Name: Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby
Released: 2017-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Monica Galetti, Robert Rinder, Giles Coren

TV Show · Documentary · Travel

The aspirational series exploring extraordinary hotels, their staff and communities is checking in for a second stay. Writer and critic Giles Coren teams up again with international chef Monica Galetti to embark on a journey through the world's most remarkable hotels.

2017 · 59m

Starring Monica Galetti, Robert Rinder, Giles Coren

Director Max Shapira, Aidan Woodward

EPISODE 1

Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Giles Coren and Monica Galetti join the 9,500-strong workforce in one of the world's biggest hotels. This epic hotel caters for one million guests every year, and cost 3.5 billion pounds to build.

15 min
EPISODE 2

Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador

Giles and Monica head to the Andean Cloud Forest of Ecuador to work at Mashpi Lodge. The 10-million dollar modernist hotel features an extraordinary gondola cable car that flies guests one mile through the jungle canopy.

44 min
EPISODE 3

Giraffe Manor, Kenya

Giles and Monica discover Giraffe Manor, a unique hotel where giraffes, staff and guests all coexist in a 1930s Scottish-style hunting lodge on the edge of Nairobi National Park.

44 min
EPISODE 4

Royal Mansour, Morocco

Giles and Monica arrive at Royal Mansour, one of the world's most discreet hotels, hidden deep in the heart of Marrakech's ancient Medina. In stark contrast to the country it inhabits, the jewel of the city was built with a limitless budget.

44 min
EPISODE 5

Fogo Island Inn, Canada

Giles and Monica experience the warm embrace of Fogo Island Inn, in Newfoundland. White, angular and perched atop zigzagged stilts like the local fishermen's houses, it pays homage to the settlers that arrived from Ireland and Devon to fish cod.

44 min
EPISODE 6

ICEHOTEL, Sweden

Giles and Monica don their best thermals and travel 200 km north of the Arctic Circle to Lapland. They enter a magical world of snow, ice, inky-blue and pink skies and the famed ICEHOTEL.

45 min