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The Hotel des Indes was placed under a newly created public company, Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Hotel des Indes nv, and Christian Haller, who used to work at London's Savoy Hotel, became the new general manager. Haller was responsible for securing the Hotel des Indes as the official hotel for the 1899 Hague Peace Conference, defeating ...
The first hotel was established in 1962 by Benjamin J. Denihan. Currently the hotel chain is operated by DHG (Denihan Hospitality Group), a privately owned company. The company is a member of an alliance of hotels including Joie De Vivre (California), Thistle Hotels (United Kingdom), Rotana Hotels (Middle East) and First Hotels (Scandinavia).
In 1869, British anthropologist Alfred Russel Wallace described the hotel's accommodation as: "The Hôtel des Indes was very comfortable, each visitor having a sitting-room and bedroom opening on a verandah, where he can take his morning coffee and afternoon tea. In the centre of the quadrangle is a building containing a number of marble baths ...
The founders opened an office in New York named Hotel Representative, Inc. (HRI). By the end of the 1960s, HRI had grown to 70 member hotels, all of which were in Europe. [6] From 1971, it admitted new member properties worldwide. [6] As of 2018, LHW represented "more than 400 hotels in over 80 countries". [7]
Hotel der Nederlanden (also Hotel Dharma Nirmala during its last 10 years) was a historic hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Hotel der Nederlanden was one of the three grand hotels in Batavia during the last period of the colonial rule, the other being Hotel des Indes and the Grand Hotel Java. The hotel had operated for more than a century, after ...
The Chatwal New York, originally the Lambs Club Building, is a hotel and a former clubhouse at 130 West 44th Street, near Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building was originally six stories high and was developed in two phases as the headquarters of the Lambs , a theatrical social club.
The St. Nicholas Hotel, depicted in an 1855 lithograph by Friedrich Ludwig Heppenheimer. The St. Nicholas Hotel was a 600-room, mid-nineteenth century luxury hotel on Broadway in the neighborhood of SoHo in Manhattan, New York City. [1] It opened on January 6, 1853, and by the end of the year had expanded to 1,000 rooms. [2]
The Villard Houses section of the New York Palace Hotel, seen in early 2021. In May 2015, Lotte Hotels & Resorts, a South Korean luxury hotel operator agreed to buy the hotel for $805 million. [157] [158] [150] At the time, the hotel had 1,232 rooms. The hotel was to undergo a major renovation that included converting some units to condominiums ...