A cavernous residents' lounge filled with glowing crystal chandeliers, 30-foot floor-to-ceiling curtains, creamy leather chairs and pool tables lined with dove-gray felt.
At six o'clock, the lounge filled up again, more tightly, for the climax of the expedition: the screening of a slide show to which passengers had been invited to contribute their three or four finest images.
WATER TOURS AND LAND EXCURSIONS WHERE TO STAY The Hotel Sax (333 North Dearborn Street; 312-245-0333; www.hotelsaxchicago.com), beneath Marina City towers, is a stylish place to stay, with a dark lounge filled with leather and velvet furniture.
There, guests gather by the front desk with their luggage or relax in a lounge filled with trampoline-size banquettes and lipstick-red leather couches, where you can snack on sugary confections by day and sip cocktails by night, when it turns into a packed club.
The hotel's high-ceilinged lounge, filled with contemporary Chinese art, is a haven after a day spent walking through the Forbidden City.St Regis 21 Jianguomenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District Tel: +86 (10 6460 6688AA favourite with visiting heads of state, Beijing's St Regis has just re-opened after a six-month renovation in preparation for the Olympics.
Book in at Parc Le Breos B&B and you'll find a lounge filled with hiking guides and OS maps, a laundry to wash and dry muddy clothes, home-cooked dinners made with fruit and veg from the kitchen garden and occasional guided walking weekends.
The program partners with Worcester Animal League by arranging an "inter-species lounge filled with art for humans and cats to enjoy together".
While there are quite a few bars in Friedrichshain, none are quite like DK, which exists as an artsy café catering to college kids by day yet functions as a retro cocktail lounge filled with artsy locals by night.
When yet another cut in driver pay was announced on Thursday, September 25, however, the driver's lounge filled up with countless "Fuck this, I quit!" posts, calls to organize strikes, and demands that Lyft's CEO, John Zimmer, step down.
