Is it possible to get seasick while sleeping in a land-locked hotel? Or be startled when the scene you see when you go to bed is not the same as what you see in the morning? Will you believe you spent the night on a merry-go-round?

Some hotels have rotating restaurants on top floors, but the Marmara Antalya in Turkey is the world’s only hotel where the entire building continually revolves in a circle. Guests in each of the 238 rooms have window views that change from city scenes, ocean surf and mountain vistas.
The rotation is possible because the entire building floats in a huge tank of water. Guests can eat their room-service meals on their circling balconies or in the intimate restaurant on the ground floor.

Marmara Antalya Hotel, Sirinyali Antalya, Mahallesi, Antalya Turkey, phone  0242 316 1010, average rate $100 per night.

Business and newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst hated the 1942 movie, because it was a thinly veiled biography of his life. He used all of his political and financial influence to have it banned from movie theaters. However, Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” triumphed to become one of the most revered Hollywood classics of all time.

Now, 70 years later, an anniversary event is scheduled that would have made Hearst even more furious. It’s happening in his own palatial mansion at San Simeon on the Central California coast, 80 miles north of Santa Barbara on scenic U.S. Highway 1. The San Luis Obispo (SLO) International Film Festival is celebrating the anniversary with a showing of “Citizen Kane” at Hearst Castle itself!

The property today is managed by Hearst’s great-grandson, and he approved of the anniversary program in the mansion, which in the movie was called Xanadu.

Festival events are scheduled from March 7 through 11, with showings of the movie at the Hearst Castle Theatre on Friday, March 9, and Sunday, March 11. For more information about all the events at the SLO International Film Festival, go to slofilmfest.org/

Originally called the Sugarloaf Casino, the Art Deco building on Catalina’s beach side town of Avalon went up in 1929. Originally owned by the Wrigley (chewing gum) family, despite the name, the Casino has never been an actual gambling hall.

It was first an early talkies movie house, vaudeville theater, concert venue and, on the second level, a dance hall. In the 1930s and 1940s, live radio broadcasts were beamed throughout America from the Casino. They featured music from Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman, Harry James and other famed bands of the era.

Today, the Casino continues to show first-run movies on its first level, while on the insulated floor above, concerts and dances offer a variety of entertainment. Many social, music and art events are scheduled at the Casino throughout the year.

As the old song goes, Catalina Island is 26 miles across the seas from Long Beach CA, a 15-minute flight or 60-minute ferry ride. The island was a famous destination for John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin and other movie stars of the 1930s through the 1950s, who often sailed their yachts from the California coast to Avalon. In 1981, actress Natalie Wood lost her life when she fell from a yacht into the harbor.

The average Catalina daytime weather temperature is 60 degrees in winter months, and 75 degrees in summer. For more information, go to www.catalinachamber.com/island/specialevents

This year, Graceland, the late Elvis Presley’s Memphis mansion, marks his 77th birthday and the anniversary of his death by staging new exhibits, tours and other events.

A multi-media presentation, "Elvis…Though His Daughter's Eyes," is hosted by Lisa Marie Presley. As part of the Graceland VIP tour, it features vintage home movies and her childhood memories.