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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 1, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
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directed by Chris Alcock; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Aisling Browne, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 51 mins
Giles Coren and Monica Galetti join the 9,500-strong workforce in one of the world's biggest hotels - Singapore's Marina Bay Sands. This epic hotel caters for one million guests every year, cost £3.5 billion to build and was created as part of a government plan to triple tourist income to Singapore within ten yea...
directed by Chris Alcock; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Aisling Browne, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 51 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 2, Mashpi Lodge, Ecuador
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directed by Tom Peppiatt; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Lauren Rowles, fl. 2009, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
Giles Coren and Monica Galetti head to the Andean Cloud Forest of Ecuador to work at Mashpi Lodge, a $10-million modernist hotel featuring an extraordinary gondola cable car that 'flies' guests one mile through the jungle canopy at a dizzying height. The hotel was built by a former mayor of capital Quito on the si...
directed by Tom Peppiatt; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Lauren Rowles, fl. 2009, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 3, Giraffe Manor, Kenya
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directed by Max Shapira, fl. 2004-2016; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Emma Jones, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 50 mins
Giles Coren and Monica Galetti 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. It is the operational headquarters of Tanya and Mikey Carr-Hartley, fourth-generation Kenyans who also own three satellite...
directed by Max Shapira, fl. 2004-2016; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Emma Jones, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 3 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 50 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 4, Royal Mansour, Morocco
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directed by James Roush; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Catherine Stefanini, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 4 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
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 developing country it inhabits, the 'jewel of the city' was built with a limitless budget by royal decree to showcase the kingdom to world leaders and...
directed by James Roush; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Catherine Stefanini, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 4 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 5, Fogo Island Inn, Fogo Island, Newfoundland
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directed by Aidan Woodward; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Aisling Browne, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 5 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
Giles Coren and Monica Galetti experience the warm embrace of Fogo Island Inn on a rocky, sea-sprayed outpost of remote Fogo Island in Newfoundland. White, angular and perched atop zig-zagged stilts like the local fishermen's houses, it pays homage to the European settlers that arrived from Ireland and Devon to fi...
directed by Aidan Woodward; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Aisling Browne, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 5 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 6, Icehotel, Sweden
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directed by Max Shapira, fl. 2004-2016; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Emma Jones, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 6 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
Giles and Monica don their best thermals and extreme weather gear, and travel 200km north of the Arctic Circle to Sweden's Lapland. They enter a magical world of snow, ice, inky blue and pink skies, and ICEHOTEL, a regular feature of bucket lists, now in its 27th year. The hotel's team have given themselves their...
directed by Max Shapira, fl. 2004-2016; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Emma Jones, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 1, Episode 6 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2017), 52 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 1, The Brando, French Polynesia
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directed by Aidan Woodward; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Minna Sedmakov, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 51 mins
In the first episode of this entertaining and insightful series, Giles and Monica fly to the other side of the world to work in one of the world's most luxurious eco resorts on the small island of Tetiaroa in French Polynesia, not too far from Monica's birthplace - Samoa. Here, surrounded by a beautiful coral reef...
directed by Aidan Woodward; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Minna Sedmakov, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 1 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 51 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 2, Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Oman
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directed by Max Shapira, fl. 2004-2016; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Meghan Just-Truelove, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 52 mins
Giles and Monica travel to the Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar in Oman. It is the highest five-star hotel in the Middle East and a resort seeking to blend local tradition with modern tastes. Built to resemble an ancient Omani fort, and situated 2,000 metres above sea level on the rim of a dramatic canyon, the hotel ha...
directed by Max Shapira, fl. 2004-2016; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Meghan Just-Truelove, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 52 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 4, Ashford Castle, Ireland
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directed by Sam Roubicek; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Aisling Browne, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 4 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 51 mins
Monica Galetti and Giles Coren hop across to Ireland to scale the imposing and ancient ramparts of Ashford Castle. They soon learn that the secrets of the castle's success are the people who work there and the hotel's strong, long-running community ties. They are given a crash course by estate manager Thomas in ho...
directed by Sam Roubicek; presented by Monica Galetti, 1975- and Giles Coren, 1969-; produced by Aisling Browne, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 4 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 51 mins
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Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 5, The Silo, South Africa
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directed by Bill Bailey; presented by Giles Coren, 1969- and Monica Galetti, 1975-; produced by Minna Sedmakov, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 5 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 52 mins
Giles and Monica travel to South Africa - where they experience a land of contrasts. The Silo is an industrial-chic, luxury art-themed hotel in the heart of Cape Town. Giles puts his best window-cleaning skills to use on the angular panes inside the hotel, whilst Monica draws the short straw and gamely abseils fro...
directed by Bill Bailey; presented by Giles Coren, 1969- and Monica Galetti, 1975-; produced by Minna Sedmakov, BBC Studios, in Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, Season 2, Episode 5 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2018), 52 mins
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