From golden suites to floating palaces.

Dear Readers!

For the first time of my life, I have been sitting at a golden desk on a golden chair, holding a golden pen in my hand. Kind Readers are guided this time into the one and only golden suite, where even the toilet is made out of the precious metal. After visiting Hong Kong, let us move over to Las Vegas, where hotel guests can swim right next to predator sharks, if they are already fed up with hazardous casino gambling.

In this new volume I will introduce you to the most famous floating hotels of the world. You can read about luxury ocean liners where guests can try overboard surfing or enjoy a revue show entertaining the audience of an ice theatre.

Stepping on land again, we visit the empire of Mickey Mouse. After discovering the secrets of a fairytale hotel, we set off for Dubai, to the hotel temple of the artificial archipelago. We will take a peek at the German Colosseum, where aren’t any lions, but you can get the thrills from weird taxis and terrifying creatures.

The thrill continues on the coast of the Amazon River, at a jungle hotel offering piranha fishing as facultative activity for tourists. You will be introduced to the professional tricks of pulling a predator fish into your boat, and if you are ready to go advanced, we will catch a caiman with bare hands. After plenty of adventures, we go on a historical roundtrip to Cambodia to discover the Hotel of Peace. We only change our clothes, and we will be heading to New York!

The most beautiful and majestic hotels of the aristocracy and the business sphere are reviewed as well. We will drink a cup of tea in the Ritz London listening to harp music and dressed accordingly with the official book of etiquette, and afterwards we will applaud Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Oslo.

Moving towards more relaxed spaces, we visit the site of former bullfights in Mexico and get imprisoned in Oxford. It is just as cold there as in the ice hotel in Canada, where guests are delighted by polished ice statues.

Enough of chilling! How about a sandy beach with palm trees? We have photographed deep blue fishes in Aruba, studied Dutch architecture in Curacao, and had our picture taken with stars in Saint Tropez. If cocktails won ’t cool us down enough, we will climb up the Tatra Mountains and take the train up to the sparkling mountain tarns of Arosa in the Swiss Alps.

Finally, we will visit wonders of architecture: a hotel exactly like the city of Venice in Macao, the desert palace of a Las Vegas casino king and a design hotel in Madrid.

Have fun!

Dr. Richard Robert Kiss