简介:Hotel manager Marcus Winter is awaiting an important visitor to the Emirates Palace Hotel.His long-time friend – the representative of a big tour operator – should be arriving soon to inspect the hotel.But instead of his friend, it’s a new inspector that comes – Sarah Riems, whose ideas concerning the needs of hotel guests greatly differ from those of Marcus.Trying to impress Sarah with the distinctive flair of his hotel, Marcus makes a grand presentation, emphasizing the spectacular regional cuisine and even taking the inspector on several trips into the breathtaking desert. Still, it looks like a hard sell…At the same time, Anna, the hotel’s decorator, excitedly awaits the arrival of visitors of her own - her pen-pal Max and his friend Holger. Although Max and Anna have only once briefly met, his extremely romantic letters have filled her heart with passion.Once her guests are settled in the hotel though, it becomes quickly obvious to Anna that the Max who had inspired such a love in her through his letters is much different than the one she now sees before her.It’s the artistic Holger who is presently stirring her desire, which leads to a growing rivalry between the two men that strains their friendship.Meanwhile, the single mother Renate and her son Tobias have traveled to the hotel for a dream holiday. Soon, Renate’s real reason for the trip to Dubai surfaces - she wants Tobias to become acquainted with his father, who operates boat tours for the hotel guests – and who doesn’t even know his son exists…
简介:Once a wild child of the mountains, Sandra Hofer has been transformed into a sophisticated city girl. She now works with her friend Matthias Jansen in a very successful advertising agency in Vienna.When Sandra inherits a hut in the mountains from her recently deceased father, she plans to sell it. Matthias likes to buy a penthouse apartment in Vienna, but Sandra is not quite ready to commit – she simply is not yet sure that she wants to live with him.When she arrives in Tyrol to prepare for the cabin’s sale, she meets her father’s friends, Theres, Karl and Katti.At first Sandra feels guilty because the three will lose their jobs, but then when she realizes that the buyer is Mayor Xaver Riemer, her father’s most hated enemy, she decides to temporarily open the cabin for the upcoming season. Theres, Karl and Katti are thrilled.But Xaver, a spiteful man, vengefully uses every possible means at his disposal to damage Sandra’s standing in the community. His son Mark, Sandra’s teenage sweetheart, is a fair guy who frowns on his father’s methods.Admiring her fighting spirit, Mark does what he can to help Sandra. It is not long before their old sparks reignite and they are again drawn to each other. By this point Sandra has already felt the sting of Xaver’s power. Being the mayor, he has influence on bakers, supermarkets, printers and banks and viciously manipulates them in his campaign against her.Willing to go to any length, he even finally persuades Matthias to take his side. The two devise a malicious plan, in which two visitors to the cabin are injured, leaving the authorities no choice but to close it down...
简介:Endless pristine beaches, crystal-blue water and never-ending sunshine: the goal of hotel manager Markus as he packs his bags for a relaxing holiday at the family-owned luxury hotel on the Seychelles. He also wants to catch up with his daughter Leonie who’s currently in job training at the resort.Leonie is good friends with Flo, a hotel maid who dreams of a career in the fashion world and devotes all of her spare time to designing extraordinary outfits. When Leonie discovers that the celebrated fashion designer Claus Carstens has made a reservation, she secretly stashes Flo’s sketches in his reception desk mailbox. But as it turns out, it’s not Claus but his son Wayne who arrives at the hotel.Unexpectedly, and without having any clue about each other’s background, Flo and Wayne fall in love.However, when Wayne learns that the mysterious sketches are from Flo, he becomes unsure…is she only using him to get ahead? He confronts Leonie, who desperately turns to Markus for help in straightening out the misunderstanding.Markus’ plans for a carefree, sun-soaked holiday are already being foiled by Helena. At first Helena insists that she’s the owner of the property on which the hotel stands. They soon determine that she had inherited an altogether different property from her late father… where he had built a home for children. That deeply disturbs Helena.Why had the father who she never met cared so much for other children, and not his own daughter? Together with Markus, she sets out to find the truth about the father she believes to be dead. Horst and Nora are causing quite a stir as well on the tropical island. The couple had dreamt of a romantic new beginning for their relationship on the sun-kissed island.......but then Oliver, Nora’s secret lover, unexpectedly shows up. It becomes a three-way tug of war, until Oliver and Horst wind up becoming buddies. Her world thrown into chaos, Nora is nearing a nervous breakdown. On such a beautiful tropical paradise though, tranquility is never far off…