Our Concierge team highly recommends visits to the Art and History Museum, International Red Cross Museum, Natural History Museum, plus the old town with the Cathedral and Town Hall, hidden lanes and flower-filled squares. When it comes to local area information, our concierge is the premier authority, whether guests are looking for sightseeing recommendations or nearby excursions. We are also pleased to coordinate private limousine services and shipping services. Once a guest has arrived at Hotel President Wilson, the concierge team stands ready to be of service seven days a week, 24 hours a day, dedicated to ensuring that each guest is able to unlock the best of Geneva.Įach Luxury Collection Concierge is a bilingual, certified destination expert-a number of our concierges proudly wear the “Les Сlef d’or,” the gilt insignia of the celebrated international concierge society-eager to help create an unforgettable stay.įrom dinner reservations to floral arrangements and local area information and tickets, no assignment is too small. Our hotel is pet friendly and welcomes trained pets. Or escape for a culinary journey in the Thousand And One Nights world at the Arabesque Lebanese restaurant. Let the gastronomic delights of the Michelin starred Bayview Restaurant by Michel Roth excite the palate. Let our Rive Droite terrace invigorate the senses with its seasonal Mediterranean restaurant Rive Droite by Michel Roth, in a French Riviera atmosphere. Discover the unique Spa La Mer, exclusively offering the brand's premium skincare treatments in a soothing ambience and enjoy the ultimate luxury of a private Spa Suite. With elegant furnishings and amenities, our 204 guest rooms and 22 suites are equipped with the highest quality Bang & Olufsen LCD screens, and distinctive city or Lake Geneva views. “But it kept some provisions that the Labor Department says violate federal law, including allowing children as young as 14 to briefly work in freezers and meat coolers, and extending work hours in industrial laundries and assembly lines,” the AP reports.Facing Lake Geneva and minutes away from the most beautiful parks and boutiques along the famous rue du Rhône, our iconic 5-star hotel is one of the most contemporary addresses in Geneva, set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Mont-Blanc. The state party later dropped those provisions in the face of howls of protest. Claiming that relaxing child labor laws is necessary to confront the shortage of workers in some sectors of the economy, GOP electeds in Iowa wrote a bill that would have allowed those as young as 14 to work in mining, logging and meatpacking jobs. Precocious Scotch experts aside, those aren’t really the kinds of jobs lawmakers are asking that children be allowed to toil at. But my second job is as a tour guide up on the hill at the distillery, and I’m afraid I’m a font of information about all of the spirits on our list.” And she pointed me to the right one, after describing its attributes. “It’s true that I am 16, and can’t drink the stuff meself. “Oh, no sir, there you would be wrong,” she said. ![]() In a hotel restaurant in the remote Scottish Highlands hamlet of Brora a few summers ago, I half-jokingly asked our young waitress, daughter of the owners, for advice on which whiskey to have with my fish and chips, knowing she couldn’t be of help. Well, I do recall that in other civilized countries that latter rule is not in play, and I have seen it work unproblematically. “Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, longer hours on school nights and in expanded roles including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14,” the Associated Press reported last week. Because we’re in real danger of allowing the backward slide to begin. I do know we in America have our own sordid tradition, one that continued not so very long ago, of forcing kids to work, and I’m against allowing that sorry situation to come back. I don’t know from the muckraking British serial novelist’s books, so I couldn’t say. Is making little children work real jobs in the real work force in America Dickensian?
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