The Kempinski Hotel Atlantic Hamburg is one of the world's leading hotels, inseparably linked to the city's history and social life for over 90 years. The Atlantic first opened its portals in 1909 as a Grand Hotel for passengers with bookings on famous luxury ocean liners. On 2nd May 1999 the Atlantic Hotel celebrated its 90th anniversary. Its snow-white gabled facade, a local landmark, the Kempinski Hamburg graces one of Hamburg's most beautiful locations. This is where locals meet the city's international guests and companies and associations hold important conferences. Tout Hambourg gathers to celebrate festive occasions in the hotel's exceptionally beautiful banqueting halls and international couturiers select it as a venue for presenting their latest collections. As the hotel is one of the primary locations for the new James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies its facade has been seen in the cinemas worldwide. Hotel's 252 high-ceilinged bedrooms and suites, all featuring the latest technology, travellers can find a genuine temporary home, attended by the hotel's staff of some 280 employees. Following on ongoing renovation there are a lot of complete modernised hotel rooms and suites as well as converted and renovated restaurants. The number of awards the Kempinski Hotel Atlantic Hamburg has received in its history, is hard to count. The readers of the Germany magazine Business Traveller declared the Atlantic three times as Germanys best individual hotel for business travellers. In 1999, the Kempinski Hotel Atlantic Hamburg has been honoured with the most coveted and prestigious Five Star Diamond Award by The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences. Since 1995, all hotel rooms are fitted with new cables for television and telephone. The new ISDN telephone system allows the use of PCs and telefax machines in every room. Also, a new voice mail system provides every guest with a personal answering machine for the duration of the stay at the hotel. New television sets