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ARTICLE VIEW:
Get pregnant at this hotel chain and they’ll throw you a party
By Maureen O'Hare, CNN
Updated:
6:00 AM EDT, Sat October 4, 2025
Source: CNN
In this week’s roundup of travel news: an Italian town has introduced
a tourist tax for dogs, a New Yorker who moved to Italy and met her
future husband, plus a Polish hotelier who wants to boost his
country’s birth rate by hosting celebrations for expectant couples.
Spread the love
Sometimes serious times require fun measures.
In common with many countries around the world, including the , Poland
is facing a declining fertility rate. In 2023, it recorded 1.2 live
births per woman, down from 2.06 in 1990.
In a bid to increase his nation’s number of rug rats, Władysław
Grochowski, owner of one of Poland’s biggest hotel chains, has
pledged to for every couple who conceives while staying at his
properties.
There are 23 Arche hotels across Poland, from Lublin to Wrocław, with
more than 4,000 rooms in which babies may be made.
Eligible couples will receive a complimentary family celebration in one
of its event rooms or restaurants. The family of the first baby to be
born through the program will also get a stroller and a welcome
package.
Don’t ditch the birth control just yet, though. Couples must also
reside in Poland and at least one of the parents needs to be a Polish
citizen.
Arche isn’t the first hotel brand to offer perks for people planning
a steamy night.
In 2020, Canadian chain Hotel Zed offered free stays for couples who
made , and in 2024, New York’s Walker Hotel Tribeca offered a for
customers who took matters into their own hands.
Community and connection
New Yorker Caroline Chirichella moved in 2014 to a little village near
Naples, Italy, in search of somewhere she “could live life to the
fullest and become a part of a community.” Now she’s happily
married to an Italian man and is a mom to two children.
She created her own she tells CNN.
Anesu Masebe found his own unexpected version of happiness just before
Christmas 2017, when he flew home from Washington, DC, to Zimbabwe
after receiving the devastating news that his mother had passed away.
He spent the flight talking with seatmate Hannah Brown, who’d lost
her own father at Christmas two years before. “She could relate to
what I was going through,” says Masube. “It was such a moment I
really needed, and didn’t even recognize that I needed at the
time.”
The pair got married in 2019. .
Epic adventure
Father-and-son duo George and Josh Kohler are . They’ve already made
it to Thailand, after leaving their home in England in March this year.
The Kohlers have their eye on achieving three Guinness World Records
and have a personal goal of covering 60 miles a day. Josh tells CNN
that they hope “to inspire everyone to do small adventures, big
adventures; just get out of their comfort zone.”
They aren’t the only multi-generational adventurers who’ve been
making headlines recently.
A father and daughter, 102-year-old Kokichi Akuzawa and 70-year-old
Motoe, in August, along with family and friends. Akuzawa is now the
oldest person to ever have climbed Japan’s tallest mountain, having
broken his own record, which he previously set when he ascended Fuji at
96.
House of wax
The Beijing branch of the 190-year-old wax museum chain Madame Tussauds
closed permanently this week. It follows the shuttering in recent years
of the museum brand’s locations in San Francisco, Istanbul and
Washington, DC.
The audience for wax museums is melting away in the digital age, when
posing with a static dummy has come to feel rather quaint. However,
Beijing resident Joseph Ding remains a fan. He tells CNN, “Even
though the wax statues were fake, it’s still a pity to lose the
channel to communicate with them.”
In case you missed it
As the US federal government shutdown drags on, are working without
getting paid.
At the time of writing, the was likely to extend into next week.
Two couples bumped into each other in a taxi line in the Bahamas.
It kick-started a of 40 years.
An Italian town has introduced a tourist tax for dogs.
The is proving controversial.
London to Sweden for the day.
These travelers are embracing .
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