• Airport Hotels and Romanticism

    Friday, September 25th, 2009

    It’s a dream that everyone has as a child to go from one city to another, traveling the world and having adventures.  Meeting people and seeing exotic places, with languages, cultures, and cuisines that are peculiar to each place is part of the mystique of the explorer.  Frequent travelers often lose the romantic part of this idea, and get caught up in the tedium of itineraries and scheduling conflicts.  There are ways of reinventing the romantic ideals once again, and it all starts at the airport hotel.  Making style and luxury a top priority is a first and very important step, and our hotels are carefully selected for their excellence in attention to details.  Detail shows that it’s possible to make every moment elegant, and that the time between flights can be spent in a little bit of gracious luxury, with a splendid taste of the place.

    After just a short rest in our splendidly furnished rooms, you’ll feel a certain rejuvenation of the  senses that might just remind you of the ideals of your adolescent, when traveling the world had all the mystique of the great poets, like George Gordon, Lord Byron.  Byron had the life that most teenagers dream about, and was a sort precursor to the modern rock star.  He even died young, in his mid-thirties, from a cold he got while traveling in Greece.  His life was an extraordinary series of episodes that all involve traveling from one place to another.

    Sometimes quickly, too, to escape debts or angry lovers, or to fight in revolutions.  His life is speckled with the great stuff of the most romantic adventures, with duels and ships, and too many lovers to count, and episodes of great excess.  Lord Byron, of course, also wrote some of the most regarded works of literature in the English language.  His gift of the tongue was apparently equal to his gifts in love, and one of his epic poems, Don Juan, set the stereotype that we still see in literature and films today.  There’s something very alluring about the Romantics, and especially when traveling.  The poetic space where great ideals and a rich inner life are the guides is an attractive one, and it’s a nice daydream to have when it’s also possibly still true.