Bristol Geneva Twitters ahead of the rest

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The World Youth Student Conference (WYSTC) is being held Manchester this week (Sept 22-25) with the theme of ‘Innovation’
Daniel Roberts, Managing Director of Xebidy, adds his thoughts on his website in an article entitled Twitter as the Travel Marketing Tool du Jour.
He writes: "Twitter is a fabulous social aggregator, which can be used to listen to a wide network of conversations. Searches can be run for your keywords against the Twitter stream and when you identify them you can jump into the conversation and help. For example, when I tweeted that I had book my flights from Manchester to Geneva for the weekend to meet a mate. Almost immediately I received a tweet from Hotel Bristol in Geneva asking if I had booked accommodation and would I like help. They would have been running a search against people who mentioned Geneva."

Havana to New Hampshire

A couple of snippets:

Eladio Monroy is the detective hero of the Canarian writer Alexis Ravelo (Tres Funerales para Eladio Monroy etc). Eladio Monroy was the name of the last president and manager of the Hotel Bristol in Havana on the corner of S. Rafael and Amisted Street, an up-market hotel popular with Americans before the revolution.

The first Hotel Bristol (formerly Jurys Bristol) to be so named in Bristol earlier this year was not the first Bristol in Bristol. There was a Bristol Hotel in Bristol, New Hampshire (pictured right). The American town, which was incorporated in 1819, took its name from the deposits of sand and clay similar to "Bristol sand" used in Britain to make fine china, pottery and Bristol Blue Glass. In New Hampshire they used it to make a high-quality brick, sold as "Bristol Brick".

Bristol memorabilia

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Just come across this T-shirt design incorporating the logo of the Buenos Aires Bristol, part of a range of promotional material created from vintage luggage labels by Sahape Market and sold through Zazzle in the UK. In addition to the T-shirts (£16.95) you can get souvenir aprons (three sizes, up to £20.70), greetings cards, shopping bag, hat (£15.15) and mug (£17.25).

HOTELS IN BRISTOL (including the Bristol) are counting their blessings, and their pounds, at the end of the 12-week 'Banksy vs Bristol Museum exhibition, which attracted 4,000 visitors a day. The influx brough £10 million into the city's economy, doubling the turnover of a number of buisinesses. "It's nice to see it's been so popular," the elusive Bristol artist texted the media. "But it makes me suspicious. Throughout history all the great artists have been overlooked in their own lifetimes and only appreciated after they are gone. I'm starting to worry I'm not one o the good guys."

Celebrating the fall of the wall

.November 9 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and hotels in the city are offering packages and deals. The question is, who will be staying in the new Presidential suite in the Kempinski Hotel Bristol? It covers 5,300 square feet on the 10th and 11th floors of the hotel’s tower. The suite has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, two living rooms, a pantry on each floor, as well as two boardrooms, which can double as bedrooms. The suite can also be divided into two same-sized deluxe suites. The two master bathrooms have LCD TVs in the mirrors, and the walk-in rain shower glows with illuminated water jets.The suite can also be accessed by a separate entrance.
.....Meantime Le Bristol in Paris opens a new seven-storey wing in September, as it expands on to Avenue Matignon and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. It will provide 27 rooms, five of them suites, and penthouse accommodation with spectacular views. There will also be a new restaurant.

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Murder at Le Bristol, Paris

Some say that all news is good news - so long as people are talking about you. Even so, Le Bristol in Paris could never have wished to be in the headlines for the murder of businesswoman Kinga Legg in room 503.
.....This isn't the first time the hotel has been the scene of dramatic death. In 1996 Amschel Rothschild, millionaire chairman of Rothschild Asset Management, was found hanging by a bath robe cord in his room at Le Bristol.
.....In both instances the bodies were discovered by chambermaids.

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At last, THE Bristol Hotel in Bristol

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This is not the main entrance to The Bristol Hotel in Bristol, but if you look at it closely you will see that on the first floor above this secondary entrance is a row of parked cars. In fact the hotel, which has perhaps the best waterside location the city, was built in the 1960s by Rank as a motel, called The Unicorn. The car park rises five storeys, and the idea was that you drove your car up to the level that your room was on, and there entered the hotel, without having to use lifts or stairs. In the 1990s the hotel was bought by the Irish Jurys chain and renamed Jurys Bristol hotel, and the car park was taken over by National Car Parks. At the end of last year the 187-room hotel underwent an £8 million refurbishment under The Doyle Collection (see Hotel Bristol News of December 2008), reopening in February this year as The Bristol Hotel. The choice of name was perfect. There has never, as far as we know, been a Hotel Bristol in Bristol before, and General Manager Mark Roche-Garland is adamant that this really is The Bristol Hotel, just as Hippolyte Jammet in 1925 named his Parisian hotel Le Bristol. And you can still, uniquely, park your car on the same floor as your hotel room, thus avoiding the lift and stairs.
.....All this was subject of discussion on May 22 on BBC Radio Bristol, when the morning show presenter Graham Torrington talked to Roger Williams about the hotel, High Times at the Hotel Bristol and the Hotel Bristol Project. Listeners calling in had their own stories about Bristol hotels they had stayed in. A BBC producer even confessed to hurling an alarm clock through a window of the Warsaw Bristol when watching David Beckham score a winning goal. Such shameful behaviour!

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Kempinski curiosity

A rare German stamp showing Audrey Hepburn with her trademark cigarette holder was up for auction at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol in Berlin today. With an estimated bid of $42,000, it is only the fifth of such stamps to have been discovered. In 2001 14 million of them were printed, but they were destroyed when Hepburn's son, Sean Ferrer, objected to them. All of the stamps except for some proof copies sent to Deutsche Post for approval were destroyed. An employee snatched 30 of them and sent them postmarked from Berlin. This is one of them.

BRISTOL LOUNGE IN BOSTON
The Aujourd'hui restaurant in the Four Seassons Hotel Boston, one of the city's finest, is closing at the end of June as a result of the credit crunch, which has depleted its customers. In its place the more casual Bristol Lounge will open. Such a name is bound to attract a similarly classy clientele.

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