If you’ve ever wanted to be Buzz Lightyear, you are in luck, as the first space hotel is set to open in 2025. Built by US-based company Orbital Assembly, the luxury resort will cater for tourists and businesspeople who want an out-of-this-world stay!
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Police taped off an entrance to the Suncoast Hotel and Casino on Friday evening after reports of a shooting. A spokesperson for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed one person was injured in a shooting in the area of Rampart Boulevard and Alta Drive at 7:37 p.m.
You've heard the saying - don't believe everything you see on the internet. Well, apparently you can't even trust that a hotel is open, when you make reservations there.
SINGAPORE - At least 30 people have fallen victim to a hotel booking scam since September, with losses totalling some $41,000. The police said on Sunday that the victims had made hotel bookings using online reservation portal Booking.com and would receive e-mails or messages from Booking.com’s in-app chat function from scammers posing as hotel representatives. The scammers would request that victims confirm and verify the reservation using a fraudulent link.
Kanye West put his foot down after a nail technician cut too close, abruptly stopping his pedicure at a hotel in Italy and ordering the woman to "wrap it up" weeks after insiders revealed hygiene concerns, RadarOnline.com has learned. Fellow rapper Ty Dolla Sign shared the wild video of West — who legally changed his name to Ye — halting his pampering session after she used her clippers.
Tony Pritzker, 62, is divorcing his wife of 33 years Jeanne Pritzker. Pritzker owns the third largest house in Los Angeles, is the heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, and brother of Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker. He is now seeking to enforce his prenup after claiming his wife has refused to sign a document acknowledging that their prenup is valid and enforceable. Tony Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt hotel chain, is divorcing his wife of 33 years and asking a judge to enforce the prenup to protect his $3.7billion fortune.
A showdown is brewing over whether Santa Barbara needs more housing or hotels. Amid pressures from the state and local activists to build more housing, declining hotel revenue, and skepticism of the City of Santa Barbara’s sometimes clunky development policies, the community is wrestling with the future of planning here. The debate has played out on Santa Barbara’s center stage, the Planning Commission, with hotel developers regularly being told to consider housing instead of hotels, or in addition to the hotels.
Attorney suing hotel over discrimination claims - A Houston attorney has filed a lawsuit against the Post Oak Hotel after an incident in which he said he was discriminated against
WALKER, Minn. — A fire completely destroyed a building at the Hiawatha Beach Resort Lodge early Friday morning. According to the Cass County Sheriff's Office, they received a 911 call about the fire at around 2:45 a.m. The building, located on Steamboat Loop on Leech Lake, was completely engulfed by the time first responders arrived. The building was deemed a total loss.
The Chichester Park Hotel closed last week after announcing it would do so earlier in September - Pro-and anti-migrant groups demonstrated on Saturday outside a three-star hotel that has been closed, forcing the cancellation of dozens of weddings and parties. The Chichester Park Hotel on Madgwick Lane in Chichester closed last week after announcing it would do so earlier in September amid uncontested reports that the decision was made so that the building could be used to house migrants.
The Michelin Guide announced today that it will add hotels to its rating system by giving worthy hotels a Michelin Key, a special distinction to be implemented starting in 2024. Yahoo Finance's Josh Schafer, Alexandra Canal, and Brooke DiPalma discuss the addition to the Michelin Guide and their feelings behind its relevancy. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live.
What you see is what you’ll pay: New law bans ‘junk’ fees on hotel bills, concert tickets, etc.
Californians can soon say goodbye to so-called junk fees, those startling charges that appear in a transaction only when a customer is about to hit “purchase.”. You know the ones: A hotel bill that ends with a vague “resort fee.” Or those concert tickets that double in price once it’s time to type in your credit card information.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Peabody Hotel valet attendant is accused of stealing guns out of guests’ vehicles. Marcus Ray is charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of theft of property. On July 4, officers responded to a theft of property call at the Peabody Hotel on 149 Union Avenue. The victim told police that someone had broken into his 2015 BMW and stole his gun which was valued at $650.00.
LAHORE: A team of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) has detected massive electricity pilferage at a nine-storey hotel in the Davies Road Sub-Division. According to spokesman, Basharat Muhammad, the hotel owner, was caught stealing electricity by a Lesco inspection team by hooking wires and caused a loss of millions of rupees to the power distribution company.
Nearly two months before the march of Cadets and Midshipmen into Gillette Stadium for the annual Army-Navy game, another battle is brewing in Massachusetts. The fight is far more consequential than a football game and revolves around the state’s 40-year-old right-to-shelter law, which guarantees families with children a place to stay if they meet certain criteria.
Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has said he is “shaken and angered” while describing his experience in Israel after Hamas, a Palestinian extremist group, launched a deadly attack near the Gaza border over the weekend.
NDTV brings this exclusive ground report from Israel which is fighting an all-out war against Hamas and other Palestinian groups. A rocket exploded near a hotel in Israel's Ashkelon, barely a few kilometres from the Gaza strip, this morning as NDTV journalists were about to check in. Air raid sirens blared and the crew ran for the basement shelter leaving their luggage behind, showed visuals underlining the horror that Israelis are facing.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and his family were forced to shelter in a hotel in Israel over the weekend while visiting family amid a barrage of rocket attacks launched by Hamas. Goldman along with his wife and three kids were in Israel for a family Bar Mitzvah when Hamas launched an unexpected barrage of attacks from land, sea and air, Goldman’s spokesperson said in a statement Sunday.
The Police have observed a resurgence of a hotel-related phishing scams where victims had made reservations for rooms via Booking.com. Scammers would pose as representatives from the hotels and contact the victims to obtain their personal and banking details. Since September 2023, at least 30 victims fell prey with losses amounting to at least $41,000.
The Gautam Budh Nagar police arrested five suspects on Saturday in connection with an incident in which a hotel owner and three of his employees were allegedly attacked and injured by a group of eight men wielding rods and sticks in Greater Noida West.
NSW Premier Chris Minns has struck an unsympathetic tone as his state dips into the bank accounts of hotel quarantine visitors to square bills totalling nearly $40 million. About one in 15 of those who quarantined in NSW hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to pay up, causing the state to resort to garnishee orders to recoup the funds. Single travellers were charged $1500 per week, with each additional adult costing another $500 and children over three years $250 per week.
IT was the jewel of the Isle of Wight where white-gloved concierges welcomed notables like Charles Darwin and Jimi Hendrix to its posh resorts.
Alleged vandalism fire sparks at Cecil Hotel in DTLA
Los Angeles City firefighters quickly knocked the flames at the landmark hotel.
An employee at the Sandals Resort construction site, who is not the holder of a driver’s permit, was fined after he took a truck from the Buccament Bay compound and drove it recklessly on the public road, while on his way to “find something to eat.” Nicolas Paris, 51 of Buccament appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate John Ballah yesterday, where he pleaded guilty to all three of his charges.