Boutique Hotels Infest Asia

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This has to fucking stop:

Boutique hotels are popping up in Asia's more cosmopolitan cities faster than construction cranes. Over the last couple of years, Hong Kong and Singapore have led the trend in the region. Now Shanghai is getting the boutique treatment, meeting the fast-growing demand among design-conscious travelers for a more intimate, personal environment.

And by "intimate, personal" they mean "smaller, pricier." And by "design-conscious travelers" they mean "fucking retards." The article is insipidly subtitled "to the delight of savvy travelers, boutique hotels are finally sprouting up in Asia." This -- even before we got to the part about how "younger people" like to use the Internet, eat gourmet chocolate, and drink organic juice -- was enough to make us club a baby seal with a rolled-up Newsweek. Then we could take a picture, hang it on the wall of an outhouse, and charge people $475 to "immerse themselves for a night in an environmentally sensitive experience." We could probably get away with $500 if we lit the fucker up with florescent bulbs and published a glossy brochure about the newly renovated Boutique De Outhouse's minimal carbon footprint. With pie charts.

Staying in Style [Newsweek]

-- Omri Ceren

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