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When in Rome, stay at the five-star Hotel Regina. I did, and it was a joy. 'Would you like the same table you had yesterday, Mr. Reid?' the hotel's breakfast host asked on my second day, artfully remembering both my name and where I had sat the previous morning. This flattering attention to detail was, I am sure, part of the hotel's training regime. And it worked. I've stayed in plenty of large upscale hotels, but not all of them ask staff to memorise their guests' names and seating preferences. (The hotel has 117 rooms.) It's not deference - it's taking the trouble to care. © Provided by Daily Mail Carlton Reid checked into the Baglioni Hotel Regina, pictured above, a prestigious five-star hotel that lies on Rome's fashionable Via Veneto © Provided by Daily Mail 'When in Rome, stay at the five-star Hotel Regina. I did, and it was a joy,' remarks Carlton. Above is the hotel's Caffe Baglioni dining ...

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Before the fall. Photo: Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images "What do you do for a living?" the door guy, Matt, was asking. He used to be a chiropractor, he explained, making a lot of money until his epic divorce. Now "I make a lot less money but have a lot of fun." That fun, on Tuesday evening, was managing (and expansively chatting with) hundreds of people at the entrance to the Gramercy Park Hotel, and in a way he became its final doorman. The crowd was there not for cocktails or a post-movie-premiere party but instead to go shopping among the ruins. The hotel had closed abruptly in 2020 and never reopened, and its owner, Aby Rosen's firm RFR, quit paying rent on the ground lease and got evicted. Rumor has it that the building is going to become cond...

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(CNN) — It's been a year of airport chaos and problems with baggage handling have left many travelers struggling to reunite with their luggage. Flying with only carry-on is as desirable as ever. But for one traveler, even that isn't minimalist enough. She's hitting the road with only a small, 12-liter (3-gallon) shoulder bag. Brooke Schoenman is an American woman living in Australia and the publisher of Her Packing List, a website which she uses to pass on her wisdom when it comes to whittling down what to take on the road. And that's something that she's road-tested almost to the extreme. Schoenman's path to burden-easing enlightenment began when she studied in Italy before embarking on a post-graduate round-the-world trip. Along the way, she explored Guatemala and later worked teaching English in Ukraine before moving down under 13 years ago. "I think I had a 55-liter backpack and a day pack that I wore on the front," she tells CNN Travel of her firs...

When in Rome, stay at the five-star Hotel Regina. I did, and it was a joy. 'Would you like the same table you had yesterday, Mr. Reid?' the hotel's breakfast host asked on my second day, artfully remembering both my name and where I had sat the previous morning. This flattering attention to detail was, I am sure, part of the hotel's training regime. And it worked. I've stayed in plenty of large upscale hotels, but not all of them ask staff to memorise their guests' names and seating preferences. (The hotel has 117 rooms.) It's not deference - it's taking the trouble to care. © Provided by Daily Mail Carlton Reid checked into the Baglioni Hotel Regina, pictured above, a prestigious five-star hotel that lies on Rome's fashionable Via Veneto © Provided by Daily Mail 'When in Rome, stay at the five-star Hotel Regina. I did, and it was a joy,' remarks Carlton. Above is the hotel's Caffe Baglioni dining ...