Month: August 2006

Bath with a view (2)

Whey Bath

After the previous post I couldn’t help but Google with the search term “Bath with a view” and find this Scuol Tarasp Warm Whey Bath.

Like Cleopatra’s usual practice:

An experiences you will one day tell your grandchildren about: Sitting in a wooden tub, high up in the mountains, while the soothing warmth of whey water with a temperature of 38° Celsius runs over your body? Relaxed and happy you will not only enjoy this bath under the sky but also the surrounding panoramic views. Isn’t this prospect truly heart warming? Don’t you agree?

The whole experience is salubrious, too: The whey water, rich in lactic acid, is a time-tested natural remedy. It softens the skin, regenerates and protects it. It also relieves allergies and certain skin conditions.

One or two persons can spend 30 minutes or longer in this unusual bath. But please note: Whey is a valuable by-product of cheese production. Because every day cheese is freshly produced on this Alp, only 1 whey bath per day can be offered. Early reservations are absolutely necessary.
The price per bath is CHF 40.–.
Plan on a 1 1/2 hour hike from Tarasp to the Alp.

Bath with a view

Japan Hyatt

A bathroom in a suite of the Seoul Park Hyatt in South Korea gives this variation on the theme “A Room with a View”.

Apparently the rather puritan journalist who coined it The Best place to get naked in Time Asia is more concerned whether you can be seen from the outside on this umpteenth floor than he can enjoy the freedom of presiding in your Adam’s costume here.

Handheld City Navigator Guides

City Navigator

After downloadable Ipod format Audio City Tours, see my post Ipod Guided City Tours, some hotels in Amsterdam now have the hand held City Navigator Guide available for rent. It is preferable to a bulky paper guide or card or guidelines of the concierge you’ll not easily remember.

I hope more cities follow fast and that those guides become downloadable for free so that you can prepare your trips more efficiently…

The Suite

The Suite

The Suite opened after a renovation of Euro 2,3 mio on 1st June 2006.

It is located in the Amsterdam Okura Hotel.

It:

  • was designed by the London based firm RPW Design;
  • takes up the 17th and 18th floor of the hotel with a total of 485 sq meter;
  • thus covers an area that 4 average Dutch apartments usually cover;
  • has its own dining room seating 12 where the (michelin) star chef serves your private dinner;
  • has a cinema seating 14 persons;
  • has two bedrooms and two ballrooms as bathrooms;
  • provides butler en limousine service; and
  • has no price indication on the website…..