Leaving aside the title, which sounds like a blockbuster porn flick, there’s nothing really controversial here. Well, you can’t really separate Paris Hilton from controversy, but this one here is just the usual run-of-the-nill celeb stuff.  

Paris Hilton, who as per recent news reports is apparently being paid $600k to party at a club in Sydney on New Year’s Eve, has arrived in Melbourne with all the fanfare usually reserved for royalty. Herald Sun report says that the Pied Piper of Paris took hundreds of fans with her down Chapel Street this afternoon, when she went shopping in Melbourne.

Paris Hilton caused one of the biggest paparazzi storms Melbourne Airport has ever seen when she walked through the arrivals gate at 10:55am, with sister Nicky, Nicky’s boyfriend David Katzenberg and Paris’s new best friend Brittany Flickinger.

And here’s one place the Hilton hellcat surely won’t be partying in. The 78 room Donna Camilla Savelli Hotel in the Trastevere in Rome, just across the Tiber River from the historic center. 

The hotel occupies a convent built in the mid-17th century and up until recently, run as a guest house by an order of reclusive nuns. Photo copyrights - Alpitour World Hotels.

The LA Times reports that Rome-based Alpitour World Hotels & Resorts chain has undertaken a painstaking renovation that has turned it into one of the city’s most enticing historic hotels.

And since we’re on the subject of hotels on holy ground, there’s this National Park Seminary in Silver Spring, MD, with a decaying Japanese pagoda, crumbling English castle and the remains of a resort hotel, which is getting a $150 million makeover.

Condos can be found in the Queen Anne-style hotel or the buildings around it, such as a former chapel that still has stained-glass windows. Pity the developer, who apparently got hold of this historic property for $1 (long story… ), isn’t putting up a new hotel. Would have been a fine addition to the not-so-fine list of existing Silver Spring hotels. 

And to top that off with something even more fantastic, the BBC reports that A 19th century chapel has been uncovered during an £8.1m renovation project at a Berkshire hotel - Beaumont House in Old Windsor. Built in 1870, the chapel’s original ceiling, altar and stained glass windows are all still intact, despite being boarded up since the 1960s. 

Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Thomas
Filed under: Hotels, Paris, Vacation, World