Disorientation 迷途羔羊 Two luxury hotel chains will not be checking intogether 两家奢侈连锁酒店将无法一同腾飞 INDIA and Orient-Express have never rubbed along. 印度和Orient-Express酒店一直很融洽。 The luxury hotel firm s buccaneering founder, James Sherwood, visited the country in theearly 1990s and had a nightmare. James Sherwood在20世纪90年代早期游玩过印度,投机性地建立了这家奢侈酒店,也经历了一场噩梦。 His private jet was delayed for an age in Mumbai while officials checked that the bottles in itson-board bar were sealed correctly. 当时地方官员检查他私人飞机上酒吧的酒瓶是否正确密封花了很长时间,导致航班在孟买延误了很久。 He signed a deal to run the Lake Palace Hotel in Rajasthan, owned by local royalty. 在此期间,他签了一份经营碧河皇宫酒店的协议,这家酒店位于拉贾斯坦邦,所有权归当地贵族。 The deal collapsed when lawyersdiscovered that Mr Sherwood s interlocutor was not the real Maharana of Udaipur, but hisbrother. 但协议很快终止了,律师发现Sherwood的合作者不是真正的乌代浦尔的王公贵族,他的哥哥才是。 |