FLOATING HOTEL.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 379, 10 March 1937, Page 5

FLOATING HOTEL.

Luxury For Coronation Visitors. London, February 13. Coronation visitors to London who wast a change from dry-land hotels will be able to register at a floating luxury hotel on the Thames. This is the novel possibility held out by Mr H. K. Hales, ex-M.P., who owns the great four-masted schooner Westward. At presen,t she is lying off Southend, being got ready for her new job. She -will be in commission by Easier, will sail up river to her "Coronation moorings’’ in April. A hundred guests ■wall be able to sleep aboard the Westward— with hot and cold running water and a fitted wardrobe in every cabin. As many as 400 guests can be entertained on board. The lounge is decorated in white panelled in blue and silver silk. There are big promenade decks for dancing and games. A Continental" chef will be in charge of the kitchens. The manager of the floating hotel is Captain A. E. Underwood. "We shall have our own hospital and dispensary and a radio cabin that is really a broadcasting station in miniature and will relay broadcasts alt over the vessel,” he said. “There will be a service of launches to take guestt to and from the shore.”