The Village will be able to house up to 16,000 athletes and team officials during the Olympic Games,

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It s nice for Four Seasons, for sure. I haven t stayed in a lot of them, but the ones I ve been to were exceptional, including the hotel in Santa Barbara, California and, shown at right, the Four Seasons Hong Kong. I had a drink with a guy from a major European-based hotel chain a year or so ago and we were talking about major hotel groups.
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It seems a lot of American airports are getting into the music biz. An item in USA Today this week talked about how both Chicago s O Hare and Midway airports play music on the p.a. system; everything from rock to jazz to folk. They ll even toss in boogie-woogie piano tunes and the odd polka classic, which is kinda fun.
There s certainly no shortage of Canadian tunes that could be played on the sound systems at Canada s airports: The Guess Who, Neil Young, Sarah McLachlan, The Barenaked Ladies, Rush, Celine Dion (not for me, thanks), Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip, Drake. The list could, pardon the expression, go on and on.
London 2012 organizers say the first completed Games-time apartments in the Olympic and Paralympic Villages were unveiled today as the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) announced plans to deliver coach tours wales uk 'gold medal standard' athlete accommodation.
The Village will be able to house up to 16,000 athletes and team officials during the Olympic Games, and 6,200 athletes and team officials plus 1000 referees and umpires during the Paralympic Games, from more than 200 teams around the world, officials said.
Jim Byers is the Star's Travel Editor. He has been writing travel stories for more than a decade, covered coach tours wales uk five Olympic Games and spent years covering the Blue Jays, the Toronto Raptors and the PGA Tour. He's been everywhere from Bonavista to Vancouver Island, as well as China, Hong Kong, Australia, the Caribbean, Thailand, Mexico, Tahiti, New Zealand, Vietnam, a dozen countries in Europe and just about every major city in the U.S. Okay, he was only in Liechtenstein for a couple hours in a rental coach tours wales uk car and his only visit to New Orleans was when he was 12, but you get the picture.