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- <text id=89TT2827>
- <title>
- Oct. 30, 1989: Business Notes:Accommodations
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 30, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- ACCOMMODATIONS
- Room at the Top in Warsaw
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The 41-story glass tower rises out of Warsaw's downtown
- like an intruder from another world. But it is a welcome one.
- The $65 million Warsaw Marriott, which is scheduled to open this
- week with a bash for 1,000 guests, will be the first major
- Western-operated hotel in Poland. Built in a joint venture with
- the Polish airline LOT and an Austrian construction company, the
- structure has 520 hotel rooms and office space for businesses.
- Amenities include a shopping mall, a swimming pool and satellite
- TV in every room.
- </p>
- <p> Lodging rates range from $135 for a single room to $1,500
- for the presidential suite. Foreigners must pay for their rooms
- in dollars, which will provide some much needed hard currency
- for Poland's government. The hotel hopes to attract swarms of
- Western business travelers, many of them from the U.S. Says
- William Tiefel, president of Marriott Hotels and Resorts: "A
- great many Polish Americans gave us a nudge in the right
- direction."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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