Dhaka Regency has 214 well equipped rooms of different categories.

And a move to equip rooms at Hyatt hotels with elaborate Compact Disk stereo systems has been tabled, for now, because of expense.

The new building has light-filled private rooms equipped with 42-inch plasma television sets and upholstered window seats that allow visitors to nap or stay overnight.

In the past week, only 10 operations were performed on patients who were staying in the hospital, a very small number considering the cost of staffing and equipping operating rooms.

The Dorchester Hotel in London, which opened in the 1930's as a swanky, hip alternative to the fusty grand hotels of the 19th century, is equipping rooms with what hotel officials say is the most advanced interactive data and entertainment system available anywhere.

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, prominent art collectors and philanthropists, also made a new $1.5 million gift to equip operating rooms adjacent to the ambulatory surgery center they endowed earlier.

The backstage area is equipped with six single and seven communal dressing rooms, an advanced computerized lighting system complete with 120 circuit, and a sophisticated sound system with a 24-channel mixer.

The upper storey of the Media Centre houses books, periodicals and the catalogue computers, while the lower floor provides a study area and three fully equipped audio-visual rooms.

The castle had already 40 well equipped rooms at that time.