Visitors, work or otherwise, coming to Moscow are a serious pain in the neck as finding a hotel room that does not cost several arms and legs is virtually impossible.
Snowquare.com reports below that the new Ritz-Carlton, replacing the Intourist is not going to change the world much. A superior room (I think that's a standard room to you and I, with a bed, shower and TV) will set you back a cool $940. Add a little NDS at 18% and that's $1,109 and 20 cents if you are still counting.
Clearly not a place for a short overnight stay.
Nice pictures though.
The new Intourist: Moscow's Ritz-Carlton hotel app...:
As the Hotel Rossiya goes down, Moscow's new Ritz-Carlton hotel on Tverskaya approaches completion.
The Ritz-Carlton (a brand of the Marriott group) is scheduled to open in March 2007. You can already book online: one night in a superior room costs RUB 23,000 (USD 940) and in a deluxe suite, a cool RUB 125,000 (USD 4,690).
The Ritz-Carlton takes the place of the legendary (for want of a better word) Hotel Intourist, which was demolished in 2002.
Seen from the same spot on Manezh Square, in the foreground, the National Hotel, with the Intourist in the background.
Photo: Wikipedia
and (on a less sunny day this weekend) with the Ritz-Carlton in the background.
Luxurious as the Ritz-Carlton - no doubt - will be, one can't help think of the building as a missed architectural opportunity, taking the form essentially of a concrete cube, coated in a veneer of bricks and mouldings inspired by the side facades of the next door Hotel National. So similar is the brick-work and detailing that if you paste photographs of the two buildings together, it's tough to see which is which.
(hint: the National's mouldings are more detailed, and the Ritz-Carlton's bricks look newer!)
Snowquare.com reports below that the new Ritz-Carlton, replacing the Intourist is not going to change the world much. A superior room (I think that's a standard room to you and I, with a bed, shower and TV) will set you back a cool $940. Add a little NDS at 18% and that's $1,109 and 20 cents if you are still counting.
Clearly not a place for a short overnight stay.
Nice pictures though.
The new Intourist: Moscow's Ritz-Carlton hotel app...:
As the Hotel Rossiya goes down, Moscow's new Ritz-Carlton hotel on Tverskaya approaches completion.
The Ritz-Carlton (a brand of the Marriott group) is scheduled to open in March 2007. You can already book online: one night in a superior room costs RUB 23,000 (USD 940) and in a deluxe suite, a cool RUB 125,000 (USD 4,690).
The Ritz-Carlton takes the place of the legendary (for want of a better word) Hotel Intourist, which was demolished in 2002.
Seen from the same spot on Manezh Square, in the foreground, the National Hotel, with the Intourist in the background.
Photo: Wikipediaand (on a less sunny day this weekend) with the Ritz-Carlton in the background.
Luxurious as the Ritz-Carlton - no doubt - will be, one can't help think of the building as a missed architectural opportunity, taking the form essentially of a concrete cube, coated in a veneer of bricks and mouldings inspired by the side facades of the next door Hotel National. So similar is the brick-work and detailing that if you paste photographs of the two buildings together, it's tough to see which is which.
(hint: the National's mouldings are more detailed, and the Ritz-Carlton's bricks look newer!)
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