Arabic Service in London
Grosvenor House, located on the prestigious Park Lane and overlooking Hyde Park, is one of the most popular hotels in London with more than 35,000 guests enjoying the facilities of the hotel and apartments during the summer months alone.
It’s particularly popular with Middle Eastern visitors to London, which is hardly surprising given that Grosvenor House employs an Arabic speaking shopping consultant to accompany guests to Harrods and other prestigious department stores.
The room service menu at Grosvenor House also reflects the establishment’s attention to details with a selection of Middle Eastern dishes prepared by a Lebanese chef.
There are also Arabic-speaking staff at reception who are mindful of the preferences of Middle eastern guests in daily newspapers, movie channels and so on.
Vocabulary
(to) employ – нанимать на работу
Chef – шеф-повар
Mindful – внимательный
Preference – предпочтение
THE TASK
Find in the text and read the fragments about the following subjects:
The name of the hotel
Its location
Its rating
Its peculiarity
The number of the guests
The menu
The staff
*4*
Read the text carefully. Get ready to do a task.
Business by the Pool
What more appropriate way to have a meeting in Los Angeles than by a swimming pool? The Beverly Hills Hotel, the legendary Pink Palace on Sunset Boulevard, has 21 poolside cabanas which it rents out to business guests for a fee of US$ 125 a day.
Each cabana accommodates up to five people, and comes with a television, cellular phone, fax machine and hook-up for a laptop computer. While there’s a shaded seating area outside with chaise longues and a table, private seating by the 75 ft swimming pool is also available. In addition cabana users have access to the pool, Jacuzzi, Cabana Club café, where breakfast, lunch and dinner are served. Large groups can make use of three interconnected cabanas. Another perk provided by the hotel for business travelers – all guests are assigned a private phone number and fax number when they check in. frequent guests receive these numbers permanently.
Vocabulary
(a) cabana – небольшой коттедж
Cellular – сотовый
Hook-up – связь, контакт
Laptop – персональный
Perk – прерогатива
Chaise longue – шезлонг, кресло-качалка
Appropriate – подходящий
Frequent – частый
THE TASK
Correct the following wrong statements consulting the text:
The Beverly Hills hotel has 121 cabanas.
A price for a cabana is US $225 a day.
Each cabana is accommodated up to nine people.
It is equipped with Xerox machine and satellite TV.
A shaded seating area comes with a soft arm-chair and a mirror.
Private seating by 75 cms swimming pool is available.
Meals are served in Cabana Nightclub.
It’s possible to connect two cabanas into one.
Business travelers can be assigned a private car.
Personal fax number is used only for 5 days.
*5*
Read these casual programs of the top Hungarian hotels. Then create your own holiday or treatment casual program for these hotels. Use the presented advertisements as a model.
BUDAPEST HILTON
21 February 2005
Price: US $ / person
Double room: 280
Single room: 143
Extension per day in double room: 148
Single supplement for extension: 119
Supplement for Danube view/day: 80
INCLUDING: accommodation with buffet breakfast, welcome campaign set up in room, round trip transfer to Opera. Reserved seat and dinner at the ball, round trip transfer between airport and hotel.
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THERMAL HOTEL AQUA
14
nights 
Valid: 01.11. – 30.12. 2004, 02.01. – 11. 04. 2005
Price: US $/ person
Double room: 1274
No single supplement
INCLUDING: full board (4 time bio and diet menus), 1 medical examination, 5 acupuncture treatments, bio-cosmetic treatment with ROSA GRAF products: 1 complete treatment (face cleaning, thermo mask), 3 basic treatments, 5 time slimming machine, 8 time fitness.
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DANUBIUS HOTEL SARVAR
************ 3 nights ************
Price: US$ / person
Double room: 386
Single supplement: 126
Extension per day with buffet breakfast:
82 
Single supplement for extension: 42
Supplements on request:
Buffet dinner: 20
Theatre ticket: 30
Touch of cure: 84
INCLUDING: 3 nights with buffet dinner, gala dinner on 31 of December, use of swimming pool, thermal bath, sauna, fitness room.