General Apartments
Rent a flat on vacation and you can often get more space and more facilities for a lower cost that at a hotel (though less maid and concierge services)
Rent a flat on vacation and you can often get more space and more facilities for a lower cost that at a hotel (though less maid and concierge services)
There are dozens of hotel alternatives, from London flats to country cottages, farmhouse B&Bs to university dorms, rental rooms to residences, and campgrounds to castles. Here's how to find the lot of them.
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.