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Soft Landings.(Brief article)
Byline: Malcolm Beith
Just as the finest diamonds are sometimes hiding in the rough, the best travel experiences can often be found in some of the world's worst places. Cartagena de Las Indias, for instance, offers more than just sanctuary from Colombia's decades-long civil conflict; after strolling around the old walled city, visitors can spend a restful night at the Hotel Santa Clara, a converted 17th-century convent boasting seaside and city views (from $270; hotelsantaclara.com ).
Haiti is generally better known for its political turmoil than its sophisticated accommodations--except when it comes to the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince. Perched atop a hillside overlooking the city, this 19th-century gingerbread mansion offers suites with balconies from which to enjoy the ...
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...dictatorship. The 89-year-old Grand Hotel Oloffson - whose real-life guests...mahogany bar. I stayed at the Grand Hotel Oloffson four years ago, in the Marlon...and absurd." Au revoir, Grand Hotel Oloffson. May you soon be resurrected...
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...my hand and wag his beefy tail. The hotel is the Grand Hotel Oloffson, a place where proverbial ships passing in the...and a gentle, dignified people. And it has the Grand Hotel Oloffson, a microcosm of the best of the country, all gingerbread...
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...alternative: Sitting outside after midnight in 82 degrees is more reminiscent for me of late evenings on a porch of the Grand Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince or the after-dark exotica at a sidewalk cafe in Copacabana. Hot nights tend to transport...
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...and San Francisco in the specialized commerce of homosexual concubinage. For my friends, the proprietors of the Grand Hotel Oloffson, the Habitation Leclerc and the Relais de l'Empereur, Slave Trade contributed to a surprising result--a...
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...the 1920s and '30s, and caught dysentery in Chiapas. To write "The Comedians," he took up residence at the grand Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, immortalizing the gingerbread mansion. Greene championed the weak with a kind of irony...
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...are worth about that. Go for the higher-priced accommodations, just for the comfort they provide. Sadly, Grand Hotel Oloffson, the famed oasis for adventurers and Graham Greene, is closed, perhaps only temporarily. The Castel Haiti offers...
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