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by Stan Williams
July 2007
Take a piece of your hotel experience home with one of these products.
If you’re desperate for a vacation but can’t get away from your desk, relive that memorable hotel or resort experience with the exotic goods offered by these properties.
1. Olive you
Fashion designer Norma Kamali serves up exotic olive oils to diners at Town restaurant in the Chambers Hotel and at Country at the Carlton Hotel in New York City. The extra virgin, first-pressed oils, $45 for 500 ml, are available at normakamaliwellness.com.normakamaliwellness.com.
2. Making tracks
Did you fancy the dishes in the Orient-Express Northern Belle’s dining car during that once-in-a-lifetime tour of Great Britain? Then purchase the glassware, about $85 (£45), or the china, about $65 (£34), for a two-piece set at orient-express.com.orient-express.com.
3. VIP seating
Decorate your home in classic contemporary style with the help of Hyatt Hotels. This eye-catching Eames lounge chair by Herman Miller, $3,980, is available at hyattathome.com.hyattathome.com.
4. Speed demon
The Plaza Athénée hotel in Paris caters to the desires of every shopper, even those not old enough to drive. Pull up to this bright-red, pedal-powered Plaza Mini Motor car, $1,065 (€800) at plaza-athenee-paris.com.plaza-athenee-paris.com.
5. Heavy metal
Make that morning weigh-in a little more bearable, courtesy of the W Hotels. This highly polished metal bathroom scale with molten metal footprints, $80, is available at whotelsthestore.com.whotelsthestore.com.
6. Buy buy beauty
Buy a Goodwill Pouch filled with luxurious beauty goods at one of COMO Shambhala’s resorts in places like Turks & Caicos, Bali or Bangkok, and help provide education and safe surroundings for women and girls of the region. Each pouch sells for about $50 (£25); write to mailorder@comoshambhala.bz.
7. Smoke signals
Lie down, relax and remember your beachfront spa experience at one of the Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts in places like Maldives or Phuket with this traditional Chinese Five Elements incense box, $18, at banyantreegallery.com.banyantreegallery.com.
8. Viva Las Vegas
If you want to impress the guy who has everything, this Motorbike Exile Cycle—once owned by John Cougar Mellencamp—may just do the trick. It’s for sale at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas for a mere $60,000; call 702-693-5003.
