Jun 21st, 2009 at 12:00PM: Need an excuse to head out to Europe this summer? Concorde Hotels & Resorts is ready to feed your jones for travel. The Concorde Summer package – just in time for Bastille Day – puts 22 hotels from around the world at your fingertips, from the Hotel Lutetia in Paris to the super-upscale Hotel de la Paix on the shores of Lake Geneva. You can join the party for as little as $115 a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Storm the Bastille with Concorde Hotels
Jun 21st, 2009 at 12:00PM: Need an excuse to head out to Europe this summer? Concorde Hotels & Resorts is ready to feed your jones for travel. The Concorde Summer package – just in time for Bastille Day – puts 22 hotels from around the world at your fingertips, from the Hotel Lutetia in Paris to the super-upscale Hotel de la Paix on the shores of Lake Geneva. You can join the party for as little as $115 a ...Hang with Andy Warhol in Paris
Apr 29th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Elvis may have left the building, but the man who immortalized him (no, not the colonel) has left his mark.
The Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais has scored a major win: the museum is playing host to 250 works by Andy Warhol. Quite simply, this doesn't happen. The exhibition, called "Warhol's Wide World," is a rare opportunity for pop art fanatics to immerse themselves in the accomplishments of ...Dubai plans to cut up the Concorde like the QE2
Apr 9th, 2009 at 10:30AM: Dubai has a thing for buying British vessels and cutting them up. Not long ago, it snapped up the retired cruise ship the QE2 with plans to cut it in half, add a section to the middle, and turn it into a floating hotel. The latest buy it and slice it plan is with one of seven British Concorde's.
A Dubai consortium wants to place the Concorde--sans wings, near the altered QE2 as part of its fake ...France is romance at Valentine's Day
Feb 7th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Put your economic woes an ocean away with a trip to France on Valentine's Day. Concorde Hotels & Resorts is offering great deals from February 13 to February 16 at its Parisian hotels, with rates starting at $172 a night. They're sweetening it with a daily buffet breakfast for two, a 50 percent discount on the second night and a special surprise gift that they wouldn't even reveal to me (ugh). ...A New Supersonic Passenger Jet on the Horizon
Oct 27th, 2008 at 10:30AM: Five years ago, the famed Concorde supersonic jet made its final flight. Most people thought that when the final French-designed craft set down, it would be the last anyone would hear about supersonic passenger jets for a long time. But one American company is making big and brash talk about its Concorde-like craft, which could be in the air in 2012 and ready to carry passengers by 2015. The ...The top eight things I miss most about the current state of air travel
Aug 29th, 2008 at 2:00PM: There is no denying it - Air travel is not what it used to be. The industry has been in a steady decline for years. Long before "terrorists" were being blamed for taking your pretzels away, airlines were blaming deregulation, fuel prices, pixie dust or whatever excuse was in fashion that week. A lot has changed in recent years and, in no particular order, here are the top ten things I miss in the ...Continental faces manslaughter charges for Concorde crash
Mar 13th, 2008 at 10:30AM: It is hard to believe it has been 8 years since the Air France Concorde crashed. I still remember vividly the image of it on fire. Now, a French prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against Continental over the crash outside of Paris in 2000 and recommended similar charges against two Continental employees and two French officials, BBC reports.
A French inquiry said the ...Bits of the Concorde to be Auctioned Off
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Sep 30th, 2007 at 7:46AM: Were it not for the iconic bent, needle nose, the Concorde would probably have been just another airplane. Sure, it flew at supersonic speeds and featured only First Class, but it was that funky bent nose that really hammered this extraordinary plane into the public psyche. The Concorde, however, was finally retired in 2003 and with it disappeared a little piece of aviation history. But not ...
