand Canyon National Park. This hotel offers an outdoor pool, a hot tub and 4...... more

This Arizona hotel is located 1 mile from the entrance of Grand Canyon National Park. This hotel offers an outdoor pool, a hot tub and 4 restaurants.ssThe Best Western Premier Grand Canyon Squire features a tour desk with information on area tours.

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When George Washington embarked on his presidential tours of 1789-91, the rudimentary inns and taverns of the day suddenly seemed dismally inadequate....... more

When George Washington embarked on his presidential tours of 1789-91, the rudimentary inns and taverns of the day suddenly seemed dismally inadequate. But within a decade, Americans had built the first hotels - large and elegant structures that boasted private bedchambers and grand public ballrooms. This book recounts the enthralling history of the hotel in America - a saga in which politicians and prostitutes, tourists and tramps, conventioneers and confidence men, celebrities and salesmen all rub elbows. "Hotel" explores why the hotel was invented, how its architecture developed, and the many ways it influenced the course of United States history. The volume also presents a beautiful collection of more than 120 illustrations, many in full colour, of hotel life in every era." Hotel" explores these topics and more: what it was like to sleep, eat, and socialize at a hotel in the mid-1800s; how hotelkeepers dealt with the illicit activities of adulterers, thieves, and violent guests; the stories behind America's greatest hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza, the Willard, the Blackstone, and the Fairmont; why Confederate spies plotted to burn down thirteen hotels in New York City during the Civil War; how the development of steamboats and locomotives helped create a nationwide network of hotels; how hotels became architectural models for apartment buildings; and, the pivotal role of hotels in the civil rights movement.

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES:...... more

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets - to start a new life in America. He comes back with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom Joachim has fed fantasies of a tour of France, of Paris! Traveling from port to port, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism, despite the constant round of impersonal hotels with their endless elevator music and the lack of money. The show gets an enthusiastic response from men and women alike. But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. A quick return journey to the capital violently reopens old wounds... SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...On Tour ( Tournée )

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A land of ancient crumbling temples, jagged limestone karsts, sprawling rice paddies, unique cities, powdery white beaches and pink-hued sunsets, Cambodia is a...... more

A land of ancient crumbling temples, jagged limestone karsts, sprawling rice paddies, unique cities, powdery white beaches and pink-hued sunsets, Cambodia is a country of fraught political history and phenomenal natural beauty, with the mighty Mekong River flowing directly through it. This 12-night multi-centre holiday will give you an insight into Khmer culture and a chance to experience one of the most inspiring countries in the world, as well as staying in three ultra-swish five-star hotels.This 12-night holiday begins in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, a steadily growing city and the country's political hub. Here you'll stay for three nights at the iconic, Colonial-style five-star Raffles Hotel in the city centre. Next, you'll move onto a blissful six nights at the five-star Sokha Beach Hotel in Cambodia's most famous beach destination, the peaceful province of Sihanoukville. You'll finish your trip with Siem Reap, with three nights in the Grand Soluxe Angkor Palace - a gorgeous five-star spa hotel and the ideal base from which to explore the ancient group of temples at Angkor Wat.Our offer includes three nights at the Raffles Hotel in a Garden View State room, with breakfast and one foot massage per person. Next you'll spend six nights at the Sokha Beach Resort in an Ocean Wing Deluxe room with breakfast. Here you'll also get two bottles of water daily, access to the Jacuzzi, steam room and sauna and to the Shianouk Town shuttle service. One of the transfers to and from the Sokha Beach Hotel will be guided. Finally, you'll have three nights at the Grand Soluxe Angkor Palace in a Deluxe room with private transfers, a welcome drink and cold towel, a one-day Angkor Temple tour (including a day temple complex pass) with a private car, tour guide and driver and a Khmer dinner for two from a set menu at the hotel's Phum Kreus Khemer restaurant. Please see below for a brief itinerary.Nights 1-3 - Phnom PenhNights 4-9 - SihanoukvilleNights 10-12 - Siem ReapGood to knowBoth your outbound and inbound flights are overnight, so whilst this is a 12-night holiday, you'll be away from home for a total of 14 nights. The date you select as your check-in date will be the day you'll depart from the UK, and you'll arrive in Cambodia the following day to commence your holiday.Visa requirements: A Tourist Visa for Cambodia is required and we recommend you arrange it online before travel for US$48. You may also purchase the Visa on arrival at Phnom Penh at a cost of US$20. Please ensure you are carrying a passport size photograph and US$20 per person. You will need to ensure you apply for the forms prior to travel

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Spain released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1),...... more

Spain released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Ben Wilson, a builder in Greenglen, Illinois, has sunken into alcoholism following the death of his wife. He has bought and is renovating a hotel with the help of his daughter Hilary. They receive a visit from a tour guide who offers whatever price they name if a party of nine can lodge there despite the fact the hotel is in disrepair. Ben agrees but soon finds odd things about the group. He then makes the discovery that they come from the future and are in fact tourists who travel through time, viewing the great disasters of history. The town is then suddenly devastated as it is hit by a meteor, although they are spared because the hotel is above the main township. This is followed by an explosion of the school boiler, in which Hilary is killed. As the party departs, one of the group sneaks Ben one of their time travel passports and he makes the decision to go back 48 hours in time to warn the townspeople and save Hilary. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Fantasporto Awards, ...Timescape (1992) ( Grand Tour: Disaster in Time ) ( The Grand Tour (Time scape) )

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One of the most exciting tourist railroads in the United States is the Grand Canyon Railway located in northern Arizona. Operating on a line...... more

