WORLD’S BIGGEST HOTELS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)

WORLD’S BIGGEST HOTELS

Chicago Colossus Which Has 3000 Bedrooms *T*HE news that one of London’s A best-known hotels is to be enlarged and will possess 1174 bedrooms when the work is finished, has prompted the question, “Which is the world’s largest hotel?” Naturally the mind turns to the towering skyscrapers of the United States, where buildings shake hands with the clouds. The Stevens, in Chicago, can offer 3000 bedrooms, each with its own bath—a complete township within four colossal walls. Close runners-up are the Pennsylvania and New Yorker in New York. _ Despite this lavish display, England is not far behind the United States in providing commodious hotels. London herself possesses the three largest hotels in Europe—the Regent Palace with -1024 bedrooms, the Cumberland with 1000, and the Strand Palace with 950. Several hotels in other parts of the country have round about 500 bedrooms, and many have more than 300. Although it has not the greatest number of bedrooms, the Cumberland is actually the largest m Europe, and has a bath to every Among the nations of the world the English as hotelkeepers hold a high place, despite the periodical complaints of returned Continental travellers, who tend to confuse unusualness with comfort. The hotel industry of Great Brain represents a capital of £300,000,000, employs 500,000 workers and ranks as the fourth largest industry in the country. American visitors, despite the absence of radio and ice-water m all bedrooms, and the cafetana, which are essentials in hotels of a similar tvne in the United States, are highly appreciative of British hotel enterprise.