Legendary guests. Extraordinary ideas.

Thank you very much, dear Readers, for making the second volume of the Fantastic Hotels oft The World possible!This possibility was created by the world-wide success of the first volume. After having published it in three editions, after having read hundreds of evaluations from all over the world and after having received thousands of letters and messages, I felt obliged to prepare the second volume. I have met a lot of people who selected their hotel by reason of the first volume Other people peeped into the book in order to see where those people travel who can afford everything.

Still. most of the readers were merely interested in the wonders of architecture and in the peerless ideas. The second volume is similar to the first one in that I collected hotels which are not ordinary but offer more than a traditional luxury hotel The hotels didn't pay to be in the book this time either. The list was made by a Middle European journalist, who has been travelling around the world for sixteen years, made a couple of dozens of films and got to know innumerable hotels during his work.

Yet the second volume is somewhat different: it also includes hotels that became famous and great due to the celebrities who stayed there The London Savoy used to be the place of work of Mr Ritz from Switzerland and Mr. Gucci from Italy. These names are familiar to you, aren't they? Not only Winston Churchill, but also Albert Einstein and the Dalai Lama stayed at the Waldorf Astoria. Obviously, the hotels of unbelievable fantasy can't be absent from this volume either. At the hotel Madonna inn we can stay even in a cave-dwelling and there is a Venice in miniature in Turkey. A hotel was built not only next to Hitler's one-time residence, the "Eagle's Nest" but also on the most famous golf course of the world, too.

A ski-slope was built in the desert, together with an authentic alpine chalet. Dubai is really fantastic! In Finland guests are accomodated in a snow castle, and a hotel was created in the middle of the world's most famous volcanic crater in Tanzania. We shall introduce the private residences of the most beautiful islands, where only exclusive guests may gain admittance. The tourists have perfect peace, a beach with snow-white sand of their own and a staff being at disposal 24 hours a day in exchange. On these pages you can travel from the Cook-Islands through Hawaii to the Fiji lslands in your imagination.

Enjoy the book!

Dr. Richard Robert Kiss