New Hotel Chain Has Only One Room in Each Location & More
Headlines and highlights from around the web:
- A Danish retailer has just launched a new hotel brand — Vipp Hotel — with only one room at each location.
“The minute you check in at the Vipp Hotel, it’s fully booked,” the brand explained, “because the Vipp Hotel is not a hotel in the traditional sense. Instead of offering many rooms in one location, Vipp offers one room at different destinations.”
Photo Courtesy of Vipp Hotels Right now your options are a modern cabin in a forest or a loft apartment at their headquarters. A restored water pumping station will soon be added.
- What is smoke taint in wine? And how is it going to impact Sonoma and Napa wineries for years to come? The Wine Spectator has an interesting article, highlighting how Northern California Wineries are still at risk for massive losses, even if their vineyards and grapes survived.
- Amazon has a new “free” sample box. The Luxury Skin Care box is $19.99 and comes with 10+ high end skin care samples and a $19.99 credit towards a future purchase. You can also check out the other 10 boxes available as well as their individual samples which also come with a future purchase credit.
- Critical Heathrow Airport security files found in the bushes.
- The historic Mammoth hotel in Yellowstone is being renovated. Sadly the first phase was about meeting space and gift shops. The next phase which will update the plumbing, heating, and wiring in the 90 guest rooms won’t start til next year.
- There’s a new up and coming wine company aiming to make high end wines that appeal to the average palate and fit a grocery store budget ($20 or less).
- Earlier this week there was a listeria outbreak at an LAX catering facility. American stopped catering food, but what’s more troubling is that Delta and others did not immediately…
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