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JUMEIRAH ESSEX HOUSE IN CENTRAL PARK

The Jumeirah Essex House is located in New York City, N.Y., between Central Park and Broadway. The Central Park Zoo is less than six blocks from the hotel. The Museum of Modem Art and Rockefeller Center are within nine blocks. The Broadway theater district is five blocks from this Midtown Manhattan hotel. Times Square is less than one mile away.

The Jumeirah Essex House offers two dining options and one lounge. The hotel's restaurant, Alain Ducasse at the Essex House, serves a seasonal menu with a sommelier available to suggest wine mixtures. Cafe Botanica serves American cuisine and features views of Central Park. The Journey's Lounge is a 1930s themed space with a fireplace, leather sofas and mahogany paneling on the walls. The lounge offers beverages and light fare. Complimentary newspapers are available in the lobby. The hotel offers business services and high-speed Internet access. Meeting and event space is provided. The hotel's Grand Salon accommodates up to 550 people. The front desk is open 24 hours daily and offers safe-deposit boxes for guest use. The on-site fitness center includes cardiovascular and weight training equipment. Personal trainers are available. The hotel's spa offers massage treatments, steam baths and saunas. This New York City hotel offers on-site shopping. The 39-storied hotel has a rooftop sign with its name in red letters. Guestrooms at the Jumeirah Essex House are equipped with cable television and high-speed Internet access. Marble bathrooms feature makeup mirrors and bathrobes. Guestrooms at this New York City hotel include coffeemakers and minibars. Complimentary newspapers are delivered to the guestrooms Mondays through Fridays. In-room safes are provided.

The Jumeirah Essex House is across the street from the 843-acre Central Park which offers live entertainment and horse- drawn carriage rides. The hotel is currently undergoing renovations to its lobby.

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LE GRAND CAFE

Le Grand Cafe is among Kyiv’s top chic and posh restaurants with sumptuous and original style, located right in the heart of the city, in Muzeyny Provulok. The

neighbourhood of the restaurant became the center of Kyiv’s business life way

back at the end of the 19 century, when Kyiv saw an economic and construction boom. New apartments blocks were built and designed in the latest fashionable architectural style.

Le Grand Cafe occupies the ground floor of the building which is perfect example of the Modem Style in Kyiv. It was built and designed by the architect Valerian Rykov in 1909. The building stands next door to the National art Museum, designed by the leading architect of Kyiv Gorodetsky, and constructed at about the same time in the early twentieth century.

The restaurant boasts the most refined and stylish interior. The fashionable French designers Laure Welfling and George Patrick de Richmont have done a truly splendid job. The interior is stylized to remind us of the art style prevalent at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Every little detail has been taken care of the harmoniously fit the whole atmosphere: hand-made carpets; painted decorations; bronze lamps with sensuous ostrich-egg lampshades; exclusive cutlery; china graced with the fancy Le Grand Cafe logo, to name just a few things. The elegant fin de siècle interior is enhanced with paintings of the Ukrainian artists, photographs and theatre posters.

The interior design, the whole atmosphere of the restaurant is such that you cannot help thinking about Paris, Parisian life and tastes. And of course, Le grand Cafe is not an imitation of a fancy French restaurant. It has a style of its own. It has a spirit of the early twentieth- century Kyiv with its French-oriented culture.

Le Grand Cafe combines Ukrainian and French traditions even in dishes it offers. To talk about Le Grand Cafe and the dishes it offers, no matter how long, is to say very little. You must experience Le Grand Cafe, this unique phenomenon of Kyiv, directly. Seeing and tasting is the only way.

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HOTEL SUPUTNYK

Lviv, a city of a long history, is a place of warm hospitality and urban vitality. The most natural and convenient place to explore it from is the Hotel Suputnyk, situated close to the city center. A short ride in a street car will take you right to Stare Misto- Old Town and Ploshcha Rynok - market Square full of Medieval and Renaissance architectural wonders.

The Hotel Suputnyk**** offers 37 one-bed, 144 two-bed, 5 semi-deluxe and 13 deluxe rooms which can accommodate 392 guests at a time. The hotel boasts 8 conference halls, one of which can seat 250 people, two others can seat 60 people each, and four halls can seat 30 people each. Modem means of communication- telephones, Fax-machines, computers with Internet connection, photocopiers, etc- are at the guests’ disposal.

The Suputnyk restaurant offers dishes for all tastes in four halls which can seat up to 500 people at a time. The hotel provides a wide selection of services and has all necessary facilities and expertise to make your stay a pleasurable experience. A currency exchange outlet, a beauty parlour, a dentist, and a sightseeing-and- excursion bureau are also there to take care of your needs. Guided tours can take you to architectural and historical landmarks and sites. Interpreters and guides will see to it that you have no problems in communicating with people in your native language, or in finding your way about town.

The foundation of Lviv dates to 1256 in the seven intervening centuries between the thirteenth century and the present day, the city saw prosperity, destruction in wars, and revival. Various ethnic communities that existed in the city have left an indelible mark on the architecture and spirit of Lviv. All the architectural styles from Gothic down to Constructivism are represented in the city. Stare Misto has been put on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.

Parks in the city, castles in the surrounding, the Carpathian Mountains a couple of hours ride away are major tourist attractions. Don’t miss an opportunity to enjoy them. The Hotel Suputnyk will provide this opportunity.