Becoming the top concierge at a world-class hotel was not exactly Mr. Bigler's childhood ambition.
I can't quite get my head around the fact that this kind, humble man whom I was surfing with this morning owns such an incredible world-class hotel.
Luxury: The Nikko Mexico, Campos Elíseos 204 in Polanco, (800) 645-5687, fax 52-555) 5280-9191, www.nikkohotels.com/americas/mexico, is a world-class hotel a short walk from the city's justly famous Anthropology Museum, with 744 well-appointed rooms.
Just six years ago there was scarcely a world-class hotel room in the entire country.
But until several years ago, Budapest had no true world-class hotel.
My story begins innocuously, with a dinner reservation in a world-class hotel.
But from the moment the valet opens the cab door, it is clear that this is a world-class hotel.
But Halekulani remains the only place where one can move freely between the island experience unique to Hawaii and the world-class hotel experience on par with the best that New York, London and Paris have to offer.
Budapest had become a dream realized, full of world-class hotels, ubiquitous construction cranes, mansions and museums scrubbed clean.
Among more than 400 projects are a new waterfront area, parks, world-class hotels, high-end shops and restored monuments, churches, mosques and even the synagogue.
