InterContinental Asiana Saigon, named Vietnam’s top hotel last year, is designing exclusive dining and spa programs for a memorable Valentine celebration.
The Valentine dinner at Market 39 will allow lovebirds to enjoy champagne, salmon, steak and a variety of sumptuous desserts together from VND1.2 million (US$57) a person.
Italian food fans can try out the hotel’s renowned Italian restaurant Basilico, where set menus will be accompanied with the free flow of drinks and a surprise gift for women, priced at VND996,000 a person.
The hotel’s spa will provide the Couple Delight Treatment including foot therapy, fresh milk and orange body scrub, warm Jacuzzi with essential oils and a long flowing massage with aromatic oil. The p
More than 100 people on board a cruise ship operated by a unit of Carnival Corp have fallen ill with a stomach virus, the latest setback facing the world’s biggest cruise company, which came under scrutiny last month for the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in Italy.
Ninety passengers and 13 crew members on the Ruby Princess cruise ship contracted the Norovirus, a contagious gastrointestinal illness that causes vomiting and diarrhoea for one to three days, Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises, a unit of Carnival, said in a statement.
The Ruby Princess set sail from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on January 29 to the Caribbean and returned to Florida on Sunday, as scheduled.
Beginning Jan. 26, new rules from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) should make it a bit easier when shopping around for the best airfare. Consumer advocates are hailing a new consumer rule, designed to enhance protections for air travelers, that will require all government taxes and fees to be included in every advertised fare.
The goal is to make it easier for travelers to see “hidden” airfare fees from the start, thereby preventing sticker shock at the time of purchase. Taxes and surcharges will be more clearly visible, and baggage fees also need to be more clearly disclosed. In
My strictly inexpert feelings that airport security measures are a waste of time are supported by a damning feature in the current issue of Vanity Fair which claims: As you stand in endless lines …, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost.
The Vanity Fair article deals with the security measures at US airports where theyre supervised by the TSA – founded at vast expense as a response to the 9/11 attacks.
The measures, claims the article, accomplish nothing – they are there as security theatre to impress us that the Government is taking security threats very seriously indeed.
Terrorism experts say that the problem is that these measures largely expect future attacks to resemble past attacks – shoes have to be taken off, for example, because of the failed Shoe Bomber and 100ml liquid limits are imposed because of the failed plan to smuggle liquid explosive aboard planes in toiletry and drink bottles.
In fact any future serious terrorist attack would not only try something new it would completely by-pass the passenger security checks. It wouldn
