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Mirrors are striking. Each lift lobby is colour coded - here the ground floor. Click for a large image of the entrance lobby.
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"the hotel is certainly fashionable and enchants and suprises at that level"
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I believe that for an hotel to deserve a five star rating it needs to offer both a convincing level of luxury and a level of choice for the guest. It needs to surprise and enchant both with the luxury of its rooms and the quality of the service provided, as well as the quality of the design, including design detailing. Does Missoni measure up to this definition of five star luxury, the level Rezidor maintain it is aimed at?
It seems to me that here is a dichotomy - the hotel is certainly fashionable and enchants and surprises at that level, but at a more pragmatic level doesn't seem to work as it should. The quality is perhaps not quite at the level it should be for a five star. Here baths are only available in suites, whilst the UK standards specify that, at four star even, half bathrooms should have a tub.I believe that for five star, the guest should have the choice within their room (a view confirmed by an informal survey I conducted recently).
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Standard bedrooms are very stylish. Click for larger image showing bedside in detail.
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Standard bedrooms are shower room only - for a tub you have to take a suite. Click to see a large image of bedroom work desk.
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In some five star hotels now the guest has his'n'her bathrooms offering these choices (see One & Only Cape Town), while some four stars have not only a walk-in shower but a whirlpool bath as the tub (see Hiltons Diagonal Mar, Barcelona), so here shower only standard bedrooms would seem to be inappropriate to the aspirations.
Although the bedroom desks are quite large, they are almost ruled out as working desks by the presence of the television on them. The style of specified TV’s may have given a high visual and audio quality, but in my view they are too small. In the large suites the size of the screen also seems smaller compared to the standard rooms because of the distance from which it is viewed. In the suite bedroom the floor mounted television is difficult to see from in bed without sitting upright.
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Hotel Missoni
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