<DIV><div> A hotel is a hotel is a hotel? Not in this collection of 100 heavenly hideaways</div><div> When travelling for business, modern man and woman often prefer hotel rooms of the same type in London, Paris, or Shanghai. It’s just more convenient. A di erent set of rules applies when they search for a place to celebrate a special family holiday, a weekend with a new lover, or a few days of blissful solitude with some great books. Suddenly a balcony with postcard-worthy views counts more than the number of TV channels, a sumptuous bed with a heavenly mattress and hand-ironed linens more than Wi-Fi connection in every nook and cranny of the hotel building.<BR> <br> That’ s where this new TASCHEN collection comes in. A compilation of 100 hotels on all continents, in countries from Argentina to Vietnam, the two volumes make it a breeze to choose where to relax next. The gamut runs from dream castles like Villa Feltrinelli on Lake Garda (right) to the glass-fronted hipster chic of Juvet Hotel in Norway; from Mediterranean <I>pensiones</I> with nostalgic fl air and moderate rates to the pricy-yet-worthy desert glamour of Amangiri resort in Utah’s canyon county (top). Even dedicated web scouts will be tempted by this book to cuddle up on their sofa for a round of paper travelling. While fans of interior design might use it as an inspiring global selection of splendid sofas, beds, lights, and bathroom features.<BR> <br> <ul> <li> 100 very special hotels and guest houses all over the world</li> <li> From bed & breakfast basic to six-star luxurious</li> <li> Selected by TASCHEN’s style and travel department acoording to criteria like stylistic harmony, location, service, and cost-performance ratio</li> <li> Each hotel comes with a reader-friendly chart listing the number of rooms, current prices, type of cuisine, amenities, plus the all important X-factor: the feature that makes staying there a truly unique experience</li> <li> The full scope of contemporary travel in two neat volumes, co eetable-sized and with countless glossy photographs</li> </ul></div></div>