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Shanghai Surprise
If for no other reason, the altitude will make a night at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai one to remember. Occupying the 53rd through 87th floors of the city's Jin Mao Tower, the rooms are high enough that you might even think you're seeing a little slice of heaven (or maybe just a clean spot above the city's smog). For a cocktail in dramatic surroundings, reserve a table at the circular Cloud 9 lounge, which has 360-degree views. Here, you and your sweetheart can look down on the world and say, as the Chinese do with increasing regularity, "One day all of this will be ours." And years down the road, if the excitement starts to fade, you can console each other with the thought that you once did it 800 feet up. Then call a lawyer (from $202).
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High-Tech Hotels
The latest in lodging technology gives guests everything from the hottest video games for having fun or staying fit on the road to powerful communication tools that let them connect with people down the hall or halfway around the globe.
High-Tech Hotels
Remember when Wi-Fi was a cutting-edge hotel-room amenity — or, before that, when you had to pack an Ethernet cable to make sure you could get connected to the Internet? Now, more hotels are going beyond the basics to set themselves apart, while many are offering mainstream technologies like Wi-Fi and HDTV. With more and more flat-screen TVs being added to rooms, bulky CRT sets — and the giant armoires that typically house them — are starting to go the way of the Magic Fingers massager.
Because technology can tend to isolate people — especially hotel guests sequestered in their rooms surfing the Internet solo — Sheraton teamed up with Microsoft to create its l<x>ink@Sheraton lounges, what it calls “connection destinations.” These are communal spaces equipped with PCs and free Wi-Fi; some locations also offer webcams so that guests can converse face-to-face with family and friends back home and even e-mail video postcards. Others include a l<x>ink Café so that you can also hang out with fellow guests while connecting to the Internet.
High-Tech Hotels
Like its host city, Seattle’s Hotel 1000 takes pride in its tech-savvy status. In addition to 40-inch HDTVs and 5.1 surround sound, the hotel’s rooms offer touch-screen VoIP phones for free local and domestic long-distance calling; electronic artwork that’s displayed on the HDTV; and media hubs for connecting everything from an MP3 pla<x>yer to a laptop. And instead of plastic “Do Not Disturb” door hangers, guests can press a button to tell housekeeping to keep away or come clean the room. Just so there’s never an annoying interruption, an in-room infrared scanner tells staff when a guest room is occupied.
This may be one instance where you’ll wish that what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas: The Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, scheduled to open later this year, will use Control4 technology so that when guests enter a room for the first time, they’ll be greeted by the drapes opening, the lights automatically turning on and the TV displaying a customized welcome message. Rooms will not only feature 42-inch flat-screen TVs; TV monitors will also be embedded in the bathroom mirrors, in case you want to watch CNN while shaving or check out “24” from the tub.
Another hotel that’s literally geared to the tech-connected is Aloft, a new chain billed as “a vision of W Hotels.” Like that hip boutique-hotel brand, a large part of Aloft’s appeal revolves around style, but the budget-priced chain adds some technology of substance. Guest quarters include a simple plug-and-play docking station for connecting electronics such as portable media players, laptops, PDAs or DVD players to an HDTV, so that the screen can be used as a computer monitor or to watch movies. Aloft lobbies also feature self-service, touch-screen kiosks that allow guests to check in, select their room, obtain a room key, confirm rates and print out a map of the property, if needed — all without stopping at a reception desk.
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Chicago’s Hotel Sax partnered with Microsoft to take lodging tech amenities to a new level. The hotel’s Microsoft Experience includes Entertainment Technology Studios and Suites outfitted with an Xbox 360, wireless controllers and a wide selection of games that guests can play with their roommates, with other guests or with anyone around the world via Xbox Live. The rooms also come with pre-loaded 8GB Zune music players and Bose headphones, while the suites add a Dell laptop computer. And if you want even more tech — and a little company — the Studio is a dedicated digital entertainment lounge complete with Xbox 360 Elite gaming stations, flat-panel monitors, HP laptops, high-speed Internet access and even a host to answer questions and provide refreshments.
Nothing conveys high-tech visually quite like anime, and Hotel Tomo in San Francisco has the popular Japanese style of comics and animation written all over it — literally. The hotel’s common areas and guest rooms feature anime murals, while rooms are individually decorated with whimsical elements of Japanese pop culture, such as stuffed dolls and glow-in-the-dark desk blotters. Reserve one of the hotel’s “gaming suites,” and you’ll get a room equipped with a PlayStation3, Wii, beanbag chairs and a 6-foot LCD projection screen.
--- Westin Hotels and Resorts has partnered with Nintendo to introduce a specially designed Wii console and games like “Wii Fit” that guide guests through exercises and yoga poses in the hotel gym.
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作者：The Fifth Season 在 海归茶馆 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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