One of the most exciting tourist railroads in the United States is the Grand Canyon Railway located in northern Arizona. Operating on a line originally opened by the Sante Fe in 1901, it offers the unique combination of great scenery, exquisitely maintained steam and diesel motive power, vintage passenger cars and high speed running. You'll follow the daily Williams Flyer excursion train pulled by 2-8-2 steam engine 1960, which was thoroughly rebuilt in Grand Canyon's own shops. You'll also ride in the cab of Alco FPA-4 diesel 6773 as it pulls another Williams Flyer to the Canyon. Then it's a special Railfan Weekend featuring a double-header with 1960 and 2-8-0 engine 18. You're trackside for all the photo runbys and onboard for a ride in the cab of engine 18. On the return trip, 4960 takes the siding with the railfan special while the 18 and 6773 roar past with the Williams Flyer. Visits to the railway's locomotives shop, its museum in the former Harvey House at Williams, and the historic El Tovar Hotel at the Canyon's rim round out your tour of this fascinating railroad!

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES:...... more

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), French ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets - to start a new life in America. He comes back with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom Joachim has fed fantasies of a tour of France, of Paris! Traveling from port to port, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism, despite the constant round of impersonal hotels with their endless elevator music and the lack of money. The show gets an enthusiastic response from men and women alike. But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. A quick return journey to the capital violently reopens old wounds... SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...On Tour ( Tournée )

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When George Washington embarked on his presidential tours of 1789-91, the rudimentary inns and taverns of the day suddenly seemed dismally inadequate....... more

When George Washington embarked on his presidential tours of 1789-91, the rudimentary inns and taverns of the day suddenly seemed dismally inadequate. But within a decade, Americans had built the first hotels - large and elegant structures that boasted private bedchambers and grand public ballrooms. This book recounts the enthralling history of the hotel in America - a saga in which politicians and prostitutes, tourists and tramps, conventioneers and confidence men, celebrities and salesmen all rub elbows. "Hotel" explores why the hotel was invented, how its architecture developed, and the many ways it influenced the course of United States history. The volume also presents a beautiful collection of more than 120 illustrations, many in full colour, of hotel life in every era." Hotel" explores these topics and more: what it was like to sleep, eat, and socialize at a hotel in the mid-1800s; how hotelkeepers dealt with the illicit activities of adulterers, thieves, and violent guests; the stories behind America's greatest hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Plaza, the Willard, the Blackstone, and the Fairmont; why Confederate spies plotted to burn down thirteen hotels in New York City during the Civil War; how the development of steamboats and locomotives helped create a nationwide network of hotels; how hotels became architectural models for apartment buildings; and, the pivotal role of hotels in the civil rights movement.

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This intriguing live album spans Bob Dylan's unique career--from an unknown teenager in a Minneapolis hotel room to the gnarled veteran countless world...... more

This intriguing live album spans Bob Dylan's unique career--from an unknown teenager in a Minneapolis hotel room to the gnarled veteran countless world tours. It is a pleasing--if idiosyncratic--compilation, gathering together several decades' worth of rare and unreleased material on one disc. Highlights include a young Dylan ruminating on the traditional "Handsome Molly", the spectral version of "To Ramona" from the classic film Don't Look Back and a pulsing "Dead Man" from 1981. There are also otherwise-unavailable concert versions of "It Ain't Me Babe" and Woody Guthrie's "Grand Coulee Dam", plus a clutch of songs from 2000's acclaimed shows--the jaunty gospel "Somebody Touched Me", a rockabilly "Country Pie" and his first original song of the 21st Century: the Oscar-winning Wonder Boys theme "Things Have Changed". Complete with unfamiliar photos and well-balanced track selection, this is a welcome souvenir of the roller coaster ride that is Bob Dylan in concert. --Patrick Humphries

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David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights...... more

David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shootâ?"where he is provided with his very own personal manservantâ?"rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism; our manic getting and spending have now become celebrated as moral virtues. Simultaneously a Wildean satireA and a plea for a little human decency, Donâ?TMt Get Too Comfortable shows that far from being bobos in paradise, weâ?TMre in a special circle of gilded-age hell.

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This intriguing live album spans Bob Dylan's unique career--from an unknown teenager in a Minneapolis hotel room to the gnarled veteran countless world...... more

This intriguing live album spans Bob Dylan's unique career--from an unknown teenager in a Minneapolis hotel room to the gnarled veteran countless world tours. It is a pleasing--if idiosyncratic--compilation, gathering together several decades' worth of rare and unreleased material on one disc. Highlights include a young Dylan ruminating on the traditional "Handsome Molly", the spectral version of "To Ramona" from the classic film Don't Look Back and a pulsing "Dead Man" from 1981. There are also otherwise-unavailable concert versions of "It Ain't Me Babe" and Woody Guthrie's "Grand Coulee Dam", plus a clutch of songs from 2000's acclaimed shows--the jaunty gospel "Somebody Touched Me", a rockabilly "Country Pie" and his first original song of the 21st Century: the Oscar-winning Wonder Boys theme "Things Have Changed". Complete with unfamiliar photos and well-balanced track selection, this is a welcome souvenir of the roller coaster ride that is Bob Dylan in concert. --Patrick Humphries

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David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights...... more

David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shootâ?"where he is provided with his very own personal manservantâ?"rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly skewered. Somewhere along the line, our healthy self-regard has exploded into obliterating narcissism; our manic getting and spending have now become celebrated as moral virtues. Simultaneously a Wildean satireA and a plea for a little human decency, Donâ?TMt Get Too Comfortable shows that far from being bobos in paradise, weâ?TMre in a special circle of gilded-age hell.

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