By: Lia Contesso
Submitted: 2010-10-18 07:23:32 | Word Count: 509
The most famous touristic places always have luxury hotels: let’s think for example about the Sardinia, in Italy, which keeps a luxury status not for everyone together with its wild nature, or the Adriatic Riviera, which melts more easily, also thanks to its geographical position, to everyone’s holidays. The image of a fish restaurant in Riccione, and maybe of a poolside buffet, is not doubt tempting for many people: it’s an image which brings sensations of relax, and enters in the daydreams of many people.
Spending a holiday in a luxury hotel, with gala dinners, swimming pools and massages, is a luxury that is not always possible but, after all, it’s a whim that, sooner or later, can be satisfied: the pleasure of being served and taken care of by the hotel staff, in a beautiful and efficient environment.
This kind of hotels, of course, is often able to offer the spaces necessary for a job travel, with meeting halls with different functionalities and capacities. But the most tempting thing is the wellness offer: be it a work dinner, a coffee break , a work meeting or a romantic dinner, a luxury restaurant offers the best part of the place’s cuisine.
But there are other aces in the luxury hotel’s sleeve: the spa and wellness areas, which offer saunas, swimming pools, massages, thermal mud and more. Then there are services to be added on request, like flowers and champagne, everything can be easily arranged. But most of all the comfort of the rooms and suites: all the comforts are at a hand, in classy rooms equipped with everything you may need during your stay.
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But what’s luxury? Is it exaggeration, elegance, beauty, richness...? some dictionaries give negative definitions of it, describing it as a useless abundance, or those things that are expensive in proportion with their utility, a richness parade. In fact, luxury is for definition not necessary: it is not a need for sustenance, and it is not fundamental for survival.
We might say that luxury is the entirety of those non necessary things, whose function is that of cuddling their owner giving pleasure: pleasure to the sight, because they are beautiful, pleasure to the palate, because they are gastronomic delicacies, pleasure to the sense, because they give comfort.
From here we could get to the conclusion that luxury is something personal, because each one of us finds pleasure in different things; we should remember, though, that luxury is typically connected with richness: “to treat yourself” means allowing a little luxury which, normally, cannot be granted. “Living high on the hog”, instead, means living normally granting thing which, averagely, are more than is necessary to live.
We should remind, though, that luxury is connected with richness, but it should be just as connected with elegance. And elegance, differently from the vulgar show off and ostentation, doesn’t get itself noticed and does not boast.
Author Resource:- This article was written by Lia Contesso, with support from lusso riccione.
