tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10466754410662039112024-02-23T18:03:48.280-08:00Hotel Bristol NEWSThe latest news about Bristol hotels around the worldBristol Book Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06737723692365861620noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046675441066203911.post-86774454729595366672019-06-23T09:49:00.003-07:002019-07-19T09:27:02.356-07:00A marriage made in Oslo's Hotel Bristol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Congratulation to Olaf Thon (right) and Sissel Berdal Haga, who just got married on the roof of the Hotel Bristol in Oslo. This was the first hotel that Norway’s richest businessman bought, and the former farm boy now runs Norway's largest private real estate company, with 60 hotels among its 450 possessions, including the Hotel Bristol in Bergen and the Bristol Stephanie in Brussels. He has described the Bristol in Oslo as his ‘second home’. Thon, 95, married Sissel Berdal Haga, 79, whom he had known for more than 30 years. Both have been previously married: Thon’s wife had suffered from Alzeimer’s for some time and died last year. The 20-minute ceremony was conducted by Oslo mayor Marianne Borgen, and was attended by around 200 guests</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Oslo Bristol (above) dates from 1920, and is described on page 48 of <i>All the Bristol Hotels in the World</i>. It is also the subject of a chapter in <i>Hotel Bristol Stories. </i></span></div>
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Bristol Book Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06737723692365861620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046675441066203911.post-29009823490793804702019-04-23T02:31:00.000-07:002019-04-23T02:31:01.157-07:00Roots of Sri Lanka conservation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bristol Book Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06737723692365861620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046675441066203911.post-14927940844046773172018-12-22T11:04:00.002-08:002018-12-22T11:04:28.791-08:00Belgrade's elegant Bristol coming to an end.The future of the grand Hotel Bristol in Belgrade, built in 1912 and the focus of the city's elite in Tito's day, is uncertain. Used by the military, and by displaced families in the 1990s conflicts, it is still owned by the Serbian Ministry of Defence, but it has been padlocked since then end of August and its future is uncertain. Read the fill story from <a href="http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/belgrade-s-neglected-landmark-hotel-awaits-its-rebirth-12-10-2018">BalkanInsight here</a>.<br />
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The old Hotel Bristol in Karachi is a great place for a photoshoot, as these <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/831453006/bristol-hotel-karachi">Instagram pictures</a> show. The story of the hotel is told in <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0992846676/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=&sr=">All the Bristol Hotels in the World</a></i><br />
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Just come across this postcard of the Hotel Bristol in Pjatigorsk, southern Russia. It is no longer there, but there is a Hotel Bristol-Spa in the Caucasus town, dating from 1908, which is written about in the Russia chapter of <i>All the Bristol Hotels in the World.</i> Pjatigorsk was once one of the most fashionable and popular hotels in Russia.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Commissioned in 1960 by Vyacheslav </span>Kurashin, CEO of the Hotel Bristol, the sculpture was made by Konstantin Koshkin, and until recently was kept in the ‘museum’ of the hotel (seen here in the snow). If ever Trump visits Yalta, says the town’s administrative head, Andrey Rostenko, he will be taken down the street to look at the statue. </div>
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Bristol Book Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06737723692365861620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046675441066203911.post-30414254337731867292017-02-26T11:12:00.003-08:002017-02-26T11:14:11.242-08:00Up pour le Bristol Cup!<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">January doesn't sound like the best time of year to play tennis in Europe, but between 1920 and 1932, the most prestigious tennis tournament was the Bristol Cup, held in the New Year at the Hotel Bristol in Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. The hotel was built built by Blundel Maple, of the Maples furniture store in Tottenham Court Road, and it included tennis courts, now the town's tennis club. In 1921 Clementine Churchill was delighted to win four games in a single-set doubles match against Wimbledon champion Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers. She was staying at the Bristol while waiting to join Winston on an official trip to Egypt. But writing to him on February 21, she complained, “I am very solitary in this big rather dreary hotel.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Here’s an ad for the Bristol Hotel in London, just popped into my mail box. It was a match for its opposite number in Paris. It occupied two adjacent buildings, at 33 and 34 Burlington Gardens, and </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">according to </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The Gourmet’s Guide To Europe</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> by Liet-Col Newnham Davies and Algernon Bastard (crazy names, crazy guys), the Bristol’s Spanish manager, Ignacio Lersundi, gave “one of the best, if not <i>the</i> best, <i>table-d’hôte </i>dinners obtainable in the English capital". But by the time the Guide was published, in 1903, Lersundi was dead and a fifty-three year lease had just been taken on the Bristol Hotel building by the Ladies Army and Navy Club, for near relations of men who held, or had held commissions in the services. With more than 3,500 members, it was the biggest women’s club in the world, offering cards, billiards and ‘many feminine attractions’. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">When the grand </span><a href="http://www.bristolhotel-odessa.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hotel Bristol </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">was built in Odessa in 1899 more than a third of the city's population was Jewish. Today Israeli President Reuven Rivlin arrives at the hotel for the 75th anniversary of the massacre at Babi Yar when more than 33,000 Jews and nearly 70,000 Roma and political prisoners were killed in Ukraine by the Nazis. (There were further mass killings in Odessa in 1941 and 1942). Rivlin will address parliament and participate in a conference at the Bristol Hotel about his ‘ideological mentor’, the Odessa-born Zionist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky" style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (1880-1940), the subject of an exhibition in the city’s Literary Museum.</span>Bristol Book Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06737723692365861620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046675441066203911.post-21506719974411417182016-08-31T02:21:00.002-07:002016-08-31T02:32:46.826-07:00Four Points for Zakopane Bristol<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="text-align: start;">This has just popped up on eBay. The 145-room New York Bristol, on Manhattan's West 49th Street near Radio City, was a landmark hotel in the city, and its Pink Elephant Bar a popular hang-out. There's lots of stuff that come ups on eBay from the hotel -- matchbooks, ashtrays, beer mats, keys, brochures, postcards. This is the first time I have seen a cigar box. The hotel features in 'The Lonely Doll and the Castor Oil King', a story in<i> High Times at the Hotel Bristol</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Many of the town’s visitors come for the <a href="http://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/">Birthplace of Country Music Museum</a>, opened in 2014. An affiliate of the Smithsonian, it holds events and concerts, and centres on recordings made here in 1926–7, before Nashville, 300 miles away, got going.</span></div>
Bristol Book Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06737723692365861620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046675441066203911.post-26724429680036173602016-07-18T01:14:00.000-07:002016-07-18T01:14:00.059-07:00Bristol Hotel in New Jersey beach resort<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #00152e; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">This postcard of the Hotel Bristol in Asbury Park, New Jersey, has just gone up for sale on eBay. The Bristol was one of several grand Victorian resort hotels described by Janet H. Burgents in her book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9781462837106">Reflections of Asbury Park</a></i>. They offered saltwater baths, touring cars and theatre </span>performances, with separate meal hours for children and their nannies. This picture is dated 1922, the year before a 'mysterious' fire wiped out the hotel. 'Closed for the season, it went up in flames in half an hour taking with it the Garden Theatre, the Edgemore, Keswick and Victoria Hotels,' writes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #00152e; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Burgents</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #00152e; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;">.</span></span>Bristol Book Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06737723692365861620noreply@blogger.com0