These are hotels, resorts or rental accommodation with celebrity owners, or in which famous people have an interest or part-ownership.
There's always a lot of 'noise' on the celebrity rumour mill so the Research Tips section (below) lists a few of the possible hotel and resort projects in which celebs may be involved and others that don't quite fit the list parameters. |
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| Big Sleep, The |
Cardiff |
No-frills design hotel, the first of a planned chain, backed by movie actor, John Malkovich. |
| Blancaneaux Lodge |
Belize |
Luxury lodge in the Maya Mountains created by film director Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola has opened three resorts in Central America. See also La Lancha & Turtle Inn. |
| Church Hotel, The |
Cardiff |
B&B owned by Charlotte Church's mum & dad and where she is said to help out sometimes. |
| Clarence, The |
Dublin |
Cool boutique hotel on the banks of the Liffey in the busy Temple Bar area of Dublin (where the bars and clubs are dense on the ground!). Part-owned by Bono & The Edge of Irish rock group U2. |
| Columbus Monaco |
Monaco |
Stylish hotel in Monaco part-owned by the F1 driver, David Coulthard. |
| Cypress Inn |
Carmel, California |
Glamorous landmark hotel co-owned by Hollywood screen legend Doris Day. |
| Gaia Retreat & Spa |
NSW, Australia |
Olivia Newton-John's luxury retreat in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. The retreat has 20 rooms, a private restaurant and a spa. |
| The Greenwich Hotel |
TriBeCa, New York |
Already a restauranteur, Robert de Niro is now co-owner in this new luxury hotel due to open in April 08. |
| Hempel, The |
London |
Famous luxury design hotel by actress-turned-designer, Anouska Hempel. |
| Hotel Villa Angela |
Sicily |
Elegant terraced hotel overlooking the Sicilian town of Taormina close to Mt Etna, owned & operated by local man, Antonio Chemi and Jim Kerr, the lead singer of Simple Minds. |
| Hurst House |
Laugharne, Wales |
Neil Morrissey and Billy Bragg part-own this 4-room hotel in the seaside ('Under Milk Wood') home of Dylan Thomas. |
| Kate's Lazy Meadow Motel |
Catskill Mountains, New York State |
Eccentric 1950s styled motel owned by Kate Pierson, lead singer with the B52s. |
| La Lancha |
Guatamala |
Luxury lodge in the Guatemalan rainforest opened in 2004 by film director, Francis Ford Coppola. The lodge overlooks Lake Peten Itza and is close to the stunning Mayan temple ruins and archeological site at Tikal. See also Blancaneaux Lodge & Turtle Inn. |
| Mission Ranch Resort |
Carmel, California |
Historic (1850's) farmhouse and ranch, purchased and renovated by Carmel's most famous citizen (& mayor), Clint Eastwood. |
| Morrison Hotel, The |
Dublin |
Irish fashion designer, John Rocha - with fellow designer, Douglas Wallace - is behind this stylish 18th century hotel in the heart of Dublin. |
| Palazzo Versace |
Gold Coast, Australia |
The name gives it away. This glamorous 5-star resort is the design brainchild of Donatella Versace. |
| Rival Hotel |
Stockholm |
Ex ABBA member, Benny Andersson’s innovative hotel in the centre of Stockholm. They've "taken away the things you just don’t need like chocolates on the pillows and umbrellas in the drinks, and instead offer things you really want" - like all-day breakfast, a pillow menu, CD-library, DVD-player, Playstation, and plasma-TV in every room—plus a teddy bear. The hotel also has its own classic Art Deco cinema, Cocktail Bar, and bakery. |
| Sundance Resort |
Utah |
Not so much a resort - more a mountain reservation. Robert Redford's longstanding (opened in 1969) luxury ranch hosts the well-known Sundance Film Festival |
| Trapp Family Lodge |
Vermont, USA |
Mountain resort owned & run by the von Trapp family that were the subject of the Sound of Music. |
| Turtle Inn |
Belize |
Luxury beach resort on the southern coast of Belize, rebuilt from the rubble of the hurricane by film director Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola has opened three resorts in Central America. See also La Lancha & Blancaneaux Lodge. |
| Woodbury Park |
Devon |
Hotel golf and country club created and owned by Formula One champion, Nigel Mansell. |
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| Research Tips: | * | George Clooney is involved in a $3 billion/25-acre real estate project in Las Vegas called Las Ramblas, which will include among its 11 towers, a 5-star luxury hotel, luxury residences (both condo and condo-hotel), bungalows, spa and health club, nightlife, dining, shopping, a major casino and, after its Barcelona namesake, the city's first-ever, open air pedestrian promenade. George says (Aug 05) he is also talking to other celebrities such as Brad Pitt about their involvement. |
| * | Madonna is reported to be a partner in the Blue Door restaurant which is part of the Delano Hotel on Miami's South Beach. |
| * | We're not sure that celebrity businessmen who are in the travel trade anyway (eg Richard Branson), really qualify for this list, so we'll just mention that Peter de Savary (who has, let's face it, hardly surfaced in the media in the last decade or two) has built up a collection of luxury clubs and hotels in the UK and abroad including Bovey Castle in Devon, Skibo Castle in Scotland, The Cherokee Plantation in South Carolina, St. James Clubs worldwide and The Abaco Club in the Bahamas. |
| * | Tori Spelling (Who she? An American actress 'parantly. Daughter of legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling) and her husband Dean McDermott have been running a B&B in California, which is also... a tv reality show called Tori & Dean: Inn Love, now (2008) signed up for a third series. "Real" people can stay at the Chateau La Rue in Fallbrook (2 hrs south of LA), but it's usually a little over-booked!
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| * | DJ Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) and his wife, Radio & TV presenter Zoe Ball have a 100ft sailing yacht, Barracuda, moored in Sardinia and available to rent with its 4-man crew. |
| * | David Beckham is lending his name to a world-class soccer academy which will be part of the Cabo Sao Roque resort in Brazil, which, when completed in 2016, will also have a tennis academy and the Rubens Barrichello Driving Experience. |
