The master suite — set off from the other bedrooms — has walk-in closets, a built-in vanity and a sitting area that faces the garden.
A few minutes later, I was checking into the casita -- one of cluster of well-appointed suites set off from the main hotel, with separate bedroom and living room areas and a working fireplace.
The market town of Can Tho was all noise and shouts and busy people, but once the refurbished rice barge with its cosy en suite cabins cast off from a town pier, all was peaceful.
5 Battery, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, +91 2289289 4400, Ghhotel.com, doubles from £169 Among the clutch of hotels located in the traffic-snarled vicinity of Mumbai's international airport, The Waterstones Hotel (formerly The Gordon House Suites) is cut off from the constant cacophony outside.
Suite 101 got the tip off from The List (see how one thing leads to the next in the blogosphere), and there I was perusing The List's clubbing articles blog in my sitting room wearing nothing but a full neon catsuit.
As well-appointed as Sirikois tented suites are, I never felt cut off from the outdoors.
Peter Jennings is doing the news from the convention floor and from a suite just off the floor, and the convention background is added by computer.
Display pieces and discontinued models made by De La Espada are up to 70 percent off, from Saturday to Dec. 9 (the 265 Suite bed by Autoban, above, originally $7,835, will be $5,484); 302 Bowery (Bleecker Street), (212) 473-2120.
Be very careful that you don't cut yourself off from everyone, either by hanging out in your office by yourself or hanging out in your office or your suite with three or four key people.
Rates Classic Room: from $390 Deluxe Room: from $751 Junior Suite: from $820 Deluxe Suite: from $1,229 Grande Suite: from $1,776 Grand Deluxe Suite: from $3,968 Presidential Suite: $10,928 Royal Suite: $17,385.
