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Top 10 US Hotels: Orbitz (So Do We) List Survey Results


While all are certainly excellent, our most experienced senior travelers vote some others into the heavenly hotel best of the best.

Here is the Orbitz line-up: Las Vegas Bellagio, New York JW Marriott Essex House, Chicago The Peninsula, The Peninsula Beverly Hills, Washington, D.C.: The Ritz-Carlton, Orlando Rosen Shingle Creek, Denver Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Grand Hyatt, The Ritz-Carlton Maui Kapalua, EPIC Miami.

Travel4seniors.com voters: San Francisco Fairmont, Beverly Hills Peninsula, Chicago Peninsula, Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom Lodge, Las Vegas Mandarin Oriental, New York Casablanca Times Square, Washington DC Ritz-Carlton, Miami Beach Metropolitan by COMO, St. Louis Four Seasons, Honolulu Royal Hawaiian.
Who'da thunk it: Lili and Eleanor in Vegas PDF Print E-mail

Stripper and First Lady

A rare early 1940s photo was recently found among artifacts from the collection of the soon-to-close Liberace museum in Las Vegas (more on that later). The photo shows then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt having a smiling chat with Lili St. Cyr, one of the most popular strippers of the time. Wonder what they were talking about? Politics? Fashions? Since both were tireless USO travelers who frequently visited U.S. troops in combat areas during World War II, do you think Lili was saying, "Mrs. Roosevelt, have I got some really great outfits you can wear for the GIs during your next USO trip!"
 
 
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