9/26/08

WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York

Next article is about famous hotel the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, located in Manhattan, New York, New York. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is the finest in all the U.S. and has been home to many famous people, such as former U.S. Army general, Douglas MacArthur, former U.S. president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and former Nobel Peace Prize winner and inventor, Nikola Tesla.

Front of Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

For a little bit of history about this hotel, it originally opened as a two-part hotel, which one part was owned by William Waldorf Astor, a cousin of the infamous John Jacob Astor, who owned the other part of the hotel – and died in 1912, while on the Titanic’s maiden voyage.

Room in Waldorf-Astoria

The hotel that you and I see today is a renovation of the original hotel, which reopened in 1931, when it became known as the world’s most famous hotel. Let us not forget the lovely features and amenities that this hotel offers it guests.

Waldorf-Astoria

First, the hotel consists of 1233 rooms, 177 suites, an array or in-house restaurants and bars and sap and massage parlors. The basic room amenities of this hotel consists of soft, feculent pillows and bed mattresses, cable/satellite TV connections, private telephone service, room and laundry service, private baths and a minibar.

Waldorf Salat

If you are looking for a little R&R outside of your room or suite, take a stroll down to the either the hotel’s fitness club or massage parlor, where you can be treated to a fine back and legs massage.

Waldorf Astoria Cake

Want to a bit of working out? Get it in the hotel’s fitness room, where you can sweat those pounds away! As for the hotel’s restaurants, “Bull and Bear,” “Oscar’s,” “Inagiku,” “Sir Harry’s” and “Cocktail Terrace,” they all have a strict dews code that muse be adhered to – ranging from elegant casual to smart causal.

View from Waldorf-Astoria

This concludes tour of this elegant and upscale hotel, so until next time, good luck and happy stay at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel!

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