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Russian luxury

Alex James

Wednesday, 7th November 2007

Alex James travels to St. Petersburg

The Astoria Hotel in St Petersburg is acknowledged by one and all to be the best hotel in town. This doesn’t seem to be a matter of opinion, taste or committee, so much as an unassailable truth. My wife mentioned that we were going to St Pete’s to our impossibly rich neighbours and they named it, without prompting. I suppose you know somewhere is probably going to be all right if George Bush has stayed there. Whatever else you may think of him, it’s hard to disagree with the most powerful man in the world’s position on hotels.

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